A True & Faithful Relation of what Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits

A True & Faithful Relation of what Passed for Many Yeers Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits
Author: John Dee
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 397
Release: 1659
Genre: History
ISBN: 5885140944

Originally published by the ecclesiastical Casaubon in an attempt to discredit Queen Elizabeth Is court magician, Dr. John Dee, this monumental work on spirit communication has become one of the most valuable and interesting sourcebooks for modern students of the occult. Dee partnered with a rascally Irish medium cum alchemist, Edward Kelley, in a series of esoteric experiments designed to make contact with angels and other spirit beings. The result of their efforts was not only spirit guidance (including advice that they should hold their wives in common) but the communication of an entire system of magic, now known as Enochian and generally held in high regard by practitioners of the occult arts.

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

John Dee's Conversations with Angels
Author: Deborah E. Harkness
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1999-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521622288

John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time philosophy, and the apocalypse, and argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

Key to the Latin of Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (1583-1608)

Key to the Latin of Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (1583-1608)
Author: Stephen Skinner
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2012
Genre: Occultists
ISBN: 9780956828552

This is a completely revamped and reader-friendly edition of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr. John Dee...and some Spirits, transcribed and prefaced by Meric Casaubon in 1659. Now edited by Stephen Skinner, with a detailed introduction, appendices, extensive footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, and a Dee timeline. This book contains John Dee's Spiritual Diaries for 25 years (1583-1608), now made available for the first time in an organised and readable form. For any scholar or practitioner of magic, easy access to Dee's Enochian system is one of the most important parts of the Western Esoteric tradition. This book covers Dee's invocation of the angels, the reception of their Enochian system of magic, his experiments in alchemy, and experiences in the courts of the crowned heads of Europe. This book has been totally re-set, re-formatted and updated, incorporating corrections from the original notes of Meric Casaubon, Elias Ashmole and William Shippen, with reference to the original manuscript written by Dee. Sections which were originally missing from Casaubon's edition have been added.Angels, spirits, people, places, dates and times have been fully footnoted, and many of Casaubon's errors corrected. The reader will find this a much more accessible entrance to the world of Dr Dee's conferences with angels and spirits, and a welcome improvement.

John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2)

John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2)
Author: Christopher Whitby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1050
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 113615888X

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the earliest extant records of the supposed communication with angels and spirits of John Dee (1527-1608) with the assistance of his two mediums or 'scryers', Barnabas Saul and Edward Kelly. Volume 2 of this work is a transcription of the records in Dee's hand contained in Sloane MS 3188, which has been transcribed only once before, by Elias Ashmole in 1672. Volume 1 is an introduction and thorough commentary to the text which is primarily explaining its many obscurities. The author describes the physical state of the manuscript and its history then continues with a biography of Dee and his scryers and some background to Renaissance occult philosophy. Further chapters address the arguments that the manuscript represents a conscious fraud or a cryptographical exercise and describe the magical system and instruments evolved during the communications or 'Actions'. The last, fascinating chapter examines Dee's motives for believing so strongly in the truth of the Actions and suggests that a principal motive was the conviction, not held by Dee alone, that a new age was about to dawn upon earth.

John Dee's Actions With Spirits

John Dee's Actions With Spirits
Author: Christopher Whitby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1050
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415642426

This was originally a two volume set which is now bound as one. Here is presented an investigation of the nature of the earliest extant records of the supposed communication with angels and spirits of John Dee (1527-1608) with the assistance of his two mediums or 'scryers', Barnabas Saul and Edward Kelly. Volume 2 of this work is a transcription of the records in Dee's hand contained in Sloane MS 3188, which has been transcribed only once before, by Elias Ashmole in 1672. Volume 1 is an introduction and thorough commentary to the text which is primarily explaining its many obscurities. The author describes the physical state of the manuscript and its history then continues with a biography of Dee and his scryers and some background to Renaissance occult philosophy. Further chapters address the arguments that the manuscript represents a conscious fraud or a cryptographical exercise and describe the magical system and instruments evolved during the communications or 'Actions'. The last, fascinating chapter examines Dee's motives for believing so strongly in the truth of the Actions and suggests that a principal motive was the conviction, not held by Dee alone, that a new age was about to dawn upon earth.

A True and Faithful Relation Between John Dee and Some Spirits

A True and Faithful Relation Between John Dee and Some Spirits
Author: Meric Casaubon
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 726
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781499679168

A True & Faithful Relation of What passed for many Years Between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Same in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reigns) and S o m e S p i r i t s : Tending (had it Succeeded) To a General Alteration of most States and Kingdomes in the World. His Private Conferences with Rudolph Emperor of Germany, Stephen King of Poland, and divers other Princes about it. The Particulars of his Cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors Court; By the Popes Intervention: His Banishment, and Restoration in part. The Letters of Sundry Great Men and Princes (some whereof were present at some of there Conferences and Apparitions of Spirits:) to the said D. Dee out of The Original Copy, written with Dr Dee's own Hand: Kept in the Library of Sir Thomas Cotton.