John Dee

Essential Readings

By: Gerald Suster

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Paperback | 15 July 2011 | Edition Number 1

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Revered in his time as the most learned man in all Europe, Dr. John Dee (1527-1608) was the leading British representative of sixteenth-century Hermeticism. He was Queen Elizabeth's personal astrologer and an honored advisor to many noble English families and European royalty. Besides his wide-ranging studies of the contemporary sciences, John Dee was famous, together with Edward Kelley, for his communication with angelic and spiritual beings by means of his crystal and the unique Enochian language.
This anthology provides the general reader with a selection of Dee's writings illustrating his multifarious interests - from Hermetic and Cabalistic philosophy to mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and navigation. Drawing on such works as the Monas Hieroglyphica and the celebrated Preface to Euclid, as well as on the "Spiritual Diaries," Gerald Suster's selection reaffirms Dee's central position in the history of Renaissance esotericism and the development of Western Magic.

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General History of Science Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies Mind, Body, Spirit Mysticism, Magic & Occult Interests Philosophy Metaphysics & Ontology Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects

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General Editor's Preface	p. 5
Chronology	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
A Supplication to Queen Mary	p. 15
Propaedeumata Aphoristica	p. 20
To Sir William Cecil	p. 24
From the Monas Hieroglyphica	p. 30
The Preface to Euclid	p. 37
General and Rare Memorials Pertaining to the Perfect Art of Navigation	p. 47
Diaries 1577-83	p. 61
Spiritual Diaries 1583-7	p. 67
The Private Diary 1587	p. 95
Letter to Queen Elizabeth	p. 97
Personal Diaries 1589-95	p. 99
The Compendious Rehearsal	p. 104
Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury	p. 112
Personal Diaries 1600-1	p. 122
Letter to King James I	p. 125
A Later Spiritual Diary	p. 127
Some Opinions of Dee	p. 130
A Note on Enochian Magic	p. 137
Enochian Magic: An Item for Comparison	p. 143
What Is Qabalah?	p. 147
Notes	p. 148
Select Bibliography	p. 155
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