Instead he considered all of his activities to constitute different facets of the same quest: the search for a transcendent understanding of the divine forms which underlie the visible world, which Dee called "pure verities".
Pola contra, el consideraba que todos os seus estudos constituían diferentes facetas da mesma cuestión: a procura dunha comprensión transcendente das formas divinas que subxacen no mundo visible, ás que chamaba verdades puras.