John Dee (M / Britain, 1527-1608), occultist
John Dee (1527-1608) was a British mathematician, astronomer, occultist, and alchemist. Dee was inspired by the works of Roger Bacon, Giovanni Agostino Panteo and Guillaume Postel in his search for the "lost" book of Enoch. Between 1582 and 1587 he established a partnership with medium Edward Kelley, that led in 1583 to the publication of the "original (or Enochian) alphabet," supposedly revealed by angels. After Dee's death, his mss. were collected by antiquarian Robert Cotton and later published in 1659 by Méric Casaubon. At the end of the 19th cent. the teachings of Dee and Kelley provided the foundation for the establishment of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the development of a complex system of Enochian Magic by British occultists, such as S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley and others.
Works
Books
References
- György Endre Szönyi, John Dee’s Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful Signs (Albany: State University of New York, 2004)
- Robert J. Wilkinson, Orientalism, Aramaic, and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007)
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