The Phantom Rose

Twenty five years ago, a seer said I go each night to The Cathedral of the Souls where I sit at a oval table. She saw a hooded figure behind me and asked me who it was. I did not know. Today I do know………..it is John Dee!

I am free of the slanderous chains that bound me. I descend from Peter von Rosenberg. I am the embodiment of John Dee. This is why no one has been able to defeat me, or, even approach me. Save one! She is forgiven for employing Sub-rosa. She played her part, well. She put me in a prison, and bid me The Great Sorcerer – to break free! You have seen Real Magic, performed before your very eyes, coming to you, forever live, from Ken Kesey Square, and……………..The Great Cosmos Beyond!

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Mary Morton Rosemond of Iowa

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John Dee had a great influence on his world. It was he who convinced the Queen she had rights in the Americas. It was he whose texts on navigation went beyond science and envisioned a British world ruled by a British navy long before the age of Imperialism. He made strides in the sciences but never received the credit for his work as he had also delved into the black arts and alchemy.

Dee, along with Sir Francis Bacon, is considered at least the inspiration for, if not the co-founder of, the Rosicru­cian brotherhood. Because the brotherhood was not an organization in Dee’s time, there was no established organiza­tion or rules, officers, or even members. It was what it claimed to be, a brotherhood of “Invisibles,” and for good rea­son. To be a visible proponent of any science condemned by the Church could shorten one’s life expectancy considerably. Many of the texts of the Rosicrucians were written anonymously or with pen names like the famous Christian Rosenkreutz. A coded device Dee used on his writings called the “Monas hieroglyphica” is shared by one of the earliest known Rosicrucian writings, Confessio Fraternitatis.

There is a considerable amount of certainty that the Rosicrucian brotherhood played a great part in Dee’s role as Elizabeth’s spy. His position of court mystic, his connection to the “Invisibles” and his gifts that bordered on the su­pernatural, at least in appearance, would help in admitting him to the esoteric circles of Europe. He left for the conti­nent at age twenty, and his travels included a stint working for the Muscovy Company advancing Anglo-Russian trade.

Ian Fleming’s biography has numerous similarities, including considerable evidence that the same esoteric stud­ies and connection to the Rosicrucian brotherhood played a role in the life of James Bond’s creator.