Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Life and Times of John Dee and Edward Kelly
Back ground to the Alchemy of Prague events.
All details for the upcoming Alchemy of Prague 2025 event
are here: SEPTEMBER19-24, 2025
AcademyHealingNutrition.uk/alchemy-of-prague
References from Terry Burns conversation:
A popular introduction to John Dee and Edward Kelly:
“A Golden Storm: Attempting to Recreate the Context of John Dee and Edward Kelley's Angelic Material.”
jwmt.org/v2n19/golden.html
The Shakespeare/Francis Garland timeline I referred to:
jwmt.org/v2n15/garline.html
John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica:
bookarts.org/store/p110/Monas_Hieroglyphica.html
(translation by Teresa Burns and Nancy Turner)
My Youtube course on the Monas:
youtube.com/watch?v=DSV4gNP_QHs
Books referred to:
The best scholarly book on Rudolf II and Prague:
Purš, Ivo, and Vladimír Karpenko. "Alchemy and Rudolf II." Exploring the Secrets of Nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th century (2016). This has articles many of the alchemists around Rudolf II including Dee and Kelley
A popular series of novels by John Dee scholar Deb Harkness in which Dee and Kelly appear:
Harkness, Deborah. All Souls Trilogy. Penguin, 2014.
Adapted for TV as Discovery of Witches.
Vincent Bridges’ book on Edward Kelley:
Bridges, Vincent M., Eliska Bridges, and Terry Burns. An Alchemical Enigma: a short history of the rise and fall of Sir Edward Kelley. Out of print but will be reprinted this fall or next spring with two additional essays.
EnochianCon:
arcaneresearchsociety.com
Life and Times of John Dee and Edward Kelly
Back ground to the Alchemy of Prague events.
All details for the upcoming Alchemy of Prague 2025 event
are here: SEPTEMBER19-24, 2025
AcademyHealingNutrition.uk/alchemy-of-prague
References from Terry Burns conversation:
A popular introduction to John Dee and Edward Kelly:
“A Golden Storm: Attempting to Recreate the Context of John Dee and Edward Kelley's Angelic Material.”
jwmt.org/v2n19/golden.html
The Shakespeare/Francis Garland timeline I referred to:
jwmt.org/v2n15/garline.html
John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica:
bookarts.org/store/p110/Monas_Hieroglyphica.html
(translation by Teresa Burns and Nancy Turner)
My Youtube course on the Monas:
youtube.com/watch?v=DSV4gNP_QHs
Books referred to:
The best scholarly book on Rudolf II and Prague:
Purš, Ivo, and Vladimír Karpenko. "Alchemy and Rudolf II." Exploring the Secrets of Nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th century (2016). This has articles many of the alchemists around Rudolf II including Dee and Kelley
A popular series of novels by John Dee scholar Deb Harkness in which Dee and Kelly appear:
Harkness, Deborah. All Souls Trilogy. Penguin, 2014.
Adapted for TV as Discovery of Witches.
Vincent Bridges’ book on Edward Kelley:
Bridges, Vincent M., Eliska Bridges, and Terry Burns. An Alchemical Enigma: a short history of the rise and fall of Sir Edward Kelley. Out of print but will be reprinted this fall or next spring with two additional essays.
EnochianCon:
arcaneresearchsociety.com










