Just exactly who was the original 007 and dashing British secret agent to her Majestys secret service? Nope! If you guessed James Bond or Sean Connery, the actor first portraying James Bond on the movie screen - then youre not even in the right ball park. To find the original British secret agent to her Majestys secret service, you must travel with me all the way back in time to 16th century England and to John Dee, a scholar of St. Johns College, Cambridge. John Dee (1527-1608) was an English mathematician, professor, astronomer, and spy who gave it all up for the (at that time) more lucrative occupation of being an astrologer. And it was John Dee who was the original British secret agent to her Majestys secret service. The Royal Sisters - Mary and Elizabeth According to one version of the story, shortly following the death of Edward VI - the newly crowned Queen Mary invited John Dee to her court for purposes of drawing up her horoscope. However, it soon became apparent to everyone in court that the young Dee was much more interested in the Queen Marys younger sister, Elizabeth, who was at the time being held in semi-captivity. The young Dee drew up Elizabeths chart and then reportedly made a grave error in judgment by sharing with Elizabeth the differences between the two sisters charts. Loose Lips Sink Ships Soon after, John Dee was arrested on charges of treason and suspected enchantments against Queen Marys life. Fortunately, he was eventually acquitted of these charges - and in the short biography, John Dee - Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer, G.M. Hort reports that the rest of Queen Marys troubled reign, passed for him peacefully enough. According to Benjamin Woolleys fascinating book, The Queens Conjurer, during this period of time Dee became part of Queen Marys entourage - and he (Dee) may have been secretly in the service of Elizabeth. Elizabeth After Queen Marys death in 1558, the younger Elizabeth remembered John Dee and brought him back to court in order to calculate a favorable day for her crowning. After that, Dee was reported to be continually busied about one thing and another at the fancy of the Queen. To make a very long story short, John Dee eventually got a wee bit too caught up the politics and intrigue of the day and reportedly briefly became a secret double-agent for Queen Elizabeth I in Englands bid to thwart Spain. In Dees private communications with the Queen, the secret name identifying him to Queen Elizabeth is believed to have been none other than that of 007. In Horts biography of Dee, it mentions only a journey on some unnamed business of the Queens. Perhaps, just as interesting, it has also been contended that the character Prospero from Shakespeares The Tempest was Shakespeares idealized portrait of John Dee. Final Notes Heres one final interesting gem of information passed onto me by astrologer Rick Levine at StarIQ. One possibility, according to astrologer Rob Hand, is that - rather than signing his letters to the Queen with the numbers 007 - John Dees secret signature may have instead been a glyph word picture depicting a pair of handheld eyeglasses that looked like the numbers 007. As such, Dee would have also been slyly passing on the message that he was the Queens eyes.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:32:06 +0000
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