He was for a considerable time the companion and associate
of John Dee, by courtesy called Doctor, from his great acquirements,
performing for him the office of seer, a faculty not possessed by Dee,
who was in consequence obliged to have recourse to Kelly for the
revelations he has published respecting the world of spirits. These
curious transactions may be found in Casaubon's work, entitled "A true
and faithful Relation of what passed for many Years between Dr John Dee
and some Spirits,"--opening out another dark page in the history of
imposture and credulity. Dee says that he was brought into unison with
Kelly by the mediation of the angel Uriel. Afterwards he found himself
deceived by him in his opinion that these spirits, which ministered unto
him, were messengers of the Deity. They had several quarrels
before-time; but when he found Kelly degenerating into the worst species
of the magic art for purposes of avarice and fraud, he broke off all
connection with him, and would never afterwards be seen in his company.
Kelly, being discountenanced by the Doctor, betook himself to the
meanest practices of magic, in all which money and the works of the
devil appear to have been his chief aim.
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