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John Dee Books
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John Dee: 1527-1608 (Weiser Enochian Library)
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avg rating 3.67 — 18 ratings — published 1909
The House of Doctor Dee (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.36 — 1,428 ratings — published 1993
The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 838 ratings — published 2001
The Bones of Avalon (John Dee Papers #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,993 ratings — published 2010
Angel of the West Window (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 789 ratings — published 1927
The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 87,919 ratings — published 2009
Virgin and the Crab - Sketches, Fables and Mysteries from the Early Life of John Dee and Elizabeth Tudor (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 75 ratings — published 2009
The Eyes of the Queen (Agents of the Crown, #1)
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avg rating 3.46 — 950 ratings — published 2020
Theatre of the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 59 ratings — published 1969
The Alchemist's Door (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 226 ratings — published 2002
John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 162 ratings — published 1999
The Warlock (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #5)
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avg rating 4.18 — 62,021 ratings — published 2011
The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #4)
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avg rating 4.13 — 70,771 ratings — published 2010
The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)
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avg rating 3.86 — 168,106 ratings — published 2007
The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #2)
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avg rating 4.10 — 101,637 ratings — published 2008
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 540 ratings — published 1979
John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61 ratings — published 1972
The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 73 ratings — published 2012
John Dee: Essential Readings (Western Esoteric Masters)
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avg rating 3.96 — 23 ratings — published 1986
John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture)
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avg rating 4.20 — 15 ratings — published 1995
John Dee of Mortlake (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published
The Complete Mystical Records of Dr. John Dee: Transcribed from the 16th-Century Manuscripts Documenting Dee's Conversations with Angels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not (Print on Demand)
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avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published 2019
All the Queen's Spies (Agents of the Crown, #3)
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avg rating 3.78 — 240 ratings — published 2023
The Queen's Men (Agents of the Crown, #2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 387 ratings — published 2021
Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)
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avg rating 4.25 — 3,026 ratings — published 2023
Dr. John Dee: Elizabethan Mystic and Astrologer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Divine Speech (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 364 ratings — published 2016
Snow White and Rose Red (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 8,581 ratings — published 1989
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,864 ratings — published 2021
The life and lyrics of Sir Edward Dyer (formerly entitled At the court of Queen Elizabeth),
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1968
The Merlin's Wife (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Life Assistance Agency (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 55 ratings — published 2016
Arthur Dee: Fasciculus chemicus, translated by Elias Ashmole (English Renaissance Hermeticism)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 1631
Doctor Who: Time Trips (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 231 ratings — published 2014
Doctor Who: a Handful of Stardust (Time Trips)
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avg rating 3.56 — 109 ratings — published 2014
Future Lovecraft (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.30 — 332 ratings — published 2011
Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe (Magic in History)
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avg rating 4.13 — 31 ratings — published 2013
Nationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England: Foxe, Dee, Spenser, Milton (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 2004
Stars Of Fortune (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 70 ratings — published 1956
Gloriana, or The Unfulfill'd Queen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 2,334 ratings — published 1978
Deathscent (Intrigues of the Reflected Realm, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 321 ratings — published 2001
Tongues of Men and Angels (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The Life of John Dee (First Impressions Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1908
The Life of Dr. John Dee (1527 - 1608)
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avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 2014
The Book of Splendor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 331 ratings — published 2002
The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee and The Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 99 ratings — published 1968
The Devil's Looking Glass (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 1985
The Hieroglyphic Monad (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 239 ratings — published 1564
“To return to the general analysis of the Rosicrucian outlook. Magic was a dominating factor, working as a mathematics-mechanics in the lower world, as celestial mathematics in the celestial world, and as angelic conjuration in the supercelestial world. One cannot leave out the angels in this world view, however much it may have been advancing towards the scientific revolution. The religious outlook is bound up with the idea that penetration has been made into higher angelic spheres in which all religions were seen as one; and it is the angels who are believed to illuminate man's intellectual activities.
In the earlier Renaissance, the magi had been careful to use only the forms of magic operating in the elemental or celestial spheres, using talismans and various rituals to draw down favourable influences from the stars. The magic of a bold operator like Dee, aims beyond the stars, aims at doing the supercelestial mathematical magic, the angel-conjuring magic. Dee firmly believed that he had gained contact with good angels from whom he learned advancement in knowledge. This sense of close contact with angels or spiritual beings is the hallmark of the Rosicrucian. It is this which infuses his technology, however practical and successful and entirely rational in its new understanding of mathematical techniques, with an unearthly air, and makes him suspect as possibly in contact, not with angels, but with devils.”
― The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
In the earlier Renaissance, the magi had been careful to use only the forms of magic operating in the elemental or celestial spheres, using talismans and various rituals to draw down favourable influences from the stars. The magic of a bold operator like Dee, aims beyond the stars, aims at doing the supercelestial mathematical magic, the angel-conjuring magic. Dee firmly believed that he had gained contact with good angels from whom he learned advancement in knowledge. This sense of close contact with angels or spiritual beings is the hallmark of the Rosicrucian. It is this which infuses his technology, however practical and successful and entirely rational in its new understanding of mathematical techniques, with an unearthly air, and makes him suspect as possibly in contact, not with angels, but with devils.”
― The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
“Weirdly, D&D didn't encourage my leanings towards trying magic of my own at all. In fact, it frustrated them. Even the most pompous and ambitious historical magicians, from the Zaroastrian Magi through John Dee, Francis Barrett and Aleister Crowley, never claimed to be able to throw fireballs or lightning bolts like D&D wizards can. So D&D was never going to feed the fantasies of practising magic in the real world. That is all about gaining secret knowledge, a higher level of perception or inflicting misfortune or a boon on someone rather than causing a poisonous cloud of vapor to pour from your fingers (Cloudkill, deadly to creatures with less than 5 hit dice, for those who are interested). The game, as we played it, just doesn't support the occult idea of magic.
In fact, it might even be argued that, by giving such a powerful prop to my imagination, D&D stopped me from going deeper into the occult in real life. I certainly had all the qualifications—bullied power-hungry twerp with no discernable skill in conventional fields and no immediate hope of a girlfriend who wasn't mentally ill. It's amazing I'm not out sacrificing goats to this day.”
― The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange
In fact, it might even be argued that, by giving such a powerful prop to my imagination, D&D stopped me from going deeper into the occult in real life. I certainly had all the qualifications—bullied power-hungry twerp with no discernable skill in conventional fields and no immediate hope of a girlfriend who wasn't mentally ill. It's amazing I'm not out sacrificing goats to this day.”
― The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange
