This is the first fully readable edition of Dr. John Dee's Spiritual Diaries. Completely revamped, reorganized, and corrected, this reader-friendly version of A True & Faithful Relation of what passed for Many Years between Dr. John Dee . . . and Some Spirits . . . covers Dee's invocation of the angels and the reception of their Enochian system of magic, his experiments in alchemy, and experiences in the courts of the crowned heads of Europe. Magic scholars and practitioners will be delighted to find a preface by Meric Casaubon, extensive footnotes, supplementary texts, additional illustrations, a Dee timeline, and sections which were originally missing from Casaubon's edition.
Stephen Skinner began his career as a Geography lecturer and magazine publisher, but his long term interest has always been Western magic.
During the 1970s he was the driving force behind Askin Publishers, producing a number of classic magical works by Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, Austin Osman Spare, Aleister Crowley, and others"." During the 1970s he co-wrote many books with Francis King, including the still popular "Techniques of High "Magic. Also with Francis King he wrote "Nostradamus." His interest in prophecy stimulated by this book, he went on to write the best selling "Mille
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