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John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2) - 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583 (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,710
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John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2) - 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583 (Paperback): Christopher Whitby

John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2) - 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583 (Paperback)

Christopher Whitby

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

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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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
Release date: July 2014
First published: 1988
Authors: Christopher Whitby
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 64mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-00816-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought
Books > History > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Occult studies > Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN: 1-138-00816-8
Barcode: 9781138008168

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