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John Dee (1527 – 1609)

John Dee was an English mathematicianastronomer, teacher, astrologeroccultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemydivination, and Hermetic philosophy

As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time. As a political advisor, he advocated the foundation of English colonies in the New World to form a “British Empire“, a term he is credited with coining.

Dee eventually left Elizabeth’s service and went on a quest for additional knowledge in the deeper realms of the occult and supernatural. He aligned himself with several individuals who may have been charlatans, travelled through Europe, and was accused of spying for the English Crown. Upon his return to England, he found his home and library vandalised. He eventually returned to the Queen’s service, but was turned away when she was succeeded by James I. He died in poverty in London, and his gravesite is unknown.

Dee was looking to discover lost spiritual knowledge and recover the wisdom he believed was hidden in books of antiquity.  Among these books was the then-fabled  Book of Enoch, which he conceived as being a book describing the magic system used by the Patriarch in the Bible.




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