PREFACE TO THE KING

Since you abound in such things, you may easily follow the rest by conjecture.

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Yet, regarding the lowest and first kind of philosophizing, I do not believe I have acted with arrogance. Even if my head occasionally seems to want to lift itself higher from the ground: from that same Degree of GOODNESS, I dare to promise your Highness that fruitful harvests are to be hoped for from this, my gift.

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This gift of ours is also endowed with this "Rarity": that it is woven in such a style of writing, down to the very last thread of the discourse, that I have never been able to hear of, nor understand from the monuments of our ancestors, any completed work that has existed like it until this very day.

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Although I may call it "Hieroglyphic" In Dee’s time, a "hieroglyph" was not just Egyptian writing, but a sacred symbol that communicated complex, hidden truths directly to the mind without needing many words., he who examines it more deeply will admit that there lies beneath it both Light and a strength that is almost Mathematical Dee believed that spiritual truths could be proven with the same absolute certainty as a math equation.: which, as is clear, is a rare enough thing to find in such rare matters.

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Is this not rare, I ask: that the common astronomical characters These are the standard symbols for the planets, like ♀ for Venus or ♂ for Mars. of the Planets (which until this hour were notes that were dead, or mute, or at least somewhat barbarous) are now endowed with Immortal Life? And that they can now explain their own powers most eloquently in every language and to every nation?

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To this is also added another very rare thing: that their external bodies have now been restored to their mystical symmetries Dee is claiming he has redesigned the planetary symbols using precise geometric proportions that reveal their true "souls." (by the best hieroglyphic arguments). It is as if these symmetries had either been the same once in a former age, or as if our ancestors would have wished them to be so.

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Regarding the signs of the Zodiac original: "Dodecatemoriorum," meaning the twelve-fold divisions of the sky. upon the Ecliptic The circular path the sun appears to follow across the sky during the year., it is both rare and entirely new to see with what fresh and happy success we have attempted to provide the same for them.

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And all these things are contained in a Single, and that... M E R -