John Dee's occultism : magical exaltation through powerful signs

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John Dee�s Occultism

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Definitions

1. Principles and Demarcations

THE CHALLENGE OF THE ESOTERIC

FROM SCIENCE HISTORY TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

THE POST-COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE

2. Mysticism, Occultism, Magic Exaltation

FALL AND REBIRTH

THE ORGANIC WORLD MODEL

THE DOCTRINE OF EXALTATION

Part 2. Input: “In many bokes and sundry languages . . .�

3. The Sources of Renaissance Magic

TRADITIONS OF CLASSICAL MAGIC Frances Yates and the Rediscovery of Renaissance MagicHermetic Magic

Neoplatonism and Classical Theurgy

MEDIEVAL MAGIC

Medieval Ceremonial Magic

Magical Exaltatio in the Picatrix

4. Florentine Neoplatonism and Christian Magic

FICINO�S TALISMANIC MAGIC

PICO�S ENCOMIUM OF EXALTATIO

Cabala and �exaltatio�

Pico�s “Oration, � Cabalistic Magic, and Exaltatio

5. Occult Philosophy, Symbolism, and Science

TRITHEMIUS AND ANGEL MAGIC

AGRIPPA�S TRIPARTITE MAGIC

De occulta philosophia De incertitudine et vanitate omnium scientiarumPARACELSUS, ALCHEMY, THEOSOPHY

ENOCH, SCIENCE, APOCALYPTIC PROPHECY

Part 3. Output: Glyms or Beame of Radicall Truthes�

6. The Ideology and Occult Symbolism of Dee�s Natural Philosophy

ASTROLOGY: PROPAEDEUMATA APHORISTICA

ALCHEMY: MONAS HIEROGLYPHICA

MAGIC: THE MATHEMATICALL PRAEFACE

7. Illuminaton and Angel Magic

ANGEL MAGIC AND THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT LANGUAGE

THE THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANGEL MAGIC

Theory and Sources

The Choreography of the Scrying Sessions DEE�S RELIGION AND THEOLOGYThe Theological Framework of His Vision

Humanism, Religion, and Denomination

8. Dee and the Interpretive Community

“EASTWARD HO!� DEE, PATRONAGE, AND CENTRAL EUROPE

The Lure of East-Central Europe

The Lure of Dee and Kelly for Eastern Europe

MERIC CASAUBON AND THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION

Magician, Heretic, and Witch

Casaubon�s Politics

9. Conclusion: Dee and Renaissance Symbolism

Notes

Bibliographies

JOHN DEE�S WORKS

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