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Alighieri’s fourteenth-century classic, Divine
Comedy: The Inferno. Tracy turns the exhibit into
a moneymaking house of horrors. Tracy, however,
begins to fear hell, and the words “Abandon all
hope, all ye who enter here,” which Dante
portrayed as inscribed above the gates of hell,
begin to haunt him. After the attraction collapses
and his wife abandons him, Tracy is arrested and
held responsible for the disaster and death his
attraction caused.
Dark Angel: The Ascent
A very unusual movie directed by Linda Hassani
about an evil angel who is tired of inflicting
punishment to the inhabitants of the underworld.
The visual effects for the atmosphere and
flavor of the underworld in this 1994 film were
created in a Romanian castle with torches instead
of electrical lighting. The fallen angel Veronica is
played by Angela Featherstone, who escapes from
hell through a secret passage just before her
bloodthirsty father slashes her with his sword.
Featherstone arrives on the earth through a
manhole with her dog. She slays murderers and
rapists, sending their souls to hell. In avenging
the good, however, she is doing evil and must
return to the underworld to be cleansed in the
river Styx. The love of a good man helps her learn
compassion.
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
In this 1978 film a photographer and his wife
move to a quiet New England hamlet from
Manhattan, and find that things are not as idyllic
as they seem. One of the better movies about a
couple who stumble onto a secret Satanist cult.
Dee, John
Astrologer John Dee (1527–1608) was born in
London of a Welsh family. He was educated in
Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Trinity
College. Magic and alchemy were among his
major interests from his earliest years, and he
began collecting books and manuscripts. He
became a well-known mathematician. He is best
John Dee (National Library of Medicine)
known to modern Satanists through the inclusion
of some of his Enochian Keys in the latter section
of Anton LaVey’s The Satanic Bible.
During the reign of the Catholic Mary Tudor,
he was accused of being a heretic and a conjurer.
However, he was able to clear his charge and he
was not burned, though he spent some time in
prison. During a journey abroad, he learned that a
mob had broken into his house at Mortlake and
sacked his library, believing that he was a worker
of black magic. Eventually he was favored by the
court of Queen Elizabeth I, who was much more
superstitious and interested in astrology than her
sister. Dee became her occult adviser, although she
never granted him the generous pension he was
seeking. During his numerous trips abroad, he
also acted as a secret agent for her, under the code
name “007.”
John Dee is, however, best known for his
Enochian Magic, a system of magic teaching
communication with angels and spirits. Dee
joined Irishman Edward Kelly in an attempt to
communicate with the spirits through the practice
known as scrying. Communication with the spirits
was possible through the use of the Enochian
language, a genuine, complex language of
unknown origin with a solid grammar and syntax.
Each letter of the Enochian alphabet features a