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The work is flighty, indeed crazy; Dee thought that the hallucinations were spirits, and believed that his 'show-stones' were occasionally spirited away by the demons. Kelly pretended to hear noises in the stones, and to receive messages. In our own time, while many can see pictures, few know what the pictures represent.
Dee ruined himself by his infatuation for 'show-stones, in which Kelly saw, or pretended to see, visions which Dr. Dee interpreted. Dee kept voluminous diaries of his experiments, part of which is published in a folio by Meric Casaubon.
Without these very dubious modes of getting at the meaning of the crystal pictures, they remain, of course, mere picturesque hallucinations. She and a friend stared into one of Dr. Dee's 'show-stones, at the Stuart exhibition, and both beheld the same scene, not a scene they could have guessed at, which was going on at the seer's own house.
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