The Magickal Mirror of Doctor John Dee

The greatest magician of all time was undoubtedly the Englishman John Dee. His life and his works are wrapped in shrouds of mystery, surrounded by all sorts of rumours. John Dee would have been Shakespeare’s model for the sorcerer Prospero in “The Tempest”. But this can’t be the reason why he once was called “the friend of the hounds of hell”… can it?

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The Magical Mirror of Doctor Dee

There is a very strong fictionbook about him,
"Angel of the Western Window" by Gustav Meinrink.

Read it, it's a weird\esoteric fiction classic.