John Dee Quotes
I will be thy Gwyde.
And ay thank God who is our only guide.
Oh, my God, how profound are these mysteries!
By science men may learn the mysteries of the spirit world.
Here the vulgar eye will see nothing but Obscurity and will despair considerably.
Behold, Behold, lo Behold my mighty powre consisteth in this. Lerne wisdome by my words.
I am the pen merely of God Whose Spirit, quickly writing these things through me, I wish and I hope to be
What I say is not of my self: Neither that which is sayde to me, is of them selves: but it is sayde of him who liveth for ever.
He who devotes himself sincerely to these mysteries will see clearly that nothing is able to exist without the virtue of our hieroglyphic Monad.
It is by the straight line and the circle that the first and most simple example and representation of all things may be demonstrated, whether such things be either non-existent or merely hidden under Nature's veils.
Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One,
Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone,
Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne,
By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe.
O Omnipotent Divine Majesty, how we Mortals are constrained to confess what great Wisdom and what ineffable mysteries reside in the Law which Thou hast made! Through all these points and these letters the most sublime secrets, and terrestrial arcane mysteries, as well as the multiple revelations of this unique point, now placed in the Light and examined by me, can be faithfully demonstrated and explained.
O comfortable allurement, O ravishing perswasion, to deal with a Science, whose subject is so Auncient, so pure, so excellent, so surmounting all creatures... By Numbers propertie ... we may... arise, clime, ascend, and mount up (with Speculative winges) in spirit, to behold in the Glas of creation, the Forme of Formes, the Exemplar Number of all things Numerable... Who can remaine, therefore, unpersuaded, to love, allow, and honor the excellent sciehce of Arithmatike?