Zion: After Dee died...the 'angelical stone' had many owners...ending in horace walpole. After Walpole died, an unknown man bought it in a 1842 estate sale... Autioneer: ...Once, going twice...Zion (Caption): Imagine my surprise...when researching into family documents...discovering the 'unknown man'...was my ancestor, Merlin Zion. Auctioneer: ...This speculum originally owned by Dr. Dee goes to this gentleman.

Zion (Caption): My forefather was fascinated bymagic and science... Merlin Zion: Fopr thirty years, since buying the stone, I've been gathering other supposedly mystical objects...a statue sacred to the Hindu Nagas...Merlin Zion: ...A statue worshipped as a Greek muse...a team-driven Tibetian prayer wheel...John Ruskin's St. George Guild seemed the perfect choice... John Ruskin: ?Having our artisans construct a mystical...battery...engine.

Zion (Caption): Fifteen years later, Merlin's son Sylvester tempted therrecently-created order of the Golden Dawn... Sylvester Zion: Mr. Yeats, if Mr. Mathers will agree...you'll pya us an annual fee...in exchange...Sylvester Zion: ...You'll hide this 'Merlin Mechanis' in a hidden room next to the vault your greatest mystical rituals take place in...the rituals'll 'charge' the machinism...and amplify your...results. Yeats: So you say. Still...what's the harm?

Zion: During the next decade, Sylvester Zion corresponded with Sir James George Frazier--becoming one of Frazier's sources--his influences--on the Golden Bough--albeit an uncredited one, at Sylvester's insistence. Formulating magick's 'laws'...Zion: For over a decade, the Mechanism sat next to the London Golden Dawn temple's vault---when Sylvester removed it--that year the Dawn was rocked by scandal...and dissolved.



Zion: Sylvester moved to America--in his old age, showing the mechanism to Thomas Edison. Later that year, Edison made his 'spirit phone'... Lyons: Enough. We get the idea... Lorelei: ...and..me?Lyons: Well, Lorelei...Steed will be overseas...his rivals watching my home and work as Steed's friend--we need to keep it somplace...unsuspected. Lorelei: Like...my place? Steed: For a little while.

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