![]() ![]() Lessons learned and innovations over the last decades have influenced and changed building codes, zoning ordinances, and industry standards at the service of better designed communities. Pedestrians and cars share the same street space with the understanding that it can be reclaimed at any time for farmer’s markets, public events, art exhibits, and the like. The latter is achieved through the unique expression of grand entrance lobbies that are the link to the public realm of retail and the private, residential world above.Ĭlose to a decade in the making, Modera Mosaic and the accompanying four buildings designed in two phases are an excellent example of contemporary architecture which complements the surrounding architecture with articulation, bold colors, and a strong street presence. Retail rules the ground level, however, residential requires a presence an address. Flexibility is provided to allow free retail expression and store front design, a very important ingredient for successful retail. Street level activation, and interaction between the retail and the residential above, was an important consideration in the design. Interaction between the different uses, experiential retail, residential, retail anchor, entertainment, office building and supporting parking. The facade organization helps to define the character of the building by regulating scale, massing and facade rhythms. It is an example of contemporary architecture served up with an urban twist-brick and metal exterior, residential-grade aluminum windows and hotel-inspired amenities in an open design. This study utilizes a careful analysis of primary sources including the original manuscripts of the Sloane archives, the most recent scholarly editions of Dee’s works, authoritative editions of original documents linked to Rosicrucianism, and Israel Regardie’s texts on Golden Dawn practices.Modera Mosaic is a mid-rise apartment community built atop ground-floor retail, with an above-grade parking structure for both residents and shoppers. The rituals of the Golden Dawn utilized Dee’s angel magic, in addition to creative Kabbalistic elements, to form a singular practice that has influenced Western esoterica of the modern age. Figures such as Elias Ashmole, Ebenezer Sibley, Francis Barret, and Frederick Hockley were crucial in the transmission of interest in Dee’s practical angel magic and Hermetic philosophy to the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Through Johann Valentin Andreae’s Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459, the emphasis on a spiritual, inner alchemy became attached to Dee’s philosophy. It is primarily by the Neoplatonic, Hermetic, Kabbalistic, and alchemical philosophy presented in the Monas Hieroglyphica that interest in Dee’s angel magic was transmitted through the Rosicrucian movement. The aim of this dissertation is to establish Dee’s conversations with angels as a magic system that is a direct descendant of Solomonic and Ficinian magic with unique Kabbalistic elements. The intention and transmission of John Dee’s angel magic is linked to the philosophy outlined in his earlier works, most notably the Monas Hieroglyphica, and so this dissertation also provides a philosophical background to Dee’s angel magic. ![]() This dissertation seeks to define the importance of John Dee’s interpretation of mediaeval and Renaissance esoterica regarding the contacting of daemons and its evolution into a body of astrological and terrestrial correspondences and intelligences that included a Biblical primordial language, or a lingua adamica. ![]()
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