[70] The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee (The Camden Society, 1842), p. 27.
It was during his incarceration that he wrote an alchemistic work entitled The Stone of the Philosophers, which consists largely of quotations from older alchemistic writings. His other works on Alchemy were probably written at an earlier period.[71]
[71] An English translation of Kelley’s alchemistic works were published under the editorship of Mr. A. E. Waite, in 1893.
Henry Khunrath (1560-1605).
§ 53. Henry Khunrath was born in Saxony in the second half of the sixteenth century. He was a follower of Paracelsus, and travelled about Germany, practising as a physician. “This German alchemist,” says Mr. A. E. Waite, “. . . is claimed as a hierophant of the psychic side of the magnum opus, and . . . was undoubtedly aware of the larger issues, of Hermetic theorems”; he describes Khunrath’s chief work, Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ, &c., as “purely mystical and magical.”[72]