Dr. Teresa Burns is an U.S. English professor and writer who studies Renaissance Hermeticism, especially the connection between the magical systems of John Dee, Edward Kelley, and Giordano Bruno to the literature and architecture of the time. Co-author, student and friend of Vincent Bridges, Terry has written many popular articles for the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition; she and Nancy Turner also translated the first English edition of Tuba Veneris, attributed to John Dee.
This magisterial and free YouTube Course of 50+ videos takes you step-by-step through the Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee.
Reaching into ancient Egyptian and Greek wisdom from the likes of Zosimos of Panoplis, Burns traces a line of direct influence of spiritual alchemy and initiatory ascent through Dr John Dee to the Rosicrucian Traditions and "Cipher Manuscripts" of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
But go see for yourself, click on the picture to begin the course for yourself. And don't forget to grab a copy of the text from Ouroboros Press before the limited printing sells out. Available for International purchase from Miskatonic Books.
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Dr. John Dee's
Dr Terry Burns, Editor & Co-Translator
In this new translation from the original Latin, Dr. Teresa Burns and Dr. Nancy Turner have rendered the most complete edition of the Monas Hieroglyphica to date. Employing all the current scholarship available since C. H. Josten's 1964 translation, Dr. Burns has supplied scholarly footnotes which elucidate many of the enigmatic passages of Dee's text. Included here are the letters to Maximillian and Silvius often lacking in other editions.
New illustrations carefully reproduced from the original 1564 edition have been rendered in ink by artist Michelle Anderst. The typesetting has been carefully and expertly executed by Joseph Uccello following Dee's instructions to the original typesetter.
by John Dee
From the publisher, Orouboros Press:
Elizabethan Magus John Dee is an intriguing figure in the history of ideas and the Hermetic Tradition. The Monas Hieroglyphica represents one of his most important works and expounds upon his monadic glyph in a series of 24 theorems in terms of mathematics, magic, kabbalah and anagogy. The art and meaning behind geometric marks, signs, seals and sigils owe much to this text of occult science.
The first edition of the Monas Hieroglyphica was printed by Guiliemus Silvius at Antwerp, 1564. The book is dedicated to the Emperor Maximiilian II., and there is a letter to the printer in which he is requested to set up the book in as close an imitation of the manuscript as possible, in so far as the diagrams, marks, capital letters, and so on are concerned. Apparently Dee attached importance to such details, as they formed part of the significance of his symbol. There was a reprint in 1591. - John Ferguson
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A revision of that earlier translation is forthcoming from Ouroboros Press.
Dr Burns in Sir Edward Kelley's Tower at Most
A full professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, she has also has multiple articles in the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition.
Her work on Enochian, some of it co-authored with husband J. Alan Moore, builds upon the approach taken by Vincent Bridges. She co-authored the introduction to Bridges’ book on Enochian magic, The Ophanic Revelation, and with Eliska Jandova edited and helped posthumously publish Bridges’ biography of Sir Edward Kelly, An Alchemical Enigma.
After thirty years in academia which included chairing the largest department on campus, she was not successful in her attempts to retire and continues to teach, write, and present at conferences with wild abandon.