ABSTRACT
The sense of wonder sustained Dee through his entire life, in a manner that renders him unique among the Elizabethan intellectuals. There are nonetheless intriguing aspects of the two prayers worth mentioning: there is a contradiction between Dee's verbal and ritual humility and his expectations to get speedy help and gain complete and perfect knowledge of God's secrets and wonders, concerning the nature, properties and use of his creatures. The revelations in the Five Books of Mystery were meant to be instrumental for the wonders Dee and Kelly may have wanted to perform. The virtual space of play is also the space of hypotheses in science; in other words, the space of creativity, artistic, philosophical or scientific; the space of spiritual entities and the source of miracles and wonders, where whatever the human mind conceives can be given a local habitation and a name.
