Dee and Kelley: Scrying Uriel

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The fly, as Edward Kelley, watches the framed stone at John Dee's Holy Table while a second fly as Dee questions and records, until Uriel, then a chair and table, appear inside the stone.

Setup

• Ten stages over 180 seconds: a composite of the 10 March 1582 conversations, the developed 1583 furniture and Uriel's appearance as described on 13 January 1584.
• The Holy Table follows Ashmole's measurements: a 36 1/4 x 35 7/8-inch top, 0.7-inch thickness and a 14 1/4 x 11-inch centre of three columns and four rows. Historical plate marks supply the paintwork.
• Four wax foot seals, the central Sigillum Dei Aemeth, silk coverings and a silver-framed crystal.
• Six cameras, including table, crystal, Dee's notes, table feet and Kelley's first-person view. Inspect cutaways show the paintwork or seal in the viewport only.

Measurement

• Retinal-only neural windows during playback, with fixed weights. The canonical eye image always shows the covered table, regardless of inspection cutaways.
• The apparition is rendered from Kelley's reported vision; the flies do not independently perceive an angel.

Limitations

• An explicitly labelled composite, not a reconstruction of one dated session.
• Fly clothing, room layout, likenesses, lighting, gestures and timing are modeled; the room is not a survey of Dee's house.
• No later Golden Dawn ritual or unsourced Enochian speech is inserted.

Sources

• 10 March 1582, morning
• 10 March 1582, afternoon
• Dee's furniture summary, Sloane 3191
• 13 January 1584, Stettin (Casaubon p. 60)
• Ashmole measurements of Dee's Holy Table
• Holy Table letter order