| Elizabeth, after she is crowned, rises above the stage with long trains of golden fabric that become a protective canopy over her subjects' lives, including Dee making love with the wife who will later tempt the scryer. |
| Thus the conditions under which the scryer can scry, are, as yet, unascertained. |
| Just as the Elizabethan magus transcribed tables shown to them by angels, the modern scientific scryer deciphers numerical auguries of angels hidden in ourselves. |
| In these respects, and in the awakeness of the scryer, crystal pictures differ from hypnagogic illusions. |
| For example, Nicholas Clulee's prior treatment gives the impression that Dee's angels were the none-too-subtle mouthpieces for his scryer, Edward Kelly. |
| Christopher Robson, who plays the deeply repellent scryer Kelley, is a countertenor. |
