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Sources & Bibliography

Every factual claim in the Archive should trace to one of these traditions. Badges mark which tradition supports a given statement — not which conclusion you should draw.

Historical EvidencePrimary records and manuscript witnesses

Primary manuscripts

  • Sloane MS 3188 — Mysteriorum Libri Quinti (spiritual diaries, Heptarchic material)
  • Sloane MS 3189 — Liber Loagaeth
  • Sloane MS 3191 — Great Table and Watchtower tablets
  • Cotton Appendix XLVI — Great Table witness
  • Ashmole MS 487 — Dee's private diary

Early printed

  • Méric Casaubon (1659), A True and Faithful Relation
  • Elias Ashmole — transcriptions and compilations (17th c.)

Modern critical & scholarly

  • Donald C. Laycock (1978/2001), The Complete Enochian Dictionary
  • Joseph H. Peterson (2003), John Dee's Five Books of Mystery
  • Geoffrey James (1984/1998), The Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee
  • Deborah Harkness (1999), John Dee's Conversations with Angels
  • Glyn Parry (2011), The Arch-Conjuror of England
  • Benjamin Woolley (2001), The Queen's Conjurer

Practitioner editions (Golden Dawn, Regardie, Crowley) are cited in lessons with △ or ○ badges where they reorganize or extend Dee's material.

The Celestial Archive

An exploration of the Enochian system of John Dee and Edward Kelley. All historical claims are sourced and badged. No claim is endorsed as fact.