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Five Books of the Mysteries

John Dee

Date
Sixteenth-century manuscript records
Pages
Array
Language
English / Latin
Category
Mysticism & Esotericism

John Dee’s earliest surviving records of angelic conferences, sacred tables, visions and the developing language of celestial revelation.

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Five Books of the Mysteries, or Mysteriorum Libri Quinque, records John Dee’s angelic sessions from the early 1580s. The diaries preserve prayers, visions, names, tables and conversations through which Dee and his scryers constructed an increasingly complex revelatory system. The manuscript text is historical, but complete modern transcriptions and editorial editions may be protected. SatanWorld creates the bibliographic entry and cover while holding the PDF for repository and edition review.

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