If you analyze the many reports of contact with aliens, it turns out that aliens never demand their recognition from the general public. Most often, they generally avoid communication or limit the framework of contact to a very small circle of people (or even one person), and the choice sometimes seems random, and sometimes just incomprehensible. But in the case, which will be described below, the choice was absolutely justified.
We are talking about the Englishman John Dee (1527-1608). For his time, he was a man of exceptional erudition and universal in the number of sciences in which he was engaged. He could be compared with MV Lomonosov and Leonardo da Vinci, but the direction of his activity had a slightly different character.
John Dee (this is his real surname, not an abbreviation, and in English it is spelled as Dee) is known both as a great mathematician and an outstanding philologist, had a wide knowledge of geography and navigation. According to his idea, the Greenwich meridian is accepted all over the world. He was a natural scientist, a chemist (more precisely, an alchemist) and a mechanic (he built the first robots in Europe - mechanical animals).
He was engaged in optics and translations from ancient Greek and other languages. Later he earned a living from astrology, and, apparently, he treated each of these activities with the same seriousness and scrupulousness. Due to his vast knowledge and skills, an unthinkable number of charges were brought against him, including espionage and witchcraft.
One day Dee found a manuscript of Trithemius called Steganography in one of the bookstores. For that time it was one of the most mysterious books dealing with the practical issues of magic. The scientist studied it for a long time and even supplemented it by developing his own methods. And he achieved results that, it seems, he himself did not dream of.
As a result of intensive studies of steganography, John Dee - not in a dream, but in reality - appeared a certain creature surrounded by radiance. If we consider that only the 16th century was coming to an end, then it was quite forgivable for Dee to call him an angel, and in our time, 90% of this creature would be called an alien.
There is another unusual exhibit in the secret storerooms of the British Museum: a very large and perfectly polished piece of coal that can be used as a mirror. The exhibit is not allowed to be studied and used, but in vain, because an analysis of its physical and chemical properties would make it possible to find out what, at least, the origin of the stone - earthly or not.
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Apparently, the stone was unusual. The scientist wrote that he was left by an angel who appeared to him, and said that looking in this mirror, Dee will be able to see other worlds and communicate with the mind of a non-human nature. John Dee did communicate with these creatures and recorded his conversations, some of which were published back in 1659 by Meric Casabon under the title "True and Reliable Testimony of What Happened Between Dr. John Dee and Certain Spirits."
Some of the records are kept as a manuscript in the British Museum. Unfortunately, everything we have is only a small part of what the scientist wrote down. Most of his books were burned when Dee was accused of witchcraft.
Fragments of these books are written in a special language that has no analogues or "relatives" on Earth. To give an idea of it, here is a small excerpt - a spell with which you can become invisible: “Ol sonuf vaorsag goho iad bait, lonsh calz vonpho. Z-ol I ta nazps ".
For individual characteristic combinations of sounds, the language is associated with Hebrew, then with Vietnamese, then with Basque, and even with Scandinavian. Apparently, Dee either developed the rules and vocabulary of this language himself (at a time when artificial languages were almost never thought of), or the very angel really "gave" it to the scientist.
John Dee called it the Enochic language, guided by the fact that it was Enoch, according to legend, that mysterious beings from heaven appeared. Dee identified these creatures with the "angel" that appeared to him, and, apparently, not by chance.
The fact is that in both cases (with Enoch and with John), mysterious beings who came from somewhere above gave people valuable information. But this is exactly what we know indirectly, because in the surviving books about creatures it becomes known only that they have telepathy and the ability to travel in time. The idea of time travel was new at the time. This just goes to show that Dee was not a charlatan.
The scientist immediately realized that the creatures with whom he maintained constant contact have a large store of information, in particular on the natural sciences. They gradually communicated this information to John, and he wrote it down. And there are many interesting things in these records. Dee reported that it turns out that Mercator's globes (for his time, the most perfect geographical instruments) give only a very rough idea of the planet and the location of geographical objects on it.
He further writes that in fact the Earth is not a ball, but consists of many superimposed spheres. These spheres are lined up along a different dimension, and thanks to this, Greenland, for example, at some points stretches to infinity. Hence John Dee's insistent advice to Queen Elizabeth that England must conquer the island.
Dee also makes some statements ahead of their time about mathematics. Recall that then only Euclidean geometry was known, and other theories that did not refute it and were simultaneously constructed on a different principle appeared more than three hundred years later. Some interesting information is also given on mechanics, psychoanalysis (that is, on science, which did not yet exist) and other areas of knowledge.
We have given some examples to illustrate the amount and quality of information suddenly revealed to John Dee. One could, of course, assume that he came to all this himself, but it should be noted that he had neither the prerequisites nor the opportunities for this. One version remains: knowledge was gifted to the scientist by supernatural beings. And if we do not believe in God, then it is quite logical to assume that these creatures were representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization.
What is strange - since then, no one except John Dee has been able to establish a connection with other worlds through the "mirror", although a whole organization was created by working with Dee's books and his teachings at the end of the 19th century - the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
This once again suggests that in addition to our ardent desire to meet with representatives of another civilization, no matter how different from ours it is, it is also important the ardent desire of the representatives of this civilization.
