Hieroglyphic monad : Translated and with a commentary by J.W. Hamilton-Jones.

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'In offering this little book to the public, and particularly to the lovers of Wisdom who are partakers of this Art, we wish it to be understood that the task has been undertaken for two reasons: first, to enable students to appreciate this valuable work left by a man of great erudition and now, we believe, done into English for the first time; secondly, in token of the fact that even in this terrifically scientific age there are men who nurture the time-honoured Hermetic teaching and Art, believing that Nature conceals more than she reveals to the vulgar eye of mortal man....John Dee wrote this book in thirteen days....The book was famous in its day. Dee brought out a second edition, published at Frankfort in 1591; the title, being translated, reads: "The Monad, Hieroglyphically, Mathematically, Magically, Cabbalistically and Anagogically Explained." It is from this edition...that the present work is produced.' --Introduction

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