induced to believe or at least to suspect that there might be some mistake in the particulars of his Sentence For my reason I must confesse was never more posed in any thing that ever I read of that nature Gassendus indeed in Pereskius his life hath somewhat as I remember of Pereskius his Opinion as if he thought some of those things he confessed might be ascribed unto imagination but I see no reason given neither are the things of that nature that can admit any such suspicion Besides Tristan of the Lives of the Emperors and their Coynes will tell you somewhat which may make a doubt whether Gassendus ought to be believed in all things that he reporteth concerning that famous man I am not very much satisfied of what Religion though truly a very learned man Gassendus was And by the way which is somewhat to the case of Witches in general if I be not mistaken for I have it not at this time there is a relation in that very book of somewhat that hapned to Pereskius by Witches when he was a child That wicked Sorcerer which was burned at Aix foretold before his death that some misfortune would be done at the time and place of his execution which hapned accordingly and very strangely too Somewhat again I must confesse I have seen printed Mimica Diaboli c. to take away the scandal of some part of his confession or the Devils saying of Masse c. some part of which things might perchance with some colour be ascribed to imagination but that is not it that troubles me But enough of him What man is he that pretends to learning that hath not heard and doth not honour the memory of Joachimus Camerarius that great light of Germany so wise and for his wisdom and other excellent parts sought unto by many Princes so moderate a man an excellent temper for the attaining of Truth and so versed in all kind of learning that we shall scarce among all the learned of these later Times find another so generally accomplished The strangest relations that ever I read or at least as strange as any I have read of Witches and Sorcerers and Spirits I have read in him such as either upon his own knowledge he doth relate or such as he believed true upon the testimonie of others known unto him The last work that he ever went about for the publick was De generibus Divinationum but he did not live the more the pity to make an end of it But so much as he had done was set out by one of his learned sons Lipsiae 〈◊〉 Dom. 1576. There p 33 he hath these words De Spirituum verò quae sunt Graecis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 admirabili non solum efficacitate sed manifesta Specie quae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perbibentur praesentiâ incredibiles extant passim 〈◊〉 narrationes nostris tempombus super antia fidem comperta sunt extra etiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de quibus posteà aicetur So p. 89. p. 151. again and more fully But his strangest relations are in his Proaemium to Plutarchs two Treatises De Defectu Oraculorum and De. Figura E I Consecratâ Delphis set out by him with Notes Here I could come in with a whole cloud of witnesses name hundreds of men of all Nations and professions that have lived within this last hundred years and not any among them but such as have had and have yet generally the reputation of Honest Sober Learned and Judicious who all have been of this opinion that we maintain But because we have to do with them especially who by their Profession pretend to the Knowledge of Nature above other men I will confine my self for further testimony to them that have been of that Profession I have been somewhat curious for one of my Calling that had no other end but to attain to some Knowledge of Nature without which a man may quickly be lead into manifold delusions and Impostures I have read some looked into many I do not remember I have met with any professed Physician or Naturalist some one or two excepted which have been or shall be named who made any question of these things Sure I am I have met with divers strange relations in sundry of them of things that themselves were present at and saw with their own eyes where they could have no end that any man can probably suspect but to acknowledge the truth though with some disparagement to themselves according to the judgment of many in the free confession of their own ignorance and disability to give reasons and to penetrate into causes Well what then shall we say to such as Jul. Caesar Scaliger Fernelius Sennertus the wonders and Oracles of their times As Physicians so Phylosophers men of that profound wisdom and experience much improved in some of them by long life as their writings shew them to have been to this day What shall we make of them or what do they make of themselves that will censure such men as either cheaters or ignorant idiots Henericus Saxonia a Learned Professor and Practiser of Physick in Padua in that Book he hath written of that horrible Polonian Disease which he calls Pticam which turneth mens hairs in sight to Snakes and Serpents in that book he doth ascribe so much to the power of Witches and Sorcerers in causing Diseases not private only but even publick as Pestilences and the like as himself confesseth he could never have believed until he was convicted by manifest experience and indeed is wonderful and may well be thought incredible unto most yet is maintained and asserted by Sennertus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in his sixth book as I remember De 〈◊〉 à fascino incantatione veneficiis inductis I will forbear the names of many men of fame and credit Physicians too because most of them are named and commonly enough known by Sennertus upon this occasion There is one whom I think inferiour to none though perchance not so commonly known or read and that is Georgius Raqusaius a Venetian who by his first education and profession was an Astrologer cast many Nativities and took upon him to Prognosticate but afterwards conscious to himself of the vanity of the Art that is when the Divel doth not intermeddle as alwayes must be understood for some Astrologers have been Magicians withall and have done strange things gave it over and hath written against it very Learnedly and Solidly Read him if you please in his Chapters De Magis De Oraculis yea through his whole Book De Divinatione and you may be satisfied what he thought of these things he also was a Physician But I must not omit the Learned Author that set out Musoeum Veronense a great Naturalist and a Physician too he handles it at the end of that work somewhat roundly and to the quick I must confesse but very 〈◊〉 and Solidly in my judgment against those pretended Peripateticians that would
tell me ..... I rejoyce in the name of Jesus and I am a poor little Maiden Madini I am the last but one of my Mothers children I have little Baby-children at home Δ. Where is your home Ma ..... I dare not tell you where I dwell I shall be beaten Δ. You shall not be beaten for telling the truth to them that love the truth to the eternal truth all Creatures must be obedient Ma. ..... I warrant you I will be obedient My Sisters say they must all come and dwell with you Δ. I desire that they who love God should dwell with me and I with them Ma. ..... I love you now you talke of God Δ. Your eldest sister her name is Esémeli Ma. ..... My sister is not so short as you make her Δ. O I cry you mercy she is to be pronounced Eseméli E. K. She smileth one calls her saying Come away Maiden Ma. ..... I will read over my Gentlewoemen first My Master Dee will teach me if I say amisse Δ. Read over your Gentlewoemen as it pleaseth you Ma. ..... I have Gentlemen and Gentlwoemen Look you here E K. She bringeth a little book out of her pocket ..... She pointeth to a in Picture the book Mad. ..... Is not this a pretty man Δ. What is his name Ma ..... My ..... saith his name is Edward Look you he hath a Crown upon his head my Mother saith that this man was Duke of York E. K. She looketh upon a Picture in the Book with a Coronet in his hand and a Crown upon his head Ma. ..... This was a jolly man when he was King of England Δ. How long since is it that he was King of England Ma. ..... Do you ask me such a question I am but a little Maiden Lo here is his Father Richard Plantagenet and his Father also Δ. How call you him Ma. ..... Richard Surely this was Richard Earle of Cambridge E. K. She turneth the book leaves and said Mad. ..... Here is a grim Lord He maketh me afraid Δ. Why doth he make you afraid Ma. ..... He is a stern fellow I do not know him what he is But this was the Duke of Clarence This was Father to Richard Earle of Cambridge Lo here is Anne his wife E. K. Turning over the leafe The same was heir to all Mortimers lands Edmund was her brother Lo Sir here be the wicked Mortimers E K. She turned over diverse leaves and then she said Ma. ..... This same is Roger Mortimer ..... My Mother saith this man was Earl of the Marches This same is his wife He had a great deale of lands by her for she was an Heire This same is wild Genvill her Father Here is a Town they call Webley Here is Beudley Here is Mortimers Clybery Here is wild Wenlock Here is Ludlow Here is Stanton Lacy. Genvill his wife was Heire of all these Here is Hugh Lacy her Father He weareth his haire long for he was Deputy of Ireland That maketh him look with such a writhen face My sister hath torne out the other two leaves I will bring them when you have supped I pray do not tell any body of me Δ. We were earnestly called for to Supper by my folks After Supper Ma. ..... Here is William Lacy Father to Hugh Here is Richard his Father And here is Sir Richard his Father and here is William Sir Richards Brother Here is his going into France Δ. Quo anno Christi Mad. ..... I warrant you my eldest Sister will tell you all Here is his going into Denmark My Sister will come shortly and tell you how he married in Poland and what issue this William had Δ. I pray declare the Pedigree down to this Albert Lascy Ma. ..... Alas I cannot tell what 's done in other Countries Δ. I know you are not Particular of this Country but Universal for all countries in the whole world which is indeed but one Countrey or a great City c. Mad. ..... Well my sister will shortly come and tell you unlooked for If you judge these things well that I have spoken Nam vera sunt Nam verus est qui me mifit Truth is all that is truth The Mortimer I spake of is the first of the six there were six Mortimers Earles of March Edmond was the last and Roger the first that Mortimer was the Grandfathers Grandfather of this Edmond E. K. There seemeth some one to call her whom I hear now Ma ..... I come Δ. She took up her Skrolls on the ground of which some were very old and she put up her book Ma ..... This may stand you in some stead Δ. Mitte lucem tuam veritatem tuam Jesu Christe Lux vera veritatis perennis Fons Amen Monday à Meridie hora 4½ Δ. We presented our selves ready for instruction receiving and presumed not to call my good Minister spiritual but by humble prayer referred all to God his good pleasure E K. The Golden Curtain which covereth all the Stone hangeth still but I heare a voice or sentence thrice repeated thus A voice ..... Sanctum Signatum ad tempus Δ. The sense hereof may be divers wayes understood and more then I can imagine but which sense is to our instruction would I faine know A voice ..... Sanctum quia hoc velle suum sigillatum quia determinatum ad tempus E K. Hard speeches but he could not perfectly discern them A voice ..... Ad tempus ad tempus inquam quia rerum consummatio All things are at hand The Seat is prepared Justice hath determined The Judge is not yet willing Mercy thrusteth it self betwixt the Divinity But it is said The Time shall be shortned E K. Saw no creature But the voice came behind him over his head till now when he espied one standing on the Table besides the silke cloth on which the Stone stood he seemed like a Husbandman all in red apparel red hose close to his legs a red jacket red buttoned cap on his head yea and red shooes He asked E. K. how he did and E. K. answered Well I thank God Δ. By your apparel it should seem you have somewhat to say concerning the Commons of this Realme and not of high School-points or Sciences I am desirous to know who sent you What is your message and what is your name for a name you have peculiar as all Creatures else Δ. He paused a good while whereupon I asked him if he considered my speeches ..... I consider your speeches for I have left nothing behind E. K. He kneeleth down and seemeth to say somewhat his speech is quick round and ready He seemeth to pray in a strange Language I perceived these words among many other Oh Gahire Rudna gephna oh Gahire c. His Countenance was directed towards the Stone ..... Vestra non mea facio E K Now he standeth up ..... Hast not thou said From
fruit out of that Doctrine How poor is the power that hath been long told of in you You have forgotten your own knowledge and are become of seers blinde such as grope their way Such end such beginning For the end 〈◊〉 from the beginning and is become a means in it self to bring all things to passe But neither the end nor beginning of such things as you have handled hath been perfect or probable But a deceit comprehending the image of falshood Yea much more the traps and snares into wickednesse which deserveth destruction eternally If this may advise you Be it so If these examples and probable arguments be sound Then necessarily you ought of dutie to be counselled by me But I have opened my mouth and told you Be it unto you according to your disposition Δ. Be it unto us according to the mercies and loving kindnesse of the Highest into whose hands we commit our selves all our doings and intents ..... That is well said ... God be with you E. K. He is gone and in the place vvhere he stood the likenesse of a little Circle as if a print vvere made vvith a Thimble-brim Δ. Soli Deo Honor omnis Gloria Amen Monday 25. Novemb. Mane 8½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth straight way at the first looking the same fellow that last spake and left the print of the little Circle behind him Δ. Orabam diu ad Deum ut Arbiter esset inter istos A .... num .... lum confugimus in tempore necessitatis c. A te O Deus solo pendemus c. Δ. Sedebamus quasi in triangulo se convertebat versus A. L. ..... Thou O man awake shake off forgetflnesse Lift not up thy self so much But close up thine eares against these deluded deluders which carry thee 〈◊〉 into folly and transform thee to a shadow By whose counsel thou art become dishonoured and by whom thou shalt become a spot in the Book of 〈◊〉 Call to remembrance the Histories of the whole World Political and Ecclesiastical Inquire of the Learned that have settled their judgements in the Book of God Open thine eyes and behold if any of the Prophets or forefathers men grounded in wisdom and deep understanding have yielded themselves to this unrighteousnesse believing lyars consenting to untruths and lastly dishonouring the Name of God Then call to minde thine own estate thy flourishing of thy youth and possibilities wherein thou mayst be made perfect Which if thou truely do Then banish this dishonour to God and his Angles listen not to these S ..... ersity For the Syrenes are awake and their song is to destruction I am sent from God as a Messenger to call thee home for thou dishonourest God mightily Behold thou shalt be made contemptible and become a laughing-stock Thy honour shall be defaced and thy posterity spotted with ignominie Moreover such as are thy friends shall shake their heads saying What wise man hath thus been overcome What is he that is become foolish Thou mayst desire it and consent as before But I am a stumbling block betwixt you and will dwell in all Elements for your purposes E. K. He holdeth up his hands towards Δ and saith Nay I have told him truth E K. He hath now gotten him a Chair and sitteth down Δ. If it be truth then it is a token that God is very merciful unto us and that we are in his favour highly to give us this warning to avoid evil Now resteth the other part How we shall attain to good and wisdom from God such as by the true and perfect use of his creatures we might do him some acceptable service with true obedience and humility c. E. K. One cometh to him and saith ..... He goeth about to take you a lyar E. K. He goeth away and cometh again E. K. This man which thus came and went away and cometh again is all in white he hath a silver Crown on his head he speaketh as followeth .... ..... Deny that you have done Confesse it to be false Cry you have offended And let the Angels of God see you do so that they may carry up your prayers so shall you become righteous But why dost thou write words of contempt against us For One in our number is All And we are all One Believe us for of our selves we have no power to instruct you but to deliver you the Commandment of God Rent your cloaths pluck those blasphemous books in pieces And fall down before the Lord for he it is that is Wisdom I have done for this time E. K. He is gone Δ. Quis est discretor Spirituum E. K. Now he cometh in again and speaketh ..... Oh you are a Learned man ..... Truth in the second He it is that discrectly judgeth all things If his discretion be given to you thank God Δ. Illi ergo Committemus hanc causam ab illo hoc donum petentes expectantes Nos interim pie in Christo vivere intendimus E. K. He is become a great pillar of Chrystal higher than a Steeple He ascendeth upward in clouds and the little circle remaineth Δ. Gloria laus honor gratiarum actio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Trino uni nunc in secula seculorum Amen Tuesday Decembris 10. After Diner we removed from Lubek and the Lord Alb. Laskie went by Coach to Lord Christopher Duke of Meckelburgh Thursday night we lay at Wismar 11. Decemb. vel 12. Saturday morning we came to Rostoch 14. Decembris Monday Decemb. 16. Mane hora 10¼ Rostoch E. K. He is here that said he would dwell in omnibus Elementis c. Δ. ..... I came from the fountain of light where is no errour nor darknesse and have Power because it is given me from the Highest Which Lo is grown and become a mighty Rock For it is said of me Behold I will visit them that put their trust in me with a comfortable strength in the time of need For my Rock is an everlasting strength and the Hills of my countenance endure for ever If then I be the Countenance of God and a piercing fire sent out as a flame not onely with his great mercy but with his good will and that towards you overwhelmed not cast down but almost for ever buried in a lake of ignorance and inquenchable flame such as consumeth with ignorance deceit it self and a provocation too manifest and apparent destruction If I then with this message being the message of truth my self a mean .... sufficent Order for the publishment thereof can nor may ..... as of ... n I am vehemently despised the fruits of a good Conscience notwithstanding stedfast Then is he of no power of whom I am .... because it is written Such as rise up against my Spirit I will destroy them in the midst of the same fire and will deliver their ashes to the windes for a memory of their wickednesse But he is just and is
name Δ Ardza that is in the crosse Δ Transversary they do that they are commanded Δ. Which they you named onely C zod n es Ave ..... There followeth Tott Δ. Which more Δ. The principal Crosse transversary Those two under till you come to the Crosse. Δ. Do you mean Sias f m n d ..... Those 4 be of Physick Δ. As they do appear in the name of God Idoigo so what shall be of the name of God Ardza Ave ..... The one is to call them the other is to command them If it be an incurable disease in the judgement of man then a 〈◊〉 the letter that standeth against the name and make him up five then he cureth miraculously But if thou wilt send sicknesse then take two of the letters and adde the letter of the Crosse Δ the black crosse to that as in the second a To. Δ. This a is of the crosse of union or the black crosse ..... Then he is a wicked power and bringeth in disease and when thou callest him call him by the name of god backward for unto him so he is a god and so constrain him backward as Ogiodi Δ. I think the Constraint must be by the name of the Transversary backward pronounced as of Ardza is back way azdra For ogiodi should but cause him to appear by the order of Idoigo used for the 4 good Angels ..... The name of God in the middest of the great Crosse where the name may have A or H in the end upon which the 4 Crosses of the first Angle attend or first part of the table attendeth calleth out the six Seniors which give scientiam rerum humanarum Judicum according to the nature of their parts as in the East after one sort in the West after another and so of the rest E. K. A Cloud covereth him The upper right angle in the next crosse hath the same name Δ hath his peculiar name of God to call out and to constrain Δ. Which name mean you Ave. ..... The name that is in the crosse Δ. llacza The good Angels are also 4. They have power over Metals to find them to gather them together and to use them These that are the wicked ones made by three letters are the Princes of those wicked ones that stood afar off in the Table of the Creation Δ. You mean in our fourth Book Ave. ..... These can give money coined in Gold or Silver Δ. Which these Δ. These wicked ones mean you ..... I. The other give no money coined but the metal Δ. You mean the good ..... I. Δ. As XOY. ..... EXOY Δ. I note this pronunciation Δ. The next is apa The third Crosse is the Crosse of transformation Δ. Mean you that on the left side underneath ..... I. The fourth is the Crosse of those Creatures that live in the four Elements as you call them The first Angel the aire The second the water The third the earth The fourth the life or fire of things that live Δ. Is not Acca the first Angel Δ. En pe at ..... I. Then NP at Δ. Then O toi and P mox AVE They are easie to call 1. The knitting together of Natures lieth in the four Angels that are over the first Crosse. Δ. As Vrzla zlar c. ..... I. 2. The carrying from place which place lieth in the Angels of the second Crosse. Δ. I understand in the Angels over the Crosse. 3. All Hand-crafts or Arts are in the Angels of this third Crosse. Δ. I understand in the Angels over the Crosse. E. K. He drew out much fire out of his mouth and threw it from him now Δ. I pray you what meant you by that ..... For that I fulfill my Office in another place Stay at this time I must also be gone Δ. When will you deal again Ave. After Dinner about one or two of the Clock E. K. Now he spreadeth the Curtain Δ. Deo gratias nunc semper agamus Amen †Tuesday Junii 26. à Meridie hora 1½ Circiter Gloria Patri c. 〈◊〉 lueem tuam veritatem tuam O Deus c. E. K. Now he is here and the white Curtain laid behinde 4. Ave. ..... The Crosse of the fourth first Angle Δ. I understand the Angels over the Crosse in the lower right corner ..... Herein may you finde the secrets of Kings and so unto the lowest degree But you must Note That as the Augels of the first of the four Crosses in the East which are for Medicine so are the first of the second the first of the third and the first of the fourth so that for Medicine there be sixteen and so of all the rest in their order but that they differ in that some be the Angels of the East other some of the West and so of the rest Notwithstanding to know the world before the waters To be privy to the doings of men from the waters to Christ from Christ unto the rewarding of the wicked The wicked doings of the flesh or the fond and devilish imaginations of man or to see what the blessed Kingdom shall be and how the earth shall be dignified purged and made clean is a meat too sweet for your mouths Δ. Curiosity is far from our intents Ave. ..... But there is neither Patriarch nor Prophet sanctified Martyr or Confessor King or Governour of the people upon earth that his name continuance and end is not like the Moon at midnight in these Tables Δ. Mean you not the Crosse of the fourth first Angle to be that which is of a Qurrz And his transversary of al Oai Ave. ..... It is so Δ. I understand not well your account of 16 Angels for medicine Ave. ..... Are there not four principal Crosses Every Crosse hath also four The first of every four are the Crosse of medicine so that there be sixteen Ave. ..... One book of perfect paper One labour of a few dayes The calling them together and the yielding of their promise the repetition of the names of God are sufficient I have given you Corn I have given you also ground Desire God to give you ability to till Δ. We will pray for his help that is Almighty ..... I am free before God Catch that catch can Be it now as it was before E. K. He mounteth up into the aire and is gone Δ. When would you that I should prepare that book and what call you perfect and how many leaves would you wish me to make it of ..... Your book is not of my charge Δ. Lord as thou hast dealt mercifully with us hitherto and hast given us the understanding of many secrets so in respect of this strange dealing with us and leaving us of Ave we are desirous to know some cause and therein we require that Madimi may be sent E. K. She is here in the stone
concerning the natural Mines of the Earth Ave. .... Not so for they have nothing to do with the natural Mines of the Earth but with that which is corrupted with man Δ. As concerning the coined they have power to bring it Ave. So they may that they keep and no other Δ. How shall we know what they keep and what they keep not Ave. .... Read my former words for thou dost not understand them Δ. I read it beginning at the first line on this side when the Angels of Light c. Δ. I mean of coined money that they keep not How shall we do to serve our necessities with it Ave. .... The good Angels are Ministers for that purpose The Angels of the 4 angles shall make the Earth open unto you and shall serve your necessities from the 4 parts of the Earth Δ. God make me a man of wisdom in all parts I beseech him Δ. Note I had spoken somewhat of my part in Devonshire Mines and of the Danish Treasures which were taken of the Earth Δ. These our Questions being thus answered now I refer the rest to your instructions intended Ave. .... You have the corn and you have the ground Make you but invocations to sow the seed and the fruit shall be plentiful Δ. As concerning our usage in the 4 dayes in the 14 dayes we would gladly have some information Ave. ..... You would know to reape before your corn be sown Δ. As concerning a fit place and time to call and other circumstances we would learn somewhat Ave. ..... You would know where and when to call before your invocations bear witnesses of your readinesse Δ. Then they must be written in verbis conceptis in formal words Ave. ..... I a very easie matter Δ. What is the Book you mean that I should write Ave. ..... The Book consisteth 1 of Invocation of the names of God and 2 of the Angels by the names of God Their offices are manifest You did desire to be fed with spoones and so you are Δ. As concerning Bataiva or Baataivh I pray you not to be offended though I ask again what is the truth Ave. ..... The word is but of six letters whereof one is on the left side one on the right two above and two under A and H are put to Δ. Sometimes or communiter A and in extremis Judiciis H as I was taught before Δ. So that the word is Bataiva or Bataivh E. K. I think he be gone for he made a sign of the crosse toward us and drew the white Curtain Δ. As we sate a while and talked of the Calls received in the holy Language and not yet Englished there was a voice ..... You shall have those Calls in English on Thursday And so ask me no more questions Δ. Thanks honour and glory be to our Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier now and ever Amen Thursday †Cracoviae Julii 5. Manè hora 8. ferè Oratione dominic a finita aliisque extemporaneis ejaculationibus ad Deum repetito promisso ultimorum verborum de Angelica interpretatione 14. illarum invocationum quas à 14 Maii ultimi recepimus tandem apparuerunt Gabriel in Cathedra Nalvage Gabriel in his Chair and Nalvage with the Table or rather Globe with the letters in it c. Δ. Blessed be our God alwayes for his mercies his graces be with us now and ever E. K. Gabriel standeth up Gab. ..... Dictum est saepe vobis perseverate usque ad finem Δ. God give us that ability Gab. ..... And why is it said so but because you shall have many temptations and afflictions after which come consolation and comfort If the Smith prove and temper his Gold by fire his intent is to excell in the work that he hath in hand that thereby it might be tryed refined and made apt to the end wherein it shall be used Much more think you doth the God of wisdom forge try and beat out such as he intendeth to use in the execution of his divine and eternal purposes How therefore can you find fault with the Lord How can you say he dealeth not justly with you when he suffereth you to be proved to the uttermost If you pay the uttermost farthing are you not become free If you feel affliction and temptation and withstand it are you not the more pure the more justified for the Vineyard and Harvest of the Lord O yes my Brethren for the more the wise man is afflicted the more he rejoyceth And the greater his adversity is the more he prostereth Is it not written No man cometh to the Lord but he is justified purified and accepted Whence therefore if you seek to come before the Lord that is to say to appear to be blessed shall your justification or purifying arise Of your own nature it cannot for you were born sinners But by Christ you may In whom you are justified through patience and resisting temptations True proof and touch of man But me thinketh I hear you say O if we were rich or of ability True it is for the dust of the earth many men excel you But in that you speak with God in us his Angels that is to say Messagers you are not onely happy which happinesse the others want but you excell all the creatures of the Earth O my Brethren their joy is a bitter-sweet But the comfort that you have is eternal is sweet and a food for ever Therefore if you will be eternal and in perpetual comfort with joy despise the world for the worlds sake and delight in God for his mercies which if you truly do Then can no Tempest prevail no affliction come amisse nor no burden be too heavy for you For it is written Gaudium beatorum est Christus Cui Mundus omnia mala fecit O my Brethren be contented and suffer the world for as Christ in vanquishing her did prove himself the Son of God So shall you in resisting her at last overcome and be accounted the sons of God in Christ of whom you are a follower John Dee be of comfort for thou shalt 〈◊〉 Δ. God be praised therefore E. K. And what do you say of me Δ. If I prevail Satan shall not have his will of you for Gab. ..... But unto thee E. K. saith the Lord Take heed how thou meddlest with hell lest it swallow thee Have patience a time E. K. They be gone out of sight Δ. In the mean time we read over the premisses twice to our great comfort E. K. Now they be here again Now is a Cloud over them all white like a smoke A voice ..... Move not for the place is holy By a great hollow voice E. K. Why should it be holy Δ. The Court is where the King is So where the Lord is present the place is accounted holy and is so E. K. Now they be out of the Cloud Δ. After this they made another pause longer than before E. K.
But rejoyce and be glad and sound into the greatnesse of Gods mercies which beareth all your weaknesse and leadeth you through the foggy and perilous mists of your daily temptations even by the hand And now not onely giveth but also exhorteth I speak with you as a man Yea let me speak with you as a man You are opprest with sin and with the world and are not yet apt for the visitation of God My brethren God hath dealt mercifully with you hath opened unto you these three wayes desirous Δ. In malevolam animam non introibit sapientia nec habitabit in corpore subdito peccatis Ecclesiastes cap. 1. E. K. He speaketh other language I understand not ..... That one of you might have entred into the highest Gate And why Because the workman might be able and correspondent unto the work and time of the Lord to come God hath done may great things for you but you will not see them Tarry awhile till I come again E. E. He is gone beyond a thing like a Hill Δ. After half a quarter of an hour he came again E. K. He hath a pair of Tables in his hand made as of white bone and therein are many names written orderly one under another E. K. If I thought this to be of God and this to be Vriel indeed it were another matter but their too much familiarity maketh me doubt Δ. The old saying is true in you Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum Uriel ..... Believe me by Heaven and Earth I am true Uriel E. K. He hath another Book holden unto him by one standing by him who is like a shadow Uriel ..... Give ear say and chuse for after this time there is no choice d ee thy age and continuance in this world in flesh according to the finger and second proportion which you call Nature is 73 years and a half and here it is Δ. pointing to the other Book E. K. He that is like a shadow openeth the Book it seeming to be of yern or steel In which Book appeareth divers names as Bamasan Corsax Tohomaphala c. Δ. They seemed to be the names of good Angels proper to peculiar men Uriel ..... Thou E. K. dost more than thou art commanded Yet cease a while Δ. Because he E. K. read these names E. K. He spreadeth a thing like a Cloud before them E. K. Now he appeareth again and the other with him E. K. Sudsamna appeareth in the Book and against it 46. Uriel ..... So much shalt thou E. K. live by nature and die violently E. K. Now he is covered again E. K. Now he is here again E. K. Aflafben standeth written in that Book and 73 with a prick over the upper part of the figure 3. E. K. The Book is very big and full of names and numbers against them the leaves are very thin E. K. Now Vriel openeth his book himself And there appeareth against Aflafben 122. And against Sudsamna appeareth 87. Uriel ..... Beyond the which you cannot Notwithstanding this life is alwayes given by God or at the 〈◊〉 of some one or mo of us his Angels The other is natural notwithstanding is shortened through the sin of man I am a witness to my self that these books and words are true E. K. Now he is in his Cloud again Δ. After a while they appeared again as before E. K. They look very gravely on their books Uriel ..... Behold my brethren God is ready to open his merciful store-houses and gates of understanding unto you But he that liveth for himself and for the end of this shadow limiteth his wisdom with this number and shall both have an end at once But he that turneth him to the wall and weepeth bitterly shall enter into this Book But he must not build his own house but an house for the Lord Neither must he be visited by the challenge of promise but by the meer mercy and good will of God and at his pleasure and appointment He that hath understanding let him hear Behold This his pen is a pen of Steel But that that I raze withal is of Gold and a piercing Instrument If therefore your visitation shall be after to morrow and that you covet to build because you are men Then give your names unto the yern But if you will remember the Lord and adde any thing unto his building faithfully Then vow your names unto me In the name of him which created you After this time there is no choice Therefore consider for never before but once was this mystery and mercy of God opened unto man E. K. Now he hath drawn the Cloud to him Δ. I am not able O Lord to give thee condigne thanks for these mercies But thy will be done Not as we will nor as we have rashly and blindly before chosen But this is our choice to be thy servants all the dayes of our life and we desire not long life so much as the favour which addeth those dayes wherein our faith may be fruitful through thy graces abounding in us I renounce my former choice I challenge no promise But require thee O God of thy fatherly goodnesse to be my light director staff strength defence and comfort now and ever Amen Uriel ..... Alwayes call unto me for the Testimony and witnesse of the promise of God and the remembrance of this day E. K. He hath written after the numbers in his own Book Est Est. Δ. Ad laudem gloriam honorem Dei Esto Esto Uriel ..... Now deai with Rodolph and be not slack for until thou have talked with him I appear no more Thy haste shall prevent the slander of wicked tongues whom Satan hath already stirred up against thee Δ. I understand of none Uriel ..... It is best thou understand it not at all E. K. He putteth a Cloud over all the Stone like a white wrink'ed Curtain and so disappeareth Δ. But though you appear not yet of Madimi I may require answer to know when my wife and children are to be sent for c. E. K. There is no answer given Δ. Fiat voluntas Dei juxta illius beneplacitum cui omnis laus gloria gratiarum Actio nunc in omne aevum Amen Δ. I received letters from my wife that she and her children are well God have the praise and thanks therefore Amen Friday Augusti 24. à Meridie Pragae Being willed to deal with Rodolphus first by letter and then by speech I thought good to send the Letter before written for the Emperour by the Noble Don 〈◊〉 de St. Clemente the King of Spain his Praefectus Negotiorum with this Emperour and thereupon by Emericus 〈◊〉 the Lord Laskie his Secretary I wrote this to the aforesaid Don Clemente and sent it this Bartholomew Day EA est hominum in terris conditio Nobilissime vir ut sibi soli nullus natus esse videatur Immò
the King now is The Arms of 〈◊〉 Δ There seemeth to be Magical Charactors The man with the Wart 〈◊〉 Note because no wicked power can enter within this stone Close without any 〈◊〉 but where their arms are put out Δ. Fumi 〈◊〉 sunt spiritus qui 〈◊〉 vocati ante Δ. Ergo An. 1581. 6. 〈◊〉 inceperunt die Lunae The Angel standin at the window winding up the 6. smokes pointing to Δ. A. L. Note The white Curtain These Crosses seemed not to be on the ground but in the aire in a white Cloud The great Crosse seemed to be of a Cloud like the Rain-bow * E. K. and I said now in our talk 〈◊〉 That God would not visit us but at the dayes of journey taking as was last affirmed Therefore whatsoever came before was to be doubted as an illusion He therefore answereth first our doubt and then to my request he maketh answer 〈◊〉 Dei Note this manner of a thing felt warm on the right shoulder For the glory of God The malice of Sacan provoketh his own 〈◊〉 when he thought to that the 〈◊〉 might be 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 confounded Governours of the Earth 4 Angeli Terrae King 5 Princes 4 Angels The 24 Seniors in the Apocalyps The 〈◊〉 names of God The Angels of the thirty Aires supra The use in practice The higher instructions On Monday next 25 Junii A blessing Red. White Green Black * King 40. Angels on the 4 Crosles attending on the 〈◊〉 16 Angels Joan. cap. 15. C Joan. cap. 17. 〈◊〉 Vide Anno 1585. Junii 12 Cracoviae Ave. Δ. Ave. Δ. Ave. †Four Δ. Da verbum tuum in ore meâ— sapientiam tuam in câ—rde meo fige Δ. Quasi figura de terra reâ—â—vanda The Table of the Earth Δ He taketh off the coloured cloaths in due order respecting the four parts of the World The Earth * Vide 1582. 20. Martii lib. 2. Vide lib. 3. Anno 1582. Aprilis 28. Enoch 50. Dayes The title of Enochs books expounded into English â—50 Lions or wicked spirits seducers Counterfeiting Wicked Magicians Devils Characters The mercy of God to Dee To Δ. The wicked power expelled out of the earth NOTE Characters A wicked power tempting E.K. This p may stand backward or forward E. K. What is the reason of that diverse setting For beginning there it will make the name of a wicked spirit Δ. So is the name of the first division of the earth in the 29 aire A voyce to this intent This is the Table that hath 4. and D on the top by me so noted p backword ... or forward-A is arsward Linea 〈◊〉 Sancti 〈◊〉 The 3 names of God in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ten faces on the 〈◊〉 Δ. Another pronouncing of it The 4 Angels over every crosse of the 4. attendant crosses The use 4 Angels over every crosse Solomon his knowledge Six Seniors How to make the Seniors of 7. letters The encreasing of names with a letter b a T a i A or H. * To make the end of this word The King his name East To morrow Characters or Notes * Nalvage delivered them but by the same spirit of God Note The general of the first table A bodily and a true motion Δ. The ninth Chapter may be added and is of the secrets of men knowing whereof there is a peculiar Table Δ. They be 〈◊〉 names of the Teath air answering to Caspis Germania 〈◊〉 in Africa Wicked Angels whose names are of 3 letters 4. Angels above every of the lesser crosses 〈◊〉 16 such in every of the 4. principal quarters * In the crosse of union or the black crosse The 4 Angels serving to this lesser 〈◊〉 Note Appearing by one name and doin by another Physick Note †The 〈◊〉 his name made of five letters The use of the wicked powers The Call of the wicked Note 〈◊〉 Constraint Baatain A o. Baataivh Now he speaketh of the second little crosse above on the right side in the East quarter 4 Good Angels Metals The wicked Angels of this portion The table of creation Lib. 4. aliter 5. Bnasp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transformation The four Elements The knitting together of natures 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 in locum All hand-crafts Note this rare action of a spiritual Creature The secrets of all 〈◊〉 sixteen Angels for Medicine Note The blessed Kingdom on earth The earth 〈◊〉 these are here to be learned out Δ. Maxime calm splendet manifesta est in 〈◊〉 coeli in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the. I heir 〈◊〉 NOTA. 〈◊〉 Deo grata acceptabilis in ipsâ 〈◊〉 Note this manner of a heavy thing on the shoulder and warm withall Δ There was a terririble storm of thunder and rain toward the end of our yester-dayes Action which I said was somewhat more then natural Mr. E. K. Penitently prayeth Δ. It is the second part of the 22 aire Δ. So is not one letter superfluous or wanting in the Tables A Prophesie of things at hand NOTE Nova Terra * Were Rodolphus Caesar. Nota 〈◊〉 malerum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. L. Money provision In Constantinople 〈◊〉 15. 〈◊〉 24 Seniors Note This civersity of working The four plagues or quarters The book A perfect master ready The twelve names of God in the twelve Banners Four dayes Fourteen dayes Obedient White linnen vestures Ga ment and book onely once to be used 〈◊〉 than leaves Δ. Of this wicked 〈◊〉 E. K. by by after this Action said Seeing his name is come to be known and not by 〈◊〉 for I had received the Sacrament with Mr. Miniver of whom I had him never to bewray or disclose his name I will tell you somewhat of him He appeareth in many forms till at length he appear in a Triangle of fire and being constrained to the Circle he 〈◊〉 form as it 〈◊〉 of a great Gyant and will declare before for a month to come which spirits do orderly range which by name being called will do their offices with a few other circumstances used c. This indeed was one of whom I made most account c. Doubts * Declared by Gabriel and Nalvage Δ. Pagina penultima 〈◊〉 Note Note this similitude well NOE 〈…〉 H. Faith Obedience Humility A Caveat Δ. Cum maximis lachrymis haec à me valde â—ferio ad Rem dicta erant Post semihoram Adventus Christi Our bodies to be cast out into the fields Prophesie 1 11 12. Regnum futurum Δ. Be gone to the Emperour * That hold up the grapes Satan Faithful Spiritus Sanctus Docepax Tedoand Calls Nalvage is to correct ocation 〈◊〉 use of the 〈◊〉 Note The wicked 〈◊〉 are vile laves The Treasures of the Earth Our words to the wicked that keep Treasure Invocations to be made The Book Δ. He meaneth of the left side of the square center of the principal 〈◊〉 not perfect square but heteromeces The Calls to be had in English on Thursday next Our great 〈◊〉 with God Dec. His fee of A. L. of
400 Dollers yearly Gah S diu The Spirits of the fourth Angle are Δ It is yet a mystery to what book these and such words have relation they are in every Call following That word thou hast not it is Acam E. K. Like a cloud covereth between me the things in the air Δ 6 2 Sapáb That is Af that word have not there Peral you want that word Nal. ... E. K. 〈◊〉 came between E.K. His eyes and the shew-stone E. K Now all the 〈◊〉 are bowed downward E. K. Clouds Fortè sic E. K. Clouds * Dwelling in the rightenesse of the heavens as continual comforters Nal ..... Δ 5 1 C. al that you have not The ninth Nal ..... That is P. you have not mark the mysterie 5 Δ 9 West Nal. ..... 〈◊〉 And that you have not Δ. I understand the end of this earth c. 4 Δ 8 Ol. That you have not That is Daox that you have not 〈◊〉 ..... That you have not Nal. ..... Math. you have it not 6 10 Mian ..... ob ..... That you have not Δ 8 12 Δ 7 11 There is no language for these words in the Call At large Darg ..... Of the first flame Sons Daughters Nal .... Ol .... Nal ..... Quar. Nal ..... or extreaam Justice Δ 10 14 Nalvage Δ 9 13 Eran 18 14 Δ This is the 14 25 I received them in the holy Language Emod Stretch forth Δ 12 16 Faxs Faxes or Faxis to be sounded I find in the Call Taxs. I finde also in some words T or F indifferently used Δ. 13. 17 We have no more now Hora 12. NOTE Note the third of the third Book which is the seventh from the beginning is not yet Englished Vide post Julii 11. hora 4. There is the Call Englished NOTE The great and peculiar mercies of God shewed on us Genes 27. Up and be gone Stephen Bather King of Poland Note of the death of the righteous now and then Flee But 10. dayes Particular Temptations Provide for this Journey Spiritus Sanctus Be gone Enoch The Book confirmed Nal. Ave. It is a king of slate-stone 50 Dayes labour 〈◊〉 his prayer to God One Creatour of all things A Seer The Call of Angels Δ There were no Kings in 〈◊〉 his time Consider therefore how to ask this doubt of this phrase prophetical In 〈◊〉 I find cap. 8. that unjudged Nations had Kings long before Saul his time Therefore there might be some in Enoch his time or he prophesied of them * Ave. That is to say thrice a day Thrice a day What is meant by the phrase or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in respect of good Angels De secundo adventu Christi Wednesday following The Curtain appeared straight way At four of the Clock after noon NOTE 〈◊〉 Δ. He is one of sigillum Dei one of the Septenarii whereof Ave and ... are The Translation of the Call into English Many enemies bodily and ghostly Ile .... Ni That you have not Vide Supra Thursday at four of the Clock afternoon Nineteen Calls received The use of these 19 Calls Ilemese Ilemese 〈◊〉 asper 〈◊〉 Note If. Note In the same instant 〈◊〉 Watch-men Keepers 〈◊〉 of the earth kar in palato very much .... Note How this One Call may serve the 30. God his promise fulfilled before August Counsel for preparation The reading of the Book The letters The mysteries of this Book Dwell together 〈◊〉 pene 〈◊〉 Be gone May 21. Mane Et à Meridie per Mapsama ... 27 Junii per A V E. Reg. 1. cap. 15. A. L. His plague threatned Δ. O most mercifull and just God Obedience d ee Is pardoned No more secrets of God to be opened to A. L. 10 Dayes Δ. Fortè Madnesse procured in the K. and he is now recovered Δ. A scourge to follow unto us Lord be mercifull A. L. Conjectura levicula Nota de Anno 88. Societas Jesu Δ. 72 Angels Δ. Vide Apocalypseos cap. 16. sed videtur quod non sequenter ordine veluti quis ex textu judicaret Ast non asseritur hic effusam esse etiamsi saepe olim vindicatum requirebant illi qui sub altari sunt nondum illis erat concessum c. Sic hic dici potest Madimi est ex ordine potestatum * Vide 26. Junii Mater Madimi The Rainbow Apocalips 4. Faith shall hardly be found on the Earth Seven Woes 〈◊〉 Madami my friend This name of God is in Satan his Traiterous information to be taken head of A. L. My wife children and houshold must be moved to Grage Mater Maditni Trinity IF RODOLPHUS Δ. Either E K V 1. 263. speake not this or 〈◊〉 omitted to write it at the first If Dei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum Δ. de R. The marvellous beginning of this last time Mapsama A paper book to be prepared Jajurandum ad Dee pro A. L. Misericurdia Dei super Δ. Cum Imperore Rod. Prophetia de Δ. * Mathei 7. D. New lessons New books No dicas coram Angels non est Providentia 〈◊〉 siastes cap 5. * Libelli Monadis Hieroglyphicae Theoremate 20. jam ante 20 annos editi * D Δ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Aliquid deest forte The Spirit of Pride This Testimony to be believed upon great displeasure else Heavens of Glory Chastity Angels God to us is the Discloser of his own secrets Humility Vriel hath a Tower to build c. Δ. and E. K. Primus Filius Spiritus Sanctus Desolatio de qua Propheta loquutus est Apocalyps cap. 18. F. Δ. 〈◊〉 Tempus est tacendi tempus est I quendi veluti de 〈◊〉 Christi Matth. 17. B. Marc. 9. B Luc 9. B. 12. A. Constat Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 10. C. Quod in 〈◊〉 audietis predicate super tecta c Luc. 12. * Joel cap. 3. †Fear not †Promise of visitation for the 48. great Calls and the Holy Book wilting and practising * Legissatio manifesta in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichristi eversio per Spiritum SS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. 〈◊〉 ad Thess. 2. cap. 2. An Election or Choice offered to Δ. RODOLPHUS Imp. A Vision The Garden of Comfort 1. One of those men saith He meaneth of the first and second which gathered flowers and of the third Respice 〈◊〉 2. 3. Note 〈◊〉 sine qua non causa proxima 〈◊〉 ut differunt 〈◊〉 A defiler of the flowers The Garden of Wisdom Three manner of wise men Fury and Re-Open unto venge Rudelph the Emperour must be made 〈◊〉 of all RUDOLPHUS IMPER 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 6. Uriel ..... His voyce Earth A 〈◊〉 of our choice made Prepare The Promise becometh life God well pleased A new promise to Δ. a Camber vide Anno 1582. 15. Martii * Δ. Fortè intelligit Rolandum infantem meum cui vitam reslituit Deus miraculosè quasi Cracoviae An. 1584. Julii 14. Sed Deus tu nosti quod hoc mihi tam mirum cidetur
at this time by me Hyppocrates where before sheweth how many in that case were gulled by the Priests of those times making them believe That this happened to them through the anger of some god They that are verst in the Opticks know That there is a way through the help of glasses that shall not be seen to make moving shadows that shall appear like Ghosts to the great terror of the ignorant beholder and it is said That pretended Astrologers and Fortune-tellers cheat many by those sights It is the opinion of some Jewish Rabbins That what Ghosts or Souls are raised by Necromancy they alwayes appear inverso corpore that is their head dowards and feet upwards Though nothing is to be wondered at in Rabbins who commonly are as full of ridiculous conceits as ever came into the head of any Bedlam Yet my opinion is That the first ground of this wild conceit was some appearance by the Species of an object gathered through a little glasse into a dark room For so indeed the objects must appear inverso corpore if it be done in a high room and the objects from whence the Spiecies are gathered be lower then the glasse through which they passe And the reason of it is very Demonstrable to the sight of any reasonable man Certainly by this secret which yet is no great secret being commonly seen and practised among them that are any thing curious strange things may be done by a Cunning-man to their great amazement that know not the cause There would be no end if I should attempt to gather from several Authors what hath been invented by men and what may be done by Art to cheat men in matters of this nature Let any man that is yet a stranger to it but read the life of Alexander the false Prophet or Prognosticator written by Lucian and he shall see notable examples of successeful Cheats and Impostures scarce credible indeed but that the thing was yet then fresh and famous and that all circumstances of History confirm the truth of the relation And let him that reads it judge what dull and dry fellows the Mountebank-Astrologers Prognosticators and Fortune-tellers of these dayes are to this Noble Renowned Alexander Only let him know that reads that Lucian was a profest Atheist and therefore no wonder if he find Epicurus spoken of with great respect whom all Atheists and Atheistically inclined are so much obliged to honour This excepted I think the Story is very worthy to be known and much more worthy to be read by all men considering the good use that may be made of it then many books that are daily translated out of other languages But lastly If there were any such thing really as Divels and Spirits that use to appear unto men to whom should they probably sooner appear then to such as daily call upon them and devote their Souls and Bodies unto them by dreadful Oaths and Imprecations And again then to such who through damnable curiosity have many times used the means the best they could find in books by Magical Circles Characters and Invocations and yet never neither the one nor the other saw any thing I have said as much as I mean to say though somewhat perchance might be added to shew the plausiblenesse of the opinion in opposition to vulgar apprehensions and capacities whereby as I conceive for I have not wittingly omitted any thing that I thought material it chiefly intitles it self to wisdom and more then ordinary prudence which all men generally are ambitious of Yet I would not have it thought that all men that hold this conclusion That there be no Spirits c. go so rationally to work or can give this account or any other more rational and plausible for what they hold God knows there be many in the world men of no learning and mean capacities who can speak as peremptorily as the best not because they have considered of it and understand the grounds of either opinion but because they know or have heard it is the opinion of some Learned and they hope they shall be thought learned too if they hold with them Besides an ordinary for some have been learned Epicurean who makes it his Motto to himself and in his heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and seeks his ease in this world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their own word which imports Tranquility both of mind and body a good word but ill applyed as his summum bonum or chiefest happinesse It is a great ease to him when any strange things doth happen by Witches Wizards and the like and other some to satisfie their faith others their reason and curiosity are put to it to enquire of men by conference and to search into books ancient and late Sacred and Profane and all little enough A great ease I say for him then and upon all such occasions to possesse his Soul in secure ignorance and to save his credit yea and to gain 〈◊〉 with some by barely saying Fabula est I do not believe it We shall hear some of them by and by acknowledg in effect as much as I have said I impose nothing upon them I will not take upon me to judge of a book that I never read I cannot say that I ever saw it But because I have heard some men magnifie an English book written of this subject to prove that there be no Witches I will impart unto the Reader that hath not observed it the judgment of one of the Learnedst men that ever England saw I wish he had been more gently dealt with when time was of that book whereby it may appear if his judgment be right as I am very inclinable to believe because of his great Learning and wonted circumspection in his censures what great undertakers many men are upon very little ground and how prone others to extol what doth favour their cause though to the prejudice of their better judgments if they would judge impartially Dr. Rainolds in those elaborate Praelectiones de libris Apocryphis where he doth censure some opinions of Bodinus as prejudicial to the Christian Faith Reginaldus Scotus nostras saith he qui contrariam Bodino insanit insaniam ait Papistas confiteri non posse Demonas ne audire quidem nomen Jehovae Acceperat ille à Bodino attribuit Papistis in genere tanquam omnes Papistae in eo conspirarent Pergit ipse quoniam animadverterat quasdam faeminas maleficas aliquando istius modi narrationes ementiri putavit omnia esse ficta ex imperitia Dialecticae aliarum bonarum artium Ut qui nullo judicio nullà methodo 〈◊〉 optimarum artium scientiâ eodem modo aggressus sit hanc rem quomodo Poeta loquitur Tenet insatiabile quosdam Scribendi cacoëthes eodem 〈◊〉 medo ratiocinatur c. We have been the more willing to produce this passage out of the writings of that Learned man because we also in our answers may have occasion to
their heads But of all Scriptures the Revelation and the obscure Prophesies are their delight for there they rove securely and there is not any thing so prodigious or chimerical but they can fetch it out of some Prophesie as they will interpret it These men if they be upright in their lives and dealings and fear God truly it is to be hoped that God will preserve them from further evil but they are of a dangerous temper Charitable men will pity them and sober men will avoid them On the other side some there are whose brains are of a stiff and restive mould it will not easily receive new impressions They will hardly believe any thing but what they see and yet rather not believe their eyes then to believe any thing that is not according to the course of nature and what they have been used unto The devil may tempt such by sensual baits and catch them but he will not easily attempt to delude them by magical Shews and Apparitions And what sober man that believeth as a God so a divel doth doubt but they that make it their daily practice to damn themselves by such horrid oaths and curses are as really possest yea far more in the possession of the devil then many that foam at the mouth and speak strange languages But 3 dly Some have tried and used the means but could never see any thing but what if others that never desired it really but in some wanton curiosity unadvisedly that they might be the better able to confute the simplicity of some others as they thought rather then that their faith wanted any such confirmation have tryed some things or have been present at some experiments and have seen with no small astonishment more then they expected or desired Some persons of credit and quality I am sure have made it their confession unto me that it hath so hapned unto them who have been so affected with it that they would not for a world be so surprized again But 4 ly and lastly The Confessions of some Magicians are extant in print who tell very particularly what means they used what books they read c. and they saw and found if we believe them and what should tempt them to lye no melancholy men I know not till they were weary and Gods grace wrought upon their hearts to bring them to repentance There be such confessions extant but the Reader shal pardon me if I give him no further account It would much better becom them therefore that have made such essays without successe to repent and to be thankful unto God then to make that an argument that there 's no divel and perchance no God There is a terrible saying if well understood in the Scripture 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He that is filthy let him be filthy still Let them take heed I advise them as a friend if they persist in their hardness of heart and infidelity lest God in just judgment though they seek still and provoke as much as they can will not fuffer that they shall see anything lest they should fear and be converted I Come now to Dr. d ee and to This Book of his which hath been the occasion of all the Discourse hitherto As for his Person or Parentage Education and the like I have but little to say more then what he saith himself in his first Letter to the Emperor RODOLPHE of Germany that being yet very young he was sought unto ambiverunt me by two Emperors CHARLS the 5 th and FERDINANDO his Brother and Successor in the Empire Mr. Cambden indeed in the year 1572 makes honourable mention of him and calls him Nobilis Mathematicus He dedicated his Monas Hieroglyphica to MAXIMILIAN Successor to FERDINANDO first printed at Antwerp An. Dom. 1564. and afterwards at Francford 1591. and what other places I know not In the year 1595. he did write and was printed 1599 I am sure but whether before that or no I cannot certainly tell A discourse Apologetical c. directed to the then Archbishop of Canterbury wherein he hath a Catalogue of books written by himself printed and unprinted to the number of 48. in all and doth also mention the books of his Library about 4000 volums in all whereof 700 ancient Manuscripts Latin Greek and Hebrew There also doth he produce a Testimony of the University of Cambridg dated 1548. But this whole Discourse of his being but short for the better satisfaction of the Reader I thought good to have it here reprinted the next after this Preface His Mathematical Preface before Euclid is that I think which of all his writings published hath been most taken notice of in England and added much to the worth and commendation of that Edition of Euclid He was a married man and divers children as will appear by this Relation a great Traveller and lived to a great age But as I said before I do not pretend to give an account of his life in general unto others which my self am yet a stranger to What concerneth this Relation I am to give an account and I hope there shall be nothing wanting to that Four things I propose to my self to that end First Somewhat to confirm the truth and sincerity of this whole Relation Secondly To answer some Objections that may be made against some parts of it Thirdly To give some light to some places and to satisfie the Reader concerning the perfection and imperfection of the book as also concerning the Original Copy Fourthly and lastly To shew the many good uses that may be made of all by a sober Christian. 1. It seems that Dr. Dee began to have the reputation of a Conjurer betimes He doth very grievously complain of it in that Preface to Euclid but now spoken of about the end of it and yet there doth also term himself An old forworn Mathematician For my part whether he could ever truly be so called I yet make some question But I am very confident that himself did not know or think himself so but a zealous worshipper of God and a very free and sincere Christian. How this is to be reconciled with the truth of this Relation shall be afterwards considered of For the truth and sincerity of the Relation I hope no body will so grosly mistake us as though we intended thereby to justifie what is here printed against any suspition of forgery as if any man taking the advantage of Dr. Dees name and fame of a Conjurer could be suspected to have devised and invented these things in his own brain to abuse the world I should be sorry my name should appear in any kind to any book lyable to such a suspition and the very name and credit of that so much and so deservedly prized Library from whence this is pretended to be taken is sufficient with civil understanding men to prevent the grossenesse of such a mistake Besides the Original Copy it self all written with Dr. Dees own hand there kept
about London which doth not seem to agree with the report in those Annotations But enough of them Neither indeed have I said any thing at all of purpose to oppose the Author but to give this further satisfaction to the Reader or rather to the truth which I thought I was bound to do The passage in Wevers Funeral Monuments pag. 45 46. concerning Kelley for their satisfaction that have not the Book is this Kelley otherwise called Talbot that famous English Alchymist of our times who flying out of his own Countrey after he had lost both his ears at Lancaster was entertained by Rodolph the second and last of that Christian name Emperor of Germany for whom Elizabeth of famous memory sent very secretly Captain Peter Gwyn with some others to perswade him to return back to his own Native home which he was willing to do and thinking to escape away in the night by stealth as he was clammering over a Wall in his own House in Pragne which bears his name to this day and sometimes was an old Sanctuary he sell down from the Battlements broke his leggs and bruised his body of which hurts within a while after he departed this World Sed quorsum haec you will say Then thus This Diabolical questioning of the dead for the knowledge of future accidents was put in practice by the said Kelley who upon a certain Night in the Park of Walton in le dale in the County of Lancaster with one Paul Waring his fellow-companion in such Deeds of darkness invocated some one of the Infernal Regiment to know certain passages in the life as also what might be known by the Divels foresight of the manner and time of the death of a Noble yong Gentleman as then in Wardship The Black Ceremonies of that Night being ended Kelley demanded of one of the Gentlemans servants what Corse was the last buryed in Law Church-yard a Church thereunto adjoyning who told him of a poor man that was buryed there but the same day He and the said Waring intreated this foresaid servant to go with them to the Grave of the man so lately interred which he did and withal did help them to dig up the Carcase of the poor Catiff whom by their Incantations they made him or rather some evil Spirit through his Organs to speak who delivered strange Predictions concerning the said Gentleman I was told thus much by the said Serving-man a Secondary Actor in that dismal abhorred business and divers Gentlemen and others are now living in Lancashire to whom he hath related this Story And the Gentlemen himself whose memory I am bound to honor told me a little before his death of this Conjuration by Kelley as he had it by relation from his said Servant and Tenant onely some circumstances excepted which he thought not fitting to come to his Masters knowledge D r. Dee's Apology Sent to the Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY 1594 5. OR A Letter containing a most brief Discourse Apogeticall with a plain Demonstration and fervent Protestation for the lawfull sincere very faithfull and Christian course of the Philosophicall Studies and Exercises of a certain studious Gentleman An ancient Servant to Her most Excellent Majesty Royall To the most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate and Metropolitane of all England one of Her Majesties most Honorable Privie Councell my singular good Lord. MOst humbly and heartily I crave your Graces pardon if I offend any thing to send or present unto your Graces hand so simple a Discourse as this is Although by some sage and discreet my friends their opinion it is thought not to be impertinent to my most needfull suits presently in hand before her most Excellent Majesty Royall your Lordships good Grace and other the Right Honourable Lords of her Majesties Privy Councell to make some part of my former studies and studious exercises within and for these 46 years last past used and continued to be first known and discovered unto your Grace and other the right Honourable my good Lords of her Majesties privy Councell And secondly afterwards the same to be permitted to come to publick view Not so much to stop the mouthes and at length to stay the impudent attempts of the rash and malicious devisers and contrivers of most untrue foolish and wicked reports and fables of and concerning my foresaid studious exercises passed over with my great yea incredible paines travells cares and costs in the search and learning of true Philosophie As therein So to certifie and satisfie the godly and unpartiall Christian hearer or reader hereof That by his own judgement upon his due consideration and examination of this no little parcell of the particulars of my foresaid studies and exercises philosophicall annexed He will or may be sufficiently informed and perswaded That I have wonderfully laboured to find follow use and haunt the true straight and most narrow path leading all true devout zealous faithfull and constant Christian students ex valle hac miseriae miseria istius vallis tenebrarum Regno tenebris istius Regni ad montem sanctum Syon ad coelestia tabernacula All thanks are most due therefore unto the Almighty Seeing it so pleased him even from my youth by his divine favour grace and help to insinuate into my heart an insatiable zeal and desire to know his truth And in him and by him incessantly to seek and listen after the same by the true Philosophical method and harmony proceeding and ascending as it were gradatim from things visible to consider of things invisible from things bodily to conceive of things spirituall from things transitory and momentary to mediate of things permanent by things mortall visible and invisible to have some perseverance of immortality And to conclude most brieflly by the most mervailous frame of the whole World philosophically viewed and circumspectly weighed numbred and measured according to the talent and gift of GOD from above alotted for his divine purposes effecting most faithfully to love honor and glorifie alwaies the Framer and Creator thereof In whose workmanship his infinite goodness unsearchable wisdome and Almighty power yea his everlasting power and divinity may by innumerable means be manifested and demonstrated The truth of which my zealous carefull and constant intent and endeavour specified may I hope easily appear by the whole full and due survey and consideration of all the Books Treatises and Discourses whose Titles onely are at this time here annexed and expressed As they are set down in the sixth Chapter of another little Rhapsodicall Treatise intituled the Compendious Rehearsall c. written above two years since for those her Majesties two honorable Comissioners which her most Excellent Majesty had most graciously sent to my poor Cottage in Mortclacke to understand the matters and causes at full through which I was so extreamly urged to procure at her Majesties hands such Honorable Surveyors and witnesses to be assigned for the due proof of the contents
43. Navigationis ad Carthayum per Septentrionalia Scythiae Tartariae litora Delineatio Hydrographica Arthuro Pit Carolo Jackmano Anglis versus illas partes Navigaturis in manus tradita cum admirandarum quarundam Insularum annotatione in illis subpolaribus partibus jacentium An. 1580. 44. Hemisphaerij Borealis Geographica atque Hydrographica descriptio longè a vulgatis chartis diversa Anglis quibusdam versùs Atlantidis Septentrionalia litora navigationem instituentibus dono data An. 1583. 45. The Originals and chief points of our ancient Brytish Histories discoursed upon and examined An. 1583. 46. An advise discourse about the Reformation of the vulgar Julian yeare written by her Majesties commandement and the Lords of the privy Councell Anno 1582. 47. Certain Considerations and conferrings together of these three sentences aunciently accounted as Oracles Nosce teipsum Homo Homini Deus Homo Homini Lupus An. 1592 48. De hominis Corpore Spiritu Annima sive Microcosmicum totius Philosophiae Naturalis Compendium lib 1. Anno 1591. With many other Books Pamphlets Discourses Inventions and Conclusions in divers Arts and matters whose names need not in this Abstract to be notified The most part of all which here specified lie here before your Honours upon the Table on your left hand But by other books and Writings of another sort if it so please God and that he will grant me life health and due maintenance thereto for some ten or twelve years next ensuing I may hereafter make plaine and without doubt this sentence to be true Plura latent quà m patent Thus far my good Lord have I set down this Catalogus out of the foresaid sixt Chapter of the booke whose title is this 49. The Compendious rehearsall of John Dee his dutifull declaration and proofe of the course and race of his studious life for the space of halfe an hundred years now by Gods favour and help fully spent c. To which compendious rehearsall doth now belong an Appendix of these two last years In which I have had many just occasions to confesse that Homo Homini Deus and Homo Homini Lupus was and is an Argument worthy of the decyphering and large discussing as may one day hereafter by Gods help be published in some manner very strange And besides all the rehearsed Books Treatises of my writing or handling hitherto I have just cause lately given me to write publish a Treatise with Title 50. De Horizonte AEternitatis to make evident that one Andreas Libavius in a book of his printed the last year hath unduly considered a phrase of my Monas Hyeroglyphica to his misliking by his own unskilfulnesse in such matter and not understanding my apt application thereof in one of the very principal places of the whole Book And this book of mine by Gods help and favour shall be dedicated unto her most Excellent Majesty Royall And this Treatise doth contain three books 1. The first Intituled De Horizonte liber Mathematicus Physicus 2. The second De AEternitate liber Theologicus Metaphysicus Mathematicus 3. The third De Horizonte AEternitatis liber Theologicus Mathematicus Hierotechnicus ¶ Truly I have great cause to praise and thanke God for your Graces very charitable using of me both in sundry points else and also in your favourable yeelding to yea notifying the due means for the performance of her Sacred Majesties most gracious and bountifull disposition resolution and very royall beginning to restore and give unto me her Ancient faithfull servant some due maintenance to lead the rest of my old daies in some quiet and comfort with habilitie to retaine some speedy faire and Orthographicall writers about me and the same skilfull in Latine and Greek at the least aswell for my own books and Works fair andcorrect ly to be written such I mean as either her most Excellent Majestie out of the premisses will make choice of or command to be finished or published or such of them as your grace shall think meet or worthy for my farther labor to be bestowed on as else for the speedy faire and true writing out of other ancient Authors their good and rare workes in greek or Latine which by GODS Providence have been preserved from the spoile made of my Librarie and of all my movable goods here c. Anno 1583. In which Librarie were about 4000. books whereof 700. were anciently written by hand Some in Greeke some in Latine some in Hebrew And some in other languages as may by the whole Catalogus thereof appeare But the great losses and dammages which in sundry sorts I have sustained do not so much grieve my heart as the rash lewde fond and most untrue fables and reports of me and my Studies Philosophicall have done and yet do which commonly after their first hatching and devilish devising immediately with great speed are generally all the Realme overspread and to some seem true to other they are doubtfull and to onely the wise modest discreet godly and charitable and chiefly to such as have some acquaintance with me they appear and are known to be fables untruths and utterly false reports and slanders Well this shall be my last charitable giving of warning and fervent protestation to my Countreymen and all other in this case A fervent PROTESTATION BEfore the Almighty our GOD and your Lordships good Grace this day on the perill of my souls damnation if I lie or take his name in vaine herein I take the same GOD to be my witnesse That with all my heart with all my soul with all my strength power and understanding according to the measure thereof which the Almighty hath given me for the most part of the time from my youth hitherto I have used and still use good lawfull honest christian and divinely prescribed means to attain to the knowledge of those truthes which are meet and necessary for me to know and wherewithto do his divine Majesty such service as he hath doth and will call me unto during this my life for his honour and glory advancing and for the benefit and commoditie publique of this Kingdome so much as by the will and purpose of God shall lie in my skill and hability to perform as a true faithfull and most sincerely dutifull servant to our most gracious and incomparable Queen Elizabeth and as a very comfortable fellow-member of the body politique governed under the scepter Royal of our earthly Supreame head Queen Elizabeth and as a lively sympathicall and true symetricall fellow-member of that holy and mysticall body Catholiquely extended and placed wheresoever on the earth in the view Knowledge direction protection illumination and consolation of the Almighty most Blessed most holy most glorious comajesticall coeternall and coessentiall Trinity The Head of that Body being only our Redeemer Christ Jesus perfect God and perfect man whose return in glory we faithfully awaite and daily doe very earnestly cry
unto him to hasten his second comming for his elects sake iniquity doth so on this earth abound and prevaile and true faith with Charity and Evangelicall simplicity have but cold slender and uncertrin intertainment among the worldly-wise men of this world Therefore herein concluding I beseech the Almighty God most abundantly to increase and confirm your Graces heavenly wisedome and endue you with all the rest of his heavenly gifts for the relieving refreshing and comforting both bodily and spiritually his little flock of the faithfull yet militant here on earth Amen An EPILOGUE Good my Lord I beseech Your Grace to allow of my plaine and comfortable Epilogus for this matter at this time 1. Seeing my studious exercises and conversation civill may be abundantly testified to my good credit in the most parts of all Christendome and that by all degrees of Nobility by all degrees of the Learned and by very many other of godly and Christian disposition for the space of 46. years triall as appeareth by the Records lately viewed by two honourable witnesses by Commission from her Majestie 2. And seeing for these 36. years last past I have been her most Excellent Majesties very true faithfull and dutifull servant at whose Royall mouth I never received any one word of reproach but all of favour and grace In whose Princely Countenance I never perceived frowne toward me or discontented regard or view on me but at all times favourable and gracious to the great joy and comfort of my true faithfull and loyall heart And thirdly Seeing the works of my hands and words of my mouth here before notified in the Schedule of my books and writings may beare lively witnesse of the thoughts of my heart and inclination of my minde generally as all wise men do know and Christ himself doth avouch It might in manner seem needlesse thus carefully though most briefly and speedily to have warned or confounded the scornfull the malicious the proud and the rash in their untrue reports opinions and fables of my studies or exercises Philosophicall but that it is of more importance that the godly the honest the modest the discreet grave and charitable Christians English or other lovers of Justice truth and good learning may hereby receive certaine comfort in themselves to perceive that Veritas tandem praevalebit and sufficiently be weaponed and armed with sound truth to defend me against such kind of my adversaries hereafter they will begin afresh or hold on obstinately in their former errors vain imaginations false reports and most ungodly slanders of me my studies ¶ Therefore to make all this cause for ever before God man out of all doubt Seeing your Lordships good grace are as it were our high Priest and chief Ecelesiasticall Minister under our most dread and Soveraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth to whose censure and judgement I submit all my studies and Exercises yea all my Books past present and hereafter to be written by me of my own skill judgement or opinion I do at this present time most humbly sincerely and unfainedly and in the name of Almighty God yea for his honour and glory request and beseech your Grace when and as conveniently you may to be well and throughly certified of me what I am Intus in cute Reverendissime in Christo Pater Dignissime Archipraesul cognosce agnosce vultum tà m internum quà m externum pecoris tui And wherein I have used do or shall use pen speech or conversation otherwise then as it appertaineth to a faithfull carefull sincere and humble servant of Christ Jesu That your Grace would vouchsafe to advertise me So I trust Ultima respondebunt primis in such sort as this Authentick Record in Latine annexed ad perpetuam rei memoriam doth testifie having never hitherto had occasion to shew that in any place of Christendome to testifie better of me then they had proofe of me themselves by my conversation among them The Almighty therefore be highly thanked praised honoured and glorified for ever and ever Amen But now in respect of the generall intent of this briefe discourse I most humbly and reverently exhibit to your Graces view and perusing the originall monument and authentick Record before mentioned fair written in Parchment with the Seal whole and perfect duly appendant as I have 46. years and somewhat longer preserved it The true Copy whereof your Grace doth see to be verbatim as followeth UNiversis Sanctae matris Ecclesiae filijs ad quos praesentes literae perventurae sunt Vicecancellarius Caetusque omnis Regentium non Regentium Universitatis Cantabrigiae Salutem in Domino sempiternam Conditiones Merit a hominum in nostra Universitate studentium affectu sincero perpendentes eos solos testimonio nostro ornandos esse arbitramur quos scimus ob eruditionem morum probitatem promeritos esse ut istud beneficium à nobis consequantur Quamobrem cùm hoc tempore ipsa veritas testimonium nostrum sibi postulat vestrae pietati per has literas significamus Quòd dilectus nobis in Christo Johannes Dee Artium Magister in dicta nostra universitate foeliciter versatus plurimam sibi doctrinae honestatis laudem comparavit De cujus gradu conversatione quae honestissima semper fuit ne qua uspiam ambiguitas aut quaestio oriri possit apud eos quibus hujus viri virtutes haud satis innotuerint visum est nobis in dicti Johannis gratiam has literas nostras Testimoniales conscribere conscriptas publico Academiae nostrae sigillo obsignare quò majorem apud vos authoritatem pondus literae nostrae habeant Bene valete Datum Cantabrigiae in plena Convocatione Magistrorum Regentium non Regentium Academiae praedictae 14. Calend. Aprilis Anno à Christo nato 1548. PERORATIO THe Almighty and most mercifull God the Father for his only Son our Redeemer Jesus Christ his sake by his holy Spirit so direct blesse and prosper all my studies and exercises Philosophicall yea all my thoughts words and deeds henceforward even to the very moment of my departing from this world That I may evidently and abundantly be found and undoubtedly acknowledged of the Wise and Just to have been a zealous and 〈◊〉 Student in the School of Verity and an Ancient Graduate in the School of Charity to the honour and glory of the same God Almighty and to the sound comfort and confirming of such as faithfully love and fear his Divine Majestie and unfainedly continue in labour to do good on earth when while to whom and as they may Amen Very spedily written this twelfth even and twelfth day in my poore Cottage at Mortlake Anno. 1595. currente à Nativitate Christi ast An. 1594. Completo à Conceptione ejusdem cum novem praeterea mensibus Completis Alwayes and very dutifully at your Graces commandement Jo. Dee A TABLE Of the several Actions contained in this Book with the most Considerable Matters
in my study and attending somewhat the return of the good messager spiritual and said that he promised to come again suddenly he appeared and answered Mur. ..... So I am write 7. 30.25 44.37.35 46. To the first S. to the second O. the third L. the fourth G. the fifth A. the sixth R. the 7th S. Δ. That maketh SOLGARS Mur ..... Add the first and last number together it maketh 53. let that be the Centre to the rest Δ. To be put to the Center of the Steptagonum Mur. ..... So. The ground hereof is to be found in the third Table in the first book I mean in the third of the seven the Table of B. B. c. being the first My name is also to be found in the same Table Form this upon a plate of lead It prevaileth as a cure against such infections My promise is done Δ. How is this to be used Mur. ..... Vse it upon the body molested adding the letters of her name in a small Circle on the back half not the letters in their forms expressed but the number of such letters Δ. We know not how to number her name in our letters Mur. ..... Take them out of the second Table any Table else of the seventh will serve so that thou take the numbers as thou findest them placed with the letters Δ. How is this to be used about her body Mur. ..... As by discretion shall be thought best It prevaileth sufficiently so it be done but thus far I teach thee and this as concerning nature The health of him which sent me be amongst you Amen The forepart of the Lamin Isabel Lister the back part of the Lamin Wednesday a Meridie circa 2d. 1583. Δ. E. K. Had been ever since nine of the Clock in the morning in a marvellous great disquietnesse of minde fury and rage by reason his brother Thomas had brought him news that a Commission was out to attache and apprehend him as a fellon for coyning of money Secondly that his wife was gone from Mistresse Freemans house at Blohley and how Mr. Husey had reported him to be a cosener and had used very bitter and grievous reports of him now of late and that his wife was at home with her mother at Chipping Norton whereupon I considering his great disorder and incumbrance toward him externally and his greater offending of God with his furious impatience internally and remembring the whole premises of God his service to be performed by us two if we would be dutifull servants to his Divine Majesty I was touched with a great pang of Compassion both that any Christian should use such speeches as he used or be of so revenging a minde and intent as he shewed himself to be and also in respect of mine own credit to be brought in doubt for embracing the company of such an one a disorderly person And thirdly that the good service of God might hereby be taken from our two executing to our great danger both in body and soul Therefore to do my duty as a man resolute upon our uniting for Gods service to do for him as for my self I made God my refuge for comfort counsel and help in this great affliction and crosse of temptation Whereupon after my vehement and humble prayers for the foresaid purpose this voyce was heard of E. K. I had upon some reasonable respect set the shew-stone with the mystery in it on the Table by E. K. also A voyce ..... Let the daughters of light Take up their garments let them open the windows of their secret Chambers for the voyce of man hath said Oh shew thy self to be a God yea perform that which thou hast already promised gather your vestures together for those that are sick have need of help you are the children of pitty and in the loins of compassion do you dwell For I have said you are And I have said my Determination shall not fail although with the sons of men my Determinations may be undetermined Come gather up your garments for the Cankers are ripe and the Biting-worm seeketh to gnaw into the Lily He hath said Let me prove them for they are not just Yea let me touch them for they are unrighteous I have granted him power but without prevailing I have given him weapons but they are not sharpned his fingers shall defile and yet not deface For I have appointed him a night and have prefixed an end thereunto to the intent it may be known That thus far I have stretched his mouth E. K. I have heard a voyce about the shew-stone very great as though men were beating down of mud walls The thumping shuffing and cluttering is such A voice ..... Arise I say for I will be revenged against the scorning of those yea of those that are sucklings Δ. After a great silence and pause appeared one on the Table without the skirts of the silke sarcenet like a woman having on a red kirtle and above that a white garment like an Irish Mantle on her head a round thing like a Garland green and like a Coronet under the Garland but not perfectly to be discerned on her breast a precious Stone of white colour and on her back another precious Stone both which Stones were set upon a Crosse in the very center of the Crosse. Δ. Your external apparel you Daughter of Light you perceive that we have somewhat noted but by the power and mercy of the external Light we trust and desire to understand somewhat of your internal vertue She said ..... 〈◊〉 hat do you think I am a Jewellers wife by my apparel Δ. We deem you to be the Messenger of him that hath for mankind purchased the Jewel of eternal Blisse by the incomparable Jewel of his most precious Blood ..... Will you have this too Δ. After a pretty while silence I said We expect the execution of the purpose for which you are sent She said ..... It is written that Pride was the first offence Githgulcag knew not himself Therefore he was ignorant E K. She is much fimbling about the Stone on her breast and regarding it E. K. Now She talketh with other whom I see not her talke is very short and quick but I cannot perceive what she saith She. ..... Read what I have said I read the former words She. ..... You will grant me that Pride is the greatest sin Pride was the cause he knew not himself Therefore Pride is the cause of Ignorance Δ. The Argument is good She. ..... Ignorance was the nakednesse wherewithal you were first tormented and the first Plague that fell unto man was the want of Science E K. Now she speaketh to other again who appeare not and they seem to answer her again She. ..... The want of Science hindreth you from knowledge of your self E K. She looketh upon Δ. and smileth Now she speaketh to the unseen people again She. ..... Whosoever therefore knoweth not himself is
wilt be knocked in pieces ere thou come to the top Clymer ..... Do you your good will I feel no harm E. K. Now she leadeth him in a place where Springs Quick-mires and Bogs are Maid ..... Surely thou art best to go down for thou wilt be drowned Clymer ..... I pray you help I will go as long as I may E. K. He goeth forward and sinketh almost to the throat Maid ..... It is deeper on the further side thou wert best to go down again Clymer ..... I feel the ground hard under my feet I will not yet despair E. K. Now he cometh out of those deep places and he seemeth to come to a place like the bottom of a hedge where stand stiffe thorns piked upward very sharp Now come two or three handsome fellows and said Alas let him tarry here and drink we will lead him up another way to morrow Maid ..... Farewell Clymer ..... I pray leave me not so let me go with you Maid ..... I must needs be gone I cannot tarry for thee Clymer ..... I am yet neither hungry nor thirsty and feel no wearinesse Why therefore should I stay E. K. He goeth as though the thorns prickt him and grindeth his teeth for pain Now they are come to a fair place and then she said to one Maid ..... Fetch meat and drink and cloaths and cure his wounds For unto thee belongeth the felicity of this place For neither from the highest to the lowest is there any whom I pitty but such as this is Clymer ..... I know not how I shall use these things Maid ..... The true Heirs have alwayes discretion To thee it belongeth and for thee it is prepared Vse it therefore without offence as thine own E. K. Now both he and she go into a Castle and the doors are shut after them and she cometh out again Maid ..... This is written for your understanding Let therefore your eyes be opened and be not blinde Neither forget what here hath been opened Δ. We perceive that Felicitas via ardua est multis obsita difficultatibus periculis sed constantia patientia perveniturad Falicitatis arcem which we beseech the Almighty God to grant unto us Maid ..... Well I will be going till you have supped And then I will tell you more of my minde It will be yet six or seven weeks journey before I can get home Δ. Sit benedictus Deus noster nunc semper Amen After Supper we staid awhile being come to the place and though nothing was seen or heard yet I spake assuring my self of the presence of the foresaid maid though as yet to us insensible Δ. We would gladly know thy name Maid ..... My name is Galua'h in your language I am called Finis E. K. She suddenly appeared as she spake this Δ. That Finis is Latin Gal. ..... I. Δ. You are none of those that are called filiae lucis or filiae filiarum Gal. ... No. Δ. You will not be offended if I propound a doubt somewhat impertinent to our matter in hand yet of importance for us to hear your judgement in the same Tritemius sayeth that never any good Angel was read of to have appeared forma muliebri I pray you to give us an answer to this so great 〈◊〉 Clark his words which are to be read in his little book Octo Questionum Maximiliani cesaris ..... There Quastione Sexta Sancti autem Angeli quoniam affectione nunquam variantur semper apparent in forma virili Nusquam enim legimus scriptum quod bonus spiritus in forma sit visus muliebri aut bestiae cujuscunque sed semper in specie virili Gal. ..... You think then I have some understanding Δ. Yea God knoweth I do Gal. ..... First it is evident that the Spirits of God are incomprehensible to those that are their inferiours For the higher order is incomparable unto God And by degrees those that are their inferiours are also incomparable unto them It followeth therefore that in respect of that degree in Angels things are incomprehensible Angels I say of themselves neither are man nor woman Therefore they do take formes not according to any proportion in imagination but according to the discreet and appliable will both of him and of the thing wherein they are Administrators For we all are Spirits ministring the will of God and unto whom unto every thing within the compasse of Nature onely to his glory and the use of man It followeth Therefore considering that we minister not of our selves that we should minister in that unsearchable form within the which our executions are limited But if Tritemius can say That woman also hath not the Spirit of God being formed and fashioned of the self same matter notwithstanding in a contrary proportion by a degree If Tritemius can separate the dignity of the Soul of woman from the excellency of man but according to the form of the matter then might his Argument be good But because that in man and woman there is proportion preparation of sanctification in eternity Therefore may those that are the eternal Ministers of God in proportion to Sanctification take unto them the bodies of them both I mean in respect of the Form For as in both you read Homo so in both you find one and the self same dignity in internal matter all one But Tritemius spake in respect of the filthinesse which indeed is no filthinesse wherewith all women are stained and by reasons from the natural Philosophers as a man tasting more of nature indeed then of him which is the Workman or a supernatural Master He I say concluded his natural invention In respect of my self I answer Tritemius thus I am Finis I am a beam of that Wisdom which is the end of mans excellency Those also that are called Filiae and Filiae filiarum are all comprehended in me and do attend upon True Wisdom which if Tritemius mark he shall perceive that true Wisdom is alwayes painted with a womans garment For than the purenesse of a Virgin Nothing is more commendable God in his judgement knoweth how Tritemius is rewarded If you think these arguments be not sufficient the one in respect of the first ground and the other in respect of the measure of my name I will yet alledge greater Δ. These Arguments do satisfie me But to have wherewith to stop the mouths of others who might use Cavillation upon such matters it were somewhat needful to have heard your judgement Whereas indeed our own affairs in hand are rather to be followed at this present and of greater Arguments or Instructions in this matter I trust hereafter to have understanding But as now I chiefly regard our Action in hand Gal. ..... Begin the Book next Tuesday My self will be thy Director And as my name is so I will lead unto the end All other things use according to thy
not well but in that sense it is demanded he meaneth well The evil spirit that possesseth him was cast out of him even at his nose at the presence of those that were present with thee Δ. Gal. ..... Believe me we know not his name Trouble me no move with him Δ. O Lord though men be fraile faulty and filthy yet thy mercies are most praise-worthy among all generations of all thy doings Gal. ..... Hold thy peace we are now to execute the Justice of God Δ. I spake a great while of the mercies of God and his Justice and gave thanks for over Calling and Election into this blessed state Gal. ..... I will take up my lodging for this night Δ. God grant me worthy of such godly ghests God grant me a dwelling with you where his name is eternally praised glorified and sanctified To him all Creatures render thanks honour and glory Amen ..... Amen Δ. This voice out of the Stone being taken to be the voice of God importeth as much as if God himself had sealed to that as his will and decree That all Creatures should render thankes unto him and glory fiant Dignum Justum est Amen Tuesday Junii 18 An. 1583. ante meridiem circa 9. Δ. I prayed first and declared our attending this day the promise of God to be performed c. Ga ..... Are four hours yet to come and I will be ready Are the works of wisdom secret until I have ascended this Hill Is the Harvest ready when the Corn is ripe Are the Labourers ready when their Instruments are prepared I have said All wisdom is reckoned by the eternal Will and until it be said there is no action 〈◊〉 When the Sun shineth I will appear amongst you when it is said Come lo I am ready The dayes of your fathers were blessed but the hour when this Book shall be written shall be sanctified yea in the middest of intellectual understanding For herein is the Creation of Adam with his transgression The Dignity and wisdom be had The Errour and horror wherein he was drowned yea herein is the power spread of the highest working in all Creatures For as there is a particular Soul or fire inflaming unto every body I mean reasonable So there is an 〈◊〉 fire and a general brightnesse giving general light unto them which is but One and 〈◊〉 through the whole yea is measured equally unto every thing from the beginning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all things is here known The reward of death to those that are rewarded for life None are rewarded but according to their deserts of the which there are two kinds 1 These are rewarded with death for their wickednesse 2. So are they rewarded with life for their constant living Amongst the Angels there may be errour and sin may make them fall from the brightnesse of their glory But to the Soul of man being once glorified sin is utterly yea most largely opposite Neither shall that dignity ever be lost stained or defaced that is obtained here with the workes of righteousnesse and true wisdom Whatsoever hath been from the beginning since it was said in Divine Determination Be it done is here inclosed Therefore should this day be Hallowed and Sanctified before the Lord by you For if the Prophets did worship this day of his ascension much more ought you which have tasted of the first and shall now taste of the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Judgements 〈◊〉 his coming But with you Satan is busie His bristles stand up his 〈◊〉 are cast abroad Therefore watch and pray For those that go to 〈◊〉 put on their upper 〈◊〉 Amongst you therefore is no sound belief Neither do you consider the 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 But such is the greatnesse and excellency of his foreknowledge that be 〈◊〉 the enemy to carry a burden yea sometimes to preach upon a Stage For it is said He shall 〈◊〉 unto the end and place himself 〈◊〉 as he would have done above Neither shall he be thrust out of doors till the end be determined Therefore watch and pray and look about with diligence for those things shall be opened unto you which have not been disclosed unto the Holy Ones Oh how hard a thing it is for flesh to continue in the works of Justice Yea oh how hard a thing it is for Wisdom to be acquainted with a hotchpot of filthinesse 〈◊〉 your garments Lift up your hearts and rent your faults in pieces that there may be one 〈◊〉 with one consent and unto one end unto him which is One and the End of all things and to him for and in his truth and for the greatnesse of his mercies To whom be praise for ever Δ. Amen E. K. All the while she spake there came a bright beame from the Mystical Stone to the body of her and at the end she mounted upward and disappeared Δ. We set up the hour glasses to measure four hours justly after this answer and instructions Tuesday After Dinner about one of the clock and ½ the hours expired and we attended the mercy of the Highest Δ. At a great gladsome shining of the Sun whereas it had not shined but a little and inconstantly ever since his last words one appeared on the corner of the green silk Sarcener by the Mystical Stone She was like a woman as Galvah in face but her apparel was a mans gown furred with foynes or as Gentlewomen do wear upon gowns Δ. Upon the diversity of your apparel we are to ask whether you be Galvah or no or have you also as I have done put on your Holiday-cloths Gal. ..... FEAR GOD. E. K. She steppeth forward one step Gal. ..... My Garment is called HOXMARCH which in your speech is called ..... Δ. Initium sapientiae est Timor Domini we accknowledge it to be an old and a true Lesson and also the first step of the path-way to felicity Gal. ..... What is fear Δ. Fear is of two sorts one is called filialis the other servilis Gal. ..... Vnto the Just all fear is joy and therefore the beginning and entrance into quietnesse True quietnesse and rest is wisdom For the mind that knoweth hath the greatest rest and quietness The Daughter of Dispaire unto the wicked is fear This fear is the first that accuseth unto damnation But he that is perfectly wise or hath tasted of wisdom knoweth the End And his fear is of the thing that is done This is the true fear of God and when we fear sin we do it because we hate it When we study to do good it is a token of our fear in that it is a token we fear him whom we love and for whose honour we study to do well This is all that may be said of lively and unlively fear Touching the Book it shall be called Logah which in your Language signifieth Speech from GOD. Write after this sort LOGAETH it is to be sounded Logah This word is of great signification
I mean in respect of the profoundnesse thereof The first leaf as you call it is the last of the Book And as the first leaf is a hotchpot without order So it signifieth a disorder of the World and is the speech of that Disorder or Prophesie Write the Book after your order backward but alter not the form of letters I speak in respect of the places E. K. Now a beame shooteth through him from the Stone and so through his head and out of his mouth his face being from E. K. toward Δ. ..... Write the 49. You have but 48 already Write first in a paper apart E. K. Said that Galvah her head is so on bright fire that it cannot be looked upon The fire so sparkleth and glistreth as when an hot iron is smitten on an Anvil especially at the pronouncing of every word It is to be noted also that upon the pronouncing of some words the Beasts and all Creatures of the World every one shewed themselves in their kind and form But notably aH Serpents Dragons Toads and all ugly and hideous shapes of beasts which all made most ugly countenances in a manner assaulting E. K. but contrariwise coming to and fawning upon Galvah It is to be noted also that by degrees came a second beame and a third beame of light into Galvah from the Stone and all the three together appeared the third participating of the other two The second beame came at the word Larb pronounced when also Frogs and Serpents appeared c. The third beame upon the word Exi pronounced Note also that the manner of the firy brightnesse was such and the grisely countenances of the Monsters was so tedious and greivous and displeasant to E. K. that partly the very grief of his minde and body and partly the suspecting the Creatures to be no good Creatures neither such greivous sights necessary to be exhibited with the Mysteries delivering unto us had in a manner forced him to leave off all But I again with reasonable exhorting of him and partly the providence and decree Divine wrought some mitigating of his grief and disquieting Gal. ..... These are these seven Δ. Blessed and praised for ever be He who is one and three and whom mighty ministers or governours do incessantly glorifie 1583. Gal. ..... Thy folly and weaknesse is great God comfort thee Δ. He spoke to E. K. for his excessive disquietnesse and suspecting of the verity or goodnesse of Galvah Δ. Note Now the beames were all retired into the stone again likewise all the Creatures and Vermine or ugly shaped Beasts are all gone We were willed also divers times to pray At sundry pangs of E. K. his grief and disquietnesse sundry speeches were uttered by the spiritual Creature among which these noted ..... He that is angry cannot see well From him that is perverse God turneth his face The hindrance of punishment is the mercy of God which imputeth not sin unto them whom he bath Chosen Therefore be patient and reconcile thy self to God E. K. I do it with all humility and sincerity of minde and beseech God to help me with his grace for of my self I cannot do so yet I am Thomas Didymas I will believe these things when I see the fruits of them Δ. He seemed yet again to doubt whether this Creature and the rest partakers of this action were soundly good and void of all halting or abusing us E K. How can you perswade me that ye be no deluders Gall. ..... I will prove it by contrary The servants of darknesse have their Garments stained their mouths stinck of blasphemy and lies but our Garments are no such neither do our lips speak any untruth and therefore we are of God for whosoever is of the truth is of God Moreover the Devil is known by his works for the spirit of God controlleth them the spirit of God agreeth with us and useth no controlment against it therefore it is not Daulesse In one thing thou mayest know us differing from Devils The wicked spirits alwayes abhor this word Mercy But it is the Doctrine that we preach in respect towards you we are not now then evil But this way teacheth hardnesse and is a stumbling block to the wicked but the beauty of the 〈◊〉 is not able to be expressed Happy are they which are covered with the Pearls of Righteousnesse and on whose head there is a Garland of godlinesse For unto those belongeth to taste of the Fountain of true wisdom Is it not written of this book that it teacheth nature in all degrees The judgement hereof is Intellectual And wash your feet and follow me Δ. Lord wash thou our feet or else we shall not be clean Gall. ..... How thou art God knoweth But comfort your selves in this That neither this Testimony can perish neither unto you can remain any slavery Quia vestra erit victoria in him and for him to whom I leave you Δ. What shall I do with these 21 words now received Gall. ..... There are onely the words of the first leaf Δ. I pray how shall I bestow them or place them Gall. ..... In them is the Divinity of the Trinity The Mysterie of our Creation The age of many years And the conclusion of the World Of me they are honoured but of me not to be uttered Neither did I disclose them my self For they are the beams of my understanding and the Fountain from whence I water Δ. I beseech you how shall I write these names in the first leafe Gall. ..... They are to be written in 5 Tables in every Table 21 Letters Δ. How shall I place the 5 Tables upon two sides three in the first and 2 in the second or one in the first and 4 in the second or how else Gall. ..... As thou seest cause Δ. Shall I write them in Letters of Gold Gall. .... The writing hath been referred to thy discretion with collours and such things as appertain to the writing thereof Vpon the first side write three Tables and on the second two Δ. How thus Gal. .... Set them down I will direct thy judgement Δ. When now Gal. .... Not now E. K. She is gone Δ. Deo Nostro sit Laus honor Gratiarum actio perennis Amen Wednesday 19. Junii Hora 2. a Meridie Δ. I made a prayer to God and there appeared one having two Garments in his hands who answered ..... A good praise with a wavering minde Δ. God make my minde stable and to be seasoned with the intellectual leaven free of all sensible mutability E. K. One of these two Garments is pure white the other is speckled of divers colours he layeth them down before him he layeth also a speckled Cap down before him at his feet he hath no Cap on his head his hair is long and yellow but his face cannot be seen at the least it was turned away-ward from E. K. continually though
format antese ab utroque latere post se. Crede mihi est finis rerum Dimitiuntur Peccata vestra E. K. Cadit quasi distractus vel se separans in 4 partes avolut Vox ..... Habet is que adeo Decreta sunt Δ. Misericordia Dei sit super nos nunc semper Amen Saturday Junii 29 à meridie hora 4. Δ. While I was about to write the Title of the second side of the seventh leaf and E. K. sitting by me Madini appeared as before like a young girle and I saluted her in the Name of God as coming from God for good and said to her that I was wonderfully oppressed with the Work prescribed to me to perform before August next and desired her to help me to one to write the holy Book as it ought to be written seeing I did all I could and it seemed almost impossible for me to finish it as it is requisite Madami promised to help me to one to write the Book and thereupon appeared to her but unseen of E. K. her Mother ..... Madimi said also that she was now learning of Greek and Arabick and the Syrian Tongue Mad. ..... Mother I pray you let him have one to write his Book Δ. I pray thee tell me Madimi what was his name which yesterday tempted my friend and accused me most unduly and untruely to E. K. as a murderer and hypocrite and one that had injured a thousand Mad. ..... His name was Panlacarp Δ. Can the wicked Conjurers have their Devils to write Books at their commandments and shall not an honest Christian Philosopher have the help of God his good Angels to write his holy Mysteries so greatly redounding to his Glory And seeing you are the Mother of Madimi here I beseech you tell me your name here as the order of all our doings are distinctly and orderly noted Mother ..... I am of the word and by the word I say Seal up those things thou hast And I my self will take charge of Galvah to the end Ad evitandum 〈◊〉 Δ. Truth it is it must grow to a great mislikeing grudge that God should seem to have laid burdens on our shoulders greater than we are able to bear and then if we fail and faile under them he would find a cause not to perform his promises made for carrying of those burdens Mother ..... Whatsoever is thy part the same will I perform I will put thy yoke in this one thing upon my shoulders Δ. Will you then write it as I should have written it Mother ..... I have said I will Δ. Where shall I leave the Book Mother ..... Leave it where you will your locks are no hindrance to us Even when the time cometh believe and you shall find it written Δ. You have eased my heart of a thousand pound weight Mother ..... Because ye shall not fall into error Dost thou believe Δ. Yea verily Mother ..... Then verily will I do it Fides tua erit instrumentum operationis meae Erit videbitis nunquam peribit Galvah ..... One thing I will teach thee The End is greater than the Beginning or the Midst For the End is witnesse of them both But they both cannot witnesse of the End Mother ..... He that appeared yesterday is fast enough now Maiden Say your lesson when I am gone Δ. I pray tell me your name Mad. ..... Mother I pray you tell your name Mother ..... I A M What will you more E. K. She flieth away like a fire Madimi falleth down prostrate on her face a while Δ. Now I shall have leisure to follow my sute and to do all Mr. Gilberts businesse Mad. ..... My Mother will speak to the Queen for you shortly Serve you God while I do pray E K. She prayeth vehemently Now she cometh near to us Madimi ..... I pray you teach me to spell She spake to E. K. Mad. ..... This is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forte 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alicitur vel abstrahitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 E. K. Unlesse you speak some Language which I understand I will expresse no more of this Ghybbrish Now she prayeth again Now she is gone Δ. Benedictus sit Deus Pater Noster Deus totius Consolationis qui respexit afflictionem servuli sui in ipso puncto necessitatis meae praestitit mihi auxilium ipse Solus Cordis Scrutator est renum Ipse est Lux mea Adjutor meus Susceptor meus est In Domino speravi liberavit me ab angustia maxima propter gloriam Nominis sui quod sit exaltatum magnificatum nunc in sempiterna secula Amen Amen Amen Δ. My heart did throb oftentimes this day and thought that E. K. did intend to absent himself from me and now upon this warning I was confirmed and more assured that it was so Whereupon seeing him make such haste to ride to Islington I asked him why he so hasted to ride thither And I said if it were to ride to Mr. Harry Lee I would go thither also to be acquainted with him seeing now I had so good leasure being eased of the book writing Then he said that one told him the other day that the Duke did but flatter him and told him other things both against the Duke or Palatine and me c. I answered for the Duke and my self and also said that if the fourty pound annuity which Mr. Lee did offer him was the chief cause of his minde setling that way contrary to many of his former promises to me that then I would assure him of fifty pound yearly and would do my best by following of my sute to bring it to passe as soon as possibly I could and thereupon did make him promise upon the Bible Then E. K. again upon the same Bible did swear unto me constant friendship and never to forsake me And moreover said that unlesse this had so faln out he would have gone beyond the Seas taking ship at New-Castle within eight dayes next And so we plight our faith each to other taking each other by the hands upon these points of brotherly and friendly fidelity during life which Covenant I beseech God to turn to his honour glorie and service and the comfort of our brethren his Children here in earth Tuesday Julii 2. à meridie Circa Horam 2. Δ. While I was writing of Letters to Mr. Adrian Gilbert into Devonshire Madini appeared by me in the study before E. K. sitting in the Chair first on the ground then up higher in the aire and I said How is the minde of Mr. Secretary toward me me thinketh it is alienated marvellously Mad. .... Those that love the world are hated of God The Lord Treasurer and he are joyned together and they hate
answered with the first words I spoke to day Δ. Deo Opt. Max. sit omnis honor laus Gloria nunc semper Amen Thursday Maii. 24. Δ. Because E. K. came not according as it was bidden yesterday to follow the Action I went to his Study door and knocked for him And I requested him to come and he refused so to do and gave me a short and resolute answer That he would never more have to do with these Actions I asked him the reason why He would give none But earnestly denied to proceed I told him that his words yesternight that he could not this day deale did very much grieve me c. whereof he made small account So I went into my Study again and committed the Cause to God After half an hour and lesse he came speedily out of his Study and brought in his hand one Volume of Cornelius Agrippa his works and in one Chapter of that Book he read the names of Countries and Provinces collected out of Ptolomeus as the Author there noteth Whereupon he inferred that our spiritual Instructors were 〈◊〉 to give us a description of the World taken out of other Books and therefore he would have no more to do with them I replied and said I am very glad that you have a Book of your own wherein these Geographical names are expressed such as for the most part our Instructors had delivered unto us and that according to the Tenor and form of my request to him so to have them expressed for 〈◊〉 more perfect information by those known names to understand those 91 unknown and unheard of names of seven letters every one whereby they our Instructors I mean are very greatly to be thanked and to be deemed in all reasonable mens judgements most friendly and far from cosenage or abusing of us And farther I said that I my self had here set down on a paper all the 91 names together orderly as we received them and that I had here brought the description Geographical of the whole earthly Globe and also Pomponius Mela set forth in English with the Chartes thereunto belonging fairly described by hand To the intent he might see the verity of their words yesterday delivered unto us for the performance of my request made to them on Tuesday last in this form of words as the Book hath it recorded thus Δ. As you gave us a taste or warning of Italia and Britania so if it be thought good to you we are desirous to understand of the rest the Application to such names as we understand Whereby you may perceive said I to E. K. how your reason is marvellously confounded by your wilful phantasie For so much as wherein you would find fault in our spiritual Instructors doings Therein they have done that which I requested them as appeareth and that to the intent of known Countries we might understand which Angels had the government for such purposes as occasion might offer or require our practices to be tryed in This quoth I is to grosse your error and to wilful your wrangling But I do in narrower points peruse and consider their words and doings In which though sometimes my writings after your declaration hath been amended by them yet the occasion of miswritting for the most part hath been either in your misreporting what you saw and heard or in my wrong hearing or writing and sometime by the spiritual present correcting of my writing and sometime longer after c. But for all this E. K. remained of his wilful intent and so departed to his Study again And I committed God his Cause into his own hands care and ordering as may be best for his honour and glory So be it Monday Maii 28. hora 10½ ante meridiem Δ. I said the Lords Prayer E. K. Here appeareth nothing but the clear Stone Now there appeareth a white circle more than usual it is as it were a white smoak very large comprehending all the heavens in manner having as it were the breadth of my finger in the circumference or border of it Δ. After this an hour and an half after divers our discourses of my Wife her speeches and usage toward E. K. c. E. K. Here appeareth one like him in the green that appeared last day the Etymologie of whose name is Dic illis and his name Mapsama Δ. In the name of Jesus and for the honour of Jesus we beseech you to deliver the verity of your message Maps ..... He liveth and he saith Arise up and say unto them How many times have I opened my armes to embrace you How oft have I wept over you as a father But you are still stiff-necked and disobedient children Lo I cease yet and will not impute this wickednesse unto you Δ. O blessed God blessed God blessed God of mercies Maps ..... Because my promises may be notwithstanding that the sons of men may not say such a day cometh in the Bridegroom nor at such a time shall the Lilly spring Let the day that I will visit you in be unknown unto you E. K. I thought you would say so Map ..... But this you shall do utter part ..... Bind up together 48 leaves whose skin shall bear Silver Whose Perimeter shall be 〈◊〉 30 inches in length 8 in breadth 7. Δ. Do you require it to be parchment or paper Map ..... I have said Δ. What shall I then do after I have caused 48 leaves to be bound Map ..... This done rise up and perform your Journey as you are commexded Δ. I have heard onely of the binding of the book Mean you after the binding of the book that this journey shall be entred into Map ..... I Δ. What shall I do with the book after I have bound it E. K. I will answer for him .... burn it Map ..... The fourteenth day of your rest even this Table-Cloath and none other shall be spread for a Banket E. K. He pointeth to this Diaper Table-Cloath Whereunto you shall invite the Angels of the Lord In the middest of the Table lay down the book and go forth make also the doors after you That the heavens may justifie your faith and you may be comforted For man is not worthy to write that shall be written neither shall there be found many worthy to open that book I have entered already into the Emperours heart But it may be he will become wilfull If he do a hundred and twelve dayes remain and he is not For I have cut down the banks the waters may rush out that there may be a sudden alteration In this now time When I warn you you shall return But you please me much if you believe If time govern not my providence repine not but let my providence govern time Look neither for the Sun nor Moon but be ready alwayes For whom I finde apt shall be made 〈◊〉 And to him that is barren shall there be little
become holy ..... I said not so he said it that beareth witnesse of himself Vnto this obey the other three Angels of the Table E. K. On the other farther corner of the Table on E. K. his right hand is a Crosse like an Alphabet Crosse. This Crosse and the other T do seem to lye upon the Table in a dim dunnish or a sky colour All the Table over seemeth to be scribled and rased with new lines ..... The earth is the last which is with the Angels but not as the Angels and therefore it standeth in the Table of the seven Angels which stand before the presence of God in the last place without a Letter or number but figured by a Crosse. ..... It is expressed in the Angle of that Table wherein the names of the Angels are gathered and do appear as of Michael and Gabriel Δ. I remember there is an Alphabetary Crosse. E. K. Now in the corner of the Table on the right hand to E. K. appeareth another Crosse somewhat on this fashion †and there appear'd these Letters and Numbers b 6 4 b ..... It is in that Table which confisteth of 4. and 8. E. K. In the last corner of this earthly Table appeareth a little round smoke as big as a pins head E. K. Now is all covered with a mist. E. K. Now I hear a great voyce of thumbling and rumbling in the stone E. K. Now all waxeth clear again Now hoveringly over the Table appear infinite sort of things like worms sometimes going up and sometimes down these seem somewhat brightish Over these higher in the aire appear an infinite sort of small little blackish things bigger then Motes in the Sun and they go up and down and sometime come among those worm-like Creatures ..... The Lord appeared unto Enoch and was mercifull unto him opened his eyes that he might see and judge the earth which was unknown unto his Parents by reason of their fall for the Lord said Let us shew unto Enoch the use of the earth And lo Enoch was wise and full of the spirit of wisdom And he sayed unto the Lord Let there be remembrance of thy mercy and let those that love thee taste of this after me O let not thy mercy be forgotten And the Lord was pleased And after 50. dayes Enoch had written and this was the Title of his books let those that fear God and are worthy read But behold the people waxed wicked and became unrighteous and the spirit of the Lord was far off and gone away from them So that those that were unworthy began to read And the Kings of the earth said thus against the Lord What is it that we cannot do Or who is he that can resist us And the Lord was vexed and he sent in amongst them an hundred and fifty Lions and spirits of wickednesse errour and deceit and they appeared unto them For the Lord had put them between those that are wicked and his good Angels And they began to counterfeit the doings of God and his power for they had power given them so to do so that the memory of Enoch washed away and the spirits of errour began to teach them Doctrines which from time to time unto this age and unto this day hath spread abroad into all parts of the world and is the skill and cunning of the wicked Hereby they speak with the Devils not because they have power over the Devils but because they are joyned unto them in the league and Discipline of their own Doctrine For behold as the knowledge of the mystical figures and the use of their presence is the gift of God delivered to Enoch and by Enoch his request to the faithfull that thereby they might have the true use of Gods creatures of the earth whereon they dwell So hath the Devil delivered unto the wicked the signs and tokens of his error and hatred towards God whereby they in using them might consent with their fall and so become partakers with them of their reward which is eternal damnation These they call Characters a lamentable thing For by these many Souls have perished Now hath it pleased God to deliver this Doctrine again out of darknesse and to fulfill his promise with thee for the books of Enoch To whom he sayeth as he said unto Enoch Let those that are worthy understand this by thee that it may be one witnesse of my promise toward thee Come therefore O thou Cloud and wretched darknesse Come forth I say out of this Table for the Lord again hath opened the earth and she shall become known to the worthy E. K. Now cometh out of the Table a dark smoke and there remaineth on the Table a goldish slime and the things which hovered in the aire do now come and light down on that slime and so mount up again He said ..... Non omnibus sed bonis E. K. He taketh the smoke and tieth it up ..... I tie her not up from all men but from the good Now cometh a dark Cloud over all again Δ. A pause E. K. Now it is bright again He said ..... Fiant omnia facillima ..... Number E. K. I see lines and scribblements as before going athwart the lines E. K. I count thirteen lines downward ..... Stay there E. K. I count twelve this way overthwart E. K. In the just middle of every square are little pricks The Table seemeth to be eighth yards square E. K. Now come upon these squares like Characters They be the true Images of God his spiritual Creatures ..... Write what thou seest E. K. I cannot Δ. Endeavour to do your best for he that biddeth you do will also give you power to do E. K. Did his best at length fire flashed in his face and shortly after he said I perceive they be easie to make so that I tell the squares by which the lines do passe and draw from middle prick to middle prick Δ. At length E. K. finished the Table he said that these seemed to be yellowish Gold E. K. You heard one here say I write my own damnation ..... He might have said you write his damnation Pray and write as many more lines Δ. After awhile E. K. did with great ease finish the four parts of the Table E. K. The stone is become dark A voyce .... Cease for an hour Δ. May we passe from our places as now ..... I. Δ. After a little hour past we returned and as we talked of the premisses he said ..... 〈◊〉 no time Δ. He said in the stone being clear again ..... In the name of God be diligent and move not for the place is holy ..... Take the first square write from the left hand toward the right you shall write small letters and great Say what you see to E. K. r Zilaf Autlpa Δ. I finde here one square among these Characters that hath nothing in it .....
earth shall run unto the Hills and say cover us Δ. O Thou mighty God of Hosts be our strength and comfort ..... When you hear the peoplesay Le there is a man-child that doth great marvails which is even at the door threshold Then then shall you see the calamity of the earth 〈◊〉 let 〈◊〉 the servant of God do as he is commanded And what goodnesse soever he craveth shall follow him for the Lord hath spared him among the Kings of the earth Let him provide for this one journey He shall not need to provide for the rest For he that hath all hath provided for him The fifteenth day of September that shall be twelve moneths shall you set up the signe of the Crosse even in the midd'st of Constantinople Δ. Thy will be done O Lord to thy honour and glory Poland Promissio confirmata de A. L. fortè Ave. ..... In this Kingdom shall be much bloudshed and the one shall cat anothers throat And as the Lord hath promised so shall it come to passe Ave. ..... Now to the Table Δ. Of the Principal King of Bataiva or Baataiva using the last a twice I doubt of the perfect writing of it Ave. ..... Is it not written It is all most easie and in gathering thou canst not erre The 24 Seniors are all of one Office But when thou wilt work in the East thou must take such as bear rule there so must thou do of the rest Δ. Do you mean the estate in respect of any place we shall be in or in respect of any earthly place accounted alwayes the East part of the world wheresoever we be Ave. ..... The East and West in respect of your Poles What will you else of me Δ. Whether these four Tables be joyned in their right places or no. Ave. ..... They be Note of the Letters in the black 〈◊〉 Δ. Of the Letters in the Transversary of the wicked their black Crosse I know no 〈◊〉 as of motivat nan c. Ave. ..... Thou shalt know when thou writest thy book Δ. I desire you of the book to say somewhat more for the fashion paper and binding c. Ave. ..... Thou mayest use thy discretion Δ. You mean I trust the book that you bid me to prepare For the other is not for my writing Ave. ..... It is not I my self will stand with you and shew how to practise Δ. Blessed be God for his ready help Δ. I will prepare the book by the grace of God with all speed Δ. As concerning the Offices vertues and powers of the three other quarters of the Table what shall we think of them The Offices of all the four quarters Ave. ..... They are all as the first Δ. Note Thou hast three names of God out of the line of the holy Ghost in the principall Crosse of the first Angle so hast thou three in the second c. Four dayes after your book is made that is to say written must you onely call upon those names of God or on the God of Hosts in those names And 14 dayes after you shall in this or in some convenient place Call the Angels by Petition and by the name of God unto the which they are obedient The 15 day you shall Cloath your selvès in vestures made of linnen white and so have the apparition use and practice of the Creatures For it is not a labour of years nor many dayes E. K. This is somewhat like the old fashion of Magick Ave. ..... Nay they all played at this You must never use the Garment after but that once onely neither the book E. K. To what end is the book made then if it be not to be used after Δ. It is made for to be used that day onely Ave. ..... What will you else Δ. As you best know we need instructions yet necessary for us Ave. ..... Very few Ave. ..... It is a stem with fruit but it wanteth leaves E. K. What mean you by that Ave. ..... There be more leaves then fruit and in many actions there be more circumstances then matter Δ. But here is onely marrow and no bones or flesh Δ. As concerning the great multitude that E. K. saw in the Vision standing after the sixteen Angels next the Gate you made no mention in your Description of the Vision Therefore I would know what they are Ave. ..... 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ministers and servants E. K. * Aliter Sendenna as E. K. said There shalt thou see thy old Sondenna * and many other wicked ones that thou hast dealt withall Hereby shall you judge truly of wicked Magick God be with you I will be ready when you need me Δ. AEterno omnipotenti Creatori rerum omnium visibilium invisibilium sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio Amen Δ. 1. Remember I have not yet heard any thing of the 5 Princes which held up the traine of the chief King 2. Neither any thing of the Trumpeter which went before all 3. Neither of the letters in the Transversary of the black Crosse. 4. Also of Docepax Tedoand being referred to Cilicia Nemrodiana and Paphlagonia in the late exposition of the places by vulgar names and before in the naming of them by the names of Creation they were applyed to Italia and Britania One of those is to be doubted of 5. We are desirous to know the Etymologies of all the names of God which we shall use either to God himself or to the Angels 6. We require the form of our Petition or Invitation to be made to the Angels 7. Of the 20 and more diversities or corrections of this principal Table we require your censure which diversities I have by conjecture so made or amended 8. Whereas I was Δ willed to call 14 dayes the Angels which are to be used so would I know whether also I should summon the wicked here recorded out of the black Crosse having their off-spring likewise 14 dayes Saturday †Cracoviae Junii 30. Manè circa 9. horam Oratione dominica finita 〈◊〉 illis 7. dubiis quievimus paululum Deinde aliquot orationes ex psalterio recitavi iterum quievimus paululum Ad semihoram nihil apparuit At length appeared a face very great with wings about adjoyned to it afterward he seemed to be in a great Globe of fire ..... Hearken to my voice Modesty patience and humility of heart and body doth belong to these Actions Tell me how many Thunders the Lord hath in store for the wicked Δ. O Lord we know not ..... Were you ever in the secret caves of the Earth Δ. No Lord never ..... Then tell me how many windes the Lord hath prepared for an year Δ. Neither that can we tell We are not of the Lord his Council in these things of his providence ..... Can you tell me none of these questions ..... Can you tell what shall become of your selves
is as and Come away they are there were and whose Thunders they gathered them Number 5. O ..... selves together is which and 31 Ga. flew became Come away into the East the house For and of death I prepare the Eagle of whom for you Gabr. or have prepared Note Then begin at the first Call Move as before E. K. Now they appear O thou 6739. the great name  the governour which weave Righteousnesse  of the first flame the earth and I le mese Wednes under whose with drinesse the seat Δ 11 15 day Julii 11. dixit wings which of Honour hic deest are know of  Of the first flame Nal ..... Then move as before c. O you sons vexing the voyce of fury all creatures of God the daughters of the earth the promise of the just with age of him which which have which is called sit under you amongst you on 1636. Furie 24 Behold seats   ..... Move as before O you swords making and of the South men drunken his power which have which are which 42 Ux. empty is called eyes Behold amongst you to stir up the promise A bitter sting the wrath of God  of sin   ..... Move as before c. E. K. Now all is covered E. K. Now it is open again O thou mighty light openest to the Center and burning flame of comfort the glory of the earth which of God In whom the secrets of Truth is called not to be measured 6332 in thy Kingdom Be thou have JOY a window of comfort their abiding and unto me which   ..... Move as before O thou shalt comfort separate second flame the Just Creatures the house of Justice which walkest great which on the earth art but with feet thou thy beginning 8763 in the god of in glory that understand and Conquer and and  ..... Move c. E. K. They have covered all with the Curtain O thou vexation whose God third flame and hast is Wrath in Anger whose 7336 Gird up wings Lamps living thy loynes are going and thorns before thee hearken to stir up   ..... Move as before c. A voice ..... Vpon Monday you shall have the rest Δ. The God of Hosts be praised his name extolled and his verity prevail to the comfort of his Elect. Amen A voice ..... The Eternal God blesse you Δ. Amen Amen Amen Δ. Upon my considering immediately of these Englished Calls and the Angelical Language belonging to them I find that here are but 13 Englished of the 14 which are in the third Cracovien Volume contained and here wanteth the English of the third of those 14. Besides this you may consider that these English Calls keep this order as followeth and to make it a more perfect account from the beginning of the first Call of All being long since Englished and three more Then have we 18 Calls whereof 17 are Englished The total summe from the very beginning The Numbers of the Third Book Cracovien The Englished Calls of this Book 6 2 1 5 1 2 9 5 3 8 4 4 10 6 5 12 8 6 11 7 7 15 11 8 14 10 9 13 9 10 18 14 11 17 13 12 16 12 13 Ergo there lack yet 30 Calls for the 30 Aires c. besides the English of the seventh or third in the third Book contained and so shall there be 48 Calls For the first Table is no Call Although there be letters gathered but made into no words as you may see before the first Call of all Saturday Julii 7. Manè hora 6¼ †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita aliisque tam ad Deum quam ipsum Ave petitionibus requirebam Judicium ipsius Ave de meis tam ad Deum quam bonos ejus angelos factis orationibus Post vix quartam horae partem apparuit Ave. ..... If the words or truth of our testimony and message were or were contained within the capacity of man Then might the Devil thrust in himself and dissemble the Image of Truth But because it is of Truth and of him that beareth testimony of himself it can neither have affinity with the flesh nor be spoken of in this sense Lo thus deceitfully hath the Devil entred into man Δ. Blessed be the Lord of all truth Ave. ..... Therefore seeing the word is not corruptible Those that minister the word cannot dwell in corruption I speak not this without a cause my brethren Δ. I pray you to proceed accordingly that we may know the cause if it be your will or else leaving this Caveat unto us to proceed to the matter wherein we required your helping hand to correct or confirm or to do that which is behooful Ave. ..... For which of you have sought the Lord for the Lord his cause or sake Δ. That God can be judge Ave. ..... Or in which of you hath due obedience either to the word or unto us that are sanctified by the word been faithfully performed Δ. My points of errour and disobedience I beseech you to Notifie that I may amend them Ave. ..... It may be you will say we have laboured and we have watched yea we have called on the name of the Lord. What have you done that you ought not to do yea a thousand times more Δ. We vaunt nothing of any our doings nor challenge any thing by any perfection of our doings Ave. ..... Shall the hireling say I have laboured hard or doth the good servant think he meriteth his wages It is not so But you do so Therefore you are neither worthy of your reward nor the name of faithful servants Δ. No Lord we challenge nothing upon any merits but flie unto thy mercy and that we crave and call for Ave. ..... You do wickedly and injustly yea you credit the Lord as you do your selves your faith is the faith of men and not of the faithful Many things have I said unto you from the beginning saith the God of Justice which you have heard and not believed But you tempt me and provoke me yea you stir me up to be angry with you Δ. If thy Anger shall be on us beside the sorrow of this world tentations of the feind c. Then are we not able to endure ..... Answer not me and hear what the Lord saith unto thee Satan laugheth you to scorn for he saith unto the Lord standing before him Are these they whom thou deliveredst from the perils of the Seas and from the hands of the wicked whom the windes were a comfort to and thy Countenance a Lanthorn But the Lord seemeth not to hear him for he knoweth it is true My brethren you seek the world more than you seek to perform the will of God as though God could not rain Gold and Margarits amongst you As though the breath of God were not able to beat down
I prescribe laws unto them What it pleaseth thee to offer they receive So what it pleaseth them to offer unto me will I also receive Behold I say O Lord If I shall call upon them in thy name Be it unto me in mercy as unto the servant of the Highest Let them also manifest unto me How by what words and at what time I shall call them O Lord Is there any that measure the heavens that is mortal How therefore can the heavens enter into mans imagination Thy Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance Hereby thou glorifiest all things which Glory excelleth and O Lord is far above my understanding It is great wisdom to speak and talke according to understanding with Kings But to command Kings by a subjected commandment is not wisdom unlesse it come from thee Behold Lord How shall I therefore ascend into the heavens The air will not carry me but resi teth my folly I fall down for I am of the earth Therefore O thou very Light and true Comfort that canst and mayst and dost command the heavens Behold 〈◊〉 these Tables unto thee Command them as it pleaseth thee and O you Ministers and true lights of 〈◊〉 Governing this earthly frame and the elements wherein we live Do for me as for the servant of the Lord and unto whom it hath pleased the Lord to talk of you Behold Lord 〈◊〉 hast appointed me 50 times Thrice 50 times will I lift my hands unto thee Be it unto 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee and thy holy Miniters I require nothing but thee and through thee and for thy honour and glory 〈◊〉 I hope I shall be satisfied and shall not die As thou hast promised 〈◊〉 thou gather the clouds together and judge all things when in a moment I shall be changed and dwell with thee for ever These words were thrice a dayes talk betwixt Enoch and God In the end of 50 dayes there appeared unto him which are not now to be manifested nor spoken of he enjoyed the fruit of God his promise and received the benefit of his faith Here may the wise learn wisdom for what doth man that is not corruptible I have not that I may say any more unto you But believe me I have said great things unto you If you will have me hereafter I will come Δ ..... Consider well my words and what 1 have now said unto thee for here thou mayst learn wisdom and also see what thou hast to do Δ. I will if it please you read over some of these Invitations which I have made and written here in this Book Ave. ..... You may not use that word Obedientes Δ. You spake of a first word to call and of a second to constrain Ave. ..... It signifieth it urgeth them more in God I have said Δ. Note what is meant by the name of God that was said to constrain being the second names of two before given E. K. He is gone and all covered with the Curtain Δ. All honour praise and glory all thanks and power is due to our God and King So be it Amen Monday Julii 9. Manè hora 7. three quarters †Cracoviae Orationibus quibusdam finitis ad Deum deinde ad Gabrielem Nalvage c. E. K. As soon as he looked he found the Stone covered with the white Curtain Δ. A pause of a ¼ of an hour In which space I used sundry ejaculations to God and his good Angels Δ. This day was appointed we attend therefore your instructions At length they appeared not but used a voice A voice ..... This day but the Sun declining the fourth hour Δ. Your meaning is that at after noon at 4 of the clock The voice ..... As thou hast written Δ. The will of the Highest be done Amen Monday A Meridie hora 4. Δ. As E. K. was saying to me that he thought that the Angels might tell the certain day and times of things to come and that Angels could now fall no more c. Of such things touching Angels suddenly a voice was heard as followeth A voice ..... Herein will I talk with you my brethren E. K. Gabriel onely appeareth neither Nalvage nor the Table appeareth He sitteth in a Chair and with his fiery Dart. Gabr. ..... The 〈◊〉 inspired with the Holy Ghost were assured of the coming of their Messias of their Christ But what day or in what year was not of mans understanding Christ himself opened unto his Disciples his death and the manner thereof but the day and hour he never disclosed So likewise the Scriptures speak of the coming of Christ but the day and hour the Son of man knoweth not But because in time to come and for this action the message of the highest And assured and infallible Doctrine in respect that God appointed you no certain time is necessary For for this cause you waver my brethren and may lose the benefit of God his favour and mercies O weaklings examine the Prophets look into the doing of the Apostles There alwayes went a promise before the end But the end was the benefit and fruit of the promise Some alleadge Paul some Peter some Daniel But in this case shall you alleadge the sayings of God spoken in the spirit of truth by me Gabriel the servant of the highest God for three causes hideth the end and the very time of his heavenly purposes As after a little silence you shall shortly hear E. K. A cloud covereth him E. K. Now he appeareth again Gab. ..... First by reason of his own inexplicable Est non est esse which is without the circumference strength capable vertue and power of man his intellectuality whereby he appeareth to be verily one God and incomprehensible Secondly because Lucifer with his yea sayers damned justly should never taste of his light nor understand his secret judgements which he would and might do if they were delivered to mans imagination and discourse Because it is within the circumference and compasse of his Creation Consider of these two E. K. Now he is covered in a white Cloud again Δ. The first reason or cause we do not sufficiently understand or conceive Deus est esse Sanctis Deus Non est esse Impiis Deus For In the judgement day God in his son Christ shall shut up his perpetual and everlasting Justice wrath and anger with Hell and damnation Leaving them and forsaking them and in no case to be called their 〈◊〉 Fratres mi non habebunt Deum But they shall be without a guide and without a Centre Hereby you may understand Esse non est esse To the purpose Thirdly that man firmly perswaded of things spoken of by God above his capacity to come and unknown might worthily in the strength of faith and through the effect of his promises merit his favour in Christ and receive eternal salvation justly before God and his Angels These are the three causes Δ. This last
the living God unto whom all things are given in Heaven and in Earth if therefore All be his then he giveth And if you receive it hardly Consider how hardly you ought to deliver it again And if it be a fire reviving the form of all worldly things Then cast it not to Swine neither yet worship it Behold you are men But in having it you must cease to be men for by it you enter upon and into all immortality And by it you sacend into the true knowledg of our fore-fathers and state of Innocency But I hear a voice I will depart and come again E. K. Now all is vanished away Δ We read over the premisses to our comfort and instruction we beseech God to continue his graces and mercies on us and in us to his honour and glory here and for ever E. K. Now he is here again ..... The will of God is upon me and snatcheth me unto other things To morrow in the morning with empty Bellies I will tell you what it is you 〈◊〉 Δ Fiat voluntas Dei ad ejus budem honorem gloriam 〈◊〉 semper Amen ✚ Pragae Anno 1585. January 17. Thursday 〈◊〉 circa horam 8. ½ Oratione 〈◊〉 finita aha brevi ejaculatione pro lumine veritate Dei obtinendis c. Post quartam horae partem venit E. K. Here he is now Δ 〈◊〉 laus honor sit Deo nostro Omnipotenti Amen ..... Honour and thanksgiving with lowd voices be unto our Lord Jesus Δ Amen E. K. Amen E. K. He hath a great heap of earth or little hill natural by him of orange or tawny colour drawing somewhat to a Lion tawny E. K. A Woman commeth and with a spade diggeth about it Now commeth a child a man-child out of a dark place with a fire shovel in his hand The Woman hath taken away all the earth and there appeareth water where the earth was The boy casteth out that Water with the fire shovel The Woman laugheth at that The Woman is in green clothes and the boy in red Now commeth a Woman with child or with a great belly in white clothes she putteth her hand down to the ground and pulleth out a little Glasse full of red oil Now commeth an old man with a Crab-tree staffe on his back his clothes of motly colour This old man taketh the Glasse from the Woman by force with his fist he breaketh the Glasle and all the oil runneth about his arm and out of that oil did seem a Book to come a very little Book ..... Plainer truer or better can nothing be E. K. He said this looking on the Book ..... These four found but none HAD FRUIT but the last Hear and write the mysteries of God with humble hearts not sitting but kneeling before Sanctum Sanctorum Δ I kneeled and so prepared my self to the writing In the Name of Jesus our Redeemer and the Wisdom 〈◊〉 of God Almighty E. K. He kneeleth himself E. K. Now goeth fire out of his mouth streamingly he turneth himself to the 4 parts of the World spouting out or breathing fire vehemently E. K. Now commeth one like an angel hovering over him in the aire and biddeth him Hold up his hand ..... Thou 〈◊〉 swear by heaven and earth and by him that sitteth on the Throne that thou shalt open thy mouth and speak no more then is conteined in this Book E. K. He delivereth him a Book out of his Bosom ..... I have sworn E. K. The Angel is gone Now truly the place is holy E. K. He holdeth the Book in his hand which the Angel gave him The Book is as if it were of Ivory bone The Book is open he looketh on it The letters seem to be blewish ..... There is silence in us and in the heavens E. K. Now all is full of smoak Δ 〈◊〉 paululum tacitus E. K. Now it is clear again ..... He seemeth to read of the Book ..... Take of your Dlasod E. K. The book seemeth to be written in the holy Characters ..... Dlasod dignified E. K. ..... My brother leave off thy childishnesse murmur not thou hindrest me E. K. He is again in a Cloud E. K. Now he is cleer again ..... And Luminus or from due degrees ..... Read it Δ I read it ..... Take off your Dlasod dignified and Luminus or from due degrees E. K. He seemeth to labour much about the reading of it ..... Gather or take fierce degree ..... I feel no power therefore have patience ' ..... Notwithstanding work it diverse dayes multiplying four digestions E. K. Now he is in a Cloud again ..... Pray that it may be given unto me of God ..... And double then Dlasod and thy Rod Inr. It is a word which cannot be sounded ..... Mend it Rlo. Δ Must it be Rlodnr ..... Look about you for Satan would hinder you of Gods benefits ..... Rlodnr ..... Diligently ..... Pray that you may understand Δ We prayed ..... For until thou watch so continuing E. K. A Cloud standeth by him and now commeth before him as other times before and then goeth away from before him again ..... it a holy hour descendeth ..... Note this very well for here you may be cast over shoes E. K ..... This Cloud is in thee Δ VVe had talk of the foresaid Cloud ..... Of every work there ascendeth one Audcal and so every Law Rlodnr E. K. Now he is covered in his vail or cloud again E. K. Prayed a short fervent prayer whereat I rejoyced much E. K. Now there commeth a beam from above into his head as big as my little finger ..... And purpose Dlasod take a swift Image and have the proportion of a most glorious mixture Audcal and also Lulo Continue and by office seek Rnodnr backward by the red digestion But he by the common or red Darr doth gather most ripest work purge the last fortene well fixed Then the four through your Rlodnr I said Roxtan finished more together at the lower body by one degree 〈◊〉 be by you for him hold it for him in one of them E. K. Now helyeth down prostrate ..... Vntil of the last thing E. K. ..... In him become his red and highest degree of his resurrection through coition E. K. Now there commeth a great thing like a fire and covereth him Now sit up Δ We did rise up from kneeling ..... After a while I come again ..... There is the whole work E. K. Here is again ..... Bring forth the book of Enoch ..... Read your lesson ..... Δ I read the former Take off your c. Gather your six words 4 words consist of 6 letters and two of 4. Rlodnr read that in the upper angle descending in the first square It is a great thing to know which is the first table there in Nature Deliver the Book here Δ I gave the Book to E.K. ..... Look where
wicked come not to Coelosyria neither shall they see the beauty of the Phoenices When you have read these things I come again and ponder them well Δ We read them and the places of Esdras one in the second Chapter of the third Book of Esdras and the other in the third and fourth Chapter of the same Book E. K. Now he is here himself alone Michael ..... A Wood grew up and the Trees were young and lo there arose a great Tempest from the North and the Seas threw out the air that had subtilly stoln himself into them and the winds were great and behold there was one Tree which was older then the rest and had grown longer then that which shot up by him This Tree could not be moved with the wind but the Tree that was young was moved to and fro with the Wind and strock himself oftentimes upon the stiff set Tree The Forester came and beheld and said within himself the force of this wind is great see this young Tree beateth himself in peeces against the greater I will go home and will bring my ground instruments and will er adicate him and I will place him further off Then if the winds come be shall have room to move But when he came home the Lord of the Wood seeing him in a readinesse with his Mattock and his spade asked him of his going which told the thing in order to his Master But lo his Master rebuked him and he said thus when the winds are not they increase they are not hurtful one to the other suffer them therefore when the young Tree taketh roots and shall look up unto some years his roots shall link themselves with and uuder the roots of the greater Then though the winds come they shall not be hurtful one to another but shall stand so much the more fast by how much the more they are wrapped together yea when the old tree withereth he shall be a strength unto him and shall adde unto his age as much as he hath added unto his youth And he ceased to dig Be not therefore haled in sunder neither be you offended one at another peradventure Reason would set you aside But God will not Behold if you break the yoke that you are in and runne astray he that erreth shall perish even so shall he that standeth also be desolate For why the driver angry continueth not with one But he shall return home and shall not see the end of the Harvest Love therefore one another and comfort one another for he that comforteth his brother comforteth himself and when one is a weary let the other draw For why you are men and not yet crowned the first is paid so is also the tenth Even so the tree that is grafted beareth fruit sooner then that which groweth of the seed Notwithstanding both have their place in the Orchard the night let that yield unto day and Winter bear rule over Summer Let youth yield unto ripe for years Solomon saith it is good for that young man that obeyeth the counsel of his elder In the Council House the things that they handle are for their Common-wealth Notwithstanding hath his order and degree Cast your eye upon all things and you shall have examples Peter in his vocation preached the same Gospel that the rest of the Apostles did but he was greater then the rest not in respect of his Apostleship nor in respect of feeding but that God might keep his order as the chief amongst them which preferred Peter first Therefore be not stubborn But I command you in the Name of him that sent me and because you have vowed that the one of you did nothing without the others coursel notwithstanding shall you not be two counsellors Therefore in things that are to be done let the Door occupie the superiority The Seer let him see and look after the doings of him that he seeth For you are but one body in this work E. K. He is gone out of sight Δ As concerning my Letters and businesse into England I thought good to ask counsel what I were best to do with the Letters to the Queen and others Michael ..... Gather out of the book of Enoch the Seal and the Angel of thy Countrey deal with him Δ I found a Door in the name due to Britannia Anno 15. Michael ..... Thou shalt easily find the truth by their appearing for the one answereth not unto the others function Hereby must thou do in all Kingdomes and Estates both how and what thou wilt that thou hast not is thy own errour Note ..... Understand me well here When thou wilt have any thing to do in the World in humane affaires seek nothing in Sigillo AEmeth Enoch his Book is a worldly Book Veritas in Coelo Imago veritatis in terra homini Imago imagini respondet Coelestia autem petnntur a Coelo Δ I beseech you Michael ..... Darknesse yeeldeth unto light Falsum quod est veritati malum bono But note in the Book of Enoch there are those that are good there are there also those that are evil the Prince of darknesse is evil And those that are evil there do stand on his side but as his Ministers give place to those that are good so do they also Note ..... But as concerning the manner how to practise that Book I would gladly hear somewhat Michael ..... Sua sunt sua dicunt Δ I understand this to be required at his hands that gave us that Book Michael ..... Polonia te expectat qui EST praecessit Δ As concerning my health helping may I stay here yet 8 dayes and then make speed to be going towards Poland as was prescribed to me Michael ..... Possum tibi concidere dies Septem If thou didst know that which I see thou wouldst not go but thou wouldst runne He that is before is a Gardener and he knoweth the vertue of Herbs But the eighth day I will be there also ..... Where and which eighth day Michael ..... The eighth day hence I will be in Cracovia I have told thee plainly Δ May I then stay well 7 dayes before I set forth on my journey Michael ..... Potes non potes Thou hast thy own judgment granted thee thereby thou maist do it But in respect of the necessity that requireth thee there thou canst not Δ I beseech you not to be offended if I ask the cause of the Lord Lasky silence Δ He stayed long E. K. Why did you not speak now Michael ..... Behold he hath said with him selfe and those that are wicked have whispered unto him surely it seemeth that they despise me and obstinately because he 〈◊〉 not received letters from you he useth this silence Moreover he hath not done as God commanded him But I will give him thee use thou him as thou wilt Δ I render unto thee O most merciful mighty and loving God thanks
honour and glory Amen E. K. The field appeareth a very level ground covered with pretty grass even to the brinks of the ..... It is bright if the Sun light but I see not the Sun but the clear sky over it Δ. Pausa semihora unius E. K. Now cometh the horseman and rideth by into the field and so doth Madimi Now cometh the third and so goeth away into the field Now cometh she that was left here she standeth still she hath a book in her hand covered as it were with Moss three inches at the head and four inches long and a finger thick it hath no Clasps it is plain Pausa The fourth hour after dinner repair hither again And whatsoever you shall reade out of this book receive it kneeling upon your knees and see that you suffer no Creature female to enter within this place Neither shall the things that be opened unto you be revealed unto your wives or unto any Creature as yet for I will lye with you a while and you shall perceive that I am sweet and full of comfort and that the Lord is at hand and that he will shortly visit the earth and all his whole Provinces E. K. She turneth her self into a thousand shapes of all Creatures and now she is come to her own form again She hangeth the Book in the air Give God thanks and so depart Δ. All laud thanks honour and glory be to our God our King and Saviour now and ever Amen 1587. Saturday the same day AFter Dinner about four hours or somewhat less we resorted to the place A voyce to E. K. Kneel toward the East so he kneeled at the table of Covenant with his face toward the East and I at my table opposite to him Δ ..... In the Name of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Amen Recte sapere intellegere doceto nos O Dominus nam sapientia tua totum est quod quaerimus Da verbum tuum in ore nostro sapientum tuam in cordibus nostris fige E. K. The Book remaineth hanging in the ayre A voice ..... Kelly I know it is troublesome for thee to kneel Sit. Pausa magna Δ ..... So E. K. rose from kneeling and did sit ..... E. K. Now she is here that last advertised us She taketh the book and divideth it into two parts and it seemeth to be two books the half cover adjoyning to one and the other half cover belonging to the other the sides with the covers are towards me ..... Wisdome is a pearceing beam which is the center of the spiritual being of the holy Spirit touching from all parts from whence the Divinity sendeth it out and is proper to the soul or unto substances that have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that whatsoever shall have end can never attain unto that which is called Wisdome Neither can things that are subject to the second death receive any such influence because they are already noted and marked with the seat of destruction Happy is he whom God hath made a vessel of salvation for unto him belongeth joy and a crown of reward Adam your forefather and first paren in respect of his creation that is to say in respect of his imaginative composition received no strength but by the Holy Ghost for the soul of man is free from all passions and affections until it enter into the hody unto the which it is limited so that being neither good nor bad but apt unto both he is left by Divine providence and permission joyned together to the end of the one or the other But wheresoever wisdome dwelleth it dwelleth not with the soul as any property thereof but according to the good will of God whose mercy concurreth on every side into him and taketh up a mansion therein to utter out and manifest his great goodness And even as the heavens are glorified continually with the Spirit of God So is the s ul of man glorified that receiveth sanctification thereby for no man is illuminated that is not sanctified neither is there any man perfectly sanctified that is not illuminated I speak this my brethren for that you shall understand That no man did or can ever attain to wisdom that perfect wisdome which I speak of without he become a Center in his soul unto the mercies and good will of God comprehending him and dwelling in him therefore lift up your eyes and see Call your wits together and mark my words To teach you or expound unto you the mysteries of the Books that you have already received is not in my power but in the good will of God after whose Image I am Which good will of God is the descending of his holy Spirit abundantly upon you and into you opening all your senses and making you perfect men for Adam understood by that grace and his eyes were opened so that he saw and know all things that were to his understanding So have all those more and less that have been counted wise received the gifts of the Holy Ghost which setteth the soul on man so on fire that he pierceth into all things and judgeth mightily The Apostles which knew even the thoughts of men understood all things because the holy Spiritamade a dwelling place in them even so shall it happen unto you For you are the chosen of this last dayes an such as shall be full of the blessings of God and his Spirit shall rest with you abundantly Mark therefore what I have to say unto you A hundred dayes are limited unto you during the which time you shall every seventh present your selves in this place and you shall laud and praise God And behold I will be present amongst you And before these dayes pass when power is given me so to do I will enter out of this Stone unto you and you shall eat up these two books both the one and the other and wisdome shall be divided between you sufficient to each man Then shall your eyes be opened to see and understand all such things as have been written unto you and taught you from above But beware ye take heed that you dwell within your selves and keep the secrets of God untill the time come that you shall be bid SPEAK For then shall the Spirit of God be mighty upon you so that it shall be said of you LO were not these the Sorcerers and such as were accounted Vagabonds Other some shall say Behold let us take heed and let us humble our selves before them For the Lord of Hoasts is with them And you shall have power in the Heavens and in the lower bodies And it shall be taught you at all times inwardly even what belongeth to the hearts of men Then shalt thou E. K. have a new coat put on thee and it shall be all of one colour Then shalt thou Δ. also have power to open that book which God hath committed unto thee but
confusion look upon thy Temple and see the desolation thereof And then in thy mercy O shew thy self to be a God and such a merciful Governour as hath compassion upon those that are diseased yea even unto death Grant this Camascheth galsuagath garnastel zurah logaah luseroth Amen Δ. I pray you to declare unto us your name ..... My name is Jubanladace Δ. If I should not offend you I would gladly know of what order you are or how your state is in respect of Michael Gabriel Raphael or Vriel ..... Jub Vnto men according unto their deserts and the first excellency of their Soul God hath appointed a good Governour or Angel from amongst the orders of those that are Blessed For every Soul that is good is not of one and the self same dignification Therefore according to his excellency we are appointed as Ministers from that order whereunto his Excellency accordeth To the intent that he may be brought at last to supply those places which were Glorified by a former And also to the intent that the Prince of Darknesse might be counterpoised in Gods Justice Amongst the which I am one which am the Keeper and Defender of this man present which carry the Triumpt and Ensign of Victories continually before him as a reproach to my adversaries and his and to confirm the dignity whereunto he is called by the presence of this Character E. K. Now he heaveth up the Crosse. ..... I have also sealed the same in his heart For unto him belong great Victories in the name and for the name of his God The Jews in his time shall taste of this Crosse And with this Crosse shall he overcome the Sarazens and Paynims For I will establish one Faith saith the Lord of Justice That I may be known to be the same that I was first among all people Moreover I will open the hearts of all men that he may have free passage through them and will not suffer him to perish with the violence of the wicked I will hereafter visibly appear unto him and will say This is to be done But a year is not yet come and these things shall be finished But thus saith the Lord I have hindred him because he hearkned to the provocation of those that are wanton And hath consented to those that blasphemed my name Bid him look to the steps of his youth and measure the length of his body to the intent he may live better and see himself inwardly Δ. Note At this Instant Tanfeld came rashly upon us into my Study we thinking that the Study door had been shut the Lord Laskie being gone out of my Study the other way through my Oratory to take Tanfelds message from the Court and having dispatched him rested without and Tanfeld having commendations to me as he said from some at London fearing least he should be be sent away by and by without doing these came undiscretly upon us to our no little amazing and great fearing his rash opinion afterward of such things as he could not perceive perfectly what my Companion and I were doing Hereupon Jubanladace gave this sentence or declared this the fatal end of Tanfeld Juban ..... It is said He that entreth in thus rashly Lo five moneths are yet to come and fishes of the Sea shall devour his carkase ..... As before whatsoever he taketh in hand shall prosper for my names sake For thus it is said and these words are the words wherewithal I do annoint him for than the comfort of the Highest there is not a sweeter Inunction Look not for the marveiles of this World as the wicked man in his heart doth but study to please him with whom ye might rejoyce for ever You sons of men What do ye seek after Do ye hunt after the swiftnesse of the winds or are you imagining a form unto the Clouds or go ye forth to hear the braying of an Asse which passeth away with the swiftnesse of the air Seek for true wisdom For it beholdeth the brightest and appeareth unto the lowest Cecill hateth him unto the heart and desireth he were gone hence Many other do privily sting at him I cannot properly say sting him But I say I will pour down my wrath upon them and they shall be confounded in the midst of their own iniquity Let my faithful live and be like the fruitful Vinyard Be it so Δ. For his return homeward What is your advice perhaps he wanteth necessary provision and money Juban ..... He shall be holpen here and elsewhere miraculously I speak as it were to himself Let him go so soon as he can conveniently Δ. I say again perhaps he wanteth money but the Treasures of the Lord are not scant to them whom he favoureth Jub ..... His help shall be strange which hath not been often seen The Queen loveth him faithfully and hath fallen out with Cecil about him Lecester flattereth him His doings are looked into narrowly But I do alwayes inwardly direct him and I will minister such comfort unto him as shall be necessary in the midst of all his doings When this Country shall be invaded then shall you passe into his Country and by this means shall his Kingdom be established again This is more then my duty This is the first time he hath been here and it is wonderful The second coming is not long unto and then shall he be wonderful Destitutus à me premitur à malo He is now destitute of me Δ. Note as soon as he had said this sentence he seemed to sink through the Table like a spark of fire and seemed to make haste to his Charge I mean the Lord Laskie whereby we perceive-the frailty of man to be great when he is Destitute yea but after this manner of this good Angel Benedictum sit nomen Dei nostri nunc in sempiterna saecula Amen Thursday 20 Junii 1583. After Noone Circa 6. Gal. ..... Labour in the writing of this Book diligently See thou cleanse thy self on both sides Be alone while it is done that is to say while thou art in doing it henceforth and till the time come use speech with us no more every seventh day accepted Δ. How shall those dayes be accounted Gal. ..... From Tuesday last Tuesday being the first of the seven and the next Munday the seventh and so forth every Monday is the seventh In a pure action all things ought to be pure Δ. May I be writing every day and at any time when it shall come in my mind Gal. ..... Ever as thou shalt feel me move thee I will stir up thy desire Δ. How shall I do for the letters Shall I simply translate the letter as I find them Gal. ..... I. Δ. The titles of the fides are they to be written onely in the holy Characters Gal. ..... As thou sayest even those words do make the holy that thou callest them holy Δ. I believe verily
that they are holy and sanctified Gal. ..... In the last seven of the 40 dayes the words of this Book shall be distinguished Δ. And accented also Gal. ..... I. Δ. How shall I do for the Tables where certain letters are to be written in all the void places seeing they will not justly agree Gal. ..... There is one superfluous it is to be filled in order as it sheweth Δ. I shall not dare adventure on it without direction when I come to it Gal. ..... Thou shalt want no direction Δ. For the inequality of the first 49 lines I require your advise Gal. .... It is no question Gall. .... Thou beginnest in the world to look up to heaven So was it begun in earth to look up to the doing above The last life is Hotchpotch of the wicked in the World and damned in the Hell E. K. What is a Hotchpotch c. Gal. ..... The greater thy folly is the greater thy wisdom will be hereafter ..... There are the Souls of the wicked and damned in Hell Those that are in the world cannot describe the least joy of those that are in heaven Much lesse those that are ignorant declare the manifest beauty of wisdom There shall come a day with you when you shall rejoyce In the mean season rent your hearts and turn unto the Lord. Δ. Deus in adjutorium nostrum intende Domine ad juvandum me festina Gloria Patri filio S. c. Amen Saturday ante Meridiem Hora 10. Junii 22. Δ. Whiles I was writing certain prayers to good Angels and ad proprios nostros Angelos for A. Lasky there appeared one very big in the aire all in a white Garment full of plaights and tucked up very dubble with a myterlike Attire on his head and a crosse on the forepart of it He willed E. K. to speak to me and to tell me of his being there But he refused and expresly denied it partly by reason Galluah said that he would not deal with us but every seventh day being every Monday till the actions were ended and therefore he supposed this Creature to be an illuder and partly he urged some evident token or proof of their well-meaning towards us in Act c. He went down and still this Creature followed him with a drawn sword requiring him to declare these words to me but E. K. a long while bad him declare them himself unto me if he would and said why should he not c. At length my Companion came appeased and contented to hear what this Creature would say who at length said thus .... The Eagles have food for their young ones by Divine providence and not of themselves Lord let me diminish the power of this wicked spirit that doth so provoke and stirre him to mischief .... If the love of the fathers O God be great towards their Children much greater are thy blessings in those whom thou hast chosen Δ. So O Lord so .... Behold I will draw threds together and make him a Net which shall alwayes be between him and the Adversary neither shall it diminish his understanding from the true sight of me It hath been said The place is holy Write that shall be here spoken with devotion upon thy knees Great is thy name O God and mighty art thou in all thy workings Thy help is strong to those that delight therein O magnified be thy name from generation to generation Oratio Speritu mente dico Sit mihi verus orandi modus nam bonitatem Dei Laudo O Iram Patris meritus sum quia lumen ejus elongatur a me Verum in nomine Christi remissionem delictorum meorum confirmationem in suo Sancto Spiritu exopto Per te Halleluja resurgam me accuso me condemno omnia male feci Omnia per te Pater sunt Paratus esto exaudire Oculos ad Coelos Elevare nolo egestatem quia meam nosti Quid differes Domine Cor meum in melius Confortere Vivus non mortuus sum Igitur Credo in te Exaudi me Antidotum mihi 〈◊〉 monstra quia malum meum agnosco mitte mihi auxilium tuum de sede Majestatis tuae Et per Angelos bonos tuere me Audi Exaudi O tu igitur Angelus meus adfis mihi Defende me nec trade Corpus animam meam in manus inimicorum meorum sed secundum magnam misericordiam Dei per potestatem tibi traditam me protege adsit mecum prudentia tua quâ Diabolum Sathanicam fraudem vincam Adjuva me derelictum Confirma me debilem Cura me sanum sana me aegrotum Mihi esto spiritus super humanam sapientiam Fac me fidelem Operatorem Adduc tecum Angelos de Coelis demissos Sanctos qui me tecum in adversis tueantur ab omni Custodiant malo donec illa hora venerit quam nemo evitare potest Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus Amen Glorifie God ye sons of men and praise him in the midst of your wickednesse For he is a God that sheweth mercie to his people and beholdeth those that are afflicted All honour praise and glory be unto him now and for ever Amen Δ. I beseech you what is your name that this mercie of God may be Recorded to have been bestowed upon us by your ministery .... Gabriel Δ. Shall I signifie to the Polonian Gentleman that we received this .... prayer from you and so make him partner thereof Gabriel .... Do so The help of the Lord is with those that he loveth and so be it Δ. He made the sign of a Crosse over our two heads and so went away Gloria sit in excelsis Deo nostro in terra Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis Amen Saturday Junii 22. a Meridie Circa 6. Δ. Upon the perusing and examining this prayer Gabriel revealed unto us I found certain imperfections and some doubts wherein we thought it good to ask counsel and require Gabriel's advise That the prayer might be perfect as he might well like of to Gods honour and our comforts At the length Nothing appearing to the eye but the noise of a sound about E. K. his head and withall a mighty weight or invisible burden on his right shoulder as he sate in the green Chair by the holy Table or place And unto certain places of the prayer which I noted and repeated those words and answers were by Gabriel given Gab. .... The Preface must be in for if our hearts be not prepared unto prayer our prayers are in vain Quid differs Domine Cor meum in melius Comfortare Per te in nomine tuo resurgam id est Halleluja The first way is more effectual Say Angele mee but the other is more effectual Cura me sanum Regard me and look unto me being whole Δ. As concerning the inscription which I have written before the prayer I would gladly know whether it be to your well liking of
why should he have said which shall be given But here my Brethren in that it was to be given it was to seal the perpetual and everlasting memory thereof unto the destruction of Satan and the comfort of his chosen But in spirit before he had pacified the wrath of his Father Therefore it was given and to be given But unto whom to his Disciples and not unto strangers not unto the Scribes and Pharisees but unto such as did apprehend him by faith Here thou seest that to apprehend by faith is to be comprehended in the love of God But in that Christ said that shall be shed it signified unto the worlds end for his blood is always shed before his father as a satisfaction for the obstinacy and sin of man But the remembrance thereof is the power of doing that he gave to his Disciples which consisteth in Act which must be done in the Church of God yea even unto the end For as God Jesus Chris is said to be a Saviour and anointed so is he an eternal King and a continual Saviour of such as fly unto him conteining in man being dignified through his Godhead the eternal power of presence and Being in all places wheresoever Consider my brethre unto what use should the body of Christ be if the Body it self were not a Sacrament and the holy sign of the peace between God and man Behold it is said unlesse thou eat of the flesh and drink of the blood thou canst not c. If the Disciples did eat the body of Christ Christ ministring himself and standing by not yet crucified why therefore shouldest not thou eat the body of the same Christ which dwelleth in thee and in whom thou hast to dwell But here is to be considered the manner of eating E. K. Now he falleth in ashes again E. K. Now he is up again ..... But at whom shall we learn this manner of cating My brethren of his Disciples For although Christ himself alive visibly and substantially stood beside them and ministred unto them Notwithstanding took bread brake it and gave it unto them saying This is my body They simply did believe it considering and acknowledging his Omnipotency which Peter had grounded in saying 〈◊〉 the Son of the living God If therefore he be acknowledged of us I speak for yo to be the Son of the living God Then must we truly confesse that all things are possible unto him and that by faith we ought to believe the mysteries works and wonders of God Sacramentally opened and to be used for the cure of our own sores He speaketh I know not what nor to whom ..... Read Δ I read But at whom c. And not as the wicked use to do Tie the power and majesty of God and his Omnipotency to the tail or end of reason to be halled as she will If his Apostles have left us examples of belief have taught us how to believe and upon what rock and foundation to fasten our belief Then simply and nakedly follow the steps of true Faith and laying reason aside believe But here note that this Sacrament is to be ministred amongst the Apostles amongst the Ministers and true Servants of God in his Church and not in the temple of the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites and Deceivers which 〈◊〉 they tear Christ Jesus and his body after the frowardnesse of their own sense do eat as Judas did and so perish eternally But I say unto you and teach you that wheresoever in the true Church of God remembrance is made and the use of this Sacrament is celebrated of the true body and blood of Jesus Christ crucified there is also the true body of Christ God and man substantial and bread of eternal comfort and food to such as humbly nakedly and penitently receive it propitiatory for the quick and the dead not unto such as are dead in sin and in hell and out of this life but unto such as are here Sinners and so dead and to be revived For he that dwelleth in Christ is quick because he dwelleth in life and light But he that goeth out of Christ through sin and in whom Christ dwelleth not he is dead For this I have said Δ Lord what shall we say to the Priests when they would have us to acknowledge Transubstantiation c. ..... The bread that was ministred by Christ unto his Disciples was not a figure of his body but his true body So the Minister using the office and person of Christ in office pronouncing the Δ words doth also give unto the people not Bread but the true body But hear me Thou must consider it as a Sacrament and must believe as the Disciples did that it is the true Body of Christ that thou eatest in the form of Bread Δ As concerning under both kinds recieving what is your doctrine ..... Caro sanguis faciunt corpus cosstituunt Δ Then it is no offence to God to receive under one kind onely Δ As concerning the worshipping of it being lifted up by the Priest ..... That by faith in that it is believed to be the true body is also by faith to be worshipped Not in that it hath the shape of bread but that it is the body of Christ. true God and man Δ As concerning also the reserving of it being consecrated what are we to understand ..... Reason hath no place here To them that receive it it is a Sacrament But receiving ceasing the Sacrament ceaseth also Celebrandi accipientibus Sacramentum Sacrificium est 〈◊〉 celebratione nullis accipientibus cessat Sacramentum Sacrificium Nam Sacramentum 〈◊〉 ab institutione modo The mean consisteth in them both ..... To morrow you shall hear more of me in the mean season consider you How merciful God is unto you through me and open this doctrine also unto your wives that they may also know God truly Δ Gloria in 〈◊〉 Deo in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis ✚ Pragae 1585. Januarii 29. Tuesday Manè hora 10½ Orationibus finitis post hesternae actionis lectionem apparuit facie velata ut prius ..... I demonstrated to you yesterday how the visible 〈◊〉 or matter appearing was united and knit unto the visible significated wherein and whereunto I answered in my own form and person for whosoever talketh of God and Christ expounding the Scriptures ought to talk plainly truly and openly that that which they speak may be under stood This is the Office of a Preacher Even so I talking of God and illuminated to this Office for the time was bare because I spake not of my self But the doctrine I taughtyou was true and is worthy to be graved in golden Tables and monumentally to be placed upon the altar wherein man may see as in a glasse How God through his Sacraments and holy institutions sanctifieth regenerateth and purifieth man unto himself Now to the work intended which is called in the
Holy Art Gebofal which is not as the Philosophers have written The first step supernatural but it is the first supernatural step naturally limited unto the 48 Gates of Wisdom where your holy Book beginneth The last is the speaking with God as Moses did which is infinite All the rest have proper limits wherein they are conteined But understand that hoc opus unum receiveth Multiplication and dignification by ascension through all the rest that are limited according to their proper qualities Of this knowledg I have laid a sure foundation have taught what it is and the instrument wherewithal and whereby it is The manner of proceeding and her Basis. So that there wanteth nothing but the simple and easie unknitting of those things that are wrapped not with the bands of it self but with the obscurity and caliginous Cloud of your own ignorance But if the Cloud be in you then by your own help and consent it must be removed Δ By the favour and help of the Highest we trust the Cloud shall be removed ..... Take heed therefore you lift not up your selves in mind presuming against reason whereby you are knit together and the will of God whereby you are taught obedience For pride is hateful before God and to be in love with your selves is the greatest ignorance Shall a dark selter brag or boast of her beauty because she receiveth light and cleernesse by a Candle brought into or shining into her No more canst thou E. K. for the ripennesse of thy wit and understanding is through the presence of us and our illumination But if we depart thou shalt become a dark seller and shall think too well of thy self in vain Matter wanteth amongst you the fire cannot continue but when you bring more Wood you shall have more fire I will not visit you again until the seventh day Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti Sempiterno vero vivo sit omnis Laus Decor Gloria gratiarum actio nunc semper Amen ✚ Pragae February 5. Tuesday Mane horam circiter 10. Δ Orationibus finitis specialiter pro misericordia divina super nos tres A L. E. K. Δ ad ejus honorem laudem gloriam E. K. He is here now Δ Gloria patri c. Wo be unto the World for the hath appeared before the Lord unpure Wo be unto the Sonnes of men for they are the dwelling places of the beast Wo be untothe seed of the earth and unto the seed within her for she is touched with fire from on high and is trod under the feet of the Highest Who is he that girdeth his 〈◊〉 unto him or what is he that is ready for the battel such as have 〈◊〉 the Lord and are run astray and hath placed himself with the scornful Great sorrow is at hand unto all flesh the 〈◊〉 shall be 〈◊〉 down and the streets shall bear 〈◊〉 or them For there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 proclaimed in Heaven and the God of Hosts hath put on his armour and is become a fire of warth Now commeth the time that such as so 〈◊〉 God shall fall down Headlong and such as have been lifted up runne astray and down willfully Happy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that endureth and 〈◊〉 a Labourer before the Lord for he shall enter into his holy 〈◊〉 and had be crowned with the Victory Such as God covered they 〈◊〉 from him yea such as serve at his Tables become his enemies What therefore hall I say I make 〈◊〉 but I reap it not I build but I enjoy not Δ 〈◊〉 to us O God and help our 〈◊〉 purge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and create a clean heart 〈◊〉 c. ..... 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an his heard but he that is 〈◊〉 entreth For into the Sanctuary of the Lord no unclean thing commeth for being cleansed they enter He that is a 〈◊〉 or an Apostle or a 〈◊〉 called by the mouth of the Lord and so seperated from the rest let 〈◊〉 do his duty First that he make himself clean before the Lord And then may he hear and sit in judgment against the impure and unjust and may see the works and wonders of the Lord in his holy place E. K. He is gone Δ After 〈◊〉 we had 〈◊〉 together I fell to this Prayer Δ O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heard our conferences discourses and resolutions O God be our 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 gnances of purposes so as it may appear that thou art the merciful Father the almighty and living God the 〈◊〉 of all things being and that thy promises made in mercy and favour shall not with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be overthrown or hindred Manifest thy power and glory to us herein that thy Prphectes may come to light to the end and purpose thy Wisdom and power may work thy own honor and glory So be it E. K. Now sir where are you ..... Here I am the servant of God 〈◊〉 vestrum 〈◊〉 est hujus negotii minister Alter Puer 〈◊〉 ad unpleat minister ministerium Puer autem humili se ministerio Understand that Δ 〈◊〉 or the old 〈◊〉 told us of a man naked who cloathed himself with leaves and of a child and a 〈◊〉 c. Anno 1584. Aprilis 21. Cracoviae Hear my counsel and follow it Wonderful and great are the secrets and judgments of Gods determinations to come which are all ready leased and 〈◊〉 into your bosome They are great and true and are like unto the Rainbow which the Sunne maketh by the aptnesse of the matter and place that sheweth it self suddenly and many behold it So shall the harvest of this Doctrine when the Vial is runne and the World receiveth disposition shew himself wonderful and terrible to all Nations But if the matter agree not with the weaknesse of your understanding and palpable blindnesse Repine not neither murmur But pray that you may have the spirit of God to understand and that your eyes may be opened The Prophet Δ saw but his boy did not But the Prophet praying the boyes eyes were opened These mysteries are delivered and taught to a Minister apt for them through the Grace and foreknowledg of God wherein ho hath blessed thee d ee Vnto thee is 〈◊〉 the dignity of this mans vessel which ministreth unto thee as a servant He therefore is not part of the labour but part of thy knowledge Kelley True it is that this rain falleth out at thy request But lo thou art let into the garden and art preferred before all others as a gatherer that the wonders of the Lord may be finished in his House Therefore seeing thou art let in as a servant not as a JVDG lay Judgment aside and do thy duty So shall it come to passe that the minister through thee shall be satisfied as through the labour of a necessary and thou through thee satisfied shalt be satisfied also In the mean season gather thy self together fear God truly and humbly go