Madimi’s first appearance to Edward Kelly and John Dee was on 4th July 1583. This is at the beginning of Liber Sexti, which Dee gave the title of “The Sixth (and Sacred) Book of Mystery, a Similar New Beginning”:

Dee wrote in his diaries that “as [Edward Kelley] was looking earnestly on them, a spiritual creature did part the book on the outside of the parchment cover, divers times, and once would have taken it out of his hands. Divers times I heard the strokes myself.” ¹

Madimi presented herself as a pretty girl, seven or nine years old, her hair rolled up in front and hanging down at the back. She wore a satin gown, which changed from red
to green, just like the silk cloth Dee and Kelly had been directed to hang over the Holy Table when the angels gave their designs. The spirit – as she was said to be early on – carried a toy and ran up and down through Dee’s stacks of books, which were observed physically moving to allow her through.² At times Dee heard a voice speaking to Madimi, though no other being was seen. “Am I not a fine Maiden?” Madimi asked. “Give me leave to play in your house, my Mother told me she would come and dwell here. . . . I am the last but one of my Mother’s children, I have little Baby-children at home.” Madimi revealed that she was one of the Daughters of Light from the Sigillum, and that her six sisters had to come and dwell with Dee. Their mother, Galvah, would come later. Galvah was an angel.

Madimi was to play a crucial role in the scrying sessions, and would become one of Dee’s favorite spirits —so much so that Dee would later name one of his daughters after her when he had returned to England. Dee’s initial questions to Madimi were all about Count Łaski’s family pedigree; this is where the angels furnished Łaski as a means to an end – he would be the means and the reason for their move to Bohemia. And ultimately be cast aside, though at the beginning it was said he could become a king of England.

A question from the outset presents itself here. If Madimi is a ‘spirit’, and Galvah is an angel, a mother, is there a father? This isn’t answered – or is there an answer?

While both Dee and Kelly still remained in Mortlake, both became involved with Count Laski, who was trying to extend influence in England and on the Continent with ideas of kingship. Dee was running out of money as Elizabeth made promises of future support – Dee had made proposals about changing the calendar and beginning the British Empire which were not followed through for political reasons. Madimi counseled now and then about Łaski and leaving England for a time to go with Łaski to Bohemia (now Poland). Because of Dee’s involvement with Łaski, Walsingham was making plans to have Dee arrested for treason as soon as Łaski had left – unbeknownst to Dee. So Dee and Kelly and their families left for Bohemia – it is there that Madimi’s influence would increase over time, and Madimi’s character and appearance would change.

In September, 1583 Dee and Kelly and Laski left for Bohemia by way of the Netherlands. They were to first go to Laski’s home town, Łasko,

Madimi, and the angels, have an interesting take on the subject of evil: it is clear that they view demons as useful tools for terrifying men, that they are forced back into God’s realm or control. The only important thing as far as the angels are concerned are men’s souls. All else – all physical things, such as health, wealth or comfort are disposable and not seen as important. At one point early in their association, Kelly unwisely asks Madimi for a loan of £100. He is thoroughly rebuked by her for such an outrage – the angels, and spirits, have no concern about the poverty or wealth of Dee or Kelly, or for that matter any person. On February 18th, 1584, when Dee asked Madimi to prevent demons from coming into the sessions, citing an incident where Kelly felt his head to be clawed, “We beseech God, that all intermedling, and saucinesse of the wicked in these Actions may cease. You know how one clawed him, here, on the head, as with Eagles claws”. Madimi responded, “He may rejoice, they clawed not his soul.” She was now growing in size and stature, no longer a young girl – Kelly remarks that she is bigger, and in a long gown. In the next diary entry, on 21 February, she appears briefly, and Kelly comments she is still bigger. She says a couple of sentences, and smiles. Dee responds that he is thankful that all God’s creatures smile on him, and she responds, “When you know me well, you will find, I have been very charitable.” When she turns to leave, she is naked, and smeared in blood, “She goeth away naked; her body being besprent with blood; at the least that side of her toward E. K.

In August, 1584, Madimi appeared again, still bigger, and among other matters concerning their obedience and disobedience of Dee and Kelly’s status thereof, they were counseled to move from Lasko to Prague, to forget Count Łaski, and to apply for sponsorship to Rudolph II.

Rudolph was playing a game at keeping the Catholic Church at arms length while being friendly to the Protestants and harboring them, and Jews, in Prague, without officially taking sides.

There is now a gap of Madimi’s appearance next in the diaries to 15 April, 1587. Dee, and especially Kelly wanted to transfer the responsibility for scrying to Dee’s son, Arthur, so they asked Madimi, Ilemese and Uriel to facilitate that. They tried, but Arthur was capable of only having a child’s perception, and so Kelly took back the responsibility on 18 April. On that day, Kelly saw the two angels disappear, leaving Madimi, who now appeared naked. And as Kelly relayed in the diaries:

1. K. There appeared Madimi, Il. and the rest: And so they are here; but now all the rest are gone, and onely Madimi remain∣eth.

Madimi openeth all her apparel, and her self all naked; and sheweth her shame also.

1. K. Fie on thee, Devil avoid hence with this filthiness, &c.

Mad. In the Name of God, why finde you fault with mee?

And then Madimi tells Dee and Arthur that they should do what God tells them to do, and be obedient, even if that obedience would appear to be sinful in the eyes of men. And she gives a few examples.

It was on the next day, 19 April, that Madimi told them they must share their wives in common. Dee and Kelly questioned whether this was spiritually or carnally – a scroll appeared in Kelly’s scrying, which stated that it was both. This caused Dee to question his faith, and caused Kelly to want to forsake continuing with the angels at all. When they told their wives, they were appalled. Jane Dee fell into a ‘weeping and trembling for a quarter of an hour’, after which she basically acquiesced to God’s will. Joanna Kelly’s specific reaction is not recorded. It should be said here that Kelly did not get along with Joanna. In the diaries at other times he told Dee he hated her.

On 21 April, a wife swapping agreement was composed. Both of the wives were still disturbed by all of this, going against the commandment against adultery.  After some further clarification from the angels in further scrying, in which it was stated that the purpose of the sharing was to unify Dee and Kelly as one being, thus bringing about the first phase of the Apocalypse. A covenant was drawn up by the 4 of them, Dee, Kelly and their wives, on 6 May, and after Dee and Kelly went to pray at their table in the chapel, Madimi appeared in Kelly’s scrying with an infinite number of spiritual creatures standing behind her. Madimi sprouted an additional head with 3 eyes, one of them going into the other, which Dee thought signified that the agreement and deal was to go ahead. On 20 May, the deal was written and split into two parts, one for Dee and Jane and the other for Kelly and Joanna. The couples kept prevaricating, and in the scryings now appeared nothing but threats for not having consummated the agreement.

On 22 May, Kelly consummated the deal with Jane Dee, but Dee did not do the same with Joanna, only spending the night chastely with her. Jane gave birth to a son nine months later, in February, 1588, whom they named Theodore. On that 22 May, Kelly had a scrying vision of the Daughter of Fortitude – whom Alistair Crowley later called Babalon, as another name or aspect of Nuit – one of the Egyptian Trinity from the Book of the Law of Nuit, Hadit and Horus. The speech of the Daughter of Fortitude rivals Shakespeare in intensity and layered meaning. As often occurs in the diaries, the speech of the angels and spirits is greater by orders of magnitude in eloquence than Kelly can compose on his own, as evidenced by his own writings later.

After this, the scrying becomes less eventful – Kelly gathers influence from studying Dee’s books on alchemy, and Dee is trying to get into the good graces of Elizabeth’s court by relaying what was going on in Europe at the time. Kelly showed no interest in returning to England, aiming for the highest bidder interested in his newfound alchemical skill. While still together, Kelly starts throwing fits over scrying, just not wanting to do it anymore now that he had the ear of emperor Rudolf in Bohemia. England was trying to get Kelly back before the Spanish Armada occurred for the same reasons – increasing gold in the Treasury coffers – but didn’t offer enough money to do so. Dee was viewed as an ancillary matter in the arrangement – they weren’t that interested in his return.

Dee and Jane return to England in December 1589 – 6 years after moving to the Continent. Dee stayed from January to December 1589 in Bremen, trying to entice Kelly back to scrying, with no success.  After their return to England in December, both destitute, Jane and John have a daughter born to them, and John names her Madimi.

Madimi later appears again in attempted scrying in the period 1671 -1688 by a group of magicians wanting to apparently find treasure and for fortune telling. They succeeded in contacting Madimi and Galvah. The angelic reference to ‘88’ referring to the end of the world they took to mean 1688, and when it didn’t happen they disbanded in disappointment.

She next appears in Aleister Crowley’s scrying of the Aethyrs, documented in his Vision and the Voice. In Aethyr 17, TAN, the path of Lamed, Madimi appears, though in a different form than shown before, which Crowley does not detail. She says about this, “Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.”

There does not seem to be any major attempt to scry her again since Crowley’s mention. Now that a century has passed, perhaps It is time to once again contact Madimi, to see what she can illuminate or describe in these times.

By LAW

[1, 2] There was during the whole interaction of Dee and Kelly in these angelic scryings physical manifestations, with both auditory and visible phenomena occurring that Dee experienced and documented. This brings up a a counter argument to those who think that Kelly was just faking the whole of the scryings.