The Bones of Avalon (67 page)

For the record, John Dee was never a sorcerer and there’s no evidence that he was psychic (much as he would have loved to be).

The
Monas Hieroglyphica
, Dee’s first significant book, was finally published in 1564, four years after the events related here. It’s JD at his most impenetrable, a meditation on a symbol which connects astrology with the creation theories in the Cabala and a supporting element of Christianity. The circle is the sun, the semi-circle the moon, below which we have the cross and, at the foot, the symbol of Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, the very base of creation.

The dot in the middle says,

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