fall of he avens For lo the time is come And he that is the Son of Unrighteousnesse is and liveth Unto him therefore shall be given strength and power and the Kings of the Earth shall become mad yea even raging mad yea even in the third madnesse and that in the depth of their own imaginations and I will build my Temple in the Woods yea even in the Desert places and I will become a Serpent in the wildernesse for I have tucked up my garments and am fled away and She shall mourn on the Mountains without comfort Lo the Thunder spake and the earth became misty and full of fogge that the Soul of man might sleep in his own confusion The second Thunder spake and there arose spirits such as are for Sooth-sayers Witches Charmers and Seducers and they are entred into the holy places and have taken up their seats in man Woe be unto the earth therefore For it is corrupted Woe be unto the earth for she is surrendred to her adversary Woe be unto the earth she is delivered into the hands of her enemy Yea Woe be unto the sons of men for their vessels are poysoned But even then said the Lord Lo I will be known in the wildernesse and will Triumph in my weaknesse And lo he called you and you became drunken and foolish with the spirit of God And it was said Descend for he calleth and hath called and Raphael that brought up the prayers descended and he was full with the power spirit of God and it became a Doctrine such was never from the beginning Not painted or carved filed or imagined by man or according to their imaginations which are of flesh but simple plain full of strength and the power of the holy Ghost which Doctrine began as man did nakedly from the earth but yet the image of perfection This self-same Art is it which is delivered unto you an infallible Doctrine containing in it the waters which runne through many Gates even above the Gate of Innocency wherein you are taught to finde out the Dignity and Corruption of nature also made partakers of the secret Judgements of the Almighty to be made manifest and to be put in execution Which knowledge in you is to be made perfect two wayes by power mediate and immediate Immediately from God in respect of his will and secret Judgements as unto the Apostles By means and tradition as from us opening the substance and body of nature according to our own image which is the thing I have now in hand I am therefore to instruct and inform you according to your Doctrine delivered which is contained in 49 Tables In 49 voyces or callings which are the Natural Keyes to open those not 49. but 48. for One is not to be opened Gates of understanding whereby you shall have knowledge to move every Gate and to call out as many as you please or shall be thought necessary which can very well righteously and wisely open unto you the secrets of their Cities make you understand perfectly the contained in the Tables Through which knowledge you shall easily be able to judge not as the world doth but perfectly of the world and of all things contained within the Compasse of Nature and of all things which are subject to an end But behold this charge of mine is tied unto time Therefore be diligent to learn diligent to hear and that with patience For it is neither a free School nor a School of continuance For as power is not given unto me beyond the first day of August next so have you no strength to learn after because I am the staff of your Doctrine Nal. ..... I am for the comfort of the world and not for the hindrance Thus sayeth the Lord. To them that have Harvest let them reap and unto such as have labour let them work As for me I am tied to time and am ready at all times For I measure not your night nor day Δ. Thanks be unto the highest Nal. ..... Cease now with me for no more descendeth Soli Deo Honor Gloria After-noon the same Thursday ..... After some short Ejaculations of prayers to God there appeared a great black masty Dogge with whom I would have nothing to do but expect Nalvage He said that he was Nalvage We rebuked him as an Hell-hound At length he departed and Nalvage appeared but brighter then to day Nal. ..... Have you those things I told yout to day Δ. We have them in record and minde Nal. ..... Read them ...... Δ. I did read them E. K. He laugheth ha ha ha c. a great laughter He hath also a Table but seemeth not to be like the former Table of Nalvage There are ten or eleven divisions in this Table as was not in the former Table Δ. If thou art Nalvage proceed in the Doctrine of wisdom if thou are not Nalvage depart in the name of Jesus ...... I have free will and therefore I will be here Δ. Now I doubt nothing but thou art a deceiver Audite The ignorance of the wicked becometh dust which shewing it self is swept out of doors and thrown on the Dung-hills E. K. Now appeareth one like true Nalvage Nal. ..... Even so is it of the for thou hast opened thy blasphemy and being discovered art become more accursed Therefore because thou art accursed thou art not dignified but become a Vessel of iniquity And therefore hast no free-will For free-will either is or is in state to be dignified Therefore as dust I sweep thee out and cast thee into that Dunghill which is the place of the greatest woe the Dunghill and the reward of the unrighteous And because thou hast thrust thy self into the Judgements of the Lord and hast heard the secrets of the Almighty Therefore I seal thee tanquam truncus in Infernum E. K. He striketh him with an yern like a pair of tongs in form of a Mould to cast Pellets in griping his brain and underchaps and so he fell down and disappeared and in his place came Nalvage E. K. Nalvage maketh cursie toward the four quarters of the vvorld Nal. ...... My Us is as good as thy Um. E. K. In his heart thought that it might be that now one Devil mastered another and thereupon said Um. E. K. He is now accounting again on his Table as he did before Nal. ..... Vnto this Doctrine belongeth the perfect knowledge and remembrance of the mysticall Creatures How therefore shall I inform you which know them not Δ. Mean you as Babyon Boboyel c. Nal. ...... The Characters or Letters of the Tables Δ. You mean the mystical Letters wherein the holy book is promised to be written and if the book be so written and laid open before us and then you will from Letter to Letter point and we to record your instructions Then I trust we shall sufficiently understand and learn your instructions Nal.
E o phan OD Od. Between Chis and Virq you must put in Op a word RACLIR Ra clir MA ........ Ma a si BAGLE Ba gle ........ SGI Ca os gi DS ds IALPON Yal  Jal pon DOSIG as big  Do sig OD Od. BASGIM Bas gim OD Od. OXEX Ox ex DAZIS Daz is .... IATRIS Si a tris OD Od. SALBROX Sal brox CINXIR Cynx ir F .... BOAN Fa bo an UNALCHIS U n ál chis CONST k.  Const. DS ds DAOX Da ox COCASG gas dg  Co casg SALMAN Salman 〈◊〉 TELOC Te loch CASARMAN Casar man HOLQ Hol q. OD Od. Ti Ti. TA Ta. ZCHIS Zod chis SOBA So ba. CORMF Cormf IGA I ga NIISA Ni i sa BAGLE Bagle ABRAMG Ab ramg g not us dg Nonsp N. NCP Noncp ... Curtain is drawn ... The end of this ....... This is the seventh E. K. Now is the Curtain pull'd away and quickly pull'd again Now it is open again He is apparelled of colour between a blew and a red mingled but blew seemeth to be the ground From the shoulder on the arms is a trunk of seven pendant labels with laces On his head a very broad Hat between dun and black colour His apparel is very long NONCI Non ci si DSONF Dsonf BABAGE Ba ba ge OD Od. CHIS Chis OB Ob. HUBAIO Hu bá i o. TIBIBP Tibibp ALLAR Al lar ATRAAH A tra ah OD Od. EF Ef. DRIX Drix FAFEN Fa fen MIAN Mi an AR Ar. ENAY E nay OVOF O vof SOBA So ba. DOOAIN Do ó a in AAI A a i. IVONPH I vonph SOBA So ba. VPAAH Vpa ah CHIS Chis NANBA Nan ba. ZIXLAY Zix lay DODSIH Dod sih ODBRINT Od brint TAXS Taxs. He maketh Cursie H ..... Hu 〈◊〉 ro TAST Tas tax YL Yl si ...... Do a lim ..... E o lis ..... Ol log ..... Ors ba. DSCHIS Ds chis AFFA Af fa. MICMA Mic ma. ISRO Is ro MAD Mad. OD Od. LONSHITOX Lon shi tox DS ds JUMD Jumbd LUSDAN Lus dan. EMOD E mod DSOM dsom OD Od. TLIOB Tli ob DRILPA Dril pa. GEH jeh  Geh YLS as Yils  yls MADZILODARP Mad zi lo darp That is the Twelfth ........ ILS. ................ Di alpert ............... Za car ............... Go bus .................. Zamran ......... O do ... ICLE CICLE QAA Qáa. That is a call ¶ This is the eighth NAPEAI Na pe ai BABAGEN jen  B ba gen DSBRIN Ds brin OOAONA Ux.  O O Ao na LRING LRING VONPH Vonph SOBAIAD So bai ad IVONPOVNPH I von po vnph AL. ON Al don DAXIL Dax il OD Od. TOATAR To a tar E. K. The Curtain is pluck't to A voyce That is the thirteenth E. K. Now it is open again E. K. He is now as if he had a pall or Robe of Gold with a strange Cap of Gold on his head ... Ils. ......... Mi ca ol zod L. IRT Ol pirt IALPRG Yal  I al purg BLIORS B liors DS Ds. ODO Odo BUSDIR Bus dir OIAD O i ad OVOARS O vo ars CAOSGO Ca os go CASARMG Ca sar mg. LA ... Là i à d ERAN E ran INTS Brints CAFAFAM Ca fa fam DS Ds. IVMD I vmd AQLO 〈◊〉  A q lo. ADOHI A do hi. QZMOZ Moz OD Od. MAOFFAS Ma óf fas BOLP Bolp COMOB IORT Co mo bli ort PAMBT Pambt Curtain is now pluckt to A voice ..... That is all Blessed be the Creator of all who hath mercy on all E. K. Now he is here apparelled as he was wont to appear Nal. ..... Thus hath the Lord kept promise with you and will not forget the least part of his whole promise with you Keep you therefore promise with the Lord for he is jealous and not to be defiled Proceed as you now do The next Monday you shall have as many Δ. Will it please you to deliver us the English of these 14 now as you were wont to do Nal. ..... The English will have a day by it self Nal. ..... The Δ. Third Monday to come you shall have them all So that you have but three dayes to labour Δ. You speak of the next Monday and the third and speak nothing of the second Monday and you said that the English will have a day by it self And you say we have but three dayes to labour c. Nal. ..... What I have said is so Go also and refresh your selves E. K. The Curtain is drawn A voice ..... Stay there A voice ..... Give God thanks and make an end E. K. Prayed the 145. and 146. Psalm kneeling reverently and I likewise in heart consenting thereto attentively listning Note ..... E. K. is very well perswaded of these Actions now thanked be the Highest who is Almighty Δ. Laudate Dominum de Caelis laudate eum in excelfis laudate eum omnes Angeli ejus laudate eum omnes virtutes ejus Quia ipse dixit facta sunt nobis Non 〈◊〉 taliter omni nationi Soli Deo nostro laus omnis Victoria Triumphus Jubilatio Amen Monday Cracoviae Maii 21. 1564. Mane hora 5. Actio Tertia Lunaris E. K. There appeareth neither Vail nor any thing else in the Stone Δ. At length appeared one but none of them he is jolly and green with a long like green Velvet Robe his hair long like yellow Gold nothing on his head but his hair He standeth as though he stood in a cloud above the usual paviment in the air ..... Lo the Sun shineth and men fear no rain the clouds are dispersed and they look not for a tempest But when it raineth mightily or the heavens frown then keep they their houses saying one to another What unreasonable Tempest is this what Hail-stones are these Good Lord who ever saw such windes were there ever such windes So shall it be of the power of God which holdeth in his hands the windes and scattereth cloudes abroad with his feet For of his coming shall it be said amongst you My Spirit hath vexed me and I am troubled Why hast thou brought in things greater than thy self or where shall this power dwell that overshadoweth me Wanting you shall desire as you do and being filled you shall think you have too much Flesh can never be throughly mortified but with death Think not that the Lord is as the Sun that keepeth his continual watch through the heavens which because be is made for a time is also tied to time He that sitteth and judgeth keepeth no course but a continual performance of his long-before providence For he that useth him otherwise shall be rejected because his Δ. dwellings are not in the mansions of the faithful Lift up your ears therefore for thus saith the highest Who made the heavens or spread them like a garment Who breathed into man the spirit of understanding Who overthrew the proud world with waters Who smiled at the ruin of Pharaoh Who rooted the wicked out
Sanctus est Dominus Deus Zeboath Ave. ..... I in the favour of God considering and by force of his secret love toward you how Satan purposeth yet and daily to over come you thought good through the mercies of God to prevent his malice and the effect thereof Δ. O blessed be thou our God of mercies and all comfort Ave. ..... That although yet the Harvest be not the Vineyard might yeild some fruit whereby God might be glorified and you in despite of the world revived and comforted might rejoyce and shake off the present cares to come For if those that be unworthy can seem to be lifted up and to enjoy the fruits of the Earth by the Tempter Much more ought the true servants of God to feel his fatherly goodnesse Those that trust in me saith the Lord shall not be driven to despair neither will I suffer the beast of the field to tread such as I delight in under The Earth is mine and the glory thereof The Heavens are mine also and the Comforts that are in them Why hath Therefore the father of Darknesse risen up saying 1. I will shut up the Earth from them 2. I will seal up the mindes of men and they shall become barren towards them 3. Their miseries shall be great even unto death For this cause That he might waken the Lord when he is asleep That those that trust in him might be comforted He hath sealed the Earth from you and I will open it unto you He hath said you shall be poor But I say you shall become exceeding rich 1. I will blesse you with a twofold blessing That the Earth may be open unto you which at last you shall contemn 2. And that my blessing and laws may dwell amongst you wherein you shall rejoyce unto the end Δ. O blessed blessed blessed God of power goodnesse and wisdom Ave. ..... This was the cause that I appeared to thee E. K. this morning Now therefore 〈◊〉 unto me for I will open unto you the secret knowledge of the Earth that you may deal with her by such as govern her at your pleasure and call her to a reckoning as a Steward doth the servants of his Lord. I expound the Vision The 4 houses are the 4 Angels of the Earth which are the 4 Overseers and Watch-towers that the eternal God in his providence hath placed against the usurping blasphemy misuse and stealth of the wicked and great enemy the Devil To the intent that being put out to the Earth his envious will might be bridled the determinations of God fulfilled and his creatures kept and preserved within the compasse and measure of order What Satan doth they suffer And what they wink at he wrasteth But when he thinketh himself most assured then feeleth he the bit In each of these Houses the Chief Watchman is a mighty Prince a mighty Angel of the Lord which hath under him 5 Princes these names I must use for your instruction The seals and authorities of these Houses are confirmed in the beginning of the World Vnto every one of them be 4 characters Tokens of the presence of the son of God by whom all things were made in Creation Ensignes upon the Image whereof is death whereon the Redemption of mankind is established and with the which he shall come to judge the Earth These are the Characters and natural marks of holinesse Vnto these belong four Angels severally The 24 old men are the 24 Seniors that St. John remembreth These judge the government of the Castles and fullfil the will of God as it is written The 12 Banners are the 12 names of God that govern all the creatures upon the Earth visible and invisible comprehending 3 4 and 5. Out of these Crosses come the Angels of all the Aires which presently give obedience to the will of men when they see them Hereby may you subvert whole Countries without Armies which you must and shall do for the glory of God By these you shall get the favour of all the Princes whom you take pity of or wish well unto Hereby shall you know the secret Treasures of the waters and unknown Caves of the Earth And it shall be a Doctrine for you onely the instrument of the World For the rest of your Instructions are touching the Heavens and the time to come of the which this is the last and extream knowledge This will I deliver unto you because I have yeilded you before the Lord. Vpon Monday next I will appear unto you and shall be a Lesson of a few dayes E. K. The will of God be done Δ. Amen Ave. ..... In the mean season desire you of God such things as are necessary for you He that filleth all things and from whom all things live and in and through whom they are sanctified blesse you and confirm you in peace Δ. Amen Δ. I beseech you to Notifie this mornings Vision by words as all other holy Prophets have recorded theirs Ave. ..... A Vision The sign of the love of God toward his faithful Four sumptuous and belligerant Castles out of the which sounded Trumpets thrice The sign of Majesty the Cloth of passage was cast forth In the East the cloth red after the new smitten blood In the South the cloth white Lilly-colour In the West a cloth the skins of many Dragons green garlick-bladed In the North the cloth Hair-coloured Bilbery 〈◊〉 The Trumpets 〈◊〉 once The Gates open The four Castles are moved There issueth 4 Trumpeters whose Trumpets are a Pyramis six cones wreathed There followeth out of every Castle 3 holding up their Banners displayed with 〈◊〉 the names of God There follow Seniors six alike from the 4 Gates After them cometh from every part a King whose Princes are five gardant and holding up his train Next 〈◊〉 the Crosse of 4 Angles of the Majesty of Creation in God attended upon every one with 4 a white Cloud 4 Crosses bearing the 〈◊〉 of the Covenant of God with the Prince gone out before which were confirmed every one with ten Angels visible in countenance After every Crosse attendeth 16 Angels dispositors of the will of those that govern the Castles They proceed And in and about the middle of the Court the Ensigns keep their standings opposite to the middle of the Gate The rest pause The 24 Senators meet They seem to consult I AVE STOOD BY THE SEER It vanisheth So I leave you Δ. Omnium bonorum largitori Omnipotenti Deo sit aeterna laus gratiarum actio honor omnis Jubilatio Amen Junii 22 23. Note On Friday and especially Saturday E. K. had great Temptations not to credit this Action and was said unto by a voice how our Instructors would use cavillation of our disordered life to forsake us and not to perform according to our expectation of the former promises to be performed by them A voice said likewise to
Moimaigne handtz Horrn Laspar von Schonburg auff Voplitz Moinom Vartranotra gutton froundo In solbsthandog Cito Cito Cito Cito Cito SOwder Rumeschenn Kayserlichen auch Ju Hungern unds Behom Koninhchon Mapt vnsors allor guadigston horrn cropen Doctori Joanni de Dee Engellandorn ansormoldon Dasz Iro Mapt jausz jondorn vrgeblichen bodencklichon vndt billichen vrsachonjont schlosson som snovndt dio somigon In Joror Mapt tumg Ruch Bohem so woll al 's andorn dorosolbron Pomp Ranchon burstant gumbombon vndt Landon longer nicht Induldon nach julugivn Hiorauff so sun nun Jorar Mapt Endlichor orille vndt truster beurhlich Dasz chrsichsambt soinom Worbe tindorn vmdallon don soyinpen so woll al 's soinem Consorten vndt Jugethanen boy vormedanp Iron Mapt trusten vnnachlvszlichenn straffland and vnguad Innerhali dru Negt nachoniandor volpomdon sechs Zagen alhie or heve vnd sichalszbalet daranff vrn hinnon aussorhalbgedachtor Jorar Mapt Koningraich Behannb vms andoror Joror Mapt Koningraich Curstanthumbay vndt Cainder begebo diseilben Durchausz Jun Kunfftigmedr Nuchsus sorror Darumen weyternicht besunden nach betresten lasse Damit ausz den lasll lassalba vn Imo odar den seympen auch doupy Jme Jupethaury vngrhorsamblicsay vborganpen crourdo Irr Mapt Inn truston einschon vndt Straff sosie lirber vormitton schonvrolton nicet Vernrsacht wordoun Wolton In Mapt I me Juondtlicher Nachrichtung nicht porgen Esz boszfese auch Hieran Iror Mapt sorustor Willey vndt mainug Decretum in Consilio Imperatoriae Majestatis secretiori Prage xxix Maii Anno Lxxxvi E. Waldtnons Sayleldt Mynssnik Decret Doctor Johann de Dee Iror Mapt Koniglich Bohomb so woll al 's andors Iror Mapt Lander sureamboy Doctori Joanni Dee offerendum I received this the 30 day of May Anno 1586 Mane hora nona By one of the Chancery Clerks The Copie of the Emperour his Decree of our Banishment out of his Kingdomes Dukedoms c. with onely six dayes warning Anno 1586 18 Junii in Erphurdia Thuringiae quo Illustrissimus Dominus Rosenbergius miserat Joannem Carpionem ad nos cum literis suis maxime ut de uxore futura Dei intelligeret voluntatem de aliis rebus c. Ego verò jam Cassellae eram in Hessia Erphurdiae erat D. Eduardo Keleus Qui super 〈◊〉 petitionibus Illustrissimi jussus erat divinitus Chartam mundam super Altare ante Sacerdotem Missam celebrantem ponere quod fecit anne die supra scriptis manè in Monasterio Minoris Ordinis S. Francisci inter horam 6 7 Monacho Seniore Missam Celebrante Et finita Missa haec quae sequitur in Charta inveniebantur pulchrè scripta Sed die sequente postquam exscripta erant pro Illustrissimo Principe statim evanuere omnes lineae literae nihilque in illa Charta post visible perneansit c. Nations teriae omnes vocatae in Judicium coram Tribunal stabunt Populus enim rebellis nimiúmque hujus mundi deditus voluptati mei jamdudum ira furoris irrititus tabescit Ita quod neque ad sinistram neque ad dextram sed ad voluntatem meam perinplendam declinandum est Beatus ille qui mihi mandatisque patris mei obediens est perseverantia decoratus Maledictus autem qui mendax operibus perdicas verbum meum quia scandalo multis erit ignominiae pacis Evangelii mei Egote Gulielme quia manus adjunxisti mihi Davidem ad Goliatha jugulandum constitui constituendo invexi Mundo igitur ad gloriam meam utere corpus tuum erige in me ad justitiam meam in sede debita collocandam superbiam iniquissimam turpissimámque illorum qui posuerunt sedem meam in scabellum pedem blasphemiae abominationis ad penitus tum conculcandum tum eradicandam Beatus enim eris in fortitudine manus spiritus mei quia audite preces tuas Noli igitur tempus visitationis tuae negligere sed freme zelo indignatione acerima conjunctam tuis parietibus virginem in uxorem accipe paratam lumbis senectuti tuae illámque amando 〈◊〉 diligendo fove ut mea in te in illa benedictio pollicita manifesta fiat Cave porrò ne quos tibi in auxilium paravi servos 〈◊〉 vel negligentia vel timiditate tua aliorum sic patiaris ex manibus tuis vel tanquam oves ab ovili tuo malis artibus iniquitate eripi Quis enim istud surripiet quod datum est à me Cogita igitur vigilando cura quod hactenus lesum est Fringam namque fraenum Satanae inimicis vestris Benedictio Patris Spiritus mei consolatio à me cui subjecta est omnis potestas sit tecum supra te A peccatis denique monitus cessa ut cum mecum loqueris vita tua sit lumine gratia mea suffulta MEMORANDUM Be remembred that Mr. Francis Pucci Florentine whom at my going to Leipsich I left in our house at Prage in the meane space had been at Frankford upon Mene and went from Prage about the same day that the Bishop of Placenza Nuncius Apostolicus did exhibit to the Emperour a libel against us of most horrible untruths c. At his going from Prage he had that Nuncius blessing c. In the meane space and after his return to Prage again it happened so that the 30 of May last I received the Emperours commandment I my Companion and all mine to depart within six dayes out of Prage aud consequently out of all his Kingdomes Dukedomes and Lands Which we did and were come to Erphurd in Thuringa and sometimes to Cassel whether we had removed our goods and family by reason the Senators of Erphurd would give as no leave to hire any house there as both by the Lord Schonberg in the name of the Lord Rosenberg I was assayed with repulse received and also again by me and E. K. proved July 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. And on Tuesday the 15th day of Jun Doctor Curtz brought upward from the Senat that they would not grant our Request yet notwithstanding if the Lord Rosenberg would again send unto them in the matter they would think better upon the matter c. Now remember that Francis Pucci came to Erphurd on Thursday after our supper July 10 stilo novo on horse-back on a horse which he had bought at Mawnberg-faire c. July the 11th he discoursed with E. K. and me that he thought we might obtain favour to return to Prage again if we would That he had found this Nuncius Apostolicus more courteous then Malaspina of whom he reported also that is was credibly informed that he was sore offended that we gave him no more honourable title in our speeches to him then Reverendissima Vestra Paternitas This Pucci framed the discourse of his talk to perswade us to think well of this Episcopus Placentius that he was charitable towards us and sorrow
of outward words is able to occasion it Indeed it is a point that doth deserve to be well considered of in these times especially For when young boyes and illiterate men and the number is likely to increase now that Catechizing is so much neglected are turned loose to exercise themselves in this gift as they call it and when by long practice they have attained to some readiness and volubility which doth occasion some inward lightsomeness and excitations or perchance somewhat that may have some resemblance to spiritual sorrow and compunction they presently think themselves inspired and so they become Saints before they know what it is to be Christians And if they can Pray by inspiration why not Preach also So comes in Anabaptism by degrees which will be the ruine of all Religion and civil Government where ever it prevails And I believe that this fond foolish conceit of Inspiration as it hath been the occasion of much other mischief so of that horrid sacriledge shall I call it or profanation I hope I may do either without offence for it is not done by any publick Authority that I know of the casting and banishing of THE LORDS PRAYER out of many private houses and Churches then which I think Christ never received a greater affront from any that called themselves Christians I am not so uncharitable as to believe that it is done in direct opposition to Christ by any real Christians but in a furious zeale by many I believe against set prayers But this is not a place to dispute it Certainly as the Lords Prayer is a Prayer of most incredible comfort to them that use it devoutly and upon good grounds a good foundation of Religion and sound Faith I mean so I believe that set Prayers in general are of more concernment to the setling of Peace in the Commonwealth then many men are aware of But let this 〈◊〉 for my opinion there be worse I am sure that pass currently Again A man may wonder I cannot tell whether an objection may be made of it that Dr. Dee though he were at the first deluded to which his own pride and presumption did expose him as many have been yet afterwards in process of time when he found himself so deluded and shuffled with when Edward Kelley did use such pregnant arguments to him as he did more then once to perswade him that they were evil Spirits that appeared unto them nay when he had found by certain experience that his Spirits had told him many lies foretold many things concerning Princes and Kingdoms very particularly limited with circumstances of time which when the time was expired did 〈◊〉 at all come to pass yet for all this he durst pawn his Soul for them that they were good Spirits and continued in his confidence so farre as our Relation goes to the last I answer Such is the power of this kind of Spiritual delusion it doth so possess them whom it hath once taken hold of that they seldom any of them recover themselves In the dayes of Martin Luther 2 great and zealous reformer of Religion but one that would have detested them as the worst of Infidels that had used the Lords Prayer as some have done in our dayes as appears by what he saith of it in more then one place there lived one Michael Stifelius who applying to himself some place of the Apocalypse took upon him to Prophecy He had foretold that in the year of the Lord 1533. before the 29 of September the end of the world and Christs coming to Judgment would be He did shew so much confidence that some write Luther himself was somewhat startled at the first But that day past he came a second time to Luther with new Calculations and had digested the whole business into 22. Articles the effect of which was to demonstrate that the end of the world would be in October following But now Luther thought he had had tryal enough and gave so little credit to him that he though he loved the man silenced him for a time which our Apocalyptical Prophet took very ill at his hands and wondred much at his incredulity Well that moneth and some after that over our Prophet who had made no little stir in the Country by his Prophecying was cast into prison for his obstinacy After a while Luther visited him thinking by that time to find him of another mind But so far was he from acknowledging his error that he down right railed at Luther for giving him good counsel And some write that to his dying day having lived to the age of 80. years he never recanted And was not this the case of learned Postellus who fallen into some grievous wild fancies in his latter dayes though sound enough still in other things could never be reclaimed though means were used from time to time the best and gentlest in respect to his worth and person that could be thought of But what talk we of particular men Consider the Anabaptists in general Above an hundred years ago they troubled Germany very much it cost many thousands their lives They roved up and down No sooner destroyed in one place but they sprung whilest that season lasted in another Their pretences every where were the same Revelations and the Spirit the wickedness of Princes and Magistrates and Christ Jesus to be set up in his Throne Well at last they were destroyed in most places Stories of them have been written in all Languages read every where and their lamentable end Can all this hinder but that upon every opportunity of a confused and confounded Government they start up again in the same shape and form as before the same pretences the same Scriptures for all the world miserably detorted and abused to raise tumults and seditions in all places Such is the wretchedness of man that is once out of the right way of Reason and Sobriety But withall we must say in this particular case of Dr. Dee's though his obstinacy was great and marvellous yet it must be acknowledged that great was the diligence and subtility of his Spirits to keep their hold and some things sometimes happened as his danger and preservation about Gravesend when he first here related went out of the Realm very strangely and such was the unhappiness of his misapplyed zeal that he made a Providence of whatsoever hapned unto him as he desired So much for Dr. Dee himself But of his Spirits a greater question perchance may be moved If evil wicked lying Spirits as we have reason to believe and no man I think will question how came they to be such perswaders to Piety and godliness yea such preachers of Christ his Incarnation his Passion and other Mysteries of the Christian Faith not only by them here acknowledged but in some places very Scholastically set out and declared It seemeth somewhat contrary to reason and as contrary to the words of our Saviour Every Kingdom divided against it self c. But
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
not well but in that sense it is demanded he meaneth well The evil spirit that possesseth him was cast out of him even at his nose at the presence of those that were present with thee Δ. Gal. ..... Believe me we know not his name Trouble me no move with him Δ. O Lord though men be fraile faulty and filthy yet thy mercies are most praise-worthy among all generations of all thy doings Gal. ..... Hold thy peace we are now to execute the Justice of God Δ. I spake a great while of the mercies of God and his Justice and gave thanks for over Calling and Election into this blessed state Gal. ..... I will take up my lodging for this night Δ. God grant me worthy of such godly ghests God grant me a dwelling with you where his name is eternally praised glorified and sanctified To him all Creatures render thanks honour and glory Amen ..... Amen Δ. This voice out of the Stone being taken to be the voice of God importeth as much as if God himself had sealed to that as his will and decree That all Creatures should render thankes unto him and glory fiant Dignum Justum est Amen Tuesday Junii 18 An. 1583. ante meridiem circa 9. Δ. I prayed first and declared our attending this day the promise of God to be performed c. Ga ..... Are four hours yet to come and I will be ready Are the works of wisdom secret until I have ascended this Hill Is the Harvest ready when the Corn is ripe Are the Labourers ready when their Instruments are prepared I have said All wisdom is reckoned by the eternal Will and until it be said there is no action 〈◊〉 When the Sun shineth I will appear amongst you when it is said Come lo I am ready The dayes of your fathers were blessed but the hour when this Book shall be written shall be sanctified yea in the middest of intellectual understanding For herein is the Creation of Adam with his transgression The Dignity and wisdom be had The Errour and horror wherein he was drowned yea herein is the power spread of the highest working in all Creatures For as there is a particular Soul or fire inflaming unto every body I mean reasonable So there is an 〈◊〉 fire and a general brightnesse giving general light unto them which is but One and 〈◊〉 through the whole yea is measured equally unto every thing from the beginning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all things is here known The reward of death to those that are rewarded for life None are rewarded but according to their deserts of the which there are two kinds 1 These are rewarded with death for their wickednesse 2. So are they rewarded with life for their constant living Amongst the Angels there may be errour and sin may make them fall from the brightnesse of their glory But to the Soul of man being once glorified sin is utterly yea most largely opposite Neither shall that dignity ever be lost stained or defaced that is obtained here with the workes of righteousnesse and true wisdom Whatsoever hath been from the beginning since it was said in Divine Determination Be it done is here inclosed Therefore should this day be Hallowed and Sanctified before the Lord by you For if the Prophets did worship this day of his ascension much more ought you which have tasted of the first and shall now taste of the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Judgements 〈◊〉 his coming But with you Satan is busie His bristles stand up his 〈◊〉 are cast abroad Therefore watch and pray For those that go to 〈◊〉 put on their upper 〈◊〉 Amongst you therefore is no sound belief Neither do you consider the 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 But such is the greatnesse and excellency of his foreknowledge that be 〈◊〉 the enemy to carry a burden yea sometimes to preach upon a Stage For it is said He shall 〈◊〉 unto the end and place himself 〈◊〉 as he would have done above Neither shall he be thrust out of doors till the end be determined Therefore watch and pray and look about with diligence for those things shall be opened unto you which have not been disclosed unto the Holy Ones Oh how hard a thing it is for flesh to continue in the works of Justice Yea oh how hard a thing it is for Wisdom to be acquainted with a hotchpot of filthinesse 〈◊〉 your garments Lift up your hearts and rent your faults in pieces that there may be one 〈◊〉 with one consent and unto one end unto him which is One and the End of all things and to him for and in his truth and for the greatnesse of his mercies To whom be praise for ever Δ. Amen E. K. All the while she spake there came a bright beame from the Mystical Stone to the body of her and at the end she mounted upward and disappeared Δ. We set up the hour glasses to measure four hours justly after this answer and instructions Tuesday After Dinner about one of the clock and ½ the hours expired and we attended the mercy of the Highest Δ. At a great gladsome shining of the Sun whereas it had not shined but a little and inconstantly ever since his last words one appeared on the corner of the green silk Sarcener by the Mystical Stone She was like a woman as Galvah in face but her apparel was a mans gown furred with foynes or as Gentlewomen do wear upon gowns Δ. Upon the diversity of your apparel we are to ask whether you be Galvah or no or have you also as I have done put on your Holiday-cloths Gal. ..... FEAR GOD. E. K. She steppeth forward one step Gal. ..... My Garment is called HOXMARCH which in your speech is called ..... Δ. Initium sapientiae est Timor Domini we accknowledge it to be an old and a true Lesson and also the first step of the path-way to felicity Gal. ..... What is fear Δ. Fear is of two sorts one is called filialis the other servilis Gal. ..... Vnto the Just all fear is joy and therefore the beginning and entrance into quietnesse True quietnesse and rest is wisdom For the mind that knoweth hath the greatest rest and quietness The Daughter of Dispaire unto the wicked is fear This fear is the first that accuseth unto damnation But he that is perfectly wise or hath tasted of wisdom knoweth the End And his fear is of the thing that is done This is the true fear of God and when we fear sin we do it because we hate it When we study to do good it is a token of our fear in that it is a token we fear him whom we love and for whose honour we study to do well This is all that may be said of lively and unlively fear Touching the Book it shall be called Logah which in your Language signifieth Speech from GOD. Write after this sort LOGAETH it is to be sounded Logah This word is of great signification
reveal it Δ. Because it hath been said that in the beginning of our Country troubles we should be packing hence into his Country What token shall we have of that time approaching or at hand Mad. ..... Your watchword is told you before When it is said unto you Venite c. Δ. But I beseech you to be ready against that watchword hearing what is to be done as concerning our wives and children into his Country Mad. ..... Miraculous is thy care O God upon those that are thy chosen and wonderful are the wayes that thou hast prepared for them Thou shalt take them from the fields and harbour them at home Thou art merciful unto thy faithful and hard to the heavy-hearted Thou shalt cover their legs with Bootes and brambles shall not prick them Their hands shall be covered with the skins of Beasts that they may break their way through the hedges Thy Bell shall go before them as a watch and sure Direction The Moon shall be clear that they may go on boldly Peace be amongst you E. K. He is now gone away in a fire AEterno Deo nostro sit Laus Honor Gloria in seculorum 〈◊〉 Amen Thursday Julii 4. hora 11. ante Meridiem 1583. Note Δ. When I came home yesterday from the Court and from London and from the Lord Laskie I found that E. K. was purposed to ride forth of Town and intended to be away as he expresly told me five dayes Certain Companions and his acquaintance having so appointed with him some tarrying for him in Mortlucke and some at Brainford as was perceived this day afterward and as he confessed unto me Whereupon I thought good to signifie so much unto the Lord Laskie who meant to come and refresh himself at my house as he was wont before either this day or within two or three dayes after Who also delighted in E. K. his company c. Hereupon about the time of E. K. his rising I wrote these lines intending to send them presently to the Lord Laskie that word might be returned of his intent before E. K. should ride I meaning and hoping to perswade E. K. to tarry so long and upon such respect NObilissime Princeps in reditu nostrum Edwardum inveni facie quidem laeta sed itineri tamen ut dicit quinque dierum se accingentem Hocque matutino tempore abitum vel iter istud ingredi 〈◊〉 Reversurus ut affirmat post quinque dies Quid sit ipsa veritas novit ille qui verus Omnipotens Deus est noster Hoc volui isto mane summo vobis significare ut quid factu optimum sit Cogitetis De aliis suo tempore Vaestrae Celsitudinis fidelissimus Clientulus Joannes Dee Julii 4. 1563. This Letter being now written and not yet folded up my friend E. K. was ready and came out of his Chamber into my Study and I told him that I was even now sending word to the Prince Laskie of his rideing out and return after five dayes and so shewed him the Letter who when he came to the phrase Quid sit ipsa veritas he was samewhat offended saying What secret meaning hath this upon some of your two former conference Truly said I even such as the circumstance of the Letter doth import that is Whereas you said that you intended to return within five dayes or at the same dayes end it is uncertain whether you will or shall return later or sooner and therefore Quid sit ipsa veritas of your return or intent to return onely God doth know He would by no meanes admit that my sincere exposition but seemed suspitious of some other undue constructions of those former words thereupon I took the Letter and tore it in three pieces and sent none But in my mind referred all to God his disposition assuring my self of God his most constant proceeding in his own affairs Shortly after said E. K. to me Certainly here is a spiritual Creature in my right shoulder who sensibly saith to me Come away So said I did one say to Sowle when they would have had him away to have drowned him whom I stayed in this Study by force and so hindered the Devil of his purpose then as appeareth by that unhappy man yet alive Nay said E. K. they have told me that if I tarry here I shall be hanged and if I go with this Prince he will cut off my head and that you mean not to keep promise with me And therefore if I might have a thousand pound to tarry yea a Kingdom I cannot Therefore I release you of your promise of 50 pounds yearly Stipend to me and you need not doubt but God will defend you and prosper you and can of the very stones raise up children to Abraham And again I cannot abide my wife I love her not nay I abhor her and there in the house I am misliked because I favour her no better To these such his words spoken in great pangs and disquietnesse of mind I reposed and said That these his doings and sayings were not of God and that by my whole proceeding he might perceive what confidence I reposed in his dealing with the spiritual our friends seeing even to the uttermost penny and more than my ability served unto conveniently I laid out still about the .... ming of such things as were by me to be done c. Well on the sudden down he went upon his Mare and away toward Brainford After whose going my Wife came up into my Study and I said Jane this man is mervallously out of quiet against his Wife for her friends their bitter reports against him behind his back and her silence thereat c. He is gone said I but I beseech the Almighty God to guide him and to defend him from danger and shame I doubt not but God will be merciful to him and bring him at length to such order as he shall be a faithful servant unto God c. Note within three hours after came E. K. up my Study staires unbooted for he was come in a boat from Brainford When I saw him I was very glad inwardly But I remained writing of those Records as I had yet to write of Tuesdayes last actions I have lent my Mare out said he and so am returned It is well done said I and thereupon he sate down in the chair by my Table where he was wont to sit And it was ten of the clock then He took up in his hand the Books which I had brought from London of the L. Laskie written to him in his commendations c. And as he was looking earnestly on them a Spiritual Creature did put the Book on the outside of the parchment cover divers times and once would have taken it out of his hands Divers times I heard the strokes my self At length he said I see here the handsome Maiden Madimi and have done a pretty while Then said I to him
We prayed the Psalm of thanksgiving 14 of Roffensis for E.K. his deliverance from Barma and his 14 Companions Amen Δ. first papers E. K. Sal. by appeard often to him whipping before as 6. or 7. miles distant from him think that the blessed Jubanladace had been sent to have said somewhat unto us of his Charge the Prince Laskie But I found in the end that it was a token that the Princce Laskie was pensively careful of us and that his good Angel was his witnesse and message by that token his peculiar Caraster as is before taught Omnis Spiritus Laudet Deum nostrum Vnum Trinum Amen Sequitur liber Tertiarius Sexti LIBER PEREGRINATIONIS PRIMAE Videlicet A Mortlaco Angliae Ad Craconiam Polomiae Saturday Septemb. 21. 1583. Die Sancti Matthaei WE departed from Mortlack about three of the Clock after noon The Lord Albert Lasky Vaywode of Siradia in Polonia meeting me on the water as we had appointed And so brought night to London and in the dead of the night by Wherries we went to Greenwich to my friend Goodman Fern the Potter his house Where we refreshed our selves and thither came a great Tyltboat from Graves end to take us in by appointment of me and Mr. Stanley to go to our ships which we had caused to ly seven or eight mile beyond Graves end To which ships we came on Sunday morning by Sun rise In the greater of them being a dubble Fly-boat of Denmark my Lord Laskie I and E. K. with my Wife and Children c. went And in another ship by me also hired for this passage went some of my Lord his men two horse c. that ship was a Boyer a pretty ship With little winde we straight-way hoysed sayl and began our voyage in the ship This 22. day we were in great danger of perishing on the sands called the Spits about midnight We had by force of winde contrary anchored by them and the Anchor came home no man perceiving it till the ship was ready to strike on the sands Then upon great diligence and pollicy used by our Marriners in hoysing sayl and cutting our Cable to leave our shote anker and committing our selves to the hands of God and most earnestly praying for a prosperous winde It pleased the Almighty and most mercifull God suddenly to change the winds which served us to bear from the sands and to recover Quinborrough back again The 23. day being Munday we came to the mouth and entrance of Quinburrough Creek or Haven And as we made to land in small Fisher-boats the Lord Laskie my Wife and Children in one boat and I with E. K. Marie Elizabeth and John Crokar in another it fell so out that at the ships side our Fisher-boat his sayl-yard and sayl was entangled on the Maynyard of the Fly-boat being stroke down so that in our setting from the ships side the top of our Boat being fast above and the windes and stream carrying the Boat off below it inclined so much on the one side that the one half of the Fisher boat well near was in the water and the water came so in by the intangling before specified not easily to be undone or loosed that my Lord my Wife and all that saw us thought that of necessity our Boat must sink and so we to have perisht But God in his providence and mercy had greater ..... of us so that we became clear the Boat half full of water so that we sat wet to the knees and the water with the billow of the Sea came still beating in more and more And in this mean trouble one of our two Boat-men had lost his long Oare out of the Boat into the water and so not onely we lacked the help of that Oare but also by reason they would have followed the winde and ebb for that Oar contrary to our course in hand and not able to become by with much adoe we constrained them with the sayl our one Oare and the Rudder to make such shift as they could to get to Quinborrough Town And in the mean space E. K. with a great Gantlet did empty most part of the water out of the Boat else it must needs have sunk by all mans reason At length to be brief we came to the Town side up the crooked Creek where when as the Master of our ship would have taken me out in his arms standing in the water with his Boots he fell with me in the water where I was foul arrayed in the water and Oase God be praised for ever that all that great danger was ended with so small grief or hurt At Quinborrough Wednesday Septemb. 25. Circa 3. à Meridie jam pleno mari Δ. Oravimus ad Deum ejus implorabamus auxilum Cortina statim apparuit Oravi denno solus pro auxilio tempore necessitatis Sex pedum altitudine apparebat unus in aere quasi altera ex parte nubis inter E. K. Et illum interpositae E. K. Ego illum cognosco ..... Tu habes causam me cognoscendi illum qui me misit vel jam non vixisses E. K. Videtur esse Michael Δ. Gratias agimus Creatori nostro qui bonum potentem fidelem ministrum suum miserit ad nostram protectionem tempore necessitatis nostrae Mich. ..... Loquor de tribus rebus de 〈◊〉 illo qui me misit De 〈◊〉 respectu illius quod estis de servitio Dei quod 〈◊〉 est O vos potestates Coeli terrae colligite vos in simul respicite Deum vestrum Considerate beneficia ejus an non vos colligavit simul Et concatenavit vos in seipso An non estis glorificati respectu officii vestri ad quod praestandum potentèr assignati estis in voluntate ejus qui glorificat seipsum Ecce 〈◊〉 vosmet dedidistis principi tenebrarum vel quare vestri principes contendunt contra altissimum colligitis vosmet in simul ad 〈◊〉 contra ipsum qui est potentissimus vel illum velletis subjugare cujus arma sunt super omnem fortitudinem Quo modo audetis contendere cum ejus fortitudine Vel quae est causa quod tam impii esse velitis Sed ita oportet esse quia vobis siigilavit gubernationem in vestras manus dedit violam destructionis Sed date locum fini vostro Quia in ejus fortitudine dispersi eritis Et omnium rerum conclusioni ostia vestra debent esse aperta Ne mirentur servi Dei de fortitudine temptationis Quia magna est potestas impii hiantis Leonis quando illi est cum sigillo tradita Ne dedignemini hac hora scio vestram gubernationem per illum Ecce clavis justitiae aperta mihi est Nihilominus vestra adhuc erit major iniquitas vestrum regnum erit dispersum in ejus potenti superbia Quam magnus est Sathan qui resistit fortitudini Dei
thy Prince What 〈◊〉 thou know of them Cease till you hear the number of their destruction Desire what plague you will saith the Lord upon this people for their ungratefulnesse and they shall be afflicted For the Lord is angry with them and he saith Judge you this wicked people their Town Men Women and Children And it shall be seen that the Lord the God of Heaven and Earth hath mercy on you Δ Non nostra sed Dei voluntas fiat ad ejus nominis laudem honorem Gab. ..... Bid the fires fly from Heaven and consume them and it shall be done Or say Let the Earth swallow them And they shall perish 〈◊〉 I have made Heaven and Earth saith the Lord and .... Justice is for my people I am a flaming fire amongst you and the Rod of Justice It is said Heave up thy hands and thou shalt be heard The peace of him that is the spirit of wisdome inflame your mindes with love and charity and grant you continuance to his glorie Δ. Amen Deo AEterno Omnipotenti Misericordi sit omnis laus honor Gloria Amen Tuesday 15. Octob. We made hard shift to get from Dockum to Angem by sun set Thursday 17. Octob. We came from Angem to Embden going without the Isles and coming in at Wester Emb. We came before the Town by six of the Clock after noon but could not get in at the Gates and therefore we lay all night a shipboard but my Lord A. L. went over to the lodging on the other shoar Friday 18. Octob. We came into the Town My Lord lay at the white Swan toward the water-side and I and E. K. with my Children and Many at the three golden Keyes by the English house Sunday 20. Octob. This day morning about eight of the Clock we went in a litte Hoy from Embden toward Lyre my Lord tarried at Embden We came late to Lyre and the same night we went from thence in a lesse Scute by Styk-husen to Oppen Munday 21. Octob. By nine of the Clock in the morning we came to Oppen a very simple Village and from thence we went straight way to Oldenburgh Tuesday 22. Octob. From Oldenburgh by Delmenhurst to Breame and were lodged at an old Widow her house at the sign of the Crown Saturday Octobris 26. Hora 12. scil in Meridie At Breame Δ. The Lord Albert Laskie being at Styck-husen behinde us with the Earle John of Embden and Friesland c. E. K. The Curten seemeth to be far backward in the stone and the stone to be clear between the Curten and the fore-part Under the Curten I see the leggs of men up to the knees Δ. Then appeared one and said Il. ..... Room for a Player Jesus who would have thought I should have met you here E. K. He is all in his ragged Apparel down from the Girdle steed But above he hath a white Satten Gerken Δ. By the mercies of God we are here And by your will and propriety and the power of God you are here Il. ..... Tush doubt not of me for I am I. L. E. K. My thinketh that the gravity of this Action requireth a more grave gesture and more grave speeches Bear with me though I say so unto you Il. ..... If I must bear with thee for speaking foolishly which art but flesh and speakest of thy own wisdom How much more oughtest thou to be contented with my gesture which is appointed of him which regardeth not the outward form but the fulfilling of his will and the keeping of his Commandments which is God whose wisdom unto the world is foolishnesse but unto them that fear him an everlasting joy mixed with gladnesse and a comfort of life hereafter Partaking infallible joyes with him that is all comelinesse and beauty How say you to this Sir Ha Ε. K. He turneth up his heels to Ε. K. E. K. I do not understand your words for because I do onely repent your sayings Il. ..... It is the part of him that is a servant to do this duty Of him that watcheth to look what he seeth For the greatest point of wisdom is reverently to consider thy calling It is said do that which is appointed for he that doth more is not a true servant E. K. How can that be Il. ..... Speak when they time cometh Sir here is mony but I have it very hardly Bear with me for I can help thee with no more Come on Andras where are you Andras E. K. Now cometh one in a Gown to him The Gown is bare like a prentice of London a young man Il. ..... Did not I bid thee go yonder and fetch me money Andras ..... Whither Il. ..... This is one of them that forgetteth his businesse so soon as it is told him And. ..... Sir I went half way Il. ..... And how then Speak on Speak on And. ..... Then being somewhat weary I stayed the rather because I met my friends The third day I came thither but I found him not at home His family told me that he was newly gone forth Il. ..... And you returned a Coxcombe Well thus it is I placed thee above my servants and did what I could to promote thee and endeavoured dayly to make thee free But I am rewarded with loytring and have brought up an idle person Go thy way I will deliver thee to the Officer The Officer shall deliver thee to the Prison and there thou shalt be rewarded For such as do that they are commanded deserve freedom but unto those that loytre and unto such as are idle vengeance and hunger belongeth E. K. He taketh him by the arm and delivereth him to a man with a staffe in his hand and he putteth him in at a door E. K. Now Il himself goeth into a house which all this while appeared on the left hand Il. ..... Come on E. K. Now he bringeth another by the hand Il. ..... My thinketh you should be a fit man to do my message E. K. Now he whispereth him in the ear and pointeth out h .... Il. ..... I warrant the man be not abashed A strange matter Pointing to E. K. Il. ..... I have businesse in Denmark and this fellow is afraid to go thither Tell him thou comest from me and that I will come my self shortly I know he will do so much for me he hath had much acquaintance with me ..... I care not if I had some man to keep me Company E.K. This new come man said so E. K. He whispereth again with this man in his ear Il. ..... These good fellows are not ready or else they might go with thee Go thy way in Gods name See that you do your businesse I keep such servants as none in all the Countrey keepeth E. K. He keepeth no servants Il. ..... Meddle with that you have to do with all I pray this man and that man and every one deceiveth me Good Lord where should a man finde a true
you to urge me with mine own spirit Behold I am mighty Because I am the joy of the faithfull For I am called the Temple of the Holy ones and the beauty of Israel The spirit of man crieth out and pierceth into the Lord as the swiftnesse of an Arrow And he heard them Therefore thus doth the winde of Cabon open her mouth and sweareth by the Jaspar Pillar that standeth in the Temple of Reconciliation and it Thundereth and is said Be it done And behold the doors open and the Holy Altar is covered The beasts with many feet bring up burnt-offerings And there is a sacrifice that ascendeth up and it is a mighty winde such as hath not been since the beginning of dayes Open your ears therefore and prepare your selves to hear For this ..... is mighty for it is of peace My Justice saith the Lord is sealed and you have sinned mightily My arm is stretched forth and I must be magnified For vengeance is gone forth and is appeared already But who is he that resisteth the venome of the earth or instructeth man to avoid the Darts of poison He saith unto you Thus it is because I have sanctified you and have made you holy to the earth Therefore will I help you But not as you desire For your prayers and unrighteous life shall become bands of yarn And I will make a contention betwixt Sathan and you If therefore you labour hard and open fervent mindes such as are not of the world and can binde this sword and cloud of vengeance fast from amongst you Be it so unto you for it is your own righteousnesse For Sathan hath reviled and hath said Then shalt thou see But so long as they are Holy and become righteousnesse they are become safe but when they fall Satan entreth in For the power of righteousnesse is become a Conquerour if it fight mightily And Satan shall be confounded by a righteous judgement For I have decreed it and by my self I swear it I will be a righteous Judge betwixt you Therefore take heed you sinnot not nor go into death For great is the fall of vengeance Be not therefore defiled with the filthinesse of the wicked Neither delight in such as counterfeit truth For I am one fire that judgeth all things And I delight in people that are joyfull with one Banket For those that fill their bellies at the houses of strangers Become enemies to me For I have said My spirit is holy and my annointed righteous Let the earth rise up and continue in her wickednesse Yea let them say we have found the anointed But my continuance is truth and they are become liars For my spirit worketh and behold there are wonders in the sight of men And wheresoever I dwell such is my power Be therefore of One house that you may eat together Least you banket too much and so become deceivers I am one and am known by One And unto One Which One I am married unto And I am mercifull Whosoever abideth not therein is an Adulterer Avoid you darknesse for righteousnesse is present and my spirit entreth Blessed are such as believe Amen Even to the Amen E. K. He is gone There appeare some bands linked together as Chaines about the Cloud Δ. Welcome be these bands E. K. He is here again ..... and saith ..... eth ..... Why are you become dull Why are you yet ignorant Seest thou these ..... He pointeth and speaketh to E. K. E. K. I see them I thank God ..... These bonds are your own righteousnesse And as they appear before the Lord so shall they binde vengeance together But if you become weak you fall But pray that you fall not For they are the dayes of sorrow The spirit of God is twofold present Jah agian and present Nah gassapalan Therefore take heed For in the first you are blessed and it may return But he that is filled with the second shall be drunken for ever The first is power present and a comfort inmeasurable glorifying and strengthning all things that are agreeable to it But when they differ it returneth The other is the spirit of the first and the second Almighty and everlasting unmeasurable and inexplicable drowning the will of man that becometh strong in the fountain of gladnesse and understanding true wisdom her self and not returning Pray therefore that you may be perfect and that you may be seasoned For it is a salt that savoureth to the end The peace of God be amongst you E. K. He cast off his Cloudy Lawn and went away He seemed to be 〈◊〉 Δ. Yet we beseech you more expresly and particularly to deal with us c. ..... It is said ..... It is written ..... It is true Cease Δ. Gloria Laus Honour Triumphus Jubilatio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Nunc semper Amen Wednesday Novemb. 20. Mane hor. 11½ Lubek Δ. As thou hast of thy mercies O Lord given us some shew of thy favour bent toward us so are we desirous to understand how our Letters have wrought upon our friend his heart to joyn with us to call for thy mercies pardon and help for if they have Then do we hope our bands of acceptable life whereby to binde vengeance prepared and intended against us shall wax more and stronger by thy great mercy and help to thy well-pleasing in thy service hence forward E. K. The Cloud and bonds appear But the bands appear fewer Δ. O Lord is our state since yesterday become weaker with thee And shall it so narrowly be exacted Thy will be done who art holy just and most wise O God E. K. The bonds about the Cloud now are onely two which before were six or seven The bonds seem of a smoky ashy collour spirally going about the Cloud ..... Judgement is the end of Justice distributing and delivering also to every thing seen heard or determined to his proper end uprightly Are you able to deny this Δ. The end of our actions words and thoughts may seem twofold One of us intended and ment to be good The other not depending upon our weening but according to exact wisdom what is the end of the same here deemed the proper end if I understand right A voyce Lo judgement is the end of Justice in things that are handled uprightly whereof you finde the Omnipotencie and Truth of him that judgeth Omnipotently Which beholding your Combat hath girded himself together and beholdeth the Lists and be judgeth uprightly For be hath sworn it Arm not your selves therefore as weaklings But provide as mightie and couragious Souldiers for your own defence I am without corruption saith the Lord and lean not with the windes of Basannah Δ. O Lord give me leave to request thee c. A voyce But I am just and judgement her self Enter not therefore into my holy places Neither kneel down before my sanctuaries saying the Lord hath Chosen us He liveth and it is true for ever For I have said
It may be undetermined I will also see whether you be strong inwardly or privily rotten For with the world your weaknesse is great Whosoever overcometh shall rejoyce But I will be a God in my Covenant and will hold on my promise Fight therefore as it becometh you and cast off the world Make flesh subject and strangle your Adversary For unto such belongeth the entrance into my Chambers and the use of my will as the Horn of my glorie For it is written light dwelleth not in darknesse Neither hath darknesse comprehended any light For darknesse is the Cave of errour and the reward of sinners Thus sayeth he which beholdeth your sorrows And it is a fight for many daies which appeareth neither in the one nor in the other nor giveth he answer untill the end E. K. There is one come in like a Ghost and he taketh all the hangings away which beautified the place like to Curtains Now all the sides of the stone are darkish and the Cloud standeth in the very middle thereof Now the bands seem brighter then ..... because the place is so darkish Δ. O Lord many daies Combat is assigned us And forasmuch as Militia est vita hominis super Terram we are now in a great uncertainty of our Combat ending E. K. There standeth the number of 40. upon a great Labell and nothing else Δ. This 40. O Lord what betok eneth it dayes weeks or years Well Whatsoever it be Blessed be the name of the Highest Our God King and Father E. K. Δ. E. K. Now is one come in very brave like a Preacher I take him to be an evil one Δ. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini E. K. He saith nothing Not so much as Amen ..... Are you so foolish to think that the power of God will descend into so base a place E. K. The power of God descending descendeth to beautifie the place And whatsoever he beautifieth he doth it mercifully And so through his mercy he descendeth among us that put our trust in his mercies ..... It is true But unto those that are righteous Δ. Christ his coming hath been to save sinners His conversation was among sinners halt lame blinde and diseased So likewise Now our frailty or impurity will not exclude his presence or the Ministery of his faithfull Angels ..... What in this base manner Δ. Do you mislike the manner ..... Can any that hath any drop of wisdom like it Δ. Are you wise ..... Or else I could not see thy imperfections Δ. Which be they Accuse me ..... What greater imperfection then to imagine much more believe that the Angels of God will or may descend into so filthie a place as this corruptible stone is Considering the clearnesse and bignesse of the aire or the places that are prepared in mans bodie for such entrances Δ. Who causeth thee to come here ..... Thy folly Δ. Art thou good or bad ..... I am good or else I could not see the bad Δ. Ergo thou art a lyar for thou sayd'st No good Angel would or might come here into this stone Δ. Thus will God be glorified against wicked Satan and his Ministers His fetch was very subtile As To bring in doubt all the Actions performed in this ftone What canst thou answer E. K. He sayeth nothing Neither can he say any thing He seemeth to be a very foolish Devil Δ. Mendacem oportet esse memorem Now be packing hence ..... I will abide here Δ. Where God will permit thee there mayest thou be But we will as now cease And we thank God highly of this comfort and victory We beseech him that we may as prosperously overcome all other Diabolical assaults or sophistical or untrue perswafions and all his Temptations Amen Glory Honour power and praise be to our Almighty and living God the Lord of Hosts Jehovah now and ever Amen Saturday Novemb. 23. à Meridie hora 1½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth the same bad one sitting who last appeared The Cloud with the sword appeareth at last with two wreaths on one side and two on the other spirally This Creature taketh the cloudy pillar and throweth it from him divers times He sayeth Call as long as thou wilt I will keep thee for seeing any more sights here Δ. Or Lord attend unto thy glory Attend unto thy honour regard the arrogancy of this Luciferine brag against thy younglings expressed Δ. And of the Lord Alb. Laskie c. ..... He shall come to destruction as thou and thine to miserable beggery Because he hath consented to them that are Ministers of iniquity spirits of falshood E. K. He looketh on a bare book when he saith thus ..... The power of God entreth into the Soul of man and doth visit the Chambers of his understanding openeth his will with power The spirits of darknesse are ready for every place and can deceive saying This is of God Vnto these you have 〈◊〉 and have sworn it as a Covenant between God and you But I am come from God and am entred indeed and will make you hungry in your own foolishnesse that you may become wise None hath entred here with power but I. And I will tarry here And I will be a wall betwixt you and your imaginations and betwixt those that have tempted you and your weaknesse For thou hast called upon God and he hath heard thee and I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... Laws of salvation are ready follow them The way into darknesse is wide and easie and where light is it encreaseth joy Be thou therefore warned by me Nay I have said Δ. Thou hast said here That thou art God is that true For thou hast said Thou hast called upon God and he hath hard thee And I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... I see thee And thy wisdom is nothing Make of me what thou canst I am the messager of God ..... Avoid darknesse avoid darknesse avoid darknesse E. K. He plucketh down violently in the stone the Clouds and all becometh light in the stone ..... Ly here with thy fellows Those that are of wisdom let them understand Δ. O Sapientia patris aeterni illumina mentes nostras ut tibi serviamus in sanctitate Justitia toto vitae nostrae tempore Amen ..... Carmathar a Knight of the Rhodes was thirteen years deceived with one that appeared as he thought in glorie wisdom in the image of Christ. Antony was beguiled in divers wayes The Prophets Apostles have doubted in many things But because they faithfully believed they were not rejected Their hope became fruitfull and they blessed with understanding from above If so be also you repent and be sorry in that you have yielded unto the instruments of wickednesse and follow on as they your fathers have done you shall also become wise But I say unto you That which you have consented unto is amisse and false worse then errour it self For where have you tasted anie
without measure knoweth what is and what is to come which hath thus said of you Behold their ignorance is greater and they esteem not truth Lo I have heard them in the midst of their corruption yet they are become faithlesse I minister unto them but in vain But behold their mouths are closed up with idlenesse O ye of little understanding are you become so blinde that you will not see Are the windows of your eares made fast against truth Are your consciences sealed up with a thrice burnt iron Desire you light and yet refuse it Have you craved ... and now deny it yea utterly disdain it Δ. That is not true E. K Now cometh a head behind him ..... Lo the end shall become your comfort if you listen to the songs of my mouth if not everlasting folly and a reward of such as are weary to hear of Truth Now I pinched him ..... E. K. This he said looking behind him Δ. ..... Burn those blasphemous books of thine and I will teach thee wisdom Δ. Will you have me note down that sentence so ..... I will Δ. What blasphemous books can I acknowledge seeing I understand none If they contain Sentence make me to perceive it that so I may compare it with the Touchstone of God his word using the Talent of such reason as God hath given me ..... I go I go I go E. K. Now cometh a great fire down and there appeareth a great huge man with a great sword in his hand sire cometh out at his eyes and at his mouth This terrible man said ..... Maledicti sunt qui jurati sunt contra Nomen meum E. K. Now that wicked creature shaketh himself Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Redemptoris humani generis Quis tu es This was spoken to the man with the sword ..... Sume vires Δ. Deus in adjutorium meum intende c. Miserere mei Deus c. E. K Now the great huge one kneeleth down and his face is now from meward he looketh up toward heaven he hath very long hair to beneath his girdle his Robe is long and tucked up Now he standeth up ..... Cursed are they Cursed are they Cursed is he for ever I am I gave thee power and sealed thee for a time Power to use the vehemency of thine own poison but not to touch my coat Thus he saith And I am thou art a lyar from the beginning and the fountain of cursednesse Damnation is thy dwelling place Death is thy seat Vengeance is the Crown of thy disglory Because thou hast entred into my seat Hast exalted thy brightnesse blasphemed my name wherein in this Action thou continuest No point of thy charge nor of my permission Be thou accursed weakened overthrown and defaced Thou art vanqished Thy time is shortened And why I am And I say thou fightest against me and not against men I am Justice and the strength of him that liveth whom thou hast felt and shalt feel world without end Therefore Depart Depart I say E. K. Now the sword standeth by him with the rags that appeared before ..... Vengeauce prepared for others be thy reward As it was delivered unto thee so take it with thee That the malice which thou shewest to others may heap up thine own destruction Jeovah Jeovah Jeovascah E. K. The wicked Tempter falleth down into a hole and this high creature putteth the sword and rags down after him Now this great creature appeareth as small as he used to do And it is Michael Mic. ..... Veniat Lux Domini fidelium Consolatio E. K. Now is all come in as was before The Vail the feet of men appearing under c. Mic. ..... Thus hath God dealt mercifully with you Δ. His Name be praised for ever Mic. ..... Thus hath Truth vanquished darknesse Even so shall you vanquish the World in him which is the Spirit of Power and Truth For I have Sworn saith the Lord and will be merciful unto you But cease for these daies to come for they were daies delivered Let them be therefore unto you daies of Repentance For the end of 40 daies must come And this Doctrine shall be written unto all Nations even unto the end of the World The Grain is yet in the earth and hath newly consented with the earth But when it springeth and beareth seed The number shall be the last Δ. A dark Parable to my understanding is this Mic. ..... The transparent fire of Meeknesse comfort and warm your souls rectifie and make strong your bodies to the eternal comfort of the World to come in the pilgrimage which you shall endure with a heavy crosse for the Testimonie of Truth E. K. A great many voices say Amen E. K. Now he is gone and the golden Vail is drawn again Δ. Omnis laus honor Gloria Victoria Triumphus sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Vivo vero nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen Sonday 22. Decembris Mane we went from Rostoch toward Stetin Wensday 25. Decembris on Christmas Day morning we came to Stetin by 10 of the clock Anno 1584. Stilo veteri Stetini in Pomerania January 2. Mane hora 9. Δ. Veniat lux Domini fidelium Consolatio c. 40. dies jam completi sunt c. Expectamus praepotens auxilium Altissimi c. E. K. I cannot see but an inch into the Stone The Curtain appeareth but more deep into the Stone At length cometh one very tall in along white Gown all open and his hair of his head hanging down to his legs He hath wings upon his head armes back and legs He seemeth to descend from the Clouds and upon Clouds which lie sloapes vvise for his defcending He speaketh as follovveth ..... The purenesse of humility dispersed through the inward bowels of man is that which is called with you Perseverance Which Perseverance beautifieth and establisheth in a true and stedfast Basis those things that are acceptable in the sight of God the workes of man Hence springeth justification which .... with the love of God Herein are you become like unto us for that we are the image of Perseverance and the Glory of God But in us it is dignified In you it is and must be imperfect For nothing is of flesh or blood that receiveth perfection The Emanations from God to and into his creatures which agree in the Center of the Earth as the knitting up of things are established So that one jot of his Will neither can nor may perish wax weak or dwell in error Which foreseen from the beginning carrieth in it self the remembrance of all things to the end Through which mercy and remembrance you are become the servants of God Not for your own sakes but in that it is the Glory of him which hath called you to this exercise Troublesome to the World but rewarded with Glory If therefore your imperfections rise up and resist the Will of God saying blasphemously as you do
Let us seek other wayes Then you are not counted perseverers neither are your works worthy reward But humane reason can perswade and give judgement against these follies much more are they damnable and deserve correction in the voice and judgement of such as are pure He that dealeth with the wicked is a lyar and shall have his reward But the end of comfort is in the purenesse of spirit But O you of little wisdom you rise up against the windes and yoke your wits against the mountains Nay you cast your selves down headlong where there is no mercy For what blasphemie is it to say If it be the will of God it must follow Is not man subject to the bringing in of his own labours And are not they allowed to his comfort being brought in The soul of man is the Image of God after his form which keepeth within himself the power of his divinity in the heavenly Spirit whereby he hath Authority to consent with God in the workmanship of his Will and Creatures Which Power being sealed already giveth unto man as King of himself to consent to his own salvation conjoyning and knitting himself together either with perseverance in the assured hope of mercy or with wilfull drunkennesse to the reward of such as fall Therefore Become Holy For the soul beautifieth when it is beautified in it self Resist not the Will of God which is mighty on you Be not obstinate Be humble Rejoyce not for this World But be glad that your names are sealed and that you shall correct the World Despair not through weaknesse for from whom cometh strength If puddles become Seas the end is more wonderful But yet greater when sinners are called to the knowledge and performance of God his Will thorough his mercies Even as one day perisheth and is not although he hath been Even so it is and shall be the state of this World For the Earth must sing O Sanna with the Heavens And there must be One veritie And Hierusalem shall descend with an horn of glory to the end The Sun and Moon shall be witnesses and wonder at their stay The Kings of the Earth shall become proud in themselves and are unable to be tamed with man But I will yoke them saith the Lord with correction And force them one to imitate anothers steps Yea they shall tread the grapes alike For in my Vineyard Corruption shall not dwell with Authority Neither shall the Prince of Darknesse usurpe my further honour E. K. He speaketh much in a smaller voice than he did I cannot perceive it He turned back and spake ..... I speak these things for your understanding and that you may be strengthened E. K. He turneth back again as before and speaketh I know not what ..... My dear brethren therefore rejoyce in Comfort and the image of Peace and remain faithful that you may be fed with that food that shall preserve and alwaies rest before the mighty flames of Zanzor where there dwelleth no defiled Creature nor any unrighteousnesse E. K. He turneth now back again as before speaking He seemeth now to lean against a Pillar of Copper great and round And he is become lesse than he was Now he standeth on the top of the Pillar Now he kneeleth down his back being turned A voice saith to him ..... Swear ..... 1 He said ..... It is done He said ..... The first voice openeth his mouth and saith There is a great rumbling and roushings of falling of Towns or Houses as it were in the Stone He said ..... The will of God is sealed in this Prophesie and it shall endure A voice ..... Swear ..... 2 He said ..... I have done He said ..... It thundereth and it is the second voice The effect of God his Will is not of time and therefore not to be known of man till that moment and end of time shall appear wherein it must be published and finished with power E. K. Now it thumbleth again very terribly as though a vvhole Town should fall down into a great Valley A voyce ..... Swear ..... 3 He said ..... I have ..... And it is the third and the last voyce All things that are crooked shall be made straight The winde of the heavens shall walk through all the earth Wisdom shall sit in her Majestie Crowned in the top of an Hill with exalted glorie It is the end E. K. Now all dasheth in a flame of fire Pillar and he and all and so flieth upward A voyce ..... He that hath ears let him hear Another voyce It shall be Amen E. K. Now the Curtain cometh before all as it vvas at the beginning this day Δ. O Lord for thy great mysteries declared unto us this day we most humbly thank thee But on our parts there remaineth some matter .... thy hands by some of thy good Ministers we desire to have some advertisement as of the Lord Alb. Laskie Secondly of Vincent Seve c. E. K. A very little Creature appeareth and saith The little one A word and away The hearts of Princes are the secrets of the Lord Such they are as unlock the doings of this world Δ. Of A. L. his delay in coming contrary to our defire and expectation I would gladly understand the cause c. The little one Those things that are of wickednesse are not of our remembrance This stay shall hinder a third part of his glory But all your life is not of him Nor he of you If he become good he shall be well rewarded He is forward Vincent is in France E. K. He is gone suddenly This Creature stood betvveen the Curtain and the forepart of the stone it vvas one of the least Creatures that ever I savv Δ. All Honour praise and thanks be to our God Almighty now and ever Amen Thursday Januarii 9. The Lord Albert Laskie came to Stetin Hor. 2½ à Meridie Fryday Janurii 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hora prima incipiebat per 2. horas durabat Stetini Sonday 12. Januarii 1584. Stetin Δ. After Dinner we were talking together of our affairs A voyce in E. K. his head said Jam venit hora. Δ. After Supper as I had a desire to shew to E. K. some places of St. Johns Apocalypsis a voyce said to him Equus albus est initium Doctrinae vestrae Et est verbum Dei 10. 9. sunt Novemdecim Δ. Hereupon seeking in the 19. Chapter of the Apocalypsis we found the Text Equus albus c. versu 11. A voyce Ne dubites Sum enim servus Dei To this purpose appertain these places of Scripture c. These are the dayes wherein the Prophet said No faith should be found on the earth This Faith must be restored again and man must glorifie God in his works I am the light of God Δ. Then by like He is VRIEL ..... I am a witnesse of the light These are the times when Justice and truth must take place Behold I touched him
these things must come to passe The Countrey shall be divided one rise up against another Great treasons be wrought Yea and one cut anothers throat And when the greatest troubles are Then shalt thou save her life Then shall the wall be broken down And free passage shall be made And such as are skorners and ascend up the narrow steps or shew themselves on the walls shall be trodden down and defaced Here is understanding ..... That which thou E. K. hast is a part of four and is become the fifth Yet it is none of the four dignified in a Cube whose root is ..... I will know it shortly Thou hast no power for time is not yet come But must be brought forth shortly that it may be known ..... Made it was Holy but it was made by those that ..... It which is not man neither any thing of wickednesse which for his sins died least he should have been destroyed in the second death Revealed unto thee neither for thine own sake nor at thy request But by the will of God for a time to come E. K. I pray you to tell me plainly what it is Mad. .... Be content ..... I speak thus least thou shouldest sin God the father the Son and the holy Ghost blesse you E. K. Now she is gone as a mighty tall woman Δ. Veritati aeternae sit aeterna Laus Gloria Benedictio E. K. Amen Wednesday Martii 4. Mane 1584. LASKO Martii 14. Stylo Novo Δ. After my Petition made to God at the instance of A. L. not present now to know of Maldavia Kingdom the state to come that is when A. L. and by what means he should enjoy the same being before at Mortlak promised unto him And at my requesting that Madimi might be the Minister of his will therein At length appeared Madimi Δ. Gloria Patri filio spiritui sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Mad. Amen A certain rich man father of an houshold returned and found all things out of order And lo he looked up and said unto his servant Arise and be ready for I will set my house in order Go to Asson and I will meet thee there And he arose up and went unto Asson But his master came not At length he said unto him Behold I will not dwell h ..... Remove my houshold 〈◊〉 Banal and he did so And the servant prepared a feast But his master came not And he said unto him the third time why art thou sorrie or why art thou angry ..... Oh unto me for I am thy master And he said Rise go unto Molschecks and thou shalt meet me there But lo thus sayeth the servant my master forgetteth ..... and hath commanded me twice and I have prepared for him and he came not and he saith unto me the third time Arise go and I will meet thee Thou shalt finde nie there But he will there also deceive me And he sent before and behold his master .... But immediately after that the servants messenger .... The father of the houshold came and he looked but his servant was not there And he sent for him and commanded him to be .... and to be brought with violence But the servant said deal not thus with me for it is violent But the master answered and said What I command thee ..... ghtest For servants have no freedom of themselves And it came to passe that after the master had gathered together his friends He said unto them Arise up and finde me one that is FAITHFULL with OBEDIENCE Then he stretched out his band and he said unto his servant Hold take thy reward For from me thou art banished How say you was this Justice that he did unto his servant Δ. O Lord we appeal to thy mercies and we acknowledge thy judgements alwayes to be most just and true c. Mad. The Ark of the Lord was the Covenant of OBEDIENCE Happy are those that enter E. K. There springeth a thing before her I ke a Reed but withered Mad. Vnto thee E. K. pointing to the Reed thus sayeth the Lord Because thou canst not endure the end of winter Spring on and grow But in the midst of thy beauty in the midst of summer shall thy destruction be A. L. I will anoint thee before thy time for my promise sake That thou mayest fall in the midst of thine own time for thy weaknesse is great E. K. She standeth and holdeth up her hands toward heaven and saith nothing that I can hear Mad. Go make haste All flesh is abominable E. K. She speaketh another way not toward us Mad. I am sealed neither can I speak any more E. K. Now she goeth away like a three cornerd Cloud Δ. Oh Jesu have mercy on us Oh King of Jews have mercy on us Oh Conquerour against Hell death and the Devil have mercy on us E. K. Now is he here who was last here Are you Nalvage ... In the name of Jesus Lord be mercifull unto us c. .... Is sealed I am excepted .... I am commanded and my Office is to teach E. K. He turneth about with a great swistnesse at length he standeth Δ. O Lord and our desire is to be taught of thee in thee and for thy service Nal. To him to whom it is said G O Thus I say let him be going For God hath stretched out his hand and he sayeth I will not pluck it back but with vengeance E. K. He turneth again Δ. O God to whom is that G O sayed Nal. Thou mortal man who is the Lord of health Δ. The God of Heaven and Earth Nal. The Lord is angry and he said unto thee Be gone Lo there is a day past And if his own Angel had not made intercession for him he had been nothing Seal these things make haste Be going For the Lord is angry Δ. O God c. Nal. Thus he sayeth ..... Lasky hath rejoyced with an Harlot and hath measured me which am unknown But he shall be rewarded Δ. A. L. To thee it is said Make haste and be gone I will fulfill my promise in him for thy sake But he shall fall being none of thy acquaintance Δ. Pronounce favour and mercy on me who in my sin ..... and singlenesse of heart rejoyce to do what I can possibly perform Nal. Thus they have said against thee Let him not go Of them thus sayeth the Lord. They shall tarrie where they would not Cease write no more Δ. Soli Deo omnis honor Gloria Amen Monday Martii 9. Hora 9. Mane recessimus a ..... prima nocte fuimus apud petr ..... Tuesday 10. Wednesday 11. Thursday 12 ..... At Michow we lodged at night Friday martii 13. We came to Cracow circa tertiam a Meredie and were lodged in the Suburbs by the Church at ..... Where we remained a sevenight and then I and my wife we removed
very delicate and pleasant They go all into the Garden and he saith Thou art of the Wildernesse thy feathers and carkase are not worthy the spoil of the Garden Now the Kite scratcheth and gaspeth at this man but he taketh the Kite and cutteth her carkase in two equal parts from the crown of his head and throweth one half over one side of the Bridge and the other half over the other side and said Fowles must be devoured of Fowles The rest say O justitia divina clapping their hands over their heads 3. Now the next in order openeth another Gate going up upon the same Bridge still The rest of the building from the Gate inward seemeth very round and bright yet there appear no windows in it It is a frame made as though the 7 Planets moved in it The Moon seemeth to be New Moon There standeth Armour and this man putteth on all white Harnesse He seemeth to kick down the Moon and her frame or Orb and seemeth to make powder of all For there is no mercy here saith he 4. Now another of them goeth forward to another Gate and openeth the Gate and goeth in there appear an infinite multitude of men There sitteth a man cloathed like a Priest having a great Crown on his head here are many preaching in this place He goeth to that Crowned Priest and he taketh away divers patches of the Vesture which he had and the patches seemed to be like Owls and Apes and such like He saith ...... A King is a King and a Priest is a Priest He taketh from the rest their Keyes and Purses and giveth them a Staff and a Bottle in their hands He goeth from them He putteth all that he took from them in a house beside the Gate and writeth on the door Cognoscat quisque suum Now they proceed to another Gate and another of them opened that Gate The Bridge continueth still ascending upward Now there appeareth that Gate being opened a marvellous great Wildernesse There cometh a great number of naked wilde men to him He shaketh that Gate with his hands and it falleth in pieces one falleth on one side into the River and the other falls on the other side into the River ........ Let both these places be made one Let the spoil of the first be the comfort of the last For from them that have shall be taken and unto them that have not shall be given 6. E. K. Now he goeth and the last of his Company openeth another Gate he is longer in opening of that Gate than any of the rest There appeareth a bushy place and there runneth a great River on the very top of the Hill and a great Gate standeth beyond the Hill and a very rich Tower all of precious Stones as it seemeth Here he filleth his Tankard in the River and holdeth his hands up and maketh shew as he would return He said ...... This was my coming and should be my return E. K. Now they appear suddenly before the first Gate and there the Principal man diggeth the earth and putteth stones and brambles and leaves aside There he taketh out a dead carkase and bringeth it to a fire and stroketh it a very lean carkase it is it seemeth to be a dead Lion for it hath a long tail with a bush at the end He saith ...... Come let us take him up and comfort him for it is in him Now the Lion seemeth to sit up and lick himself and to drink of the water and to shake himself and to roar The man taketh of the segs or flags by and stroketh the Lion as he would make his hair smooth Now the Lion is become fair fat and beautiful He saith ...... Tarry you here till I bring you word again for I must follow the Lion into the Wildernesse E. K. Now all they are gone except the two our School-masters Gabriel and Nalvage Gab. ...... This is the Judgement of God this day Happy is he that hath judgement to understand it Δ. Thou O Lord knowest the measure of our judgement Give therefore light understanding and the grace to use thy gifts duely Gab. ....... Listen unto my words for they are a Commandment from above Behold saith he I have descended to view the Earth where I will dwell for seven dayes and twice seven dayes Therefore let them be dayes of rest to you But every seventh day I will visit you as Now I do E. K. He speaketh as if he spake out of a Trunck Δ. I understand that this rest is that every Monday for three Mondayes else next after other we shall await for our lessons as now we receive and that we may all the rest follow our affairs of study or houshold matters Gal. ...... It is so for one day shall be as a week But those dayes you must abstain from all things that live upon the Earth Δ. You mean on these three Mondayes ensueing next Gab. ...... You shall cover this Table with a new linnen cloth E. K. Pointing to the Table we sat at Δ. Most willingly Gab. ...... Moreover a new Candlesticke with a Taper burning Δ. Obediently O Lord it shall be done Gab. ...... And the Candlesticke shall be set on the midst of the Table betwixt you two Note ...... That a day may become a week and a week as many years Gab. ...... For I have put on my upper garment and have prepared to enter and it is shortly and not yet E. K. Now he hath plucked the Curtain as if he had pulled it round about the Stone and it seemeth full of little sparkes like Stars Gloria patri filio spiritui sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Vide libro ........ 〈◊〉 pro saequentibus LIBRI MYSTICI APERTORII CRACOVIENSIS SABBATICI An. 1584. Saturday Cracoviae 7 Maii Mane hora 6. AFter prayers appeared Gabriel and Nalvage with the Table and Gabriel with his Dart in his hand Moreover there appeared the like furniture of Table with a white Cloth a Candlestick and Taper on it with a Desk and Cushions which I had caused to be made with red crosses on them also E. K. himself and I appeared 〈◊〉 the same Stone In effect all things as we had before us after half a quarter of an hour that shew of our furniture and our selves disappeared E. K. Gabriel standeth up and speaketh as followeth ....... A mighty City was built on the top of a mountain in the which dwelt many thousands Round about the Hill ran a fresh River which was the onely comfort of the Town for of it they drank their wives their children their man-servants their maid-servants their camels horses mules and all the beasts of their fields The beginning of which River was a Spring which was unknown to the City by reason of the. yth from whence it descended It came to passe that a Serpent groaned for her time and lo she brought forth and ...
were such as her self and she lifted up her head and leaned upon her twice writhen taile and beheld the Sun stedfastly for her envy was toward that City and she said within her self My children are yet young the time grew and they became big and she went unto the Spring and smiled and said with a laughing voice The Earth is fallen into thee thou art choked but hearken unto my voice Thou shalt receive comfort But she would not And she lifted up her voice and roared for she was full of craft and deceit And she said unto the shingles through the which the Spring runs or rather syeth Thou art full of emptinesse and void places Let my children therefore hide themselves within thee for a season and they were contented And she departed willingly and saith within her self Now I know I shall be Lady of the City And after a few years the young Serpents became great so that the one half of their bodies dwelt within the Shingles the rest troubled the passage of the Spring So that the Spring groaned for the injury that was done against her was great A great misery for the Hill is become desolate without the water and the City and the beasts perish for want of drink for the people groan and are ful of sorrow This City and Serpents are 60. now and judgement must be had betwixt the Shingles and the Spring for between lieth the life and death of the City Thus saith the Lord unto thee pointing to E. K. Gird up thy self and fit down Consider both parts and give judgement for thy mouth shall this day be the judgement of the Lord. E. K. Do you mean me Ë. K. As the Lord hath put the Authority of Judgement into my hands so I beseech him to give me wisdom and understanding to judge right And because the judgement hereof is committed to me I suspect some other mystery to lie hidden in this my judgement required But if it shall please God that my friend here Master Dee shall give me his advise I shall think my self well satisfied ....... Consider with your self saith the Lord and give judgement against the Shingles for the fault is plain Consider two points the necessity of the Spring that it must come that wayes and secondly the health of the City E. K. My judgement is that the Shingles and Serpent should be removed away by an Earthquake from the place which they encumber and let that there may be a fit new place and course for that Spring to the relief of that City as before it was ...... Be it so as thou hast said for it is a just judgement Now hearken what the Lord saith The people and City of the Hill is the world which are from time to time by the mercy and spring of Gods wisdom relieved quenched according to the extremity and necessity of their thirsting But the people and City are such as are of the Temple and Church of God which drink of his mercy to their comfort The Camels and other beasts are the people of the Earth which delight in sin and in their own imagination which also are relieved with those that are of the City but the diversities of their bodies doth cause the diversity of the ends of their comfort The Hill wherein the Spring is signifieth his Prophets and such as are drunken in the Lord Thrâ—ugh whom inwardly the mercies and will of God and of the Highest are open from time to time according to the secret will and determination of such as are within the City of his Elect. But the frailties and affections of their flesh and outward man are their fond imaginations and loose Shingles wherein the Serpent the old Devil hath harboured her children the spirits of darknesse and deceit which alwayes resist the Will of God and are put between the mercies of God and his people Moses Daniel Esdras all the rest of the Prophets Christ his twelve Paul the Messenger of God they did all hurt the Congregation of the Faithful in their flesh until they gave sentence against themselves as thou hast done with amendment of life for who is worthy to know the secrets of our God but he that delighteth in righteousnesse is obedient full of faith and the spirit of understanding Be it therefore unto thee as thou hast said Let the Shingles and Serpents be separated that the Fountain may feed as before All the trash that thou hast of the wicked burn it E. K. I do not know they are wicked ...... Their doings with thee are the hindrance of the Will of God and therefore they are wicked ...... Thou hast given judgement against thy self Take heed thou offend not thy own soul. Δ. Send down thy Spirit O Lord and illuminate E. K. his heart with perceiving of his wrong opinion c. E. K. If Moses and Daniel were skilful in the Arts of the Egyptian Magicians and were not thereby hindred for being the servants of God Why may not I deal with these without hindrance to the Will of God ...... Darknesse yeilded unto light the Greater excluded the lesser The more a man knoweth wickednesse the more he shall hate it being called back The more they knew the shadow so much more they delighted in the body For the doings of the Egyptians seem and are not so The doings of the Lord are and continue for as the Painter imitateth the gestures of man in his faculty so doth the Devil the substances and things created and made by God Stand up and look into the whole World into her youth and middle age for they are past Where are the monuments that Satan hath builded E. K. Hath Satan builded any monuments ...... Yes Hath he not builded him a Fort upon the whole Earth Hath he not the victory over the Saints Dwelleth he not in the Temple of the Highest Triumpheth he not in the Cities of the whole World Yes ...... But without comfort are his victories without pleasure his dwelling places For he knoweth his time is at hand He that now giveth freedom shall become bound And unto whom the whole World is as a Garden shall there be no one foot left Therefore are all his pleasures vanity all his Triumphs smoak and his Authority nothing indeed but a meer shadow For that that is not cannot be where it is said of the Lord it shall not be Neither can truth light or wisdom ascend from the Earth but descend from the Heavens Compare the Earth into the which the Devil is thrust as into his dwelling with the Heavens which are provided for the holy Consider the pain of the one and the pleasure of the other The seat of Gods Justice and Fountain of his Mercy The Cave of Darknesse and the Diadem of Light And then cry wo wo wo unto such as erre and whose lives are but shadows For their felicity is such as from whence it came and their reward is all one with the spirit and
a close Coach covered with red the Lord Samuel S. Boroskie Prisoner whom he took on Friday night before at his sisters house being separated from his Souldiers and servants c. Saturday 14 Maii Mane hora 6 Fere. †Cracoviae Orationem Dominicam fudimus c. Mitte lucem tuam veritatem O Deus c. Δ. E. K. Said he had done that with the trash specified as he thought would be acceptable to the Lord And as concerning one of the 27 Characters he had left it with me ever since the last action to be burnt at this dayes action and it lay ready by me E. K. Our instructours appeared at the very first looking of E. K. into the shew-stone Δ. Will you that I shall now execute this burning of the Character here as a sacrifice to the highest of our humility and obedience Gab. ..... Not as a sacrifice but as a victory Δ. Shall I then do it I pray you As with the consent of my yoke-fellow and so all one to be taken as his action ...... He that doth righteously offereth up a sacrifice Nal. ..... It is true that he that is obedient and doth well is accepted with the Lord. E. K. I did take sacrifice to be onely with bloud Gab. ..... This is a sacrifice because it is done righteously E. K. You said Not as a sacrifice but as a victory Gab. ..... He that overcometh his enemy rejoyceth not for friendship sake but for victory The friendship toward God is obedience He that obeyeth God is a friend unto himself God needeth not the love or friendship of man Therefore you rejoyce with God who overthrew them and thereby comforted For he that dwelleth in the Lord is comforted Thou 〈◊〉 thy mouth and sayest before the Lord The spirit of God hath descended Δ. Gloria Patri c. And he hath 〈◊〉 into judgement with me and I am condemned But where Justice dwelleth dwelleth also mercy For my Idolatry is forgotten before the Lord. E. K. Have you committed Idolatry E. K. Δ. He speaketh in your behalf Master Kelly ...... I will therefore open my mouth saying I have erred I will open my mouth also and confesse my sins And I will vow unto the Lord against the wicked And I will say unto the Lord. Lo here are the spoils of the bloudy 〈◊〉 Behold O you Angels a blasphemy and against the highest Behold the wickedresse of 〈◊〉 Bear witnesse with me for I have fulfilled his Commandement Bear witnesse with me that I return not and rejoyce for such are the spoyles of the wicked Gab. Art thou contented to consent hereunto E. K. What I have done with the rest God and they if they be of God know upon the foresaid conditions I am contented to have this Character to be burnt Let it be burnt Δ. I burnt it immediately with the flame of brimstone and brought the burnt black coal or cinder thereof to the Table and laid it on a paper Now O Lord darknesse is 〈◊〉 let thy light shine in us and thy truth prevaile Gab. It is well Δ. Blessed be the name of the highest whose mercies are infinite Oh a sweet and comfortable sentence E. K. Now Nalvage turneth round as he was wont Gab. Move not for the place is holy E. K. Now Nalvage putteth down his rod to the Table he maketh a crosse upon the Table reverently Nal. All things go forwards Let us go FORWARD also Δ. In the name of Jesus Gab. Move not for the place is holy E. K. Nalvage prayeth Nal. Not BACKWARD as you were wont to do but FORWARD E. K. Now he maketh three reverent Cursies as he was wont to do before the Table SAPAH Sá pah  Sa pah E. K. Now he is on the top of the Table ZIMII Zi mii DUIV Du iv OD Od. E. K. He maketh cursy NOAS Noas TAQANIS Ta qu a nis ADROCH as otch  Ad roch DORPHAL Dorphal CAOSG Ca ósg OD Od. FAONTS Fa onts PIRIPSOL Pir ip sol TABLIOR Tá blior. CASARM Casarm AMIPZI A mip zi NAZARTH Na zarth AF Af. OD Od. DLUGAR Dlu gar E. K. Now he maketh cursy round about to all parts of the Table he kneeleth down ZIZOP Zizop Zod lida  It is a Word and a Letter E. K. He sheweth it not in the Table yet Nal. Now I see the word of five Letters together following letter by letter ZLIDA Z. d-lida  Z lida Stay there CAOSGI Ca ós gi TOLTORGI Toltórgi He maketh now Cursy OD Od E. K. He seemeth to read as Hebrew is read ZIZOP Zi zop ZCHIS Zod chis Nal. It is better than the other I mean that Zod-chis being of one signification with Zizop that Zod-chis is better to be used ESIASCH E siach L L. TAUIU Ta ui u. OD Od. IAOD I á od E. K. Now he maketh cursy again THILD Thild one Syllable Now he ma DS. ds HUBAR Hubar PEOAL Pe ó al. SOBA So ba. E. K. CORMFA Cormfa CHISTA Kista  Chis ta LA La. VLS Vls. OD Od. QCOCASB  Q có casb. CA  Ca.   Sa. NIIS  Ni is OD  Od. DARBS Obey Darbs-one Syllable QAAS  Qá as S. FETHARZI  Feth ár zi K. E. Cursy E. K. He hath drawn the Curtain It is not to be seen what he doth Δ. ......... of 4 minutes of time the Curtain was drawn E. K. He is now otherwise apparelled all the outside of his Gown is white Furre on his head is an attire of furre wreathed or wrapped as the Turks use his head is now ike a mans head with short hair OD Od. BLIORA Bli ó ra IAIAL Ia ial EDNAS Ed nas CICLES Ci cles BAGLE Bá gle ........... ie in as ien tle iad-as iade ............ Ge jad  i l. That is one Call .......... b ....... Move not for the place is holly GAH Gah SDIU es di u  S di u. HIS Chis EM Em. MICALZO Micálzo E. K. Cursy and he kisseth the Table PILZIN pilzen  Pilzin E. K The Curtain is now plucked again for three minutes or four Now the Curtain is opened again Now is he changed Now he is all in black sarcenet very plentifull of stuffe girded to him and with the coller high to the midst of his face SOBAM Sobam EL. el  argenton HARG Harg. MIR Mir. PIZIN Pizin BABALON Babálon Put out the last Pilgin E. K. Why did you give us them Nal. ........ If it stand OD od OBLOC ob loc SAMVELG Sam velg DLUGAR Dlugar MALPURG Mal purg ARCAOSGI Ar ca ós gi OD od ACAM A cám CANAL Sanal  Canal SOBOLZAR So bol zar TBLIARD Tbli ard It is better if the T be made an F and pronounced F bli ard CAOSGI kaosgi  Ca os gi ODCHIF kif  Od chif ANETAB A né tab OD od MIAM Miam TAVIV Ta viv ODD Odd.
The third of the tenth by the ninth TABITOM Ta bi tom  Whose Ministers are 1617. Have patience  The first of the eleventh governed by the tenth  Ministers 3472. MOLPAND Mol pand  The second governed by the sixth Ministers 7236. VSN RDA Vs nar da. The third by the third  Ministers as before 5234. PONODOL Po no dol  The first of the twelfth go by the sixth TAPAMAL Ta pa mal The second of the twelfth by the eighth Angel GEDOONS Ge do ons The third of the twelfth by the second AMBRIOL Ambriol The first of the thirteenth governed by the tenth  Ministers 8111. GECAOND Ge ca ond The second by the first of the Tribes LAPARIN La pa rin The last of the thirteenth by the seventh of the twelve DOCEPAX Do ce pax  Is Italia The first of the fourteenth by the fifth of the Tribes TEDOAND Te do and. This is England and Scotland too called anciently by the name of Britania There liveth not a man that knoweth the truth of the British Originals Δ. The British Originals The second of the 14. by the seventh VIVIPOS Vi vi pos The last of the fourteenth by the twelfth  Ministers 8230. OO NAMB O o a namb. E. K. Now he prayeth E. K. Now Gabriel standeth up Gab. ..... The Lord pardoneth your fasting and accepteth the inward man labour also to morrow You shall have the rest Δ. May I be bold to ask you one question Gab. ..... You may Δ. Is the Queen of England alive or dead ..... She liveth I am nothing near the earth E. K. The Curtain is drawn We prayed joyntly some prayers Δ. Upon my motion for the Lord Al. Las. how to deal with the Chancelour the Curtain was drawn open And he in the green who appeared to day came into the stone and said as followeth Thus sayeth the Lord Joyn body to body but let mindes be separate for he is despised in the sight of God and is delivered over to destruction which doth tarry till it finde him ready Israel deceived Egypt and saw Egypt overthrown Let him do what he will with him but let him not joyn his minde with him Δ. We are desirous to know your name My name is called Dic illis I am one under Gabriel and the name of Jesus I know and honour Δ. Jesus declared his name and so have other good Creatures before unto us Map My name is Mapsama Δ. Is dic illis the Etymology thereof Map It is Δ. How much it importeth for us to understand the best counsel that is to be given to A. L. you know c. Map ..... I am commanded and I have done my commandment But see that thou and he fulfill those things that are commanded you by me Δ. You said I should be his mouth to you How shall I execute that I pray you Map ..... Not to me but to God Δ. By prayer mean you Map ..... Yea and by presence Δ. By presence with whom Map ..... Thou shalt go from hence with him to the Emperour God will stir up farther matter by thy presence there Δ. Shall all our Lessons be finished and sufficient power delivered unto us according to the promise of God ..... you shall be able to practice by Sunday Δ. By which Sunday ..... But the practices that are the instructions of the Highest are not but in lawful causes and for necessity to glorifie God and against 〈◊〉 Δ. What shall then be the hability of my skill to practice before Sunday nex Map ..... These Calls touch all the parts of the World The World may be dealt withall with her parts Therefore you may do any thing These Calls are the keyes into the Gates and Cities of wisdom Which Gates are not able to be opened but with visible apparition Δ. And how shall that be come unto Map ..... Which is according to the former instructions and to be had by calling of every Table You called for wisdom God hath opened unto you his Judgement He hath delivered unto you the keyes that you may enter But be humble Enter not of presumption but of permission Go not in rashly But be brought in willingly For many have ascended but few have entred By Sunday you shall have all things that are necessary to be taught then as occasion serveth you may practice at all times But you being called by God and to a good purpose Δ. How shall we understand this Calling by God Map ..... God stoppeth my mouth I will answer thee no more Δ. Misericordia Dei sit super nos veritas ejus fulgeat floreat in cordibus nostris Amen Δ. E. K. read this prayer devoutly and I joyning my mind to his pronunciation thereof kneeled by Domine Jesu Christe Deus salutarium nostrorum Cnjus nomen fit benedictum 〈◊〉 quotidie qui ascendisti super Coelum 〈◊〉 ad dextram Dei patris denuo venturus ad judicandum in nubibus cum potestate magna majestate mirabili educ nos vinctos in peccatis in fortitudine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut dealbemur per remissionem peccatorum super nivem adeo ut beneplacitum sit tibi habitare in nobis nos 〈◊〉 te Amen Δ. Ex Psalterio post 67 Psalmum Tuesday Cracoviae Maii 22. 1584. in Whitson-week Mane circa 7. After our sitting and some prayer used appeared a very little Creature on the Cushion by the Stone saying Put out your Candle for you shall have nothing to do to day Δ. What is your name that we may 〈◊〉 your message for our excuse seeing we were bid yesterday to labour to day E. K. He is gone Δ. After that about half an hour there appeared our Instructors as before time Gab. ..... Move move 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the place is holy E. K. Gabriel standeth up and after a while said ..... The heavens are called 〈◊〉 because of their obedience The earth accursed because of her frowardnesse Those therefore that seek heavenly things ought to be obedient lest with their frowardnesse they be consumed in the end burnt to ashes with fire as the Earth shall be for her unrighteousnesse Therefore be you obedient and full of Humility using the instrument of righteousnesse which is faith That you may be 〈◊〉 of the celestial comforts which are the hire of such as forsake their frowardness It hath been said unto you .... Measure not out Gods building It hath been said unto you .... Continue to the end It hath been also told you ... That the Determinations of God are not as yet established upon you For it is written It may again be 〈◊〉 I speak this for your instruction For many have the power of God but not unto righteousnesse as was evident amongst the Jews in the choice of their Kings In the very 〈◊〉 of God amongst those that entred into the holy place For all that the Prophets 〈◊〉 were not good Not
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
to any place to them And that about our own affairs we are contented to use patience for a long time but to await the Lord his coming or message is a time better spent than in any humane affairs c. He very plainly and at large made manifest his conversion to God from the practices with wicked spirits Yea that he was ready to burn whatsoever he had of their trash and experiments That he would write in a book the manifold horrible Doctrine of theirs whereby they would have perswaded him ..... That Jesus was not God ..... That no prayer ought to be made to Jesus ..... That there is no 〈◊〉 ..... That mans 〈◊〉 doth go from one body to another childes quickening or 〈◊〉 ..... That as many men and women as are now have alwayes been That is so many humane bodies and humane souls neither m re nor lesse as are now have alwayes been ..... That the generati n of mankind from Adam and Eve is not an History but a writing which hath an other sense ..... No Holy Ghost they acknowledged ..... They would not suffer him to pray to Jesus Christ but would rebuke him saying that he robbed God of his honour c. And so of very many other most blasphemous Articles and Points of Doctrine whereof more shall be spoken in another place This forbearings of our Instructors presence I did expound or conjecture to be done greatly for the honour of God many wayes if the same were recorded somewhat near to the very manner of the thing as it was for so should appear to the posterity how truely it had been said before that he should be converted to God How truely God did prepare E. K. his soul to be a vessel cleansed and so made apt for his visiting of him in mercy and comfort whereby the life of E. K. now being amended and his dealing with the wicked clean left off should not be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatness of his works as was noted unto us in the last Action Also I said that not onely his Conversion recorded should be a more evident argument of his so oft repeated Election But his patient attending this present day Δ two hours and a half and taking all things in such sort as became an humble and patient servant will be a more sure and evident argument that it was no light pang such as he hath made outward shew diverse times before but a very harty and sincere conversion such as without all doubt will be found very acceptable to the highest Moreover he declared that about nine or ten dayes past he did intend to have gotten away secretly by the help spiritual of those with whom he had so long dealt And therefore that till now he dealt hypocritically But whereas they to fore were ever accustomed to threaten him Beggery a thing which he most hated and feared That now he careth not if he should have want yea he took it neither to be shame or sin to beg and that he now made more account of God his favour and life eternal then he doth of all transitory wealth and riches and to be entangled within the danger of these wicked spirits their snares with all Also he now perceived his great errour wherein he was of late when he would for an assured temporal maintenance have forsaken the dealing with the wicked and so more willingly would have followed these actions without repining Saying now that he is no perfect Christian who for money must be hired to forsake the Devil and his works c. And as for the issue of these actions he would never either doubt or mislike howsoever they fell out assuring himself That God would do all things best and for his honour c. Many other his sayings very glodly I omit thinking these sufficient here Δ. O Almighty eternal and most mercifull God we thank glorifie and praise thee O blessed and most glorious Trinity we will for ever Magnifie thy unspeakable providence favour Election and Conversion unto thee O Blessed Jesu we will for ever extol thy loving kindnesse and long suffering toward us and thy Triumphant proceeding against Satan and his Ministers for thy Elect sake O holy Ghost the directer into all truth and comforter of thy Elect confirm and establish our hearts with thy gracious and continual zeal and love of truth purity of life Charitable humility and constant patience to thy well-pleasing untill the end That after this life through the mercy of the father and Merits of our Lord Jesus Christ and thy charitable embracing of us we may for ever enjoy the heavenly Kingdom among the blessed Angels and all the dignified company of mankind Amen Amen Amen Munday Junii 11. Mane hora 7¼ Cracoviae Δ. After our prayers due and thanks to the Almighty for his great mercies and power shewed in the conversion of E. K. we stayed still attending some shew as we were accustomed to receive and among divers our short discourses of our faith hope patience constancy humility and other our duties requisite in this action and in the service of God E. K. of himself said these sentences worthy to be recorded as the evident token of his sound and faithfull turning and intent to cleave unto the Lord. 1. E. K. I acknowledge my sins have deserved that this seven years I should have no shew or sight of his good Creatures 2. E. K. If I should sit thus for seven years attending the pleasure of God I would be contented 3. E. K. I repent me nothing of that I have done in forsaking those I was wont to have to do withall c. E. K. In the stone nothing appeared all this while of our sitting here Δ. Nihil visible apparuit in Chrystallo sacrato praeter ipsius Chrystalli visibilem formam ut E. K. dixit Δ. Hora 11. we left off so we attended 3. hours and 3. quarters Δ. I will affirm nothing in this case but this my conjecture may be recorded The cause of the non-appearance the last Friday and now this Mounday may be this 1. That as we lost and refused three dayes assigned by our instructours to finish all in So now we shall call and request three dayes and have nothing as these two dayes it hath fall'n out and it is possible one day more we shall have the like non-appearance Or else 2. According to the premisses Onely three dayes before our journey shall be begun we shall have that delivered us which in the three last dayes we should have received c. Or else 3. That great Caveat before noted on Saturday Junii 2. last past may have some forewarning of this our patience to be used after our Conversion unto God The words then recorded are these This Action shall never come to passe untill there be no remembrance of wickednesse or Hell left amongst you And yet after for a time you
become holy ..... I said not so he said it that beareth witnesse of himself Vnto this obey the other three Angels of the Table E. K. On the other farther corner of the Table on E. K. his right hand is a Crosse like an Alphabet Crosse. This Crosse and the other T do seem to lye upon the Table in a dim dunnish or a sky colour All the Table over seemeth to be scribled and rased with new lines ..... The earth is the last which is with the Angels but not as the Angels and therefore it standeth in the Table of the seven Angels which stand before the presence of God in the last place without a Letter or number but figured by a Crosse. ..... It is expressed in the Angle of that Table wherein the names of the Angels are gathered and do appear as of Michael and Gabriel Δ. I remember there is an Alphabetary Crosse. E. K. Now in the corner of the Table on the right hand to E. K. appeareth another Crosse somewhat on this fashion †and there appear'd these Letters and Numbers b 6 4 b ..... It is in that Table which confisteth of 4. and 8. E. K. In the last corner of this earthly Table appeareth a little round smoke as big as a pins head E. K. Now is all covered with a mist. E. K. Now I hear a great voyce of thumbling and rumbling in the stone E. K. Now all waxeth clear again Now hoveringly over the Table appear infinite sort of things like worms sometimes going up and sometimes down these seem somewhat brightish Over these higher in the aire appear an infinite sort of small little blackish things bigger then Motes in the Sun and they go up and down and sometime come among those worm-like Creatures ..... The Lord appeared unto Enoch and was mercifull unto him opened his eyes that he might see and judge the earth which was unknown unto his Parents by reason of their fall for the Lord said Let us shew unto Enoch the use of the earth And lo Enoch was wise and full of the spirit of wisdom And he sayed unto the Lord Let there be remembrance of thy mercy and let those that love thee taste of this after me O let not thy mercy be forgotten And the Lord was pleased And after 50. dayes Enoch had written and this was the Title of his books let those that fear God and are worthy read But behold the people waxed wicked and became unrighteous and the spirit of the Lord was far off and gone away from them So that those that were unworthy began to read And the Kings of the earth said thus against the Lord What is it that we cannot do Or who is he that can resist us And the Lord was vexed and he sent in amongst them an hundred and fifty Lions and spirits of wickednesse errour and deceit and they appeared unto them For the Lord had put them between those that are wicked and his good Angels And they began to counterfeit the doings of God and his power for they had power given them so to do so that the memory of Enoch washed away and the spirits of errour began to teach them Doctrines which from time to time unto this age and unto this day hath spread abroad into all parts of the world and is the skill and cunning of the wicked Hereby they speak with the Devils not because they have power over the Devils but because they are joyned unto them in the league and Discipline of their own Doctrine For behold as the knowledge of the mystical figures and the use of their presence is the gift of God delivered to Enoch and by Enoch his request to the faithfull that thereby they might have the true use of Gods creatures of the earth whereon they dwell So hath the Devil delivered unto the wicked the signs and tokens of his error and hatred towards God whereby they in using them might consent with their fall and so become partakers with them of their reward which is eternal damnation These they call Characters a lamentable thing For by these many Souls have perished Now hath it pleased God to deliver this Doctrine again out of darknesse and to fulfill his promise with thee for the books of Enoch To whom he sayeth as he said unto Enoch Let those that are worthy understand this by thee that it may be one witnesse of my promise toward thee Come therefore O thou Cloud and wretched darknesse Come forth I say out of this Table for the Lord again hath opened the earth and she shall become known to the worthy E. K. Now cometh out of the Table a dark smoke and there remaineth on the Table a goldish slime and the things which hovered in the aire do now come and light down on that slime and so mount up again He said ..... Non omnibus sed bonis E. K. He taketh the smoke and tieth it up ..... I tie her not up from all men but from the good Now cometh a dark Cloud over all again Δ. A pause E. K. Now it is bright again He said ..... Fiant omnia facillima ..... Number E. K. I see lines and scribblements as before going athwart the lines E. K. I count thirteen lines downward ..... Stay there E. K. I count twelve this way overthwart E. K. In the just middle of every square are little pricks The Table seemeth to be eighth yards square E. K. Now come upon these squares like Characters They be the true Images of God his spiritual Creatures ..... Write what thou seest E. K. I cannot Δ. Endeavour to do your best for he that biddeth you do will also give you power to do E. K. Did his best at length fire flashed in his face and shortly after he said I perceive they be easie to make so that I tell the squares by which the lines do passe and draw from middle prick to middle prick Δ. At length E. K. finished the Table he said that these seemed to be yellowish Gold E. K. You heard one here say I write my own damnation ..... He might have said you write his damnation Pray and write as many more lines Δ. After awhile E. K. did with great ease finish the four parts of the Table E. K. The stone is become dark A voyce .... Cease for an hour Δ. May we passe from our places as now ..... I. Δ. After a little hour past we returned and as we talked of the premisses he said ..... 〈◊〉 no time Δ. He said in the stone being clear again ..... In the name of God be diligent and move not for the place is holy ..... Take the first square write from the left hand toward the right you shall write small letters and great Say what you see to E. K. r Zilaf Autlpa Δ. I finde here one square among these Characters that hath nothing in it .....
earth shall run unto the Hills and say cover us Δ. O Thou mighty God of Hosts be our strength and comfort ..... When you hear the peoplesay Le there is a man-child that doth great marvails which is even at the door threshold Then then shall you see the calamity of the earth 〈◊〉 let 〈◊〉 the servant of God do as he is commanded And what goodnesse soever he craveth shall follow him for the Lord hath spared him among the Kings of the earth Let him provide for this one journey He shall not need to provide for the rest For he that hath all hath provided for him The fifteenth day of September that shall be twelve moneths shall you set up the signe of the Crosse even in the midd'st of Constantinople Δ. Thy will be done O Lord to thy honour and glory Poland Promissio confirmata de A. L. fortè Ave. ..... In this Kingdom shall be much bloudshed and the one shall cat anothers throat And as the Lord hath promised so shall it come to passe Ave. ..... Now to the Table Δ. Of the Principal King of Bataiva or Baataiva using the last a twice I doubt of the perfect writing of it Ave. ..... Is it not written It is all most easie and in gathering thou canst not erre The 24 Seniors are all of one Office But when thou wilt work in the East thou must take such as bear rule there so must thou do of the rest Δ. Do you mean the estate in respect of any place we shall be in or in respect of any earthly place accounted alwayes the East part of the world wheresoever we be Ave. ..... The East and West in respect of your Poles What will you else of me Δ. Whether these four Tables be joyned in their right places or no. Ave. ..... They be Note of the Letters in the black 〈◊〉 Δ. Of the Letters in the Transversary of the wicked their black Crosse I know no 〈◊〉 as of motivat nan c. Ave. ..... Thou shalt know when thou writest thy book Δ. I desire you of the book to say somewhat more for the fashion paper and binding c. Ave. ..... Thou mayest use thy discretion Δ. You mean I trust the book that you bid me to prepare For the other is not for my writing Ave. ..... It is not I my self will stand with you and shew how to practise Δ. Blessed be God for his ready help Δ. I will prepare the book by the grace of God with all speed Δ. As concerning the Offices vertues and powers of the three other quarters of the Table what shall we think of them The Offices of all the four quarters Ave. ..... They are all as the first Δ. Note Thou hast three names of God out of the line of the holy Ghost in the principall Crosse of the first Angle so hast thou three in the second c. Four dayes after your book is made that is to say written must you onely call upon those names of God or on the God of Hosts in those names And 14 dayes after you shall in this or in some convenient place Call the Angels by Petition and by the name of God unto the which they are obedient The 15 day you shall Cloath your selvès in vestures made of linnen white and so have the apparition use and practice of the Creatures For it is not a labour of years nor many dayes E. K. This is somewhat like the old fashion of Magick Ave. ..... Nay they all played at this You must never use the Garment after but that once onely neither the book E. K. To what end is the book made then if it be not to be used after Δ. It is made for to be used that day onely Ave. ..... What will you else Δ. As you best know we need instructions yet necessary for us Ave. ..... Very few Ave. ..... It is a stem with fruit but it wanteth leaves E. K. What mean you by that Ave. ..... There be more leaves then fruit and in many actions there be more circumstances then matter Δ. But here is onely marrow and no bones or flesh Δ. As concerning the great multitude that E. K. saw in the Vision standing after the sixteen Angels next the Gate you made no mention in your Description of the Vision Therefore I would know what they are Ave. ..... 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ministers and servants E. K. * Aliter Sendenna as E. K. said There shalt thou see thy old Sondenna * and many other wicked ones that thou hast dealt withall Hereby shall you judge truly of wicked Magick God be with you I will be ready when you need me Δ. AEterno omnipotenti Creatori rerum omnium visibilium invisibilium sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio Amen Δ. 1. Remember I have not yet heard any thing of the 5 Princes which held up the traine of the chief King 2. Neither any thing of the Trumpeter which went before all 3. Neither of the letters in the Transversary of the black Crosse. 4. Also of Docepax Tedoand being referred to Cilicia Nemrodiana and Paphlagonia in the late exposition of the places by vulgar names and before in the naming of them by the names of Creation they were applyed to Italia and Britania One of those is to be doubted of 5. We are desirous to know the Etymologies of all the names of God which we shall use either to God himself or to the Angels 6. We require the form of our Petition or Invitation to be made to the Angels 7. Of the 20 and more diversities or corrections of this principal Table we require your censure which diversities I have by conjecture so made or amended 8. Whereas I was Δ willed to call 14 dayes the Angels which are to be used so would I know whether also I should summon the wicked here recorded out of the black Crosse having their off-spring likewise 14 dayes Saturday †Cracoviae Junii 30. Manè circa 9. horam Oratione dominica finita 〈◊〉 illis 7. dubiis quievimus paululum Deinde aliquot orationes ex psalterio recitavi iterum quievimus paululum Ad semihoram nihil apparuit At length appeared a face very great with wings about adjoyned to it afterward he seemed to be in a great Globe of fire ..... Hearken to my voice Modesty patience and humility of heart and body doth belong to these Actions Tell me how many Thunders the Lord hath in store for the wicked Δ. O Lord we know not ..... Were you ever in the secret caves of the Earth Δ. No Lord never ..... Then tell me how many windes the Lord hath prepared for an year Δ. Neither that can we tell We are not of the Lord his Council in these things of his providence ..... Can you tell me none of these questions ..... Can you tell what shall become of your selves
Δ. God onely knoweth and no creature but by him for all things are kept uncertain until the end ..... You beget children know you the hour wherein they shall be born ..... You begin labour can you tell what point of time you shall end in Δ. God only is the Fountain of all wisdom and truth ..... Well then I see you are drowned in ignorance and know nothing E. K. He turneth round very swiftly ..... Even as the Adder leadeth out her young ones the first day one foot out of her hole not because they should eat but because they might acquaint themselves with the air and her subtlety The second day one yard and more she encompasseth her hole and windeth to and fro and teach-them to creep and so five or six dayes till they know how to move and stir their bodies After the seventh day she leadeth them further and faineth deceit striking the ground with her tail as though it were the sound of some one at hand And then gaping beginneth to hisse and stirreth up fear unto her young ones so that they enter into her mouth And thus she doth till they be 12 or 13 dayes old Then she leadeth them a stones-cast and exerciseth them both with fear and hiding themselves And when they sleep being young and wearied with labour she stealeth from them and maketh a noise amongst the leaves and small stones with the moving of her hinder parts To the intent she might see what shift her wormes can make which stirred up with fear and missing their mother so learn to couch themselves in the Chymnes of the earth At length after silence the mother thrusteth out her self and doubleth her tongue with the sound whereof she useth to call them They come together and rejoyce wreathing themselves diversly about her body for joy She for a recompence suffereth them to hang upon her back and so waltereth to her hole where she gathereth the leaves of the earth and after she hath chewed them small and tender with her teeth and mingled them with the dust she spueth them out again and beginneth to lick them by little and little as though she hungered which she subtlely doth that her wormes might eat and forget their hungrynesse Finally in 20 dayes they become big and as skilful in the property of their kind ... she I say leadeth them out into a fertile place and full of dew and full of bushes and places apt to cover them where they feed dwell observe their craft and at last forsake their mother Even so it is with you So the Lord the true Serpent and worme leadeth you out from day to day according to your strength and as you grow to the intent you might at last be brought unto the pleasant dew and food of his mercy which is Triumphing true wisdom But this the Lord feareth of you that as the wormes did so you will forsake your mother Δ. Forsake us not O God Confirm thy graces in us and we shall not forsake thee The nature of the Serpent is not to forsake his young Δ. O Lord we depend onely on thee and without thy grace and continual help we perish The Lord told Noe long before the Flood would come he believed him Therefore he is safe in both worlds The sons in law of Lot sunk into Hell for that they derided the words of God and believed them not His wife became a salt-stone for that she looked back and did contrary to the Commandment of God Moses had the reward of his holinesse in this world pluckt back because he said Can this c. I as the messenger of God am as one that say Cave Take heed that you become not son in laws though you passe the fire Take heed you look not back for if you do you shall not see the flood neither shall the Lord put a vail betwixt you and vengeance neither I say shall the promises of God come in your dayes If God had taken you up into the heavens and placed you before his Throne and told you the things that are to come you would believe But that you cannot do The Lord is merciful he descendeth into your houses and there telleth you what is to come where you may under land But you believe him not Therefore saith the Lord of you I fear you will forsake your mother But if you do it I say if you do it I will make of the Mothes men that shall testifie my name E. K. I ever told you I do not believe them nor can believe them nor will desire to believe them ..... If you be faithful you be able to comprehend If you be obedient and humble The Creatures of Heaven shall abide with you Yea the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost shall make his dwelling with you If you persevere even with faith and humility you shall see the wicked dayes that are to come enjoy the promises of God and be partaker of those blessed days that follow For wonders unheard of in and of the world are at hand You are warned The Spirit of God rest with you Δ. Amen Δ. O Lord shall we continue in this wavering or stiff-necked willful blindnesse and frowardly keep out thy mercies and graces by our fleshly sense and unreasonable perswasion against the verity of thy true Ministers 1. All things are committed to thy charge Δ. O Lord as much as ever I can do by prayer or otherwise I do and yet I enjoy no fruit of my long travel 2. Thou hast ground sow if thou can Δ. How can I without further instructions and help and now when I require Ave to come he cometh not O Lord comfort me 3. AVE shall come when thou hast need of him Δ. In te Domine speravi spero sperabo In die Tribulationis exaudies me Refugium meum spes mea vita beatitudo mea Jesu Christe tibi cum Patre Spiritu Sancto sit omnis honor laus Gloria Gratiarum actio Amen Monday †Cracoviae Junii 2. Manè hora ½ Oratione dominica finita mora aliqua interposita aliquot aliis ex psalterio recitatis precibus post varias meas ad Deum ejaculationes At length Ave appeared to E. K. in the Shew-stone c. Δ. O Lord all honour thanks and praise be unto thee who hearest the prayers of thy simple servant Δ. First for the reforming of diversity of letters in the names written I require your aid unlesse you will first say somewhat else By the same Jesus who sitteth on the right hand of his Father and is the wisdom of his Father I request you to proceed with us Ave. ..... So that the body of Christ now is glorified and immortal Δ. Most true it is Mors illi ultra non non dominabitur Ave. ..... But as the Prophets that were fullfiled with the Holy Ghost and Spirit of God before 〈◊〉
the whole earth before you O you faithlesse Creatures O ye hypocrites in the Vineyard of the Lord O you unworthy servants of such a Master Neither unto Abraham nor unto Noe nor unto any other Patriarchs or Prophets hath God done more merciful unto than unto you To Abraham he said When I return at this time of the year Thou shalt have a son Vnto Noe he said Build thee a Ship Make up the Ark Thus and thus it shall be for the people shall perish You remember not that Joseph was sold by his brethren or if you do it may be you think it is a fable If you think it to be true Then consider how he escaped the Pit Consider he was sold and so became a bondman But who changed the imagination and sense of his brethren who I say came between their Tyranny and his innocency What was he that made him free that brought him before Pharaoh yes and that which is more made him reign over Pharaoh Was it not the same God that dealeth with you O ye of little faith and starvelings withered grasse and blasted willows What and if you were in hell could he not deliver you If you become bondmen cannot he make you free If you be in prison cannot he deliver you Cannot he compasse your neck with a chain But Satan saith Lo they say they have a long Journey It is necessary that God comfort those that put their trust in him Euge O ho O you beggerly starvelings Hath not the same God the same Raphael that he had ... Yes verily a thousand a hundred and a thousand and a hundred thousand thousands that are and more than Raphael for the help and comfort of the faithful When Herod sought to kill the son of God in that he was man his Father delivered him not with a mighty wind nor with beating down of Lords Palaces but by a dream appeared unto Joseph saying flee Herod seeketh the child his life Note the manner of his warning The manner of his departure But hear what the Lord said in the end Return for he that sought the Child his life is now dead Why I say you rotten Keeds worse than the excrements of the Fens have not you greater warning Wherefore is it said unto you Up and be gone but that the Lord seeth the thoughts of man even of him which seeketh your destruction Even of this wicked King which seeketh to destroy Laskie Could not the same Lord consume that wicked monster and seller of his people which 〈◊〉 for a time with the fire of his mouth Yes but that he hath given all things a time Those that are righteous are often times taken away because of temptations that are to come But the wicked are suffered to continue because they might be more heavy and sink deeper But for love I say unto you my brethren Flee the mischiefs that are to come and go forward in the service of the Highest that you may enjoy the promises that are made you and be partakers of the happy dayes to come Take heed of whoredom and the provocations of the flesh For why those things that we say are not without their cause You have but ten dayes to tarry if you will follow my counsel But if you linger any longer you may drink of a Cup that you would not Wherefore doth God warn you but that he would be just with you Hath he not the whole Earth to serve him Believe me by the 〈◊〉 we bear that the good Angels weep over you for as you are particularly called so have you your particular and unaccustomed temptations But pray unto God that you may prevail Nititur enim omnibus modis Sathanas ut vos devoret It is said unto you If you provide for this Journey c. That word is as sure as the strongest rock in the world Considering that you were warned by the same Spirit whereof I speak being witnesse of himself and by us which bear witnesse of him Give ear gird up your selves and be gone For even at the very doors are mischief After a while I have somewhat else to say unto you E. K. He covereth all with the white Curtain Δ. We read and considered these premises somewhat diligently Δ. Afterward Ave he came again and after a pause said as followeth Ave. ..... My brother I see thou do 〈◊〉 not understand the mystery of this Book or work thou hast in hand But I told thee it was the knowledge that God delivered unto Enoch I said also that Enoch 〈◊〉 50 dayes Notwithstanding that thy labour be not frustrate and void of fruit Be it unto thee as thou hast done Δ. Lord I did the best that I could conceive of it Ave. ..... I will tell thee what the labour of Enoch was for those fifty dayes Δ. O Lord I thank thee He made as thou hast done thy book Tables of Serpasan aud plain stone as the Angel of the Lord appointed him saying tell me O Lord the number of the dayes that I shall labour in It was answered him 50. Then he groaned within himself saying Lord God the Fountain of true wisdom thou that openest the secrets of thy own self unto man thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nine imperfection and my inward darknesse How can I therefore speak unto them that speak not after the voice of man or worthily call on thy name considering that my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and fruitlesse and unknown to my self Shall the Sands seem to invite the Mountains or can the small Rivers entertain the wonderful and unknown waves Can the vessel of fear fragility or that is of a determined proportion lift up himself heave up his hands or gather the Sun into his bosom Lord it cannot be Lord my imperfection is great Lord I am lesse than sand Lord thy good Angels and Creatures excell me far our proportion is not alike our sense agreeth not N twithstanding I am comforted For that we have all one God all one beginning from thee that we respect thee a Creatour Therefore will I call upon thy name and in thee I will become mighty Thou shalt light me and I will become a Seer I will see thy Creatures and will magnifie thee amongst them Those that come unto thee have the same gate and through the same gate descend such as thou sendest Behold I offer my house my labour my heart and soul If it will please thy Angels to dwell with me and I with them to rejoyce with me that I may rejoyce with them to minister unto me that I may magnifie thy name Then lo the Tables which I have provided and according to thy will prepared I offer unto thee and unto thy holy Angels desiring them in and through thy holy names That as thou art their light and comfortest them so they in thee will be my light and comfort Lord they prescribe not laws unto thee so it is not meet that
I prescribe laws unto them What it pleaseth thee to offer they receive So what it pleaseth them to offer unto me will I also receive Behold I say O Lord If I shall call upon them in thy name Be it unto me in mercy as unto the servant of the Highest Let them also manifest unto me How by what words and at what time I shall call them O Lord Is there any that measure the heavens that is mortal How therefore can the heavens enter into mans imagination Thy Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance Hereby thou glorifiest all things which Glory excelleth and O Lord is far above my understanding It is great wisdom to speak and talke according to understanding with Kings But to command Kings by a subjected commandment is not wisdom unlesse it come from thee Behold Lord How shall I therefore ascend into the heavens The air will not carry me but resi teth my folly I fall down for I am of the earth Therefore O thou very Light and true Comfort that canst and mayst and dost command the heavens Behold 〈◊〉 these Tables unto thee Command them as it pleaseth thee and O you Ministers and true lights of 〈◊〉 Governing this earthly frame and the elements wherein we live Do for me as for the servant of the Lord and unto whom it hath pleased the Lord to talk of you Behold Lord 〈◊〉 hast appointed me 50 times Thrice 50 times will I lift my hands unto thee Be it unto 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee and thy holy Miniters I require nothing but thee and through thee and for thy honour and glory 〈◊〉 I hope I shall be satisfied and shall not die As thou hast promised 〈◊〉 thou gather the clouds together and judge all things when in a moment I shall be changed and dwell with thee for ever These words were thrice a dayes talk betwixt Enoch and God In the end of 50 dayes there appeared unto him which are not now to be manifested nor spoken of he enjoyed the fruit of God his promise and received the benefit of his faith Here may the wise learn wisdom for what doth man that is not corruptible I have not that I may say any more unto you But believe me I have said great things unto you If you will have me hereafter I will come Δ ..... Consider well my words and what 1 have now said unto thee for here thou mayst learn wisdom and also see what thou hast to do Δ. I will if it please you read over some of these Invitations which I have made and written here in this Book Ave. ..... You may not use that word Obedientes Δ. You spake of a first word to call and of a second to constrain Ave. ..... It signifieth it urgeth them more in God I have said Δ. Note what is meant by the name of God that was said to constrain being the second names of two before given E. K. He is gone and all covered with the Curtain Δ. All honour praise and glory all thanks and power is due to our God and King So be it Amen Monday Julii 9. Manè hora 7. three quarters †Cracoviae Orationibus quibusdam finitis ad Deum deinde ad Gabrielem Nalvage c. E. K. As soon as he looked he found the Stone covered with the white Curtain Δ. A pause of a ¼ of an hour In which space I used sundry ejaculations to God and his good Angels Δ. This day was appointed we attend therefore your instructions At length they appeared not but used a voice A voice ..... This day but the Sun declining the fourth hour Δ. Your meaning is that at after noon at 4 of the clock The voice ..... As thou hast written Δ. The will of the Highest be done Amen Monday A Meridie hora 4. Δ. As E. K. was saying to me that he thought that the Angels might tell the certain day and times of things to come and that Angels could now fall no more c. Of such things touching Angels suddenly a voice was heard as followeth A voice ..... Herein will I talk with you my brethren E. K. Gabriel onely appeareth neither Nalvage nor the Table appeareth He sitteth in a Chair and with his fiery Dart. Gabr. ..... The 〈◊〉 inspired with the Holy Ghost were assured of the coming of their Messias of their Christ But what day or in what year was not of mans understanding Christ himself opened unto his Disciples his death and the manner thereof but the day and hour he never disclosed So likewise the Scriptures speak of the coming of Christ but the day and hour the Son of man knoweth not But because in time to come and for this action the message of the highest And assured and infallible Doctrine in respect that God appointed you no certain time is necessary For for this cause you waver my brethren and may lose the benefit of God his favour and mercies O weaklings examine the Prophets look into the doing of the Apostles There alwayes went a promise before the end But the end was the benefit and fruit of the promise Some alleadge Paul some Peter some Daniel But in this case shall you alleadge the sayings of God spoken in the spirit of truth by me Gabriel the servant of the highest God for three causes hideth the end and the very time of his heavenly purposes As after a little silence you shall shortly hear E. K. A cloud covereth him E. K. Now he appeareth again Gab. ..... First by reason of his own inexplicable Est non est esse which is without the circumference strength capable vertue and power of man his intellectuality whereby he appeareth to be verily one God and incomprehensible Secondly because Lucifer with his yea sayers damned justly should never taste of his light nor understand his secret judgements which he would and might do if they were delivered to mans imagination and discourse Because it is within the circumference and compasse of his Creation Consider of these two E. K. Now he is covered in a white Cloud again Δ. The first reason or cause we do not sufficiently understand or conceive Deus est esse Sanctis Deus Non est esse Impiis Deus For In the judgement day God in his son Christ shall shut up his perpetual and everlasting Justice wrath and anger with Hell and damnation Leaving them and forsaking them and in no case to be called their 〈◊〉 Fratres mi non habebunt Deum But they shall be without a guide and without a Centre Hereby you may understand Esse non est esse To the purpose Thirdly that man firmly perswaded of things spoken of by God above his capacity to come and unknown might worthily in the strength of faith and through the effect of his promises merit his favour in Christ and receive eternal salvation justly before God and his Angels These are the three causes Δ. This last
do upon the Globe with the rod in his hand And Gabriel sitteth by Δ. In the name of the eternal and everlasting God say on E. K. Now the Globe turneth swiftly and he pointeth to letters thus with the rod which Nalvage was wont to use MADRIIAX O you heavens Δ. I think this word wanteth as may appear by Madriax about 44 words from the end DSPRAF which dwell Ds praf LIL In the first air Lil.   Kis CHISMICAOLZ are mighty Chis Micáolz Gab. ..... Move not for the place is holy Δ. Hallowed be his name that sanctifieth whatsoever is sanctified SAANIR in the parts Sa á nir CAOSGO of the earth Ca ós go OD   FISIS and execute Od fisis BALZIZRAS the judgement Bal zi zras   Ya IAIDA of the highest Ia i da.   sa NONCA to you Nonca GOHULIM It is said Go hú lim E. E. There came a black cloud in the air about the Stone as though it would have hindered E. K. his sight Gabr. ..... It behoveth us to do that we do even with present contention against the wicked Have a little patience The curtain is now away again and they appear again   Mikma MICMA Behold Micma E. K. Now is the curtain plucked to again and they covered ADOIAN the face A do i an MAD of your God Mad. IAOD The beginning I á od BLIORB of Comfort Bliórb SABAOOAONA whose eyes Sa ba o o á o na   Kis s CHI are Chis LUCIFTIAS the brightnesse Lu cif ti as PIRIPSOL of the heavens Pe ripsol Δ S which Ds. ABRAASSA provided Abraássa   Nonsf NONCF you Noncf NETAAIB for the government Ne tá a ib. CAOSGI of the earth Ca of gi OD and Od. TILB her Tilb. ADPHAHT unspeakable Ad phaht Ile ..... Read it Δ. The English Ile ..... I DAMPLOZ variety Dám ploz TOOAT furnishing To ó at   Nonsf NONCF you Non cf. GMICALZOMA with a power understanding Gmi cál zo ma. LRASD to dispose Lrásd TOFGLO all things Tóf glo MARB according Marb Δ. It follows in Libro Crae LIBRI CRACOVIENSIS MYSTICUS APERTORIUS Julii 12. 1584. PRAETEREA PROOEMIUM MADIMIANUM Libri primi Pragensis Caesareique Anno 1584. Augusti 15. Stilo Novo Liber 5. Cracoviensium Mysteriorum Apertorius Thursday Julii 12. Anno 1584. YARRY to the providence Yár ry ID*UIGO * O Δ. Note the wicked power dazeled so the eyes of E. K. that he could not well discern this O but staying at it a while concluded it to be an V which afterward and by and by he corrected  of him that sitteth on the holy Thrana Id ui-go   I d oi go The Curtain being plucked Ile ..... Have Patience Δ. As we were talking of the name of God Idoigo in Enoch his Tables a voice said A voice ..... Where the most force was the Devil crept most in Herein the Devil thought to deceive you Δ. It must be then I doigo OD and Od. TORZULP rose up Torzulp   Y IAODAF in the beginning Ia ó daf GOHOL saying Go hol CAOSGA The earth Ca os ga TABAORD let her be 〈◊〉 Ta ba ord SAANIR by her 〈◊〉 Sa á nir OD and Od. CHRISTEOS let 〈◊〉 he Chris té os YRPOIL division Yr pó il TIOBL in her Ti óbl. BUSDIRTILB that the glory of her Bus dir tilb. NOALN May be No aln PAID alwayes pa id ORSBA drunken Ors ba. OD and Od.   Dodrumni DODRMNI vexed Dod rm ni ZYLNA in it self Zyl na ELZAPTILB Her course El zap tilb. PARMGI Let it run Parm gi PIRIPSAX with the Heavens Pe rip sax OD and Od. TA as Ta.   Kurlst QURLST an handmaid Qurlst Il. ..... Have patience a little E. K.  E. K. Now they are here again BOOAPIS Let her serve them Booapis LNIBM one season Lnib m.   Chose OUCHO Let it confound Ov Cho. SYMP another Symp. OD and Od. CHRISTEOS let there be Chris te os AGTOLTORN no Creature Ag tol torn   Mirk MIRC upon Mirc Q or Q. TIOBL within her Ti ob l. LEL the same Lel.  ..... one and the same  TON All Ton. PAOMBD her members Pa Ombd. DILZMO let them differ Dil zmo. ASPIAN in their qualities As pi an OD and Od.   Long or short CHRISTEOS Let there be Chris te os AGLTOLTORN no one Creature Ag l ter torn   Ah. PARACH equal Ach.   Pa rach The wicked spake behinde E. K. ASYMP with another A symp CORDZIZ The reasonable Creatures of the earth or Man Cord ziz DODPAL Let them vex Dod pal OD and Od. FIFALZ weed out Fi falz LSMNAD one another Ls mnad E. K. Now the Curtain is drawn A voyce ..... Read Δ. I read it .... ter from the beginning hitherto Ile ..... Whereat doubt you Δ. Is it true that before the Creation of man this kinde of Malediction was pronounced or when else shall we understand it to have been spoken A voyce ..... True it is that one man weedeth out another To avoid which fault it is said and after God the brother as thy self One Kingdom riset̄h up against another the servant against his Master the wicked son disdaineth his father All which fell upon man when God cursed the earth For perfect love was taken from amongst them and the spirit of malice came amongst them to the intent they might be alwayes at variance and one weed out another and so must be and shall be unto the end Answer me why turned God Adam out into the earth Δ. Because he had transgressed the Laws to be kept in Paradise ..... It is true Then Adam offending 〈◊〉 punishment for his offence in that he was turned out into the earth If he had been turned 〈◊〉 to a blessed place then can you not aptly say he was turned out for he that is turned out goeth to dishonour Even so Adam from innocency through his fall was turned out to corruption into a prison prepared for him before if he offended God my brother know he would offend he knew also how to dishonour him As Jesus Christ brought all blessednesse and comfort into the world So did Adam accursed bring all misery and wretchednesse into the world and in the same instant when Adam was expelled The Lord suffered the earth to be accursed for Adams sake and then said the Lord these things and gave unto the world her time and placed over her Keepers Watch-men and Princes for years moneths and dayes I am easie you may understand my rule Δ. Note All this was answered by a voyce as concerning my question or doubt heretofore expressed ..... After this a great pause was used In which time in my minde I discoursed of the Ministery Angelical not all to have been committed to their charge with their Creation but afterward in divers times divers
Gregorian Calender and the fourth day of July by the old Calender Rowland my Childe who was born Anno 1583. January 28. by the old Calender was extreamly sick about noon or midday and by one of the Clock ready to give up the Ghost or rather lay for dead and his eyes set and sunck into his head c. I made a vow if the Lord did foresee him to be his true servant and so would grant him life and confirm him his health at this danger and from this danger I would during my life on Saturdayes eat but one meal c. Remember on Wednesday night the eighteenth of July as I walked alone about nine of the Clock in the evening in the Chamber before my Study above in divers places of that Chamber appeared flashes of fire and did not lighten abroad Munday Julii 23. Mane Circiter 8. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita Δ. I read Mapsama his first words of the book to be prepared of 48 leaves to be silvered and would gladly know what I was now to do By and by at the first looking into the stone E. K. There appeared ten Pikes all black on the ground in a Circle as it were and 1 in the middle a great Pike standing up And Vera falsis falsa seemed to be written in the middle of that Circle somewhat blacker then all the rest which seemed to be as new molten Pitch A voyce ..... Qui non in 7. vivant in undecimo Δ. I made a short discourse to God of my sincere and just dealing hitherto of the book of Enoch written of the book to be silvered how hardly I can get it performed to my contentment the books being laid on the Table that of Enoch and that as it were silvered c. I craved therefore the expofition of this dark shew and as yet nothing pleasant or plain My conscience is clear and I trust in the Lord his mercies E. K. After this appeared a man all black naked all over ..... O thou that art just and hast a clear conscience answer me Δ. In the name of Jesus ..... Who commanded thee to be gone ..... I take the Commandment to have been from God ..... Thou hast broken the Commandment of God Δ. I can in no case yield thereunto ..... You have dishonoured the Lord which is just in the bottom of his own breast and gave you warning and commanded you to go which is the Lord of Heaven and Earth Δ. O Lord my first charge was in these words Thou shalt go from hence with him to the Emperour It was also said that he should make provision for this one voyage and for the rest God had provided So that seeing I was to go with him and he hath not yet provided doing what he can what shall I say or do ..... True it is thou hast had the victory and thou and thy Children have tasted mercy Thou art one of those that when I command thee to leave nothing with life yet thou savest the fatlings to offer before him that abhorreth such sacrifice Δ. Lord I know no such act of mine The Lord be mercifull to me For when it should come to such a case God knoweth I would spare none ..... O thou just man shaking his head thou art become a Saul ..... Wherefore did God answer me take the Kingdom out of Saul his hands Δ. It appeareth in the Bible because obedience was better then sacrifice ..... Even so if thou badst been obedient thy obedience had been regarded But I say unto thee the Lord oweth thee nothing for thy labour he bath payed thee to the uttermost As for Lasky I will give him over to the spirit of errour and he shall become more poor so that his own Children shall despise him But it shall not come to passe in these dayes For I will keep my promise with you You do the Commandment of Princes and Lords and Masters But when the God of Justice without your desert entertaineth you and placeth you and dwelleth amongst you which is able to give you all things commandeth you to go and that for your own profit you think it nothing to offend him But true it is That Obedience pleaseth the Lord for thererin his Creatures glorifie him most All Worship all Honour all Love all Faith all Hope all Charity all the knitting together of the Heavens consisteth in Obedience For if you had been obedient the very stones of the earth should have served your necessity For the Lord will not be found a lyar Δ. O Lord be mercifull to me I could not do thy Commandment in going without A. Laskie and him I was not able to cause to goe without provision And to our judgement he seemeth marvellously to be carefull to make provision but still he hath hinderance ..... Thou hearest thou the Lord forgiveth thee but from henceforth he commandeth thee that thou open not the secrets and the judgements which the Lord shall open unto thee of the times to come unto Laskie Δ. I pray you to say somewhat unto us as concerning this book to be silvered Else what shall I do if I have not direction herein the case being so hard ..... As concerning the book when thou art at the end of thy journey it shall be told Δ. Misericordias Domini in aeternum Cantabo Amen Hallelujah Amen Tuesday Julii 31. Mane hora 7. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita variis ejaculationibus factis tam ad Gabrielem quam Nalvage Ave Mapsama Ilemer quà m maximè ad Deum ipsum pro suo lumine auxilio protectione tam in ipsa actione quà m itinere praesenti futuro versus aulam Caesaris After a great hour attendance At length appeared one all naked black and about the stone a Circle of black He said ..... Were you not commanded to go after ten dayes Δ. It is true ..... And what followeth Δ. I appeal unto the mercy of the highest for that I have not offended upon wilfulnesse ..... Say what followeth Δ. It followeth that we may drink of a Cup which we would not c. And also we were willed to provide for this journey which provision onely now is made for us two and not yet for A. L. himself ..... Thus sayeth the Lord I have stretched out my hand and you have hindred me I have brought things unto their course but you have thrust your selves between When I appointed you 10 dayes did I not also tell you that the earth was mine Am not I the God of heaven and earth by whom you breath The same which also forsaketh not my people in the time of need I have opened my wings but you have refused my cover I have brought in madnesse into the house of the unjust but you have prevented my judgement And because you have done so and have trusted more in the mallices of the world then in my power Δ. Lord we
have not done so to our knowledges ..... Therefore shall you drink of a Cup that you would not but it shall not fall in these dayes but in the dayes to come Moreover E. K. The fire cometh out of his mouth as he speaketh ..... If you go it is if you go not it also shall be Δ. Make that dark speech plain for I need you not Δ. We were willed to go but with this condition that Laskie should make provision ..... I have not sealed this sin unto thee Δ. but yet I have measured out a plague and it shall light upon you all But unto Lasky I have sealed it and it shall be heavy E. K. Doth not A. L. use all the means he can for provision making ..... The time shall come when I am and will appear unto thee in a Vision and of seven Rods thou shalt chuse one unto you both I speak For I will not let passe my dishonour unpunished neither will I sell my name like an hireling Notwithstanding in the midst of my fury I will be mercifull unto you when you think I have forsaken you then shall the Rod break in pieces Δ. Lord deal with us as we have just cause to put our trust in thee not onely in the principal state of our salvation but also in this Action ..... You go I will not forsake you And what I have said that I have said And it is a living spirit and shall bear witnesse of it self For great is the God of Hosts in power and in all his works and words most just Δ. Lord is it thy will that we shall go before this A. L. toward Prage ..... If you tarry it is and if you go it shall be Δ. Lord make that plain unto us Thus sayeth the Lord if you tarry it is because I am which am strength and triumph against mine enemies and so against the enemies of those that put their trust in me And shall be because I am just and because it is For that I am I am and my spirit is justice and truth which before was is and shall be and after world without end Δ. Lord shew us the light of thy countenance and be not wrathfull against us any longer be a comforter unto us in our journey to be undertaken ..... Move me not for I am gone E. K. He is gone Δ. Misericordia Domini sit super nos nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen ANNO 1584. On Wednesday the first day of August at afternoon hora 3. we entred on our journey toward Prage in the Kingdom of Beame whither we came on thursday sevenight after by three of the Clock that is exactly in eight dayes We came by Coach I E. K. and his brother and Edmond Hilton so that we came to Prage Augusti 9. by the new Calender but by the old July 30. two dayes before August the old Calender Miserere Nostri Deus Noster neque in eternum irascaris nobis PRAGE 1584. Augusti 15. Wednesday we began on the day of the assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary in the excellent little Stove or Study of D. Hageck his house lent me by Bethlem in old Prage Which Study seemed in times past Anno 1518. to have been the Study of some Student or A skilfull of the holy stone a name was in divers places of the Study noted in letters of Gold and Silver Simon Baccalaureus Pragensis and among other things manifold written very fairly in the Study and very many Hierogliphical Notes Philosophical in Birds Fishes Flowrs Fruits Leaves and six Vessels as for the Philosophers works these verses were over the door Immortale Decus par gloriaque illi debentur Cujus ab ingenio est discolor hic paries And of the Philosophers work on the South-side of the Study in three lines uppermost was this written Candida si rubeo mulier nupta sit marito Mox complectuntur Complexa concipiuntur Per se solvuntur per se quandoque perficiuntur Vt duo que fuerant unum in corpore fiant Sunt duae res primo Sol cum Luna tamen in imo Confice videbis fit ab hiis lapis quoque Rebus Lunae potentatu peregit Sol Rebis actu Sol adit Lunam per medium rem facit unam Sol tendit velum transit per ecliptica Coelum Currit ubi Luna recurrit hunc denuo sublima Vt sibi lux detur in sole quae retinetur Nec abiit vere sed vult ipst commanere illustrans certe defunctum corpus aperte Si Rebus scires quid esset tu reperires Haec ars est cara brevis levis atque rara Ars nostra est Ludus puero labor mulierum scitote omnes filii artis hujus quod nemo potest colligere fructus nostri Elixiris nisi per introitum nostri lapidis Elementati etsi aliam viam quaerit viam nunquam intrabit nec attinget Rubigo est Opus quod fit ex solo auro dum intraverit in suam humiditatem And so it ended MYSTERIORUM PRAGENSIUM Liber Primus Caesareusque Anno 1584. Stylo Novo Augusti 15. incoeptus ad Omnipotentis Dei Laudem Honorem Gloriam Amen Δ. FIeri potest quod anni 1588 aliorum supputatio initium suum habent ab ipsa die Passionis Christi vel Ascensionis in Caelum Atque hac 〈◊〉 33 vel 34. anni plures considerari debent quia tot annorum Christus erat tempore suae passionis vel ascensionis Addas igitur annis 1588 34. inde emergunt anni 1622. acqueiste numerus propius accedit ad tempus annorum diluvii Arcae cujus simisitudinem fore circa secundum Christi adventum Scripturae docent Vel cum post creatum Adamum Anno Mund. 1655 Diluvium Aquae omnia deleverit viventia Post Christi nostri Adami spiritualis restitutionem in Caelum Anno 1655 qui erit anno 1688. expectamus Diluvium ignis quo omnia sunt Immutanda vel Charitatis ardoris Christiani magnum futurum specimen Non faciet Dominus DEVS verbum nisi revelaverit Secretum suum ad servos suos prophetas Leo rugiet quis non timebit Dominus Deus loquucus est Quis non prophetabit Amos Cap. 3. B. Nihil mali invenimus in homine isto Quid si spiritus locutus est ei aut Angelus Act. Apost Cap. 23. C. Dico enim vobis quod multi Prophetae Reges voluerunt videre quae vos videtis non viderunt audire quae auditis non audierunt Lucae 10. E. Matthaei 13. B. Charissimi nolite omni Spiritui credere Sed probate Spiritus si ex Deo sint quoniam multi pseudoprophetae exierunt in mundum In hoc cognoscitur Spiritus Dei. Omnis Spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse ex Deo est c. Johannes Epistola 1. Cap. 4. A. Quisquis confessus fuerit quoniam Jesus
now and ever Amen Tuesday 21. Augusti Ante Meridiem horam Circiter 9. †Pragae Precibus finitis invito Vriele ut nos illuminaret dirigeret consolaretur c. E. K. Vriel is here and about his head at a little distance is a bright part of a Circle like a Rain-bow c. Δ. We propounded unto you yesterday O you faithfull messager of the highest as concerning this letter how it is liked when it is to be sent and by whom c. Uriel ..... O earth how great a Monster art thou and how great is thy wickednesse which makest dull mans capacity and carriest him away into an obscure and rash sense Not without a cause art thou hated with the highest yea not without a cause are thy Garments made short My brethren how long will you be grievous to the Lord how long I say will you be without understanding O how long will you consider your own commodities and neglect the harvest of the Lord Δ. I understand nothing of the occasion of these speeches Uriel ..... But behold for you have chosen unto your selves a visitation and have broken the visitation of the Lord. For when you were commanded you went not and unto your selves you chuse dayes for advantage Well I say Take your choice and become wise for I am ready to deliver I say prepare your selves and be ready But I fear me yea I know it that you will become foggy and misty Notwithstanding thus sayeth the Lord Since you will become wise Chastise your self for a few dayes and abstain and you shall see that I am a God that can visit and mightily I am not man that my promises may not be neither speak I of any thing that liveth not for I am light and the breath of understanding Because you have followed my Commandments yet some of you obstinately and rather as reprehenders then obedient servants I will put a snaffle unto Satan and unto his Ministers and thou shalt sit in judgement against the wicked For I will multiply thee and thy houshold And of thy seed yea even of thy seed will I finder out a Camber and will root out a people which I have long favoured And for this cause spared I him unto thee for unto him that loveth me will I be a just rewarder The branches of the wicked do I cut off and make worse then the Asses dung But unto the faithfull will I send honour and a Crown of rejoycing Hui who is he that I cannot reward him Or where dwellest thou in Heaven or in Earth that art and rejoycest not by me If thou follow my Commandments and I once begin to love thee I have told thee that I will place thee here Δ. In this Citie Uriel ..... Not as a Citizen but as an owner of many houses But take heed thou be be just to me and do what I command thee Δ. Lord thou knowest my heart help and supply my wants Uriel ..... Behold the Corn is not ripe neither are the Grapes red nor the Sun hath not yet seasoned them Therefore yet need I not Stewards but Overseers And as yet Laborers are to me as shadows Because not yet no not yet is the time of my visitation therefore he that bringeth his Syckle now must not reap for me but must rejoyce in himself Happy is he that tarrieth the Lord least afterward the doors be shut and the feast at an end All wisdom and sciences comprehended in wisdom that worketh for himself is of the world But the wisdom that I give I give openly and without reproach that I also rejoyoing in the wisdom 〈◊〉 be gl rified and exalted with a Diademe of honour When Sodom cried for vengeance had I it not ready Could not I from heaven have consumed them with the breath of my own mouth I in my self know it and am witnesse But lo in the pride of their filthinesse I had regard to time And that it might be known to all Nations licensed my Angels and gave them power And lo then made a promise unto all Nations that they should be blessed in Abraham even the same moneth that I destroyed the Sodomites These things did I as unto Noe and unto Seth whom I l ved I made them privy of time to come and opened unto them my judgements because the world should be justly condemned After the same manner made I a promise unto you Lo after the same manner have I called you to counsel But you have chosen the lowest and have refused the highest places and have regarded your own comforts and not my visitation I commanded thee not to go into the woods and to fetter Wolves neither to saw the Tygers teeth I delivered you not unto the wicked neither suffered I them to rejoyce over you But I have brought you from death and from the dayes of lamentation and have dealt with you as faithfull brethren do in their divisions Not that I forget my self but that I would be magnified and that you might see your wildnesse and naked rashnesse Many are there upon the earth which would have burst with gladnesse and have rent their Garments in pieces If I had touched them with the least of these Counsels so I call them because they are my secrets Is it not sufficient that I have brought you hither fafe Have promised you a sure help Lo you wrast me for what is he of the world to whom I shall confirm letters Δ. This is spoken in respect of God his judgement required of the letter They grieve me because they are the doings of man O man let man answer unto thee and let it suffice thee that the mark whereat thou shootest is in my hand My work is not a work of hours nor dayes But when I command do speedily When the Thunders fall from Heaven and burn up the Earth scale her face and leave her naked Then Then will you believe Behold He that is a man being new born is accounted a Monster Is it not written Lo the Lord looked from heaven in his visitation and in the midday and groaned upon her for she had vexed him Happy is he that is ready when he visiteth That which I command let it be done For when the Kings of the earth say do this They play not also the parts of their servants and subjects but lo it is done Suffer me I pray yo to have that favour Δ. Deo Nostro Misericordi Pio Justo sit omnis Honor Laus Gloria Amen Tuesday 21 Augusti †Pragae After Dinner as we E. K. and Δ. were in my Study and conferring of my choise and very sorry that we had made our choise not of the best E. K. saw Vriel in the stone which yet stood unput up and said he had seen him there ever since we began So coming to the stone he said as followeth Uriel ..... Murmur not amongst your selves
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
cutting and nature Not to the intent it should be credited but to the intent it should be a stumbling block to the action in time to come which is now My brethren he is a marvellous work-man and one that striketh now the most strings in a manner all But he hath his reward Therefore do I deny it to be spoken by me or of me Δ. So by God his Grace I did conceive and undoubtedly think and of many other things besides that I have occasion of reforming the Records that the heavens may agree as the phrase was used Mad. ..... Many there are not But such as are gather them together let me sift them Δ. I thank God for that his mercy Δ. Now I beseech you to the second my present request before propounded it may please you to give answer Mad. ..... When the King sendeth a Present to a Noble man or unto any one that he favoureth he loveth or delighteth in The Messager carrieth it delivereth it within his house E. K. She seemeth to smile ..... He to whom it is sent enjoyeth it he useth it yea peradventure being a dainty dish eateth of it Afterward the King sendeth to him by the same messager saluteth his houshold and commandeth him to say Thus sayeth the King Go to such a man and salute him Tell him that I will visit him and that I say so Behold he sitteth still and 〈◊〉 not neither doth he the Commandment of his Superiour For lo sayeth he The King commanded me not his messager came and would so But whether the King will so or no I know not But hearest thou Thou wicked man hast thou not eaten of his meat and enjoyed the benefit of his present before Yes A threefold benefit which shall continue untill the * seventh Angel and untill the third woe Man begetteth a Son and lo his wife is with Childe and she 〈◊〉 for the time of her deliverance If the question be moved unto him his wife not yet delivered whether he have issue or fruit of his body say thou unto me what shall he answer Δ. As it shall please God Mad. ..... That is no answer Δ. Then he may say He is in hope to have the issue his wife goeth great withall may this seem an answer 〈◊〉 beseech you Mad. ..... Though the Childe be not yet born he hath issue Deliverance is by reason of the issue and not called issue of the deliverance for he is a son as well unborn as born So is it of you Thou hast prayed unto God and he hath heard thee And lo the issue which he giveth thee is Wisdom But 〈◊〉 the Mother of it is not yet delivered For If woman know her times and seasons of deliverance Much more doth he which is the Mother of all things But thou mayest rejoyce that there is a time of deliverance and that thy gift is compared to a woman with childe For as the one is and shall be visible so is wisdom granted and shall appear yea a lively and most perfect Creature Behold the Angels of the Lord have been sent down from God unto him E. K. here is sight which is of this houshold in God He hath brought unto thee that which he tasteth not himself And yet thou doubtest saying How shall I say the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me Unto thee Δ we are we have appeared for unto thee sent And because his eye hath seen therefore we have joyned him vnto thee that in the time of darknesse thou mightest see Δ. It is to be made perfect before the time of his visitation And before the time of thy visitation thou must be made perfect And because it is of thee and not of him Therefore doth not God impute unto him his offences but placeth in you the figure of time to come Supra lib. 15. 1584. Junii 2. For some there be that naturally shall draw in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord. And other some there be that must have their times and seasons For thy houshold affairs I say nothing yet neither for thy Letter sent or Messenger Nam Deus agit in 〈◊〉 sicut vult I have nothing else to say unto thee but blessed be those that believe in the Lord for they have their reward E. K. She goeth away divided into a great many pieces of fire Deo Nostro Omnipotenti eterno sapienti sit omnis honor Laus Gloria Note At noon this day I received Letters from the Lord Laskie from my wife and from my brother Nicolas Fromonds in England how Mr. Gilbert Mr. Sled Mr. Andreas Firmorshem my Book-seller used me very ill in divers sorts The Dates of the Letters from England were of the 15. and 16 th day of April 1584. My wife is in great sorrow for my brother Nicholas At night after Sun set Emerich Sontag brought me word from the Spanish Ambassadour that he had delivered to the Emperour this day my Letters and Book and that he took them graciously and thankfully and said that within three or four dayes he would let the Spanish Ambassadour understand when he would give me audience Deus bene vertat ad sui nomiuis honorem Laudem Amen Saturday Septembris 1. Ante Meridiem Circa 10. †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. sat in my little Study after our talk of divers matters and of my expecting audience at the Emperour his hand c. E. K. saw three little Creatures walk up and down in the Sun-shine about an handfull from the pavyment and the Creatures themselves very small not an hundfull long like little shadows or smokes and the path wherein they walked seemed yellow They walked a good while to and fro till at length I suspected that they were sent to us and so prepared the shew-stone But E. K. said he had rather see them thus out of the stone I said that in the stone we have warrant that no wicked thing shall enter but without the stone Illuders might deal with us unlesse God prevented it c. E. K. said again he had rather deal thus ..... His meaning is above thy sight E. K. Now two of them seem to kneel down in the Sun beams ..... Blessed be God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost the most holy and blessed Trinity One true mighty perfect everlasting and incomprehensible God Δ. Amen Amen Amen ..... Which will be comprehended with those that live in the Heavens the true Church of God of such as measure him by faith and not reason which hath sent us to do his will Both in that he will turn his heart And in that he doth vouchsafe to make you witnesses of his secret purposes and determinations in hand The 1 middlemost said I am the midst of the third and the last Δ of the spirit of life Vnderstood in this temporal controversie and conflict of mans Soul but
you a Seal yet secret and not known Δ. Zach. 13. Et erit dies una quae nota est Domino c. Behold now cometh that day that is known unto the Lord himself wherein the Kingdoms of the earth shall begin to fall that they may perceive how they have run astray and how weak they are in the triumph of their pompe And now out of Hierusalem out of the Church of God and of his Son Christ shall passe out and flow the water of life That the sayings of the Angels and Spirit of the Lord may be verified upon the face of the earth spoken by his annointed Zachary Now shall those dayes open themselves which are the dayes of vengeance Now Now shall these woes that have been spoken of and sealed burst out to the confusion of the wicked and the establishment of his Kingdom which is annointed Behold I teach thee Those that inhabit the holy City and usurp the authority of the Highest are called in remembrance before the Lord and they shall be scattered like unto the mighty hail that the spirits of the North have gathered against the day of revenge They are become proud and think there is no God They are stiff-necked for they are the 〈◊〉 of wickedness Lo in the dayes of Rodolph shall this come to passe of whom the Lord hath said If he hear me and believe my words I will place Thee Δ unto him as a mighty rock I will open unto thee Δ for his instructions and safeguard to come my determinations in hand and lo to come And when he hath wiped away his darknesse and offence of his soul I will appear unto him to the terrour of all Nations For I rejoyce when I exalt such as are weak And when I help the comfortlesse am I magnified Δ. Thanks honour and glory is due to thee O our God Uriel ..... And behold the day of this visitation and of the execution of my judgements is at hand And lo I open unto you another Seal Because I have said unto you I am true and just In the year eighty eight shall you see the Sun move contrary to his course The Stars encrease their light and some of them fall from heaven Then shall the Rivers run blood Then shall the wo be unto women with child Then shall the time come to passe that this Prophesie shall be known For lo the Lord hath prepared his Prophet and he shall descend from the Heavens as it is written by Malachiah the Prophet Behold I will send before that day not that day I spoke of but the great day of the Lord Elias again amongst you In the mean season will I be mercifull unto Rodolph and will bring into his house such as shall be skilfull unto whom I will give my spirit to work Gold Silver and the Ornaments of his house And he shall perceive that I blesse him In that I have tied him to my Garments If he hear thee not Behold I have one in store Yea such an one as cleaveth unto Justice Man is but a Reed that is shaken with every winde The pride of Kings is as the beauty of a Peacock See how they run all astray See how they tempt the spirits of righteousnesse Lo as I have said unto thee I reserve that wicked King not that I will be mercifull unto him But that he shall shortly perish with an eternal scourge And now hear me what I say unto thee Hereafter see thou tempt me not Neither look for my presence after this order But for great causes For lo this is the end of Teaching Now cometh in the time of warning and of counsel Δ. Will you give me leave to speak Uriel ..... Say Δ. I trust it shall not offend God at any time to call for Uriel his light in matters dark to us and above our capacity Also in Enoch his Tables understanding and enjoying we are to require help of instruction at Ave and so of other points and Doctrines already begun we are to require their help who have begun with us c. Uriel ..... As far as the Lord hath suffered you to enter into his Garden Even so far I say Taste and eat Δ. The entrance yet we have not but the manner to enter The perfect practise is the best entrance Uriel ..... Man speaketh not with thee wherefore dost thou wrast the Lord All things that are delivered thee are plain Δ. Lord I do thus speak to be perfectly instructed in what sense your words are to be understood when you said This is the end of teaching Δ. Vriel or perhaps in the name of God Uriel ..... Thou hast called upon me and I have heard thee Thou hast desired comfort and I have comforted thee Thou hast the spirit of choice Be it sufficient unto thee that the Garden of the Lord is open unto thee where there is no hunger nor thirst but a filling spirit a comforter †What care is it unto me if the Kings of the earth say Lo this is not of me Lo this is not of the highest Δ. Ex Dei lumine Uriel ..... Behold I am the light and servant of God Blessed are those which believe and are made partakers in this Testimony by the which you are become Prophets and are sanctified for the coming of the Lord. But lo why do I speak unto you who have defiled your selves I will take up those things that I have and will be gone Lo blessed is he that giveth ear unto the Lord. E. K. Now all is vanished away and he is disappeared Wheele Eagle Citie and all c. Δ. All laud thanks honour and glory be to the eternal Almighty most just Judge and mercifull father our God the God of Heaven and earth whom of his infinite goodnesse we beseech to have mercy upon us and to purifie our hearts and consciences granting us humble contrition and sincere confession of our transgressions and iniquities whatsoever Amen Note While I was thus requesting God E. K. made a vow of penance during his life in token of hearty sorrowfulnesse for his fault in that dayes action noted never to eat his supper or evening meal on Saturdayes during his life wherein I beseech the highest to regard his inward intent and his continual memory of the Lord his mercies in sparing him when he most had offended him Δ. Deo Nostro vero vivo omnipotenti eterno sit omnis Honor Laus Benedictio nunc in perpeturm Amen Wednesday September 5. NOTE Δ. The morning of this Wednesday before I prepared my self for the former action I sent Emericus with two Letters to be delivered the one to the Spanish Ambassadour giving him thanks for his honourable dealing with the Emperours Majesty in my behalf and the other to the Noble Octavius Spinola thanking him likewise and requiring his instruction or
mundi creatione Creaturarumque naturis vero usu quam in mundi praesentis moxque 〈◊〉 statu Et preterea de unius Catholicae Ecclesiae charissimae Jesu Christi 〈◊〉 nostraeque piae matris sanctitate dignitate Authoritate veluti in qua etiam est Sanctorum Communio Peccatorum remissio de multis nondum per nos revelandis Dei Arcanis Magnalibus Determinationibus Quòd tantum abest ut aliquis sanae mentis Christianus Actiones Nostras Mysticas Diabolicas esse fraudes contendere immo ne suspicari quidem conetur aut possit ut potius tale Arcanum Dei propositum incredibiliter admirari rationem humanam in eisdem examinandis subjugare Dei erga Electos suos admirandam misericordiam in istis esse manifestam humillimè cum summo tremore fateri velit Ego quidem hactenus in istis aliud ferè nihil me esse invenio nisi Calamum scribae velociter per me scribentis Nam visa auditaque in mea praesentia fidelissimè de litera interdum ad literam interdum verbatim interdum pluribus simul receptis verbis ipso eodem temporis momento quo traduntur annotare sum solitus Ast jam in quam multa excrevit Noster talis labor volumina Ex quibus omnibns illum fructum successumque expectamus qualem praefixit ille cujus nutui cuncta obediunt Istas autem ad suam sacrem Caesaream Majestatem literas meas Cum vestra magnificentia opportunitatem inveniet primam si meo nomine humillimè eidem exhibere dignabitur Tum magno mihi Divinitus injuncto levatus ero onere Tum magno à vestra magnificentia affectus beneficio Interim verò Dum suae sacrae Majestatis Caesareae ad istas responsum dabitur nimirum si ad 14. vel 16. dies prius expectandum esset vel statim post acceptum responsum si tam expeditè illud recipere possum quà m quod recepi ultimo ad iter me accingere debeo propter familiam libros aliquam meam suppellectilem huc ante hyemis asperitatem transferendam Ubi cum Caesareae Majestatis gratioso favore sub ipsius Protectione Imperatoria voluntatem Omnipotentis Dei implere pro viribus suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati inservire tanquam ejusdem Philosophus Mathematicus fidelissime de tempore in tempus paratus esse potero Illustri vestrae Magnificentiae Addictissimus Joannes Dee I annexed hereunto a Post-script which followeth Post-scriptum MEarum esse partium consultum esse duxi vestrae Magnificentiae paucissimis verbis significare quod heri manè hora nona vir egregius suae Majestis Caesareae fidus Confiliarius D. Doctor Curtzius me humanissimè invisebat in meo ergastulo hypocaustato juxta Bethlehem ubi videre poterat Bibliothecam presentem meam nullam ferè aliam esse praeter Sancta Dei Evangelia Biblia sacra ipsosque nostrorum mysteriorum libros Ego autem quodam humili modo inter caeteras querelas meas de tam longa interposita mora conquerebar inter ejusdem de meis rebus factam relationem Caesareum de eisdem recipiendum responsum Ille verò se simplicissimè Caesareae Majesti visa auditaque penes me retulisse asseruit nullo suo de eisdem adhibito judicio Verum Caesari dixit quasi impossibilia vel incredibilia fuisse visa Et de responso mihi in hac parte dando secum adhuc suam deliberare velle Majestatem Caesaream Unde ego de literis meis istis suae Majesti mittendis mentionem feci summatim earundem tenorem eidem enarravi Ille easdem statim habere voluit ipsi Caesareae Majestati à Meridie mittendas Ego quidem Caesaris me velle ad pauculos dies expectare ad ventum dixi Deinde de rebus Mathematicis brevissime inter nos habito sermone illique ad pervidendum dato libello quodam Geometrico per me Federicum Commandinum Vrbinatem in lucem olim dato mutuis post utrinque promissis officiis humanitatis benevolentiae abiit 1584. Sept. 28. Saturday Septemb. 29. Die Sancti Michaelis The foresaid Letter to the Emperours Majesty with this Letter to the Ambassadour and this Post-script And moreover according to the Ambassadour his request the Copy of the Emperours Letter all in one uttermore paper closed Letter like sealed and with superscription to the foresaid Ambassadour I sent to his honour on Michaelmas day at dinner time by Emericus Sontag Who delivered the same to the Secretary of the Ambassadour and he to the Lord Ambassadour as he sat at dinner Deus bene vertat ad laudem nominis sui Amen September 29. Remember that this day after-noon I sent Hugh on foot with my Letters to Cracovia to Edmond that my folk should not be out of quiet or afeard to see Mistresse Kelly sent for and no Letters to come from me c. I writ to the Lord 〈◊〉 of our want of money c. Monday Octobris 1. à Meridie circa 3. horam Pragae Oratione dominica finita c. Valde cito est facta apparitio E. K. Here be two one his face is covered and the other is not And he whose face is uncovered seemeth to be Gabriel Δ. Sit benedictus Deus Pater Deus filius Deus Spiritus Sanctus nunc Semper Amen Δ. Our chief cause at this instant why we resort to this shew-stone is for to understand according to the grounds of God his promise the state of my wife her grievous disease and means to cure her wherein if it please the Lord to be mercifull unto her and me it shall be the occasion whereby she will all her life time praise the name of God for his mercies and be of a quietter minde and not so testy and fretting as she is ..... Who are you or from whence come you that you'require science which seek to be more wise and expert then such as are the Children and Doctors of this World whose judgements are rash and understanding naked and in whose lips dwelleth no truth Who I say are you that you should deserve the majestral benefit of so great and sanctified grace as to understand the determination of God the power of his Angels or the brightnesse or obscurity of mans Soul and understanding You desperate sinners and partakers with the wicked how can you seek bread at your fathers hands when you seek to steal into his barnes Yea into his house and dining Tables and more then that yea even into his privy Chambers not to spoyl him of his houshold stuffe of his Gold or precious stones but of the diademe and Crown of his everlasting Majesty and honour you are thieves and robbers and through the Dignity of your spirit you shall think to exalt your selves and to live in Majesty with the world True it is you may live so But you live with an Harlot and
wherein you shall not borrow of the World but of the Gift of God And hitherto I will deal with thee that the least thing which thou hast bestowed in obedience toward me shall not be forgotten Live you together as brethren and wonder together at my works and in me for there shall not a hair of your head perish So that you listen and be obedient unto my voice When therefore thou commest home hide not thy self But see that the Infant be regenerated Δ As concerning the Godfathers shall I request and use such as I intended Michael ..... Do that thou hast done But put all these things up amongst 〈◊〉 secrets of your hearts as though not seeing yet seeing all things Let these for this time suffice E. K. The fire is gone he and all Δ Creatori nostro Omnipotenti Protectori nostro misericordissimo consolatori nostro abundantissimo in tempore necessitatis nostrae sit perennis Laus Honor Gloria gratiarum 〈◊〉 Amen Δ Hereupon we had great comfor and so brake our fast and returned to Prague again before 4 of the clok in the afternoon Note While I was thus out and had left a letter for the Curtese Balthasar Federicus Dominus ab Ossa c. to deal with the Spanish Embassador the Lord Romfe and myne Her Kinsky to crave pardon of my sudden departure and the Child not yet christened c. and had given my wife charge not to deliver the Letter before Friday night c. It came to passe that this Mr. Balthasar had sent word of his comming to 〈◊〉 with the Lord Kinsky whom on the Friday before I had met riding out of Town and he told me that he was to be out three or 4 dayes c. and that he was desirous to speak with me Upon which occasion my wife thought it best to send the letter to him and so did not long before my coming home Which thing when I understood I was half sorry for it and sent presently word to Master Balthasar of my coming home and to certifie him that my wife had erred to send that letter unto his worship before Friday night when she might perceive that indeed I did ride forth to Bressel He thereupon was desirous to speak with me and of him I received my Letter which he had perused and offered himself most ready to satisfie the content thereof c. Now to the chief purpose At my return home from Master Balthasar Federick ab Ossa I found Emericus Sontagius in my wives stove with Master Kelly who at the sight of me was sore amazed and half not able or not willing to speak but said vos estis veteres equites Then Mr. Kelly told me that Emericus had told him that the Emperour had been all day yesterday very melancholick and would speak with no body And that he knew of my journey in a moment when it was and that by the Jews specially by the Doctor his son that had gone about to get me the four horses laboured very much with himself unasked to perswade me that the Emperour his first and chief understanding of it was by the Jews c. Hereupon being now night he went home ✚ Pragae Martii 14. Thursday A meridie hora 2½ Baptizatus erat Michael d ee filius meus in arcis Pragensis majori Templo Baptismum exercente Caesareae Majestatis Capellano Susceptoribus vero Illustrissimis Dominis Domino don Gulielmo de sancto Clemente Hispaniarum Regis apud Caesarem Legato Domino Magnifico Domino Romff summo Caesareae majestatis cubiculario à consiliis arcanis intimo primario c. Susceptrice autem Nobilissima foemina Domina de Dittrechstain Domini de Dittrechstain uxore charissima qui major Domo Caesareae majestatis est Infanti verò nomen erat inditum Michael ad petitionem meam ob gratam beati Michaelis memoriam qui ex misericordia Dei tam fuit est erit nobis beneficus auxiliaris tutelaris c. ✚ Pragae Martii 18. Monday manè horam circiter 7. Δ Precibus ex more ad Deum fusis primùm deinde aliqua interposita mora aliis etiam ejaculationibusque factis pro misericordia luce auxilio Dei c. post horas 2. tandem nulla facta apparitione cessavimus Ego verò de Dei ira timidus causam subesse magnam dubitavi c. Δ 〈◊〉 nostri Deus ne nobiscum agas juxta omnes iniquitates nostras Amen Martii 20. Wednesday manè Δ Note E. K. yesterday had a shew of a little thing as big as a pease of fire as it were in the stone going about by the brinks And because it was not in shape humane he of purpose would not declare it so to me and so I have noted as appeareth of no shew This he told me on Tuesday night that was yesternight upon occasion of a great stir and moving in his brains very sensible and distinct as of a creature of humane shape and lineaments going up and down to and fro in his brains and within his skull sometimes seeming to sit down sometime to put his head out at his ear And this began from the same night following ✚ Pragae Martii 20. Wednesday manè circiter 6½ Δ Precibus ad Deum fusis aliquanto prolixioribus quam ex more c. statim facta est apparitio E. K. Here is the same shew of a little parcel of fire somewhat lesse then a pease going about the border of the stone E. K. Here is one but he hath a covered face I know him not his covering is of a compound colour between black red and white he is covered down to his middle the ground of it is white There be spots of black and red on it some big some little as if they had been sprinkled on with a pen or dashed on with a pencil ..... Against divine necessity is no prayer nor resistance E. K. I feel nothing in my head now and till now I did as is moved before ..... Come ô you Prophets and render your accounts Come O you that have sucked of the brests wherein the judgments and secret will of the Lord is hid and of Necessity to come Gather your selves together render some account why the King of eternity descending from the heavens hath so often visited you And why he hath rather visited you in the Desert upon mighty and high Mountains unranged of men Tell I say what the cause is that he hath come down into the Fens and amongst your flock Could not this God have lifted you up and have brought you into his secret chambers Could he not have ravished you unto himself and so have carried you about with him that you might see his great wisdome unknown to man and the abundance of Glory wherein he hath his habitation There is none of you that dare presume to say that you deserved the Lord his presence There is none of
the Door of the study upon me I arose and went after him and took him by the shoulders to keep him from the Door and withal called aloud to my folks Come here how here is violence offered unto me whereupon they came in all and my wife and so afterward by degrees his fury asswaged and my folks my Wife and his went away and after he had sitten two or three hours with me he saw on my head as I sat writing Michael stand with a sword and willed him to speak which he did forbear to do above a quarter of an hour as E. K. said At length he spake as followeth E. K. Here appeareth Michael on your head and hath bid me divers times to speak to you Δ I disposed my 〈◊〉 to write and Michael 〈◊〉 bring the Stone E. K. Here appear 12 with him 4 behind him and 4 on each sides of him 4 and all with swords of fire and he the hindermost of them had a Barrel of Glasse on his back full of fire the 12 were all in red Coats Michael ..... The Prophet Nunc ergo Notum faecimus Domine Rex quoniam si civitas haec aedificata fuerit ipsius mutilati fuerint descensus tibi non erit 〈◊〉 neque in Phoenicem E. K. Now they all kneel down about him They look pitifully with their faces upward as though they were praying they be all in blood red Garments and Michael his sword is as the sword I once did see him have whose edge did open E. K. Now answer me to the purpose whether I shall have the Circle of Letters which I did desire Michael ..... Is there any like unto thee O Jehovah in Heaven and in Earth or can thy enemies rise up saying against thee and shall they stand O thou whose look is more terrible unto thy Angels then all the fires which thou hast created either in the bottomlesse pit or in the life of all Elemental Creatures or above in the heavens if they were gathered together in one can be terrible to man Hast thou not made Heaven and Earth and hast put thy head no where and thy feet somewhere because without thee there is not and without thee there cannot be O thou that hast numbred the Starres and art Dominus Dominantium above those that govern them and more in knowledg then their Government Thou Thou Wilt thou suffer thy Name to be trodden under foot Thou Thou Wilt thou correct the Heavens and the whole seed of man Wilt thou drown the World with waters and root the wicked from the face of the Earth Wilt thou cast down the lothsome and wicked Cities that they may grow in the terrour of thy judgment Wilt thou send so many Plagues into Egypt Wilt thou suffer all these things to be done and many more memorable which are all in thee And thou permit one Man one Soul to be thus carried away with Satan to the dishonouring and treading under foot of thee and thy light of thee and thy truth If the King exalted him which magnified Truth before the strength and Policy of Women extolled him before his Princes and caused for his sake the building of this Temple to go forward Wilt thou not punish him that despiseth truth that preferreth the wantonnesse and 〈◊〉 of the World that errant strumpe before thy word and before the strength of a heavenly Authority Art thou so become a little one that thou art lesse then a King hast thou turned thy face so far aside that thou 〈◊〉 not this Rebellion Can one man be dearer unto thee then the whole World was or shall the Heavens be thrown head-long down and shall he go uncorrected Hast thou Mountaines and Stones untrodden on out of the which thou caust shew thy Praise and Honour Are there not yet Infants which may be sanctified to speak with the Heavens that thou so hidest thy selfe away from Justice What What if those that often cry for grace receive it not yet dost thou give it unto him that commeth from it Sane stupor Coelis stupor terris What are not so many Fires as wait upon me sufficient to arm Satan with vengeance against this Δ wicked one O thou Beast O thou roaring Lion O thou Monster O thou Whirlpool O thou terrible Murtherer E. K. Hast thou plac't headlong many thousands into Hell and dost thou linger to rage upon this imp whom thou hast so long sought for Is it not written least peradventure he find them sleeping and so overcome them But behold whom thou findest sleeping is ready for thee willing to go with thee what sparest thou art thou so bold to give authority unto thy Ministers to confound nay to so blind that thou canst not see so great an Hill Behold thy Ministers cry out unto thee and send thee word calling thee Master King Take heed the City be not built take heed the walls of it be not lifted up and as they that were the Messengers of the King made evident before his face that it was against his commodity to have the Temple of the Lord built up to have the City new shapen to have the Walls made strong because it should hinder his 〈◊〉 into Coelosyria and the rest E. K. Now the 12 he excepted fall down Mich. ..... And thy Ministers have they not said unto thee if this work of the Lord go forward if the City sent down from the Heavens may receive a place to set her selfe in if the Walls and Rampters of this that was built above shall be placed on any place of the World on earth Behold Behold will it not hinder thy cause will it not subvert thy Kingdome will it not turn thee out of Doors will it not bring thee to aterrible day before the Lord Is it not written that that day shall be terrible to Satan and his Angels And wilt thou suffer a Door to be opened wherein it may enter it behoveth thee Satan here to bend thy bow it behoveth thee now to draw up thy arrowes And if thou intend to plant on earth that it may grow time is yet now to weed out this Message from above ` Do thy Messengers give thee warning of these things dost thou hold back thy force when the Porters will betray the City would deliver it into thy hands would break down the walls before thee what I say art thou like to enter thou that loseth no opportunity art thou so negligent Behold the Doors stand open before thee why entrest thou not Dost thou want fire lo he that 〈◊〉 it hath fire for thee 〈◊〉 rumor Behold he offereth himself a companion what wouldest thou more unto these things thou hearest the sayings of thy servants which say unto thee O Satan if this City be built and the walls erected Thou canst not go into the Holy Land And lo hearest thou not them neither dost regard this opportunity whence art thou so forgetful O God great
and honour and will during my being praise thy holy Name E. K. He is gone and went away mounting upward c. Quis sicut Deus noster qui humilitèr resplicet peccatores sua ditat 〈◊〉 Illi soli sit omnis laus honor gloria nunc semper Amen ✚ Pragae Monday Aprilis 1. Manè circa 8. Δ A remembrance for me England Letters A. L. His Letters opened and some yet kept Emerick his traiterous dealing to be deciphered Counsel for the manner of our going and what things shall be needfull to take with us Δ Praecesfeci visitatas alias ex tempore ejaculationes pro auxilio Dei omnipotenti necessario in omnibus nostris Dei prescripti tractandis negotiis c. E. K. Here is a tall man with white clothes with wide sleeves and his garment very much pleated and a thing like a Cypress scarf before his face black which had been many times doubled and with a knot behind him Two others there are by him on his left hand one of them is apparelled in a green thing like a Cassock comming down to his middle leg and a pair of shooes on his feet and a hat on his head The other in a marble Jerkin like a leather Jerkin with panos and a pair of Hose with round Breeches of the same stuff his neither stocks like common black and usual shooes and on his head an hat as the other hath of the English fashion The first hath a little beard short aburn 〈◊〉 The other hath a young beard whitish ..... Why do you provoke me to indignation E. K. He seemeth to speak to them two looking on them Why accuse you me of doing wrong Have I not lead you out by the hand from the Serpents Carried you against nature thorow the waters Have I not held you up from falling Have I not brought you hither unto the Hill E. K. There appeareth a very great Hill up to the Heavens by him This is the entrance The way is open for you ascend And are you not yet ashamed to urgeme If I have done you wrong wrong be unto me If I have done more then I ought to do why do you vex me Δ He seemeth to mean us E. K. He speaketh to them two I have said unto you eat and you have not I have told you it is time to eat but you have your own time I have said unto you Go before Follow me But in this case I will not be 〈◊〉 against you These 〈◊〉 that record my sayings shall 〈◊〉 judgment against you Therefore now unto you E. K. He turneth toward you Δ Here you see the Hill here you see the way open Here you see no hinder ance Yet 〈◊〉 these men accuse me trouble me Determine you against them Call not at these Doores any more untill you be called unto them Ye have said if before the Lord if you had not it had been better for you E. K. He treadeth them two under his feet all to pieces and taketh his hands and flingeth the bloud of them about and it sticketh to the sides A voice ..... What is it to me if man had never been E. K. He wrappeth up the place of their lying as if it were a Cloth and putteth or tumbleth them out of fight E. K. Now he is gone like a Whirl-wind away LORD Δ I am heartily sorry for any thing I have said or done which hath provoked thy indignation thy mercy be upon us and not the rigor of thy most just Judgment Amen Thy Name be alwayes praised Amen O Lord I find my own weaknesse and frailty continually and therefore I call unto thee for thy gift of Wisdome that I might wisely and discreetly serve thee all the dayes of my life O Lord the escapes of my lips and the folly of my heart pardon I most heartily beseech thee And if thy helping hand forsook us and much more if thy indignation work against us we are in most miserable and pitifull case have pity have mercy have compassion on us Lord Lord Lord forgive this our offence whatsoever Suffer us not to be confounded through our little faith O God help our faith help help or else we perish K. K. Here he is againe ..... When the Lord bad thee go if thou had'st so done and had'st not taken thine own time more had been given unto him and more had been added unto thee But now Letters came that have passed through the hands of Sodomites and Murderers through whose hands they are accursed you rejoice you receive comfort you determine to goe But if you had left those letters behind you had come when I bad you go Then had my Name been untouched Therefere is the Lord angry and forgetteth not this offence For he that dealeth with me dealeth not as with a man for I have nothing in me tied to time much lesse hath he that sent me Δ O God what a wretched miserable man am I thus to fall and to offend my God O Lord that thou judgest is very just for man would have taken indignation against his servant that should not go where he biddeth or that would seek or use better credit to encourage him to his duty then his Masters c. Many times hast thou been wearied Have mercy O God Et dele omnes 〈◊〉 meas cor mundum crea in me averto iram tuam a nobis Is thy fury implacable or shall thy anguish last for ever what is slesh and dust before thee ..... There shall remaine the sting of this offence in both your generations until the fifth And I swear unto you by heaven Δ Spare this Sentence of indignation O God against us Thou hast said in what hour soever a sinner is sorry for his sinnes and turneth unto the Lord c. And Lord I am heartily sorry I bewaile with teares this great offence thou seest my contrite heart O God O God O God c. ..... This hath added much even hath bound up the rod which I spoke before unto thee Δ Thy mercies be recorded likewise O Lord and praised from Generation to Generation After this we sat and considered and perceived and confessed the greatnesse of our offence how it concerned much the Honour and Glory of God if we had gone without receiving the advertisement of those Letters So should they hear the and the King St. have perceived that we had the direction of God and of his good Angels and not to have depended upon mans letters or perswasions c. we both a like confessed this great misdoing and so framed our selves to make all speed away that possible we could the mercies of God be upon us now and ever E. K. He is here and said Be thou shut for twenty dayes and withal pulled a thing-like a Curtain about the Stone and the Stone seemed to be full of the same substance being like the froth of the Sea
yet hanging or joyning together like Curds of a posset Misericordias Dominum in aeternum cantabo quis sicut Deus meus qui cum iratus fuerit misericordiam praestavit contrito corde invocantibus Soli igitur Deo meo sit omnis 〈◊〉 honor gloria jubilatio nunc semper Amen A Pragae Aprilis 5. Friday I took my Journey from Pragae toward Cracovia God be our good speed E. K. I Thomas Kelly Hugh Brycket my servants ✚ Cracoviae 1585. Friday Aprilis 12. A meridie we came to Cracovia and as we were within an English mile of the City being a fair and calm day there passed about half a mile before us crossing from the right hand to the left Whirlwinds divers one after another wreathing up the dust with great vehemency on high and shooting forward still and then mounting into the air and so went Southerly from us and likewise some began on the right hand and came furiously raising up and wreathing the dust up into the air Southerly also and did not crosse the way When we came to our house we found that a stranger was set into it by the Landlords Mr. John Long the Judge and Martin Plutner and having by me the keys of the Store-house and of the Street-door I caused my stuff brought with me to be set in and that night we made hard shift for lodging But the new and forced in tenants gave me leave to have one of my Bedsteads which was in one stove and emptied the same to us with much ado Saturday and Sunday we were sore out-faced or rather threatned that we should have no house there and also one Bonar his arms were set upon the door as if the house had been allowed to him ex officio Monday I made the Rector privy of the Injuries I indured and he courteously sent two Masters of Art with me to the Proconsul to have Citation for the Landlords to appear on Tuesday by 7 of the clock to answer to our complaint This Monday-night came the Lord Lasky from Lasko upon a Letter he had received from me from Niso of my coming Tuesday Aprilis 16 the Lord Lasky came to the house and in the morning would have presently cast all their stuff out of doors but by entreaty he permitted them to empty all into the lower stove In the mean space I appeared with my Lawyer or Attourney Mr. Tetaldo an Italian an ancient Practitioner in the Polish and Cracovian Causes And to conclude I had a Decree against my Landlords that I was to have at least an half years warning whereupon John Laugh gave me warning to avoid at Michaelmas and so we came from the Court or Town-house called Praetorium in Latine This same Tuesday afternoon my Lord Lasky went to the King of Poland up into the Castle and told him of my comming and how evilly I was used and he said why did he not cast them out of doors so have I now quoth the Lord Lasky and the King granted the House to be holden ex officio And the next day the King was desirous to speak with me Aprilis 17. Wednesday I went with the Lord Lasky to the King to whom I said to this intent Consolatio pax misericordia Dei sit tibi ô serenissime Rex Coram quo Divinitus recipi admonitionem ut me sustinem quod nunc humillime facio paratissimus cum omni fidelitate sinceritate ea cum Regia vestra Majestate tractare quae mihi divinitus injungantur Quorum mysteriorum historias de ordine in ordinem referre prout occasio dabitur non recusabo aliaque omnia peragere quae Deo vestrae Majestati 〈◊〉 gratia fore intelligero c. The King answered Vt de vestra persona 〈◊〉 bona audivi absente ita jam mihi gratus valde est adventus vester si quod sit in quo vobis meagratia favor possit esse commodo non deero me vestrum favorem protectorem existere Atque de 〈◊〉 aliis majoribus rebus aliquid magis opportuni loquendi tempus post festos istos dies quo tempore vos ad me accersori curabo c. Hereupon I made Coursy as was appertaining and stepped back somewhat from the King and so the Vice-Chancelor and other Officers the chief Secretary brought Bills to be read and subscribed or assigned with the Kings own hand which he did and after the Lord Lasky had watched a fit time to tell the King of his desire to speak a few words to his Majesty of some of his own astairs and was bidden to resort straightway after dinner to his Majesty we took our leave with reverence doing and so went out of the privy Chamber or rather with-drawing Chamber through his privy Chamber where he had said Masse when wecame and so into the Guard-chamber and down c. Friday I took Ghostly counsel of Doctor Hannibal the great Divine that had now set out some of his Commentaries upon Pymander Hermitis Trismigisti Saturday Aprilis 20 I received the Communion at the Pernardines where that Doctor is a Professor This day E. K. the Ghostly counsel and comfort as his case required On Easter Monday very devoutly in Saint Stephens Church E. K. received the Communion to my unspeakable 〈◊〉 and content being a thing so long and earnestly required and urged of him by ourspiritual good friends as may appear by sundry former actions ✚ Cracoviae Tuesday in Easter week Aprilis 23. Manè 〈◊〉 horam 8. Praecibus fusis mediocritèr longis E. K. Here appears many thousands of spiritual Creatures all in white Now there seemeth one like Michael all in red to stand 〈◊〉 them they all standing in an half Moon compasse behind him Michael ..... Adhuc semel sed Stephano assidente Loquor Sed si aurem animam suam loquetae meae praebuerit stabilietur sedes illi E. K. Now they seem all to mourn or hum all in one tune He speaketh still but I understand not his speech Sin minus loquitor pro me pestis ulcere enim percutiam terram Zeli plenus sum Justitiae E. K. All are vanished away Δ Ne observes iniquitates meas Domine 〈◊〉 Christi qui speramns in misericordia tua qui redempti sumus 〈◊〉 sanguine tuo Amen Emitte Domine verbum tuum Evangelicum ut liquefacias emolias obdurata corda mea frigore 〈◊〉 ut mea peccata purgentur efficiantur quasi in Christo ut nebula ignorantiae expellatur è cordibus meis spiritus Sancto gratia affluant aquae 〈◊〉 in poenitentia Salutari Amen 1585. ✚ Cracoviae Aprilis 24. in Easter-week Wednesday morning 〈◊〉 horam 8. Orationibus factis ad Deum tam oratione Dominica quamaliis particularitur respectu Ministerii 〈◊〉 qui regnis president obtinendi ut nobis praescriptum 〈◊〉 dum conarer particulariter nominare aliquem statim incipit E.K. 〈◊〉 E. K. There appeareth afar off
if I say unto them go out set your 〈◊〉 against the wicked Behold I will be amongst you and fight for you who is it that heareth me where is your faith become who is he that believeth me O you wicked Generation shall the Lord call you and seeke your deliverance and will you know of the Lord with what meanes he will work amongst you is the God of Heaven and Earth become amongst you an Ingineer or a Merchant a Hoorder up of worldly treasure or one that rideth on horse-back to battail you stinking Carrion you hateful wretches before Heaven and Earth you blind hirelings Who devided the Seas who threw down Jericho who overthrew the wicked Kings who destroyed the Cities of the wicked who fought against the reprobate Giants and the flesh of mankind who opened the windowes of Heaven and consumed you all except as you read eight persons yea if out of the windowes I can consume you what shall become of you if I open my doors if I send out my servants against you and my innumerable army Is it not said whatsoever I put into your monthes that speake Why do you so but for the truths sake If therefore I bid you doe is not my truth all one I am full of sorrow for no man openeth his doors unto me no man believeth me no man remembreth that I made Heaven and Earth Stay a while that I may weep with my self E. K. All the stone is become black and full of fiery specks Δ After we had read the premisses E. K. Here is another now come in green a man with nothing on his head but onely his yellow hair He hath like a pair of black boots under his garments close to his legs like buskins c. Δ Note Ilemese appeared in July Anno 1548 and did make an end of Nalvage his work c. He appeareth their like a little child with yellow hair c. Δ Iteach you he paused after a pretty while Thus saith the Lord thou must answer Steven according to the hardness of his hart Answer him thus for the Mean Lo King the God of Heaven and Earth hath placed me before thee and hath shewed unto thee his will hath nourished up me his servant from my youth unto this day in the fear of him and the fervent desire of true wisdome whereby I have attained through his hel unto the knowledge and secrets of the things in Nature which knowledge behold in the name of God and for his sake and because he hath chosen thee lo I offer up unto thee and willingly made thee partaker of This done be not afraid to open thy mouth unto him as thou didst unto Rodolph in writing Behold ô Kin I can make the Philosophers Stone for so they call it Bear thou therefore the Charge and give me a name within thy Court that I may have access unto thee and yearly maintenance of thee for us both Command him also or strike a band of secrecy between him thy selfe and Lasky Take heed thou want not faith for I will help thee And he shall have a great Treasure I will see them if he will labour for me But it may be Lasky will hold him by the heele Δ What mean you by that phrase ..... As Jacob did Esau. Vnto this apply thy self and give thy whole endeavor from time to time also I will open my mind unto Stephen through thee or in the presence of himself But let Lasky open this unto him The Camp is known unto me Δ I understand not this point ..... Let him understand thou art minded so to doe For this seven dayes aske no more answer Δ How and if the King be desirous of any action ..... I respect not the King Δ I beseech you be not offended that I aske your name ..... Ilemese E. K. He is gone Δ The other will come again A voice Non venit Therefore shut up the window Deus Coeli Teriae da nobis Fidem ✚ Nyepolonicze in Aula Regis St. Junii Tuesday a me idie circa horam tertiam The King send for me to hear what I had to say to him as I had send him word that I had to say somewhat to him in God his behalfe When I was come into his privy Chamber and all others excluded but onely the Lord Lasky who came with me and stayed by the King his commandement I said thus verbatim as followeth Δ Ecce ô Rex Deus Coeli 〈◊〉 me ante oculos Vestros posuit vobis suam declaravit voluntatem me autem servum suum à juventute mea ad praesentem diem enutrivit in timore illius desiderio ferventi verae sapientiae qua ratione ejus auxilio 〈◊〉 sum cognitionem secreta 〈◊〉 naturalium quà m cognitione ecce in nomine Dei ✚ Cracovia Junii 6 Mane horam circiter 8 Orationibus finitis pro luce veritate Divina quae nos ducerent perducerent ad montem sanctum Sion c. I have ô Lord according to my simple abilitie endeavoured my self to declare to Steven those things I was willed accept ô Lord my intent and give me thy graces and encrease my faith that I may in my doings and sayings please thee or not offend thy divine Majestie and now ô Lord we await thy further direction not presuming to propound as now matter such as our 〈◊〉 state might move us unto but therein we crave this aide thy light and wisedome c. K. E. Here is a great head with wings like a Cherubim all of fire the eyes are very big as big as your hat and his head as big as this Table ..... He that is a sleep let him sleep on he that is in the high way let him not return home He that eateth let him not rise but eat still and he that weepeth let him weep still he that rejoyceth let him rejoyce for ever He that goeth awry let him not return into the way He that planteth his Vineyard let him not see it he that gathereth the grapes let him not drink of them he that blasphemeth the name of God let him blaspheme for he returneth not But he that looketh up unto Heaven let him not cast his eyes upon the Earth Behold the Lord hath forgotten the Earth and it is a burden to me that I am here therefore I go Vnto those that do well the Steward is ready with the reward wo be unto the Monster of the Earth for he is accursed E. K. He is gone and flyeth in a strange order upward in a special line in manner A voice Put all things to silence that the Lord had touched 〈◊〉 The receptacle and the Books see you open them not nor touch them until you hear more from me But be of right heart and walke the ways that you are returned into Take this one lesson you are in 〈◊〉 with me and for the
rest care not Δ Thy mercies be sealed upon us for ever and ever ô Lord of Hosts E. K. Now is a red thing like a Cloud come all over the stone Ignem tui amoris praepotentis fidei in cordibus nostris accende ô Deus Omnipotens nunc semper Amen Anno 1585. Augusti 6. Unica Actio quae Pucciana vocetur Que durabat ab hora 5. manè ad horam 11. PRAGAE Actio Pucciana ✚ Pragae Actionis Puccianae prior pars Augusti 6. Tuesday Manè circa ortum Solis nobis heri injungebatur Fusis de moere praecibus c. praesentibus nobis Δ E. K. Fr. Pucci ut praescriptum erat Disposita erat Mensa foederis Candelaque cerea accensa E. K. Here is one covered in white to the brest all white apparalled he hath a long glasse in his left hand full of filthy loathsome stuffe like matter or like bloud and milk or curds mingled together and a staffe about an ell long in his right hand he setteth the end on the ground he pointeth with his staffe toward the Table of Covenant Accede Dominum Δ He E. K. came to the Table of Covenant and looked into the Holy-stone and saw the same vision but his face is here bare and he seemeth to be Vriel Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini ô beata Dei Lux URIEL ..... Gloriatibi Domine Rex coeli terrae quies venturus es E. K. Now I see the foundation of an old thing as though it were of a Church A voice ..... Measure Measure from the East to the North and from the North to the West part for behold the rest is judged already URIEL ..... I have measured Lord 25 and the half of twenty five 37½ The voice ..... Divide into three parts Δ The third part of 37½ is 12½ URIEL ..... It is done The voice ..... Vnto the Kings of the East give the first Unto the Kings of West give the second The remnant measure unto the dayes of the North that the fire of my indignation may be a bridle amongst them and that the whole World except the excepte may drink of the sorrow of the Prophetia seventh part of the half time yet to come URIEL ..... Thy mouth O Lor is a two-edged sword thy judgments are perpetual and everlasting thy words are the spirit of truth and understanding thy Garments most pure and smelling incense Thy Seat without end and triumphing who is like unto thee amongst the Heavens or who hath known thy beauty Great art thou in thy holy ones and mighty in thy word amongst the Sonnes of men Thy Testament is holy and undefiled The glory of thy Seat and the health of thy Sonnes Thy anointed is sacrificed and hath brought health unto the faithful and unto the Sonnes of Abraham Thy spirit is everlasting and the oil of comfort The Heavens therefor gather themselves together with Hallelujah to bear witnesse of thy great indignation and fury prepared for the Earth which hath risen up with the Kings of the Earth and hath put on the Wedding Garments saying with her self I am a Queen I am the daughter of felicity Remember all ye that are drunken with my pleasure the Character I have given you and prepare your selves to contend with the Highest set your selves against him as against the anointed for you are become the Children of a strong Champion whose Sonne shall garnish you with the Name of a Kingdome and shall poure wonders amongst you from the starres which shall put the Sunne the steward of his Waggon and the Moon the handmaid of his servants But O God she is a Lyar and the fire brandof destruction For behold thou art mighty and shalt triumph and shalt be a Conquerer for ever E. K. Now the Stone is full of white smoak Δ A Pause E. K. The smoak is gone and here standeth one over him in the aire with a Book whose nether parts are in a cloud of fire with his hair sparsed his arms naked the Book is in his right hand a four square Book with a red fiery cover and the leaves be white on the edge it hath 7 seales upon it as if the claspes were sealed with 7 golden Seales And there are letters upon the Seales the first E. M. E. T. T. A. V. ..... Take this Book ut veritas Luce magis clarescat Et Lux veritate fiat valida Data est enim tibi potestas dandi aperiendi hunc librum mundo mundis URIEL .... Gloria tibi Rex coeli terrae qui fuisti es venturus es hinc enim judiciū meretricis E. K. Now Vriel taketh the Book kneeling upon both his knees URIEL ..... Rejoyce O you sonnes of men lift up your hearts unto heaven for the secrets of God are opened and his word let out of Prison Rejoyce O you sonnes of God for the spirit of truth and understanding is amongst you Rejoyce O you that are of the Sanctuary for you shall be full of wisdom and understanding Rejoyce O thou the House of Jacob for thy visitation is at an end and thy visitation is beginning The four winds shall gather thee together and thou shalt build up the trodden wall The bridegroom shall dwell with thee And lo behold the Lord hath sworn and wickednesse shall not enter into thee neither shall the Spirit of the Highest go from thee but thy fathers bones shall have rest And thou shalt live eternally The bloud of the Innocents shall be washed away from thee and thou shalt do penance for many dayes Then shall the Lamb stand in the middest of thy streets O Hierusalem and shall give Statutes unto thy people and inhabitants All Nations shall come unto the House of David The Mothers shall teach their infants saying Truth hath prevailed and the Name of the Lord shall be the Watch-man of thee O City E. K. Now all is full of a white clond URIEL ..... Silence unto me and rest unto you for a season E. K. All is disappeared and the stone seemeth cleer Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Δ Legi praemissa Latine ipsi Fr. Pucci pauca locutus sum de regibus aliis qui haec putant esse nostras imposturas à nobis aec mala ratione tractari c. E. K. He is here again E. K. He sitteth in a chair of Christal with his Book in his lap and the measuring rod in his right hand and the glasse vial in his left hand URIEL ..... Seeing that power is given unto me and that truth is added unto my Ministery and I am become full of light and truth I will open your eyes and I will speak unto you the truth that you may shake off the lumpishnesse of your darknesse and profound ignorance and walk in truth with your fathers Give ear therefor diligently unto my voice and imbibe my sayings within the liquor of
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
other he is infected with God he knoweth and also the former infidelity proved On Thursday 17 July Fr. Pucci entred his Voyage toward Prage with my Letter to the Nuncius Apostolicus and with Letters to John Caerpio from E. K and with my Letters inclosed to the Lord Rosenberg And we entred our journey toward Cassel but that night we rode onely three miles to Gotha our horses were so ill that we hired and therefore sending them back again the next day we hired a Coach c. POSCRIPTUM Remember that Fr. Pucci the morning before his going required of me our Letters Testimonial to our friends of his fidelity toward us What needeth that said I for as much as your deeds were as well known to them as to us your own conscience to your self may serve abundantly But our friends divers who have warned us of you and have marvelled why we would suffer you any longer in our house and company would neither credit our Letters as yet in this case And would also condemne us of light judgment or great blindness to judg the cause between you and us But truly I observed in him now a more proud presuming over us then hitherto before when he was sore rebuked for over-crowing us so as he began to do 1 Now he said he had as great authority as we to publish any of our Secrets at his discretion 2 That he ought to eat bread with us 3 That he understood our Books of Actions better then we 4 That he needed not our consent or counsail to deal with the Pope his Nuncius he did it by his duty general of Charity c. 5 He offered to order the Nuncius and the Emperor to the reclaiming of the Decree made against us c. NOTE Consider what this may import that the Decree touching him being one of my houshold company and of them that then did appertain to me and whose name he is not affraid one way and another way not abashed to thrust himself into the whole body of our Revelations as a principal fellow or Receiver of them By the first he ought to be afraid of the danger of the Decree which banished us unless he is assured of their good will who have shewed themselves our mortal enemies or else some other cause emboldned him to some other purpose c. by the second he might be afraid of so great presumption being but a Probationer not yet allowed of and to us known to be cut off All these points I cannot decipher and judge but referre them to the profound wisdome and high providence of God wherefore and how farre he hath admitted him to be privy of our Actions and so a witness to some purposes sufficient All things be to the honour and glory of God Amen Magnifice Domine LEctis tuis literis fui miratus quod intelligerem te illius esse opinionis sententiae me apud Caesarem tibi ac consortituo officiis meis non parum obfuisse quod sciam ita me religione natura comparatum ut omnibus quam maxime cupiam prodesse nemini aut obesse Quod autem praestiterim quod mei erat officii mihi vitio verti non debet Caeterum cum inter summum Pontificem Caesarem merus sim interpres non video quid in hoc vestro negotio praestare possim Consulo autem ut vestram innocentiam de fide Catholica sensum de Angelorum conversatione assistentia quam visibilem habere dicitis juxta Concilii Lateranensis in uudecima Sessione decretum coram Summo Pontifice Sede Apostolica deducatis ita exponatis ut non possit cuiquam esse dubium quid sentiatis quin sede Apostolica approbante fides tuto ab omnibus Angelicis assertionibus vestris praestari possit tum demum obtrectatoribus si qui sunt ora obcludentur Nec ut arbitror grave vobis videbitur consilium meum si enim ea vobis est in fide Catholica puritas atque constantia ea in praesenti Angelorum communione sinceritas vitae integritas innocentia ut asseritis Me etiant tacente occasionem quaeritis declarandae vestrae fidei bonitatis hac una ratione honori vestro cujus vos rationem habendam dicitis cui tantum abest quod per me aliquid sit detractum ut illum etiam pro viribus quantum officii mei injuncti muneris ratio patietur fovere sim paratus ut Domino Puccio pluribus dixi omnibus vitae commodis vel maxime consuletis Deus gratia sua vos ita regat ut Angelorum conversationem in Coelis aliquando habere possitis Vale Pragae die 28 Julii 1586. Magnific D. V. Ex Corde in Christo frater Philip. Episcopus Placentinus 〈◊〉 Magnific Domino Joanni Dee Anglo c. Δ Oraculum Divinum MVlta sunt flagella praecepta mea negligentium Multiplexque furor hominibus propriis confidentibus viribus Hi enim contemptores sanguinis Regni mei fortitudinis Gigantes facti sunt ad omnem abominationem multiplicandam Sed ego Sum qui sum qui posui in Patre Solium verbumque ad faciendum in terris Judicium qui in ultima Tuba percutiam illos ut coacti recognoscant vias meas ad ovile proprium redeant Peribit Ecclesiae populi Iniquitas judicabitur in gladio Tu vero Gulielme manum in tempore extende opportuno prout a me informaberis Regnum tacto moriente nequissimo adjunctum induc Inunxi enim te in fortissima dextra mea ad falsum illum Prophetam Goliath forte Mahometanos Turcas extirpandum ut intelligat Terra judicium a Nazareno Crucifixo me Sunt qui cribarent te sed maledicti sunt machinantes in te malum F ac bonum utere creaturis meis ad gloriam meam Docui Kelleum inquiete hac nocte de caeteris quae ab illo disces Spiritus meus habitet in vobis Trebonae Anno 1589. Mensis Augusti fine When Mr. Kelly was gone from me at Salfeild toward Bohemia and in the mean space the Emperour had granted to the Lord Rosenberg licence for us to return into Bohemia to any of his Lordships Towns Cities Castles c. This was delivered written by spiritual and divine meanes and the writing yet remaineth in my Lord his hands out of which I copyed this for the order of our History somewhat making plain Franciscus Puccius praestantissimis ac Deo dilectis viris D D. Joanni Dee Eduardo Kelleo generosis Anglis majoribus in Christo fratribus ipsis tanquam patribus colendis precatur gratiam pacem a Deo patre nostro a Domino Jesu Christo Amen EX quo a vobis discessi toto illo itinere quod octo diebus confeci vendito Lipsiae equo haud parum vexatus fuit meus spiritus dum animum mecum volverim quot modis Satanas
D. Langravium praestantissimo D. Dee multum tribuere ut favere summo Deo pro tanto munere magnas gratias ago atque puerum ad meum cubiculum duco ostendoque illi literas ad vos paratas ne sine ipsis ad vos revertatur Sed paulo postea pater Carpionis me monet se velle ante noctem ad vos unicum expressum mittere ut scribam si velim nam se a D. Kelleo monitum hoc mihi significare ingentes gratias ago D. Kelleo qui mei non sit omnino oblitus haec per hunc quem vobis spero fidem nuncium significare statuo scripturus rursus per Stanislaum si operae pretium videbitur Oro vos atque obtestor per Deum illum vivum qui Autor est nostrae amicitiae qui diserte praecepit ut nos invicem ac mutuo amemus ne obliviscamini mei cum datur vobis occasio invigendi me per literas aut per inter nuncios reddendi me certiorem de statu vestrarum nostiorumque rerum nam ego certe vestri non obliviscar officia mea id testibuntur non solum coram Deo sed etiam coram omnibus hominibus Si vester reditus aliquandiu differetur invisam vos proximo mense Septembri longe enim a vobis vix vivere possum immo si proprie loquendum sit me vitae taedet Ac praesens agam de nonnullis rebus quas scribere minime decet Jam elapsi sunt 18 dies ex quo Illustrissimum Nuncium Apostolicum non vidi cum satis superque satisfecerim obedientiae non adibo illum ne verba nobis dare sibi tam facile fore persuadeat Ostendit literas D. Dee Legato Veneto Florentino uterque mihi summopere eas laudavit dixitque sibi visus disertas graves plusquam vulgaris spiritus optissint exemplum illarum sed ego offerre non poteram dubito ne Illustristimus Nuncius eas supprimat nam haud obscure innuit se timere vestrum 〈◊〉 praesertim aequum rationale id quaerere videtur ut vobiscum agere possit more Hisp. c. D. Joan. Carpio nondum revertitur D. Rosenbergius cras dicitur discessurus nescio an recuperare potero literas ad eundem Carpionem in quibus de pecuniolis 〈◊〉 agebatur si dubitatis ne ille diutius quam par sit solutionem differat quaeso curetis ut aliquo alio modo mihi prospiciatur D. ab Ossa per 20 dies non vidi ac Jesuitis palam dixi dico quandocunque occasio se offert vobis factum ab ipsis insignem injuriam eos plus pendere ab aulis terrestribus quam a coelesti timere collationem aquam cum vobis ac suae causae annum haud obscure dissidere itaque jam sum eis minus gratus Saluto uxorem D. Dee lectissimam foeminam ac mihi non minus quam matrem venerandam necnon conjugem D. Kellei rarum exemplum juvenilis sanctitatis castitatis atque omnium virtutum Saluto omnes alios vestros domesticos sanctos vosque inprimis D. D. Joan. Ed. desiderabilia mihi nomina foelices ac beatos in Domino cupio ac precor Quantum tribuam tribuere debeam vestris precibus nostis eis oro atque obsecro me apud D. Deum juvetis ut vocationi meae respondeam cursum meum hilari animo ac firmo corpore perficiam Sanctissimus ille pater qui nobis jam suscitavit pastorem illum magnum D. Jesum filium suum mox reversurum ad subigendos omnes innimicos ejus sub pedibus suis atque extremam manum impositurum renovationi rerum nos omnes suo spiritu foveat ac recreet ut Lati adventum ejus praestolari atque nuptialibus vostibus lampadibusque accensis ornati ipsi occurrere possimus Praga xv Kal. Octob. M. D. Lxxxv. Idem Dominationibus vestris addictissius Atque ex animo frater PUCCIUS Praestantissimis ac Deo dilectis viris D. D. Joannes Dee Eduardo Kelleo Generosis Anglis ac Majoribus in Christo fratribus mihi tanquam Patribus colendis c. Mgnifice 〈◊〉 utipater amantissime observande non minori etiam desiderio teneor videndi de multis colloquendi cum Magnifica dominature vestra de cujus erga me fide amore nunquam dubitavi nec dubitare possum post prandium hora commoda ego illam accedam Deus sua gratia semper nobis adsit Vester ex animo Guilielmus propria manu Febr. 10. 1587 stilo novo Trebone Postride reditus 〈◊〉 a Vienna ad Trebonam ✚ A Sir My hearty commendations unto you desiring your health as my own my Lord was exceeding glad of your Letters and said now I see he loveth me and truly as far as I perceive he loveth us heartily This Sunday in the Name of the Blessed Trinity I begin my Journey wherein I commend me unto your prayers desiring the Almighty to send his fortitude with me I commend me unto Mrs. Dee a thousand times and unto your little babes wishing my self rather amongst you then elsewhere I will by Gods grace about twenty dayes hence return in the 〈◊〉 season all comfort and joy be amongst you Δ Prage 1587. 25 Januarii Thomas Kelly went with him Francis Garland went with him Ferdinando Hernyk went with him Your assured and immoveable friend E. Kelly To the Right Worshipful and his assured friend Mr. John Dee Esquire give these Magnifico Domino Domino Dee Received of Lodovick in the High-way by Platz in the middle way between New-house and Trebon as I was comming from New-house whither I went to have met my Lord as he came from 〈◊〉 But Arch-duke Ernest was occasion as was thought that they should go to Prage by 〈◊〉 being the more even although not the next way I received them on Friday the 6 of February and they were delivered him at Prage on Sunday was a seven-night before being the 25 of January novo stilo Swethart I 〈◊〉 me unto you hoping in God that you are in good health as I and my children with all my Houshold am here I praise God for it I have none other matter to write unto you at this time I being at New-house from Trebone to go to understand which way my Lord Rosenberg would go from 〈◊〉 to Prage and when and this Letter being in the same day brought from Prage my 〈◊〉 sent Lodovick with it toward me and so without Platz Town in the High-way he gave it me ✚ Trebone in Bohemia Visitationis Secundae Actio instituta Δ Preces ad Diem fudi and declared that we here and now presented our selves as in obedience according to the time prescribed of six Moneths end since the last good Friday I craved pardon of all our errors and misdeeds since the last time of his visiting us and now requested his aid and direction
Januarii 21. mane hor. 9. Δ Tempus 〈◊〉 est tempus opportunum Necessitas non habet Legem Δ In nomine pat is F SS c. Pater noster c. Omnipotens 〈◊〉 vere une Deus in adjutorium W. C. E. K. 〈◊〉 Joannes 〈◊〉 intend c. Δ Not by or upon presumption O Lord 〈◊〉 with fear and love toward thee we are ready to hear thy will as concerning the Shew and Commandement now at Prage in this moneths beginning made to E. K. We 〈◊〉 and hope it is of thee and that thou 〈◊〉 not tempt us or suffer us to be 〈◊〉 in so 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 informed in those two ounces of powder E. K. 〈◊〉 not how to do seeing at his return 〈◊〉 he misseth an half ounce thereof make up that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 we will or dare propound to make any compleat action but therein referre all to our Parliament dayes or principal ordinary actions assigned Mora interposita parte hora ¼ E. K. Here appear Letters if I could read them thus they are Δ. ..... E. K. They seem white Letters of greenish yellow coloured figures in every figure one of the four words in all being 12 letters E. K. Now they be gone Δ I understand that the first part of that my Proposition is touched in answer of mihi that is to God the service required is to be done and ita a 〈◊〉 so is the message or commandment from the same our God Δ Mora 〈◊〉 horae parte ¼ E K. Now is here other writing thus Claudite clausae sunt Δ I understand not this well if it mean no more to be taken out of the Powder or what else Now appear over the former words other words as thus Cessate E. K. Over Claudite is Cessate the other words I cannot read yet E. K. Over clausa sunt appeareth divinum propositum sibi ad 〈◊〉 non constat Δ Quae igitur 〈◊〉 sunt à te 〈◊〉 sunt acceptissima perte propter te ut nobis injuncta faciamus tuum ô Deus nobis 〈◊〉 praebeas auxilium Tibi Creaton Redemptori Sanctificatori nostro sit omnis Laus Honor Gloria nunc semper Amen Ad Omnipotentis Trinitatis Laudem Honorem Gloriam Mysteriorum Divinorum memorabilia cni dies quartus Aprilis Anno 1587 dicata suit 1587. ACTIO TERTIA. Trebonae Generalis Δ. POst preces ad Deum recitatum Catalogum illum petitionum nostrarum ad eundem quievimus divina expectantes consilia monita oracula Magna pausa Δ. ..... Tandem accepi literas utrasque illustrissimi Domini Rosenbergii recitavi coram Deo ut ejus obedientia humilitas desiderium coram Deo Angelis ejusdem contestata essent Alia adhuc pausa sive Mora facta sed non longa E. K. There seemeth a black Curtain of Velvet to be drawn from one side of the Stone to the other The Curtain is full of plights There seemed also one to have descended from above a good way behinde the Curtain and so to go behinde the same Curtain Alia pausa Vox ..... Happy is he whose minde thirsteth after the knowledge of such things as are spiritual and celestial of such things as are in the everlasting place and glory of him that is and was and shall be for ever for unto him belongeth rest in the harvest of the Highest and comfort in the midst of many worldly sorrows For unto him thus saith the Lord the Lord of Rest Thou hast rendred my blood again with comfort unto me and hast made a blood of eternal rest unto thy self for ever Ascend therefore and dwell with me and receive eternal comfort for unto such bel ngeth the Kingdom of my Father for I am Zebaoth unto all such as trust in me But behold the earth bringeth not forth my mighty praise because of the wickedness that aboundeth in all mankinde Neither have I many such children amongst the sons of men as I have spoken of before for why The Giants of this world are a stumbling block unto the poor people and unto their subjects for lo behold behold I say vile and base things for that they are misused are become gods within their houses so that Gold and Silver precious Stones and soft Apparel which were wont to be brought out of their houses to garnish mine withall are become their gods and the Idols of their destruction for who is he that exalteth not himself in his riches and despiseth me that was the Author of them Where is he that loveth not his wife and children pomp and 〈◊〉 ldly glory more than the setting in order of my little flock or the preferment of my glory Who I say is he that maketh not more of himself than of me Woe be unto you that so do and woe be unto the generations that shall follow you Δ. Be merciful unto us O God of Mercies ..... O wretched and miserable mankind look look in and upon thy self Hast thou made thy self or when thou art afflicted canst thou remove thine own affliction Hast thou any thing of thy own which my Father hath not given thee through me in one provident and eternal will Canst thou hide thy self where I cannot see thee or canst thou do that which lieth hid from me Look again upon thy self and consider what parents and root thou hadst thy beginning in Nature behold they and their fathers are become the dust of the earth even so shalt thou do And even as of them is a straight account of life required even so shall it be of thee for I that made thee and gave thee breath made thee partaker and user of my creatures led thee in and out gave thee the Sun to shine upon thee and the Moon as the mother of your radical moisture I that lifted thee up either to the honour of a King or Magistrate and made thee a governour over thy brethren will at last take a straight account of thee how thou hast used thy self towards me and where thou hast advanced my Name in such things as I have lent thee And be right sure that thou shalt pay even the uttermost farthing Woe be unto thee if thou make not a just account miserable shalt thou be for ever if thy deserts condemn thee Therefore while thou hast time and space look look up unto me for I am the Well of comfort and the God of peace the true reward of righteousness to all such as faithfully love and trust me Pausa Δ. I read this over ..... Oh how comfortable are these lessons Give us and confirm unto us thy graces and blessings O God to do thy blessed will herein and in all our duty toward thee whatsoever E. K. Now the voice seemeth to come from him who standeth behinde the Curtain Magna Pausa William the son of Vrsine the Lord talketh with thee this day saying Wilt thou
〈◊〉 vomreh gelpha 〈◊〉 or nembla ox ar vah su 11. Zanchevmachaseph olzaminoah Vals-buraah 〈◊〉 orsapnago darsagnapha nobsiblith armipyth arsepolimitantons Jembulsamar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ornaza oldaxardacoah 12. Semno ah al ehi do a cha da Selpagmodah a da hu ba mi ca noh dam pha gli as cha nor ox om pa mi na pho lemp na gou sa pha ne co al pha as pa ge mo cal na tu rage 13. Sen gal se quar rus fa glau sur tast ormaca oxinodal ge brah nop tar na gel vom na ches pal ma cax arsess as don sadg asc lan fau che dah nor vi car max coh zum bla xanpha ad geh do ca ba ah 14. Ar gem na ca pal fax or nido hab cas pigan alpuh gagah loth zal sa bra dan go sa pax vol san ques tan ondapha opicah or zy la pa a chra pa ma les ad ma carpah oxalps on da pa gem na de vor guse 15. Lat gaus sa par sat lasteah lor adah nox ax ardephes nousou andoh gvmzi vor sab liboh ad ni sa pa loh gaho lar va nox ax oho lan sempah noxa Vriah sephah lusaz oldgalsax nottaph ax vernoc arpos 〈◊〉 zem zubah lothor gas lvbah vom xa da phi ca no. 16. Assotaphe ondah Vor ban 〈◊〉 pa loth agno jam nesroh am algors vrrabah geuseh alde ox nah vors 〈◊〉 amphicato nostrohh admadg or napsv asmo lon gamphi arbel nof amphi on sembeloh aschi nar laffax las doxa pra gem a sestrox amphi nax var sembleh 17. Angesel orcapacad onz adq ochadah olzah vor nah orpogographel al sa gem na ca pi coh Ul da pa por sah naxor vonsa rous Erbauf lab dun zaph algadef loh gem vorta oh amph a ho ha za vaxorza lepteh oxor neob ab va dv na ca. pi ca lodox ard nah FINIS See the Life of Albertus M. 〈◊〉 in Alex. Ald. ed. p. 179. * The Latine Interpreter translates it Domoria I know not how it can be better expressed though lyable to ambiguity Tom 11. p. 608. Mer. Cas. Pietas Voss. de Idolol 111. 180 181. So in my Copy it may be it should be vitis vin B. Sir Thomas cotton Knight 〈◊〉 It may now be here also remembred that almost three years after the writing of this Letter I did somewhat satisfie the request of an Honourable Friend in Court by speedily penning some matter concerning her Majesties Sea-Soveraigntie under this title 51. Thalattocratia Brytannica Sive De Brytanico Maris Imperio Collectanea 〈◊〉 4. dierum Spacio celeri conscripta calamo Anno. 1597. Septemb. 20. Mancestriae * Although that my last voyage beyond the Seas was duly undertaken by her Majesties good favour and licence as by the same words may appear in the Letter written by the Right Honourable Lord Treasurer unto your Grace in my behalf and her most Excellent Majestie willing his Honor so to do Anno. 1590. 〈◊〉 20. of January For certain due respects the very Image of the foresaid Seal is not here in portrature publishd the Moto Locus veri sigillis D. Is Dr. d ee E. K. Edward Kellet See the Preface A. L. Green and red Jesus Proles ipsius Madini Madini her six Sisters d ee Eseméli Pronounced Jenville Nsta Her eldest Sister Her Sister is to tell the rest Junii 2 1583. Δ. All things have a name vide 〈◊〉 Tert. parte libri Eraconiersis de 30 Aeris exercitibus The summe of our commanded observation Note 7. Antichrist his saying in the spir it of Satan Sorrows Labor Al. alasky Notes in Election O King Vide tamen de ejus juturo casu in actionibus de Lask Pride Moses 7. rod. Sanctum signatum ad tempus Murifri my Calender Junii 3. The third Tabâ—e in the first book Δ The second Table did not serve therefore I used the seventh where all the letters might be had Junii 5. A meer untruth in every part thereof and a malicious lye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 communia Note of Determination undeterminable Note tentations by the Biting worm A voyce out of my Oratory behinde me Wrath. Be sorry alwayes Her attire exfounded The attire of spiritual creatures Good Angels Good Angels our keepers John Husey Our uniting The necessity of Satan working against men De futuris nisi jussi non pronuntiant boni Angels A Commission out for Kelly 1583. The Book the Scrowl and Powder The Book found The Powder The si Earths Mr. Richard Young Silence Sathan Viols ready Yet awhile 1583. Marie my maid had angered me on Thâ—rsday night with her undue speech All worldly wisdom vain Δ Labor improbus amnia vincit Δ Note 42. or 49. dayes remaining till the first day of August next inclusive GALVAH filiae lucis Filiae filiarum An Angeli bo ni in forma 〈◊〉 aliquando appareant Angeli 〈◊〉 seipsis neque mares neqne 〈◊〉 neque sunt Angetoram Ministeria Hic Hac home Galvah Apparition in the forme of woman Tritemius rewarded Smiling note Δ. 1583. J nii 15. Il. Wisdom d ee Kelly Note A voice out of the Stone Those men A voyce from the stone This Parable or Prophesic is divers times spoken afterwards in the troubles of England The Attyre of the wanton youth of the Court. The stout big man A voyce out of the stone The wall broken down The big man Galvah transformed into a man A voyce out of the stone The transformed man A voyce out of the stone NOTE The transformed The big man The big man The woman A voyce out of the stone The transformed man 21. Kingdoms The End The Prince Alb. Laskie The promises are an answer to this question Charles Sled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Stone Note Satan The Title of the Book Δ. I understand not this unless-it be the first leaf being indeed the last is of the wicked hellith one c. vide post 4. Folio 49. Loagaeth seg lovi brtnc Larzed dox ner habzilb adnor Now Seas appear doncha Larb vors hirobra exi vr zednip taiip chimvane 〈◊〉 lendix nor zandox Pray The Elect. Reconciliation Arguments to prove our Instructors to be good Angels Mercy The 〈◊〉 before This Testimony victory The first leaf of the book Note A. L. Note of A. L. An Oath Note of General points and special gifts A. L. may be present at Actions A. L. poverty A. L. Judei Victoriae A. L. A. L. An year to come Hindiance breedeth exception and sin breedeth hindiance This Tanfeld served the Lord Laskie A. L. his annointing Miracula signa non sunt petenda à Deo The Lord Treasures England A. L. Every seventh day Mondayes Good desires stirred up by good Angels Distinction of words and accents The Hotch-potch sup ante 4. folio To E. K. E. K. was yet somewhat repining to report modally this creatures good words
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