Dee was Queen Elizabeth's scientific advisor. In later life, he became disillusioned with pure science and started experimenting with occult techniques of the day. Many of his esoteric writing were kept secret and only discovered by accident long after his death.
- Five Books of the Mysteries (Mysteriorum Libri Quinque)
- Mysteriorum Liber Sextus et Sanctus (Liber Loagaeth)
- Index Verborum of the "Angelic Language" from Liber Loagaeth
- Compendium Heptarchiae Mysticae
- De Heptarchia Mystica
- Liber exercitii Heptarchici ("Book of the Exercise Heptarchicall")
- Monas Hieroglyphica (The Hieroglyphic Monad) English French
- Tuba Veneris ('The Trumpet of Venus')
- Tabula bonorum angelorum invocationes
- The Holy Table and Lamen
- An excerpt from Josten's translation of the Hieroglyphic Monad
- A Letter Containing a most briefe Discourse Apologeticall
- Meric Casaubon: A True and Faithful Relation (excerpts)