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
the word Perfect because all perfection belongs unto God properly it shall suffice to say That the knowledge Divels have of things Natural and Humane is incomparably greater then man is capable of If so how comes it to pass that in many places of this Relation we find him acting his part rather as a Sophister that I say not a Juggler then a perfect Philosopher as a Quack or an Empirick sometimes then a True genuine Naturalist And for language not to speak of his Divinity which he might disguise of purpose to his own ends rather as one that had learned Latin by reading of barbarous books of the middle age for the most part then of one that had been of Augustus his time and long before that But that which is strangest of all is that as in one place the Spirits were discovered by Ed. Kelley to steal out of Agrippa or Trithemius so he thought at least so in divers other places by the phrase and by the doctrine and opinions a man may trace noted Chymical and Cabalistical Authors of later times yea if I be not much mistaken and Paracelsus himself that prodigious creature for whom and against whom so much hath been written since he lived these things may seem strange but I think they may be answered For first we say The Divel is not ambitious to shew himself and his abilities before men but his way is so observed by many to fit himself for matter and words to the genius and capacity of those that he dealeth with Dr. d ee of himself long before any Apparition was a Cabalistical man up to the ears as I may say as may appear to any man by his Monas Hieroglyphica a book much valued by himself and by him Dedicated at the first to Maximilian the Emperor and since presented as here related by himself to Rodoiphe as a choice piece It may be thought so by those who esteem such books as Dr. Floid Dr. Alabaster and of late Gafarell and the like For my part I have read him it is soon don it is but a little book but I must profess that I can extract no sense nor reason sound and solid out of it neither yet doth it seem to me very dark or mystical Sure we are that those Spirits did act their parts so well with Dr. d ee that for the most part in most Actions they came off with good credit and we find the Dr. every where almost extolling his Spiritual teachers and instructers and praysing God for them Little reason therefore have we to except against any thing in this kind that gave him content which was their aim and business Secondly I say If any thing relish here of Trithemius or Paracelsus or any such well may we conclude from thence that the Divel is like himself This is the truest inference It is he that inspired Trithemius and Paracelsus c. that speaketh here and wonder ye if he speaks like them I do not expect that all men will be of my opinion yet I speak no Paradoxes I have both reason and authority good and plausible I think for what I say but to argue the case at large would be tedious Of Trithemius somewhat more afterwards will be said But we must go far beyond that time A thousand years and above before either of them was born was the BOOK OF ENOCH well known in the world and then also was Lingua Adami upon which two most of the Cabala stands much talked of as appears by Greg. Nissen his learned books against Eunomius the Heretick To speak more particularly because so much of it in this Relation the BOOK OF ENOCH was written before Christ and it is thought by some very learned though denyed by others that it is the very book that S. Jude intended A great fragment of it in Greek it was written in Hebrew first is to be seen in Scaliger that incomparable man the wonder of his Age if not rather of all Ages his learned Notes upon Eusebius It was so famous a book antiently that even Heathens took notice of it and grounded upon it objections against Christians It may appear by Origen against Celsus in his book 5. p. 275. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But S. Jerome and S. Augustin speak of it more peremptorily as a fabulous book and not allowed by the Church How much of it is extant besides what we have in Scaliger I know not nor what part it is so often mentioned in this Relation By what I have seen it doth appear to me a very superstitious foolish fabulous writing or to conclude all in one word Cabalistical such as the Divel might own very well and in all probability was the author of As for that conceit of the tongue which was spoken by Adam in Paradise we have already said that it is no late invention and I make no question but it proceeded from the same Author Yea those very Characters commended unto Dr. Dee by his Spirits for holy and mystical and the original Characters as I take it of the holy tongue they are no other for the most part but such as were set out and published long agoe by one Theseus Ambrosus out of Magical books as himself professeth you shall have a view of them in some of the Tables at the end of the Preface Some letters are the same others have much resemblace in the substance and in transcribing it is likely they might suffer some alteration But it may be too the Spirits did not intend they should be taken for the same because exploded by learned men and therefore altered the forms and figures of most of them of purpose that they might seem new and take the better So that in 〈◊〉 this the Divel is but still constant unto himself and this constancy stands him in good stead to add the more weight and to gain credit to his Impostures Not to be wondred therefore if the same things be found elsewhere where the D. hath an hand With Cabalistical writings we may joyn Chymical here also mentioned in many places I have nothing to say to Chymistrie as it is meerly natural and keeps it self within the compass of sobriety It may wel go for a part of Physick for ought I know though many great Physicians because of the abuse and danger of it as I conceive have done their best formerly to cry it down I my self have seen strange things done by it and it cannot be denyed but the wonders of God and Nature are as eminently visible in the experiments of that Art as any other natural thing However it is not improbable that divers secrets of it came to the knowledg of man by the Revelation of Spirits And the practice and profession of it in most them especially that profess nothing else is accompanied with so much Superstition and Imposture as it would make a sober man that tendreth the preservation of himself in his right wits
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
I mean in respect of the profoundnesse thereof The first leaf as you call it is the last of the Book And as the first leaf is a hotchpot without order So it signifieth a disorder of the World and is the speech of that Disorder or Prophesie Write the Book after your order backward but alter not the form of letters I speak in respect of the places E. K. Now a beame shooteth through him from the Stone and so through his head and out of his mouth his face being from E. K. toward Δ. ..... Write the 49. You have but 48 already Write first in a paper apart E. K. Said that Galvah her head is so on bright fire that it cannot be looked upon The fire so sparkleth and glistreth as when an hot iron is smitten on an Anvil especially at the pronouncing of every word It is to be noted also that upon the pronouncing of some words the Beasts and all Creatures of the World every one shewed themselves in their kind and form But notably aH Serpents Dragons Toads and all ugly and hideous shapes of beasts which all made most ugly countenances in a manner assaulting E. K. but contrariwise coming to and fawning upon Galvah It is to be noted also that by degrees came a second beame and a third beame of light into Galvah from the Stone and all the three together appeared the third participating of the other two The second beame came at the word Larb pronounced when also Frogs and Serpents appeared c. The third beame upon the word Exi pronounced Note also that the manner of the firy brightnesse was such and the grisely countenances of the Monsters was so tedious and greivous and displeasant to E. K. that partly the very grief of his minde and body and partly the suspecting the Creatures to be no good Creatures neither such greivous sights necessary to be exhibited with the Mysteries delivering unto us had in a manner forced him to leave off all But I again with reasonable exhorting of him and partly the providence and decree Divine wrought some mitigating of his grief and disquieting Gal. ..... These are these seven Δ. Blessed and praised for ever be He who is one and three and whom mighty ministers or governours do incessantly glorifie 1583. Gal. ..... Thy folly and weaknesse is great God comfort thee Δ. He spoke to E. K. for his excessive disquietnesse and suspecting of the verity or goodnesse of Galvah Δ. Note Now the beames were all retired into the stone again likewise all the Creatures and Vermine or ugly shaped Beasts are all gone We were willed also divers times to pray At sundry pangs of E. K. his grief and disquietnesse sundry speeches were uttered by the spiritual Creature among which these noted ..... He that is angry cannot see well From him that is perverse God turneth his face The hindrance of punishment is the mercy of God which imputeth not sin unto them whom he bath Chosen Therefore be patient and reconcile thy self to God E. K. I do it with all humility and sincerity of minde and beseech God to help me with his grace for of my self I cannot do so yet I am Thomas Didymas I will believe these things when I see the fruits of them Δ. He seemed yet again to doubt whether this Creature and the rest partakers of this action were soundly good and void of all halting or abusing us E K. How can you perswade me that ye be no deluders Gall. ..... I will prove it by contrary The servants of darknesse have their Garments stained their mouths stinck of blasphemy and lies but our Garments are no such neither do our lips speak any untruth and therefore we are of God for whosoever is of the truth is of God Moreover the Devil is known by his works for the spirit of God controlleth them the spirit of God agreeth with us and useth no controlment against it therefore it is not Daulesse In one thing thou mayest know us differing from Devils The wicked spirits alwayes abhor this word Mercy But it is the Doctrine that we preach in respect towards you we are not now then evil But this way teacheth hardnesse and is a stumbling block to the wicked but the beauty of the 〈◊〉 is not able to be expressed Happy are they which are covered with the Pearls of Righteousnesse and on whose head there is a Garland of godlinesse For unto those belongeth to taste of the Fountain of true wisdom Is it not written of this book that it teacheth nature in all degrees The judgement hereof is Intellectual And wash your feet and follow me Δ. Lord wash thou our feet or else we shall not be clean Gall. ..... How thou art God knoweth But comfort your selves in this That neither this Testimony can perish neither unto you can remain any slavery Quia vestra erit victoria in him and for him to whom I leave you Δ. What shall I do with these 21 words now received Gall. ..... There are onely the words of the first leaf Δ. I pray how shall I bestow them or place them Gall. ..... In them is the Divinity of the Trinity The Mysterie of our Creation The age of many years And the conclusion of the World Of me they are honoured but of me not to be uttered Neither did I disclose them my self For they are the beams of my understanding and the Fountain from whence I water Δ. I beseech you how shall I write these names in the first leafe Gall. ..... They are to be written in 5 Tables in every Table 21 Letters Δ. How shall I place the 5 Tables upon two sides three in the first and 2 in the second or one in the first and 4 in the second or how else Gall. ..... As thou seest cause Δ. Shall I write them in Letters of Gold Gall. .... The writing hath been referred to thy discretion with collours and such things as appertain to the writing thereof Vpon the first side write three Tables and on the second two Δ. How thus Gal. .... Set them down I will direct thy judgement Δ. When now Gal. .... Not now E. K. She is gone Δ. Deo Nostro sit Laus honor Gratiarum actio perennis Amen Wednesday 19. Junii Hora 2. a Meridie Δ. I made a prayer to God and there appeared one having two Garments in his hands who answered ..... A good praise with a wavering minde Δ. God make my minde stable and to be seasoned with the intellectual leaven free of all sensible mutability E. K. One of these two Garments is pure white the other is speckled of divers colours he layeth them down before him he layeth also a speckled Cap down before him at his feet he hath no Cap on his head his hair is long and yellow but his face cannot be seen at the least it was turned away-ward from E. K. continually though
fruit out of that Doctrine How poor is the power that hath been long told of in you You have forgotten your own knowledge and are become of seers blinde such as grope their way Such end such beginning For the end 〈◊〉 from the beginning and is become a means in it self to bring all things to passe But neither the end nor beginning of such things as you have handled hath been perfect or probable But a deceit comprehending the image of falshood Yea much more the traps and snares into wickednesse which deserveth destruction eternally If this may advise you Be it so If these examples and probable arguments be sound Then necessarily you ought of dutie to be counselled by me But I have opened my mouth and told you Be it unto you according to your disposition Δ. Be it unto us according to the mercies and loving kindnesse of the Highest into whose hands we commit our selves all our doings and intents ..... That is well said ... God be with you E. K. He is gone and in the place vvhere he stood the likenesse of a little Circle as if a print vvere made vvith a Thimble-brim Δ. Soli Deo Honor omnis Gloria Amen Monday 25. Novemb. Mane 8½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth straight way at the first looking the same fellow that last spake and left the print of the little Circle behind him Δ. Orabam diu ad Deum ut Arbiter esset inter istos A .... num .... lum confugimus in tempore necessitatis c. A te O Deus solo pendemus c. Δ. Sedebamus quasi in triangulo se convertebat versus A. L. ..... Thou O man awake shake off forgetflnesse Lift not up thy self so much But close up thine eares against these deluded deluders which carry thee 〈◊〉 into folly and transform thee to a shadow By whose counsel thou art become dishonoured and by whom thou shalt become a spot in the Book of 〈◊〉 Call to remembrance the Histories of the whole World Political and Ecclesiastical Inquire of the Learned that have settled their judgements in the Book of God Open thine eyes and behold if any of the Prophets or forefathers men grounded in wisdom and deep understanding have yielded themselves to this unrighteousnesse believing lyars consenting to untruths and lastly dishonouring the Name of God Then call to minde thine own estate thy flourishing of thy youth and possibilities wherein thou mayst be made perfect Which if thou truely do Then banish this dishonour to God and his Angles listen not to these S ..... ersity For the Syrenes are awake and their song is to destruction I am sent from God as a Messenger to call thee home for thou dishonourest God mightily Behold thou shalt be made contemptible and become a laughing-stock Thy honour shall be defaced and thy posterity spotted with ignominie Moreover such as are thy friends shall shake their heads saying What wise man hath thus been overcome What is he that is become foolish Thou mayst desire it and consent as before But I am a stumbling block betwixt you and will dwell in all Elements for your purposes E. K. He holdeth up his hands towards Δ and saith Nay I have told him truth E K. He hath now gotten him a Chair and sitteth down Δ. If it be truth then it is a token that God is very merciful unto us and that we are in his favour highly to give us this warning to avoid evil Now resteth the other part How we shall attain to good and wisdom from God such as by the true and perfect use of his creatures we might do him some acceptable service with true obedience and humility c. E. K. One cometh to him and saith ..... He goeth about to take you a lyar E. K. He goeth away and cometh again E. K. This man which thus came and went away and cometh again is all in white he hath a silver Crown on his head he speaketh as followeth .... ..... Deny that you have done Confesse it to be false Cry you have offended And let the Angels of God see you do so that they may carry up your prayers so shall you become righteous But why dost thou write words of contempt against us For One in our number is All And we are all One Believe us for of our selves we have no power to instruct you but to deliver you the Commandment of God Rent your cloaths pluck those blasphemous books in pieces And fall down before the Lord for he it is that is Wisdom I have done for this time E. K. He is gone Δ. Quis est discretor Spirituum E. K. Now he cometh in again and speaketh ..... Oh you are a Learned man ..... Truth in the second He it is that discrectly judgeth all things If his discretion be given to you thank God Δ. Illi ergo Committemus hanc causam ab illo hoc donum petentes expectantes Nos interim pie in Christo vivere intendimus E. K. He is become a great pillar of Chrystal higher than a Steeple He ascendeth upward in clouds and the little circle remaineth Δ. Gloria laus honor gratiarum actio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Trino uni nunc in secula seculorum Amen Tuesday Decembris 10. After Diner we removed from Lubek and the Lord Alb. Laskie went by Coach to Lord Christopher Duke of Meckelburgh Thursday night we lay at Wismar 11. Decemb. vel 12. Saturday morning we came to Rostoch 14. Decembris Monday Decemb. 16. Mane hora 10¼ Rostoch E. K. He is here that said he would dwell in omnibus Elementis c. Δ. ..... I came from the fountain of light where is no errour nor darknesse and have Power because it is given me from the Highest Which Lo is grown and become a mighty Rock For it is said of me Behold I will visit them that put their trust in me with a comfortable strength in the time of need For my Rock is an everlasting strength and the Hills of my countenance endure for ever If then I be the Countenance of God and a piercing fire sent out as a flame not onely with his great mercy but with his good will and that towards you overwhelmed not cast down but almost for ever buried in a lake of ignorance and inquenchable flame such as consumeth with ignorance deceit it self and a provocation too manifest and apparent destruction If I then with this message being the message of truth my self a mean .... sufficent Order for the publishment thereof can nor may ..... as of ... n I am vehemently despised the fruits of a good Conscience notwithstanding stedfast Then is he of no power of whom I am .... because it is written Such as rise up against my Spirit I will destroy them in the midst of the same fire and will deliver their ashes to the windes for a memory of their wickednesse But he is just and is
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
wondring at the Miracle Suddenly appeared by us the self-same Gardiner like person but with his face somewhat turned away and nothing thereof to be adjudged as of Ave the custome is He said Kelly follow me E. K. went and I sat still awaiting his return This Gardiner went before E. K. and his feet seemed not to touch the ground by a foot height And as he went before E. K. so the doores did seeme to open before him he 〈◊〉 him up the great stairs on the left hand by the Vineyard door and so in at his own Chamber door where E. K. hath his new Study and then the door going out of that to the stairs opened of it self and he went up those stairs at length brought him to the Furnace mouth where all the Books and papers had been 〈◊〉 the 10 day of this April And coming thither there the spiritual Creature did seem to set one of his feet on the post on the right hard without the Furnace mouth and with the other to step to the Furnace mouth and so to reach into the Furnace the bricks being now plucked away which stopped the mouth of the Furnace all saving one brick thick and as he had reached into the furnace there appeared a great light as if there had been a window in the back of the Furnace and also to E. K. the hole which was 〈◊〉 greater then the thickness of a brick unstopped did seeme now more then three or four brick thickness wide and so over his shoulder backward he did reach to E. K. all the rest of the standing Books excepting the Book out of which the last Action was cut and Fr. Pucci his Recantation also to E. K. appeared in the Furnace all the rest of the papers which were not as then delivered out That being done he bade E. K. go and said he should have the rest afterward He went before in a little fiery cloud and E. K. followed with the Books under his arm all along the Gallery and came down the stairs by Fr. Pucci his Chamber door and then his guide left E. K. and he brought me the Books unto my place under the Almond-tree ✚ Pragae 1586 Aprilis 30 May-even Mane circa 8. Δ Precibus quibusdam fusis ad Deum 〈◊〉 pro miraculo Hesterno actis petebamus jam a Deo consilium suum quid de isto miraculo nobis esset faciendum ulterius c. Et quid faciemus cum Domino Rosenbergio an illum debeamus admittere ad amicitiam nostram soedus sanctum quid de ejus oblatis aedibus c. E. K. A voice commeth down right before me saying E. K. Who is this William Vox ..... Thou William Δ A pause Δ I suspect it to be the Lord Rosenberg Thou William Δ A pause Thou William of Rosenberg Δ A greater pause  This day in the Bloud of the Lamb do I pronounce forgiveness of sinnes upon thee and for a signe and token Thy lines shall be opened and thy seed shall be multiplyed upon Earth Therefore take unto thee a Sheep that is yet a Lamb and spoile not the flock of thy poor neighbour And behold if thou turn thy self from the North and ascend unto the Holy Mountain and I will hereafter make a Covenant with thee But take heed thou despise me not Blessed are those that are comforted of me for their strength is from above For whosoever is rebuked of the spirit of truth shall with time perish as a shadow Is it not said if thy eye offend thee cast him out I say unto thee also yea though thy head 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him also away The unstable Whisperings and wordly Pollicies of such as are the Princes of the World are they not known unto mee O you Hypocrites O you little of understanding and of less faith how far are you in love with the World and her pomp with the flesh and her lightness or wantonness with the Divel and his damnable subtilty Purge your houses and purge your Kingdomes if you wiil stir up the Lord to strengthen you Cursed is that Nation that defiled her self with the society of such as are Bastards But wo we be unto him that Ruleth not according to the length of his bridle The chaff of this Empire and Kingdom behold it remaineth the father swept it not out neither doth the Son lift up his hand for the name of the Highest O you Hypocrites you are faithless for you fulfil not your charge Thou hast yet time to awake thou mayst yet be acceptable Thy doings let them be a Judge between thee and me Δ Magna pausa Vox ..... Behold I have given thee unto Rosenberg him also have I given unto thee Whosoever therefore considereth not the giver shall be called to account and that sharply In the yeare 88 I will send out my visitation that the ends of the world may be known and that Justice may appeare in the garments of her unmeasurable honor In the mean season I will bless you abundantly with all the gists and seeds of nature See therefore that you work and labour that your hands may bring forth fruit the increase of the Lord. Six Actions you shall have the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lords and from this day being a part of the tim beginning from Fryday last celebrated as the memorial of him through whom I speak unto you which suffered upon the Crosse for your Redemption until the day come of the sixth Moneth you shall not presume to aske any visitation of him that speaketh with you And so the sixth Moneth the last day ensuin shall alwayes be your day of Action § Pucci is defiled and shall not be partaker of these six visitations to come but shall depart from you and be ready as the Lord shall find him and as he shall be warned of you Notwithstanding my spirit shall not depart from him and I will open his understanding that he may convert many For the World must be satisfied with testimony as well of his life as the recantation professed Doctrine Δ We lack ô Lord his recantation written by his own hand I cannot find it in the Books restored Those Books let them be kept of thee as committed unto thy custody by me And see that they be never opened until the sixth Action to come See also that you disclose not my hand amongst you least I then rise up against you For behold you are yet in the Wildernesse Therefore be silent Vnto William notwithstanding hereafter all things may be known and made manifest If any man seek you else you know him not For you live within the silence of the Highest The rest that wanteth shall be restored unto you even unto the least and last letter Live therefore together as in the hands of your Protector And doubt not but that I will be merciful unto him that is sick through his infirmity yea and
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
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
Operations and Apparitions in the place of Edward Kelley and the like And again his Humility Piety Patience O what pity that such a man should fall into such a delusion but we shall consider of the causes in its right place afterwards upon all occasions temptations distresses most eminent throughout the whole Book Let these things be well considered and above the rest his large and punctual relation of that sad abominable story of their Promiscuous carnal Copulation under the pretence of obedience to God Let these things I say be well considered and I think no man will make any question but the poor man did deal with all possible simplicity and sincerity to the utmost of his understanding at that time And truly this one thing as we said before excepted his mistaking of evil Spirits for good it doth not appear by any thing but that he had his understanding and the perfect use of his Reason to the very last as well as he had had any time of his life Again let it be considered that he carryed with him where ever he went A STONE which he called his Angelicall Stone as brought unto him by an Angel but by a Spirit sure enough which he shewed unto many to the Emperor among others or the Emperors Deputy Dr. Curts as I remember But more of this Stone afterwards We may therefore conclude surely enough That Dr. d ee in all this Relation did deal with all simplicity and sincerity I shall only add That whereas I used the word Reality before concerning those things that appeared according to this Relation I would not be mistaken as though I intended that whatsoever the Divel did seem to do or represent it was Really and Substantially as it seemed and appeared that would be a great and gross mistake The very word Apparition doth rather import the contrary All I understand by Reality is that what things appeared they did so appear by the power and operation of Spirits actually present and working and were not the effects of a depraved fancy and imagination by meer natural causes By which strange things I confess may be presented and apprehended too sometimes by the parties with all confidence as we said before though all be but fancy and imagination But all circumstances well considered make this Case here to be of another nature and it may be it was the policy of these Spirits to joyn two of purpose in this business to make the truth and reality of it the more unquestionable hoping if God had given way they should have passed in time for good Spirits abroad generally and then we should have seen what they would have made of it From lesse beginnings I am sure greatest confusions have proceeded and prevailed in the world as we shall shew elsewhere And since that in all this business as we said but now Dr. d ee did not deal alone but had a constant Partner or Assistant whom sometimes himself calleth his Seer or Skryer one by name Edward Kelly it will be requisite before we proceed further that we give some account of him also According to Dr. Dee's own relation here An. Dom. 1587. April 7. Trebonae in the particulars of his Son Arthur's Consecration after his manner which he calls His offering and presenting of him to the service of God Uriel one of his chiefest Spirits was the author of their Conjunction but when and how it hapned being but obiter mentioned there we do not find any where and more then what I find here I have nothing to say For certain it is by this whole story from the beginning to the end of it that Kelley was a great Conjurer one that daily conversed by such art as is used by ordinary Magicians with evil Spirits and knew them to be so Yet I would suppose that he was one of the best sort of Magicians that dealt with Spirits by a kind of Command as is well known some do and not by any Compact or agreement this may probably be gathered from sundry places But that he was a Conjurer appearereth first by that where he proffered to raise some evil Spirit before the Polish Prince Palatine Albert Lasky of whom more by and by for a proof of his Art But Dr. Dee would not suffer him to do it in his house Wicked spirits are cast out of him to the number of 15. P. 32. But I make no great matter of that in point of proof because all there upon his bare report only But see p. 63. c. where it is laid to his charge and he answereth for himself and his Spirits See also where at last he yielded to bury not to burn his Magical books But read his own confession where you shall find him speak like one that knew very well what did belong to the Art and the record made by Dr. Dee concerning a shrewd contest that hapned between Dr. Dee and him it was about some Magical things wherein Edward Kelly carried himself so fiercely that Dr. Dee being afraid of his life was forced to call for help Peruse well this place and I presume you will require no further light as to this particular concerning Kelly As for the several Epistles in Latin most that will be found here as also Narratives of several meetings and conferences they carry so much light with them being set out with so many remarkable circumstances of time place persons c. that no man of judgment that hath any knowledge of the world will or can make any scruple of the sincerity and fidelity of either reports or Deeds and monuments such I account the Letters to be herein contained A man might with little labour that had all kind of books at command have found somewhat concerning most outlandish persons in them mentioned I could not intend it and I think it would have been a needless labour If any make any question let them make search I dare warrant it unto them they shall find all things to agree punctually But because Albert Lasky next to Edward Kelley is the man most interressed in this story I will give you some account of him out of Mr. Cambden his Annals Anno Dom. 1583. E Polonia Russiae vicinâ hac aestate venit in Angliam ut Reginam inviseret Albertus Alasco Palatinus Siradiensis vir eruditus corporis lineamentis barbâ promisissimâ vestitu decoro pervenusto qui perbenignè ab ipsa nobilibusque magnoque honore lautitiis et ab Accademia Oxoniensi eruditis oblectationibus atque variis spectaculis exceptus post 4. menses aere alieno oppressus clam recessit But of all Letters here exhibited I am most taken I must confess with the Bishops Letter that was Nuncius Apostolicus he seemes to me to speak to the case very pertinently take Puccius his account along in his long letter to Dr. d ee of his conference with the said Bishop concerning the same business and to have carryed himself towards Dr. d ee
same event in Dr. Dee though otherwise as he doth appear to us innocent and well qualified That this was his case and error I will appeal to his own confession though he makes it his boast in more then one of his Letters or addresses where he professeth That for divers years he had been an earnest suter unto God in prayer for Wisdom that is as he interprets himself That he might understand the secrets of Nature that had not been revealed unto men hitherto to the end as he professeth and his own deceitful heart it may be suggested unto him That he might glorifie God but certainly that himself might become a glorious man in the world and be admired yea adored every where almost as he might be sure it would be had he compassed his desire And what do we think should put him upon such a desire with hopes to obtain it but an opinion he had of himself as an extraordinary man both for parts and for favour with God But however had he been to the utmost of what he could think of himself besides his Spiritual pride of thinking so of himself as great a sin as any in the eyes of God his praying for such a thing with so much importunity was a great tempting of God and deserving greatest judgments Had he indeed been a suter unto God for such Wisdom as the Prophet Jeremie describeth 11. v. 24 25. Let not the Wise man glorie in his wisdom c. but let him that glorieth c. And for such knowledg as our Saviour commandeth Joh. 17. 3. And this is life eternal that they may know thee c. And his blessed Apostle 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 2. For I determined not to know any thing c. he had had good warrant for his prayers and it is very likely that God would have granted him his request so far as might have concerned his own salvation and eternal happiness Besides it is lawful nay fit for a man to pray for Gods blessing upon his labours for competency of wit and capacity that he may do well in his vocation and glorifie God But for a man to aspire to such eminency above other men and by means that are not ordinary as that conceited Phylosophers Stone and the like and to interest God by earnest solicitations in his ambitions extravagant desires that God who hath said of himself That he resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble must needs be so great and so high a provocation if well considered as that I begin to doubt whether it be charity to pity him that suffered so justly and deservedly I do not know but it is as lawfull for any man obscurely born to pray for a Kingdom for a Common Souldier that he may have strength to encounter thousands or for an ordinarie Maid that she may become the fairest of women In all these it is possible to glorifie God we grant were it fit for us to prescribe unto God neglecting those that he hath appointed by what means he should be glorified and could we secure our selves that in pretending to Gods glory we do not seek our own I wish that our great undertakers and reformers such is their wisdom they think of Arts and Sciences would seriously think of this they especially who take upon themselves to make all men wise and of one mind and to reconcile all doubts and difficulties in Religion and otherwise in a word to make Truth to be imbraced by all men Should these men tell us that if they had had the creating of the world and the ordering of all things and there be I think in the world that have said little less from the beginning they would have made an other guess of things then God had done We would have considerd of it perchance what might be the ground in any mortal man of such wonderful confidence But such being the condition of the world as it is and such of men naturally or to speak as a Christian since the fall of Adam and the consequencies of it the curse of God c. to make all men wise of one mind good religious without an infinite omnipotent power such as of nothing was able to create a world can any man sober and wise hear it hear it with patience that thinks it impossible yea strange that Castles should be built in the air or the heavens battered with great guns And yet such books are read yea and much set by by some men My judgment is That they are to be pityed if distemper be the cause as I believe it is in some that boast of such things but if wise and politick to get credit and money as some I believe it is a great argument of their confidence that there be many in the word that are not very wise But to return to Dr. d ee It might be further added and proved by examples that some men of transcendent holiness and mortification in the sight of men so sequestred from the world some of them and the vanities of it that for many years they had conversed with God alone in a manner yet through pride and conceit of their own parts and favour with God fell into delusions and temptations if not altogether the same yet not less strange and dreadful Such examples Ecclesiastical Story will afford and other books of that nature but I have them not at this time and I conceive I have said enough to this 〈◊〉 But of his Praying too somewhat would be observed His Spirits tell him somewhere that he had the Gift of Praying Truly I believe he had as it is ordinarily called that it is that he could express himself very fluently and earnestly in Prayer and that he did it often to his own great contentment Let no man wonder at this I have shewed elsewhere that some that have been very wicked yea some that dyed for blasphemy and with blasphemy in their mouth to the last gasp have had it in a great measure and done much mischief by it It is no disparagement to Prayer no more then it is to the best things of the world and what better and more heavenly then prayer well used if they be abused And it is commonly observed that the corruption of best things is most dangerous What bred those pernicious hereticks that so long troubled the world and could not be 〈◊〉 but by absolute destruction but long affected prayers therefore called Euchites or Messaliani that is to say the Prayers and Enthusiasms And as to that point of inward joy and comptacency which some Schismaticks and wicked men find in themselves at their prayers which ignorant deluded people think to be an argument of the Spirit It is certain and is a mystery of nature that hath may I speak it without bragging been brought to light of late years at least by my self and fully discovered That not only the inward heat of mental conception where there is any vigor but also the musick
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
by Apparitions His affairs in England Sir Henry Sidney falsly reported dead by spirits Alb. Lasky conspired against Cracovia promised to Doctor Dee a place of rest and again p. 70. XXXVIII p. 69 Doctor Dee's questions not answered XXXIX ibid. The questions again Mystical and Cabalistical elusions Some things obscurely answered XL p. 71. Alb. Lasky in part rejected as unworthy yet to be King of Moldavia ¶ Their coming to Cracovia XLI p. 73. These Visions and Actions magnified as incomparable mercies and favours The Trinity acknowledged Cabalistical mysteries XLII p. 76. Great mysteries promised 49 Tables 49 Calls c. Their virtue XLIII p. 77. An illusion A further progresse in the Cabale of Tables and Calls with shew in the spirits of marvellous reverence XLIV p. 78. The first Table Mystical numbers and letters c. XLV p. 80. Ed. Kelley a Magician and for it reproved Further proceeding in the promised Cabale Great opposition of wicked spirits in shew whilest this wonderful Cabale is delivered XLVI p. 82. A Prayer in words zealous used by the spirits prescribed to Doctor Dee c. Proceedings in the Cabale More opposition in shew of wicked spirits Bodily reverences and prayers often used The first Call ended The use and vertue of it XVII p. 88. More opposition in shew of wicked spirits XLVIII p. 89 The Sabbath or Sunday to be kept XLIX ib. More opposition yet the work proceedeth L p. 91. Nothing appeareth Ed. Kelley upon good grounds very confident that they were Devils all that had appeared hitherto and their pretended mysteries very fopperies c. LI ib. Kelley of that mind still and resolved to brain Doctor Dee Doctor Dee's great confidence but upon little grounds whereof see in the Preface of the contrary LII ib. Kelley reproved The mysterie of Numbers The Creation Fall of Adam The language he spake c. ¶ Ed. Kelley reconciled LIII p. 93. Somewhat heard by Doctor Dee also to his wondering Sermon-like stuff of Predestination Election c. delivered by spirits The Keyes Their use and vertue Move not c. often repeated explained The worke goes on LIV p. 199. The work goes on but not without as is conceived opposition LV p. 102. Mystical Apparitions explained and applyed to Doctor Dee c. The holy Book to be written by God himself according to promise LVI p. 104. A prayer the work goes on LVII p. 111. Mystical Apparitions explained New instructions for future Actions The Dayes the dresse of the place LVIII p. 115. A parable against Ed. Kelley who contesteth with the spirits about the lawfulnesse of his Magick yeildeth neverthelesse to bury in the ground his Magical Books and Characters which is accepted so one of 27 be burned An Apparition shewing as it proved the present estate of A. L. LIX p. 118. Kelley's obedience The work goes on The former ceremonies used LIX .... Ed. Kelley at last very well satisfied that all is from God and very devout LX p. 138. Gods power He not tyed to time The Incarnation of Christ acknowledged Warnings to Al. L. and promises LXI p. 139. Calls Aires What and how to be used Divisions and Governments of Angels Divisions of the Earth Al. Lasky his case Mapsama or Dic nobis under Gabriel Jes s acknowledged Good Instructions Humility c. A good Prayer ill applyed LXII p. 146. An illuder Obedience Faith without which Gods promises not irrevocable Examples in Scripture The Cabale of Calls c. as before LXIII p. 153. Ed. Kelley doubtful again The parts of the Earth revealed unto Ptolemy by an Angel Some Characters and Prophesies of divers places of the World Some mistaken I believe Constantinople The Turk The Arke of Noe. The place of Paradise Eli Enoch John where reserved A contradiction observed by Doctor Dee not answered by the spirits Rome ¶ The spirits upon good grounds suspected and answered by Ed. Kelley for illuders and cozeners who is opposed by Doctor Dee with much confidence and some appearance of reason Some mistakes in the writing from what cause LXIV p. 159. Ed. Kelley very bold and perverse as censured by Doctor Dee with the spirits yet not without good ground of reason all well considered The Book the leaves dimensions and other particulars of it Not to be written but by Angels Al. Lasky yet in favour LXV p. 160. God all in all The Devil in perpetual opposition How dangerous truly spoken though by the Devil to deal with him Infidelity punished Anabaptistical Prophesies and Promises Al. Lasky suspected LXVI p. 162. Ed. K. reproved and exborted to repent earnestly yea with tears in shew Devils and their businesse both with good and bad Some Cabalistical stuff promised ¶ p. 164. Ed. Kelley's Confession of heretical damnable opinions by him held and believed His repentance abjuration of Magical arts and practices conversion unto God believed by Doctor Dee upon great probabilities to be hearty and sincere His thanks to God for it ¶ 165. More of Kelley's conversion No Apparition and why divers conjectures of Dr. Dee LXXVII p. 166. Apparitions to comfort and confirm Al. Lasky LXVIII Visions and Apparitions to Ed. Kelley first alone then in the presence of Doctor Dee The visitation the mercies of God Great promises Exposition by spirits of the Vision ¶ Ed. Kelley tempted and doubtful again LXIX p. 171. A Vision to Ed. Kelley and Al. Lasky with promises out of the Psalms LXX p. 171. Furniture of the Table crosses c. The Table of the Earth Governour Angels c. The Book the title of it Let those c. and doctrine of Enoch revealed unto him by speciall favour counterfeited by D. and Magicians their Characters Mystical Tables Figures Words c. Linea spiritus Sancti a horrible profanation but such are most Cabalistical mysteries mystical crosses c. Solomons knowledge if you will believe them how far it extended ¶ LXXI p. 178. The Cabale goes on The wonderfull extent of it Diseases how to be cured or procured by it Money coined and uncoined given by whom ¶ LXXII p. 181. LXXIII p. 183. The secrets of States so Trithemius too we have his Tables but never was any man the wiser whereof more in the Preface Medicine Christ his earthly Kingdom All things in these Tables Ave suddenly gone Madimi appeareth Doctor Dee wanteth money but can get none A gingling but false Prophesie concerning the Emperour to succeed Rodolph See also p. 243. ¶ Ed. Kelley his rage and reviling much distiked by Dr. Dee repented of by Kelley himself taken notice of his repeutance by the spirits An extraordinary extraordinary so apprebesided by D. Dee storm of Thunder and Rain ¶ LXXIV ibid. More Cabalistical instructions somewhat like Magick as Kelley thought concerning the practice of it Dreadful Prophesies of sudden alterations in the World Al. Lasky in favour The Book to be prepared c. Ed. Kelley a perfect Magician by his own acknowledgement ¶ LXXV p. 185. Patience and Humility commended A
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
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
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
be consumed And after certain moneths I will bring thee home yea thou shalt live till thou be able to passe the waves without a ship and to ascend the Hills as the Spiders do Notwithstanding I will take the Crown from the house it is in and I will place it as I have Prophesied unto thee Notwithstanding for a time thou shalt live with Caesar. ..... I come again E. K. He is gone Δ. O Lord what shall become of my good friend the Lord Laskie E. K. Here he is again Uriel ..... Of Lasky thus it is said Thou Δ. hast groaned for him and hast placed him in thy Δ. heart From henceforth will I reconcile him unto me and I will cease my anger upon him and he shall come hither * shortly But he is a wanton and very prone to sin But hear what I say unto thee E. K. He seemeth to have talk with one afar off Caesar thought thou hadst had the Philosophers stone and as yet he thinketh so Even as I choaked the gluttenous Israelites with quayles so will I choake him with that secret Behold thou shalt write unto him saying that he regardeth not heaven And say unto him that thou canst make the Philosophers stone I will perform it unto thee Thou shalt do it And I will give unto thee a special vertue in healing That whensoever thou comest hither Thou shalt understand the truth And this I do because they shall not despise thee Δ. O Lord for me to be despised in doing thy commandment is honour and comfort to me But as concerning thy honour and glorie Thou in thy wisdom knowest what is best to be done Uriel ..... Notwithstanding thou shall see him perish before thy face Lo from this time I will blesse thee marvellously and I will help thee in all thy works Do thou alwayes And make me thy Buckler Δ. What shall I do with Doctor Curtz as concerning his answer Uriel ..... Handle him like a man for he will deceive thee E. K. I request you but one thing for all my labour and travel that is that this Doctor might this night be bereft of his life to the terrour of other c. Uriel ..... Have patience God turneth all to his glory and your commodity To morrow I have something else to say Deus Noster in coelo omnia quaecunque volrit fecit Ille solus est Omnipotens aeternus sapiens Bonus Justus Misericors Illi debetur omis Laus gratiarum actio honor gloria Amen Saturday 22. Septemb. Manè Circiter horam 9. Precibus ad Deum finitis variis ad ipsum Ejaculationibus pro 〈◊〉 veritate Dei c. quibusdam de Rudolphi Curtzii corruptis Judiciis qui Dei Misericordias juxta carnis sensum judicare ausi sunt apparuit Vriel facie velata ut ante Uriel ..... For this cause say I unto thee write unto Rudolph saying I can make the Philosophers stone Because I would place thee with them according to their hope and imagination That whilest they think little of me and of the sweetnesse of my message and testimony I might burst out amongst them as the mighty waters do out of Hills when the earth moveth For I have said unto thee I will place thee here If I sow thee here what Raven can pluck thee up by the roots No I will hide thee as the Hen doth her Chickens And I will make thee spring to their destruction For why thou shalt overcome that mystery for thy own sake Δ. For the glorie of God his honour and triumph all good come unto me Uriel ..... Behold since they will not tye thee unto them from heaven Thou shalt tye them unto thee from earth That thou mayest rejoyce when thou seest their destruction and be ready cloathed for him that is to come It was said unto thee my mother saith she will chuse an Emperour in ernest But it is Ernest that shall sit upon his seat Behold ' there shall be no seed left in him for his wickednesse Yea the blessings that I have offered him shall return again and I will leave his house naked But when he seeth and hath Gold which is the thing he desireth and those that counsel him do most desire him for Then shall he perish with a most cruel terrible and unheard of mischief But lo I have written his name within my hand because I would not forget to punish him Behold I could send the windes to devour him and could open the Caves of the earth to swallow him which would turn to my honour But I have a care over you Now I am unto you in mercy and wisdom But I will be with you in terror and miracles And I will deal with you in a higher degree And you shall hear my voyce as men do their brethren Δ. What thou wilt O Lord for thy honour and glory That be Uriel ..... But those that are his counsellers have commanded him rather then counselled him to have no dealing with thee at all And he is possessed with a great and a mighty Devil And behold Belzagal which is the fury and Prince of the Turks doth assist him in his wickednesse for he knoweth it may come to passe that his Kingdom shall be short But give ear unto me Fawn thou upon Caesar as a worldling that thou mayest draw him with the world to see the glory of God but to his destruction For lo how much more a mans felicity is in this world the more shall be the burden of his destruction There be that gape after thy books and speak vainly of things that are not Therefore I counsel that they dwell not long with Poland Behold when Lasky cometh he shall not hastily return into Poland till I whisper in his ears He is dead that sought thy life I have more to say but they are not yet necessary Δ. I beseech you to tell me when I shall prepare my self to go for my books c. Uriel ..... I speak not that I know not but chuse thy own time Now will I become a Courtier E. K. He is gone Fiat voluntas Dei ad ejus laudem honorem gloriam Amen Monday Septembris 24. Mane hora 8. †Pragae Δ. At the first looking E. K. saw Vriel but covered with his Scarf c. Notwithstanding I said some prayers to God on my knees and came and said here Mitte lucem tuam veritatem 〈◊〉 O 〈◊〉 ut ipsae nos ducart ad montem Sion c. It is to be remembred that for two causes we repaired to the Shew-stone the one by reason of the letter which I had written to the Emperour and was minded to go to shew it to the Spanish Embassadour before I sent it to the Emperour to have his opinion of it and also to bear it Secondly by reason of foul slanderous words which were spoken of me
came And that which hath offended in nothing shall be a second opposite from God and out of God which shall have continuance world without end And it shall be alwayes vexed the Spirit of God mediating not of the substance or purenesse of God or of his Spirit but with the self-same Nothing out of which God created all things Seeing therefore that the Will of God which is his Image separating Nothing from eternity in time made all things being the work of six dayes But I teach you a Mystery All things that through God are moved to the Center by the Spirit of God which is the center of the Godhead are not after the world after the consummation of the world as Angels and the blessed souls are not to be reckoned with that Nothing But are of God because they dwell in him of whom it is said There they shall not need the Sun nor the Moon the Lamb himself shall be their light and a shining lamp for ever Note here that the Trinity first second and third totally not moved but by himself in himself time bringing forth all things according to his Word made all things except Man For why when all things had pleased him not because they were but because by the Word the Image of himself and wherein he is delighte they were made he made man as the Scripture teacheth you how by the Spirit of God in Moses that he should injoy and use the benefit of all this something proceeding from nothing in the Creatures of God in their kind that in him God might be glorified not onely in this world which is your earth vail of misery but also and chiefly that the memory of his exceeding and great mercy omnipotency might remain before him in heaven in the image of man and the most excellent Creatures world without end E. K. Now he is faln into ashes again as before E. K. Now he standeth up again as before ..... Here is the making of man to be considered for of the most excellentest dignified and 〈◊〉 part of Nothing distributed as it were approaching neer unto God God made the Soul of man as a thing knit or tied in the convex of his own Sphere not taking part with Nothing materially but with Nothing Immortal The Soul was made spiritual and increasing wherein the Philosophers the wise men of this world are deceived and hath been a secret shut up in the Book of Esdras not fit for the world For even as flesh by conjunction and commixtion of likelihoods proper in their own nature to bring forth the 〈◊〉 of himself so doth the most execllentest part of man taking part with the vicinity of God and so 〈◊〉 moving bring forth after the manner of eternity every living soul the Spirit of God conjoyned with the 〈◊〉 working with him in his infinity 〈◊〉 in the beginning God hath not numbred 〈◊〉 all souls that shall enter into those vessels or other part But the matter material in himself he knoweth and hath limited beyond the which there cannot be Therefore it is conteined in Number Not that it is 〈◊〉 in Number to be numbred but within the proportion of number conteined in the knowledg of 〈◊〉 Christ taking 〈◊〉 with man and so to be numbred Adam fell 〈◊〉 God his Commandment and therefore was his soul darkened bare and naked because he wanted the beauty and excellency of Gods Spirit wherein he dignified him and made him like unto himself being a living soul. He was cast out and now casteth off misery wanting the knowledge of those things for the which he was created Now God the image of his Father grieved at the fall of man and moved with pity vouchsafed because of the excellency of man to enter into man being before 〈◊〉 into this part of nothing into man Not that he would beautifie himself with any thing that man had But that Become man begotten of the Holy Ghost he might as you know by the Scriptures make man acceptable again with God his Father God himself with God in unity for 〈◊〉 and Terrour is God the Father Mercy and love is God the Son Wisdome and knowledge is God the Holy ghost He since 〈◊〉 became man put not on the flesh of man to become a lyar but that the flesh of man might be full of the spirit of truth and understanding E. K. Now he is faln again into ashes E. K. Now he is up again And so receive forgivenesse of sins and be at one with God which is to say in his favour taking hold in God not as created and from Creation sinful by fall But by ransonse and redemption as bought and made free in Jesus Christ which offered up the Sacrifice of frankincense gold and myrrh of true propitiation for the quick and the dead Now my brethren give good ear what I say unto you The wisdome of the Father in love created and made man dignifying him and exalting him as the Lord and Master over all Creatures mortal But how by Plasmation For it is written Let us make man Here thou seest also the Scripture saith that God took of the Earth Mark this word and consider it when I shall apply it Now if this power if this Plasmating if this Taking which was the Word become man perfect man then followeth it that man was and is God creating and created If therefore this conjunction or knitting together of God and man bear the image of him in excellency and power which created all things and by whom this Nothing was spread abroad and had form in his parts then followeth it that the self-same God and Man being truth speaking of himself unto his Disciples saying This is my body E. K. Now he is fallen again in ashes E. K. Now he is up again ..... Read Δ I read Now my brethren give good ear c. E. K. Now he holdeth up his hands ..... did in breaking of bread which signifieth the earth in taking it signified the power of making and his own Office and breaking it before his Disciples according to the secret sense of mans soul then being yet alive give himself in the bread and in breaking unto his Disciples as the sense of his word spoken E K. He speaketh that I understand not ..... did import and truly signifie himself his 〈◊〉 body to suffer and suffered in that in him in his Godhead and wisdome before the worlds it was so his very true body and very true blood But notwithstanding 〈◊〉 Consider of this E. K. He is gone Δ Blessed be E. K. Now he is here again ..... Mark here for whom and unto whom Christ took and brake bread also took the Chalice and called it his blood of the New Testament which shall be given Here you see that in faith and Sacramentally it was given unto his Disciples there which was also to be given upon the Crosse for the redemption of man kind for else
amans tua benignitas inter nos valida est Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Honor omnis laus et gloria tibi detur in perpetuum Δ Amen URIEL ..... Modico transacto temporis spatio revertam E. K. Abiit Δ Nota. Δ Interim Francisco Pucci haec quae Anglicè dictata recepimus Latine recitabam Nobisque nervosa valdè 〈◊〉 accommoda institut is videbantur E. K. Iterum illum adesse video URIEL ..... Francisce attentis auribus verba excipias mea SISTATIS PAULULUM Δ Hinc statim Franciscus Puccius a sede sua genibus utrisque quasi Deo supplex terram petebat URIEL ..... Verum quidem est ut tuus te aliàs commune fecit spiritus quòd Deus te 〈◊〉 ut particeps intelligens esses voluntatis suae explendae in vindicta ira sua exercenda contra terrae falsitatem fraudem Atque hanc ob causam ex magno suo amore immensa misericordia sua avocavit te Deus à filiis hominum Deo invisorum ab injustitiae tramite In qua tua vocatione si illum imiteris in tuae conscientiae simplicitate justitia quae fidei sunt opera confirmaberis Tibi enim dico vindictam meam effundam super universam terram atque illam castigabo in iniquitate sua in suae superbiè summo gradu illam praecipitem posternam neque ultra triumphabit Et quia te demissum humilémque exhibuisti spiritus meus tecum erit intelligentiam tu consequeris Et monstrum hoc impium quod in Templo sancto sedet contra Altissimum peccat 〈◊〉 cum superbia sua Atque ex ore utriusque vestri castigabitur corrigetur Judicium enim à Domo Dei inchoari debet E filius rebellis prius flagellis caedi debet quam impius puniri servus No timeatis Vestris enim verbis vires potentiam adjungam Et vestra si contemnat verba manusque suas contra vos 〈◊〉 de Coelo ignis atque sulphuris demittam imbrem Palatia ejusdem in terram descendent lacusque ibidem remanens contra illum testimonium dabit perpetuum Erigas igitur cor tuum mundumque despicias contra cjusdem veriliter pugna neque ab eodem vincans Tua 〈◊〉 confitearis peccata ad Dominum confugias illius perquirito domum de illius pane comedas eo enim multum tibi opus est Et semina quae sparsim 〈◊〉 recolligas ne fortè tu poenas tuas ob fratrum tuorum peccata Anima tua Deo chara est atque ideirco misericordia erga te movetur tibique dicit si coram Domino 〈◊〉 appareas atque sequaris instructiones disciplinam Spiritus sancti faciásque opera Justiciae Charitatis spiritus meus super te requiescet Dixi. E. K. Abiit Δ Ex Anglicis dictatis istis ultimis Latine eundem expressi sensum Domino Fr. Puccio valde devoto humili praemissa agnoscenti acceptanti c. E. K. Iterum mihi conspicuus est URIEL ..... Praemissa vestra tam poenitentia quam devotione Benedictio Dei Patris Filii Spiritu sancti in sua sempiterna veritate lucéque vos consoletur vobisque benedicat vobis misericordiam impertiat copiosam Δ Amen Ex Actione quae erat die Veneris September 6. 1585. Pragae Eat Puccius ut promissis per ficiendis provide at At cor habeat sincerum rectumque Immò saepe proprios detergat caliceos Inter eu ndem autem alloquatur mortua arbusta de Domino venturo Ambulet cum montibus ut illi ejus audire possit Tunc revertatur ut quod reliquum est ad implere possit Atqui dico proprios tergat caliceos Δ Vos oro ut illam nobis explicare phrasem velitis obscuram Qui flagellatur ipse sentit Angelica vox ..... Reliqui iejunii vestr dies non hic complebuntur sed in illis viginti diebus in quibus Romae operari Decretum est mihi LIBER RESURRECTIONIS Pragae Aprilis 30. Pactum seu Foedus Sabbatismi 1586. Threbone Octob. 14. Venimus è Septemb. 14. 1586. In Maio 29 〈◊〉 Decretum contra nos exiit à Caesare Rod. In Augusto 8 Reversionis permissio D. Rosenbergio obtinente ut ad sua veniamus Miraculum factum memorandum in perpetuum AS E.K. stood at the end of the Galery by his Chamber looking over into the Vineyard he seemed to fee the little man the Gardiner in all manner of behaviour and apparel who is the chief workman or over-seer of Mr. Carpio his workmen in the same Vine-yard He seemed very handsomly to prune some of the Trees at length he approached under the wall by E. K. and holding his face away-ward he said unto him Quaeso dicas Domino Doctori quod veniat ad me And so went away as it were cutting here and there the Trees very handsomly and at length over the Cherry-trees by the house on the Rock in the Garden he seemed to mount up in a great piller of fire E. K. bade his Wife to go and she who was in the Garden She came up and brought him word No body E. K. then came to me and said I think there is some wicked spirit that would allude me and he told and said to me as is before noted Then said I I will go into the Garden and bade E. K. come with me We went down that way which this Creature did go but nothing we saw went to the Banqueting-house in the Vine-yard but that place pleased us not so we went along in the way by the cliff side and sat down on the bank by the great pyle of Vine-stakes lying in the very South end of the Vine-yard And we had not sat there half a quarter of an hour but I espyed under the Almond-tree and on the South-side of it being the Westerly Almond-tree that is it which is standing on the Westerly side of the straight path which leadeth from the North toward the South in the Vineyard I espyed I say like a sheet of faire white paper lying tossed to and fro in the wind I rose and went to it and to the prayse of God his truth and power there I found three of my Books lying which were so diligently burnt the tenth day of April last 1 The three Books were Enoch his Book 2 The 48 Claves Angelicae 3 And the third was the Book of my gathering of the thirty Aires and entitled Liber Scientia terrestris auxilii victoriae Thereupon E. K. comming to me I fell on my knees with great thanks yeilding to the God Almighty and so did E. K. whose mind and body were mervailously affected at the sight of the said Books having no shew or signe that ever they had been in the fire neither by colour or savour or any thing wanting And after we had set half an hour under the fore-said Almond-trees praysing God and
Gabr. ...... as I think E. K. he speaketh hollowly He. Note As Pater Antichristi The wicked spirit said A voyce out of the stone Sabaoth The Serpent laboureth to part us a sunder and hopeth to prevail .... 80 you lifted up your voyces 1 .... and 1 .... sware 1 .... obedience 1 and 1 .... faith .... 102 to him that liveth of your pallace shew your selves to be friendly unto me Numbers Numeri Formales Pâ—â—lius Note the property of this Method and Language Understanding Perswasion Motion Adam 〈◊〉 Note two be true Languages Adam his speech after the fall 〈◊〉 22. Lingua Angelica Lingua Angelica vel Adamica in suo innocentia S. 〈…〉 24. Aprilis this after noon Note An objection Answer Good Angels A Covenant The Keyes Linguae 〈◊〉 it must be sounded with one breath Gab. ...... Move not it may be Vd L or Vnd L Gal. .... mighty is the God of Hosts amongst his people Δ. Note Nal. ..... Make a stop there This his and him corrected were of the wicked his subtile suggestios Note 〈◊〉 of God required 14. Dies mensis Sab. A Child A Hill Pen Ink Paper Oriens Note untill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sui 〈◊〉 A marble stone Strangers Maris inundatio cum tempestate Ventus Ventus 2. Pater vitae Mysteria 5 Coronarum Ventus 3. Ventus 4. 5. Terrae motus The Whale came The Whales mouth 12 18 Δ 18 〈◊〉 36 21 A Miâ—acle Gab Nal. Gab. Nal. Gab Nal. Nalvage BLRAHICAANHDL An Hill He wrote Cognoscat His life ned Pure vessels Increduli His own judgement is to be fulfilled Characters Δ. I doubt that I mis-heard somewhat One 〈◊〉 and abjured obedience ... ence May. 〈◊〉 Δ He noteth some secret discourse meditation or prayer and also action of E. K. as I conjecture ... am in ... si 〈◊〉 ... no ... s and ... de ... i e d. 〈◊〉 7. L. 〈◊〉 O D. ... no ... reth ... ... ione 〈◊〉 Camps 1. 69. 5. Julii so expounded Cor. 1. ... b. His apparel A or o. He 〈◊〉 his feet on all these letters EFAFAFI 〈◊〉 thus 96 Δ. This word is the 25 word backward 5678. Promise of God confirmed anew 14 To be received the Monday next 〈◊〉 A God is not tied to time performance meaneth dwelling with him se are mansions faithful say 〈◊〉 Veste 〈◊〉 opus 〈◊〉 L. Poison Turks Not to 〈◊〉 A. L. Ad Imperaterem 〈◊〉 est Return by warning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12 〈◊〉 The 7 Angels 91. Good Angels of the Air or Spirits dignified From the element of the fire to the 〈◊〉 Note For a time Name .or .th .e Note and understand this well how one 〈◊〉 is governed of divers Angels 〈◊〉 Britan. .md the Chancelour .nd Cracow Mapsama under Gabriel The 〈◊〉 Gates Visible Apparition Note Observe permission All taught by Sunday next practise being called first then practise This prayer 〈◊〉 miswritten in this place 〈◊〉 it should have been written the 22 of May following 〈◊〉 Obedience Faith * Vide 1. Reg. cap. 2. F. de 〈◊〉 determinatione Dei super 〈◊〉 Levi Vide etiam Verba 〈◊〉 3. Reg. 〈◊〉 cap. 2. ut 〈◊〉 Dominus sermones 〈◊〉 c. Si. For what Cave 〈 ◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Note the second 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 of the Highest The Actions the greatest Move not from place A tempting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come in place Δ 15. Sup. of this 〈◊〉 Ternary The ... with ... none ... re but ... 30. able doubting ½ Δ. I suspect this place to be imperfect The earthly Globe appearing wardes th 15 Prin An Angel appeared to Ptolomie ms ... ng ... any Poles Diviniatione The first of the second Gold Mines under the Pole Artick Δ. 〈◊〉 as I think Under the South Pole Δ. A wonderful great City Maspi Δ. Are under the Regiment that 〈◊〉 chiefly denoteth c. * Those words he spake after the Action ended more than an hour in the Chamber before my Study of practice 91. Names of the world or earthly habitation * 〈◊〉 Universal Chart of the World Forte Cease not or Cease and that is to be understood From 〈◊〉 you A 〈◊〉 speech Our going to the Emperours Court. Δ Perverse Invitatio Bonorum The writing of the book by Divine means The Emperour Four 〈◊〉 Vide lib. 19. Septemb. 1. 184. Sulden alteration in this year * Return warned as before was bidden May 21. But he meant not to warn us of any returning as appeareth by the nineteenth book I herefore with humility that doubt must be moved Be ready alwayes Three dayes before our journey to the Emperour * Vide Junii 4. in fine * A L. Father Son God Holy Ghost The Calls or Invitations Δ. Thursday Friday Saturday last were lost by E. K. his disquietnesse God be mercifull unto us GOD. The Devil 〈◊〉 misliked of the Devil Δ. 〈◊〉 praevalescentem Haec enim 〈◊〉 nominis ejus est Blasphemies A punishment of further and longer time yet of God his most mercifull visiting of us Dealing with Devils I he Devils 〈◊〉 Faith Faith is the Key of mans conscience The Devil is the picklock E. K. Very vehemently spoken A figure of the time to come Vide lib. 19. Praga 27. Aug. Vnum ovile 950. years Vide 〈◊〉 cap. 20. Paradise Paradise was first made and last to be enjoyed Regnum Dei mille annorum de quo cap. 20. Apocalyps Δ. Antichristus Dies novissimi isti sunt The last Prophesie Bella 〈◊〉 Necessity of things vide 〈◊〉 Election The twofold manner of this Doctrine The shyle for God his Barn 〈◊〉 Note bidding Our uniting promised Esau Jacob. A. L. A. L. A. L. The aptest in the world for some purposes of God 〈◊〉 †〈◊〉 cap. 5. 6. Michael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. †Pride of A.L. suspected Deusignis nos autem materia Necessity Note Apt and meet matter Humility Perseverance A great Caveat We must go to the Emperour The place for which my Angel of Creation is sealed Δ. I understand as yet either the Emperours Court or Prage c. God his jealousie Exod. 20. a. Deut. 5. a. * To Moses Exod 32 B 〈◊〉 9. C The J ws The unmeasurable love of God toward us A. L. Δ. E K. Exhortation to 〈◊〉 and amendment of life God The Lord kept back The chief Lesson The essential Characterisation of E. K. his soul and so the cause of his election 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of God his finding thee fit in matter unfit in life The necessity of the Devils doings 1 either with good men 2 or with evil men Testification Angelical of E. K. his Conversion * An. 2582. Novembris 20. at Mortlake Vide Maii 1 28. 2 3 Hyle 4 5 6 7 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 NOTA. †Unaccustomed absence and silence The matter made apt Δ We lest off 〈◊〉 11. Conversion Confirmation prayed for The 〈◊〉 of God Vide sup The conversion of E. K. 〈◊〉 made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mediam 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 This seemeth to be 〈◊〉 Castle in Littaw where
the King now is The Arms of 〈◊〉 Δ There seemeth to be Magical Charactors The man with the Wart 〈◊〉 Note because no wicked power can enter within this stone Close without any 〈◊〉 but where their arms are put out Δ. Fumi 〈◊〉 sunt spiritus qui 〈◊〉 vocati ante Δ. Ergo An. 1581. 6. 〈◊〉 inceperunt die Lunae The Angel standin at the window winding up the 6. smokes pointing to Δ. A. L. Note The white Curtain These Crosses seemed not to be on the ground but in the aire in a white Cloud The great Crosse seemed to be of a Cloud like the Rain-bow * E. K. and I said now in our talk 〈◊〉 That God would not visit us but at the dayes of journey taking as was last affirmed Therefore whatsoever came before was to be doubted as an illusion He therefore answereth first our doubt and then to my request he maketh answer 〈◊〉 Dei Note this manner of a thing felt warm on the right shoulder For the glory of God The malice of Sacan provoketh his own 〈◊〉 when he thought to that the 〈◊〉 might be 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 confounded Governours of the Earth 4 Angeli Terrae King 5 Princes 4 Angels The 24 Seniors in the Apocalyps The 〈◊〉 names of God The Angels of the thirty Aires supra The use in practice The higher instructions On Monday next 25 Junii A blessing Red. White Green Black * King 40. Angels on the 4 Crosles attending on the 〈◊〉 16 Angels Joan. cap. 15. C Joan. cap. 17. 〈◊〉 Vide Anno 1585. Junii 12 Cracoviae Ave. Δ. Ave. Δ. Ave. †Four Δ. Da verbum tuum in ore meâ— sapientiam tuam in câ—rde meo fige Δ. Quasi figura de terra reâ—â—vanda The Table of the Earth Δ He taketh off the coloured cloaths in due order respecting the four parts of the World The Earth * Vide 1582. 20. Martii lib. 2. Vide lib. 3. Anno 1582. Aprilis 28. Enoch 50. Dayes The title of Enochs books expounded into English â—50 Lions or wicked spirits seducers Counterfeiting Wicked Magicians Devils Characters The mercy of God to Dee To Δ. The wicked power expelled out of the earth NOTE Characters A wicked power tempting E.K. This p may stand backward or forward E. K. What is the reason of that diverse setting For beginning there it will make the name of a wicked spirit Δ. So is the name of the first division of the earth in the 29 aire A voyce to this intent This is the Table that hath 4. and D on the top by me so noted p backword ... or forward-A is arsward Linea 〈◊〉 Sancti 〈◊〉 The 3 names of God in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ten faces on the 〈◊〉 Δ. Another pronouncing of it The 4 Angels over every crosse of the 4. attendant crosses The use 4 Angels over every crosse Solomon his knowledge Six Seniors How to make the Seniors of 7. letters The encreasing of names with a letter b a T a i A or H. * To make the end of this word The King his name East To morrow Characters or Notes * Nalvage delivered them but by the same spirit of God Note The general of the first table A bodily and a true motion Δ. The ninth Chapter may be added and is of the secrets of men knowing whereof there is a peculiar Table Δ. They be 〈◊〉 names of the Teath air answering to Caspis Germania 〈◊〉 in Africa Wicked Angels whose names are of 3 letters 4. Angels above every of the lesser crosses 〈◊〉 16 such in every of the 4. principal quarters * In the crosse of union or the black crosse The 4 Angels serving to this lesser 〈◊〉 Note Appearing by one name and doin by another Physick Note †The 〈◊〉 his name made of five letters The use of the wicked powers The Call of the wicked Note 〈◊〉 Constraint Baatain A o. Baataivh Now he speaketh of the second little crosse above on the right side in the East quarter 4 Good Angels Metals The wicked Angels of this portion The table of creation Lib. 4. aliter 5. Bnasp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transformation The four Elements The knitting together of natures 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 in locum All hand-crafts Note this rare action of a spiritual Creature The secrets of all 〈◊〉 sixteen Angels for Medicine Note The blessed Kingdom on earth The earth 〈◊〉 these are here to be learned out Δ. Maxime calm splendet manifesta est in 〈◊〉 coeli in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the. I heir 〈◊〉 NOTA. 〈◊〉 Deo grata acceptabilis in ipsâ 〈◊〉 Note this manner of a heavy thing on the shoulder and warm withall Δ There was a terririble storm of thunder and rain toward the end of our yester-dayes Action which I said was somewhat more then natural Mr. E. K. Penitently prayeth Δ. It is the second part of the 22 aire Δ. So is not one letter superfluous or wanting in the Tables A Prophesie of things at hand NOTE Nova Terra * Were Rodolphus Caesar. Nota 〈◊〉 malerum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. L. Money provision In Constantinople 〈◊〉 15. 〈◊〉 24 Seniors Note This civersity of working The four plagues or quarters The book A perfect master ready The twelve names of God in the twelve Banners Four dayes Fourteen dayes Obedient White linnen vestures Ga ment and book onely once to be used 〈◊〉 than leaves Δ. Of this wicked 〈◊〉 E. K. by by after this Action said Seeing his name is come to be known and not by 〈◊〉 for I had received the Sacrament with Mr. Miniver of whom I had him never to bewray or disclose his name I will tell you somewhat of him He appeareth in many forms till at length he appear in a Triangle of fire and being constrained to the Circle he 〈◊〉 form as it 〈◊〉 of a great Gyant and will declare before for a month to come which spirits do orderly range which by name being called will do their offices with a few other circumstances used c. This indeed was one of whom I made most account c. Doubts * Declared by Gabriel and Nalvage Δ. Pagina penultima 〈◊〉 Note Note this similitude well NOE 〈…〉 H. Faith Obedience Humility A Caveat Δ. Cum maximis lachrymis haec à me valde â—ferio ad Rem dicta erant Post semihoram Adventus Christi Our bodies to be cast out into the fields Prophesie 1 11 12. Regnum futurum Δ. Be gone to the Emperour * That hold up the grapes Satan Faithful Spiritus Sanctus Docepax Tedoand Calls Nalvage is to correct ocation 〈◊〉 use of the 〈◊〉 Note The wicked 〈◊〉 are vile laves The Treasures of the Earth Our words to the wicked that keep Treasure Invocations to be made The Book Δ. He meaneth of the left side of the square center of the principal 〈◊〉 not perfect square but heteromeces The Calls to be had in English on Thursday next Our great 〈◊〉 with God Dec. His fee of A. L. of
assuredly Contra Rud. Contra Curtz Δ Fecit quod illi injunctum 〈◊〉 Pactum misericordiae divinae cum Δ. Sathanas * Ne magnitudo revevelationum extellat me datus est mi hi stimulus carnis 〈◊〉 c. Paulus ad Corinthios secunda cap. 12. England pardoned for Δ. his sake God will give me England that is to say spare it from distruction for my sake c. England Δ. Our good return into England Δ. Perhaps spiders flying in the aire are carried by strings of their own spinning or making or else I know not how Rud. I remained for the most part in Bohemia and in the Empire till 1589. A.L. A. L. Came to us to Trebon in Bohemia An. 1588. post captum Maximilianum à Polonis c. Rud. Num. 11. Psal. 77. A Letter to be written unto Casar Lapis Philosophorum A special gift in healing by the shew in this stone R. Peribit Benedictio Dei sit super nos Supra 〈◊〉 fac A Letter to Rudolph the Emperour Eruptiones 〈◊〉 ex Terrae motibus Lapis Philosorum Caesar futurus It is a saying of Madimi Junii 26. 1584. Cracoviae Ernestus Frater Rudolphi Δ. Blessings offered are promises with conditions Gold ex lapide Philosophorum 〈◊〉 crudelis terribilis inaudita Note God in mercy wisdom terror miracles Vox Domini ut hominis futura nobis audibilis Consiliarii Casaris R. Possessus Belzagal Cacodamon Turcarum * Turkish or Rudolphus Raether My books from Poland A. L. Deus habitat in 〈◊〉 nos in 〈◊〉 Image Christi Paulus ad Cor. cap. 15. F. * †* 〈◊〉 †〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 †* 〈◊〉 †* A Spiritu Dei sumus ducti ut Domino 〈◊〉 Domino Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente 〈◊〉 Regis legath heae aperiremus cui mercedem dabit Deus * D. Jacobo Curtzio Consiliario 〈◊〉 Δ. Quantum memini in Sibyllae oraculis Graecis Latinis facilis per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vrielis 〈◊〉 ill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sunt 〈◊〉 ad 〈◊〉 Vide 〈◊〉 ascribe Prophesia de MICHAELE * Math. cap. 5. 〈◊〉 ipsorum est regnum coelorum c. Δ. Erit cum Caesare I understand not this how it is or shall be verified or with which Caesar. Domini Legati Regis 〈◊〉 Responsum A Copy of the letters desired E K 〈◊〉 to go in o England as he pretended Poverty D. Curtz D. Curtz Vriel Gabriel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mea 〈◊〉 periculosus Gabriel The robbing God of his honour 〈◊〉 Argeli 〈◊〉 Vigor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pabula Δ. If. Nos mundi Inimici esse debemus mundus nos odio prosequitur propter Deum Gabriel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 super Δ. Nota causam acerbae increpationis istius Here placing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Misericordiae capax A voyce from an uncertain place There were some wicked 〈◊〉 vexing E. K. from 〈◊〉 quietly E. K. * Sept. 21. in fine Radiatio 〈◊〉 vigor elementalis Deus 1. Angelus 2. Anima hominis 3. Infectio anima Impretas Tres magicae causae Stella 1. Cibus 2. Mixtio 3. Attractio 〈◊〉 contagiosorum Medicina vera 40. Dayes True Gabriel verus Gabriel Abstinnentes purgati à 〈◊〉 Responsum votum Auxilium 〈◊〉 Dei. Janae 〈◊〉 meae 〈◊〉 perticulosus ☉ Virtus Febri laborabat Mater uxoris ante conceptienem * For so the soul is sent in to Δ. Of Jane my wife * Forsan vasa seminaria She he it Excrementa bina Spiritus caloris The breathing or vapouring heat Vxor jam pragnans est Imagination The physical remedy 〈◊〉 Reconciliatio E. K. His malitious tongue against God his good Angels If. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are long in 〈◊〉 Fel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vinum 〈◊〉 * O Kelly Kelly Confirmation of the Prophesie The manner of blessing Prophetical E. K. Intending to depart and I not knowing My wife not to go now to Cracow Vriel our House-keeper A. L. Against Laskie his enemies as in the former practice was taught Δ LEVANAEL as may appear Febru 5. post ultima parte E. K Note The House is round without and square within 1 Fire 2 Water Here is a blank or void space in the Original Copie but no figure Here is a blank or void 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but no figure 3 Aire Here is a blank or void space in the Original Copie but no figure 4 Earth One of them said to the man covered with Hair-Cloth of Ash colour Timor Domini Ascension Separation 〈◊〉 In Christ we may become Innocents and be born anew Temptation Kings * Victoria nostra eâ—â— Ministri veritatis O magna misericoardia tua Domine Prophetia 1589 1590 1591 1592 The Harbour we are in To Rodoldh and Curts Note * I promised the stone A way of 〈◊〉 Together By degrees Simplicity Innocency Mysteries Ignis vivificans 〈◊〉 P. 〈◊〉 as Δ Note this VISION Earth of a tawny colour Water Green Red. 1 〈◊〉 Woman 2 A Child 3 A Woman with child 4 An old man An 〈◊〉 An Oath E. K. thought this is ignotum 〈◊〉 ignotius Δ Corrected thus afterward E. K. He speaketh casteth 〈◊〉 arms abroad swiftly 〈◊〉 Δ This was added corrected afterwards He speaketh swift Liber Enoch Six words Six words Animal Vegetable Mineral Omne verum vero 〈◊〉 The use and 〈◊〉 of the former Lessons Note Note The place of words and letters The number of words and letters The joyning of number and place Cabalistically Δ These E. K. very quickly had received after my going by shew of bright light representing the numbers upon his paper But it was a Sophistical shew 〈◊〉 may appear after Δ I was very sick suddenly and was constrained to leave off Δ 〈◊〉 proprium solum officium faciat Officio unusquisque fungatur proprio Mercy and Grace 87 Note Note For a new Revolution The beginning of another 〈◊〉 Hell If But if World Δ 〈◊〉 the lowth Δ Our office appointed De 〈◊〉 asciscendo vidente 〈◊〉 Domini 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Angels Mens souls Creation of man Anima hominis Esdras book Note 〈◊〉 the souls spiritual increasing A 〈◊〉 Mystery Δ So that it may be said that Deus quasi creando home quasi generando 〈◊〉 humanam 〈◊〉 The Trinity distinct Earth Note In faith 〈◊〉 The remembrance Christus potest esse ubique Δ The words of Consecration pronounced Sub forma panis Ars Sancta GE BOFAL Prima Porta libri sancti 48 Portae Sapientiae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deo summa Sapientiae Porta Multiplication Dignification What hath been taughs What yet lacketh Pride Self-love 〈◊〉 Δ Make clean 〈◊〉 13. 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 very 〈◊〉 Δ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 own judgment is to be laid aside Δ Through E. K. to be satisfied Δ Ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 omnium fidelium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Δ In Ecclesia 〈◊〉 A promise to E. K. of great importance A. L. A. L. Non 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. L. 〈◊〉 bonum Angelum jam 〈◊〉 habet 〈◊〉 Habuit 21. Ultimum consilium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Δ Lib. 2. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shortly after A voice A