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John Dee's Actions with Spirits (Volumes 1 and 2): 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

Autor Christopher Whitby
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iul 2014
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138008168
ISBN-10: 1138008168
Pagini: 1048
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 56 mm
Greutate: 1.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Volume 1  Part 1: Introduction  1. The Manuscript  2. Biographical Details  3. Magic and Scrying  4. Fraud and Cryptography  5. The Magical System  6. Motives  7. Conclusion  Part 2: Commentary
Volume 2  1. Conventions and Usages in the Transcription  2. The Transcription  3. Appendix – The Holy Table  4. Bibliography

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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.