John Dee

Say the words Magician, Occultist and Angel Magic and one name comes immediately to mind – Dr. John Dee. About as close as England has ever come to producing a real life Wizard, Dee is one of the most scrutinized, analyzed and obsessed over figures of the 16th century. Blazingly brilliant at Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology in his own time, he is known mostly nowadays for a particular segment of his life. For less than a decade, Dee and a questionable figure by the name of Edward Kelley would converse with what they believed to be nothing less than Angels. Such activities have intrigued, astounded and confounded us to this Day. If there ever was a Titan of Magic, it is Dr. John Dee.

Show Notes

• The Writings of John Dee – Esoteric Archives
• John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery – Esoteric Archives’ Joseph H. Peterson has put out a very important work of Dee’s
• The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee by Glyn Parry – My favourite Dee Biography. Destroys many myths. Light on Magic, heavy on Dee
• The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I by Benjamin Woolley
• John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature by Deborah Harkness – This is a fascinating and incredible read. Recommended
• Dr. John Dee’s Spiritual Diaries – Put out by Stephen Skinner
• The Introduction to the book above – A must read
• A True and Faithful Relation Of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Meric Casaubon – The full text
• The Practical Angel Magic of Dr. John Dee’s Enochian Tables – More from Stephen Skinner
• Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic and Modern Occulture by Egil Asprem – Before embarking on your Enochian Magic quest, read this book please. Recommended
• Enochian Vision Magick: An Introduction and Practical Guide to the Magick of Mr. John Dee and Edward Kelley by Lon Milo DuQuette – Accept no substitute
• John Dee: Essential Readings
• Mathematics, Navigation and Empire
• John Dee and Renaissance Scrying
• John Dee’s Crystal
• John Dee videos on Esoterica – Dr. Justin Sledge has some fantastic videos. Subscribe to his channel
• Between Loagaeth and Cosening: Towards an Etiology of John Dee’s Spirit Diaries by Justin Sledge – A great Article
• The Life and Times of John Dee – A somewhat incomplete day by day Diary of John Dee
• The ‘Book of Enoch’, the Angelic Alphabet and the ‘Real Cabbala’ in the Angelic Conferences of John Dee (1527-1608/9)
• “Enochian” Language: Proof of the Existance of Angels? – Must Read
• Dr. Dee, Evocation & Unweaving Materialism with Dr. Stephen Skinner – Glitch Bottle
• John Dee and Early Modern Occult Philosophy
• The John Dee Publication Project
• Fossil Angels by Alan Moore – Must Read
• The Red Goddess by Peter Grey – Plenty of Dee in this!
• John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World by Jason Louv
• John Dee’s Fantastic Map of 1582
• John Dee and the Elizabethan British Empire in Its European Context by Glyn Parry – JSTOR
• The Daughter of Fortitude
• Who Coined the Term ‘British Empire?’ This Dude
• The Philip Experiment and A video of them in action

Correction- It was the Angel Madimi that urged Kelley to tell Dee that they must share wives, not the Angel Uriel. I mixed them up. Hopefully this shouldn’t matter too much seeing as how this whole situation was most likely a complete invention of naughty Kelley.