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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