Alchemy

Note 66 — Chapter IV · THE ALCHEMISTS (continued) (B. PARACELSUS AND AFTER)

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See, for example, William Lilly: History of His Life and Times (1715, reprinted in 1822, p. 227).

[67] See Anthony à Wood’s account of Kelley’s life in Athenæ Oxonienses (3rd edition, edited by Philip Bliss, vol. i. col. 639.)

[68] William Lilly, the astrologer, in his History of His Life and Times (1822 reprint, pp. 225-226), relates a different story regarding the manner in which Kelley is supposed to have obtained the Great Medicine, but as it is told at third hand, it is of little importance. We do not suppose that there can be much doubt that the truth was that Dee and others were deceived by some skilful conjuring tricks, for whatever else Kelley may have been, he certainly was a very ingenious fellow.

[69] The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee (The Camden Society, 1842), p. 22.

[70] The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee (The Camden Society, 1842), p. 27.

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