If there is a God, what would you ask if you could speak to him? Would you ask about the meaning of life, or what happens after we die, or maybe about the ancient mythical powers contained within religious books? Think about it. If you could hold a conversation with God, what secrets of the universe might be revealed?
For as long as humans have existed, this is something they have always wondered about. But in fact, there are some who have gone beyond merely wondering, some who have pursued just such a conversation. What did they learn when they did, and what can their work tell us about humanity’s existence, about our past and our future?
The answer starts with a man named John Dee…
John Dee
John Dee was born July 13, 1527, into a merchant family in London, England. From this modest beginning, he would go on to become one of the greatest thinkers and most influential figures of his age, shaping the world for centuries to come.
His ability was apparent from a young age. At 15 years old, he began studying at Cambridge University, where he earned a master’s degree before his 20th birthday. Hungry for more, Dee left England in 1547 and set off traveling through Europe, studying and collaborating with the greatest minds of the era as he moved across the continent. For more than a decade, he learned mathematics and cartography from the masters, as well as the secrets of astronomy, physics, medicine, even mysticism, and alchemy, collecting as he went an enormous collection of books, maps, cartography tools, and mathematical instruments.
Upon his return to England in 1558, the cache of knowledge Dee had obtained earned him a place as a primary advisor and close confidant to Queen Elizabeth. From this position, Dee would operate at the very heart of the great changes taking place in the Elizabethan Era. He would become an invaluable resource to England’s early navigators, teaching them mathematical navigation, preparing maps, and giving them various instruments he had obtained from across Europe, laying, in the process, the foundation for England’s exploration of the New World. In fact, Dee strongly advocated for the establishment of British colonies abroad, and is even credited with coining the term “British Empire.” Hundreds of years later, when the sun never set on Britain’s global empire, it was in large part thanks to John Dee.
At the same time as he was advising Queen Elizabeth, Dee was amassing what would become the largest private library in England, an astonishing collection of books on all subjects and avenues of thought. People would come from all over England, and in fact all across Europe, to study these books and ask Dee for his advice and insight.
And yet, despite his success, despite all the knowledge he had accrued, John Dee was deeply unsatisfied. Comprehensive as his studies were, they had not given him the results he was looking for. He had reached the outer limits of human knowledge and found that it did not go far enough. He needed to go further.
Dee believed that there was a way to do this, a way to obtain the wisdom he sought. He knew that within the Bible, patriarchs like Adam and Enoch had been able to speak with God and the celestial beings we know as angels, sometime in the distant past, giving them access to wisdom directly from the heavens. This, Dee believed, was what he needed to do. To gain the missing wisdom he so desperately wanted, he must seek direct consultation with the heavens.
Interestingly, this idea was actually not all that unusual in Dee’s time. Many scholars across Europe believed that the Bible had proven it was possible to converse with the heavens and the higher beings. The secret to doing so, they believed, was discovering the primordial tongue of the human race.
At the start of the Book of Genesis, God speaks the universe into existence, the first words ever spoken in the original language of all life. When God creates Adam, the first man, it is in this original language that Adam holds conversations with God and angels in the Garden of Eden. Yet, when Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden, knowledge of this original language is lost and never again is someone able to enjoy the familiar conversation with the heavens that Adam did, with only a single exception – the biblical patriarch Enoch.
Within the pages of the Bible, Enoch appears only a handful of times, most prominently in Genesis Chapter 5, which states that “Enoch walked with God,” a passage that some have taken to mean that Enoch enjoyed a familiar relationship with God.
But this is not all that we know about Enoch. In 1946, the apocryphal Book of Enoch was uncovered amidst the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, providing a detailed account of the incredible story of Enoch’s life, and in fact, an entirely different history of humanity. While scholars at the time of John Dee did not have access to this complete work, they did have bits and pieces, fragments of the lost text which had been bouncing around academic circles for centuries. From these fragments, they knew that Enoch had been able to speak with God and the angels in the original language of all existence, that, in fact, he had visited the heavens where he had been taught all the secrets of the universe, which he had written down in a manuscript that had been lost in the Great Flood of Noah. Accordingly, scholars believed that if they could discover the original language of Adam, they could converse with the heavens and become privy to all the secrets known by Enoch, the secrets known only by the beings in the stars.
Unhappy with the knowledge he had accrued from human sources, this was Dee’s goal. But he could not do it alone. To accomplish it, he would need a man by the name of Edward Kelley…
Edward Kelley
Though he would become a well-known figure across Europe in adulthood, very little is known about the early life of Edward Kelley. Some say he came from an educated family and attended Oxford University under the name Edward Talbot, though why he would have used a pseudonym is unclear. Others suggest that he started as an apothecary’s assistant, learning the secrets of medicine as a young man, while others still insist that he started as little more than a simple notary in London.
Whatever his background, what is known for sure is that Edward Kelley would rise to international prominence due to his incredible partnership with John Dee.
It all started in the late-1870s when Kelley was traveling through Wales. One evening, he stopped for the night at a nondescript inn in a mountain village. There, the innkeeper, recognizing Kelley to be a man of learning, brought out an old, tattered manuscript written in an unintelligible language and showed it to him. The innkeeper told Kelley that during the religious wars which had taken place some years prior, a group of Protestant soldiers had found the manuscript while pillaging the grave of a wealthy Catholic bishop, along with two unusual ivory balls. According to the innkeeper, when the soldiers broke open one of the balls, they found nothing but a dark powder inside, and so, believing it to be worthless, they threw it away. The other ball, along with the manuscript, they later traded to the innkeeper for a few bottles of wine.
To many whom the innkeeper had told this story in the past, that’s all it was, a story, told in passing and quickly forgotten. But Kelley suspected there was more to it than met the eye, so he offered to buy the manuscript and the mysterious ball. When he later examined the manuscript closer, Kelley came to a shocking realization. This was not just any manuscript but, in fact, appeared to be a copy of the long-lost Book of Saint Dunstan, which was said to reveal the secrets of alchemy, that is, the transmutation of metals into gold. If this was true, Kelley thought, then he knew what must be contained within the ball, that dark powder that the soldiers had thrown away. He cracked open the ball to find its own dark powder, and upon experimentation, Kelley was right – the powder was a small quantity of the philosopher’s stone, that mythical material used to turn metal into gold.
With such an unbelievable discovery, there was only one thing Kelley could do. He must bring the powder, and the manuscript, to the man who knew more about such things than anybody else.
He must bring them to John Dee…
The Scrying of Edward Kelley and John Dee
It was not difficult for Kelley to gain an audience with the great John Dee, who was never one to turn down the exploration of mystical knowledge. However, as amazing as the potential secrets of alchemy were, Dee had other things on his mind. He told Kelley about his pursuit of the original language of Adam and his desire to converse with the heavens as Enoch had. To that point, he had made multiple attempts, but had been met by nothing but failure.
Instantly, Kelley shifted focus. If this was what Dee was after, Kelley told him, well then, he was in luck, because, in fact, Kelley was a scryer, that is, a visionary medium who could receive messages from a higher spiritual realm.
At first, Dee was skeptical of this claim. But after Kelley impressed him with a trial run, the two men immediately agreed to enter into a partnership. Starting in 1581, Dee and Kelley would work together in an attempt to converse with the heavens and learn the secrets of the universe.
How they went about this was meticulously recorded by Dee. In fact, it was actually quite simple. The two men would sit in a room and place a scrying stone on a prepared table. This scrying stone was a circular flat black mirror of polished obsidian, designed to be a bridge between the divine and earthly worlds. From there, Dee would act as an orator, directing prayers to God and the celestial beings asking that he and Kelley be worthy of divine aid and understanding, while Kelley would watch the stone and report everything he saw.
According to Dee’s notes, from the very first time they sat down to these spiritual conferences, they found that after a period of prayer, a light would fly out of the scrying stone, seen by both men, and into Kelley’s head. When it did, Kelley’s consciousness was transformed, and he was able to receive messages from those purported to be angels in the scrying stone.
The two men quickly discovered that numerous angelic beings would appear to Kelley in this state, and that they could answer questions Dee directed toward them. Without hesitation, Dee began to ask about Enoch, about the secrets he had learned while he “walked with God.” To these questions, an angel named Ave replied,
“The Lord appeared unto Enoch, and was merciful unto him, opened his eyes, that he might see and judge the earth, which was unknown unto his Parents, by reason of their fall. For the Lord said, Let us show unto Enoch, the use of the earth. And Enoch was wise, and full of the spirit of wisdom.
And he said unto the Lord, Let there be remembrance of thy mercy, and let those that love thee taste of this after me. O let not thy mercy be forgotten. And the Lord was pleased. And after 50 days Enoch had written, and this was the Title of his books, Let Those That Fear God, and are Worthy, Read.”
For Dee, this confirmed it. Enoch had received a secret knowledge from the heavens, exactly the knowledge Dee was looking for, and had, in fact, written these secrets down in his time.
The Enochian Language
The next step was obvious; Dee asked the heavenly beings if he could see Enoch’s work, the secret wisdom he had written down. To this request, the angel Illemese replied, “I can not bring you the brass, but I can show you the books.”
What did this mean, Dee wondered? Shortly thereafter, he would get his answer. During one of their spiritual conferences, Kelley suddenly reported seeing a strange 21-letter alphabet appearing in the scrying stone. It was unlike anything either of the two men had ever seen before, a totally unknown language. Was this the original language of all existence, they wondered, the language with which one could speak to the beings from the heavens?
A few days later, text began to appear to Kelley in this alphabet, written in the form of great tables made up of 49 by 49 squares filled with words. What these words meant was not immediately clear to Dee and Kelley, but they were convinced that they were written in the original language spoken by Adam. Accordingly, Dee named the tables ‘Liber Logaeth,’ or “Speech from God.”
He realized what the angel had meant when he’d said, “I can not bring you the brass, but I can show you the books” – Dee would not be given the knowledge recorded by Enoch, but rather, the means and the language to access such knowledge.
At first, Dee called this language ‘Angelical,’ the language of the angels, or ‘Adamical,’ since Adam had used it in the Garden of Eden. But shortly thereafter, it came to be known as ‘Enochian,’ the language used by Enoch to discover the secrets of the universe. All that Dee needed to do was figure out how to use this Enochian language to access the knowledge he so desperately sought.
It was another year before a breakthrough would appear. Finally, during another session, a group of 48 calls were revealed to the two men, 48 invocations designed for use with the Enochian tables which had previously been revealed. As the angel Nalvage explained,
“I am therefore to instruct and inform you, according to your doctrine delivered, which is contained in 49 Tables. In 48 voices, or callings: which are the Natural Keys to open those Gates of Understanding; whereby you shall have knowledge to move every Gate, and to call out as many as you please, or shall be thought necessary, which can very well, righteously, and wisely open unto you the secrets of their Cities, and make you understand perfectly that contained in the Tables.”
In other words, these 48 calls were the key to opening the Gates of Understanding, the key to accessing the mystical knowledge to which Enoch had been privy to. In his notes, Dee referred to these calls as the “Angelic Keys.”
But there was more than that. As Dee and Kelley continued to converse with angels, they learned that opening the Gates of Understanding would bring about, in the words of the angels, the “Coming of the End of Times.” What exactly did this mean? In his notes, Dee wrote that he believed the Angelic Keys to be the key to “the mystery of our creation, the age of many years, and the conclusion of the world.”
Still, Dee and Kelley had not pieced together how the Angelic Keys could be used, how the language of Adam and Enoch was to be invoked, and what the End of Times would actually mean. For years, the two men traveled across Europe, conducting their spiritual conferences and trying to piece together the puzzle. During this time, their work became so well-known that often they would conduct their spiritual conferences in the presence of noblemen, kings, and even Emperor Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor at that time.
But then, before they could fully solve the riddle, something happened which would change everything.
The End of Dee and Kelley
During one meeting with many great noblemen from across Europe in Emperor Rudolf’s capital of Prague, Kelley took the opportunity to use a speck of the dark powder he had acquired from the innkeeper all those years prior to turn a small piece of metal into gold. The noblemen were astonished, and word rapidly spread across Europe that a man had appeared possessing the long-lost secrets of alchemy.
Suddenly, the balance of power between Dee and Kelley shifted. No longer was Dee the star, the great thinker who all sought out for advice. Instead, it was Kelley, who everyone wanted to meet and talk to.
Unsurprisingly, this newfound fame caused Kelley to begin to lose interest in Dee’s spiritual conferences and direct his attention towards alchemy, believing it to be his ticket to notoriety and fortune. With Dee desperate to continue their work, and Kelley eager to move in other directions, their partnership became strained, described by those who knew them as “quarrelsome” and “tense.”
Finally, Kelley came forward with an assertion that was perhaps designed to sever his relationship with Dee once and for all. He told Dee that during a spiritual conference, an angel had told him that the two men must share everything, including their wives. The suggestion caused Dee great anguish, and though he ended up consenting to share his wife, he broke off his partnership with Kelley almost immediately afterward and returned to England. The two men would never see each other again.
Upon his return to England, Dee found that his home had been broken into during his absence, and his precious library had been damaged, with many of his books and prized instruments stolen. But it was worse than that. In the time he had been away, England’s attitude had changed, becoming more hostile towards occult practices. Because everyone was aware of what Dee had been trying to do during his time away, he suddenly found himself ostracized and looked down upon.
Seeking to recover, Dee appealed to his old friend Queen Elizabeth, but the best she could do was name him to an out-of-the-way post at Christ’s College in Manchester, where he was mocked and shunned by his colleagues. When Elizabeth died and was succeeded by King James I, Dee’s fall from grace was complete. From a position of prominence, one of the fathers of the British Empire, which would significantly shape the world for centuries to come, Dee would spend his final years in poverty and disgrace, before dying in late 1608 or early 1609.
Kelley, on the other hand, got the fame and fortune he desired, at least for a time. With his purported alchemical expertise earning him the favor of Emperor Rudolf, he was given several estates and large sums of money, and was even knighted by Rudolf and given the title “Baron of Bohemia” in 1590. There was only one problem. Kelley had received his fame and fortune; all he needed to do was produce gold, which, despite his earlier display, he seemed unable to do. Shortly after receiving his knighthood, Kelley was imprisoned by Rudolf, who believed he might flee without ever having made good on his end of the bargain. After a few years, Kelley was released from prison under the promise to continue his alchemical work, but when he again failed to produce gold, he was again imprisoned. In 1598, Kelley would die while trying to escape his imprisonment, falling from a window to his death.
For both Dee and Kelley, the end was somewhat tragic, but more tragic was that they were never able to complete their work, never able to fully unlock the secrets of the universe, to bring the power of Enochian language and the Angelic Keys into practice. Though Dee left behind numerous manuscripts and hundreds of pages of notes, their work faded into memory and was mostly forgotten. That was until the late 1880s, when their work was rediscovered, and everything changed…
Alisteir Crowley & The Enochian Language
Near the end of the 19th century, a group emerged in Great Britain known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Founded by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, the Golden Dawn, as they were known, was a secret society devoted to occult magic, mysticism, and metaphysics that operated in the shadows of mainstream thought.
Sometime in the late-1880s, Mathers stumbled across the work of John Dee and Edward Kelley while searching through old manuscripts in the British Museum. Recognizing the significance of what he’d found, Mathers immediately began to incorporate the work into his group’s occult teachings and rituals, synthesizing Dee and Kelley’s Enochian language and Angelic Keys with ancient Egyptian and Qabalistic magic to construct a comprehensive system which would form the foundation of the Golden Dawn.
While on its own, the Golden Dawn would have a significant impact on the modern occult revival taking place in Europe at the time, nowhere would their impact be greater than through one of their star pupils, a man named Aleister Crowley.
Born October 12, 1875, in Warwickshire, England as the heir to a profitable ale company, it was clear from a very young age that Aleister Crowley was different. Despite his conservative Christian upbringing, the young Crowley was deeply interested in occult practices and the mysterious religions of the East, reading whatever he could get his hands on, and attempting to implement what he’d learned in his life before he’d even reached puberty.
As he moved into adulthood, Crowley would attend Cambridge University, but would leave without earning a degree the moment he received his inheritance, and, at age 23, joined the Golden Dawn, where for the first time, he would be exposed to the work of John Dee and Edward Kelley.
In short order, Crowley proved to be something of a prodigy, quickly rising through the order’s ranks, and even being taught by Samuel Mathers himself. In fact, he was such a prodigy, that he began to lose faith in the leadership of the group, believing that he could be doing it better. Consequently, he established his own faction and attempted a coup of leadership. Unfortunately for Crowley, this coup failed, and he was expelled from the group.
But this was not the end of his occult journey. After being expelled from the Golden Dawn, Crowley would leave England and begin a period of world travel and spiritual exploration through India, China, and Egypt, climbing mountains and visiting temples, smoking opium and doing cocaine, and taking on numerous lovers. By 1904, Crowley found himself in Cairo, newly married, and shacked up in the city on his honeymoon. It was there he would have an experience that would truly change his life.
According to his records, while in Cairo, his wife began to suffer from periods of delirium, during which she would continuously tell him, “they are waiting for you.” When he would ask her who was waiting, she would respond, the God Horus. What did this mean, Crowley wondered, was his wife simply hysterical?
Finally, one day during a fit of delirium, she told him that “the equinox of the gods has come.” Shortly thereafter, Crowley began to hear a voice that claimed to be Aiwass, the messenger of Horus. Over the course of three days, Crowley would write down everything Aiwass said. As he did, he began to believe himself to be the literal reincarnation of Edward Kelley, his receiving of the words of the angel Aiwass, in effect, continuing the work Dee and Kelley had started so many years before. These words would become a manuscript, which Crowley titled, “Liber Al vel Legis,” or “The Book of the Law.”
According to Crowley, Aiwass had told him that humanity was entering into a new Aeon, and that Crowley would serve as its prophet. With this revelation, and his Book of the Law, Crowley would found his own religion, which he called Thelema.
In short order, Crowley began to publish works on his philosophies and teachings, including the first-ever comprehensive breakdown of the work of Dee and Kelley, which he titled, “A Brief Abstract of the Symbolic Representation of the Universe Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Scrying of Sir Edward Kelley.”
Throughout his work, one central concept began to emerge, a fusion of the work of Dee and Kelley and Crowley’s own knowledge of the ancient religions of the world. It started with the “body of light,” also known as the astral body, a concept that appears in different forms across human traditions. As one scholar described, the body of light is,
“an ecstatic, mystical or out-of-body experience, wherein the spiritual traveler leaves the physical body and travels in his/her subtle body into ‘higher’ realms.”
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For Crowley, “traveling in the body of light” was a fundamental tool of Thelema, however, he believed it went much further than merely accessing “higher realms,” that in fact, the body of light was, in his words, “a storehouse of all experience.” Echoing the work of Dee and Kelley, Crowley asserted that the body of light was about,
“getting into communication with individuals who exist on a higher plane than ours […] raising oneself to their level.
To penetrate such sanctuaries as are guarded from the profane, to make such relations with its inhabitants as may avail to acquire knowledge and power, or to command service”.
In other words, it was the body of light that was key to accessing the knowledge once possessed by Enoch.
But Crowley went further, again expanding on the work of Dee and Kelley. Where they had spoken about the opening of the Gates of Understanding being a precursor to the End of Times, Crowley asserted,
“The Apocalypse is a mental transformation that will occur, or is presently occurring, within the collective unconscious of the human race.”
What Crowley was saying was that the End of Times would not be literal, as in, the destruction of the world, but rather that the opening of the Gates of Understanding represented a sort of mental evolution that would bring humanity to a higher plane of existence.
For years, Crowley would proselytize his teachings all around the world, attempting to bring about the mental transformation of which he spoke. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he became a highly divisive and controversial figure in mainstream thought. But this was not just due to his teachings. Admittedly, Crowley was a legendary drug user, consuming heroin and cocaine in extraordinary quantities. He also enjoyed an endless procession of sexual partners, both women, and men, as part of what he called ‘sex magick.’ Something similar to what the Russian mystic Rasputin was performing. These facts, alongside his teachings, meant Crowley was denounced by many prominent thinkers of his time and demonized in the media. In fact, Crowley leaned into these denunciations, dubbing himself “Beast 666” to poke fun at those in academia and high society who believed him to be the devil.
Eventually, however, Crowley’s wild ways would see him squander his inherited wealth, leaving him to live the last days of his life penniless in a boarding house, where he died of chronic bronchitis in 1947.
And yet, for as hated and ostracized as Crowley was in many circles during his lifetime, after his death, his influence, and the influence of his teachings, would truly explode. Twenty years later, when a counterculture movement arose in the United States, many of the most important figures of the era were followers of Thelema and the teachings of Aleister Crowley.
The Beatles, for one, were greatly influenced by Crowley’s work. In fact, they had a nickname for him – “Sergeant Pepper.” It’s true; their seminal 1967 album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was named after Aleister Crowley, with his likeness even appearing on the album cover. When they sang, “It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play,” they were referencing Crowley’s death in 1947, and how Thelema had taught them about higher levels of existence.
They were not alone at that time, though. Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page went so far as to buy a home where Crowley had once lived, in an attempt to connect with the power of the man. Meanwhile, Mick Jagger and David Bowie studied the teachings of Crowley, sometimes together, leading to the infamous theory that they had slept together, like Crowley, practicing coupling magick in an attempt to reach a higher consciousness.
More than that, Crowley’s teachings exerted a huge influence on the New Religious Movements of the 1960s and beyond, helping to shape modern versions of Wicca and Tarot, and even providing a foundation for L. Ron Hubbard, who was a devote follower of Crowley before he set off on his own and founded Scientology.
Beyond spirituality and popular culture, Crowley’s influence also infiltrated and shaped scientific thought. One of the most significant thinkers of the 1960s, the revolutionary American psychologist Timothy Leary, who rose to fame due to his advocacy for the use of psychedelic drugs to reach a higher level of consciousness, had studied the teachings of Crowley and incorporated them into his own work.
But it was not just countercultural thinkers like Leary. In fact, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century was a noted practitioner of Crowley’s Thelema.
In the 1930s and 40s, while Crowley was preaching a new way of thinking, a change of thinking was also taking place in the realm of space science. To that point, the field of rocket science was seen as synonymous with science fiction, looked down upon and mocked by most of academia. That was until a man named Jack Parsons came along and invented the rocket engine, becoming in the process not only one of the founders of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but one of the most important figures in the history of the US Space Program. Today, Parsons is known as “the father of rocket science,” and in fact, so great was his contribution to humanity’s efforts to reach the stars that in 1972 a crater on the moon was named after him.
Yet, at the same time as he was conducting his groundbreaking work on rocket engines, Jack Parsons was a prominent follower of Aleister Crowley. In the 1940s, he had been named, by Crowley himself, as the leader of a convent house known as Agape Lodge, where followers of Thelema lived and conducted magic ceremonies. In fact, Parsons’ scientific colleagues even remember him chanting in a strange language as he conducted his rocketry experiments, the Enochian language of Dee and Kelley.
Tragically for the world of science, Jack Parsons would die young, at only 37 years old, after an accident in his laboratory caused an explosion. While investigators who examined the scene concluded that Parsons must have been carelessly mixing chemicals, leading to the explosion, those who knew him said he was far too careful in his work to have made a mistake like that. Curiously, according to reports, first responders on the scene found Parsons’ mangled body surrounded by strange occult documents. Is it possible that he was not conducting a rocketry experiment at all, but some sort of occult ritual? Interestingly, shortly before his death, Parsons had written a letter to Aleister Crowley, telling him that he had been conducting experiments and getting closer and closer to success. With this expected success, Parsons wrote, “Babalon is incarnate on the earth today awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation. And on that day, my work will be accomplished, and I will be blown away upon the breath of the fire.”
Had Parsons been working on accessing a higher plane of consciousness, as Crowley had taught? Had he been attempting to open the Gates of Understanding described by Dee and Kelley? And if he had, what had gone wrong, or had it actually gone right?
How Enochian Language Influenced Humanity
Regardless of what happened to Jack Parsons, one must take a step back and examine what was happening more broadly. Remember that Dee and Kelley had been told by the angels that the ability to open the Gates of Understanding would trigger the End of Times. Aleister Crowley expanded upon this to assert that the End of Times was, in fact, “a mental transformation” occurring “within the collective unconscious of the human race.”
Think of where human thought and ability were taken by The Beatles or Timothy Leary, how the New Religious Movement, which continues to this day, has provided new ways of looking at the world and connecting to its powers; think of Jack Parsons, chanting in a long-lost Enochian language as he worked on the rocketry experiments which would allow humanity an entirely new way of thinking gleaned from exploration of outer space.
Is this not a mental transformation taking place already, the cracking open, perhaps, of the Gates of Understanding?
And if it is, then what might come next?