Written during his imprisonment in the Tower of London,the cynical nature of the work, and the contempt to which Raleigh holds monarchs throughout history brought the book to the attention of James I who immediately demanded copies to be seized and publication banned.
If you find a million words daunting in the age of Twitter, some selections from his work can be read here:
Selections from his Historie of the world, his Letters,
Dr. John Dee was the ‘conjuror’ associated with the fictional, atheistical ‘School of Night’ associated with Walter Raleigh (by his enemies), who allegedly cursed the Spanish Armada in 1588.
His appetite for knowledge meant he slept only four hours a night, spending his waking hours studying Greek, Latin, geometry, mathematics, astronomy, navigation, scripture, law, medicine and cryptography – the art of writing codes.
He accumulated the largest library in England at his house in Mortlake – boasting some 2,670 manuscripts, as opposed to Cambridge’s 451 and Oxford’s 379
The private diary of Dr. John Dee : and the catalogue of his library of manuscripts,
As well as being a renowned occultist, he was a gifted cartographer, mathematician, geographer and astronomer.
He used that wealth of knowledge to prepare Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh as they traveled the globe, and advised Queen Elizabeth on her imperial designs.
“Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.”
This was an obsidian Aztec cult object in the shape of a hand-mirror, brought to Europe in the late 1520s, which was subsequently owned by Horace Walpole
3 Magical Discs, made from wax & engraved with detailed inscriptions and symbols, the disks would have been used in conjunction with Dee’s magic mirror for communication and decoding purposes.
Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
Evil virology is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan
somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
🧵As promised, here is my counter critique & rebuttal of some points made by @gadboit about the Pangolin Papers Hypothesis.
His theory seems to be that SARS-COV-2 emerged like Aphrodite, from BANAL BAT viruses, possibly with some FCS tweaking & no Pangolins coronaviruses needed.
@gadboit 🧵2. @gadboit claims BANAL-52’s 96.8% similarity & ACE2 binding make it closer to SARS-CoV-2 than PCoVs (~91%) & that PCoV features could come from bat CoVs.
But GD PCoV’s RBD (97% identity) needs no mutations for hACE2, unlike BANALs.
A. “The Pangolin Papers” presents a robust argument for the lab-mediated origin of SARS-CoV-2, particularly centered on experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) during 2018 and 2019.
1. A Modest Proposal for the Fair Imprisonment of Women and the Liberation of Men
By a Concerned Citizen of Reason,
Published in The Rational Gazette on X
March 24, 2025
2. Dire Injustice!
It is a lamentable truth, oft repeated in the progressive broadsheets and the sanctimonious halls of modern discourse, that the state of our prisons reveals a dire injustice.
3. Gaol'd Wretches
We are told, with furrowed brows and trembling voices, that Black men, comprising a mere 4% of the good people of England and Wales, yet numbering 13% of our gaol’d wretches, suffer under the cruel yoke of systemic discrimination.
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley RML expertise in biodefense inlcudes tick & flea agents, so I doubt she would want to discuss how many ticks they have or what they inject them with.