The Angelic Reformation Quotes

“My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Paradoxically, the occult can often become the concern, in different modes, of both the least intelligent and also the most aberrantly intelligent human beings, with those soundly in the middle of the bell curve often unable to tell the difference between genuine intellectual exploration of the universe’s unfathomable and mysterious structure and pre-literate superstition.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“If the Protestant Reformation sought to remove the Catholic Church as an mediator between the individual and God, Hermetic magic sought to go one further, and provide techniques to directly plug an individual into the mind of God itself, not just handing over the right of individual interpretation of scripture but a direct connection to the source of scripture.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“For the Hermeticist, the universe is a holographic unity, and understanding any aspect of it can aid in understanding all other aspects.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Dee and his contemporaries quested for nothing less than Total Knowledge—and all sciences were thought to be reflections of, and ways to ascend back to, the mind of God.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Within this underground occulture, the reception of channeled documents recapitulates the end of adolescence and parent/child split within the student/teacher relationship—such channeled books, regardless of their valid provenance, are social markers allowing occult students to split with their symbolic parents (teachers) and families (occult orders) and their metaphors for reality, establish their own metaphors for reality, and thereafter “reproduce” and start their own “families” in the form of new occult groups established around the new channeled documents.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“When Elizabeth ascended to the throne, however, Dee ascended with her, becoming her astrological and scientific advisor; he was soon considered one of the most learned men in England, and certainly had the largest library—his private collection of manuscripts at Mortlake, which he assembled at high personal cost and from which he generously loaned, was substantially larger than the collections of both Oxford and Cambridge. (To briefly note how much our access to information has increased in the last several centuries, consider that during Dee’s life, Cambridge possessed only 451 books and manuscripts; Oxford, 379. Dee had 2,500 books and 170 manuscripts at Mortlake.)”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Whether or not Enochian represents a valid system for causing “magical” change in consciousness, there is no question that Enochian is at the very heart of the 20th century occult and neopagan revival—Dee and Kelley’s work is still detonating long past their deaths. It is possible, in fact, that we completely lack the ability to gauge their otherworldly work as a success or failure—as it seems to be unfolding on a millennial timespan, “outside the circles of time.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, “the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire