Abraxas. Adocentyn. Apollyon. Ariel. Ars Notaria. Azael. In the Angelic Conversations of Doctor DEE (q.v.) Azael is the interpreter of God. What did “q.v.” mean? The first thing to do after staring again long into the vast ruins pictured on the endpapers front and back—broken antique torsos, huge headstones covered in clearly cut but unintelligible words, toppled pillars sunken in grass, arches, urns, capitals, obelisks—was to turn to the page whereon he had found the name of his secret lodge or club … it wasn’t far from the front, in an entry on Alchemy … the book almost fell open there, so stared at was the page.
— John Crowley, Ægypt
