Description
John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery were discovered in a hidden compartment of an old chest after his death. The secret writings of the leading scientist and occultist of Elizabethan England detailed his research into the occult. Dee concealed his treatises on the nature of humankind’s contact with angelic realms and languages throughout his life. In his brief biography of John Dee, Joseph Peterson calls him a “true Renaissance man”? detailing his work in astronomy, mathematics, navigation, the arts, astrology, and the occult sciences.
All this was preparation for Dee’s main achievement: five books, revealed and transcribed between March 1582 and May 1583, bringing to light mysteries and truths that scholars and adepts have been struggling to understand and use ever since. These books detail his system for communicating with the angels. Revealing the interested in and involvement with the exploration and colonization of the New World. Thus heralding in a new age or new world order. His system was used and adapted by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and subsequently by Aleister Crowley.
This new edition of John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery is by far the most accessible and complete published to date. Peterson has translated Latin terms and added copious footnotes, putting the instructions and references into context for the modern reader.
Product Details:
ISBN: 9781578631780.
Paperback, 544 pages.
Publisher: Weiser Books, Published: January 15, 2002.
Size: 7 x 2.0 x 10 inches, Weight: 2.5 Lbs.
Author
Joseph H. Peterson has been studying esoteric texts for decades, intrigued by the Renaissance intellectual and experimental approach to spirituality. After years of collecting and digitizing rare texts for his own research, in 1995 he created the avesta.org and esotericarchives.com websites to share them with a wider audience. He lives near Rochester Minnesota.
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