The Secret City: London's Hidden History of Magic, Mystery, and the Occult.

  Buy Now (Book Link) "The angels speak in a language older than Babel, and London trembles at their words." In the shadowed chambers of Mortlake, just outside London's ancient boundaries, two men sat before a crystal sphere that would forever change the course of Western occultism. Dr John Dee, Queen Elizabeth's most trusted advisor, and Edward Kelley, a mysterious scryer with a dark past, were about to receive communications they believed came directly from the angelic realm. What emerged from their sessions between 1582 and 1587 was the Enochian system—a complete magical language, cosmology, and ritual practice that would influence occultists for centuries to come. But these were no mere scholarly exercises. The angelic conversations that took place in Dee's Mortlake library were part of a larger work to transform London itself into a vessel for divine power, preparing the city for its role as the centre of a new spiritual empire that would span the globe. John...

  Buy Now (Book Link) If one man could be said to embody the magical spirit of Renaissance London, it is Dr John Dee. A brilliant mathematician, a visionary geographer, a trusted advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, and a powerful ceremonial magician, Dee was the ultimate Renaissance magus. His life and work represent the pinnacle of the magical revival, a bold and audacious attempt to synthesise all knowledge, both natural and supernatural, into a single, unified system, and to use that knowledge to build a new British empire. From his home in Mortlake, on the banks of the Thames, Dee presided over a vast intellectual and magical network. His library, one of the largest in Europe, was a repository of ancient wisdom and forbidden knowledge. His laboratory was a centre of alchemical experimentation and scrying. And his court connections gave him access to the very highest levels of power. Dr John Dee The Scholar and the Scientist Before he was a magician, Dee was a scholar of immense reput...