and preserved But by Truth and Sincerity intending not only Dr. Dee's fidelity in relating what himself believed but also the reality of those things that he speaks of according to his relation his only but great and dreadful error being that he mistook false lying Spirits for Angels of Light the Divel of Hell as we commonly term him for the God of Heaven For the Truth then and Sincerity or Reality of the Relation in this sense I shall first appeal to the Book it self I know it is the fashion of many I will not say that I never did it my self that are buyers of books they will turn five or six leaves if they happen upon somewhat that pleaseth their fancy the book is a good book and when they have bought it it concerneth them to think so because they have paid for it but on the other side if they light upon somewhat that doth not please which may happen in the best they are as ready to condemn and cast away It is very possible that some such buyer lighting upon this and in it upon some places here and there where some odd uncouth things may offer themselves things ridiculous incredible to ordinary sense and construction he may be ready to judge of the whole accordingly But for all this I will in the first place appeal to the book it self but with this respect to the Reader that he will have patience to read in order one fourth part of the book at least before he judge and if by that time he be not convicted he shall have my good will to give it over Not but that all the rest even to the end doth help very well to confirm the truth and reality of the whole Story but because I think there is so much in any fourth part if diligently read and with due consideration that I despair of his assent that is not convicted by it For my part when the book was first communicated unto me by that Right worthy Gentleman who is very studious to purchase and procure such Records and Monuments as may advantage the truth of God all truth is of God and the honour of this Land following therein the example of his noble Progenitor by his very name Sir Robert Cotton known to all the Learned as far as Europe extendeth I read it cursorily because I was quickly convinced in my self that it could be no counterfeit immaginarie businesse and was very desirous to see the end so far as the book did go Afterwards when I understood that the said worthy Gentleman especially as I suppose relying upon my Lord of Armagh's judgment and testimonie which we have before spoken of was willing it should be published and that he had committed the whole business unto me I read it over very exactly and took notes of the most remarkable passages as they appeared unto me truly I was so much confirmed in this first opinion by my second reading that I shall not be afraid to profess that I never gave more credit to any Humane History of former times All things seemed unto me so simply and yet so accurately and with so much confirmation of all manner of circumstances written and delivered that I cannot yet satisfie my self but all judicious Readers will be of my opinion But nevertheless to help them that trust not much to their own judgments let us see what can be said First I would have them that would be further satisfied to read Dr. d ee in that forecited Preface where he doth plead his own cause to acquit himself of that grievous crime and imputation of a Conjurer But that was written I must confess long before his Communication with Spirits yet it is somewhat to know what opinion he had then of them that deal with Divels and evil Spirits But after he was made acquainted and in great dealings with them and had in readiness divers of these his books or others of the same Argument containing their several conferences and communications to shew and the manner of their appearing exactly set down observe I pray with what confidence he did address himself to the greatest and wisest in Europe To Queen Elizabeth often and to her Council as by many places of this Relation doth appear but more particularly by his Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary c. That he did the like to King James and his Councel may easily be gathered by the Records in this Relation of 1607. but much defective But then to the Emperor Rodolphe to Stephen King of Poland and divers other Princes and their Deputies the wisest and learnedst their several Courts did afford for the time the particulars of all which addresses and transactions are very exactly set down in the book Nay such was his confidence that had it not been for the Nuncius Apostolicus his appearing against him at the Emperors Court by order from the Pope he was as by some places may be collected resolved for Rome also not doubting but he should approve himself and his doings to the Pope himself and his Cardinals In all these his addresses and applications being still very ready to impart all things unto them that would entertain them with that respect he thought they deserved yea readily which is very observable even to receive them into this Mystical Society whom he thought worthy and in some capacity to promote the design as de facto he did divers in several places Albertus Alasco Prince Palatine of Polonia Puccius a learned man and Prince Rosemberg in Germany who were long of the Society besides some admitted to some Actions for a while as Stephen King of Poland and some others We will easily grant as elsewhere hath been treated and handled at large that a distempered brain may see yea and hear strange things and entertain them with all possible confidence as real things and yet all but fancy without any real sound or Apparition But these sights and Apparitions that Dr. Dee gives here an account are quite of another nature yea though possibly the Divel might represent divers of these things to the fancy inwardly which appeared outwardly Yet of another nature I say and not without the intervention and operation of Spirits as will easily appear to any man by the particulars Besides the long Speeches Discourses Interlocutions upon all occasions and occurrences in the presence of more then one alwayes and externally audible to different persons for the most part or very frequently That these things could not be the operation of a distempered Fancy will be a sufficient evidence to any rational man Again let his usual preparations and Prayers against an Apparition or Action as he called them his extraordinary prayers upon some extraordinary occasions as upon Edward Kelley his temporary repentance and another for him when he was about to forsake him in Latine a long one Stephen King of Poland being then present And again when his Son Arthur was to be initiated to these Mystical
either of Fact and History or Doctrine in each of them I. Page 1. THe first apparition of Madimi in the shape of a Girle Alb. Lasky his Pedegree This Al. L. whereof more in the Preface being the first designed by the Spirits as a fit Instrument under pretence of godlinesse and reformation to turn all things upside-down in the World But that plot failing then the Emperour of Germany after him Stephen King of Poland after him Prince Rosimberg were thought upon and applications as will be found here made unto them to that end What alterations and destructions of men and kingdoms would have ensued had God given way as in Mahomets case c. may be collected out of sundry passages of this Book II p. 3. Anabaptistical exaggerations of the general wickednesse and a Promise of a general Reformation by A. L. Of Isabel Lister tempted and hidden Treasures III p. 5. Mystical numbers and letters for a Magical Lamin IV ib. Ed. Kelley his rage and fury how reproved and appeased The Book the Scroll and the Powder V p. 9. Great threatnings of future judgements in all places VI p. 10. Divers Apparitions Of good Angels never appearing in the shape of women Trithemius his assertion reproved The Book Divine inspiration See also p. 23. as thou shalt find me to move thee and divers other places promised in the writing and ordering of it ¶ This Book had things succeeded should have been instead of a Bible as the Alcoran and much of the same subject is among the Mahometans See p. 18 20 61. c. A very effectual way to draw people under colour of a New Law new lights and doctrines which Anabaptists have alwayes pretended unto from Heaven VII p. 14. Divers mystical Apparitions and discourses Charles Sled possessed and dispossessed VIII p. 18. The Contents and worthinesse of the Book IX ib. A sudden Sun-shine The Book named Some lines of it Ed. Kelley's pangs and agonies at some Visions before Dr. Dee Good Angels how to be known from evil X p. 20. Promises to A. L. confirmed by an oath Ed. Kelley desirous and ready to raise a Devil by his Art before A. L. but not permitted by Dr. Dee XI p. 22. Apparitions before the Lord Lasky The Devil Prayeth and Anabaptistically bewaileth the wickednesse of the World Of Angel-Guardians Sudden death sentenced against the L. Laskies servant for interrupting though but casually the Action XII p. 23. The Book and divers instructions about the writing of it XIII p. 24. Apparitions in the air Ed. Kelley scandalized and appeased Prayers for him in Latine and English composed by the Spirits XIV p. 25. The Prayer the use and excellency of it XV ib. Apparitions and Prophesies in the presence of the Lord Lasky XVI p. 26. The Book to be written as it is not improbable the Alcoran was by Spirits Some things uttered in Greek of which see in the Preface Ed. Kelley preparing to be gone stayed with the promise of 50 pound yearly XVII p. 28. Divers informations and cautions given by Spirits to Dr. d ee concerning secres enemies at Court c. Strange mysteries concerning Guardian Angels Al. Lasky's Seal XVIII p. 30. New pranks of Kellyes Dr. d ee much perplexed Dr. d ee himself heareth c. More of the L. Laskies Pedegree The mystery of the Trinity Faith Hope and Charity Ed. Kelley 〈◊〉 in shew of many devils XIX p. 33. Dr. d ee and his Company set out of Mortlack in England not far from London for Cracovia in Polonia Their danger and deliverance at Queenbo ough XX ibid 〈◊〉 Apparitions Sermon-like stuff delivered by the Spirits in Latine who tell Dr. Dee that it was they that had preserved him in his late danger ¶ Very likely indeed that they were the immediate cause as of the danger so preservation at that time to have the more hold upon him for the time to come For they tell him often of it afterwards ¶ A continuation of the journey XXI p. 35. Apparitions in the presence of the L. Lasky Most things here in Latine for his sake ¶ A continuation of the journey XXII p. 36. Several Apparitions Some evil spirits he acknowledged appear and blaspheme XXIII p. 39. Sermon-like stuff of mortification c. Dockum in Germany to be destroyed men women and children or saved at Dr. Dees pleasure as his Spirits make him believe ¶ A continuation of the journey XXIV p. 41. Stage-like carriage and speeches such as is seen and heard in Pulpits sometimes of Spirits at which Ed. Kelley is offended how excused Prophesies and threatnings of great woes XXV p. 43. Dr. Dee's several questions of worldly concernments eluded by Sermon-like stuff of Sanctification c. and some idle Apparitions ¶ Anabaptistical Predictions of great Commotions c. and Christs Terrestial kingdom p. 46. ¶ Continuation of the journey XXVI p. 47. Dr. Dee to his great grief and amazement rebuked for his abode and actions in unsanctified places ¶ The constant practice of his spirits when they could not perform what they had promised to make him believe it was for his or some of his companies offences and provocations XXVII p. 49. Glorious Promises made to Dr. Dee His present estate in England not very good He doubteth this present Apparition to be illusions of Devils and is much troubled XXVIII p. 51. Gods Greatnesse Justice c. set out in a prophetical-like stile His Spirit twofold XXIX p. 52. Some spirits tell Dr. Dee all former apparitions were but illusions of evil spirits and he made a fool by them ¶ And all this while he supposeth these to be the temptations of the Devil to make him the more confident at other times when the Devil appeared unto him in a better shape and did most abuse him XXX p. 54. A continuation of the same Project Examples of dangerous iliusions XXXI p. 55. A continuation here also Counsel given to Doctor d ee to burn his blasphemous which he accounted most holy Books ¶ A continuation of the journey XXXII p. 56 The same Project here also The conclusion of this personated temptation by the apparition of better as is supposed spirits XXXIII p. 57. Sermon-like stuff of humility perseverance c. Cabalistical doctrine of emanations c. Alb. Lasky excepted against and some promises revoked XXXIV p. 59. Some places of the Apocalyps and of Esdras applyed to these Actions XXXV p. 60. Esdras again Strange Predictions but Anabaptistical and false of the destruction of Kings and Kingdoms within few years after The New Book to be instead of the Bible See before the contents of the Sixth Action ¶ A continuation of their journey XXXVI p. 62. Apparitions good so esteemed and evil spirits contest Ed. Kelley rebuked for his Magick New Lights of doctrine promised The holy Language not Hebrew and the vertue of it Cabale of nature Christ's Terrestial Kingdom as before XXXVII p. 65. Christ to be revealed Doctor Dee's wife and maid threatned
pretty similitude if true whereof see in the Preface of the Adders dealing with her young Infidelity how great a sin Yet Ed. Kelley still incredulous for all this and very resolute ¶ LXXVI 186. Christ his coming in Triumph c. The Book of Invocation Satans Pretended opposition Some Prophesies Promises and Instructions LXXVII p. 187. Some questions belonging to the Cabale partly eluded partly answered Invocations of good Angels Set Prayers not allowed and why Evil spirits how to be dealt with The Book of Invocations and now Set Prayers allowed of LXXVIII p. 189. Sermon-like stuff of the use of 〈◊〉 c. Some promises to Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley A Progresse in the Cabale of Calls LXXIX p. 195. Doctor Dee and his fellow reproved Doctor Dee with great humility doth answer for himself Enoch the Book delivered unto him the same in substance as this they say by God His Prayer Humility c. LXXX LXXXI p. 197. The spirits appoint their time and appear The precise time of Christs coming and other Prophesies not revealed unto men for three reasons LXXXII LXXXIII p. 198. 199. The spirits c. as before The nineteen Calls and their beginnings LXXXIV p. 200. More Calls and mysteries but not without pretended opposition of wicked spirits Adam's fall The Curse upon it and the effect of it LXXXV p. 206. More Calls and Aires An apparent contradiction observed by Doctor Dee but cunningly evaded by the spirits Doctor Dee his Hymne and spiritual but not from God because not well grounded rejoycing and thank giving His son Roland in great danger LXXXVI p. 210. Doctor Dee's contest with his spirits he asserts his own innocency and to the utmost of his power obedience but is baffled by the spirits Al. L. rejected LXXXVII p. 211. The same contest prosecuted here also with some threatnings ¶ Their coming to Prague ¶ Some Chimical gibbrish fit stuff to amuse unsettled braines found in the house concerning the Philosophers Stone Read there and. si rubeo m. sit nupta m c. ¶ p. 213. Some conjectures and meditations of Doctor Dee's upon some places of Scripture LXXXVIII The VI Viol in the Apocalypse as understood by Doctor Dee A very good blessing pronounced by an evill spirit Divers Woes denounced Somewhat of Doctor Dee's Wife Al. Lasky Doctor Dee sent to Rodolphus Emperour with a message as from God LXXXIX p. 217. The Angelical Book New orders about it Al. Lasky though rejected yet to be great for a while Inspiration promised to Dr. d ee about a Letter to the Emperour ¶ A Copy of the said Letter by inspiration probably enough of spirits as a man may ghuesse by the stuff to the Emperour Secrecy desired XC p. 219. Sermon-like stuff The power of God Several Woes The Trinity c. Dr. d ee not being willing to be put off longer the spirits against their wills make some progresse in the Cabale Doctor Dee in the execution of Gods will to proceed with fury c. XCI p. 222. Doctor Dee sharply reproved by examples out of the Scriptures c. for chusing when it was put to his choice rather present performance than longer delay XCII p. 223. The same matter here also The yeares of Doctor Dee's life 73. and a half which perchance might come very near to the truth if we could certainly know when he died determined Ed. Kelley to die violently and so he did for endeavouring an escape out of prison he brake a leg and died of it as generally reported Doctor Dee doth repent and revoke his choice in very good language had it been upon a good ground ¶ Doctor Dee's Letter to the King of Spain his Agent or Ambassadour with the Emperour about his Letter and means of accesse to the Emperour XCIII Several questions proposed by Doctor Dee The spirits shrewdly put to it about a lye which they had told and yet by the help of Cabalistical querks and distinctions but especially of Anabaptistical infatuations in Doctor Dee they come off with credit In what sense Doctor Dee might truly say That himself had seen whatsoever Ed. Kelley had seen ¶ Doctor Dee his Letter and Present graciously received by the Emperour XCIV p. 228. Apparitions not in the Stone The priviledge of apparition in the Stone The Mysterie of the Trinity Reason an enemy to God to Delusion indeed and wildnesse sound and sober Reason as the spirits would have it The Emperour threatned The names of the spirits now appearing and how to be found in the Cabalistical Tables ¶ Some drunken pranks of Kelley's and why here recorded ¶ A letter of the Spanish Embassadour his Secretary to Doctor Dee whereby he doth signifie the Emperours desire and appointment to have him come to him Octavius Spinola Chamberlain c. brings him to him An account of what was said on both sides Doctor Dee's Monas of which see more in the Preface his Revelations and Visions His Angelical Stone c. ¶ XCV p. 231. Kelly's former miscarriage taken notice of the cause of it It is forgiven Doctor Dee c. Their Office magnified Kingdomes of the Earth to be destroyed Hierusalem restored Christ to Reigne Other Predictions very strange but not true and the certain year Rodolph Emperour to be exalted Stephen King of Poland to be destroyed Enoch's Tables Doctor Dee his Prayer and Kelley's Vow ¶ Doctors Dee's Letter to Octavius Spinola to be communicated to the Emperour but not delivered at that time by reason of the Emperour his absence ¶ XCVI p. 235. Ga. Za. Vaa spirits invited that is called upon by Doctor Dee their answer interpreted by him ¶ The former Letter with some alterations delivered and the Emperours very gracious answer to it by the said Spinola Doctor Curtzius a Doctor of the Laws one of the Emperours Privy Council accounted very Learned appointed by the Emperour to deal with Doctor Dee in his behalf ¶ XCVII p. 237. Doctor Dee asketh counsell of God he thought but first encountereth with Pilosus an evil spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I take it and his temptations Ed. Kelley very penitent still but desirous as unfit to be out of his Office The spirits appear Reconciliation twofold with God with the Church c. Purgatory The body of Christ The case of Rodolph Emperour in case he obey or disobey The spirit of Choice in Doctor Dee explained Doctor Curtz allowed of ¶ p. 239. Doctor Curtz and Doctor Dee after some Complements by Messengers meet Their conference of six hours Doctor Dee's Relation of himself his Studies his Suite and therein though not apprehended by himself his intollerable presumption pride high opinion of himself c. Revelations Books and wonderfull confidence as of most that are so deluded ¶ Ed. Kelley strangely tempted ¶ Doctor Dee's mistrust of Doctor Curtz upon what grounds ¶ XCVIII p. 240. Lying and froward silence not ordinarily expounded Reconciliation to the Church The sin against the Holy Ghost what it is
all men the most vile and contemptible who have been observed to have such dreams oftner then better and wiser men So leaving the businesse undetermined he doth proceed to the consideration of those Prophetick dreams for which some probable reason may be given Yet in the second Chapter he saith directly That though dreams be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet they may be perchance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for such he acknowledges Nature to be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only I will not enquire further into the meaning of these words it is not to be done in few words It plainly appears that nothing troubled him so much for he repeats the objection twice or thrice as that God should be thought to favour either wicked men or fools I wish no worse Doctrine had ever been Printed or Preached concerning God But still let it be remembred that he knew of no Divine Word or Revelation Yet Jul. Scaliger in his Commentaries upon Hypocrates De Insomniis doth wonder that Aristotle should stick so much at this and seems himself to give a reason grounded in Nature Indeed he saith somewhat as to the case of fools and idiots but nothing that I remember that reacheth to wicked men also Let these things be considered and let the Reader judge of how different temper Aristotle was from that of ancient or later Epicures This mention of Aristotle and Plato puts me in mind of Socrates their Master his Familiar Spirit no Shape but a Voice only by which his life and actions were much directed The thing is attested by so many so grave Authors whereof some lived at the very time others not long after or in times not very remote that I know not how it can be questioned by any man Neither indeed is it that I remember by any Heathens or Christians of ancient times and there have been books written of it divers in Greek and Latine whereof some are yet extant But whether it were a good Spirit or an evil some men have doubted and it is free for any man to think what he pleaseth of it For my part I ever had a Reverend opinion of Socrates and do believe if there be no impiety in it as I hope not that he was as among Heathens in some respect a fore-runner of Christ to dispose them the better when the time should come to imbrace and it did it effectually the Gospel Many other Phylosophers that have been of greatest fame were certainly great Magicians as Orpheus Pythagoras Empedocles and the like as by those things that have been written of them by several ancient authors may be collected But above all I give the pre-eminence to Apollonius Thianeus a man of later times and of whom we may speak with more confidence and certainty This was the man whom ancient Heathens very tenacious of their former worship and superstitions did pitch upon to oppose unto Christ. His Life hath been written by divers four of them were joyned together and opposed to the four Gospels and Hierocles a famous Phylosopher of those times made a Collation of his Miracles with those of Christs who was answered by Eusebius yet extant Sure it is they prevailed so much that he was for a long time worshipped by many and in sundry places as a very God yea by some Roman Emperors as we find in History Philostratus hath written his Life in very Elegant stile as Photius judged in 8 books which are extant And though they contain many fabulous things as any man may expect by the undertaking yet have they so much truth and variety of ancient learning that I think they deserve to be better known then commonly they are but cannot be understood I am sure as they should be by any translation either Latine or French that ever I saw For the Paris Edition though it boast of great things as the manner is yet how Tittle was performed may easily appear unto any that will take the pains to compare it with the former edition of Aldus Which I speak not to find fault but because I wish that some able man would undertake the work there is not any book by the Translations yet extant that more needeth it What use Scaliger made of him may appear by his frequent quotations in his Notes upon Eusebius in the History of those times As for Appollonius his Miracles or wonderful Acts which is our businesse here though many things have been added some probably done by Imposture yet I do not see how it can be doubted but he did many strange things by the help of Spirits which things may be judged by due observation of circumstances as for example That being convented before Domitian the Emperor in the presence of many he presently vanished and was seen a great way off at Puteoli I think about the same time That at the very time when Domitian was killed at Rome he spake of it publickly and of the manner of it at Ephesus and so of many others which seem to me as unto most almost unquestionable The greatest wonder to me is that such was his port and outward appearance of Sanctity aud Simplicity that even Christians have thought reverently of him and believed that he did his wonders by the power of God or by secret Philosophy and knowledg of Nature not revealed unto other men So Justine Martyr one of the ancient Fathers of the Church judged of him as is well known Most later Phylosophers that lived about Julians time and before that as also the Emperors themselves many of them were great Magicians and Necromancers as may easily appear partly by their own writings and partly by the History of those times I do very much wonder whether any man being a Scholer and not strongly prepossessed that doth not believe Spirits c. can say that he ever read the books of Tryals and Confessions of Witches and Wizards such I mean as have been written by learned and judicious men Such as for example I account Nichol. Remigius his Demonolatria ex judiciis capitalibus 900 plus minus hominum c. grounded especially upon the Confessions and Condemnations of no lesse then 900 men and women in Lorraine within the compasse of few years That he was a learned man I think no body will deny that hath read him and that he was no very credulous and superstitious man though a Papist that also is most certain and I have wondred at his liberty many times I know not how it is now in those places but by what I have read and heard of the doings of Witches and Sorcerers in Geneva and Savoy in former times I could say somewhat of my self how my life was preserved there very strangely but my witnesses are not and I will not bring their credit in question for such a businesse I am of opinion That he that should have maintained there that there was no such thing as Witches or Spirits c.
would have been thought by most either mad and brain-sick so frequent and visible were the effects to sober eyes or a Witch himself For indeed it is ordinary enough that those that are so really are very willing which deceiveth many to be thought Impostors and there is good reason for it I should sooner suspect him an Impostor that doth professe himself except it be by way of confession as many have done and is ambitious to be counted a Witch or Sorcerer I remember I saw a book some years ago intituled De l'inconstance des mauvais Anges Demons printed at Paris 1612. in quarto and another of the same Author and size intituled L'incredulite mescreauce du sortilege Paris 1642. Strange stories are told there of a Province of France about that time or little before marvellously infested with Witches and Sorcerers insomuch that people did not know one another in some one place in the streets by reason of evil Spirits appearing publickly in the shape of men and that the proceedings of justice which doth not happen often were sometimes disturbed by them I think the Author himself was one that was sent to the place by the King with some authority and to make report But as I do not altogether trust my memory having had but a sight of the books it was at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard So I beseech the Reader not to rest upon this account that I give him upon my best remembrance but to peruse the books himself I am confident he may receive good satisfaction being things that were not done in a corner but very publickly and well attested as I remember However the reader must give me leave though it be not to this purpose lest my silence be drawn to the prejudice of the truth to tell him that I met with one great falshood there concerning my own father of Bl. M. which I have abundantly refuted and all others of that nature when I was yet very young But that as I conceive which in all these stories would most puzzle a rational man is the signes which are set down by many how witches may be known as Teats swimming upon the water dry eyes and the like which things indeed have some ground of truth being limited to particular times and places but are not of general application Mr. Vossius had therefore reason to find fault with Springerus and Bodinus for making that a certain token of a Witch that she cannot weep Who also in the same place doth well except against the tryal of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he calls it commonly purgatio per aquam frigidam condemned by many But he had done well to have limited his exception and to have shewed how and when and how far such observations may be used Forcertainly they are not altogether to be neglected But the reasons of such observations or marks that are given by some are so ridiculous that they would make a sober man that hath not patience enough to ponder all things diligently to suspect all the rest So one tels us That when the Cock croweth the solemn meetings of Witches which opinion perchance may prove ancient enough as we shall shew elsewhere are dissolved and he thinks a reason may be because of the crowing of the Cock in the Gospel when St. Peter denyed Christ. Another tells us That Witches being well beaten trunco vitis with a Vine stick or club Maleficia illata solvere saevillina coguntur have no more force to do hurt or that the party bewitched recovereth And the reason he thinks and yet he no ordinary man neither ex mysterio vini vineae dilectae Deo ex cujus mysterio quotidie Sacramentum Sacrosancti Sanguinis Domini conficitur c. But I shall have a more proper place for the full examination of these things in one of the two Treatises before mentioned It cannot be denyed but this whole businesse of Witches what through ignorance what through malice is very lyable to many mistakes and divers impostures And it were to be wished that in all such Trials some prudent Divines and learned experienced Physicians might be joyned But hence to conclude with Wierius who neverthelesse doth acknowledg Spirits and the Illusions and Apparitions of Divels and their mischievous opperations as much as any and tells as strange things of them and some others that therefore there are no Witches and Sorcerers is as if a man should deny the power of herbs because a thousand things have been written of them of old and are yet daily falsely and superstitiously And indeed it so fell out once in Rome as by Plinie is recorded at large Where when some ascribed such power unto Herbs as though Sun and Moon had been subject unto them the dead might be raised armies vanquished and what not which was not very well relished by many at last came Asclepiades who perswaded men that were very well disposed to be perswaded that all Physical use of Herbs and Simples was a meer cheat and that men were better want them there being other means easier and lesse troublesome to restore health and overcome diseases which he professed to teach and prevailed so far for a while that they were laid aside and a new course of Physick introduced Which for a while as I said so prone are men commonly to entertain new divices gave good content generally It is well observed by Aristotle and I think a great part of humane wisdome dependeth on it that in all things of the world that are commendable as there is somewhat which is true and real so somewhat also which is counterfeit and false There is beauty Natural saith he and there is Artificial beauty by painting and trimming A true sound healthy complexion and that which makes a good shew but is not sound True real gold and silver but divers things also that may be taken for gold and silver at a distance or by them that judge at the outward appearance So true sound Ratiocination and that which seems so to the unlearned or to corrupt judgments though it be very false They that consider well of this may the sooner come to the knowledg of truth in all things Well we go on There was in Aix Aquae Sextiae anciently now Aquensis Civitas in Provence a County of France so called in the year of the Lord 1611. a Romish Priest tryed convicted and by Sentence of the Court or Parliament condemned to be burned alive for abominable practises and horrid things by him upon divers some persons of quality committed with and by the Divel He had long desired it and sought it at last the divel appeared to him in the habit of a Gentleman The story is in divers books French and Latine and translated at that time I believe in divers languages I would goe forty miles with all my heart to meet with that man that could tell me any thing whereby I might but probably be
curiosity to inquire into it any further neither will I think any sober man INstead of other Approbation the Reader besides the judgement of the late Arch-Bishop of Armagh for his Piety and Learning so famous every where spoken of in the Preface first page of it and the judgement of divers others that read the Book Manuscript and wished it printed may consider how sollicitous the Devil hath been when he saw his plots God opposing not likely to take effect that these Mysteries these Papers and Records might not come to light First by p. 418. and p. 431. Doctor Dee's Letter to the Popes Nuncio and some other places of the Book it doth appear that they were all burnt by command though some afterwards upon appearance of better hopes strangely restored again Again Part II p. 21. is that horrible imprecation whereof more in the Table Lastly these remaining Papers and Records here exhibited were under ground God knows how long and since that though carefully preserved were even at the very last when the worthy Owner took care and was at the cost to have them transcribed and so at the last not unluckily I hope for the publick good they fell into my hands M. C. ERRATA Those of the Book MAny will be found in the Book a good part proceeding besides ordinary typographical mistakes even where best care is used from the uncorrectednesse of the Copy which might happen partly through the illegiblenesse of the Original it self in many places and partly from mistakes in the said Original where most legible The cause of which mistakes and miswriting you may find P. I p. 159 l. 20. c. and besides what is there said it may be probably collected from P. II. p. 27. l. 43. and p. 23. l. 20. and some other like places that Ed. Kelley for the most part when he made report to Doctor Dee of voices and speeches such especially as were of some length did not know what he said himself and so might the easier mistake A good part of the Greek P. I. p. 27. was misreported and mistaken as is shewed in the Preface p .... and I believe never throughly understood by Doctor Dee himself It cannot therefore be expected otherwise but that there should be many faults in the writing for which I would not have the innocent the Printers and Correctors I mean to bear more blame than comes to their share Yet however though many most are such those places excepted where the Original was very faulty as may easily be corrected by an ordinary Reader that is conversant in books of all kinds Or if not so easily corrected yet such as will not bereave the Reader of the main sense and matter Some few passages here and there it may be will be found where a reasonable Scholar may be put to it as P. II. p. 9. L 11. alias vobismet ipsis disimperitis which certainly must be read alas vobismet ipsis disruperitis there being a man fest and pertinent allufion in the words to that allegorical 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wing-breeding or bearing of the soul so famous in the Books of Philosophers Platonists especially That very expression is to be found in Plato or Works commonly adscribed unto him not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 onely and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the same in effect but even 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alas confringere as it is here Some such places here and there may be found where the Reader must take some time to consider in what is Latine especially if he think it worth the while I have said as much as I think needful and my leisure will afford me at this time ¶ Since this written observing that p. 403 404. the Latine there in both pages is very full of faults far more there than any where else that I have observed I thought it would not be amisse to correct those two pages The Reader may the better know what he hath to do upon such occasions though I dare say he will not meet with the like again in the whole Book PAge 403. line 3 4. read Cons. in oratione vestrâ r. t. q. capitulâ in q. totius orationis u. est m. Pr. de prophetiarum revelationum cess ib. l. 6 gratum l. 8. Regiae l. 9. intelligitur ib. omnimodae D. pot l. 12. proph scilicet de D. f. l. 14. completam consummatam l. 17. Nam ob hanc causam c. scivisset l. 18. prophetica praecipuus sc. l. 19. Christianos collimatus i 〈◊〉 l. 20. redemptionis humanae consummatum c. l. 21. Nam cum cons. l. 22. deponentes eum de l. 23. ipsemet ch l. 26. Christum incipiens à M. l. 27. interpretabatur l. 28. eosdem repetebat Haec sunt verba quae locutus sum ad vos cum adhue essem vob l. 30 31. nullae ess prophetiae vel revel ipsae se. dicendum c. l. 32. rev sive notabili illâ B. Joannis Ap. l. 33. 〈◊〉 l. 34. Et in vl c ei Ap. sive Revelationis ter eandem u. l. 36. Praeterea quae er l. 28 Actuum l. 〈◊〉 C. l. 39. p ipse dicit si gl l. 42. ne magn revelationum extollat me d. e. m. stimulus c. l. 43. colaphizet Notum m. f. l. 48. Evangelistus l. 50. 〈◊〉 pl. l. 52. scimus jam hac aet l. 53. prophetiae l. 54. u. expressae de m. Divinis Et de locut l. 55 invisibile q. ¶ Page 404. l. 1. quid putandum est Christi t. l. 2. Actuum l. 3 supervenerunt l. 5. quae facta e. s. Claudio ¶ Ad sec. a. l. 6. asseronovit l. 11 12. vere p. r. discr existimetis D. l. 13. secreta valde l. l. 16. nostrarum A. l. 19. actiones Angelorum videl D. b. l. 20 sunt cens l. 26. Sempiterne vere une D. l. 27. admonuisti l. 29. syrtibus m. homicidar l. 30. expedivisti l. 33. agnescimus l. 39. mirificis sitiebas R. l. 34. qui t. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex animo t. s. vir l. 41. obedientiam exhibeam l. 42. notos sustineremus st 43. nostras per 7. m. l. 44. autem tuâ maximâ gratiâ f. l. 45. incolumes 46. n strae o spurcitiis l. 50. fermentanda g. l. 51. quidam propositi nis l. 53. viribus transglutiendo u. l. 54. Mitte ig n. lucem v sempiterne Vive Vere l. 56 vivum esse Me autem l. 57 fidelem tuum sincerum e. servum l. 58. ante m. ¶ In the Margin as I ghuesse In lapide quem Ang. m. adduxit perscripta erat nostra a. cum eodem Some things to be corrected in the Preface the Authour being then in a Journey when it was printed and so his intended re-view being prevented by the quicknesse of the Presse FIrst he desires the Reader to take notice that he finds his Orthographie altered in divers places as Phylosophie and Phylosopher for Philosophie c.
his head and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn and challenged Alexander to fight But Alexander went from him and said Nolo 〈◊〉 Kelleie Nolo Hereupon E. K. took up a stone and threw after him as after a dog and so came into the house again in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander The rage and fury was so great in words and gestures as might plainly prove that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself or of me or his brother c. This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual enemy Satan wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted and almost overcome to my great grief discomfort and most great discredit if it should as the truth was have come to the Emperours understanding except he had known me well c. I was in great doubt how God would take this offence and devised with my self how I might with honesty be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour c. for a time till God redressed it After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse by yeilding much to his humour c. and saying little not long after came my messager from my wise at Cracovia and Hugh my servant with him to my great comfort through her letters and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written About 2 of the clock after Noon came this letter to me of the Emperour his sending for me Nobilis Praeclarissiméque Domine Domine observandissime CAEsar jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum Hero meo ut Dominationem vestram ad se evocaret ad horam secundam qua eam audire cuperet Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis Cubiculis Is enim eam ad Majestatem suam introducet Quod reliquum est me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominationis vestrae 〈◊〉 Arnoldus Vander Boxe Hereupon I went straight up to the Castle and in the Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock and the Chamberlain Octavius Spinola spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window and called him who came up to me and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for He came to me very curteously told me of the Emperours desire to see me and to speak with me So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber and came out again for me and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber and the Privy Chamber where the Emperour sat at a Table with a great Chest and Standish of Silver before him my Monas and Letters by him c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to his father But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian and also unto his Majesty and that the rather because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty He then thanked me for his fathers Book and did affirm that he believed me that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse And of my estemation with the learned of the world he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour and also of my zealous mind towards his grace And commended the Book 〈◊〉 but said that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity and added that the Spanish Embassadour told him that I had somewhat to say unto him Quod esset pro sua utilitate I answered So I have and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no I found that we were alone Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning but for this sorty years continually in sundry manners and in divers Countries with great pain care and cost I had from degree to degree sought to 〈◊〉 the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world And I found at lengh that neither any man living nor any Book I could yet meet withal was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for And therefore I concluded with my self to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things to send me such wisdom as I might know the natures of his creatures and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory And in this purpose made divers assayes and at length it pleased God to send me his 〈◊〉 whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long fervent constant and 〈◊〉 prayer in the cause before specified And that His holy Angels for these two years and a half have used to inform me and have finished such works in my hands to be seen as no mans heart could have wished for so much yea they have brought me a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof c. And that these things be true I protested and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty said I and have a message from him to say unto you and that is this The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me and rebuketh you for your 〈◊〉 If you will hear me and believe me you shall Triumph If you will not hear me The Lord the God that made Heaven and Earth under whom you breath and have your spirit putteth his foot against your breast and will throw you headlong down from your seat Moreover the Lord hath made this Covenant with me by oath that he will do and perform If you will forsake your wickednesse and turn unto him your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become your prisoner Which Devil I did conjecture to be the Great Turk said I This my Commission is from God I feigne nothing neither am I an Hypocrite an Ambitious man or doting or dreaming in this Cause If I speak otherwise then I have just cause I forsake my salvation said I. The Emperour said he did believe me and said that he thought I loved him unfaignedly and said that I should not need so earnest protestations and would not willingly have had me to kneel so often as I did Farther I said His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly
satisfie my desire which was to understand the natures of all his creatures and the best manner how to use them to his divine honor and glory and the comfort of the elect and also to the reproof and confusion of the adversaries of his name and honour And herein I had dealed sundry wayes And at length had found the mercies of God such as to send me the instruction of Michael Gabriel Raphael and Vriel and divers other his good and faithful Messagers such as I had here now brought books about 18 to shew him the manner of their proceeding And that I thought it good to begin at the last book which also concerned most this present Emperour Rodolph And so I did and so by degrees from book to book lightly I gave him a taste or sight of the most part and also let him see the Stone brought me by Angelical ministery c. All things being seen and heard that in six hours I could shew him at length he required of me what conclusion or summary report he should make to the Emperour I answered as he had occasion of the things seen and heard but if he would follow my counsel somewhat expert in these Divine and Angelical doings That his Majesty was to thank God for his great mercies and graces offered and that by me one who most sincerely and faithfully gave his Majesty to understand the will of God herein and that his Majesty was to do as Mary the blessed Virgin did to lay up all these my informations in his heart and to say Ecce servus Domini fiat voluntas tua and so to attend the manner of the Lord his proceeding while he framed his life as it became every Christian to do He said that he would write for his own memories help some short note of his observations of my speeches and things seen and marked and that he would to morrow being Sonday or on Monday if he conveniently could make a report to the Emperour and so with all speed give me to understand further of the Emperour his Majesties will and pleasure Hereupon courteously he brought me down to the street door of his house and I came home after seven of the Clock and an half in the evening The mercies of God be on me and his name be magnified and extolled in this world and for ever Amen Note In the mean space while I was thus occupied with the foresaid Mr. Curtz E. K. was visited at our Lodging with a wicked Tempter who denied any Christ to be and that as the heart received comfort of all the Members of the body So that he who is God of all things received comfort by Angels and other the Members of the world and that I was now with one who would use me like a Serpent with head and tayl compassing my confusion c. he earnestly reviled E. K. in divers manners he said that E. K. should be damned and said moreover that of our practises should never come any fruitfull end c. Δ. The eternal and Almighty God confound the Adversaries of his truth and glory and of his Son Jesus Christ our Redeemer and the Triumphant Conquerour against Hell fin and the Devil Amen PRAGAE On Monday and Tuesday the 17 th and 18 th of September I sent Emericus up to the Castle to listen after answer of that Doctor Curtz his report to the Emperour of that he had perceived by me But on Monday Octavius Spinola had sent into the Town for Emericus and told him that the Emperour had care and desire to understand my doing with the Doctor And therefore asked Emericus if I had been with the Doctor and he affirmed that I had Hereof said he the Emperour will be glad And yet as I began to note Emericus coming on Tuesday in the face of the Doctor in the Ritters stove had not one word spoken to him that either he had spoken to the Emperour or he had not And therefore I suspect that the Doctor dealeth not honestly faithfully or wisely in this so weighty a case And forasmuch as he told me that the Emperour his Majesty was perswaded that he was pious c. perhaps he would be loath now to prefer me to the speech of the Emperour seeing both he himself and the rest of his counsel stood perswaded to the contrary of this King Hereupon this great delay upon sinister report made to the Emperour might follow c. Note Fryday Septemb. 21. Circa horam 10. Ferè Mane †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. were together in my Study earnestly discoursing of Auricular confession publick confession and confessing to God alone and of the Authority of the Church and the manner of the same Authority using to release or retain fins E. K. saw one walk on the Table between him and me Thereupon I framed me to write and note what should be shewed or said E. K. willed me to set down the shew-stone So I did and he looked E. K. I see him here with the Scarf over his head and face untill his waste but I see his hair yellow behinde on his head c. Mitte lucem tuam O Deus varitatem tuam ut ipsae nos ducant ex hac valle miseriae ad montem Sanctum Sion ad coelestia tua Tabernacula Amen Uriel ..... I am Uriel the servant of the most wise mighty and everlasting God which visit you for two causes The first that I may open unto you true and perfect light such as darknesse comprehendeth not infallible and true meat the power and spirit of the everlasting God The second that I may counsel you against the world and teach you to triumph against her frowardnesse For who hath trusted in the Lord and hath been cast down or what is he that hath cried aloud and is not heard Therefore I say unto you Hear my voyce For I am of truth and put against darknesse and in me are published the light and mysteries of the Trinity from time to time and in all ages unto those that fear and obey God Two things there are which are the seals and marks of Satan which bring eternal death and damnation to all such as are noted or burned with them that is to say lying and froward silence Behold the words of Christ unto the subtile your father is a lyar from the beginning and the Devil Hearken unto my voyce He that 1 teacheth false Doctrine openeth 2 his mouth against truth or defiraudeth 3 his brother is a lyar and shall not be forgiven 1. For first he sinneth against his Creator which created all things in truth 2. Secondly he offendeth against the truth and his Redeemer which is the son of God very Christ. 3. Thirdly he offendeth against the spirit of God of the Father and the Son the holy Ghost which shall not be forgiven And therefore doth he incurre the rigour of Gods justice his eternall damnation
of the great actions and divine purposes For the first he declared that he was lineally descended out of the consanguinity of one a Gentleman but unlettred at the first who left his wife children and family in Maiorca and ascended an Hill there and in place solitary remained an 〈◊〉 year and at the years end he came down but so learned and wise that all who knew him before wondred at it And that the same man was called Raymondo Lullio and that he made that which is called the Philosophers Stone as in England said he I understand is good record of it Therefore I see quoth he that it is a truth and possible and as he hath granted the knowledge of it to one man so he may grant it to another c. And as for the other higher matters I perceive that God intendeth some great matter in this world But I am not able to judge or determine of it But I am of this mind wherein I can any way further the service of God I will be ready and obedient c. And as for the Emperours person himself I find him of a good nature curteous and most zealously Catholick yea ready to shed his blood in the cause if opportunity required He understandeth the Latine well and speaketh sufficiently well That is true quoth I for he spake well in Latine to me divers things Moreover said he as concerning you I saw him very well affectionated making great account of your book c. Therefore you are not to regard these Dutch mens ill tongues who hardly can brook any stranger c. Upon farther matter that I had to shew him I offered my ready repair unto him at all times of his good leasure being called or warned And he desirous to see the Stone brought to me by an Angel willed me to come to morrow also to Diner I promised him and so with thanks yielded to his honour I departed toward my Lodging at Bethelem in old Prage The Copy of the foresaid Letter to the Emperour MUltis O Serenissime Caesar permagnis ferè omnium Creaturarum Dei immò 〈◊〉 Dei coelestibus haud paucis mysteriis arcanisque vestrae Caesareae Majestatis jussu per me jam ante quatuordecim dies fideliter sincere diligenter quantum sex horarum fieri poterat spacio declaratis ac manifestatis eidem cui eadem penes me videnda audienda intelligendaque esse voluistis Inde nunc quae sit vestrae Caesareae Majestari simplex tanquam ab aequo rerum AEstimatore facta relatio vel quod cum relatione adjunctum Judicium vel qualis totius processus excogitata censura vel qualis mecum procedendi vobis persuasa cautio vel quale pro Caesarei vestri responsi forma initum captumque consilium Non sum tam immodeste curiosus ut expiscar Neque aliter vel alia ratione de sacrae vestrae Majestatis Caesareae prudenti gratiosa in praemissis Resolutione sum sollicitus quam me fidelem sincerum devotum Dei Omnipotentis in Deo propterque Deum vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestatis servitorem deceat Video tamen me dum nullum adhuc ad praemissa receperim responsum per tam alci silentii quasi stimulum aliquantulum impelli ut secundò vestram Caesaream Majestatem admoneam Ne divinam hane divinitus oblatam Misericordiam tam inexpectatam tam magnam tam inauditam tam admirandam tam multiplicem tam statui Imperatorio Christianaeque Reipublicae necessariam tam certam tam paratam eamque per Dei Omnipotentis Caesareaeque Majestatis vestrae fidelem servitorem re ipsa vobis confirmandam administrandam si sacra vestra Caesarea Majestas voluisset parvi momenti negotium vel inventum aliquod humanum aut fraudem Diabolicam esse fuisse vel fore ullo modo suspicemini vel Credatis Tali enim tam gravi vestrae Caesareae Majestatis errore Omnipotentis Dei incendi posse furorem vehementer vereor ne hanc Dei misericordiam respuentes ejusdem indignantem provocetis vindictam valde metuo Quapropter cum videam Caelum ipsum caelestia talia mysteria non tali tantaeque curae vestrae sacrae Majestati Caesareae adhuc esse quali quantaeque optassem equidem Ego potius quam ut vel Deus hujus suae prius inauditae Misericordiae ultroque vestrae Caesareae Majestati oblatae prorsus nullum penes homines haberet conspicuum judicium argumentum Testimonium vel experimentum Et potius quam mea saepe nominata fidelitas sinceritas Devotio sive votum erga Deum vestram Caesaream Majestatem omni apud posteros nostros careret fide veritatis manifestae robore In Dei Nomine ad ejus laudem honorem gloriam ut vestrae serenissimae Caesareae Majestatis satisfaciam desiderio Heroico De lapide illo Benedicto Philosophorum vocato lapide infallibiliter videndo possidendo utendo Assero vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestati lapidem eundem me auxilio favoreque Divino conficere posse Et propterea Si vestra Caesarea Majestas me velit interim sibi intime charum habere Et si pro dignitate tanti mysterii Beneficii sibi à me liberalissime humillime exhibendi gratiosè me tractare dignabitur Non tamen alio quidem vel altiori me insigniens Titulo quam qui vestrae Caesareae Majestatis Philosopho Mathematico conveniat Hiis literis ore corde polliceor sanctéque coram Deo Omnipotenti voveo Opus illud philosophicum Omuibus suis numeris perfectum in manus vestras Caesareas sine sumptibus vestris ad illud opus perficiendum requirendis ac brevissimo quo fieri poterit tempore Nutu Dei me daturum De aliis praeterea Arcanis adhuc mihi silendum esse video Nunc autem sacrae Caesareae Majestaris vestrae gratiosam liberam constantemque voluntatem in praemissis non aliter nisi ex vestro proprio gratioso ore vel ex vestris Caesareis literis propriis intelligere Cupio Nullum enim jam nosco dignum aptum qui in istis alissque Naturae Artis secretis meus penes vestram Caesaream Majestatem fieri deberet Mercurius Tuesday Septembris 25. Pragae Note I went to Diner to the Spanish Embassadour and carryed with me the Stone brought me by an Angel and the fourth Book wherein the manner of the bringing of it is expressed And also I carried with me Librum Sextum Sanctum Mysticum After Diner when I had shewed him these things his final answer was that verily he took the doing to be by good Angel marry the matters to be too great Therefore said I they are for the service of God and not onely man He said he was a sinner and not worthy to be privy much lesse to be a doer in them Notwithstanding whatsoever he can do therein acceptable to God he would be most obedient thereto
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
Anno 1583. * * Anno 1586. 30 〈◊〉 * Anno 1586. 10 Anno. 〈◊〉 1586. 〈◊〉 4. Fifty 〈◊〉 Pucci infidelitct manifestissima facta Videlicet that is miraculous that Virgo in primo cum viro congressu conciperet Praesumptio * Vide scriptum illius de nostro 〈◊〉 Romano c. I. D. 〈◊〉 4. 12 13. 〈◊〉 23 28 29. Anno 1586. Die 19 Septembris Die Veneris sexti mensis fine a die Veneris ante Pascha à meridie hora 3. 〈◊〉 Locus sanctus contaminatus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 secundus Franciscus Puccius Aprilis 4. Mane circa 8. * Illas cum 12 〈◊〉 illas priores ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Requies cessatio sabbatum c. Sabbath The use of the Powder 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The ounce the half wch W. R. hath is to be multiplied Caesar reddenda quae sunt Caesaris The L. Sobcovitz the Land-Hostmaster Justice against Pople 〈◊〉 The Lord Czotek Schonberg Δ He alludeth to the spies of the holy land for the children of Israel To the question of 〈◊〉 sending to R. spondet Articulo literarum suarum an Caesari ex pulvere aliqua sit danda portio Jane my wife Ed. K. uxor sterilis illi erat †At Mortlake 1583. De Thoma Keleoaegroto Our mutual participating one with another 18 Aprilis futura die Saturni E. K. told me that he had all the Lent praid once a day at the least that he might no more have dealing to skry Arthur d ee pragus ann 1585. Unleast c. The Powder Oratio pro Arthuro qua in exercitiis suis uti debet mysticis Aprilis 16. I. II. III. Thursday a 〈◊〉 circa 3. 〈◊〉 Sight and hearing promised 1587. Saturday Aprilis 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 testimony to be had herein Δ. A 〈◊〉 granted doth not a brogate a Law 〈◊〉 doth 〈◊〉 the force of the law in it self otherwise * Arthur was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and E K. law one in a long white garment 〈◊〉 as though he would 〈◊〉 him He was very sick for the time 〈◊〉 S. Paul 〈◊〉 Good Angels The wisdom of God of us 〈◊〉 comprehensible The 〈◊〉 pillar Unity An offer of every 7th day to be taught the secrets of the books received The holy books delivered Our works to go on The Lord Rosenberg The powder here If Omniareponenda Caesar Papa brevi nos infestabunt denno If 〈◊〉 was the deliverer of the powder to E. K. at the digging in England Note unleast conditionally Q. El. K. Phi. England Fr. Garland Edw. Garland Enochs Tables Antichrist Ely Enoch Johannes 〈◊〉 God our Protector 〈◊〉 Garland into 〈◊〉 Refuse 〈◊〉 home my old 〈◊〉 Ben. About 2 of the clock after midnight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 April 20. Δ. I perceive that commonly one is to be abated of the number * * April 22. at night The women An actiou required by the women Aprilis 24. Friday 〈◊〉 The Law the Gospel Δ. and E. K. a figure of 〈◊〉 people to come Δ. * He answereth to a phrase of my prayer or discourse This doctrin is not to be published to any man Note Un us pastor unum 〈◊〉 Conatus 〈◊〉 Moses Sterilit as Terrae The shew of 4 trees what it meaneth Pectorale cum 〈◊〉 Thummim Num. Our unity of what importance it is est finis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 futurae The ancient token and watchword foreshewed us Arise come and see my judgements Aprilis 18. ann 1587. Aprilis 20. no 〈◊〉 profunda * Before at this mark May 6. Wednesday a Meridie Wednesday morning 〈◊〉 20. 〈◊〉 Christus 〈◊〉 Figuration All things one A Covenant Potentia magna ex deo futura Figures * This was said because I had pawned my soul upon my avouching the spiritual creatures which have dealt with us to be of God and good which my bargain E. K. had by word writing disdainfully charged and of late threatned mewithall The secret servants for God Sapientia potentia in Deo Carpio Friday afternoon about four of the clock Lapi dis sancti restitutio Equus albus Sum. Cherubin The four Δ. E. K. I. K. I. Δ. A blessing for obedience according to faith Preparare nos met debemus Salutatio prima Secrecy from women A book 3 inches Secrecy required 〈◊〉 prope est The book divided Ad 〈◊〉 Dei factus erat The conceiving the exposition of our former books The good will of God Adam his knowledge The Apostles We. An hundred 〈◊〉 limited every 7th day Personal apparition The understanding of such things as have before time been delivered us mystically Silence untill Power to be given us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an 1583 mensis die of his divers spotted 〈◊〉 Note and remember Entrance inthe 4th and 5th heaven Δ O Lord I thank thee that thou hast accepted my patience 〈◊〉 30. The books of Dunstan and the powder Δ. Mense 10. forte mense pro ann erit A Prophesie Mense 13. Poland Mense 16. Bohemia Germania Italia An. 1589. Bohemia Antichristus Untill Revenge 10 Westminster Three Kings in Kings-street 〈◊〉 the 10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 9. John 〈◊〉 Long life Δ Si Deus 〈◊〉 quis contra nos Miracula James A Voice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ Mr. Eccleston Raphael his inferiours The Treasure Raphael his commandment How they will shall yield Δ. By this The Window to be brought in c. 1 2 3 〈◊〉 domum Vid. Arbatel 500. 300. A voice to Bartholomew Note 〈◊〉 Pontoys note
The Order of the Inspirati MAHOMET receives his Law by Inspiration APPOLONI ê° TYANEUS in Domitians tyme Edw Kelly Prophet or Seer to Dr. Dee Roger Bacon an English man PARACELSUS Receits from the Inspiration of Spirits Dr. Dee avoucheth his Stone is brought by Angelicall Ministry A TRUE FAITHFUL RELATION OF What passed for many Yeers Between DR. JOHN d ee A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. ELIZ. and King JAMES their Reignes and SOME SPIRITS TENDING had it Succeeded To a General Alteration of most STATES and KINGDOMES in the World His Private Conferences with RODOLPHE Emperor of Germany STEPHEN K of Poland and divers other PRINCES about it The Particulars of his Cause as it was agitated in the Emperors Court By the POPES Intervention His Banishment and Restoration in part AS ALSO The LETTERS of Sundry Great Men and PRINCES some whereof were present at some of these Conferences and Apparitions of SPIRITS to the said D. d ee OUT OF The Original Copy written with Dr. DEES own Hand Kept in the LIBRARY of Sir THO. COTTON Kt. Baronet WITH A PREFACE Confirming the Reality as to the Point of SPIRITS of This RELATION and shewing the several good USES that a Sober Christian may make of All. BY MERIC CASAUBON D. D. LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell for T. GARTHWAIT and sold at the Little North door of S. Pauls and by other Stationers 1659. MVNIFICENTIA REGIA 1715 GEORGIVS D. G. MAG BR FR. ET HIB REX F. D. PREFACE WHAT is here presented unto thee Christian Reader being a True and Faithful Relation c. as the Title beareth and will be further cleared by this Preface though by the carriage of it in some respects and by the Nature of it too it might be deemed and termed A Work of Darknesse Yet it is no other then what with great tendernesse and circumspection was tendered to men of highest Dignity in Europe Kings and Princes and by all England excepted listned unto for a while with good respect By some gladly embraced and entertained for a long time the Fame whereof being carryed unto Rome it made the Pope to bestir himself not knowing what the event of it might be and how much it might concern him And indeed filled all men Learned and Unlearned in most places with great wonder and astonishment all which things will be shewed and made good to the utmost of what we have said in the Contents of this book by unquestionable Records and evidences And therefore I make no question but there will be men enough found in the world whose curiosity will lead them to Read what I think is not to be parallell'd in that Kind by any book that hath been set out in any Age to read I say though it be to no other end then to satisfie their curiosity But whatsoever other men according to their several inclinations may propose to themselves in the reading of it yet I may and must here professe in the first place in Truth and Sincerity that the end that I propose to my self so far as I have contributed to the Publishing of the Work is not to satisfie curiosity but to do good and promote Religion When we were first acquainted with the Book and were offered the reading of it having but lately been conversant in a Subject of much Affinity to wit of Mistaken Inspiration and Possession through ignorance of Natural causes which labour of ours as it was our aime at the first in publishing of it to do good so we have had good reason since to believe that we did not altogether misse of what we aimed at we could not but gladly accept of it And as we gladly accepted so we read unto the end with equal eagernesse and Alacrity Which when we had done truly it was our Opinion That the Publishing of it could not but be very Seasonable and Useful as against Atheists at all times so in these Times especially when the Spirit of Error and Illusion not in profest Anabaptists only even of the worst kind that former Ages have known and abhorred doth so much prevail but in many also who though they disclaim and detest openly and heartily too I hope most of them the fruits and effects that such causes have produced in others yet ground themselves neverthelesse upon the same principles of Supposed Inspiration and immaginary Revelations and upon that account deem themselves if not the Only yet much better Christians then others And I was much Confirmed in this Judgment when I was told as indeed I was at the first by them that knew very well that the Most Reverend Pious and Learned Archbishop of Armagh lately deceased upon reading of the said book before his death had declared himself to the same purpose and wished it Printed But because it is very possible that every Reader will not at the first be so well able of himself to make that good use by good and Rational Inferences and Observations of this sad Story as is aimed at my chiefest aim in this Preface is to help such And because it is not lesse probable that this Licentious Age will afford very many who with the 〈◊〉 of old that is Jewish Epicures believe no Spirit or Angel or Resurrection who therefore being prepossessed with prejudice when they hear of so many Spirits as are here mentioned and so many strange Apparitions in several Kinds will not only fling back themselves but will be ready to laugh at any other that give any credit to such things Although I will not take upon me to convert any by Reason that are engaged into such an opinion by a wicked life that is Unjust practises Luxurious lewd courses open profanenesse under the name of Wit and Galantry and the like because I think it is very just with God to leave such to the error and blindnesse of their Judgments so that without a Miracle there can be little hopes of such Yet I shall hope that such as are Rational men sober in their Lives and Conversations such as I have known my self yea men of excellent parts in other things men that are both willing to hear and able to consider that such I say may receive some satisfaction by what I shall say and propose to their Ingenuous consideration in this matter Were we to argue the case by Scripture the businesse would soon be at an end there being no one Controverted point among men that I know of that can receive a more Ample Full Clear and speedy determination then this business of Spirits and Witches and Apparitions may if the Word of God might be Judge But I will suppose that I have to do with such who though they do not altogether deny the Word of God yet will not easily however admit of any thing that they think contrary to Reason or at least not to be maintained by Reason I shall therefore forbear all Scripture Proofs and Testimonies in this particular and desire the Christian Reader
say somewhat to the same purpose not of that Author or his book which he judgeth any thing but of the ground upon which he builded which we shall find to be the same upon which others also that deny Spirits have gone upon But we will go Methodically to work and take every thing in order as we have proposed in the objections First We said The world was full of Imposture It is granted of Impostors and Impostures But what then shall the conclusion be That 〈◊〉 there is no truth in the world or at least not to be attained unto by mortal man Truly many books of old have been written to that effect Sextus 〈◊〉 is yet extant a very learned book it cannot be denied and of excellent use for the understanding of ancient Authors Phylosophers especially I could name some Christians also by profession men of great learning that have gone very far that way But this will not be granted by some I am sure that are or have been thought great oppugners of the common opinion about Witches and Spirits some Physicians I mean and Naturalists by their profession But may not we argue as plausibly against that which they professe as they have done or can do against Spirits and Apparitions We would be loath to make so long a digression we have had occasion elsewhere to say somewhat to this purpose and they that will be so curious may see what hath been written by Cornel. Agrippa who is very large upon this subject about it not to name any others It is not yet a full twelve-moneth that a friend of mine a Gentleman of quality brought his Lady to London some 60 miles and upwards from his ordinary dwelling to have the advice of Physicians about his wife a very Virtuous and Religious Lady troubled with a weak stomack and ill digestion which caused 〈◊〉 symptoms I think he had the advice of no lesse then a dozen first and last I am sure he named unto me five or six of the chiefest in Credit and practice that the Town affordeth Not one of them did agree in their opinions either concerning the Cause or the means to be used for a Cure So that the Gentleman went away more unsatisfied then he came What he did I knovv not I knovv vvhat some men vvould have inferred upon this Yet I for my part for the benefit that I have received by it and the effects that I have seen of it both upon my self and others in my life-time upon several occasions where learned Artists not Empiricks have been employed though all the world should be of another opinion I think my self bound to honour as the profession so all Learned Ingenious Professors of it and I make no question but the worst of Agrippa's objections by any man of competent judgment and experience may easily be answered I say therefore that as in other things of the world so in matters of Spirits and Apparitions though lyable to much error and imposture yet it doth not follow but there may be reality of truth and certainty discernable unto them that will take the pains to search things unto the bottom where truth commonly is to be found and are naturally endowed with competent judgments to discern between specious arguments and solidity of truth But this proveth nothing No but the removing of this common objection may dispose the Reader I hope to consider of what we have to say with lesse prejudice And that shall be our next task what we have to say for Spirits c. before we come to particular Objections Wherein neverthelesse I will be no longcr then I must at this time because I shall have a more proper place in two several Tractates the one whereof hath been a long time in loose notes and papers not yet digested to wit my Second Part of Enthusiasme the other in my head yet wholly but in better readinesse to be brought to light because of later conception to wit A Discourse of Credulity and Incredulity in things Natural Civil and Divine or Theological We shall meet there with many cases not so necessary here to be spoken of which will help very much to clear this business ¶ But here I say first of all It is a Maxim of Aristotle's the great Oracle of Nature which many have taken notice of and applyed to their several purposes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That which is generally believed is most likely to be true Who also in another place of the same book doth approve the saying of Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now if any opinion whereof question is made can justly pretend to a general assent and consent of all people places ages of the world I think nay I know and it will be proved that this of Witches Spirits and Apparitions may I do not know scarce any ancient book extant of Philosopher or Historian the Writings of professed Epicureans excepted of Aristotle we shall give an account by and by but doth afford some pregnant relation testimony or passage to the confirmation of this truth I dare say should a man collect the relations and testimonies out of several Authors and books that are come to our knowledge within the compasse of two thousand years of Authors well accounted of generally and vvhose testimonies Historians especially vve receive in other things a man might make a book of the biggest size and form that ordinary books vvhich vve call Folioes are It is true many Authors may vvrite one thing vvhich may prove false as the famous history of the Phenix perchance or some such but upon examination it vvill appear that those many take all from one or tvvo at the most vvho first delivered it They add nothing in confirmation of their ovvn knovvledg or experience But here it is quite othervvise those many Authors that I speak of Historians especially of several ages they tell us different things that hapned in their own times in divers places of the world and of many of them we may say they were such as knew little of former books or stories of other Nations but their own Within these 200 years the world we know by the benefit of Navigation hath been more open and known then before yea a great part of the world discovered that was not known before I have read many books the best I could meet with in several Languages of divers Voyages into all parts of the world I have conversed with many Travellers whom I judged sober and discreet I never read any book of that argument nor yet met with man that I have had the opportunity to confer with but was able of his own knowledg to say somewhat whereby my belief of these things might be confirmed Now for the Epicureans of all Philosophers the most inconsiderable in matters of knowledg as former ages have described them no man need to wonder if they denyed those things which by the solemn engagement of their Sect they were bound and resolved notwithstanding
be thought to defend the opinion of Aristotle herein I could say somewhat of ancienter Physicianstoo and give some account of those many Spels and Charmes that are in Trallienus in all his books an ancicnt Physician in high esteeme with some eminent Physicians of these late times as they themselves have told me though not for his Charms but for his other learning and excellent experience which they had found good use of But this I reserve for another place work And this mention of that eminent Physician who commended Trallienus unto me puts me in mind of what he imparted himself not long before his death of his own knowledge and experience and particularly of the 〈◊〉 he gave me of the examination of a Conjurer in Salisbury at which he said none were present but King James of most Blessed Memory the Duke of Buckingham and himself It is likely some others may have heard the same and I had rather any body should tell it then I who was then a patient under him and 〈◊〉 not were I put to it trust to my memory for every circumstance Hitherto I have gone by Authorities rather then Arguments partly because I thought that the 〈◊〉 and the clearest way for every bodies capacity and partly because such Arguments if any besides these we have here as have been used against this opinion may be found fully answered in those I have cited The truth is it is a Subject of that nature as doth not admit of many Arguments such especially as may pretend to subtilty of Reason Sight Sense and Experience upon which most Humane Knowledge is grounded generally approved and certain is our best Argument But before I give over I will use one Argument which perchance may prove of some force and validity and that is A consideration of the strange shifts and evasions and notorious absurdities that these men are put to who not being able to deny the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or matter of Fact would seem to say somewhat rather then to acknowledg Spirits and Divels and Witchcraft Pomponatius who hath not heard of I once had the book I know not now what is become of it But I remember well I never was more weary of reading then when I read him nothing that ever I read or heard of Legends and old womans tales did seem to me more groundlesse and incredible But because those men bear themselves very much upon the power of imagination which indeed is very great and doth produce strange effects I shall commend to the sober Reader that hath not yet met with him Tho. Eienus his Learned Tractat De Viribus Imaginationis a very Rational and Philosophical discourse Of their miserable shifts and evasions in general the Author or Observator rather of Musaeum Veronense before quoted will give you a good account I have at this present in my hands the writings of a Physician Augerius Ferrerius by name What he was for a Physician I know not all I doubt of that profession will not allow very well of his Preface to his Castigationes Practicae Medicinae whatever they think of the Castigationes themselves But in general his Stile and various reading and knowledge of good Authors speak him a Learned man sufficiently Thuanus in his History gives him a most ample Elogium and makes him to have been Jul. C. Scaliger his intimate acquaintance and much respected by him But I doubt whether Thuanus had ever seen this book of his it doth not appear by that Elogium that he had Well this Learned man in his Chapter De Homerica so he calls it Medicatione where he treats of cures done by Charms and Spels by Words and Characters which others impute commonly to Witchcraft first for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he doth not deny it Nam iis quae senfibus exposita sunt contravenire sani 〈◊〉 non est He thinks them little better then mad men that will deny that which is approved by so visible experience Yet it seems he was one of them that did not believe or would not believe though he doth not say so positively Spirits and Witches and Supernatural Operations What then he plainly maintaineth and argueth it though he quote no Gospel for it that such is the nature of the Soul of man if he know how to use it that by a strong faith and confidence it may work any miracle without a miracle Verum confidentia illa ac firma persuasio that you may have some of his words if you have not the book comparatur indoctis animis per opinionem quam de Caracteribus sacris verbis conceperunt Doctis rerum intelligentiam habentibus nihil opus est externi sed cognitâ vi animi per eam miracula edere possunt c. And again alittle after Doctus veró sibi constans solo verbo sanabit I do not hence conclude that this Ferrerius though he speak as though he were and names no body else that he was the first or only that hath been of this opinion Avicenne the Arab was the first as I take it that set it on foot some others have followed him in it But since these men acknowledg the strange effects that others deny let the sober Reader judge whether of the two more likely to grant Spirits and Divels or to make the Soul of man of every man naturally either a God or a Divel But let men take heed how they attempt to do Miracles by their strong faith and confidence for that is the ready way to bring the Divel unto them and that is it which hath made many Witches and Sorcerers As for that Faith whereby men did work Miracles in the Primitive times spoken of in the Gospel commonly called The Faith of Miracles that is quite another thing which I shall not need to speak of in this place Of a strong confidence in God even in them that are not otherwise very godly whether it may not according to Gods first order and appointment produce sometimes some strange effects we have had a consideration elsewhere where we treat of Precatorie Enthusiasm But this also is quite another thing as may appear by what we have written of it But to conclude this part upon due consideration of the premises and what else I have in readinesse upon the same Subject if God give me life and health I cannot satisfie my self how any Learned man sober and rational can entertain such an opinion simply and seriously That there be no Divels nor Spirits c. But upon this account which I give my self leaving all men to their own judgments herein that if there be any such truly and really it must needs be because being at first prepossessed upon some plausible ground and being afterwards taken up with other thoughts and employments they are more willing to stick to their former opinion without further trouble then to take the pains to seek further 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as
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
what became of it would be known if by any means it might All that we are able to say of it is this It was a stone in which and out of which by persons that were qualified for it and admitted to the sight of it all Shapes and Figures mentioned in every Action were seen and voices heard The form of it 〈◊〉 round as appeareth by some course representations of it in the Margins as pag. 395. 399. b. 413 b. and it seems to have been of a pretty bigness It seems it was most like unto Cry al 〈◊〉 is called sometimes as pag. 80. Inspecto Chrystallo and page 177. b. nihil visibile apparuit in Chrystallo Sacrato praeter ipsius crystalli visibili formam 〈◊〉 very body knows by common experience that smooth things are fittest for representations as Glasses and the like but ordinarily such things onely are represented as stand opposite and are visible in their substance But it is a secret of Magick which happily may be grounded in part at least upon some natural reason not known unto us to represent Objects externally not visible in smooth things And Roger Bacon alias Bacun in a Manuscriptinscribed De dictis factis falsorum Mathematicorum Daemonum communicated unto me by my I earned and much esteemed Friend Dr. Windett Professor of Physick in London hath an Observation to that purpose in these words Hiis Mathematicis in malitia suâ completis apparent Daemones sensibilitur in formâ humanâ aliis formis variis dicunt faciunt multa eis mirabilia secundum quod Deus permittit Aliquando apparent imaginarie ut in ung ue pueri virginis carminati in pelvibus ensibus in spathula arietis secundum modum eorum consecratis in caeteris rebus politic Daemones ostendunt eis omnia quae petunt secundum quod Deus permittit Vnde pueri sic inspicientes res politas vident imaginariè res furtivè acceptas ad quem locum deportatae sunt quae personae asportaverunt sic de aliis multis daemones apparentes omnia haec illis ostendunt Joach Camerarius that worthy man before spoken of in his Proemium to Plutarch De Oraeulis c. hath a strange Story upon the credit of a friend of his whom he much respected as himself professeth for his Piety and Wisdom A Gentleman of Norimberg had a Crystal how he came by it is there to be read which had this vertue Si qua de re certior fieri vellet c. if he desired to know any thing past or future that concerned him yea or any other in most things let a young Boy Castum one that was not yet of Age c. look into it be should first see a man in it so and so apparelled and afterwards what he desired No other but a Boy so qualified could see any thing in it This Crystal became very famous in those parts yea some learned men came to it to be satisfied in doubtful points and had their questions resolved Yet at last as well it deserved it was broken in pieces by Camerarius his Friend Many such 〈◊〉 are to be found of Magical Stones and Crystals And though Fernelius De abditis rerum causis and after him as I remember one in worth and esteem of all men not inferior to Fernelius Dr. Harvey lately deceased turns the relation of a strange stone brought to one of the late Kings of France into an Allegory or Physical explication of the power and proprieties of the Element of Fire yet I am not satisfied but that the relation might be literally true For so it is as I remember here also for I have none of those Books by me at this time related by Thuanus and so by some others very learned understood Now for the maner how he came by it the particulars of the story cannot be had by this here preserved but onely this in general That it was brought unto him by some whom he thought to be Angels So we finde him telling the Emperor That the Angels of God had brought to him a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthiness as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof Page 272. in his conference with Dr. Curts appointed by the Emperor to treat with him and also let him see the stone brought me by Angelical Ministery And we finde this Note recorded Prague Tuesday 25 Septembris I went to Dinner to the Spanish Ambassador and carried with me the Stone brought me by an Angel and the fourth Book wherein the maner of the bringing of it is expressed And for the use of the Stone besides what hath been said this is observable Some Spirits being in sight of E. K. out of the Stone Dr. Dee would have the Stone brought forth but E. K. said He had rather see them thus out of the Stone to which the Doctor replies That in the Stone they had warrant that no wicked Spirits should enter but without the Stone illuders might deal with them unless God prevented it c. From which passage also we may learn as from divers others in the Book that although the stone as we said before was the place in which and out of which ordinarily most Apparitions were framed yet it was not so always For we shall meet with divers things in that kinde that were seen and heard without any reference to the Stone From the same place also we may learn that the said Stone was the same he also called the Shew-stone as in many places besides However it is certain enough that he had more Stones then one which he accounted sacred observe Principal Stone and this other Stone first Sanctified Stone usual Shew-stone and Holy-stone may be thought opposed and different but I understand it otherwise This is the account we can give of this principal Holy-Stone And to supply the defect of the maner how it was brought to him the Reader if he please may finde some satisfaction if he read the maner how it was taken away and restored very particularly set down as before upon another occasion was observed Besides this Stone or Stones there are divers other sacred things mentioned that belonged to this personated Sanctuary but nothing more frequently mentioned then Curtains a Curtain or Vail as it is sometimes called A man would think at first perchance that it was somewhat outward but it will be found otherwise it was seen in the Stone and appeared of different forms and colours as they that read will quickly finde Next unto these the Holy Table is chiefly considerable ordering of it is referred to Dr. d ee which he durst not take upon himself until he had warrant from his Spiritual Teachers This Table which may well be called Magical is preserved and to be seen in Sir Thomas Cottons Library from whence we had the rest and by his leave is here represented in a brass Cut mention is
made of it as I take it where Dr. Dee proposeth to his Teachers Whether the Table for the middle cross of uniting the 4 principal parts be made perfect or no You may see more of it it is also called League Table Table of Covenant mens a foederis in some places The Pedestal of it is mentioned in two or three places and indeed a very curious Frame belonging unto it yet to be seen in the said Library But I know not what to make of that neither Nalu nor the Table appeareth and the round Table or Globe appeared not I believe it must be understood of somewhat that had appeared before in the stone The Reader that will be so curious by careful reading may soon finde it out I was not willing to bestow too much time upon it But here remaineth a main business whereof we are to give an account to the Reader There were many Tables or Schemes at the end of the Book containing Letters a. b. c. c. disposed into little squares with an Inscription over each Table in that unknown Character before spoken of expressed in usual Letters how it should be read There is one for a Specimen here at the end of the Preface the rest were omitted because it was judged needless except it were to increase the price of the Printed book For first Dr. d ee himself though he took a great deal of pains to understand the Mystery of them and had great hopes given him from time to time to reap the benefit himself complains of it in more then one place of his toilsome work and long patience yet it never came to any thing and if he made nothing of them to benefit himself thereby what hopes had we Besides we may judge of these Tables and all this mystery of Letters by what we have seen in others of the same kinde Johannes Trithemius was a man that was supposed by most to have dealt vvith Spirits a long time and to have been instructed by them in some of those secrets that he pretends unto by his Books I know some have thought him innocent or at least have attempted to justifie him Some affect such things to shew 〈◊〉 wit and think they shall be thought much wiser then other men if they contradict received 〈◊〉 though their vanity and strong conceit of their own parts be their chief if not onely ground Learned and Judicious 〈◊〉 Vossius hath shewed himself very willing to think the best of him and his Books yet he gives it over at last and rather concludes on the contrary They that dare defend Apollonius the greatest upholder of Ethnicism that ever was and by most 〈◊〉 accounted either a God or a Magician need not stick at any thing in this kinde But say he was what any man will have of him Frithemius we speak of his Polygraphy he set out in his life time dedicated to the then Emperor He tells the World of the greatest wonders to be done by it that ever were heard of All Wisdom and Arts all Languages Eloquence and what not included in it But I never heard of any man that could make any thing of it or reaped any benefit in any kinde 〈◊〉 I think is the reason that his Steganography 〈◊〉 and prom sed in this first work was so long after his death before it was Printed It was expected it would have given some light to the first but neither of that nor of this latter could ever any thing that ever I could hear bemade by any man I have good ground for what I say For besides what others have acknowledged I finde learned Viginaire who in his old age was 〈◊〉 himself very Cabalistical or it may be had some disposition that way though very learned otherwise from his natural temper as much grounded in that book as any man before him He doth plainly profess he could make nothing of it And truly if he could not that had bestowed so much time and pains in those unprofitable studies I see little hopes that any man 〈◊〉 should It would make a man almost hate Learning to see what dotage even the 〈◊〉 learned are subject unto I could bless them that know but little so 〈◊〉 knew it is but little that they know and were 〈◊〉 But it 〈◊〉 falls out otherwise that they that know but little think that little to be much and are very proud of it whereas much knowledge or to speak properly more knowledge f well used hath this advantage that it 〈◊〉 men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their ignorance The reading of Vigenaires book of Cyphers which I once thought a rare piece as many other things of the same Author which I had read hath expressed these words from me in this place and because thath so much affinity with our present Theme I was the bolder But to return Upon this consideration the Reader I hope will not be sorry the rest of the Tables being many in number were omitted Though I must adde withal had I known or thought any use could be made of them having no better opinion of the Author him or them I mean from whom Dr. d ee had them I should not have been very forward to have had a hand in their coming abroad I should have told the Reader before but it may do well enough here that besides the particulars before specified there were other things that belonged to this holy Furniture as Dr. d ee somewhere doth speak whereof mention is made in some places as Carpet Candlestick Taper Table-Cloth Cushion and some others perchance But I know nothing needs be observed upon any of these I make no question but the Divel in all these things had a respect to the Ceremonial Law especially as also in those words Move not for the place is holy often repeated which are also elsewhere expounded The Interlocutors in all this relation are Δ. that is Dr. Dee and E. K. that is Edw. Kelley and the Spirits to the number of some twenty or thereabouts so many named Madini Esemeli Merifri At h Galuah Il Jubenladece Gabriel Jam Moreorgran Aph Lasben Uriel Naluage Mapsama Aue Ilemese Gaza Vaa Leveanael Ben at least but whether all Interlocutors I know not because I do not remember neither doth it much concern There be divers marginal Notes and Observations which being of Dr. Dee his own are for the most part not inconsiderable and some very remarkable all therefore here exhibited but whereas in some places he had attempted to represent the apparition or some part of it in Figures also this being done but sometimes and in case it had been done oftner except it were to satisfie the childish humor of many Buyers of Books in this Age when because they buy not to read must have somewhat to look upon whence it comes to pass that much trash doth pass for good ware for the trimming sake and on the contrary of little use no notice is taken of it except some
of my most humble and 〈◊〉 supplicat on exhibited unto her most Excellent Majesty at Hampton Court An 1592. Novemb. 9. Thus therefore as followeth is the said 6. Chapter there recorded ¶ My labours and pains bestowed at divers times to pleasure my native Countrey by writing of sundry BOOKS and Treatises some in Latine some in English and some of them written at her Majesties commandement Of which BOOKS and Treatises some are printed and some unprinted The printed BOOKS and Treatises are these following 1. PRopaedeumata Aphoristica De praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae vir tutibus Aphorismi 120. Anno. 1558. 2. Monas Hieroglyphica Mathematicè Anagogicéque explicata ad Maximisianum Dei gratia Romanorum Bohemiae Hungariae Regem sapientissimum Anno 1564. 3. Epistola ad eximium Ducis Vrbini Mathematicum Fredaricum Commandinum praefixa libello Machometi Bagdedini De superficierum Divisionibus edito in lucem opera mea ejusdem Commandini Vrbinatis Impressa Pisauri Anno 1570. 4. The Brytish Monarchy otherwise called the Petty Navy Royall for the politique security abundant wealth and the triumphant state of this Kingdome with Gods favour procuring Anno 1576. 5. My Mathematicall preface annexed to Euclide by the right worshipfull Sir Henry Billingsley Knight in the English language first published written at the earnest request of sundry right worshipfull Knights and other very well learned men Wherein are many Arts of me wholy invented by name definition propriety and use more then either the Graecian or Roman Mathematicians have left to our knowledge Anno 1570. 6. My divers and many Annotations and Inventions Mathematicall added in sundry places of the foresaid English Euclide after the tenth Book of the same Anno 1570. 7. Epistola prefixa Ephemeridibus Johannis Felde Angli cui rationem declaraveram Ephemerides conscribendi Anno 1557. 8. Paralaticae Commentationis Praxeosque Nucleus quidam Anno 1573. The unprinted Books and Treatises are these some perfectly finished and some yet unfinished 9. THe first great volume of Famous and rich Discoveries wherein also is the History of King Solomon every three years his Ophirian Voyage The Originals of Presbyter Joannes and of the first great Cham and his successors for many years following The description of divers wonderfull Isles in the Northern Scythian Tartarian and the other most Northern Seas and neere under the North Pole by Record written above 1200. years since with divers other rarities Anno 1576. 10. The Brytish Complement of the perfect Art of Navigation A great volume in which are contained our Queen Elizabeth her Arithmeticall Tables Gubernautick for Navigation by the Paradoxall compasse of me invented anno 〈◊〉 and Navigation by great Circles and for longitudes and latitudes and the variation of the compasse finding most easily and speedily yea if need be in one minute of time and sometime without sight of Sun Moon or Star with many other new and needfull inventions Gubernautick Anno 1576. 11. Her Majesties Title Royall to many forrain Countries Kingdomes and Provinces by good testimony and sufficient proof recorded and in 12. Velum Skins of Parchment faire written for her Majesties use and at her Majesties commandement Anno 1578. 12. De 〈◊〉 Nomine Authoritate Potentia dedicated to her Majestie Anno 1579. 13. Prolegomena Dictata Parisiensia in Euclidis Elementorum Geometricorum librum primum secundum in Collegio Rhemensi An. 1550. 14. De usu Globi Coelestis ad Regem Edoardum sextum An. 1550. 15. The Art of Logick in English Anno 1547. 16. The 13. Sophisticall Fallacians with their discoveries written in English meter Anno. 1548. 17. Mercurius Coelestis libri 24. written at Lovayn An. 1549. 18. De Nubium Solis Lunae ac reliquorum Planetarum immò ipfius stelliferi Coeli ab infimo Terrae Centro distantiis mutuisque intervallis eorundem omnium Magnitudine liber 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Edoardum Sextum Angliae Regem Anno 1551. 19. Aphorismi Astrologici 300. Anno 1553. 20. The true cause and account not vulgar of Floods and Ebbs written at the request of the Right Honourable Lady Lady Jane Dutchesse of Northumberland Anno 1553. 21. The Philosophicall and Poeticall Originall occasions of the Configurations and names of the heavenly Asterismes written at the request of the same Dutchess Anno 1553. 22. The Astronomicall Logisticall rules and Canons to calculate the Ephemerides by and other necessary Accounts of heavenly motions written at the request and for the use of that excellent Mechanicien Master Richard Chancelor at his last voyage into Moschovia Anno 1553. 23. De Acribologia Mathematica volumen magnum sexdecim continens libros Anno 1555. 24. Inventum Mechanicum Paradoxum De nova ratione delineandi Circumferentiam Circularem unde valde rara alia excogitari perficique poterunt problemata Anno 1556. 25. De speculis Comburentibus libri sex Anno 1557. 26. De Perspectiva illa qua peritissimi utuntur Pictores Anno 1557. 27. Speculum unitatis sive Apologia pro Fratre Rogerio Bachone Anglo in qua docetur nihil illum per Daemoniorum fecisse auxilia sed philosophum fuisse maximum naturaliterque modis homini Christiano licitis maximas fecisse res quas indoctum solet vulgus in Daemoniorum referre facinora Anno 1557. 28. De Annuli Astronimici multiplici usu lib. 2. Anno 1557. 29. Trochillica Inventa lib. 2. Anno 1558. 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 3. Anno 1558. 31. De tertia praecipua Perspectivae parte quae de Radiorum fractione tractat lib. 3. Anno 1559. 32. De Itinere subterraneo lib. 2. Anno 1560. 33. De Triangulorum rectilineorum Areis lib. 3. demonstrati ad exeltissimum Mathematicum Petrum Nonium conscripti Anno 1560. 34. Cabalae Hebraicae compendiosa tabella Anno 1562. 35. Reipublicae Britanicae Synopsis in English Anno 1565. 36. De Trigono Circinóque Analogico Opusculum Mathematicum Mechanicum lib. 4. Anno 1565. 37. De stella admiranda in Cassiopeae Asterismo coelitùs demissa ad orbem usque Veneris Iterumque in Coeli penetralia perpendiculariter retracta post decimum sextum suae apparitionis mensem An. 1573. 38. Hipparchus Redivivus Tractatulus Anno 1573. 39. De unico Mago triplici Herode eóque Antichristiano An. 1570. 40. Ten sundry and very rare Heraldical Blasonings of one Crest or Cognisance lawfully confirmed to certain ancient Arms lib. 1. An. 1574. 41. Atlantidis vulgariter Indiae Occidentalis nominatae emendatior descriptio Hydrographica quà m ulla alia adhuc evulgata An. 1580. 42. De modo Evangelii Jesu Christi publicandi propagandi stabiliendique inter Infideles Atlanticos volumen magnum libris distinctum quatuor quorum primus ad Serenissimam nostram Potentissimamque Reginam Elizabetham inscribitur Secundus ad summos privati suae sacrae Majestatis consilij senatores Tertius Hi sp aniarum Regem Philippum Quartus ad Pontificem Romanum Anno 1581.
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
is his strength that hath armed himself with it In the Serpents belly there is nothing clean neither with unhonest persons ungodly I mean is there any pure society Light agreeth not with Darknesse nor vertue with vice therefore be you of one and in one that you may agree and have the reward of one Behold it is said I will part bounds between the just and the unjust I will suffer the Enemy to sowe discord to the intent that those that are my people may be separated and have a dwelling by themselves Peruse the Scripture it is alwayes seen that the Spirit of God forceth Satan in spight of his head to separate the evil from the good by discord and herein the Devil worketh against himself We good Angels keep secret the Mysteries of God things that are to come we alwayes keep close with this exception The form of our Commandment Truth it is that a Commission is granted not onely to enquire of thee but also to attach thee and that by the Council If he go down he shall be attached therefore tempt not God Δ. But if he tarry here and his being here so known as it is it is likely that he shall be attached here to my no small grief or disgrace What is your counsel herein She said ..... It is written misery shall not enter the doors of him whom the Highest hath magnified DIXIT DICO DICTUM SIT The world shall never prevaile against you Δ. In respect of the Book the Scrowl and the Powder to be communicated What is your judgement or mind seeing when he was coming from Islington with them he was threatned to be pulled in pieces if he came with them to me ..... All that is spoken of is in very deed vanity The book may be used to a good purpose They were wicked ones But as these things are the least part of this action so are they not much to be looked after Δ. As concerning the Powder I beseech you what is your knowledge of it ..... It is a Branch of Natures life It is appointed for a time and to a purpose Δ. As concerning the earthes of the Eleven places being with expedition ..... What is now to be done with them ..... It was a foresight of God if they had been there now they had utterly perished Δ. O Jesus that is a marvellous thing ..... Helas that is nothing Δ. By nature they could not have perished in so short time ..... I have said E. K. Tell us your name ..... If you will remember my counsel I will tell you my name E. K. Your counsel was by piece-meale told me that I cannot remember it but in general ..... You do and have and I am almost HATH Δ. I understand you to be AT H in sigillo Emeth AT H ..... So am I in the number of Gods Elect. Δ. Shall not I make meanes to Mr. Richard Young as one of the higher Commissioners to do my companion here some good AT H ..... Trouble your self when you need E. K. She spake this somewhat sharply Get your friends to fignifie down good report of you Come not there in many years Δ. As concerning my writing of the holy Book how shall I do by reason of the perfect writing it in the Due Characters seeing many words are written so as the pronunciation and the Orthographie do hardly seem to agree AT H ..... You shall have a School-master sufficient to read unto you Δ. Where shall I begin AT H ..... Let him lead you to that who is within you Δ. As concerning Isabel Lister who is vext of a wicked spirit how well have I executed that which was prescribed me or how well doth it work AT H ..... Friend It is not of my charge Remember the true path that leadeth unto true honour where there sitteth a True and Just GOD who grant you his Direction and establishment of perfect life Δ Amen Amen Amen E. K. She is gone Junii 9. a Meridie hera 5. Δ. Very long I prayed in my Oratory and at my Deske to have answer or resolutions of divers doubts which I had noted in a paper and which doubts I read over distinctly they concerned the preparation of things about the Table of practice and other things above my Lamin and Stone but answer came none neither in the Stone did any thing appear no not the Golden Curtain but the Stone was of his natural Diaphanitie But I held on in pittiful manner to request some advertisement if for any our trespasses or offences this unlooked for alteration from former dealing had hapned c. At length a voice came from behind E. K. over his head and said thus A voyce ..... The judgements of our God are most profound and hard in the understanding of man There is silence above let there therefore be patience amongst you I have said Δ. Upon this answer I began to discourse of divers causes of this silence and divers manners of silences and in the end I became in a great and sorrowfull heavinesse and fear of the wrath or displeasure of God conceived for some our misbehaviour towards him since our last dealing whereupon I prayed long at my Desk standing for mercy comfort counsel and some exposition of the former sentence After a long time thus passing there appeared one in the very top of the frame of the shew-stone much like Michael Who said ..... Write for I must be gone Silence there is in heaven for the Governours of the earth are now before the Lord the doings of their seats are now disclosed every thing is NOTED For that God will be righteous in all his doings There is not this day any one that governeth the people upon earth but his government is disclosed and his government is set open and his faults revealed They without number cry Lord let thy vengeance come The earth sayeth Be it so Sathan is before the Lord He hath garnished himself with Garlands as a Conquerour and what he saith is wonderfull Therefore shall the Lord open his mouth and curse the earth and all living creatures For iniquity hath gotten the upper hand Publickly the States of mankinde in the world are condemned We are all silent and ready with our Viols to powre the wrath of God upon them when he saith BE IT SO. Therefore be you patient For our patience in an universal silence We look for the mouth of Justice But L O The Lord saith unto the Lord lift up thy eyes O God Behold the Dignity of thy workmanship yet suffer for awhile I have a people that will forsake their cruelty and put off their Garments that stink of abomination in whom thy name shall be magnified and our glory in heaven more exalted But as thou wilt so be it Behold I speak in body because I tremble as at the force of thy great indignation Notwithstanding we will what
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
of Jubanladaech or of Il or whom soever else it shall please thy Majesty to send E. K. A man with a black Gown appeareth with a Cap falling in his neck with a big Book under his arme Δ. It should seem to be Aphlafben my good Angel E. K. He hath a white Robe under the black Gown which goeth all under his Gown trailing behind him but the white Robe traileth not his Gown hangeth on him as though it were falling off his shoulders behind Δ. In the Name of Jesus the King of Glory are not you Aphlafben my good Angel by the mercy and power of God so assigned E. K. He looketh very anciently ..... Impire Most high Glory and thanks throughout all Creatures be unto thee O eternal God first ... Secondly redeeming and Thirdly sanctifying the World in his Creation Now and for ever And as long as it shall be said Osanna in the Quire of the High God .... Amen Δ. ..... Amen ..... Amen ..... Amen ..... Manifold are the Mercies of God towards man whose basenesse deserveth no such grace and most unspeakable blessing But such is God what he justifieth himself in the strength of his mercy and heveth his honour with his own holinesse For what is man that can justifie himself or that hath any thing wherein his bowels can rejoyce Wherein can he determine happinesse to himself Or how can be compare himself with the trees that are fruitful If the life of man be sin then is it hateful But who is he that hateth it But even he which is above and is farthest from 〈◊〉 Great therefore O man are thy miseries when naturally thou art and lovest to be hated of God whose service is Justice and whose delight Peace Consider therefore the Mercies of God through his loving kindnesse towards thy weaknesse And acknowledge his Power which maketh those strong which have no force of themselves Gather not up your own inventions But be faithful servants performing the will of him which sanctifieth you with obedience for of dust you are become flesh and of flesh the servants of sin that at length you might be made free through your own consents in the mercies of him which hath entred into your weaknesse and weighed out his blood for your Redemption Even he which hath payed the uttermost penny of your Ransome And why Not to the intent you should brag of your selves But hath charged in condition you should maintain justice 〈◊〉 the works of Righteousnesse Vnto whom is Heaven a seat but unto such as are faithful servants Wherein the Dignity of your Master is known of whom it is said Blessed are those that serve the God of Hosts If anything now happen unto you that is the riches of your Master Be thankful for it and consider his liberalitie And how much the more he openeth his Treasures to you Be so much the more thankful For unto such belongeth the ownership of more and the reward of such as are ten times faithful Happy are these to whom it is said Thou good servant Be no Gadders for there is no house to the house of your Master Take heed also least you minister his bread to such as are his enemies and so unworthy for unto both these belongeth the reward of unfaithfulnesse Be not high-minded when you borrow your riches lest the moths enter in and corrupt your garments for Pride is the deph of sin .... Cease not to rebuke the dishonourers * as o .... Neither maintain the honour of any other For he that entertaineth you hath sealed you for others And hath strengthened you with Authority The Rod of his Justice Generally these things have been spoken unto you and these Lessons are not yet to learn But happy are those whom God sanctifieth being unholy And ten times blessed are the Temples wherein his Holinesse dwelleth True it is as thou sayest Generally men are sanctified the people of the Earth through all Nations mystically through the mercies of God But where the sanctification agreeth not with the thing sanctified there entreth wickednesse The Spirit of God is not sanctified in Hell Neither is his holy Temple beautified with the feet of the unrighteous It is written Dogs honour not bread neither defiled places things that are holy For as Hell dishonoureth Heaven in respect of unrighteousnesse So those that are wicked dishonour the vertuous and such as are truely holy by society and they stink of their wickednesse For it is written And Satan went from the presence of the Lord leaving a stink behind him The light of the Sun is taken from the Earth by the congealed cloud The sins of the people and filthinesse of places are put between vertue and the things Sacramental Therefore it is not true that thou mayest lawfully call upon the Name of God in unhallowed places Δ. I crave pardon for my ignorance and errour herein But I required not to know of the heavenly Mysteries Onely such things I demanded information of which not onely were above humane power to answer and so might seem worldly mysteries but also the true good news of them might many ways be comfort unto us and ours ..... Behold in Israel the rough stones are acceptable Altars And the stinking Caves have been known unto the Lord. And why Because the place was holy neither this filthinesse here nor of any thing else created hindreth But the filthinesse of the place and Country wherein they are defiled for in pure places the defield are blessed David sanctified Saul with the presence of his Annointing and his Harp spake out the wonders of the Lord. We come unto you here because the wild of God in you shineth But the filthinesse of this Country 〈◊〉 the beauty of our message Not that it is obscured in us but hindered through wick ..... from you Therefore flee the company of Drunkards and such as we ..... their own understanding E. K. He holdeth up his face and hands to heaven-ward ..... Drunkards and such as defile themselves are apt to know things worldly not as wise men do but that the World may be a plague to their iniquity Thou desirest pardon and calledst th ... businesse a worldly mystery But the mysteries of this world are put under the feet of the faithful which overseen through God are generally comforted and directed Then therefore what care remaineth either of the Seas or of the slimy Earth where on the one side thou regardest the Ship and on the other side Money I say unto thee God correcteth this world and the casualties thereof lest those that are of thee should 〈◊〉 his name Δ. Blessed be his holy Name and his Power magnified for ever ..... Thy goods are safe And the Earth shall provide for you Be not you careful for unto the just yea even the hairs of his head are numbred I am silent for the World for it is not my propriety But notwithstanding ask and thou shalt not be denyed Δ. As concerning Vincent
his Company vvho make cursies and say nothing Δ. I beseech you to appoint an apt place This you see is no fit place ..... I will stir thee up such friends as shall content thee As for dwelling places thou shalt bestow them Well you are contented Δ. Is it your will that in this Town we should part from the Lord Albert Laskie ..... What should you do else Are you mad men Will you run headlong into danger wilfully Δ. I beseech you shall this be nothing prejudicial to our former doings and order already taken and decreed for our going together ..... What is this contrary to reason Well you are content Δ. As the will of the Highest is so is mine and none other ..... Sirha do you see this sword I will be a surety for this I warrant thee also Δ. ..... Your brother is clapped up in prison How like you that Your house-keeper I mean Δ. And why I pray you ..... For that that thou mayest be ashamed of Δ. What is that ..... They examin him They say that thou hast hid divers secret things As for thy Books thou mayst go look them at leasure It may be that thy house may be burnt for a remembrance of thee too Well if they do so it is if not as thou wilt I have told thee my phansie and given thee my counsel offered thee my help and desired to do thee good The choice is thine Δ. O Lord the Author of all truth and director of such as put their trust in thee I most humbly beseech thee to consider these premises thus to me propounded If they be true and from thee confirm them If they be illusions and not from thee disprove them For hardly in my judgement they do or can agree with our former precepts and order taken by thee A voice ..... He that ascendeth up to the top of the hill let him believe For until he come thither let him do his labour O Lord I doubt of these things and promises of ease wealth and honour A voice ..... Judge the Truth by the last Action O Lord What is that Action A voice ..... Wensdaies Action This Cloud said the voice of the Lord is put betwixt us and you What therefore may come between Now judge you Δ. I suspect the whole apparition of the eleven to be an illusion O Lord confirm my judgement or disprove it A voice ..... The Spirit of the Lord is not amongst you Δ. What misery are we then in O Lord Mercy Mercy A voice ..... Dispute not with God where whoredom is great Δ. O Lord This whoredom we understand not A voice ..... Pray daily with repentance that this cloud may be taken away and this sword diminished For the Seal cannot be broken until Satan have done his uttermost yea the uttermost of his malice For it is granted him and he must strike But pray you unto God that the sword may be made shorter or pluckt out of the hilt that in striking he want power For your sin is abominable and a sevenfold offence in the sight of the Lord. Δ. What this whoredom is God knoweth we understand not perfectly If the Spirit of God be not with us how can our prayers be acceptable A voice ..... Thus saith the Lord Turn unto me and be sorry for your sins and let my Angels be witnesse thereof For I swear by my self that my Justice shall hang over you And when I punish you next I will raze you from the face of the earth Therefore Vow your selves unto me and make your vessels clean for your habitations in my sight are nothing neither is the substance whereof I framed you acceptable I am the Spirit of Truth and Vnderstanding and will not be dasht in pieces with worldlings Neither use I to dwell in defiled places For my Sanctuary is holy and my Gates are without spot And with me there dwelleth no unrighteousnesse Δ. Lord is it thy will we shall go with Albert Laskie to Lasco A voyce The Lord 〈◊〉 What I have said is true Who rebuketh me saying my words are untrue The correction of him that reigneth is mightie who hath numbred it But to his destruction Be you holy that my hand may be weak Δ. O Lord the fear of thy punishment astonieth my heart and uncertainty of it in time and place doth also encrease my grief c. A voyce The fool saith in his heart Oh how great is thy punishment over me Teach me the place of thy correction And where thou wilt chastise me Who is he that desireth to meet God his vengeance or the punishment of him that confoundeth the damned Make your hearts clean and wipe the sin from amongst you And desire to be forgiven for miserable are they that meet with vengeance or that know the place where she taketh up her Harbour Δ. Gloria Honor Laus gratiarum actio perennis sit Deo nostro 〈◊〉 Nobis verò a Deo Patre propter Jesum Christum in Spiritu Sancto sit Misericordia Pax Consolatio in via virtutis veritatis Amen Monday Novemb. 18. Hora 9. Mane Lubek E. K. There appeareth the Cloud wherein the sword remaineth enclosed Δ. O Lord be mercifull unto us and rigorously execute not thy Justice upon us thy weaklings Nor suffer Satan to Triumph where thy glory is expected c. Converte nos Deus salutaris noster averte iram tuam à nobis c. E. K. Now cometh one in a white Coat not perfectly to be seen but as if he were seen through a Cipresse and said as followeth ..... Who is he that leadeth out the Lion to prey or who is he that lifteth up the feet of the young ones to devour Who feedeth the smell of the roaring Bear or hath taught him to remember the place of his recreation Hath he also taught the fields to put forth their voices and the mighty Trees to flourish in pride Are not the Hills glad when they bring forth Corn When the Valleys rejoice with threefold waters The beasts of the wildernesse have they not known Caves and unto such as are made tame is there not a ..... understanding For who is he that teacheth them to make subject themselves which are ravening or to bridle such as are of their frowardnesse Even he it is that looketh down from Heaven and beholdeth the earth and measureth with his feet saying It is done Which entreth also into the houses of men and listeneth to that which they call wonders Which openeth the gates of his knowledge with his own finger And which sayeth unto you How are ye become wise Or from whence is your understanding are your hearts become Caves to send out Thunders Or why are your spirits thus vexed with holinesse Are you not a stiff-necked people and such as are despised Are you not poor and therefore hated Since therefore you are become Bastards who teacheth your lips to speak of my Church Or hath taught
and by his order and for his service required wisdom and true knowledge so do I not doubt but God will according to his accustomed goodnesse provide for me that is best for my vocation here in earth c. E. K. He rose and went away and left me alone in my Study appointed for these actions Deus in adjutorium meum intende Domine ad adjuvandum me festina Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Thursday Circa 9. As I was in my upper Study and had gathered the holy words of the second and third call and had conferred them with their English delivered also unto us E. K. came up the stairs and so went into his Study and came out again and as he was going down the staires I opened my Study door and saluted him He thereupon came up again and came into my Study And there I shewed him what I had done and how I had some understanding of those holy words their significations by reason of due applying the English to the word Christus in tending thereby to have induced E. K. to likē the better of the manner of our friends due and Methodical proceeding with us and told him that unlesse of this strange language I should have these words delivered unto us Letter by Letter we might erre both in Orthography and also for want of the true pronunciation of the words and distinctions of the points we might more misse the effect expected But as on Tuesday last so now again he said our Teachers were deluders and no good or sufficient Teachers who had not in two years space made us able to understand or do somewhat and that he could in two years have learned all the seven Liberal sciences if he had first learned Logick c. wherefore he would have no more to do with them any manner of way wished himself in England and said that if these books were his that he would out of hand burn them and that he had written to my Lord by Pirmis that he took our Teachers to be decelvers and wicked and no good Creatures of God with many such speeches and reasons as he thought of force to diswade himself from any more dealing with them But willed me to use John my Boy as my Skryer for that these spiritual Creatures were not bound unto him c. I answered unto all these parcels and reasons as time served declaring my perfect trust in God that seeing I have many years desired and prayed for wisdome such as these Actions import at his hands and by such means as to his Divine Majesty seemeth best that he would not either mislike my prayer or abuse my Constant hope in his goodnesse and mercy Therefore I concluded that I referred all to the mercifull will of God and doubted nothing at the length to be satisfied of my request and prayer made unto him So he went from me this second time .... God lighten his heart with knowledge of the truth if it be his Divine will and pleasure Note Permis went on last Wednesday morning and had received our Letters after noon on Tuesday last But on Monday before the wicked Prince of darknesse did what he could to hinder our proceeding On Thursday Tabius brother to my Lord Laskie his wife brought news to Cracovia that my Lord Laskie was coming to Cracovia ward Emericus came from Kesmarks and returned back again Tabius rode from Cracovia toward Kesmark Saturday Aprilis 21. à Meridie After our prayers made appeared shortly Gabriel and Nalvage E. K. propounded six questions orderly which had bred great doubt in this fantafie and requested their answers Δ. He would have our spiritual friends to promise him the performance of the Prints Gab. ...... If we were Masters of our own doings we might well promise But we are servants and do the will of our master But let me ask thee one question Dost thou not think that all things are possible with God E. K. I do so and I know so Gab. ...... Then is there no cause why thou should distrust Let him that is a servant and is commanded to go go and let not the earth rise up and strive against the plow man What sin is it when the creature riseth up and saith in his heart Let the Lord make a Covenant with me considering he is a bond man E. K. They seem both the voices at once to come to my eare None but he that becometh disobedient and refuseth his Master Δ ....... Δ would do so Gab. Nal. ...... These things that is to say this Doctrine delivered by us is of God and of his mercies granted unto you which cannot be in vain and therefore to be performed for the secret determinations of God are unknown unto us He never heard of any man that would ask if God would perform his promises E. K. By August next What if it were a hundred Augusts you may be a weary before August next as the Children of Israel were of their Manna E. K. Why joyn you numbers with these letters and added none with those of the former Table Brother what is the cause that all the World is made by numbers The Numbers we speak of are of reason and form and not of merchants Δ. I beseech you as concerning the powder whereof he thinketh that he hath made due assay of it as if it should have been the Philosophers Stone and so affirmed to be by the minister of this action I beseech you so to answer the thing as his reason may be satisfied Δ. They gave no answer hereunto but proceeded in the former matter of Numbers Gab. ...... Every Letter signifieth the member of the substance whereof it speaketh Every word signifieth the quiddity of the substance The Letters are separated and in confusion and therefore are by numbers gathered together which also gathered signifie a number for as every greater containeth his lesser so are the secret and unknown forms of things knit up in their parents Where being known in number they are easily distinguished so that herein we teach places to be numbred letters to be elected from the numbred and proper words from the letters signifying substantially the thing that is spoken of in the center of his Creator whereby even as the minde of man moved at an ordered speech and is easily perswaded in things that are true so are the creatures of God stirred up in themselves when they hear the words wherewithal they were nursed and brought forth For nothing moveth that is not perswaded neither can any thing be perswaded that is unknown The Creatures of God understand you not you are not of their Cities you are become enemies because you are separated from him that Governeth the City by ignorance E. K. Whether is this Language known in any part of the World or no if it be where and to whom Gab. ......
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
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
Gregorian Calender and the fourth day of July by the old Calender Rowland my Childe who was born Anno 1583. January 28. by the old Calender was extreamly sick about noon or midday and by one of the Clock ready to give up the Ghost or rather lay for dead and his eyes set and sunck into his head c. I made a vow if the Lord did foresee him to be his true servant and so would grant him life and confirm him his health at this danger and from this danger I would during my life on Saturdayes eat but one meal c. Remember on Wednesday night the eighteenth of July as I walked alone about nine of the Clock in the evening in the Chamber before my Study above in divers places of that Chamber appeared flashes of fire and did not lighten abroad Munday Julii 23. Mane Circiter 8. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita Δ. I read Mapsama his first words of the book to be prepared of 48 leaves to be silvered and would gladly know what I was now to do By and by at the first looking into the stone E. K. There appeared ten Pikes all black on the ground in a Circle as it were and 1 in the middle a great Pike standing up And Vera falsis falsa seemed to be written in the middle of that Circle somewhat blacker then all the rest which seemed to be as new molten Pitch A voyce ..... Qui non in 7. vivant in undecimo Δ. I made a short discourse to God of my sincere and just dealing hitherto of the book of Enoch written of the book to be silvered how hardly I can get it performed to my contentment the books being laid on the Table that of Enoch and that as it were silvered c. I craved therefore the expofition of this dark shew and as yet nothing pleasant or plain My conscience is clear and I trust in the Lord his mercies E. K. After this appeared a man all black naked all over ..... O thou that art just and hast a clear conscience answer me Δ. In the name of Jesus ..... Who commanded thee to be gone ..... I take the Commandment to have been from God ..... Thou hast broken the Commandment of God Δ. I can in no case yield thereunto ..... You have dishonoured the Lord which is just in the bottom of his own breast and gave you warning and commanded you to go which is the Lord of Heaven and Earth Δ. O Lord my first charge was in these words Thou shalt go from hence with him to the Emperour It was also said that he should make provision for this one voyage and for the rest God had provided So that seeing I was to go with him and he hath not yet provided doing what he can what shall I say or do ..... True it is thou hast had the victory and thou and thy Children have tasted mercy Thou art one of those that when I command thee to leave nothing with life yet thou savest the fatlings to offer before him that abhorreth such sacrifice Δ. Lord I know no such act of mine The Lord be mercifull to me For when it should come to such a case God knoweth I would spare none ..... O thou just man shaking his head thou art become a Saul ..... Wherefore did God answer me take the Kingdom out of Saul his hands Δ. It appeareth in the Bible because obedience was better then sacrifice ..... Even so if thou badst been obedient thy obedience had been regarded But I say unto thee the Lord oweth thee nothing for thy labour he bath payed thee to the uttermost As for Lasky I will give him over to the spirit of errour and he shall become more poor so that his own Children shall despise him But it shall not come to passe in these dayes For I will keep my promise with you You do the Commandment of Princes and Lords and Masters But when the God of Justice without your desert entertaineth you and placeth you and dwelleth amongst you which is able to give you all things commandeth you to go and that for your own profit you think it nothing to offend him But true it is That Obedience pleaseth the Lord for thererin his Creatures glorifie him most All Worship all Honour all Love all Faith all Hope all Charity all the knitting together of the Heavens consisteth in Obedience For if you had been obedient the very stones of the earth should have served your necessity For the Lord will not be found a lyar Δ. O Lord be mercifull to me I could not do thy Commandment in going without A. Laskie and him I was not able to cause to goe without provision And to our judgement he seemeth marvellously to be carefull to make provision but still he hath hinderance ..... Thou hearest thou the Lord forgiveth thee but from henceforth he commandeth thee that thou open not the secrets and the judgements which the Lord shall open unto thee of the times to come unto Laskie Δ. I pray you to say somewhat unto us as concerning this book to be silvered Else what shall I do if I have not direction herein the case being so hard ..... As concerning the book when thou art at the end of thy journey it shall be told Δ. Misericordias Domini in aeternum Cantabo Amen Hallelujah Amen Tuesday Julii 31. Mane hora 7. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita variis ejaculationibus factis tam ad Gabrielem quam Nalvage Ave Mapsama Ilemer quà m maximè ad Deum ipsum pro suo lumine auxilio protectione tam in ipsa actione quà m itinere praesenti futuro versus aulam Caesaris After a great hour attendance At length appeared one all naked black and about the stone a Circle of black He said ..... Were you not commanded to go after ten dayes Δ. It is true ..... And what followeth Δ. I appeal unto the mercy of the highest for that I have not offended upon wilfulnesse ..... Say what followeth Δ. It followeth that we may drink of a Cup which we would not c. And also we were willed to provide for this journey which provision onely now is made for us two and not yet for A. L. himself ..... Thus sayeth the Lord I have stretched out my hand and you have hindred me I have brought things unto their course but you have thrust your selves between When I appointed you 10 dayes did I not also tell you that the earth was mine Am not I the God of heaven and earth by whom you breath The same which also forsaketh not my people in the time of need I have opened my wings but you have refused my cover I have brought in madnesse into the house of the unjust but you have prevented my judgement And because you have done so and have trusted more in the mallices of the world then in my power Δ. Lord we
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
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
who may give any evidence And whatsoever may make this a perfect work to Mr. Ecclestones reasonable contentment most humbly and heartily I beseech God to make known now unto us and so the praise and thanks due to God for his mercies to the best of our power to be yielded unto him Saturday Julii 11. hora 10. ante meridiem Note In the Original two Schedules are pinned across this page The first Schedule To enquire 1. THe Name of the place whether I am to direct my total Journey 2. Whom shall I have in my company besides John Pontoys 3. What of Patrick Sanders 4. What of my daughter Katherine 5. What of my standing Books and other appurtenances What of Mr. Bardolf to go with me Or Of Mr. Dortnall his Companion 6. What shall my Son Arthur do to his help and comfort in his intended travel 7. Shall not I at any time return hither into England again Shall I make account to keep some title of enjoying my house at my return Mr. Ecclestone his Case Junii 27. 1607. The second Schedule THe Name of my House is Eccleston of Eccleston the mans Name whom I suspect is Thomas Webster Carpenter of the age under fourty not more within the County of Lancaster The place was in a false Roof adjoyning to a Chimney called New Chamber Chimney Edward Ecclestone Thomas Webster the Thief Note There being a Figure in a single leaf of paper and the same having no direction where it should be placed I thought best to place it here the page immediately aforegoing making mention of one Webster a Thief and here being words which if I mistake not relate to such a business an unquam recuper abitur whether that was stoln shall ever be recovered and In quo loco jam est In what place Webster the Thief is at present 1. Significat Domina Ascendentis octavae recuperari posse 2. Applicans per sed cum receptione recuperari posse significat sed cum difficultate aliqua 4. Nota locum signum est Ancilla vel foemina aliqua consideranda est 4. Luminaria sese mutuo respicientia non posterdum fore denotat 5. maxime cum Dominus medii 〈◊〉 carpere 7. sexali radio respiciat sed interim 7. domum comburat JESUS A Domino factum est istud est mirabile in oculis nostris Ex stercore erigit pauperem ut collocet eum cum principibus populi sui Amen Mittas O Deus lucem tuam veritatem tuam ut ipsa nos ducant mirabilem in me fac misericordiam tuam sapientiam tuam in corde meo figas I Am Raphael that speak if you will have me to appear proceed in haste for God hath appointed me great service to do Δ. In the Name of Jesus we desire your answers and instructions to these Articles here slightly noted 1. Raph. In the Name of Jesus Christ I Raphael am now sent unto you to deliver unto you your question so far forth as God his will and pleasure is to command me and I must make a short continuance with you for I have service of God commanded me in haste to be done in his blessed Name I am come to fulfil his will in your desires and therefore in his Name go on 1. Δ. The name of the place Raph. John Dee thou hast been a Traveller and God hath ever yet at any time provided for thee in all thy Journeys so much Gods favour and his mercies is such toward thee that this thy request and desire to be known What Country is best for thy good God hath referred it to thy own will to make choise in what Country or City thou hast thy best minde unto and when thou hast made thy choise if it be Gods liking and to thy good it shall be directed unto thee otherwise if it shall be made known that some other place shall be better for thee Therefore take thy own choise and liking Δ. Raph. John Dee he that hath commanded thee to take this Journey in hand he will provide for thee in Germany or any other Country wheresoever thou goest Therefore let thy good will and liking be in placing thy self if thou wilt be near unto England or far off Δ. Whether is best I know not Raph. I have said that wheresoever thou wilt God doth prize thy willing desire to fulfil that God doth command think but thou satisfie and rest in taking thy own choise God will provide for thee whither and to what City thou hast a minde or will to enter into and always Gods good Angel shall hold thee and ever give thee to understand what and where shall be ever best for thy good liking when thou art there Therefore take no care he that Almighty will provide for thee that thou shalt be so governed with his goodness that all shall stand well with thee 2. Δ. Whom shall I have in my company beside John Pontoys 3 4. Raph John Dee thou of thy self dost best know that without thy daughter thou can't not be without her and likewise God hath sent thee a very honest and well-disposed young man to go with thee in thy Journey And for John Pontoys he shall be one as thy greatest comfort and special ayd next unto the Almighty And for any other else it is at thy own good will and well 〈◊〉 whom thou wilt chuse to make fit thy purpose for necessary uses for help about thee Servants I mean 5. Δ. What of my standing books and other appurtenances Ralph John Dee thou hast spoken already of a very good course to send them away not all at once but some at one time and some at another and God shall and will give thee good success rein and let thy friend John Pontoys let him provide for all such purposes and so shalt thou do well Δ. As I have been heretofore hindred of many of good purposes fulfilling so perchance the King will not be willing now to grant me licence to pass over sea Raph. He shall and will grant thee licence 6. Δ. For my Son Arthur do to his help and comfort in his intended travel Raph. If thy Son do like his course to travel he shall in the mean while do well for thy sak being a father unto him God will favour him And when thou art in place where God hath commanded thee to 〈◊〉 in short time after thy being there thou shalt be able to do him good in helping him for such things as 〈◊〉 now wanteth and then thou shalt tak him near unto thee so that he may have a comfort of thy fatherly help and thou to have comfort of his well-doing and so for this I have certified thee 7. 〈◊〉 Shall 〈◊〉 I at any time return hither into England again Raph. Thou shalt be better able in health and strength of thy body to come into England again 〈◊〉 thou wilt but thou shalt see and perceive thy self so mercifully provided
deliver thee from the hands of thy enemies in thy Journey And for the good health of thy body God will so carry thee in good health that thou shalt set forth such service when thou art there placed that shall be thy great comfort unto Gods honour in making of his marvellous works to be known And thus much for thy comfort through Gods merciful goodness I have made known unto thee and so I end Δ. ..... John Dee God doth know all this that thou dost speak of In few words to end many words 〈◊〉 will so direct thy wayes in ending such troubles as shall be to thy good and speedy finishing Δ ..... John Pontoys before such time as thou shalt have any great cause to use his aid and furtheremore God will so work for thee in the heart of his Master whom he is Factor for Stapers I mean that Stapers shall with all the aid and help that he can to further 〈◊〉 good proceeding And so God in all cases will thus graciously deal with thee And now is my full time to depart in Gods peace and to serve him from whom I came his mighty Name Δ. I fearing his sudden departure did earnestly urge at his hands to know the truth of Tobias his history and so half unmannerly did interrupt his speech with my question John Dee I am Raphael that is appointed of God to be thy Guide in this thy Journey and I am that same Raphael that was the Guide unto young Tobias in his long Journey and delivered him from the power of the wicked Spirit Asmodeus who had as thou knowest how many he had destroyed and I brought him through Gods power home again and delivered him in health unto his own parents And thus much I have made thee plainly to understand without any doubting to the contrary And so now once again I do depart All honour and glory to the everlasting God both now and for evermore Amen Amen Δ. Amen 17 July AFter dinner horam circiter 4½ as Bartholomew and I talked of divers of my doings with Mr. Kelley a Voice produced this to Bartholomews hearing A Voice ..... I John Dee I have heard you all this while Thou shalt be able to do and to see and to understand more than all this as thou hast spoken of according as God hath promised thee Δ. Blessed be his holy Name and his mercies be magnified on me to the honour of his holy Name Amen Δ. Note ..... Upon occasion of further talk and speech of my Jewel that was brought I asked Bartholomew if ever he had seen it since it was set in gold and he thought that he had not seen it Whereupon I went speedily to my Chest unlocked it and took it out and undid the Case and set the Stone in his due manner And by and by did Raphael appear in the Stone and in voice said thus as followeth Raph. In the Name of Jesus Christ I am Raphael whose voice thou didst hear right now And now in Gods holy Name for thy good and for thy comfort I have now here in this Pearl entred Possession in 〈◊〉 hereafter to be that blessed Creature to be obedient unto Gods Commandment to serve thee at all times when thou art placed in thy Journey which God hath commanded thee And likewise thou shalt have the book from whence this came And that Dust which thou hast in keeping the which thou dost make account of 〈◊〉 better but dust Then it shall be turned to the right use from whence it was and to that good purpose that God hath ordained for to do And now it was the will of God that I should speak unto thee a few words of this good comfort to be performed Praise God honour his holy Name for his great blessings now and for ever That it did please the Almighty to send me to your presence in token of his love for his great mercy And so now in his Name I go again into the presence of the Almighty whose Name be ever praised with all his elect Angels and all the blessed Creatures of God and all the blessed Creatures upon earth praise his Name for evermore Amen Amen Δ. Amen Δ. O Lord God most humbly heartily and sincerely I honour thee praise thee and extoll thy mercies and most loving kindness for these and all other thy graces and blessings on me Accept O God my hearty thanks and enable me so to thank thee as may be a most acceptable sacrifice unto thy Divine Majesty Amen Amen Amen 1607. Sept. 5. hora 9½ Mortlak 〈◊〉 Mitte lucem tuam veritatem tuam Domine quae nos ducant perducant ad montem sanctum tuum ad coelestia tua tabernacula Amen Barth He is in the Stone now Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini O Most merciful Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus who is and was the Creator and Redeemer of Mankinde and of all his blessed Creatures In his power I Raphael am now come at his will and commandment and so likewise at his good pleasure I must then return at such time as he hath commanded me John Dee in the Name of the Most Highest I am come to deliver unto thee this my Message the which God in his goodness hath commanded me First I Raphael am sent of God at this time most chiefly to put thee in that good remembrance of my last appearing to your presence to let thee to understand that look what course God in his mercies did set then down what way thou shouldst take to enter into this Journey the which God in his goodness is most willing that thou shouldst enter into For John Dee God hath declared and made manifestly known unto thee at my last appearing what service God would use thee unto and all such purposes that were the last time spoken of shall be by Gods favour and his merciful good gift performed unto thee and fear thou not but God will safely help and preserve thy body in thy Journey to that end that thou shouldest be in that place wherein thou mightest have time to enter into all such service as God hath by me made known unto thee For John Dee such hath Gods mercies been in suffering wicked men to prevail against thee and they have and do make a scorn of thee here in this thy Native Countrey So it is with thee as it was with Christ and his Apostles being most cruelly used in their own Native Countreys so John Dee God hath suffered those wicked men to pluck thee down in worldly affairs the which should be maintenance for thee and for thine and without such maintenance man cannot be without while be is here in this vale of Misery Such wicked men have most cruelly used thee even as Job by Gods sufferance who suffered the Devil to prevail against him yet Gods mercies be so great unto thee that although they most wickedly have robbed thee of thy possession yet God would not
quam virum Mariae pregnantem censeri c. Vide Sept. 21. Misericordiam Dei praemissam Δ. I must be placed here in Prage NOT YET Stewards Overseers Labourers The Lord his visitation is not yet Time Δ. Promise to Abraham Seth the third sen of Adam A promise made unto us The choice misliked The mercies of God upon us Δ To Prage A sure help promised Do the Lords Commandment speedily Note signes Δ. I understand not this Note our unaptnesse yet to be visited Ecclesiastes cap. 1. The workman and the work must be correspondent To Δ. Was said In fac supra To E. K. in vide To A. L. Tu vive A new choice by God his great 〈◊〉 granted 73 and a half Dee his age Angelus 〈◊〉 E. K. Aflafben my good argel Sudsamna E. K. his good Angel Vita Naturae Gratiae Δ. 〈◊〉 King 〈◊〉 did Regnum 4. cap. 20 Note * Augusti 23. Our new 〈◊〉 reformed choice A great mercy and mystery The former choice renounced This Day * 122 87. Amen Rodolphus Causa sine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Note this phrase of sound Three movers in man con curring Note the manner of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or by man Mundus Humaenum 〈◊〉 c. tanquam Cera Impressio Superior Humana Inferior Pray against Temptation Impressio praedominans est consideranda Δ. Per quae homo 〈◊〉 per cadem punitur qui dixit Ascendam c. Jam ex Infernali statu semper ascendendo tentat The Answer to the first 〈◊〉 Δ Satan about this time was very busie with E. K. and declared his name to be Satan at 〈◊〉 An intended lye by Satan Reformation of the Records Answer to the second in a Parable A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 9. 10. 11. capita Apocalypseos Δ. My prayer unto God for wisdom Wisdom DEVS Mater rerum 〈◊〉 idem Pater 〈◊〉 sit Deus noster qui respicit gemitus Pauperum E. K Not taster of that he seeth or heareth Note Δ How the Angels of the Lord have appeared to Δ which may seem more certain almost then as the phrase is 〈◊〉 of the Angels appearing to Joseph in somnis vide Matthaei cap. 2. Answer to the third and fourth demands Amen Monday Augusti 27. One of the 3. spiritual creatures said He in the middle of the Thre ..... Δ. Rod. his heart is to be turned by God but I know not the meaning Δ. Sunt duae literae ultimae in linea Spiritus Sancti in Tertia Tabula Flagellum Dei Trinitas unitas Divina Filii fidei non rationis bumanae Δ. His name is the last 3. letters of the 1. line of the fourth Table Rod if Vide lib. 15. Maii 28. 1584. Ga Za Vaa Angeli observantes 〈◊〉 opera 〈◊〉 Strike Note One of them sayeth Δ. Of the Physick part Δ. Note the third Table here meant is that of the South as East West South and North their placing is others Δ. The three last Letters in the uppermost line of the fourth Table †Pragae Satan his exceeding vehement Temptation Note the cause of this recording 1 Comfort in time of need 2 More Comfort in time of need Rod. Note the Original letter it self is in this Book Octavius Spinola Chamberlain and Stall-Master in the absence of the Officer who is sent into Spain * Hora tertia 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 Δ Uriel Books finished A Stone brought by a good Angel My message to the Emperour Rodolph done All the course of our Actions and Visions nakedly to be shewed to the Emperour Octavius Spinola Δ. Note Vriel his face now not seen of the eye which had highly offended God E. K. Had on Sunday last been mervallously drunk c. Satan Jesus †Zach. cap. 3. a. The overthrow almost given The eye E. K. the body Δ. Δ. By the eye is understood E.K. the 〈◊〉 this action and by the body is understood John Dee Δ. A V A great white Eagle I S I O N Δ. and E. K we are Prophers through God his mercy and sufferance * Which have not such presence 〈◊〉 Deus est qui haec 〈◊〉 A Seal opened 〈◊〉 13. cap. B. Zach. cap. 13. B. Dies vindicts Regnum Christi jam stabilietur A Prophesie against the Clergy Rod. If Divina 〈◊〉 ipsi Rodolpho 〈◊〉 An other Seal opened An. 1588. or which 88 else Δ. Fortè leese * Math. 24. C. This Prophesie then to be known An. 1588. Δ. Which 88 For I have not yet had that I remember the year notified to be 1588. nor yet 1688. c. Fortè An. 1688. This Prophesie is to be known An. 1588. * Malach. cap. 4. B. Elias shall come Δ. Note two dayes Rod. The beautifying of Rodolph his seat Imperial If Vide infra Septemb 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CAVE Uriel onely in great causes is to be looked for The end of teaching or instructing thus Enoch his Tables The spirit of choice Vide 13. September Garden of the Lord. Note This Testimony 〈◊〉 Domini Δ. He putteth us in remembrance of our frailty and offence committed before noted E K. His vow of fasting during life * Factum erat die 11. Septemb. sequente Vltra non habeo Δ Further I have not to say or do * On Wednesday Reconciliation Reconciliation of two sorts Wherefore Uriel his face is yet covered 1. 2. Vide supra Septemb. 5. The eye was commanded to be reconciled to the Spirit of Truth Justitia Dei Δ. Ab occultis meis munda me c. A temporal punishment Ecclesiae catholicae reconciliari debemus Δ Accipite Spiritum Sanctum quorum remiseritis peccata remit 〈◊〉 eis quorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sunt Joannes 20. 〈◊〉 Math. 16. C. 18. C. Si descendero in Infernum tu illic es Ignis purgationis The perfect assurance by Christ and his Church or Spirit * Math. c. 5. D. Δ. Δ. Now he answereth to 〈◊〉 request first propounded Rudolp If. Spiritus Electionis quid sit vide pagina sequente Rodulp Spiritus 〈◊〉 If. Δ. From the East Comfort and Triumph Rodolphi soboles in 〈◊〉 generationem If. Secresie required Addere Deo quo modo bonum est 〈◊〉 infra Spiritus Electionis supra Sept. 5. Δ. I spake this to E. K. D. Curtz Δ. Frankly as my term was in my first request or question this day made Δ. Studiorum meorum scopus Rodolph My counsel to Doctor Curtz He also said that in the former my Records that I had noted many a ly and untruth Note the Emperour enclined to 〈◊〉 c. I suspect the Doctour doth not deal sincerely Trinitatis Lux mysteria per Vrielem revelantur Mendacium Obstinatum 〈◊〉 Objectio Solutio Mendacium Ecclesiae Dignitas Authoritas Reconciliation to the Church Wilfull silence Δ. Finalis inpoenitentia Testes Angelici Froward silence * Psal. Ito ad Ecclesiam Δ. Voluntary 〈◊〉 is contrary to froward lence Aures Dei Manus 〈◊〉 Vide de Lazaro Joh. c. 1 * Act. 3. Supra †More