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The Hieroglyphic Monad

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Note: Amazon has perhaps easy for them but in this reviewer's humble opinion sub-optimal practice of copying reviews of one edition of a book to all other editions. This reviewer has the Red Wheel / Weiser paperback edition including an introduction and comments, the latter after the text.

From the frontispiece: "Qui non intelligit, aut taceat, aut discat." (Who understands not should either be silent or learn.)

Dr. John Dee, according to the short biography included, lectured when 23 years old on Euclid in Paris, "which caused a sensation in the intellectual circles of the continent." The Hieroglyphic Monad is the esoteric complement to Euclid's "Elements" in pure Hermetic Tradition with extremely little theological addition, this little to help avoid persecution.

The "keys" are within one's Self. The reader will understand exactly what he is "entitled" to. The introduction and comments are at times helpful but of course not exhaustive.

Dr. John Dee has manifested a true traditional masterpiece. It is symptomatic of our times (end of the iron or dark age) that the French translation is currently out of print. As the introduction states, "... the Dons and men of academic degrees ... are neither concerned nor interested."

This is an excellant book and it covers the philosophorum calculus.All you need is in the symbolizm of this monad but I suggest also getting the hieroglyphica monas which is the original latin version which omitts nothing like this book jones omitts the letter to maxamillian that its acential to have because dee argues his points of his monad.When studying
stuff like this you need as much of the information as you can.But trust me no key is left out you just have to search right and with open eyes
these symbols will tell there own story.But its worth the effort for those interested in the philosophers stone.

A very interesting and unique work by Dr John Dee. The problem with this work is that there is no "key" to the interpretation of The Hieroglyphic Monad! Although there are 2 instances where Dee explained it, the instructions are lost to it. The book therefore contains ingenious interpretive fancies and intuitions in the extensive commentary following the main work "Dee's Monad" which I could not logically accept.

Dr. Dee is one of those well-known as best occultists. Their book focuses on an excellent work synthetically explained, and very well based about the monad, and if you read under the veils, about all the mathematical system of the universe.