The Lineage of the Angelic Letter

The Prompt

Trace the history of angelic correspondence as a literary form. Place Dee’s practice between two predecessors and two successors — the Liber Loagaeth, the Heptameron, the visions of Catherine of Siena, the automatic writing of W. B. Yeats, or others of your choosing. Cite each.

Completion Criteria

Four citations (two predecessors, two successors) and a short essay on what each instance shares with and departs from Dee.

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