Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome Jason Louve to the show.

Jason is an occultist, author and journalist.

He joins us today to talk about his latest book,

John D and the Empire of Angels.

Along the way we cover the prevalence of magic in Elizabethan England,

the influence of Anocyan on the story of Western ritual magic

and the role of the extra-dimensional in world politics.

Great chat, quick note before we begin,

there are a couple of audio dropouts that weren't apparent to me

when we were recording,

so it might go quiet for a second in one or two places.

Apologies for that, but the conversation is easily picked back up.

And speaking of conversations, let's have one.

Jason, welcome aboard. Hello, Gordon. How you doing?

I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

And I have a bit of a curveball first question for you, Jason.

Okay, shoot. All right. John D. A weird kid.

Was John D. A weird kid? Yes, he absolutely was. He was mathematical and recognized from a very young age.

But he grew up in his father's,

he grew up in a mercantile family.

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