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Orientation to the early actions
Orientation to the early actions - Primary Sections. Editorial introductions frame Dee's spirit actions as a documentary corpus: devotional prayer, learned natural philosophy, scrying practice, political hope, and ritual experimentation.
Mysteriorum Liber Primus
Mysteriorum Liber Primus - Primary Sections. The opening book begins with Dee's urgent prayer for divine wisdom and moves into the earliest surviving angelic sessions.
Mysteriorum Liber Secundus
Mysteriorum Liber Secundus - Primary Sections. The second book deepens the apparatus of the angelic work.
Mysteriorum Liber Tertius
Mysteriorum Liber Tertius - Primary Sections. The third book continues the establishment of angelic authority and ceremonial order.
Mysteriorum Liber Quartus / Cuartus
Mysteriorum Liber Quartus / Cuartus - Primary Sections. The fourth book returns after a gap and intensifies the ritual-material side of the work.
Liber Mysteriorum Quintus
Liber Mysteriorum Quintus - Primary Sections. The fifth book moves toward culmination of the first phase: fuller angelic hierarchies, more elaborate tables and names, and the sense that Dee's actions are part of a larger providential disclosure.
De Heptarchia Mystica: title, testimonies, and warrant
De Heptarchia Mystica: title, testimonies, and warrant - Primary Sections. The opening of De Heptarchia Mystica explains the authority and purpose of the heptarchical system.
De Heptarchia Mystica: kings, princes, ministers, and offices
De Heptarchia Mystica: kings, princes, ministers, and offices - Primary Sections. The central section organizes the sevenfold angelic hierarchy: kings, princes, and ministers with specific names, powers, and offices.
De Heptarchia Mystica: prayers, invocations, table, seal, and practice
De Heptarchia Mystica: prayers, invocations, table, seal, and practice - Primary Sections. The practical sections specify prayers, invocatory forms, furnishings, the table, Sigillum Dei, lamens, and procedural constraints.
Liber 84 and the Forty-Eight Keys/Calls
Liber 84 and the Forty-Eight Keys/Calls - Primary Sections. Liber 84 preserves revealed textual/table material connected with the angelic or Enochian language, elemental tablets, seniors, calls, and names.
A True & Faithful Relation: Casaubon preface and framing
A True & Faithful Relation: Casaubon preface and framing - Primary Sections. Casaubon frames Dee's diaries as a cautionary publication about spirits, credulity, demonic deception, and the risks of unlawful curiosity.
A True & Faithful Relation: later angelic actions
A True & Faithful Relation: later angelic actions - Primary Sections. The later actions extend the Dee-Kelley angelic work beyond the first Five Books into continental travel, increasingly elaborate revelations, the Enochian calls, tables, governors, and fraught commands.