The immense figure of John Dee towers above the horizon in any view of the occult sciences, in these two volumes we have an important early biography presented by the eminent scholar Reverend Alexander Ayton (a principal figure in the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), and the ‘Private Diary’: information preserved in marginal notes to Dees own books which were preserved at the Bodleian Library and published by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842.
Covering Dee's life, his exploits as Queen Elizabeths Spymaster, his involvements with occultism, alchemy and Angelic Magic, these two volumes sum up the enormous achievements and esoteric studies of this remarkable historic figure.
