ATDTDA 719

[Michael Bailey]

On 2/1/08, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

> > My undestanding is that the Occult and Cryptography really got rolling
> > with John Dee.
> >
>
> I don't know, perhaps this is too ethnocentric as far as the occult is
> concerned.

Dee did spend some time in Eastern Europe, attending
wizard conventions, making gold for the King of Bohemia and whatnot...
so there was some preexisting interest there, certainly

and Paracelsus represented even earlier advances...

Chinese alchemy is older yet, and culture in India still older...
Africa, some say, is where humanity first jumped up (which
is big magic)

my favorite, though, has got to be A O Spare, who
was meditating hard and his upstairs neighbor's
bathtub came crashing through his ceiling.



-- 
Young Scrooge:
Life is filled with tough jobs, and there'll always be sharpies to cheat me.
Well, I'll be tougher than the toughies and sharper than the
sharpies...and I'll make my money square.

---From The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa