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Dr. John Dee, born 1527, was a Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. Dee was also known as an inventor of so called Enochian or Angelic Magic, odd yet very powerful letter-math-combination of barbarous words of invocation. This book is concerned with the occult. It is a grimoire, black magic book, purportedly based on material prepared by John Dee. The grimoire is presented as the long-lost counterpart to Dee's well-known Enochian material: the 'Ordines Descendens' deals with Demonic rather than Angelic forces. According to the prefaratory material, the text itself is that of a previously unknown work by Dee, a printed version of which had been produced for Sir Francis Dashwood (of Hellfire Club fame) in the eighteenth century by one Jeremiah Hobbs. Whilst the editors argue that the work is an authentic part of the Dee canon, it must be observed that there are no references to the work in any of the standard Dee scholarship, and no copies of the 'privately-printed edition' can be traced. The reviews of this have been positive, and suggest that the unknown author of this work was deeply acquainted with the Enochian work and writings of Dee.
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