his Company vvho make cursies and say nothing Δ. I beseech you to appoint an apt place This you see is no fit place ..... I will stir thee up such friends as shall content thee As for dwelling places thou shalt bestow them Well you are contented Δ. Is it your will that in this Town we should part from the Lord Albert Laskie ..... What should you do else Are you mad men Will you run headlong into danger wilfully Δ. I beseech you shall this be nothing prejudicial to our former doings and order already taken and decreed for our going together ..... What is this contrary to reason Well you are content Δ. As the will of the Highest is so is mine and none other ..... Sirha do you see this sword I will be a surety for this I warrant thee also Δ. ..... Your brother is clapped up in prison How like you that Your house-keeper I mean Δ. And why I pray you ..... For that that thou mayest be ashamed of Δ. What is that ..... They examin him They say that thou hast hid divers secret things As for thy Books thou mayst go look them at leasure It may be that thy house may be burnt for a remembrance of thee too Well if they do so it is if not as thou wilt I have told thee my phansie and given thee my counsel offered thee my help and desired to do thee good The choice is thine Δ. O Lord the Author of all truth and director of such as put their trust in thee I most humbly beseech thee to consider these premises thus to me propounded If they be true and from thee confirm them If they be illusions and not from thee disprove them For hardly in my judgement they do or can agree with our former precepts and order taken by thee A voice ..... He that ascendeth up to the top of the hill let him believe For until he come thither let him do his labour O Lord I doubt of these things and promises of ease wealth and honour A voice ..... Judge the Truth by the last Action O Lord What is that Action A voice ..... Wensdaies Action This Cloud said the voice of the Lord is put betwixt us and you What therefore may come between Now judge you Δ. I suspect the whole apparition of the eleven to be an illusion O Lord confirm my judgement or disprove it A voice ..... The Spirit of the Lord is not amongst you Δ. What misery are we then in O Lord Mercy Mercy A voice ..... Dispute not with God where whoredom is great Δ. O Lord This whoredom we understand not A voice ..... Pray daily with repentance that this cloud may be taken away and this sword diminished For the Seal cannot be broken until Satan have done his uttermost yea the uttermost of his malice For it is granted him and he must strike But pray you unto God that the sword may be made shorter or pluckt out of the hilt that in striking he want power For your sin is abominable and a sevenfold offence in the sight of the Lord. Δ. What this whoredom is God knoweth we understand not perfectly If the Spirit of God be not with us how can our prayers be acceptable A voice ..... Thus saith the Lord Turn unto me and be sorry for your sins and let my Angels be witnesse thereof For I swear by my self that my Justice shall hang over you And when I punish you next I will raze you from the face of the earth Therefore Vow your selves unto me and make your vessels clean for your habitations in my sight are nothing neither is the substance whereof I framed you acceptable I am the Spirit of Truth and Vnderstanding and will not be dasht in pieces with worldlings Neither use I to dwell in defiled places For my Sanctuary is holy and my Gates are without spot And with me there dwelleth no unrighteousnesse Δ. Lord is it thy will we shall go with Albert Laskie to Lasco A voyce The Lord 〈◊〉 What I have said is true Who rebuketh me saying my words are untrue The correction of him that reigneth is mightie who hath numbred it But to his destruction Be you holy that my hand may be weak Δ. O Lord the fear of thy punishment astonieth my heart and uncertainty of it in time and place doth also encrease my grief c. A voyce The fool saith in his heart Oh how great is thy punishment over me Teach me the place of thy correction And where thou wilt chastise me Who is he that desireth to meet God his vengeance or the punishment of him that confoundeth the damned Make your hearts clean and wipe the sin from amongst you And desire to be forgiven for miserable are they that meet with vengeance or that know the place where she taketh up her Harbour Δ. Gloria Honor Laus gratiarum actio perennis sit Deo nostro 〈◊〉 Nobis verò a Deo Patre propter Jesum Christum in Spiritu Sancto sit Misericordia Pax Consolatio in via virtutis veritatis Amen Monday Novemb. 18. Hora 9. Mane Lubek E. K. There appeareth the Cloud wherein the sword remaineth enclosed Δ. O Lord be mercifull unto us and rigorously execute not thy Justice upon us thy weaklings Nor suffer Satan to Triumph where thy glory is expected c. Converte nos Deus salutaris noster averte iram tuam à nobis c. E. K. Now cometh one in a white Coat not perfectly to be seen but as if he were seen through a Cipresse and said as followeth ..... Who is he that leadeth out the Lion to prey or who is he that lifteth up the feet of the young ones to devour Who feedeth the smell of the roaring Bear or hath taught him to remember the place of his recreation Hath he also taught the fields to put forth their voices and the mighty Trees to flourish in pride Are not the Hills glad when they bring forth Corn When the Valleys rejoice with threefold waters The beasts of the wildernesse have they not known Caves and unto such as are made tame is there not a ..... understanding For who is he that teacheth them to make subject themselves which are ravening or to bridle such as are of their frowardnesse Even he it is that looketh down from Heaven and beholdeth the earth and measureth with his feet saying It is done Which entreth also into the houses of men and listeneth to that which they call wonders Which openeth the gates of his knowledge with his own finger And which sayeth unto you How are ye become wise Or from whence is your understanding are your hearts become Caves to send out Thunders Or why are your spirits thus vexed with holinesse Are you not a stiff-necked people and such as are despised Are you not poor and therefore hated Since therefore you are become Bastards who teacheth your lips to speak of my Church Or hath taught
to the house in St. Stephens street which I had hired for a year for 80 gylders of 30 gr And Master Edward Kelly came to us on Fryday in the Easter week by the new Gregorian Kalendar being the 27 day of March by the old Kalendar but the sixth day of April by the new Kalendar Easter day being the first day of April in Poland by the new Gregorian institution CRACOVIA Martii 13. An. 1584. Omnis Honor Laus Gloria Gratiarum Actio sit Deo Nostro Omnipotenti Trino uni 〈◊〉 semper Amen Δ. MENSIS MYSTICUS SAOBATICUS Pars prima ejusdem Tuesday morning Anno 1584. Aprilis 10. stilo novo Gregoriano CRACOVIAE AFter our divers prayers and contestation of our humility obedience and credit in these Actions and being come now to Cracovia the place sanctified whereunto we were willed to make hast c. At lenth appeared Nalvage E K. He hath a Gown of white silk with a Cape with three pendants with tassels on the ends of them all green it is fur white and seemeth to shine with a wavering glittering On his head is nothing he hath no berd His physiognomy is like the picture of King Edward the sixth his hair hangeth down a quarter of the length of the Cap somewhat curling yellow He hath a rod or wand in his hand almost as big as my little finger it is of Gold and divided into three equal parts with a brighter Gold than the rest He standeth upon his round table of Christal or rather Mother of Pearl There appear an infinite number of letters on the same as thick as one can stand by another the table is somewhat inclined on one side he standeth in the very middle his garment covereth his feet his breast seemeth smooth as the down remaining of a Swan when all the feathers be off so is his neck c. He is lean and long-visaged Δ. The infinite mercies of God be on us and the light of his countenance shine on us and his favourable countenance be on us Nal. ...... Amen unto him that is and was and liveth for ever E. K. He looketh earnestly on his table and turneth him to view it Nal. ...... All things are in order Thus saith the Messenger of him which is the God of Wisdom Is your worthinesse such as you can merit so great mercy or are your 〈◊〉 cleansed and made apt to receive and hold the sweet liquor pure understanding it self Δ. Hath the Sun entred into your bowels or have you tasted of the night-dew Where are your wedding Garments or after what sort do you provide for your marriage Unseasoned you are and withered flesh partakers of those things which make you holy through which partaking and the secret providence of him that is the Highest you became dignified to the end and are sufficiently washed for the time of entrance O stiff-necked people you deserve nothing and yet you have the hire of such as labour But what can corruption be partaker of those things that are incorruptible or man which savoureth in himself can you savour also of the Almighty O you weaklings O you of no faith O you Cankers of the earth Where is the shame you have Where are the tears you let fall Where is the humility you are taught to Nay you are such as say in your hearts if the Spring be fair the Harvest is like to be good If these thing come to passe it is the finger of the Lord. But such is your imperfection such are the fruits of the flesh and the vanity of mortality Notwithstanding consider that you are servants Do therefore the will of your Master You are become free Be faithful and thankful to him that is the giver of liberty Nay you are become children partakers of the counsel of him that sitteth and seeth and saith I am Therefore be sober faithful and waver not for the inheritance of your Father is great your freedom is without recompence and your Master the King of Justice Where are the people or in what generation did they dwell that hath been thus acquainted and drawn into familiarity with the true Servants and Angels of God Unto whom have those mysteries been opened Is it not said of those that are sanctified The Lord appeared unto them in a vision But he cometh to you when you are awake Unto them he came unlooked for unto you he cometh requested Arise up therefore and be not forgetful what the Lord hath done for you for the things of this World are not until they be done neither is there any thing assured but by the end It was said unto Abraham And I will destroy them He believed it but he asked not when Great is the reward of Faith for it giveth strength But those that are faithful are not of this world Notwithstanding you have said as it was said by the Disciples to Christ when they were yet unpure and blind When shall these things come to passe Lord what is meant by this or that Simple Faith excelleth all Science For Heaven and Earth shall perish in their corruption But the voices of the Lord much more his promises are become Angels for ever For as the Sun begetteth in the earth and is father of many things that live in corruption and have end So is the God of Heaven the bringer forth and begetter of things celestial with life and for ever For why Dixit factum est Every Idea in eternity is become for ever and what is thought is become a living creature I teach you a mystery As the tree in sappy life watering her self throughly bringeth forth the ornaments of her own beauty So the spiritual part of man being good and dignified burnisheth himself with his sound and faithful thought I mean the glory and shew of his own beauty for the soul of man groweth either with beauty to salvation or with dishonour and filthinesse to damnation I have done my Commandment I have as a Schoolmaster warned you and as a friend counselled you I will also teach you E. K. He speaketh in a thin small voice Δ. He used a great pause and silence E. K. He standeth and pointeth with his rod to the letters of his Table as if he made some account or reckoning He went out of the middle and measured how may steps it is about Nal. ...... Pater Filius Spiritus Sanctus Fundamentum substantia principium omnium E. K. Thought in his minde rerum and he answered his thought saying What need I say rerum The Grammarians will be on my side Omnium is more than to say omnium rerum E. K. This seemeth to be spoken by some other in my imagination Nal. ...... Omnium is the thing that is my charge E. K. He still conferreth place to place c. So. E. K. Now he standeth still Corpus omnium .... E. K. He pointeth to the whole or round table which he standeth on 1. The substance
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 〈◊〉
have often promised you so in the time of your necessity and grief I visit you Δ. Thanks be to the Highest Mad. ..... Not as the friends of the world do but as a comforting spirit exalting the servants of God and cherishing them with celestial food But my mother is at hand which openeth unto thee the will of God Believe me many are the woes of the world and great are the sorrows that are to come For the Lord prepareth his Rain-bow and the witnesses of his account and will appear in the heavens to finish all things and the time is not long Blessed are those that believe for faith shall flee from the Earth and her dwelling places shall be in caves and unknown mountains and in parts of the Earth which the Lord hath kept secret for such as shall triumph and rejoyce in the Judgement to come 1. Wo be to women great with child for they shall bring forth Monsters 2. Wo be unto the Kings of the Earth for they shall be beaten in a Mortar 3. Wo be unto such as paint themselves and are like unto the Prince of pride for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours and of their own children 4. Wo be unto the false preachers yea seven woes be unto them for they are the teeth of the Beast He that hath ears let him hear 5. Wo be unto the Virgins of the Earth for they shall disdain their virginity and they shall become Concubius for Satan and despise the God of Righteousnesse 6. 〈◊〉 unto the Merchants of the earth for they are become abominable 〈◊〉 they are the earth and the 〈◊〉 meat of Kings But they are foolish 〈◊〉 they shall fall into the 〈◊〉 that they have digged for others 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be vnto the books os the earth for they are corrupted and are become a wrasting stock and firebrand to the conscience Stay a season for my mother cometh Δ. We read over the premisses and so conferred of the verity and weight of them And all 〈◊〉 while Madimi stood still in E. K. his sight as E K. told me But because we were 〈◊〉 to stay I moved no question but 〈◊〉 to have some understanding how my wife and children at Craecovia did Hereupon Madimi said as followeth Mad. ..... Hear what I say unto thee Δ. The King of darknesse whetteth his teeth against thee and 〈◊〉 with great rage to overwhelm the world upon thee And he seeketh the destruction of thy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and thirdly thy overthrow The life of thy Children yea he tempteth thy wise with 〈◊〉 and to be 〈◊〉 into her self Δ. Why with despair ..... But his lips are sealed and his claws made dull that when he would bite he cannot And where he 〈◊〉 the bloud follow to not But hear what thy friend sayeth unto thee Both in her self and by him that moveth her to speak As thou art the servant of the God of victory so shalt thou 〈◊〉 in the God of stretchforth and Conquer Δ. Madzilodarp Thy wife thy children thy servants and more then that such as favour thee 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of thy house are under the protection and defence of such as are of power against whom neither the rage of such as raign neither the fury of Authority though it hath the help of Satan can prevail For why God hath care over thee But thy faith is sowewhat lower Take heed of Satan he will 〈◊〉 himself unto thee But beware of him For sin keepeth back the power of God which is oftentimes deferred for another season Yea even for the wickednesse of one Soul Lasky I look for but I see not 〈◊〉 I 〈◊〉 my eyes after him and cannot finde him 〈◊〉 he hath 〈◊〉 himself behinde some Mountain or is creft into a Cave for he appeareth not Δ. I beseech you what is the cause thereof Is he not gone from Cracovia Mad. ..... Sin is the greatest Mountain and he rejoyceth when he pleaseth himself and in the 〈◊〉 of his flesh Crecpeth into a Cave from us Lo I look for him and cannot see him yet see all the world over It is a sign that God is not with him Δ. I beseech you is he not gone from Cracovia yet Mad. ..... I tell thee I see him not I can say nothing of him Δ. Lord our coming hither was to come with him Mad. ..... Therefore brought I thee hither that thou shouldst not tarry with him Knowest thou not that God is marvellous in his works Hast thou not heard of his secret judgements If thou hast Think he hath care over thee For also thy wife and children and the rest of thy houshold must be moved hither Δ. When I beseech you Mad. ..... Let that be my charge to answer thee E. K. Now here appeareth a little fire like the same which appeared before but it hath no beams from it as it had before Mad. ..... Hic haec est Mater mea E. K. Pointing to the fire E. K. She falleth down on her face prostrate Now she riseth again This fire entreth into her mouth she is waxen of higher stature then she was she hath now three faces Δ. Now it is the vertue of the Trinity in her so represented Mad. ..... I. And I have a few things to say and I say E. K. I hear a marvellous noise as of many Mountains falling Mad. ..... Arise and believe The time is come that of the foolish I will make the wise And of such as are sinfull men my anointed if they encline their ear unto my voyce E. K. The noyse is marvellous And which of the mouths doth speak I cannot discern Mad. ..... First thou shalt write unto Rodulphus as I shall enspire thee Then shalt thou go unto him saying That the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto thee E. K. A great noyse still And rebuketh him for his sins I never heard any such noyse it is as if half the world were rushing down an hill Mad. ..... If he hear thee Then say unto him He shall triumph Fear thee not If he hear thee not Say that The Lord the God that made heaven and earth under 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 and hath his spirit putteth his soot against his breast E. K. A great noyse still And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from his seat Lo this I swear unto thee I will do If he forskae his wickednesse and turn unto me His seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become his prisoner E. K. There came great flashes of fire out of her and so out of the stone and suddenly she was in her former shape again Δ. In the name of Jesus Mad. ..... Where this voyce entreth no man hath to say For it is the beginning so it is likewise the end Therefore enquire not any more now but cease For this is the marvellous beginning of this
from the beginning the whole course of this Angelical leading instructing and comforting of me for so I was commanded that I should from the beginning nakedly open unto Rodolph the manner of God his visitation and shew unto him the holy Vision Which my charge I am ready to do The Emperour said at another time he would hear and understand more I spake yet somewhat more in the purposes before to the intent they might get some root or better stick in his minde To be short he thanked me and said he would henceforward take me to his recommendation and cāre and some such words of favour promised he used which I heard not well he spake so low In the end perceiving that his will was to end for this 〈◊〉 I did my duty with cursie and at the door going out I turned back and made 〈◊〉 and so came into the next Chamber where the Noble Octavius Spinola came to me again and with curteous words offered me great friendship I took my leave of him and so came through the Ritters Stove or Guard Chamber and so down and home I had a large hour audience of his Majesty Deus bene vertat ad sui nominis Laudem Honorem Gloriam Amen Wedensday Septembris 5. 1584. Mane circiter horam 8. †Pragae 〈◊〉 finitis c. Repetivi ter hanc Sententiam Mitte lucem tuam O Deus̄ veritatem tuam quae nos ducat perducat ad montem Sanctum Sion Tabernacula coelestis Hierusalem Δ. I have to the best of my ability both written and spoken unto Rodolph as I was willed how it worketh or taketh place in his heart is known to thee O God c. Now I am to receive farther instructions what is to be done in this cause or else whatsoever shall please the Highest c. E. K. Now here is Vriel and a black thing like a Sarcent of silke before his face and over his head behind by the rest of his garments it seemeth to be Vriel God make all things white and make us whiter than Snow What that black Scarf importeth I know not but I suspect Uriel ..... Such as defile the seat of the Soul and are suffocated with drunkennesse enter not into the Kingdom of Heaven neither can behold the ornaments of the Lord his beauty See how Satan how he runneth headlong about and through you See how he maketh his dwelling place within you of whom the Lord gave you warning saying Satan seeketh to sift you Lo he hath done wickednesse against the Lord and against you for he hath blemished the eyes of your understanding E. K. He speaketh other words between which I understand not Uriel ..... Is not Jesus God and the High Priest of the Lord placed on the right hand of his Father Δ. He is we believe it Uriel ..... Is not Satan as the Prophet sa it suffered to stand and triumph on the right hand of the Lord of Hosts and Justice as the open enemy of the Lord and of his annointed True it is and he hath almost given you the overthrow Δ. Assist us O God and be our strength against this most subtile and mighty enemy Uriel ..... But because he is subtile and hath power given unto him for a time and hath striven against you not for your own sakes but because you are of the Spirit of the Highes and against his testimony Therefore doth not God in his Justice impute the sins of the eye unto the body Δ. Lord thy mercies are infinte praised be thy name for ever Uriel ..... But commandeth the Δ eye to be reconciled as the spirit of Truth hath taught E. K. He is gone Δ. Glorified be God for his most loving kindnesse and infinite mercies towards us fraile and sinful creatures and we beseech thee to shew us the light of thy countenance to our comfort and direction Amen Vide Septemb. 13. of Reconciliation Δ. As I was putting up all Vriel appeared again with his black Scarf as he did before but paused a while before he spake any thing Δ. In thy name O Jesu we attend thy words by thy messager to be uttered Uriel ..... Give ear unto my voice E. K. Now he is become like a great wheele of fire like a waggon wheel He thrust out his hands on the sudden and so became like a wheel full of mens eyes it turneth round it is full in all places of those eyes like living and seeing eyes Now cometh fire out of it in 4 places Now there is a great Eagle which is come and standeth upon it It is a white Eagle The wheel turneth still notwithstanding that she standeth on it E. K. She hath in her beake like a scrol of parchment She hath two monstrous eyes one like fire red her right eye as big as my fist and the left eye is Chrystal-like She standeth hovering with her wings spread and her stern or taile spread Under the wheel is a great valley and in it a great City and a Hill on the East part of it And all toward the South are Hills The City is as as big as six of Cracovia and many ruins of houses in it there appear There is one place in it covered square like a little Chappel It hath a little round pinacle in the end of it and over it in the air hanging a little fire bright There be many like unto fowles like Ravens and their heads like unto bright fire They flie into a Country a great way off from this City Now Vriel standeth beside the wheel and the wheel is as it was before and he as before with the Scarf The Eagle cryeth and skriketh as a Gull or the Sea fowles do Vriel seemeth to descend from the air above and to come to the side of the Shew-stone Uriel ..... The Lord hath chosen you to be Witnesses through his mercy and sufferance not in the office of 〈◊〉 but in the offices and dignities of the Prophets which is alwayes beautified with the wings of the Cherubims with the voices that cry a thousand thousand times in a moment before the Lord and before the Majesty of his eternal Seat wherein you do exceed the Temples of the earth wherein you are become separated from the world and whereby you are lifted up as of the houshold of the Blessed even by the very hand and finger of the Highest Δ. Blessed blessed blessed is the Lord to whom Cherubim and Seraphim incessantly sing Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Amen Uriel ..... But that it may appear that he it is that revealeth which gathereth the Clouds together and is the breath of all things that live Because I say it may appear that the Lord visiteth and is of power and that the imaginations of man flie before themselves as the dust of the earth doth before him that moveth it 1 open unto
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
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
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
proud Δ. God help us to know our selves for his Honour sake E. K. She looketh upon Δ. and smileth She. ..... You have time enough therefore we may take leasure Δ. I made speed to write E. K. She talketh again with her invisible company She. ..... Pride is rewarded as sin Ergo the first offender was damned What say you Sir speaking to E. K. What difference is between your mind and Pride E. K. Wherein am I proud She. ..... In the same wherein the Devil was first proud Who glorified the Devil E. K. God Δ. God glorified not the Devil but before he became a Devil he was in glory She. ..... The abusing of his Glorification made him a Devil So the abusing of the good A Devil nesse of God toward this man may make him a Devil The works of the Spirit quicken the doings of the Flesh lead unto destraction Art thou offended to be called a Devil Then extol not thy self above thy Election No man is elected by proper name but according to the measure of his faith and this faith is Faith lively and hath a quickning Spirit in it for ever Indeed thou art ignorant and therefore thou art sufficiently plagued Why dost thou boast thy self and say This I can do The Reeds pipe but it is long of the wind and herein thou shewest that thou knowest not thy self for that thou art proud pray therefore that thou mayest have understanding and cast away pride if thou wilt not be counted a Devil By true understanding you learn first to know your selves what you are of whom you are and to what end you are This understanding causeth no self-love but a spiritual selfe-love This understanding teacheth no Blasphemy This understanding teacheth no fury It teacheth a man to be angry but not wrathful For we may be angry and not offend Wrath is to damnation Therefore considering that Damnation was the end of the first which was Pride and Ignorance the punishment of the second which is very loathsome Pray unto God 〈◊〉 mayest avoid the first and be unburdened of the second Consider by whom thou art counselled and of whom the counsel is with us there is no cause of offence neither is the counsel given with a weak mouth Wilt thou be well rewarded Why studiest thou not to do well Wouldst thou be one of the chosen stand stiff and be contented with all temptations Is God a God of Justice E. K. It is true Be thou therefore a just servant No man inheriteth the Kingdom of Eternity without he conquer in this World No man can challenge justly a reward without he be a Conquerour or do the workes of Justice Doth the Devil perswade thee Arme thy self against him Doth the World not like of thee It is for two causes either for that thou livest well and not as a worldling or else because thy wickednesse is such as that the World wondreth at it If thou be in the first Rejoyce For blessed are those whom the World hateth when they laugh at thy godlinesse Be sorty and grieve thou at their sinfulnesse If thou offend in the second flie hastily from the World Tell the World what thou hast of hers and let her be ashamed that thou knowest her Is thy flesh stiff-necked Fast and pray it doth avoide temptation Be sorry alwayes For in this World there is nothing to rejoyce at For sin onely provoketh to sorrow whether it be of thy self or of another Be stiff against temptations for whosoever is not armed as I am shall be vexed with the weapons of his adversary My Garland is Godlinesse my Brestplate is Humility and upon my back I wear Patience These do I wear to the intent I might shew you what you should wear But as these things are placed in their crosses so do the crosses alwayes follow them that wear them Art thou punished as an Apostle Rejoyce it is a happy crosse Art thou vexed as a Tyrant thank God it is in this World For blessed are those that are punished here to the intent their sins may be forgotten hereafter I perswade to the contrary Be humble seek true wisdom then are you truely fashioned according to your Maker and shalt 〈◊〉 with us with Halleluja in Heaven I have counselled I have done my message thus far Δ. Your counsel is perfectly good and your message merciful His name be praised and glorified that sent you Amen As you were called hither by the name of Daughters of Light So this other day there was one sent hither of that blessed company who was accounted a Daughter and had six Sisters more That Daughter her name was Madini so of your name we are desirous to be informed for distinction and instructions sake in the trade of these mysteries She said ..... It is good to know my name to see whether it agree with my Doctrine E. K. What can you for all your exhortation accuse me of Indeed I thank you very heartily for your exhortation and good counsel but hovv unjustly I am misused at Huseys hand and so provoked to this extream affiction of mind and sundry unseemly spceches be you Judge between Husey and me She said Whosoever hath committed sin and is not reconciled shall have the reward of a sinner There is a double reconciliation the one is with God the other with the Conscience But this man is not reconciled in Conscience repenteth not his wickednesse thereby it followeth he 〈◊〉 be reconciled with God Ergo he 〈◊〉 be rewarded as he is The reward of sin is to be absent or rather to be banished in this world from the society of God and his Angels So it falleth out to Regions and Countries Cities Kings and Subjects Authorities and their Officers when I say they are estranged with absence of their appointed and good keepers Therefore it proved that the Devil is most with him and nearest with him Whom the Devil is a Lord of he br useth as his servants and where his service may be greatest done there is he most alledged His subrilties are principal and great And by these reasons I prove that Husey is easily to be infected either with envy malice slander or dishonour of Gods word This is one of those Assaul's that is promised should assault you Who is to be blamed be that consentech or he in whom the procurement is Thou didst consent and chuse him for a Companion Be not therefore angry at his malice for the fire that is thou hast brought in with thine own hands To me 〈◊〉 the Enemy his industry is impossible to look into his subtiltie is more incredible The Reward of good life is great But the filthinesse that sin carryeth with it in this World and leadeth with it into the World to come is most horrible Is it not said That a skirmish shall be and that great but you shall be Conquerours It is written It is true and shall be never overthrown so mighty
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
E. K. changed his place ..... You shall see my face lo it is white E. K. Now he putteth on his Pied Coat and his Pied Cap he casteth the one side of his Gown over his shoulder and he danceth and saith ..... There is a God let us be merry E. K. He danceth still There is a heaven let us be merry Doth this Doctrine teach you to know God or to be skilfull in the heavens ..... Note it E. K. Now he putteth off his Cloathes again Now he kneeleth down and washeth his head and his neck and his face and shaketh his Cloaths and plucketh off the uttermost sole of his shooes and falleth prostrate on the ground and sayed ..... Vouchsafe O God to take away the wearinesse of my body and to cleanse the filthinesse of this dust that I may be apt for this purenesse E. K. Now he taketh the white Garment and putteth it on him ..... Mighty is God in his great Justice and wonderful in his immeasurable mercy The heavens taste of his Glory The earth is confounded at his wisdom In hell they tremble at him as at a Revenger This sheweth thee O to be a God and stretcheth forth thy Glory from the East unto the West for thy Heavens are Statutes and thy Creatures Laws that thou mayest be accounted a God of Justice and Glory Because thou art a God Therefore there is a Heaven For unto the Prince of Righteousnesse there belongeth a place of Glory Into the which there entereth none that are defiled neither such as are blemished with the spots of iniquity Manus Haec bona est ..... E. K. putting forth his right hand Haec Autem mala ..... E. K. putting forth his left hand Qui Habet aures intelligat E. K. Now he sitteth down on the Desk-top and looketh toward me Δ. This Parable is in general somewhat understood of us but in particular how it may be or is to be applied presently we understand not ..... Beware lest error enter within the dwelling place of Righteousnesse I have said E. K. He seemeth now to be turned to a woman and the very same which we call Galvah E. K. Now he is come down to the usual place on the Table Δ. I have assayed divers wayes to place the five Tables on the two sides on this first leaf Is it to your likeing as I have done it in the five little Triangles Gal. ..... As concerning the setting down of the five Tables it is sufficient as it is done The cause why I appeared thus was that you might avoid error Δ. I pray you to shew us the means how that error was or is to incumber us Gal. ..... Whosoever taketh servants of the wicked to prove the Glory of God is accursed But O Satan how many are thy deceits Note my Companion E. K. would have caused personal apparitions of some of the reprobate spirits before the Prince Albert Laskie in my Study thereby to shew some experience of his skill in such doings But I would not consent to it And thereupon Galveh gave judgement and warning of such an error of my Companion his intent c. Gal. ..... Behold it is said before he go from hence I will pour water into him And my Angel shall annoint him as I have determined Hide therefore Nothing from him For you belong unto him Neither can flesh and blood work those things that I have Glorified in him All things that are established in God are Glorified I speak this for thy understanding Neither let your hearts be hardned for the Earth is condemned and these things shall come to passe Credit is all that I seek saith the Lord for when I come I shall be sufficiently believed I take the God of Heaven and Earth to judge and swear by him as a witnesse that these words are true and shall endure unto the end The general points of mans Salvation are concluded already but the special gift belongeth unto God God strengthen you against his adversary Δ. Amen Gal. ..... Soon you shall know more Δ. This Prince would gladly know Whether it shall be best for him with the first opportunity to be going homeward Gal. ..... It shall be answered soon and what questions soever he also demandeth Δ. May he be here present at the action doing Gal. ..... Those that are of this house are not to be denied the Banquets therein Δ. May I request you to cause some sensible apparition to appear to him to comfort him and establish his minde more abundantly in the godly intent of God his Service Gal. ..... If you follow us let him be governed by us But whatsoever is of the flesh is not of us E. K. She seemeth to weep for the water cometh forth of her eyes Δ. You perceive how he understandeth of the Lord Treasurer his grudge against him And perhaps some other also are of like malitious nature What danger may follow hereof or incombrance Gal. ..... The sum of his life is already appointed one jot cannot be diminished But he that is Almighty can augment at his pleasure Let him rejoyce in poverty Be sorry for his enemies And do the works of Justice E. K. She seemeth to put the air over her and so to enter into a Cloud of invisibility and so disappear Δ. Deo gratias agamus Wensday afternoon circa horam 5. The Lord Albert à Lasky being present Δ. We attended of Galvah some instructions or discourse concerning the Lord Laskie E. K. At length appeared before the Lord Lasky in the air an Angel in a white Robe holding a bloody Crosse in his right hand the same hand being also bloody Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Crucifixi a te requiro qui Crucis Trophaeum hic Gestas ut illa nobis signifies quae sunt ad Christi gloriam cui sit honor Laus perennis E. K. Now he is come from before the Lord Lasky and standeth here on the Table he turneth himself to all the four quarters of the World he kneeleth down He prayeth ..... O God Why should the people upon earth rejoyce or wherein should the pleasures of their sensual delights be fixed Why doth the Moon hold her course or why are the Stars observing an order Why are thy people thus scattered abroad Because iniquity hath caught the upper hand The Doors of our God are polluted with blasphemy his Temples desolate his Commandments violated and his Glory accounted as nothing But wilt thou suffer or canst thou hold thy hand from thy great and mighty strokes Most High God Most Mighty God Most Honourable God have mercy upon thy people respect the Creation the Creation I say of those wherein thou hast delighted Suffer not the Serpent to extol his head above thy Altars neither let thy holy Vessel be poisoned with his venome For thou art Mighty and overcomest all and who can rebel against thy Prowesse Bend down thy mereiful eyes Behold this
that they are holy and sanctified Gal. ..... In the last seven of the 40 dayes the words of this Book shall be distinguished Δ. And accented also Gal. ..... I. Δ. How shall I do for the Tables where certain letters are to be written in all the void places seeing they will not justly agree Gal. ..... There is one superfluous it is to be filled in order as it sheweth Δ. I shall not dare adventure on it without direction when I come to it Gal. ..... Thou shalt want no direction Δ. For the inequality of the first 49 lines I require your advise Gal. .... It is no question Gall. .... Thou beginnest in the world to look up to heaven So was it begun in earth to look up to the doing above The last life is Hotchpotch of the wicked in the World and damned in the Hell E. K. What is a Hotchpotch c. Gal. ..... The greater thy folly is the greater thy wisdom will be hereafter ..... There are the Souls of the wicked and damned in Hell Those that are in the world cannot describe the least joy of those that are in heaven Much lesse those that are ignorant declare the manifest beauty of wisdom There shall come a day with you when you shall rejoyce In the mean season rent your hearts and turn unto the Lord. Δ. Deus in adjutorium nostrum intende Domine ad juvandum me festina Gloria Patri filio S. c. Amen Saturday ante Meridiem Hora 10. Junii 22. Δ. Whiles I was writing certain prayers to good Angels and ad proprios nostros Angelos for A. Lasky there appeared one very big in the aire all in a white Garment full of plaights and tucked up very dubble with a myterlike Attire on his head and a crosse on the forepart of it He willed E. K. to speak to me and to tell me of his being there But he refused and expresly denied it partly by reason Galluah said that he would not deal with us but every seventh day being every Monday till the actions were ended and therefore he supposed this Creature to be an illuder and partly he urged some evident token or proof of their well-meaning towards us in Act c. He went down and still this Creature followed him with a drawn sword requiring him to declare these words to me but E. K. a long while bad him declare them himself unto me if he would and said why should he not c. At length my Companion came appeased and contented to hear what this Creature would say who at length said thus .... The Eagles have food for their young ones by Divine providence and not of themselves Lord let me diminish the power of this wicked spirit that doth so provoke and stirre him to mischief .... If the love of the fathers O God be great towards their Children much greater are thy blessings in those whom thou hast chosen Δ. So O Lord so .... Behold I will draw threds together and make him a Net which shall alwayes be between him and the Adversary neither shall it diminish his understanding from the true sight of me It hath been said The place is holy Write that shall be here spoken with devotion upon thy knees Great is thy name O God and mighty art thou in all thy workings Thy help is strong to those that delight therein O magnified be thy name from generation to generation Oratio Speritu mente dico Sit mihi verus orandi modus nam bonitatem Dei Laudo O Iram Patris meritus sum quia lumen ejus elongatur a me Verum in nomine Christi remissionem delictorum meorum confirmationem in suo Sancto Spiritu exopto Per te Halleluja resurgam me accuso me condemno omnia male feci Omnia per te Pater sunt Paratus esto exaudire Oculos ad Coelos Elevare nolo egestatem quia meam nosti Quid differes Domine Cor meum in melius Confortere Vivus non mortuus sum Igitur Credo in te Exaudi me Antidotum mihi 〈◊〉 monstra quia malum meum agnosco mitte mihi auxilium tuum de sede Majestatis tuae Et per Angelos bonos tuere me Audi Exaudi O tu igitur Angelus meus adfis mihi Defende me nec trade Corpus animam meam in manus inimicorum meorum sed secundum magnam misericordiam Dei per potestatem tibi traditam me protege adsit mecum prudentia tua quâ Diabolum Sathanicam fraudem vincam Adjuva me derelictum Confirma me debilem Cura me sanum sana me aegrotum Mihi esto spiritus super humanam sapientiam Fac me fidelem Operatorem Adduc tecum Angelos de Coelis demissos Sanctos qui me tecum in adversis tueantur ab omni Custodiant malo donec illa hora venerit quam nemo evitare potest Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus Amen Glorifie God ye sons of men and praise him in the midst of your wickednesse For he is a God that sheweth mercie to his people and beholdeth those that are afflicted All honour praise and glory be unto him now and for ever Amen Δ. I beseech you what is your name that this mercie of God may be Recorded to have been bestowed upon us by your ministery .... Gabriel Δ. Shall I signifie to the Polonian Gentleman that we received this .... prayer from you and so make him partner thereof Gabriel .... Do so The help of the Lord is with those that he loveth and so be it Δ. He made the sign of a Crosse over our two heads and so went away Gloria sit in excelsis Deo nostro in terra Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis Amen Saturday Junii 22. a Meridie Circa 6. Δ. Upon the perusing and examining this prayer Gabriel revealed unto us I found certain imperfections and some doubts wherein we thought it good to ask counsel and require Gabriel's advise That the prayer might be perfect as he might well like of to Gods honour and our comforts At the length Nothing appearing to the eye but the noise of a sound about E. K. his head and withall a mighty weight or invisible burden on his right shoulder as he sate in the green Chair by the holy Table or place And unto certain places of the prayer which I noted and repeated those words and answers were by Gabriel given Gab. .... The Preface must be in for if our hearts be not prepared unto prayer our prayers are in vain Quid differs Domine Cor meum in melius Comfortare Per te in nomine tuo resurgam id est Halleluja The first way is more effectual Say Angele mee but the other is more effectual Cura me sanum Regard me and look unto me being whole Δ. As concerning the inscription which I have written before the prayer I would gladly know whether it be to your well liking of
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
fruit out of that Doctrine How poor is the power that hath been long told of in you You have forgotten your own knowledge and are become of seers blinde such as grope their way Such end such beginning For the end 〈◊〉 from the beginning and is become a means in it self to bring all things to passe But neither the end nor beginning of such things as you have handled hath been perfect or probable But a deceit comprehending the image of falshood Yea much more the traps and snares into wickednesse which deserveth destruction eternally If this may advise you Be it so If these examples and probable arguments be sound Then necessarily you ought of dutie to be counselled by me But I have opened my mouth and told you Be it unto you according to your disposition Δ. Be it unto us according to the mercies and loving kindnesse of the Highest into whose hands we commit our selves all our doings and intents ..... That is well said ... God be with you E. K. He is gone and in the place vvhere he stood the likenesse of a little Circle as if a print vvere made vvith a Thimble-brim Δ. Soli Deo Honor omnis Gloria Amen Monday 25. Novemb. Mane 8½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth straight way at the first looking the same fellow that last spake and left the print of the little Circle behind him Δ. Orabam diu ad Deum ut Arbiter esset inter istos A .... num .... lum confugimus in tempore necessitatis c. A te O Deus solo pendemus c. Δ. Sedebamus quasi in triangulo se convertebat versus A. L. ..... Thou O man awake shake off forgetflnesse Lift not up thy self so much But close up thine eares against these deluded deluders which carry thee 〈◊〉 into folly and transform thee to a shadow By whose counsel thou art become dishonoured and by whom thou shalt become a spot in the Book of 〈◊〉 Call to remembrance the Histories of the whole World Political and Ecclesiastical Inquire of the Learned that have settled their judgements in the Book of God Open thine eyes and behold if any of the Prophets or forefathers men grounded in wisdom and deep understanding have yielded themselves to this unrighteousnesse believing lyars consenting to untruths and lastly dishonouring the Name of God Then call to minde thine own estate thy flourishing of thy youth and possibilities wherein thou mayst be made perfect Which if thou truely do Then banish this dishonour to God and his Angles listen not to these S ..... ersity For the Syrenes are awake and their song is to destruction I am sent from God as a Messenger to call thee home for thou dishonourest God mightily Behold thou shalt be made contemptible and become a laughing-stock Thy honour shall be defaced and thy posterity spotted with ignominie Moreover such as are thy friends shall shake their heads saying What wise man hath thus been overcome What is he that is become foolish Thou mayst desire it and consent as before But I am a stumbling block betwixt you and will dwell in all Elements for your purposes E. K. He holdeth up his hands towards Δ and saith Nay I have told him truth E K. He hath now gotten him a Chair and sitteth down Δ. If it be truth then it is a token that God is very merciful unto us and that we are in his favour highly to give us this warning to avoid evil Now resteth the other part How we shall attain to good and wisdom from God such as by the true and perfect use of his creatures we might do him some acceptable service with true obedience and humility c. E. K. One cometh to him and saith ..... He goeth about to take you a lyar E. K. He goeth away and cometh again E. K. This man which thus came and went away and cometh again is all in white he hath a silver Crown on his head he speaketh as followeth .... ..... Deny that you have done Confesse it to be false Cry you have offended And let the Angels of God see you do so that they may carry up your prayers so shall you become righteous But why dost thou write words of contempt against us For One in our number is All And we are all One Believe us for of our selves we have no power to instruct you but to deliver you the Commandment of God Rent your cloaths pluck those blasphemous books in pieces And fall down before the Lord for he it is that is Wisdom I have done for this time E. K. He is gone Δ. Quis est discretor Spirituum E. K. Now he cometh in again and speaketh ..... Oh you are a Learned man ..... Truth in the second He it is that discrectly judgeth all things If his discretion be given to you thank God Δ. Illi ergo Committemus hanc causam ab illo hoc donum petentes expectantes Nos interim pie in Christo vivere intendimus E. K. He is become a great pillar of Chrystal higher than a Steeple He ascendeth upward in clouds and the little circle remaineth Δ. Gloria laus honor gratiarum actio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Trino uni nunc in secula seculorum Amen Tuesday Decembris 10. After Diner we removed from Lubek and the Lord Alb. Laskie went by Coach to Lord Christopher Duke of Meckelburgh Thursday night we lay at Wismar 11. Decemb. vel 12. Saturday morning we came to Rostoch 14. Decembris Monday Decemb. 16. Mane hora 10¼ Rostoch E. K. He is here that said he would dwell in omnibus Elementis c. Δ. ..... I came from the fountain of light where is no errour nor darknesse and have Power because it is given me from the Highest Which Lo is grown and become a mighty Rock For it is said of me Behold I will visit them that put their trust in me with a comfortable strength in the time of need For my Rock is an everlasting strength and the Hills of my countenance endure for ever If then I be the Countenance of God and a piercing fire sent out as a flame not onely with his great mercy but with his good will and that towards you overwhelmed not cast down but almost for ever buried in a lake of ignorance and inquenchable flame such as consumeth with ignorance deceit it self and a provocation too manifest and apparent destruction If I then with this message being the message of truth my self a mean .... sufficent Order for the publishment thereof can nor may ..... as of ... n I am vehemently despised the fruits of a good Conscience notwithstanding stedfast Then is he of no power of whom I am .... because it is written Such as rise up against my Spirit I will destroy them in the midst of the same fire and will deliver their ashes to the windes for a memory of their wickednesse But he is just and is
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
the end of God his justice which is upon him His prayers are come to the second heaven neither hath any received remembrance of him But we will pray unto God to be merciful unto him and that for thy sake Because thou shalt not be made a laughing-stock to the wicked Pray thou for him that thou mayst work in him that which he worketh not for himself Hold up thy hands for him for it is a lawful and a charitable thing For God hath granted thee a force in prayer But be patient and humble We with thee give thanks and laud unto the Lord. Cease Δ. Laudes Deo nostro incessanter reddantur Amen Saturday Aprilis 14. Mane Cracoviae 1584. Δ. Oratione Dominica finita brevi illa oratione Psalmi 33. inspecto Chrystallo 〈◊〉 utrique Gabriel Nalvage E. K. They kneel as though they were in confession one to another and .... about half a quarter of an hour Gabr. ...... after me O beginning and fountain of all wisdom gird up thy loines in mercy and shadow our weaknesse be merciful unto us and forgive us our trespasses for those that rise up saying there is no God have risen up against us saying Let us confound them Our strength is not neither are our bones full of marrow Help therefore O eternal God of mercy help therefore O eternal God of salvation help therefore O eternal God of peace and comfort Who is like unto thee in 〈◊〉 of incense before whom the Quire of Heaven sing O Mappa la man hallelujah Visit us O God with a comprehending fire brighter than the Stars in the fourth heaven Be merciful unto us and continue with us for thou art Almighty To whom all things of thy breasts in Heaven and Earth sing glory praise and honour Saying Come Come Lord for thy mercy sake Say so unto God kneeling Δ. I repeated it kneeling and E. K. likewise kneeling E. K. They both kneel down again and put their foreheads together Gabriel seemeth to sit in a chair on the one side of Nalvage about 30 yards off on Nalvage his left hand Nalvage standeth ...... Thus saith the Lord Who is he that dare resist invincible strength Seale up the East seale up the South Seale up the West and unto the North put three Seales E. K. Now sitteth Nalvage in a Chair aside from his round Table the Table being somewhat before him Nal. ...... Name that I point to To E. K. he said so as concerning the Letters E. K. He flung like a thin brightnesse out of the Stone upon E. K. he hath his rod which he took out of his own mouth ... ev ... He holdeth up his rod and saith I am all joy and rejoyce in my self E. K. He smit the round Table with his rod and it whirled ábout with a great swiftnesse Now that which before seemed to be a circular and plain form appeareth to be a Globe and round Ball corporal when it turneth Nal ...... Say the last Δ. Piamo el. E. K. He striketh the Table now and though the body seem to turn yet the Letter seem to stand still in their places E. K. Now he plucketh out five Books as if from under his Chair and setteth them down by him the books be green bright and they be three corned Δ a clasp Sal. ..... Read backward ... to E. K. Every thing with us teacheth Read backward Letter without number Nal. ..... Read backward letter without number the letters thou hadst yesterday Δ. After all read he proceeded thus 68 P The fourth ascending 97. 68 PIAP A The sixth ascending 112. I The eighth ascending 207. P The ninth ascending 307. E. K. Now he striketh it again and it turneth 67 A TA. T 66 I AAI. A E. K. Now he striketh again and turneth his Rod seemeth to be hollow like a Reed 65 APGOB E. K. Gabriel falleth down on his face and lieth prostrate and Nalvage holdeth up his Rod all the while DOS He pointed beyond him in the upper Circle it seemeth like a Roman C. 64 LAMAOP Make it two words ..... It may be all one word with S. or T. but it would be hard for your understanding Make a point between Poamal and Od. E. K. Gabriel lieth prostrate all this while 63 XVDMOZ ..... With great difficulty this Letter was discerned Nalvage himself said he knew it not yet but it seemed to E. K. to be an X. Nalvage denied it to be an X. and said he knew not yet the mystery say the Lords prayer for I cannot open it Although my power be multiplied yet I know not this Letter At length he said it was V. E. K. I can remember that word well Nal. ..... Thou shalt not remember it 62 PEV Make a point there Δ. A full point 61 OLOHOL Long the first syllable accented E. K. Now he striketh the Table 60 SD It is the uppermost of 59 SIMAPI Pronownce it IPAMIS 58 LU. Call it UL. Δ With such sound to U. as 〈◊〉 yew whereof bows are made 57 MAPI F. K. It seemeth to be an e. DO OD As you had before E. K. Now Gabriel riseth from his lying prostrate 56 HOTLAB Call it BALTOH PAIP Call it Piap. E. K. Gabriel steppeth up and seemeth to storm angerly against somewhat Δ. Belike some wicked powers would intrude their illusions or hindrances in these actions E. K. He hath thrown his Dart from him and it cometh to him again Gabr. .... Count the number of the words you have received to day Δ. Sixteen if Poamal Od be made two words Gab. ..... Be packing and so many plagues be amongst you more then your plague was before E. K. He seemeth to storm still Gab. ..... Come in E. K. Now there come four more Gab. ..... Art not thou Adraman Which hast fallen and hast burst thy neck four times And wilt thou now rise again and take part anew Go thy way therefore thou Seducer enter into the fifth torment Let thy p wer be lesse then it is by as much as thou seest number here E. K. Now they all four fall down into a pit or Hiatum of the foundation of the place where they stood E. K. Nalvage lieth all this while upon his face Gab. ..... Count now again Δ. Sixteen Gab. ..... It is not so There is an errour Nal. ..... I am deceived from Ipam OD the next is false and so are the rest And so is that that followeth ABOS SOBA Δ. I had Baltoh Nal. ..... And Piap. Nal. ..... What is this to E. K. E. K. ..... G. Nal. ..... No it is an H. 55 HOT TOH 54 MOH. HOM. 53 SD DS. 52 LIPDAI Call it IADPIL accent ad 51 ONOG Call it Gono Gab. ..... Move not for the place waxeth more holy Nal. ..... Pointeth S. D. D S. This was corrected on Monday following to be too much 50 ANDA Call it
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 ...
prince of Darknesse Compare fond knowledge with true wisdom Thy spirits of lying with us that are the voice of truth The vanity that they lead thee into and the reward of our message And say within thy self peccavi Wilt thou be perswaded by experience Consider thy imprisonments thy affliction and shame of body Consider the love of a few and envy of a multitude Weigh with thy self the vanity of thy life Thy rash foot-steps All that happned unto thee by the society and as thou thinkest comfort but indeed the stinging pricks of thy enemies ...... Since we came into thee sent from the Lord and calling thee to God thou hast beâ—â— delivered from them from a place full of fornication and the wrath of God exalted to the skirts of worldly honour and hast been satisfied for the necessities of this World Holy is the money that is gotten righteously but accursed are the evils that are reaped with wrong All which things thou hast by us in blessednesse and in the knowledge of the will of God above all men Besides our continual presence with thee to the comfort of thy Soul Even these things are of us and of our God Which sware unto Abraham and dwelleth in the Temple of righteousnesse Now therefore let experience be a Judge betwixt us and them But this sayeth the Lord. I deal with you as a Childe But the vessels that I must use must be pure and clean Δ. Cleanse thou us O Lord Cor mundum Crea in nobis Crea Gab. ..... They that are incredulous believe not the Lord but drive away his spirit But where a grain is it becometh as a mountain The Lord is upon the earth Take heed thou sweep thy house clean for unto him that is naked shall there be Cloathes given But be that is covered already shall be made bare Consider with thy self for the Lord speaketh not once more till thou hast fulfilled thy own judgement E. K. I will be contented to bury them in the field and not to use them or come at them and that I will swear upon the Bible to perform and if they be earthly I will commit them to the earth and so separate those shingles from the place near the spring and in this manner fulfill my own judgement For I will not be obstinate but commit all things to the end Because thou art content to bury them and withall upon faith in the promises of God to abjure them in simplicity of heart and external use .... simply as a true meaning before the face of the highest The Lord accepteth it and it shall be sufficient Further thou hast 27. Confirmations of sin and consent with the Devil which your intention calleth Characters whereby those seven and twenty like unto their mother are become familiar and pleasant with thee they must be brought before the Lord and offered into his hands For so long as they are the wicked alwayes vex thee For the Obligation burnt the condition is void These must be buried with the rest E. K. Which rest ...... But must be brought and burnt here before the presence of God That the cause diminished the effect may perish E. K. I will be contented to bury them likewise beseeching the Almighty to accept of my intent herein as of the rest before specified ...... He is contented but let one be burnt You may suffer one to testifie the discredit of the rest It is but according to the grounds of thy own Magick E. K. I do not understand your meaning herein Gab. ..... Radius partis may be sicut totius Corporis E. K. I understand not that also Gab. ...... Magick worketh effect in things absent that it doth in their parts being present The wicked kill the body absent but the garment present so are all of one confederacie disgraced by the confusion of one Thou art contented to bury them all upon the confidence and sure hope of the promises of the God of light and to bring one as a confirmation of thy promise to testifie thy obedience as concerning the whole which one burnt and abjured may be a testimony to the Angels that thou art obedient for God his sake and for his testimony and truth But this you shall burn with Brimstone onely Whose ashes shall be kept as a testimony till the rest be also consumed This you shall do the next Monday at the rising of the Sun That the number of the time may be of one bignesse For before August shall those Keyes be delivered unto you which give entrance yea even into the privy Chambers of wisdom whereof you shall have 14. the next Monday And this dayes action is not the least amongst them Glory be to God and obedience unto man E. K. The Curtain is drawn Δ. We are desirous to know whether thus this dayes action shall be finished and whether we shall fast still as was prescribed Gab. ..... Detract not from the day that which is commanded Δ. We are very desirous to understand of the present estate of the Lord Albert Laskie for as much as we were willed to go with him and he linked to us in some part of our actions To understand of his state would be to our great comfort Gab. ..... It needeth not for the world her self is at hand Δ. Verily I understand not that speach Is he coming back again What We are commanded we know And further then our Commandment is errour He is in his hand that knoweth how to use him E. K. I see a man climing over a Hedge and as he clammereth over the stakes break and he falleth down Now he is going up between two Trees into a Medow-ward Now he hath both the boughs in his hand standing still on the ground Now he goeth lower there is a gap and through that he is gone into the Medow ..... so it is of Laskie ..... said a voyce Δ. This is dark it may please you to give some light g ..... This is more then enough for the matter Cease to ask these things here where it is said no impure thing should enter Δ. Gloria laus honor Deo Nostro Omnipotenti Patri filio spiritui Sancto nunc semper Amen Δ. Note at this present was one come and in the house of whom we understood not till he was gone whom the Lord A. Laskie had sent to certifie us that first he was in some cumber and hindrance Secondly how Fabius his brother in Law and another had given him counsel very rashly to proceed But leaving that Thirdly by the gap and open way with estate of the Commons or Citizens by their great Zeal and favour that he obtained his purpose This in effect we understood at the Messager his return after noon Which marvellous exactly did answer to the former shew Remember that on Saturday after noon the Chancelour came to Cracow with 60 Coaches in his Company and train he bringing in
here appeared and would have snatched at the stone what was it and who sent it Gab. ..... It is a wicked power which the Kings Enchanters have sent amongst you but be hath his reward for returning Δ. What was his intent I beseech you and I marvel that his Enchanters were able to detect any of our doings to the King Gab ..... The King knoweth not your doings Δ. I beseech you as concerning the 48 leaves being commanded to be bound and to be silvered what if I caused seven white leaves to be bound before and seven behinde for the more aptnesse for the binding Gab. ..... Vse thine own judgement God will appear no more unto you untill you take your journey Δ. We believe The Lord will perform his promises Gab. ..... According to your faith be it unto you E. K. Now he hath pulled a white Curtain about the stone and the stone is dark Δ. Semper laudetur qui Trinus unus est Omnipotens sempiternus Amen Wednesday Junii 20. à Meridie 1584. Cracoviae Δ. It is first to be noted that this morning early to E. K. lying in his bed and awake appeared a Vision in manner as followeth One standing by h s beds head who patted him on the head gently to make him the more vigilant He seemed to be cloathed with feathers strangely wreathed about him all over c. There appeared to him E. K. four very fair Castles standing in the four parts of the world out of which he heard the sound of a Trumpet Then seemed out of every Castle a cloath to be thrown on the ground of more then the breadth of a Table-cloath Out of that in the East the cloath seemed to be red which was cast Out of that in the South the cloath seemed white Out of that in the West the cloath seemed green with great knops on it Out of that in the North spread or thrown out from the gate under foot the cloath seemed to be very black Out of every Gate then issued one Trumpeter whose Trumpets were of strange form wreathed and growing bigger and bigger toward the end After the Trumpeter followed three 〈◊〉 bearers After them six ancient men with white beards and staves in their hands Then followed a comely man with very much Apparel on his back his Robe having a long train After him came five men carrying up of his train Then followed one great Crosse and about that four lesser Crosses These Crosses had on them each of them ten like men their faces distinctly appearing on the four parts of the Crosse all over After the Crosses followed 16 white Creatures And after them an infinite number seemed to issue and to spread themselves orderly in a compasse almost before the four foresaid Castles Upon which Vision declared unto me I straight way set down a Note of it trusting in God that it did signific good After noon as E. K. sat by me he felt on his head some strange moving whereby he deemed that some spiritual Creature did visit him and as we were continuing together and I had red to E. K. some rare matter out of Ignatius Epistles Policarpus and Martialis some of the Sacrament and some of the Crosse a voyce answered and said That it is true that the sign of the Crosse is of great force and vertue After this the spiritual Creature seemed to E. K. to be very heavy on his right shoulder as he sat by me in my study And as E. K. considered the numbers of such as he had numbred to passe out of the four Gates it is to wit 1.3.6.1.5 The spiritual Creature said the number 16. is a perfect number consisting of 1.3 6.1 and 5. He said further more God the father is a standing Pillar Δ. Upon which word I asked him if I should write such matter as he was to speak And he answered to E. K. at his right ear ..... If thou 〈◊〉 Δ. His voyce was much like unto a mans voyce not base nor hollow ..... Divided with a straight line is one and two Δ. What is to be divided with a straight line ..... The Pillar Δ. In the name of Jesus who art thou ..... The servant of God Δ. Art thou sent from God with good tydings or message ..... What I am he knoweth of whom I bear witnesse Δ. What is your name either as you are notified among the blessed Angels or called by of any mortal man If you be of Verity and so of Charity you cannot mislike my speeches E. K. He sayeth nothing Δ. Belike he is not sent unto us by God for if he were he would do his message ..... I am AVE Δ. This AVE is one ex filiis filiorum of whose order Rocle is vide sup lib. 2. 4. Δ. If you be AVE In the name of Jesus say that all wicked Angels are justly condemned and that by the mercy of God in the merits of Christ mankind elect is to be saved Ave. ..... The visitation of God is twofold 1. In respect of his secret will and purpose and in particularity And in that he hath 2 sealed us with the good will of mankind to their comfort But if I be a scandal to the word then am I not of righteousnesse But my righteousnesse is of the world Therefore That I visit you of my self can be no offence Those that are and die in wickednesse are dishonourable and far from the mercies of God For it is written I am a God to the living Therefore do I dishonour them such I say as are wicked The mercies of God which is the true Manna comforteth the comforted and giveth hope of amendment of such as run astray are sinners and may return Therefore I say The mercies of God which is the Fountain and sweetnesse of the love of God is a thing most blessed most holy most to be desired in Heaven and Earth and of me the creature and servant of God to be reverently spoken of and required For it is the food wherewith we live even the very bread wherewith we are rejoyced Thus much thou hast required Δ. I did so for so is his Justice against the impenitent and his mercies to his Elect testified truely Ave. ..... Have patience I will return after a few moments Δ. Hereupon in the mean space we considered the premises and liked very well of the scandal or offence avoiding Because it was lastly Junii 18 said God will appear no more to you until you take your journey And secondly he answered my request of God his Justice against the wicked Angels and also of his mercies towards mankind Δ. About a quarter of an hour after there seemed a thing to come again on E.K. his right shoulder and as before he caused his shoulder to be very warm where it lighted on Δ. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini Hallelujah E. K. Amen Ave. ..... The place is sanctified Δ. Sanctus Sanctus
tasted of him in that he should come as a Saviour and in the seed of man So is the 〈◊〉 of this time Christ being ascended in the same Spirit But that Christ shall come in his glorisied body Triumphing against Satan and all his enemies Δ. So be it O Lord. Ave. ..... But that the words of the Prophesies may be fulfilled It is necessary that the Earth swarm and be glutted with her own fornication and idolatry which what it shall be the same spirit will open unto you Δ. Fiat voluntas Dei Ave. ..... That you may not onely be wise in forsaking the world and foreseeing the dangers of perdition But also preach the wonders of the same Christ and his great mercies which is to come and to appear in the cloudes with his body glorified The Lord said to Satan I will give thee power in the end over their bodies and thou shall be cast out into the fields and that for my names sake But my Vineyard and the fruit of my Harvest shalt thou not hinder Thus my brethren hath the Lord loved you Thus have the Treasures of the Heavens opened themselves unto you But your faith springeth not Δ. It shall when it pleaseth the Highest We beseech him to encrease our faith as shall be most for his honor and glory Ave. ..... But unto you it shall be revealled what shall come after Morrows after Dayes Weeks and Years And unto you it shall be delivered The Prophesie of the time to come which is twelve of the which you have but one Δ. God make us faithful true and discret servants Ave. ..... For God will shake this earth through a riddle and knock the vessels in pieces throw down the seats of the proud and establish himself a seat of quietnesse that neither the Sun may shine upon the unjust nor the garments be made of many pieces Δ. All shall be in unity unus pastor unumovile c. Ave. ..... Haste therefore and be gone as the Lord hath appointed you that you may be ready for him when he bringeth the sickle Purifie all the vessels of your house and gather more into it and when the Lord presseth he will give you wine abundantly And lo the forks are weary of their burdens But be diligent watchful and full of care for Satan himself is very busie with you After dinner I will visit you with instructions But O my Brethren be faithful and persevere for the same spirit that teacheth the Church teacheth you Δ. To the same Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son be all honor power glory and praise now and ever Amen Julii 2. After Noon Hora 1¼ Δ. Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in saecula seculorum Amen E. K. Here he is now Δ. Nobis adsit qui cuncta creavit Ave. ..... What will you Δ. If it please you the solution of the former 8 questions first Δ. 1. As of the five Princes which held up the traine of the King Ave. ..... The knowledge of them helpeth not now Δ. 2. Secondly of the Trumpeter what it betokened Ave. ..... It hath no relation to these Tables Δ. 3. Of the letters in the Transversary I would know your will Ave. ..... They are as the other but for a peculiar practice Δ. 4. For Docepax and Tedoand referred diversly as I have noted What is the cause of this diversity Ave. ..... It was the fault of E. K. in reporting Δ. What is the very Truth Ave ..... Thou shalt be taught that when thou hast their Calls It belongeth to Nalvage his correction Δ. 5. As toncerning the Etymologies of these names of God we would be satisfied Ave. ..... God is a Spirit and is not able to be comprehended Δ. Some Notifying or Declaration no full comprehension I require Ave. .... It is no part of mans understanding They signifie all things and they signifie nothing Ave. .... Who can expresse Jehovah what it signifieth Deus significat ad id quod agit Δ. As for the form of our Petition or Invitation of the good Angels What sort should it be of Ave. .... A short and brief speech Δ. We beseech you to give us an example we would have a confidence it should be of more effect Ave. .... I may not do so E. K. And why Ave. .... Invocation proceedeth of the good will of man and of the heat and fervency of the spirit And therefore is prayer of such effect with God Δ. We beseech you shall we use one form to all Ave. .... Every one after a divers form Δ. If the minde do dictate or prompt a divers form you mean Ave. ..... I know not for I dwell not in the soul of man Δ. As concerning the diversity of certain words in these Tables and those of the portions of the Earth delivered by Nalvage What say you Ave. ..... The Tables be true Is it Aydropl or Andropl Ave. ..... Both names be true and of one signification I have delivered you the Tables so use them Δ. As concerning the Capital letters have I done well Ave. ..... You have easily corrected that and to good end for every letter and part of letter hath his signification Δ. I beseech you say somewhat of the N in Paraoan of which you said so far as that stretched should sink to hell Ave. ..... Every letter in Paraoan is a living fire but all of one quality and of one Creation But unto N is delivered a viol of Destruction according to that part that he is of Paraoan the Governour Δ. It may please you to name that Place City or Country under that N. Ave. ..... Ask Nalvage and he will tell you Δ. As concerning the wicked here Shall I call or summon them all as I do the good ones in the name of God Ave. ..... No man calleth upon the name of God in the wicked They are servants and vile slaves Δ. We call upon the name of Jesus in the expulsing of devils saying in the name of Jesus c. Ave. .... That In is against the wicked No just man calleth upon the name of God to allure the devil Δ. Then they are not to be named in the first summoning or invitation Ave. .... At no time to be called E. K. How then shall we proceed with them Ave. .... When the Earth lieth opened unto your eyes and when the Angels of Light shall offer the passages of the Earth unto the entrance of your senses chiefly of seeing Then shall you see the Treasures of the Earth as you go And the caves of the Hills shall not be unknown unto you Vnto these you may say Arise be gone Thou art of destruction and of the places of darknesse These are provided for the use of man So shalt thou use the wicked and no otherwise Δ. This is as
When shall we practice Ave his Calls c. Gab. ..... My brother thou hast least care Thou drawest both of God and man That is promised thee shall be payed thee and that which is to come thou shalt be partaker of Δ. To E. K. for he hath no care neither for meat nor drink for him and his neither is he destitute of 400 Dollers yearly pension and is to have some help by Art Nal. ..... Say the first word of the Call Δ. Sapah It is the fifth for 4 being Englished E. K. He holdeth up all his hand and on his thumb standeth written and on the fingers orderly very big letters There was no word there that fignified Nine the third word should be E M. Nine to vanne the earth Wherefore mighty and Hearken unto in the firmament  my voice of waters 7699 I have talked of you whom continual Workmen  the first whose courses and hath planted visit with comfort I move you a Torment the earth in power and presence to the wicked and are whose works and in government shall be a Garland and a Song of honour to the righteous continuance and the praise giving unto them as the second of your God fiery darts and the third in your Creation Nal. ..... That is one E. K. Now he plucketh the Curtain over all Δ. Because you said that Acam betokening 7699. was to be put in his place I have viewed and numbred and I find the words of the Call more than the English parcells by many For the English parcels are 41 and the Call hath above 50. A voice ..... You have OD the fourth word of that Call The whole Call is placed there and ought to be the next Number the words of the next Call Δ. So that the next Call ought to have this English E. K. Now he sheweth again Nal .... The mighty sounds nineteen whose have entered and numbers into the third Angle gave them are as and vessels the first  to water the ends are become the earth and as Olives with her Creatures the Contents of time in the Olive Mount and Therefore looking with gladnesse they are Come ye upon the earth the brothers and and of the first obey  and second your Creation dwelling in the brightnesse and visit us in peace of the Heavens the beginning and comfort as of their own seats conclude us continual comforters which as receivers unto whom are garnished of their mysteries I fastened with continual burning 〈◊〉 for why Pillars of gladnesse 69636. Our Lord and Master   is all one Nal. ..... That is it that went before E. K. Now he draweth the Curtain Δ. I understand this to be the English of the fifth Call and that before of the sixth the Numbers of the parcels seem to agree So that we have now the English of the fifth and sixth Call Thanked be God E M Af. and Peoal three words which you said we had not I finde them in the Calls your meaning perhaps is some other then the common words E. K. Now he hath opened again A mighty These upon Guard gather up their hands of fire the Mosse are with two edged swords of the earth Marble flaming as the rich man sleeves which have doth Happy is he the Viols his Treasure on whom eight cursed they frown not of wrath are they For why for two times whose the God of righteousnesse and iniquities rejoyceth a half they are in them whose in their eyes Come away wings are And not are Milstones your viols of Wormwood greater For and then the earth the time of the marrow And is such as of salt from their mouths requireth have setled runne comfort their feet Seas  in the West of bloud  and Their heads  are measured are covered  with their Ministers with Diamond  9996 That is and  E.K. Now he draweth the Curtain Δ. As I was comparing the Call to this English a voyce said Nall .... It is the next Call Δ. I understand it to be the fourth Call or E. K. Now he openeth The midday the first like Come away is as unto the Harvest For the third Heaven of a Widow the Crowns made How many are there of the Temple of Hiacinct pillars which remain and 26. in the glory the Coat In whom of the earth of him that is was and shall the Elders which are be Crowned are and shall not see are divided become strange death untill Come which this house appear I have prepared fall to the terrour for my own righteousnesse and of the earth saith the Lord the Dragon and whose long continuance sink to our comfort shall be C me away and as Buckles For of such to the stouping Dragons the Thunders as and have spoken are prepared E. K. Now he hath covered all again Δ. As I was speaking of his diversities saying This you have not and this you have not A voyce said Some you have and some you have not whether you have or have not it is a mystery E. K. There is a little fire in the stone going about it like a little Candle The Curtain is open and a great Cloud over them Now they appear clear The Thunders of Judgement and wrath are of lamentation of a moment numbred and roar and weeping with an hundred Torb are harboured laid up mighty Earth-quakes in the North for And in the 〈◊〉 the earth a Thousand Math. of an Oak that surges whose times which branches 5678. rest not or labour still are in the 24 th neither Neasts parte know 22.   E. K. Now cometh a Cloud over them very white like smoke Now they appear again Which the Thunders Yea burn any wo night time be to the earth and here for day One rock th And bringeth out her iniquity vomit out a thousand is the heads even as was of Scorpions the heart and shall be and of man great live Sulphur doth Come away mingled his thoughts But with poyson wo wo wo not These be wo wo wo your noyses E. K. Now the Curtain is drawn again after a quarter of an hour E. K. Now he appeareth Nal. ..... Consider by these whose businesse you have in hand O you of sorrow 3663.  that range binde up that in the South your girdles the Lord and and may be magnified are Visit us whose name 28. Bring down amongst you the Lanterns your train is wrath c. ..... Here must words in the end of the first Call follow at Move c. Δ. But this Call it differeth a little expresly Δ. They are the 14 last words in the holy language thus Zacar e ca od zamran odo ic Qua Zorge lap zirdo Noco Mad Hoath Jaida Another spake it is measured The mighty seat and and groaned cried with a loud voyce it
is as and Come away they are there were and whose Thunders they gathered them Number 5. O ..... selves together is which and 31 Ga. flew became Come away into the East the house For and of death I prepare the Eagle of whom for you Gabr. or have prepared Note Then begin at the first Call Move as before E. K. Now they appear O thou 6739. the great name  the governour which weave Righteousnesse  of the first flame the earth and I le mese Wednes under whose with drinesse the seat Δ 11 15 day Julii 11. dixit wings which of Honour hic deest are know of  Of the first flame Nal ..... Then move as before c. O you sons vexing the voyce of fury all creatures of God the daughters of the earth the promise of the just with age of him which which have which is called sit under you amongst you on 1636. Furie 24 Behold seats   ..... Move as before O you swords making and of the South men drunken his power which have which are which 42 Ux. empty is called eyes Behold amongst you to stir up the promise A bitter sting the wrath of God  of sin   ..... Move as before c. E. K. Now all is covered E. K. Now it is open again O thou mighty light openest to the Center and burning flame of comfort the glory of the earth which of God In whom the secrets of Truth is called not to be measured 6332 in thy Kingdom Be thou have JOY a window of comfort their abiding and unto me which   ..... Move as before O thou shalt comfort separate second flame the Just Creatures the house of Justice which walkest great which on the earth art but with feet thou thy beginning 8763 in the god of in glory that understand and Conquer and and  ..... Move c. E. K. They have covered all with the Curtain O thou vexation whose God third flame and hast is Wrath in Anger whose 7336 Gird up wings Lamps living thy loynes are going and thorns before thee hearken to stir up   ..... Move as before c. A voice ..... Vpon Monday you shall have the rest Δ. The God of Hosts be praised his name extolled and his verity prevail to the comfort of his Elect. Amen A voice ..... The Eternal God blesse you Δ. Amen Amen Amen Δ. Upon my considering immediately of these Englished Calls and the Angelical Language belonging to them I find that here are but 13 Englished of the 14 which are in the third Cracovien Volume contained and here wanteth the English of the third of those 14. Besides this you may consider that these English Calls keep this order as followeth and to make it a more perfect account from the beginning of the first Call of All being long since Englished and three more Then have we 18 Calls whereof 17 are Englished The total summe from the very beginning The Numbers of the Third Book Cracovien The Englished Calls of this Book 6 2 1 5 1 2 9 5 3 8 4 4 10 6 5 12 8 6 11 7 7 15 11 8 14 10 9 13 9 10 18 14 11 17 13 12 16 12 13 Ergo there lack yet 30 Calls for the 30 Aires c. besides the English of the seventh or third in the third Book contained and so shall there be 48 Calls For the first Table is no Call Although there be letters gathered but made into no words as you may see before the first Call of all Saturday Julii 7. Manè hora 6¼ †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita aliisque tam ad Deum quam ipsum Ave petitionibus requirebam Judicium ipsius Ave de meis tam ad Deum quam bonos ejus angelos factis orationibus Post vix quartam horae partem apparuit Ave. ..... If the words or truth of our testimony and message were or were contained within the capacity of man Then might the Devil thrust in himself and dissemble the Image of Truth But because it is of Truth and of him that beareth testimony of himself it can neither have affinity with the flesh nor be spoken of in this sense Lo thus deceitfully hath the Devil entred into man Δ. Blessed be the Lord of all truth Ave. ..... Therefore seeing the word is not corruptible Those that minister the word cannot dwell in corruption I speak not this without a cause my brethren Δ. I pray you to proceed accordingly that we may know the cause if it be your will or else leaving this Caveat unto us to proceed to the matter wherein we required your helping hand to correct or confirm or to do that which is behooful Ave. ..... For which of you have sought the Lord for the Lord his cause or sake Δ. That God can be judge Ave. ..... Or in which of you hath due obedience either to the word or unto us that are sanctified by the word been faithfully performed Δ. My points of errour and disobedience I beseech you to Notifie that I may amend them Ave. ..... It may be you will say we have laboured and we have watched yea we have called on the name of the Lord. What have you done that you ought not to do yea a thousand times more Δ. We vaunt nothing of any our doings nor challenge any thing by any perfection of our doings Ave. ..... Shall the hireling say I have laboured hard or doth the good servant think he meriteth his wages It is not so But you do so Therefore you are neither worthy of your reward nor the name of faithful servants Δ. No Lord we challenge nothing upon any merits but flie unto thy mercy and that we crave and call for Ave. ..... You do wickedly and injustly yea you credit the Lord as you do your selves your faith is the faith of men and not of the faithful Many things have I said unto you from the beginning saith the God of Justice which you have heard and not believed But you tempt me and provoke me yea you stir me up to be angry with you Δ. If thy Anger shall be on us beside the sorrow of this world tentations of the feind c. Then are we not able to endure ..... Answer not me and hear what the Lord saith unto thee Satan laugheth you to scorn for he saith unto the Lord standing before him Are these they whom thou deliveredst from the perils of the Seas and from the hands of the wicked whom the windes were a comfort to and thy Countenance a Lanthorn But the Lord seemeth not to hear him for he knoweth it is true My brethren you seek the world more than you seek to perform the will of God as though God could not rain Gold and Margarits amongst you As though the breath of God were not able to beat down
I prescribe laws unto them What it pleaseth thee to offer they receive So what it pleaseth them to offer unto me will I also receive Behold I say O Lord If I shall call upon them in thy name Be it unto me in mercy as unto the servant of the Highest Let them also manifest unto me How by what words and at what time I shall call them O Lord Is there any that measure the heavens that is mortal How therefore can the heavens enter into mans imagination Thy Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance Hereby thou glorifiest all things which Glory excelleth and O Lord is far above my understanding It is great wisdom to speak and talke according to understanding with Kings But to command Kings by a subjected commandment is not wisdom unlesse it come from thee Behold Lord How shall I therefore ascend into the heavens The air will not carry me but resi teth my folly I fall down for I am of the earth Therefore O thou very Light and true Comfort that canst and mayst and dost command the heavens Behold 〈◊〉 these Tables unto thee Command them as it pleaseth thee and O you Ministers and true lights of 〈◊〉 Governing this earthly frame and the elements wherein we live Do for me as for the servant of the Lord and unto whom it hath pleased the Lord to talk of you Behold Lord 〈◊〉 hast appointed me 50 times Thrice 50 times will I lift my hands unto thee Be it unto 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee and thy holy Miniters I require nothing but thee and through thee and for thy honour and glory 〈◊〉 I hope I shall be satisfied and shall not die As thou hast promised 〈◊〉 thou gather the clouds together and judge all things when in a moment I shall be changed and dwell with thee for ever These words were thrice a dayes talk betwixt Enoch and God In the end of 50 dayes there appeared unto him which are not now to be manifested nor spoken of he enjoyed the fruit of God his promise and received the benefit of his faith Here may the wise learn wisdom for what doth man that is not corruptible I have not that I may say any more unto you But believe me I have said great things unto you If you will have me hereafter I will come Δ ..... Consider well my words and what 1 have now said unto thee for here thou mayst learn wisdom and also see what thou hast to do Δ. I will if it please you read over some of these Invitations which I have made and written here in this Book Ave. ..... You may not use that word Obedientes Δ. You spake of a first word to call and of a second to constrain Ave. ..... It signifieth it urgeth them more in God I have said Δ. Note what is meant by the name of God that was said to constrain being the second names of two before given E. K. He is gone and all covered with the Curtain Δ. All honour praise and glory all thanks and power is due to our God and King So be it Amen Monday Julii 9. Manè hora 7. three quarters †Cracoviae Orationibus quibusdam finitis ad Deum deinde ad Gabrielem Nalvage c. E. K. As soon as he looked he found the Stone covered with the white Curtain Δ. A pause of a ¼ of an hour In which space I used sundry ejaculations to God and his good Angels Δ. This day was appointed we attend therefore your instructions At length they appeared not but used a voice A voice ..... This day but the Sun declining the fourth hour Δ. Your meaning is that at after noon at 4 of the clock The voice ..... As thou hast written Δ. The will of the Highest be done Amen Monday A Meridie hora 4. Δ. As E. K. was saying to me that he thought that the Angels might tell the certain day and times of things to come and that Angels could now fall no more c. Of such things touching Angels suddenly a voice was heard as followeth A voice ..... Herein will I talk with you my brethren E. K. Gabriel onely appeareth neither Nalvage nor the Table appeareth He sitteth in a Chair and with his fiery Dart. Gabr. ..... The 〈◊〉 inspired with the Holy Ghost were assured of the coming of their Messias of their Christ But what day or in what year was not of mans understanding Christ himself opened unto his Disciples his death and the manner thereof but the day and hour he never disclosed So likewise the Scriptures speak of the coming of Christ but the day and hour the Son of man knoweth not But because in time to come and for this action the message of the highest And assured and infallible Doctrine in respect that God appointed you no certain time is necessary For for this cause you waver my brethren and may lose the benefit of God his favour and mercies O weaklings examine the Prophets look into the doing of the Apostles There alwayes went a promise before the end But the end was the benefit and fruit of the promise Some alleadge Paul some Peter some Daniel But in this case shall you alleadge the sayings of God spoken in the spirit of truth by me Gabriel the servant of the highest God for three causes hideth the end and the very time of his heavenly purposes As after a little silence you shall shortly hear E. K. A cloud covereth him E. K. Now he appeareth again Gab. ..... First by reason of his own inexplicable Est non est esse which is without the circumference strength capable vertue and power of man his intellectuality whereby he appeareth to be verily one God and incomprehensible Secondly because Lucifer with his yea sayers damned justly should never taste of his light nor understand his secret judgements which he would and might do if they were delivered to mans imagination and discourse Because it is within the circumference and compasse of his Creation Consider of these two E. K. Now he is covered in a white Cloud again Δ. The first reason or cause we do not sufficiently understand or conceive Deus est esse Sanctis Deus Non est esse Impiis Deus For In the judgement day God in his son Christ shall shut up his perpetual and everlasting Justice wrath and anger with Hell and damnation Leaving them and forsaking them and in no case to be called their 〈◊〉 Fratres mi non habebunt Deum But they shall be without a guide and without a Centre Hereby you may understand Esse non est esse To the purpose Thirdly that man firmly perswaded of things spoken of by God above his capacity to come and unknown might worthily in the strength of faith and through the effect of his promises merit his favour in Christ and receive eternal salvation justly before God and his Angels These are the three causes Δ. This last
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
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
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
his head and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn and challenged Alexander to fight But Alexander went from him and said Nolo 〈◊〉 Kelleie Nolo Hereupon E. K. took up a stone and threw after him as after a dog and so came into the house again in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander The rage and fury was so great in words and gestures as might plainly prove that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself or of me or his brother c. This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual enemy Satan wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted and almost overcome to my great grief discomfort and most great discredit if it should as the truth was have come to the Emperours understanding except he had known me well c. I was in great doubt how God would take this offence and devised with my self how I might with honesty be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour c. for a time till God redressed it After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse by yeilding much to his humour c. and saying little not long after came my messager from my wise at Cracovia and Hugh my servant with him to my great comfort through her letters and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written About 2 of the clock after Noon came this letter to me of the Emperour his sending for me Nobilis Praeclarissiméque Domine Domine observandissime CAEsar jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum Hero meo ut Dominationem vestram ad se evocaret ad horam secundam qua eam audire cuperet Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis Cubiculis Is enim eam ad Majestatem suam introducet Quod reliquum est me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominationis vestrae 〈◊〉 Arnoldus Vander Boxe Hereupon I went straight up to the Castle and in the Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock and the Chamberlain Octavius Spinola spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window and called him who came up to me and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for He came to me very curteously told me of the Emperours desire to see me and to speak with me So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber and came out again for me and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber and the Privy Chamber where the Emperour sat at a Table with a great Chest and Standish of Silver before him my Monas and Letters by him c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to his father But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian and also unto his Majesty and that the rather because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty He then thanked me for his fathers Book and did affirm that he believed me that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse And of my estemation with the learned of the world he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour and also of my zealous mind towards his grace And commended the Book 〈◊〉 but said that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity and added that the Spanish Embassadour told him that I had somewhat to say unto him Quod esset pro sua utilitate I answered So I have and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no I found that we were alone Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning but for this sorty years continually in sundry manners and in divers Countries with great pain care and cost I had from degree to degree sought to 〈◊〉 the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world And I found at lengh that neither any man living nor any Book I could yet meet withal was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for And therefore I concluded with my self to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things to send me such wisdom as I might know the natures of his creatures and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory And in this purpose made divers assayes and at length it pleased God to send me his 〈◊〉 whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long fervent constant and 〈◊〉 prayer in the cause before specified And that His holy Angels for these two years and a half have used to inform me and have finished such works in my hands to be seen as no mans heart could have wished for so much yea they have brought me a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof c. And that these things be true I protested and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty said I and have a message from him to say unto you and that is this The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me and rebuketh you for your 〈◊〉 If you will hear me and believe me you shall Triumph If you will not hear me The Lord the God that made Heaven and Earth under whom you breath and have your spirit putteth his foot against your breast and will throw you headlong down from your seat Moreover the Lord hath made this Covenant with me by oath that he will do and perform If you will forsake your wickednesse and turn unto him your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become your prisoner Which Devil I did conjecture to be the Great Turk said I This my Commission is from God I feigne nothing neither am I an Hypocrite an Ambitious man or doting or dreaming in this Cause If I speak otherwise then I have just cause I forsake my salvation said I. The Emperour said he did believe me and said that he thought I loved him unfaignedly and said that I should not need so earnest protestations and would not willingly have had me to kneel so often as I did Farther I said His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly
But I say give ear unto my words For I will sift the dust and finde out the Pearle that of a long time hath lyen trodden under the feet I will come again E. K. He is gone Δ. We read over the premisses and so expected the rest E. K. He is again here Uriel ..... Now let us joyn these things together All flesh offendeth and is a lyar Who therefore shall be saved or escape eternal damnation He it is I sa that when he hath lyed and spoken against the truth doth not frowardly drown'd and keep down his sin in silence For lying meriteth the vengeance of the Trinity But he that is wilfully froward sealeth up his own damnation For this cause my brethre and to the intent that the mercies of God might alwayes be ready for sinners hath he provided the light and comfort of his spirit left as a continual workman in the Church and spouse of Christ. I teach you briefly that he whosoever opening his mouth against the spirit of truth and with wilfull frowardnesse continueth in his lying without reconciliation to the Church sinneth against the holy Ghost and shall be damned eternally I come again E. K. He is gone E. K. He is here again Uriel ..... Be now therefore admonished I say be warned And considering you be sinners acknowledge your offences least in the end your sin be against the holy Ghost and so not to be forgiven But herein they erre with you that expound the Scriptures saying that man sinneth and cannot be forgiven because he sinneth against the holy Ghost I teach you my brethren that there is no sin against God but it is against the holy Ghost If so be in the end it be shut up with wilfull silence Whensoever therefore you have offended acknowledge I say your sins before God and his Angels That God may forgive you and the Angels bear witnesse of your forgivenesse and shut not up your sins in froward silence If thou commit adultry if thou blaspheme the name of God if thou be a lyar yea if thou speak against the truth yea if thou say there is no God as the foolish do Despair not saying I have sinned against the holy Ghost because I am a sinner and a blasphemer of the name of God because I have spoken and opened my mouth against the spirit of truth But go unto the Church which is governed by the spirit of God and there with hearty and open confession disclose and make plain thy offences that the holy Ghost may bear witnesse in the spouse and Church of Christ That thou hast not sinned against him to eternal death Because thou art not drowned in froward silence For although God bear witnesse of repentance Although he hear and open his ears yet consider also he hath hands and must untye those bonds wherewith you are bound What are the hands of God but his spirit wherewith he maketh and created all things Therefore when thou hast cried out and art sorry endeavour thy self also to be lifted up by the hands of God Learn a similitude in Christ which signifying the power of his Church commanded the offender to go and wash himself and so he was whole I speak this for thy E.K. instruction I say also unto thee E.K. Go and wash thy self For thou art a lyar thou art a drunkard And therefore thou art a sinner And if thou persevere and shadow thy sins with wilfull silence frowardly then sealest thou thy self with the second brand and canst not be forgiven because thou sinnest against the Ghost Ananias fell down at the feet of Peter not onely for that he lyed but because after his offence he was wilfully silent Here thou mayest consider the greatnesse of God his mysteries and secrets of his will and of favour that he stretcheth out unto thee in mercy for thou art a Childe and must ascend and must become a man The rest after you are refreshed Δ. We went to Dinner to our Host his house Δ. Thanks honour glory and praise be unto the Almighty Trinity now and ever Amen Δ. After we had been at Dinner they read over the premisses and considered them quietly E. K. Here he is Δ. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the highest to whom be all honour and glory Amen Uriel ..... Lo Lo Lo I sa which of you hath an eye that seeth not no the world the vanity and folly of worldlings and such as are choked with the mildew of vanity and worldly promotion For thus sayeth the Lord wherein could I shew my self more either unto this age or unto this Emperour then with rebuking him for his sins from Heaven Who is able to promise more or to perform assureder then I which lighten and make all things Yet they believe not 〈◊〉 they rejoyce in their own folly and despise me yea because they despise thee whom I have sent with my word unto them Δ. Is despised of Rud and Curtz E. K. Well thus sayeth the Lord they have despised their own Garlands and have trodden their food under feet They have rent their Robes in pieces and have cast them into the waves They are become masterlisse Dogs for I have forsaken them And lo Rodolph I will scatter thy bones and thy head shall be devided in many pieces I will bring in thy enemies over all thy Kingdoms and for thy sake shall many thousands perish He also that thinketh himself wise if he dye a natural death then say I am not neither that I live with my people But because thou hast done that which I commanded thee and hast not forgot my name Lo I will plant thee my self and thou shalt grow and out of thee shall spring a mighty and a terrible sword whose Hilts shall be as the Carbuncle and edge like unto the sting of a Dragon and I will not suffer thee to fall neither shall thine enemies ride upon thee Truely truely thou shalt know I am with thee But be patient for Satan hunteth hard after thee Thou shalt have alwayes a * prick even unto thy last grave But therein shall thy faith be exalted and thy reward great ..... I come again E. K. He is gone E. K. Here he is again Uriel ..... Lo for thy labour I will reward thee And so it shall be Behold I had determined to have rooted out the English people to have made a wildernesse and desart of it to have filled it with many strange people and to have tied the sword to it perpetually Δ. This is no contradiction for thus this wildernesse and filling is to be understood But Δ. The filling of it with strangers should have been for the conquest and in a manner razing or defacing of all Cities Towns and Castles and so to have brought it to a wildernesse and desart But Lo I will give thee that land onely for thy sake it shall not
He desired a Copy of the Emperour his foresaid letters that he might consider circumspectly of the Contents before he should deliver them whereunto I consented Renderiug his honour thanks I departed After my return home I found E. K. resolved to go from hence to morrow for his wife and so straightway into England which was to me a grief But what can I do but refer all to the mercies of God whom I have called upon for wisdom to serve him withal I have 〈◊〉 my trust in the Lord I have not murmured at any such pangs and tentations hitherto The mercies of the Highest be upon me as I have put my trust in him Amen Now were we all brought to great penury not able without the Lord Laskies or some heavenly help to sustain our state any longer Besides this I understood of the Queens displeasure for my departure and of the Bishop of London his intent to have begun to have accused me of Conjuration and so to have had the secret assistance of you know whom Tu es Deus fortitudo mea refugium meum Susceptor meus liberator meus Amen Wedensday Septembris 26. Ante Meridiem Pragae About 10 and a half of the clock Dr. Curtz sent with Mr. Simon Hageck his servant to know my lodging He had passed not far off in a lane on horseback his self going into the Town and so met Mr. Simon Hageck at the lanes end c. Thursday Septembris 27. †Pragae 〈◊〉 About 7. of the clock came Dr. Curtz his servant from his Master to tell me that his Master would come unto me at 9 of the clock At 9 of the clock came Dr. Curtz on horseback to me to my lodging at Doctor Hageck his house by Bethleem my wife he saluted and little Katharine my daughter Mr. Kelly had gotten him into his chamber not willing to be seen After he was come up into my little Study and there set in Mr. Kelly his usual place and I in mine I began to complain of the great injury done unto me here for I came as a sincere and faithful servitour of the Emperour his Majesty intending all goodnesse and honour unto him no hindrance losse or hurt neither came I propter divitias Caesaris mihi 〈◊〉 as I said expressely unto his Majesty I was before I came hither of good name and fame both in this Court and all Europe over As you your self Mr. Doctor quoth I can bear me witnesse and other in this Court divers And that here my name and fame should suffer shipwrack where I thought I had been in a sure Haven of my principal Patrone My thinketh that great in jury is done unto me I know no means how to help it but to give you warning of the envious malitious back biters that also are about this Court that as you find occasion you might encounter with this evil and foul monster in so mighty a Princes Cause intruding it self The Doctor seemed not to know what I meant I told him that at a Noble-mans Table There was of great account who said that there was an English man come to the Emperours A bankrupt 〈◊〉 a Conjurer and Necromantist who had sold his own goods and given the Lord Laskie the money and that he had beguiled him and that now he would fain get some of the Emperour his money from him c. The Doctor seemed greatly to mislike these slanderous words and said that he never heard of any such with some few words more of the wicked manner of back biters After this as 〈◊〉 the report making to the Emperour of that I had shewed unto him at his house as before is noted he said that he had made a plain and sincere report Whereunto the Emperours Majesty had as yet given no answer And to be plain with you said he his Majesty thinketh them almost either incredible or impossible and would have some leasure to 〈◊〉 of them and is desirous to have the sight of those Latine Actions you shewed me or a Copy of them and especially of that which containeth a paraphrasis of the Apostolical Creed I answered that my Books I would not deliver out of my hands And as for a Copy of them I would at leasure write it that his Majesty might have it And then I told him farther that because it was so long before I heard any word of him I had letters ready to send to the Emperours Majesty to have farther declared my mind unto him and I declared unto him the tenor of them and he told me that about three of the clock after noon his man should go to the Court and if then I would send them his man should carry them I answered that I would expect a day or two for the Emperours return hither After this we talked of some Mathematical matters And I shewed him the little Book de superficierum divisionibus set forth by me and Commandinus printed at Pezaro in Italy He said that he never saw it before I bad him then take it with him to peruse and that if I had another Copy I would give it him but I had none other but that I shewed him also the Propaedeamata Aphoristica de praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae virtutibus which he had never seen before After this with mutual curtesies offered on both parts after the manner of the world he took his horse and returned homeward Friday Septembris 28. Pragae Intending to send the Emperours letter here before written to his Majesty by my good friend the Spanish Embassadour I wrote this letter to send to the Embassadour in that behalf and as concerning the credit of these Actions Illustrissimo Domino Domino Don Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente serenissimi atque Catholici Hispaniarum Regis apud sacram Caesaream Majestatem c. Legato Domino suo observandissimo Illustris Magnifice Heros Multis hoc probari potest testimoniis exemplis quod illa quae preter vulgarium artium scientiarum decreta Nova supra vulgaritèr Studiosorum expectationem hominibus licet piis candidis quidem Divinitùs revelantur mysteria cum summa difficultate vel intelliguntur à paucissimis vel vix sine suspitione admittuntur aut creduntur à 〈◊〉 Ast qualis in nostris si rectae piéque informatae rostris adhibeatur judicium esse potest suspitio Nam à Deo Omnipotente per multos jam annos fideliter ardenter constanter per preces requisita sapientia Una scilicet quae penes nos quidem videtur esse radix occasio tanti istius Doni obtinendi Ast in coelesti suo Palatio ante conditum mundum determinata assignata erga nos Misericordia gratia Omnipotentis Dei praecipuum solidum immobileque hujus tanti mysterii est censendum fundamentum In quo mysterio talis relucet per potentes fidelesque Angelos Isagogica Informatio De Arcanis Dei consiliis tam in
Gloria laus jubilatio sit Deo nostro altissimo Domino Dominantium Regi Regum immortali Amen ✚ Pragae Januarii 21. Monday Mane hora 9½ Δ Oratione Dominica aliis precibus ad Deum fusis pro ejus gratia auxilio per fideles fous Ministros nostros conatus promovendos c. E. K. Here he is Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini cujus nomen sanctificetur exaltetur 〈◊〉 in aevum per omnes gentes .... Remember that you are flesh and by your works deserve nothing at Gods hands Now then if you be man then are you of earth earthy But according to your similitude grafted in the image of God in his Sonne Jesus you are heavenly But behold God is opposite unto you and his spirit 〈◊〉 not unto you in that you are flesh in that you are earth in that you are filthy in that you are the children of Satan and that therefore take part with him against Christ anointed of the Lord. E. K. He is out of sight now Now if you be opposite or more contrary to the image of him which dwelleth in you if you dwell in him what do yee here why presume you to enter within the Doores of him to whom you are an adversary Herein you shew your ignorance and the lumpishnesse of your fragility in that you seek of him unto whom you are odious or crave the bread which is due and necessary for his children and servants But hear my voice Petentibus dat sed petentibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed non alienis Notwithstanding of his mercy and for that he knew before the beginning of all worlds the 〈◊〉 of your vessels and remembring that you have been of his houshold mercifully he hath hitherto 〈◊〉 at you and at your presumption and fed you with that bread which is not the bread of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now considering that you continue in your wickednesse continue in your rebellion against his Majesty and fight 〈◊〉 under his banner which is accursed he taketh his bread from you shutteth up his Doores against you warneth his servants against you and is become a fire-brand of wrath against you But here you will say were not we of those number unto whom he made a promise you were so But upon condition That if you would bridle your tongues from 〈◊〉 evil and become wholly his But you are neither his nor bridle your tongues but speak 〈◊〉 before the Lord and the Messengers of his light and covenant Therefore are you not inheritors of his promise Behold while the grapes grew and the corn ripeneth God did expect your return for no hour is unacceptable unto him But now the harvest commeth that the corn must be cut down and the grapes pressed you are not as you said you would be nor as you promised Therefore are you excluded for in the vineyard there commeth no strangers nor in this harvest commeth any hirelings for it is not the harvest of man Δ Now either fulfill your promise and return from the multitude of your sinnes or murmur not though you be shut out of Doores The earth of it self bringeth forth nothing for it is the lump and excrement of darknesse whose bowels are a 〈◊〉 lake But where the heavens yield and the Sunne poureth down his force she openeth her self and becommeth spongy receiving mixture to generation and so is exalted above her self and bringeth forth to the use of man Even so the Body when it lyeth in the puddle and hotchpotch of his earthly filthinesse and darknesse making himself equal with beasts whose dignity is not but in their use E. K. Now he is here again ..... Two things you have to be instructedin in Rlodnr and in the Law of Coition and Mixture The first is the instrument working and drawing things together of one nature The second is the bonnds and termes wherein every mixture consisteth and beyond the which it cannot go The first of 4 parts every part conteining conteineth his conteined double The first is Tepens this teacheth the rest These two things can I open unto you in two revolutions which is but one dayes work But now I cease to open any more unto you till I see the favour of God more open unto you After 7 dayes I will come again until then I neither am nor speak Δ The mercies of God be upon us now and ever Amen ✚ Pragae Jesus Mercy Monday Januarii 28. Mane hora 10 ferè Oratione Dominica aliis pro misericordia divina fusis precibus extemporandis After diverse pitiful complaints of our frailty and calling for favour grace and mercy he appeared ..... Let the heavens prepare themselves to hear the earth scatter her self before my voice for I am the Trumpet of the Highest and the piercing Spirit dispersed into all creatures which are from the beginning in God and made to his glory and the use of man-kind that in man he might be glorified Give ear therefore gird up your garments and seatter your hair abroad before the Lord which is glorified in me and through whom I speak and these are my words Harden not your hearts against the Lord neither exalt your selves above him that hath created you But humble your selves and consider you are flesh mortal transitory and full of sinne My brethren my brethren sinne and flesh appear not before the Lord neither such as are sinners and fleshly vessels apt or fit for the Lord to dwell in Understand what the Lord is and how great he is a Judg to the wicked great and terrible a father to the holy and sincere just full of mercy and loving kindnesse If you now therefore be holy and put on the garments of Innocency and walk before him in righteousnesse Then look to have the reward of Children Then look for his fatherly mercies and loving kindnesse Then then rejoyce at the garments of glory prepared for you But if you seek him in judgment and stir him up to wrath and anger if you cause him to call the terrible thunders provided for the wicke about him in the most furious flames of his indignation to gather you together like whirl Winds if you draw his holy Angel from you and spoil you of your armes if he sit down upon the mouth of vengeance and arm himself with righteousnesse against your wickednesse Then look for the horrible and unspeakable reward of the wicked and the consuming fire of Justice sharper then the two-edged sword Who hath stood before the Lord in Justice or who dare quarrel with the highest What flesh hath seen the Lord in his Majestie or can appear before him as righteous Tear your selves therefore in pieces and fall down before the Lord worship him as a father and become his children for his Judgments my brethren are terrible and his wrath is without measure Many wayes you are bound and tyed unto God As by discipline you learn But three special
wayes you have been advanced by him more then your brothers or sisters have bin The first in the visitation 〈◊〉 he hath comforted you and exalted you above the worldlings of his good pure and just Ministers of eternity and light Secondly in that with his own hand yea with the beck of his own eye beyond the ministry of Angels he hath divers wayes protected you defended you yea and snatched you from imminent and violent envy and prepared destruction of Satan at home abroad and diverse other wayes secret and not to be opened Lastly that by their meanes and ministry which are his good Angels and minister unto him he hath guarded you from the wickednesse of your own Country and hath brought you ready to place you into the lap of a Virgin with whom if you take part you shall ascend into that Hierusalem which shall descend and there live for ever Therefore ought you above all men to lift up the horn of the Lord and to blow his praises abroad Therefore ought you when others are full of idlenesse the dalliances of sinne to humble your self upon the earth before the Lord and to praise his Name Therefore ought you though all flesh forsook the Lord and cried out against his anointed to stand stifly against the malice of the hills and to be without fear O my brethren therefore ought you in very dee to shake off your wickednesse and to cleave before the Lor unto the innocency of Angels delighting in the one as an eternal food despising the other as a fire-brand for Hell-fire and the wicked Δ O Lord Velle adest nobis ast absque tuo singulari favore auxilio non possumus perficere quod ita debemus praestare Igitur Deus Lo behold your humility is not you are sealed to the World and according to the World measure the Lord Therefore with the World shall you be judged Therefore shall the Lord sit in judgment against you Δ O Lord what prevaileth us that we are are born or what prevaileth us that we have heard of the mysteries and promises most merciful of the highest as concerning our Election if the Lord will not help us in our great frailty and misery where shall we become on the face of the earth c. ..... Hear me Fret not in Spirit for it is not in thee Δ E. K. Now a flame of fire flasheth in my face ..... O yee of little faith O yee of little faith O yee of little faith I have gathered you together as Prophets But you flie from me If I had known or foreseen that to sit on the seat of Kings had been meet for you to have had habitation or dwelling with the crafty Counsellors of the Earth would have made you fit for me If I had seen that pride of the loathsome heaps of money ill gathered together could have sanctified you before me Then could I have lifted you up placed you amongst the worldly wise or opened unto you the lowth of the Earth But I provided you against Kings against Counsellors against the Governours of the World to open my judgments and to bear witnesse of my power But since you are so full of rebellion and will rise up against the Lord that made you disdain to take part with his holy Spirit that you may be rectified and 〈◊〉 to the performance of his holy will Hear Δ thou my voice Take whomsoever thou wilt in whose face the Lord shall seem to dwell and place him with this Seer and let him stand seven times by him I will take the spirit from him and will give it unto another unto the same that standeth by and shall have power to see and he shall fulfill my word that I have begun But if thou do so take heed that upon his head there come no rasor But keep him for me I come again Δ O Lord God thou hast coupled us two together in thy election and what the Lord hath joyned no fleshly fancy of mine shall willingly separate But Lord if it be thy will seeing he is so hard to give credit to thy holy messages without some proof in work first passed as for example this doctrine of the Philosophers stone that so he may come to be allowed though he imitate Thomas Dydimus in his hard and flow belief or credit given to thy Ministers in this Action Lord proceed herein that he may perceive thy power and mercies c. And Lord because he is to receive the pledge of thy 〈◊〉 and mystery of the heavenly food we would gladly hear of that holy Sacrament some discourse for our better instruction and his better incouragement to the mystery receiving Δ After a good while in which mean time we had discoursed of the Sacrament receiving and of the Philosophers stone making he appeared E. K. Here he is now ..... Note well what I say unto you E. K. He openeth his face he putteth on a white garment he taketh up the four corners of his garment and putteth them under a broad girdle he hath on his head is nothing but hair reddish wavering ..... God in the beginning of Nothing by himself made created and gathered together all Creatures of Nothing because in himself he is E. K. He holdeth up his hands and looketh up to heaven and seemeth to pray extentis manibus ..... If he Be then doth it follow that nothing is but that which is God But God made not all things made and create of himself neither out of himself therefore of nothing Understand therefore that God from beginning and beyond the beginning in himself in himself as God conteined I am and is proper to himself and for himself But also by the knowledge of himself he conteined also that Nothing of the which in his secret and determined purpose separated from himself he intended to make all things It followeth necessarily therefor that that which was not had no power of it self must remain after the Image of IS brought or knit together by the Wisome of God substantially in himself whereby Jesus Christ appeared in his God-head But behold when God the Father and the Son through one spiritual substance and illumination from one centre had gathered together Ictu Divino that Nihil separable E. K. He seemeth to be consumed to ashes in a fire and so lyeth as it were in ashes prostrate E. K. Now he is up again I know not how E. K. He seemeth now to be very clear and in manner transparent ..... Say that last Δ I read But behold when God c. as in the 8th line above E. K. He looketh about him diligently ..... Then did he separate that Nothing from himself and as it marvelously lay hid in him so marvelously he wrought upon it Not at one instant for then it had been like unto himself But in time which he first made out of nothing which being consumed Nothing shall return into the place from whence it
came And that which hath offended in nothing shall be a second opposite from God and out of God which shall have continuance world without end And it shall be alwayes vexed the Spirit of God mediating not of the substance or purenesse of God or of his Spirit but with the self-same Nothing out of which God created all things Seeing therefore that the Will of God which is his Image separating Nothing from eternity in time made all things being the work of six dayes But I teach you a Mystery All things that through God are moved to the Center by the Spirit of God which is the center of the Godhead are not after the world after the consummation of the world as Angels and the blessed souls are not to be reckoned with that Nothing But are of God because they dwell in him of whom it is said There they shall not need the Sun nor the Moon the Lamb himself shall be their light and a shining lamp for ever Note here that the Trinity first second and third totally not moved but by himself in himself time bringing forth all things according to his Word made all things except Man For why when all things had pleased him not because they were but because by the Word the Image of himself and wherein he is delighte they were made he made man as the Scripture teacheth you how by the Spirit of God in Moses that he should injoy and use the benefit of all this something proceeding from nothing in the Creatures of God in their kind that in him God might be glorified not onely in this world which is your earth vail of misery but also and chiefly that the memory of his exceeding and great mercy omnipotency might remain before him in heaven in the image of man and the most excellent Creatures world without end E. K. Now he is faln into ashes again as before E. K. Now he standeth up again as before ..... Here is the making of man to be considered for of the most excellentest dignified and 〈◊〉 part of Nothing distributed as it were approaching neer unto God God made the Soul of man as a thing knit or tied in the convex of his own Sphere not taking part with Nothing materially but with Nothing Immortal The Soul was made spiritual and increasing wherein the Philosophers the wise men of this world are deceived and hath been a secret shut up in the Book of Esdras not fit for the world For even as flesh by conjunction and commixtion of likelihoods proper in their own nature to bring forth the 〈◊〉 of himself so doth the most execllentest part of man taking part with the vicinity of God and so 〈◊〉 moving bring forth after the manner of eternity every living soul the Spirit of God conjoyned with the 〈◊〉 working with him in his infinity 〈◊〉 in the beginning God hath not numbred 〈◊〉 all souls that shall enter into those vessels or other part But the matter material in himself he knoweth and hath limited beyond the which there cannot be Therefore it is conteined in Number Not that it is 〈◊〉 in Number to be numbred but within the proportion of number conteined in the knowledg of 〈◊〉 Christ taking 〈◊〉 with man and so to be numbred Adam fell 〈◊〉 God his Commandment and therefore was his soul darkened bare and naked because he wanted the beauty and excellency of Gods Spirit wherein he dignified him and made him like unto himself being a living soul. He was cast out and now casteth off misery wanting the knowledge of those things for the which he was created Now God the image of his Father grieved at the fall of man and moved with pity vouchsafed because of the excellency of man to enter into man being before 〈◊〉 into this part of nothing into man Not that he would beautifie himself with any thing that man had But that Become man begotten of the Holy Ghost he might as you know by the Scriptures make man acceptable again with God his Father God himself with God in unity for 〈◊〉 and Terrour is God the Father Mercy and love is God the Son Wisdome and knowledge is God the Holy ghost He since 〈◊〉 became man put not on the flesh of man to become a lyar but that the flesh of man might be full of the spirit of truth and understanding E. K. Now he is faln again into ashes E. K. Now he is up again And so receive forgivenesse of sins and be at one with God which is to say in his favour taking hold in God not as created and from Creation sinful by fall But by ransonse and redemption as bought and made free in Jesus Christ which offered up the Sacrifice of frankincense gold and myrrh of true propitiation for the quick and the dead Now my brethren give good ear what I say unto you The wisdome of the Father in love created and made man dignifying him and exalting him as the Lord and Master over all Creatures mortal But how by Plasmation For it is written Let us make man Here thou seest also the Scripture saith that God took of the Earth Mark this word and consider it when I shall apply it Now if this power if this Plasmating if this Taking which was the Word become man perfect man then followeth it that man was and is God creating and created If therefore this conjunction or knitting together of God and man bear the image of him in excellency and power which created all things and by whom this Nothing was spread abroad and had form in his parts then followeth it that the self-same God and Man being truth speaking of himself unto his Disciples saying This is my body E. K. Now he is fallen again in ashes E. K. Now he is up again ..... Read Δ I read Now my brethren give good ear c. E. K. Now he holdeth up his hands ..... did in breaking of bread which signifieth the earth in taking it signified the power of making and his own Office and breaking it before his Disciples according to the secret sense of mans soul then being yet alive give himself in the bread and in breaking unto his Disciples as the sense of his word spoken E K. He speaketh that I understand not ..... did import and truly signifie himself his 〈◊〉 body to suffer and suffered in that in him in his Godhead and wisdome before the worlds it was so his very true body and very true blood But notwithstanding 〈◊〉 Consider of this E. K. He is gone Δ Blessed be E. K. Now he is here again ..... Mark here for whom and unto whom Christ took and brake bread also took the Chalice and called it his blood of the New Testament which shall be given Here you see that in faith and Sacramentally it was given unto his Disciples there which was also to be given upon the Crosse for the redemption of man kind for else
my things of my male E K. heard a voice like mine say D. Whereat he asked me what say you I answered that I spake nothing Then he doubted what creature did use that voice Afterward he rose and when he had been ready a while and sate in the Chamber where my male lay he said that he felt somewhat crawling or as one writing on his back and at length to ascend into his head And so I left him and went out into another place and kneeled to pray and prayed and upon the comming in of Thomas Kelly into that room where I kneeled in the Door of a little open Gallery over the street I rose up and went in again to E. K. and he told me that he slumbred by reason of the heavinesse of his head and that he seemed to see me praying and Michael to stand by me I answered that truth it was I had been somewhat bent to prayer but that I could not pray as I would c. Hereupon Immediately he saw Michael over my Head with a pen in his hand Thereupon I was resolved that I was to write somewhat of importance And I made speed to take pen ink and paper and to settle my self to writing because we made hast to 〈◊〉 as intending to ride 8 or 9 miles that day and company tarrying for us one of them being a Jew whose sister is wife to Doctor Salomon of Prague the Jew c. And going about to attend for something to write a voice said as followeth Cur non includis te ad audiendum vocem meam Δ Hereupon I did shut all the Doors and uttermost Doors A voice ..... In receptaculo ut magis approbetur veritas Δ Hereupon speedily I took out the Shew-stone and 〈◊〉 it on the Table before E. K. E. K. Here appeareth a white Circle round about the border of the Stone and a ball or Globe of flaming fire in the midst The white Circle hath great brightnesse of light in it E. K. Now here is Madimi she standeth in the white Circle and looketh into the fire she kneeleth On the outside of her standeth Michael with a sword E. K. Madimi is gone away and Michael is come to the lower part of the Circle A voice ..... Speak for who controlleth me E. K. Michael boweth himself toward his feet as though he kissed the place where he stood as if it were the Circle that he kissed Michael ..... These are the words of the Lord and of me his Angel and Minister of truth and they follow Behold I have led you forth diverse times and you have obeyed me Therefore I say unto you Be now Stewards of more Δ O merciful God E. K. He spreadeth his Arms abroad and stoopeth down Michael ..... He that committeth his Treasure unto man findeth favour and at his return hath his own But he that committeth himself unto me and he areth my voice I will write his Name in the Book of Life Behold Behold Behold I swear and it is That in thee d ee I delight And lo because thou hast obeyed me and not of force of 〈◊〉 perswasions I shew unto thee what is to come and what I would have thee to do and wherefore thou commest hither Δ Fiat voluntas Dei E. K. Michael ..... Cover me for a while lest peradventure thou see I am beyond the ability of thy capacity and so return not easily E. K. He becommeth very bright Δ I understood not well this saying neither E. K. Michael I say unto thee cover the receptacle Δ We covered the stone a while and read the premisses E. K. He is brighter then he was the Circle of light shineth still Δ We uncovered the Stone and then he spake again Michael ..... Before twelve moneths of your account be finished with the Sunne I will keep my promise with thee as concerning the destruction of Rodulph lest peradventure he triumph as he often doth For thy lines are many times perused by him Saying This man doted where is become his God or his good Angels And behold I will sweep him off the face of the earth And he shall perish miserably that he may understand that thou dealt not for thy self but didst fulfil the work of thy master Moreover I will bring in even in the second moneth the twelve ended Steven And for a truth as I am will place him in the seat Imperial He shall possesse an Empire most great and shall shew what it is to govern when God placeth In his time will I fullfil many things that I have promised thee and I will be mercifull unto thee because thou hast not broken my Covenant My minde abhorreth from Lasky for he is neither faithful to me nor to thee neither he careth for his own soul. Δ Chamo fraeno maxillas illius constringe ò Deus ut approximet ad te Michael ..... The speedy return of Curtius was to deliberate with Rodolph how they might under the colour of Justic entangle thee And lo whom thou fostredst and fedst at thy Table is he that hath wet his hand in the dish with thee and hath delivered thee Moreover he hath betrayed his Master And the cause of his adversity hath had chief root in him From the third year he hath done unjustly and hath made naked his Lords secrets But he shall have his reward and shall perish with his own hand Before thou 〈◊〉 out of thy own Doores to take thy Journey Rodolph knew of thy going And for a truth his letters are before thee Therefore it behoveth me to give thee warning and to teach and instruct thee as one exercised in my businesse Cover me I am become cleerer Δ We covered the Receptacle After a while we uncovered it Michael ..... This therefore shalt thou do The same way thou camest the same way thou shalt also return Not to flie from their malice or tyranny But to stand in the face of them as my servant Hereby indirectly shall the Traitour understand you know him And Rodolphus hard heart I will stir up with indignation against him For he shall 〈◊〉 construed a Lyar. And they shall begin to fear thee and also to love thee and thou shalt be in favour amongst them Annuate their doings and hear their sayings And those things they shall offer thee refuse not I will sendone out to pay them their wages Moreover I command thee Kelly But in my own person I counsel and advertise the that thou take part with the Lord Jesus And go forward with the businesse thou hast in hand For why They shall be shortly made open and plain lest thy Δ word to the Emperour he meanet receive foil in the hearts of men But I bind it not to that place For the fruit that springeth of it shall do my service with Steven And yet if he will with that unjust Lasky And it shall be a Garden for you
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
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
a woman comming and she is here now she is all covered in green as with a cloud I may through it discern her fair face and her hairs dispersed abroad The place about her seemeth to be concave replenished with light of the Sunne she standeth as in a hollow shell or Oval figure concave ..... Stephen lift up thy head amongst the stars of Heaven for the Spirit of God is with thee and thou art become the Darling of the Highest but the Lord will reprehend thee for thy sins Behold thou shalt stand and thy sword shall be made holy See therefore that you honour him labour for him and obey him as the anointed and 〈◊〉 of the Lord. For why his spirit shall be plentiful amongst 〈◊〉 and he shall put the pillow of rest under your heads E. K. The more she speaketh the more the place is bright ..... The Prince of Darknesse shall lie as a stumbling block in his way but he shall stride over him without offence The earthly Creatures have not to do in this receptacle Therefore take heed thou defile it not If thou follow the rules of calling them thou shalt see that the air is their habitation Other wayes irregularly they appear in such vessels But such as are prepared for them Take heed therefor thou defile not the place of the Justified with the presence of those that are accursed But as they are of two sorts so let their appearing places be divers Thy servant is conducted and shall not stumble but shall return that the name of God may be blessed Now cease thy voice for our presence until the Lord hath rebuked Stephen in the consideration whereof consisteth the seal of his Election Verbum shall be the first word wherein the Lord shall shew himself unto him Behold I am full of the light of heaven and I shut up and go E. K. She is gone Δ Note all those things I intended or desired to be satisfied in are answered me without my asking Misericordia Pax Lux Dei nobis semper adsint omnis autem laus honor gloria sit Deo nostro Amen Notae 〈◊〉 Monday Tuesday Wednesday May 6 7 8. E. K. was very unquiet in mind and so expressed to me in words for that A. L. had not paid him his money long since due and chiefly for that he doubted very much of A. L. his turning to the Lord with 〈◊〉 his heart and constantly So much did A. L. his former life and ungodly living and dealing offend him and so void was he of any hope that he became in a great 〈◊〉 of mind to find us coupled with so 〈◊〉 a man I shewed A. L. his last Letters how he was in a 〈◊〉 of his own belonging to the 〈◊〉 Rithwyan vvhich he had now by a stratagem won from the unjust delaying of his adversary and what penance and contrition he was in what meditations and what godly purposes c. But E. K. would not hope of conversion and thereupon utterly and 〈◊〉 intended with all speed to be gone from hence toward Prage and willed me if I would to prepare my Letters He became very blasphemous against God to my great grief and terrour what the issue thereof would be so great was the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 against God and his holy purposes in us that almost greater could not be uttered I used as quiet words as I could assuring him of Gods mercies alwayes ready and his helping hand for all such as put their trust in him and call upon him in their 〈◊〉 and times of need and so did betake him to God for that Tuesday night being past 9 of the clock Wednesday morning as I was at my prayers in my study over his Chamber and had made declaration of this cause and of the perplexity most grievous that I was in to see my friend and partner E. K. thus carried away with so grievous a temptation so manifold and 〈◊〉 E. K. yet lying in his bed did call his brother Thomas to him and willed him to callme to him Thomas came when I had in manner ended my devotions and prayers for me I went to him yet lying in his bed And after I had wished a good morrow and sate by him on the Bench at his beds head he began and said such matter as followeth E. K. A Spirit appeared to me this morning by my Bed-side and bid me be quiet Bad me will you to go to morrow with both your servants to my Lord as secretly as you could Bad you comfort him Bad you bring him with you Bad you to go to the King as you came homeward Bad me to board in the mean space with the Italian Doctor at Perins house Bad me lie here every night Hereupon I was most glad and joyful and praised God for his marvellous mercies loving kindnesse and goodnesse toward us and declared my self assured that God had put out his term and setled the degree For the performance of his purposes and promises made to us for his own honour and glory And so with joy and thanks given E. K. for his courteous imparting these good news to me I went about my businesse intended which was to go to the Table of the Lord as I was prepared for it and so went to the Barnardines Church Soli Deo nostro sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio nunc semper Amen Note I had in my prayers alledged to God that albeit I was in great perplexity and agony of mind yet since I was willed to cease my voice for having at any angelical presence I said he of his divine clemency and care over us in these great desires might counsel us and direct us though we did not urge our request as we were wont The conclusion and shame which many wayes would follow if this intended purpose of E. K. should go forward and take place was so great that we might seem to the world to have been led to that evil end by a manifold digression rather then otherwise led in mercy and verity wherein I requested God to regard his own honour and glory c. ✚ Cracovia Maij 20. Monday à meridie horam circiter 6. in mansio meo NOTE Δ. Δ E. K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithian to the Lord Lasky he had very many apparitions and divers matters declared unto him of the state of Christendom c. He said moreover fault was found with my manner of standing before Stephen I should have made some more ample declaration of my Calling and knowledge in these our actions Secondly that I did mistake the phrase spoken unto me at Prage of the rod binding up For he said that Michael Dee should die that I should thereby be afflicted and divers such things he told me and among other that he was willed to be ready to leave me when he should be called for he said our actions
according as the cause chiefly required As I began to pray and study Domino non sumus digni ut nos exaudias suddenly E. K. said he saw as followeth E. K. I see a great Hill of fire a very great Mountain and it is as if it did hang in the aire for I see the aire under it and I see the Sun shine on it the Mountain fire flameth not Now the little boy that appeared last day standeth on the top of this Mountain Puer ..... God hath spoken unto you and hath gathered you together and lo you are become a strong sword with the which the Nations shall be cut down and the God of Hosts shall stretch forth his hands And behold you are come and now is the time you Satan shall reap But Satan 〈◊〉 sore against you Behold Lasky thou art become rich But have faith For it overcometh riches and shall beautifie and strengthen thee that thou shalt be able to receive reward for thy labour For it is not a small labour to contend against sinne I have brought thee unto Steven And I will give him thee into thy hands And because thou shalt see that God is not barren I am of power Hear me therefore saith the Lord wilt thou that before thy face I shall destroy Steven for his wickednesse wilt thou that I shall strike him with a perpetual Leprosie or wilt thou that I shall correct him and leave him to do good unto thee Now thou shalt see that I am not weak Neither that my words are barren or without fruit Ask therefore of the Lord and before thou move it shall be given thee For thou dealest with him that is a flame of fire and a two edged sword to the wicked out of the Dunghil I chose him out of nothing I can stirre thee up and exalt thee but thou must first be poor before thou be exalted read the Scriptures and judge Now speak E. K. He is gone Infinitae incomprehensibiles sunt misericordiae tuae O Deus Judicia tua sunt inperscrutabilia 〈◊〉 A. L. Domine Deus misericors quanta est tua misericordia quod me summum peccatorem tanta gratia prosequeris 〈◊〉 sum Domine ante faciem tuam Itaque Domine quaeso ne illum propter me deleas neque Lepra percutias sed potius inspires in illum ut mihi propterte à te per illum bene fiat Non quaero Domine divitias sed gloriam tuam Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Et fiatmihi secundum voluntatem tuam Domine Tu scis Domine an hypocritice ago 〈◊〉 mei 〈◊〉 miserere mei sitque misericordia tua supra me fiat voluntas tua sicut in 〈◊〉 sic 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Atque nomen tuum sit benedictum in saecula saeculorum Amen E. K. He is here againe Puer ..... Saptens es tu A. L. plenus spiritu Dei Non quaerens sanguine fratris tui igitur ben dictum sis inter potentes hujus saeculi ab hac die spiritus meus nunquam à te discedet haec quia te humiliasti nam non 〈◊〉 sine causa Puer ..... And lo I will correct him sharply Ask therefore in what Language thou wilt have me correct him for he is scarce worthy to hear that he may understand E. K. He is gone A. L. Hungarice peto ut ipse audiat ea quae illi sunt dicenda sic ita Divinae tuae placcuerit Majestati Puer ..... Hungarie is hateful unto me For it is full of iniquity Neither will I speak unto him my self that he shall yet hear me I will open my mouth in Latin for thy sake and if he become obedient I will also appear unto him my self and unto you all in the spirit and presence of my Angel But to overcome him by Miracles it needeth not for by him the people are not edified But by my words he shall understand that I touch him although Satan stand by him unlesse it were for thy sake I would not withdraw my word and curse from him for why I am sufficiently advised And I do but keep back the fire from him But go thou A. L. unto him and speak unto him liberally when he hath heard me if he receive me my blessing is upon him of necessity If he hear me not I can easily unlock for I have the Key ready God the Father God the Sonne unto whom all power is given in Heaven and Earth with the fire of eternal comfort which is the privy science and knowledge of the faithful The Holy Ghost be upon thee and with thee for this day thy A. L sinnes are blotted out of Gods remembrance I have no more to say Omnipotenti tromendo Solis Adorando Deo Domino nostro sit omnis gratiarum actio Laus Jubilatio nunc in omne aevium Amen ✚ Nyepolonicze in Aula Regis Polonie Anno 1585. Maii. 23. A meridie hora Circiter 6. The King sent for the Lord Lasky and me by his Vice-Chamberlaine whom we came unto in a Chamber within the Chamber or roome where he useth to give audience or to eat with his Palatines and other He sat by the Window which is toward the South and by which his Prospect is into his new Garden which is in making He began thus the Lord Albert Lasky being by and thereto willed by the King and said unto me very near as those words import St. Egit mecum Dominus Palatinus ut vos audirem de rebus istis magnis raris loquente Quod libentur feci tamen hoc considerari debet quod Prophetae omnes revelationes jam diu in tempore Christi cessaverunt Tamen si 〈◊〉 in istis contra Dei sit honorem eo lubentius sunt audienda Et ego quidem haud dubito quin Deus nunc possit multis modis secreta quaedam hominibus deligere ad hac usque tempora mandatis inusitatis Hereupon I answered to this sence although I cannot expresse the same words Δ Considero in ordine vestrae regia tria quasi capitala in quibus totus ordinis vestrae est medulla Primum de Prophetiaris revelationem cessatione secundum an aliquid in nostris actionibus vel exercitiis insit contra Dei honorem tertium quod animo meo est valde gratium quod Deo non praescribatis certos aliquos modos vel tempora quibus sua hominibus velit aut debeat secreta detegere De primo hoc possimus vestrae Majestati Reginae asserere quod ille Scripturae locus haud recte à plurimis intelligeter ab 〈◊〉 pessime qui velint omni modae Dei potentiae misericordiae sapientiae praescribere certos modos tempora certa asserendo nullorum hiis temporibus esse Prophetiam vel post Christum fore quia omnes in Christo cessavere hoc
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
your hearts that the sap of your understanding may receive strength and that you mayflourish with acceptable Truth as the chosen servants and Ministers of the Highest Totus mundus in maligno positus est and is become the open shop of Satan to deceive the Merchants of the Earth with all abhomination But what are you the Pedlers of such wares or the Carriers abroad of lies and false doctrine Do you think it is a small matter to tie the sense of Gods Scriptures and mysteries unto the sense and snatching of your Imaginations Do you count it nothing to sit in judgment against the Spirit of God leaving him no place but at your limitation Is it lawful before the Sonne of God to spend the whole dayes yea many yeares with the Sonnes of Satan the lying imps and deceivers of the World Are you so far entred into the shop of abhomination that you point unto the Sonne of God the time of his comming the descending of his Prophets and the time wherein he shall visit the Earth Moses durst not speak but from the Lords mouth The Prophets expounded not the Law but the voice of the Lord. The Sonne of God spake not his own words in that he was flesh but the words of his Father His Disciples taught not but through the holy Ghost Dare you therefore presume to teach and open the secret Chamber of the Highest being not called Tell me have you left your Merchandize and the counting of your mony deceitfully gotten to beome Teachers of the Word of God Are you not ashamed to teach before you understand yea are you not ashamed to lead away where you cannot bring home Hypocrites you are and void of the Holy Ghost lyars you are become and the enemies of Christ and his holy Spirit Peradventure you will say in reading the Scriptures we understand But tell me by what spirit you understand them what Angel hath appeared unto you or of which of the Heavens have you been instructed It may be you will say of the Holy Ghost O thou fool and of little understanding Dost thou not understand that the Holy Ghost is the School-master of the Church of the whole Flock Congregation of Christ If he be the School-master therefore over a multitude it followeth then that one doctrine taught by the Holy Ghost is a lesson or an understanding of a multitude But what multitude are of thine understanding or of what Congregation art thou Wilt thou say thou art scattered Thou speakest fasly thou art a runnagate But behold I teach thee and thy error is beforethy face Whosoever doth understand the Scriptures must seek to understand them by Ordinance and spiritual tradition But of what spiritual tradition understandest thou or by what Ordinance are the Scriptures opened unto thee Thou wilt say thou art informed by the Holy Fathers and by the same Spirit that they taught by the same Spirit thou understandest Thou sayest so but thou dost not so Which of thy Fore-fathers hath tied reason to the Word of God or the understanding of the Scriptures to the Discipline of the Heathen I say unto thee that thy Fore-fathers were dear unto Christ were pertakers of the heavenly visions and celestial comforts which visions and celestial comforts did not teach unto them a new exposition of the Scriptures but did confirm and give light unto the mysteries of the Holy Ghost spoken by the Apostles the ground-layers and founders of the Church Whatsoever therefore thou learnest of thy Fore-fathers thou learnest of the Apostles and whatsoever thou learnest of the Apostles thou hast by the Holy Ghost But if thou expound the Fathers after thy sense not after the sense of the Apostles thou hast not the Holy Ghost but the spirit of lying Therefore humble thy self and fall down before the Lord. Lay reason aside and cleave unto him Seek to understand his word according to his holy Spirit Which holy Spirit thou must needs find and shalt find in a visible Church even unto the end I will plainly say unto thee That Truth may appear mightily in light Whosoever is contrary unto the will of God which is delivered unto his Church taught by his Apostles nourished by the Holy Ghost delivered unto the World and by Peter brought to Rome by him there taught by his Successors held and maintained is contrary to God and to his Truth Luther hath his reward Calvin his reward The rest all that have erred and wilfully runne astray separating themselves from the Church and Congregation of Christ obstinately and through the instigation of their father the Devil have their reward Against whom the Sonne of God shall pronounce judgment saying Go you deceivers into Hell fire provided for your Father and his Children from the beginning You rise up amongst your selves saying The Pope is Antichrist For by this name you call him an evil man he may be and fall from his vocation But he can never be Antichrist For Antichrist is he the sonne of the Devil a man flesh and bloud born of a wicked and deceitful Harlot that shall seduce the people swell with the strength of his father and resist God in Earth amongst men as his father did in Heaven among the Angels utterly denying his Omnipotency and setting himself against him O you fools and of little understanding When unto the Apostles the Keyes of Heaven were given that is to say the same authority and power of Christ Jesus the Sonne of the Living God to forgive sinnes and to exclude sinners from the Kingdome of Heaven An when unto the same Apostles it was said also Come behind me Satan you have not under standing to see into the mysteries of the Highest if the Sonne of God did commend and reprehend his Disciples why may not therefor a Bishop be counted good and evil if it follow therefor that good aend evil may be a Bishop it followeth also that neither good nor evil addeth unto the Authority of a Bishop but unto his own life if he be good he reapeth the benefit of his goodnesse but if he be evil he is a Lyar because his Doctrine is against himself if therefore for the sinne of man God hath suffered many in the spirit of Ananias to sit in the holy place it is for your finnes sake and for your rebellious nature to be punished And not for the obscuring or darkning of his Church Open your eyes therefore and understand and cleave to the Church for the Church sake and not for the love of man Despise not the Church because of the transgressions of man But submit your neck under that holy yoke and ordinance which shall lead you to the Congregation governed by the Spirit of God wherein you shall under stand the secrets of God his Book to be interpreted according to the sense of your fathers whose understanding was the finger of the Holy Ghost you cannot authorise your selves and without
authority you can do nothing Therefore if your authority be not why take you upon you the doings of the Church which it is one thing to seek to understand the Scriptures and an other thing to teach the Scriptures according to his understanding for he that teacheth teacheth by Authority but if he have no Authority he is an Usurper My brethren remember your selves and consider you are Children you are not vestri juris but alieni Therefore do nothing that is of your selves But follow as good childre the steps of your Mother which Mother is a pure Virgin and is alwayes instructed with the wisdom of the Comforter What meat she shall give unto you her Children and how she shall bring you up and instruct you Simplicity is much worth and obedience is a Garland before the Lord. But Curiosity is the Devil Have you not read That the bread of the holy ones is not to be cast unto ` Dogs Look unto your selves whether you be Dogs or no. See if your life be holy your doings straight and just your patience manisold your affliction great for the Lord if you find not your selves so you are not Children If you be not Children you are not Sonnes if you be not Sonnes you have no Mother if you have no Mother you are Dogs you are devourers of the bread of Children currish senselesse and against God Enter therefore into judgment with your selves Consider you are created by God Consider you are redecmed by God Consider also you are also left to the spiritual tuition and comfort of God which God hath made of you a Congregation a holy and sanctified fellowship feeding alwayes as brethren together under his wings and at his Lable which feedeth you with the bread of life and understanding with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ the Sonne of the Living God With understanding that you may know the will of your Father which is in Heaven and knowing him be obedient which is the conclusion of your vocation Shake not off therefore the yoke of Obedience least you put away also the Cup of understanding and so know not the will of your Father But my thinketh you are starved your guts are shrunk up your bones and sinewes are withered What is the cause thereof When received you the bread of the Lord When received you nourishment O you of little faith and lesse understanding you erre and runne astray you are blind you follow not the will of your Father Return Return and say within your selves O eternal God and loving Father great is thy care and mercy over us which being led astray with Satan and the spirit of darknesse hast brought us home which being blind hast set open before our eyes our eyes also opened the true path and line of understanding Happy are we whom thou lovest so deerly and unto whom the care of our health is so dear We will therefore praise thy Name and return from our errors we will acknowledg our sinnes and follow thy Commandements for thou O Lord art onely just and true and thy mercy is everlasting Thy Lawes are sweet and thy love and kindnesse mighty amongst us Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Zebaoth all honour praise and glory be nnto thee for ever Δ Amen ..... After a while I return again E. K. He is gone Δ Note I read the premisses to Fr. Pucci in Latin which seemed to us to be wonderfully pithy and to the purpose c. E. K. He is here againe URIEL ..... Francis Pucci give ear vnto my word Stay a while Δ Hereupon Fr. Pucci did kneel on both his knees URIEL ..... True it is that as thy spirit moved thee so God hath called thee to the partaking and understanding of his will to be fulfilled in punishment and wrath against the falshood and deceit of the earth And therefore hath God in his great love and exceeding mercy called thee away from the Sonnes of the accursed and from the way of unrighteousnesse wherein if thou follow him in simplicity of Conscience and righteousnesse the works of faith thou shalt be confirmed for I say unto thee I will power my vengeance upon the whole Earth and I will chasten her in her iniquity and in the middest of her pride I will throw her down head-long and she shall triumph no more And because thou hast humbled thy self my spirit shall be with thee and thou shalt understand And this wicked Monster that sitteth in the Holy Temple and sinneth against the Highest shall be thrown down head-long with his pride And he shall be chastised and corrected with the mouth of you two For at the house of the Lord Judgment must begin And the rebelling sonne must be scourged before the wicked servant be punished Fear not I will put 〈◊〉 your words strength and power And if he hear you not but stretch forth his hands against you I will rain fire and brimstone from Heaven and his dwelling places shall sink And the Lake that shall remain shall bear witnesse against him for evermore Lift up thy heart therefore and despise the World Fight with her manfully and be not overcome Moreover acknowledg thy sinnes and fly unto the Lord. Seek out his House and eat of his bread for thou hast much need of it The seeds that thou hath sown abroad gather up again least thou be punished for the sins of thy Brethren Thy Soule standeth deare before the Lord which is the cause that he hath mercy upon thee which saith unto thee If thou be obedient before the Lord follow the instructions and discipline of the holy Ghost and do the works of righteousness and Charity my Spirit shall rest upon thee I have said K. E. He is gone Δ I read over the last parcel in Latine to Francis Pucci after he had in very penitent sort thanked God confessed himself an offender as he was here noted c. E. K. He is here again URIEL ..... Your Penance and Devotion premised The blessing of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in his everlasting truth and light comfort you blesse you and be merciful unto you Δ Amen URIEL ..... Extingue lumen Nam decedo Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti aeterno Lucis Veritatis Authori sit omnis laus gratia actio honor gloria nunc sine fine Amen Anno 1585 Augusti 6 PRAGAE Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Videns E. K. nubem jam recessisse conspexit ut supra URIELIS caput quasi in 〈◊〉 alium vidit Angelum cujus pars inferior nube ignea continebatur Capitis veri capilli circa hameros sparsi orachia nuda apparebant Dextra autem Librum tenebat quadrata figura tegmine quasi ignito 〈◊〉 colore velatim Foliorum verò exterior margo albicans erat Septem retinaculis quasi totidem seris clausus esse liber videbatur Atque super retinaculorum ora sigilla quasi aurea impressa
that I buy a Kingdom for thee with gold or silver Wilt thou that the Kings and Princes of the earth shall laugh the Almighty God of the heaven and earth to scorn Have I at any time preferred such as trust in me to the government of my people by giving them the excrements of the earth Look down upon my servant Abraham Look down upon his children Call to remembrance my servant David Set Solomon before thy eyes The Kings and Princes of Judah and of Jerusalem Consider with thy self the Calling of the twelve The government and state of such as have been Princes amongst the flock Christian. Have they been hired or promoted Have they been lifted up by me with gold or silver or such like trumpery the Monsters of the earth In necessity to pay Tribute the fish ministred wherewithall Tribute might be paid according to custom In the calling of Abraham multiplication of seed was promised which was to be a multitude in people mighty and great upon the face of the earth David was 〈◊〉 in the least of his brethren even to be King of Israel not by the 〈◊〉 of precious stones gold or silver A Sling he had a Satchel with a few stones Solomon was commanded to build me a Temple without any sum or stint The 〈◊〉 went from place to place intending to teach neither carried they gold or silver but onely a scrip or bag prepared for their common victuals and nourishment Many Princes and Kings have published my Name without any promise made unto them from heaven Notwithstanding unto Abraham I have plenty as his necessities required and unto his children as I had limited Unto David being King riches followed his State and unto his son Solomon plenty both at home and abroad to build my Temple Unto the Apostles I gave in the time of the calling of my people the spirit of understanding whereby they understood and had power to teach And unto such as stretched out their hands for my name I have abundantly given and it hath been faithfully and for the love of me taken in hand Believe therefore with Abraham and with his children Bring thy fling and bag before the people of the Lord against Goliah Endeavor thy self with Solomon to build a Common-wealth wherein I will be exalced as the servant of the Son of God and as his follower Go forward as thy own power and ability shall serve thee For thus saith the Lord of Hosts Thou hast nothing but what thou hast received of me neither thou neither thy father Provide therefore of that thou hast which is mine that is to say of that which thy power can extend unto in thine own faculty and riches to shew thy good will and ready endeavours in such things to be brought to pass as thou hast learned of me That is to say Neglect not the time of this thy visitation neither despise this Kingdom wherein thou shalt reign for in so doing I dwell with thee for ever and with thy posterity which shall be in me mighty When thou art entred into it whatsoever Treasure there is in my house or amongst you Take it use it Make thee a 〈◊〉 of it with two edges that with the one thou maist cut off the bastards head and with the other build up the Monuments and the houses of cleanliness godliness and understanding That the East again may flourish and that I may make one Floc from the Sun-rising to his going down In the mean season shall the Powder which thou hast to be multiplied be extended and multiplied with them that are here present that it may be apt for thy uses and the strengthning of thy faith The one half of it thou shalt keep as the perpetual remembrance of me even thou and thy posterity Unto him that is thy head do thy true obedience although his heart be bardued against thee and thirsteth after thy destruction For behold thy enemy that seeketh to devour thy Soul ceaseth not to lay 〈◊〉 for thee that thou maist become odious to common people But the time shall shortly come when thou shalt have justice against him See therefore that thou smite see I say again that thou smite him for Justice is the hand of the Highest punishing such as offend either against him or his Innocent These that now come unto thee have brought thee a great Cluster of grapes even as big as they can both carry amongst the which notwithstanding there are many rotten But behold the foolishness from above shall appear wisdom before them when their wisdom shall become foolishness before me and before themselves Round about thee thou shalt receive assistance and many hearts shall be made glad in thee As for my Treasures to be opened To him that defileth my Seat and the Sword of Justice To him that harboureth abomination in his own houses and listneth unto wicked counsel Unto him which hath despised me which is accursed of me shall none of my Treasures be opened I have judged him and it shall appear shortly That which is Caesars give unto Caesar and that which is mine unto the House of my Honour Be obedient as the servant of God unto thy Superiours and whilest thou maist diligently do Justice Thy Country shall receive such remembrance of thee as shall never be rased from the face of the earth until the fire come down from heaven consuming all things Be full of humility and abandon pride Bow down thine ears nnto the poor Be often sorry for thy dayes mis-spent Be strong for ever in me Pausa Δ Thy wife is even at the door of sickness But behold I am even he the Lord of health E. K. As unto thee Barrenness dwelleth with thee because thou didst neglect me and take a wife unto thy self * contrary unto my commandment for neither young nor old rich nor poor are respected with me but what I will have done is just and whosoever doth it not is privily if he be not openly punished for his offence Therefore thou shalt have the womb which thou hast barren and fruitless unto thee because thou hast transgressed that which I commanded thee Be it unto thy brother as his service trust and confidence hath been in me and towards me Lay your hands to work and your bodies unto labour and participate one with another as is commanded you That the blessing which I have promised you may go forward in you and that your labour may bring forth good fruit The fourteenth day hence shall this Action end In which day you shall once again assemble your selves here together And now behold I say unto thee unto thee that hast thy eyes opened and thy ears made perfect which hast been exalted by the sight of the heavens why dost thou call upon me desiring to be made free Is it a burthen unto thee to be comforted from above O foolish man by how much the heavens excel the earth by
〈◊〉 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
Man in his Creation being made an Innocent was also authorised and made partaker of the Power and Spirit of God whereby he not onely did know all things under his Creation and spoke of them properly naming them as they were but also was partaker of our presence and society yea a speaker of the mysteries of God yea with God himself so that in innocency the power of his partakers with God and us his good Angles was exalted and so became holy in the sight of God until that Coronzon for so is the true name of that mighty Devil envying his felicity and perceiving that the substance of his lesser part was frail and unperfect in respect of his pure 〈…〉 sse began to assail him and so prevailed that offending so became accursed in the sight of God and so lost the Garden of felicity the judgement of his understanding but not utterly 〈◊〉 favour of God and was driven forth as your Scriptures record unto the Earth which was covered with brambles where being as dumb and not able to speak he began to learn of necessity the Language which thou E. K. callest 1 Hebrew and yet not that 2 Hebrew amongst you in the which he uttered and delivered to his posterity the nearest knowledge he had of God his Creatures and from his own self divided his speech into three parts twelve three and seven the number whereof remaineth but the true forms and pronuntiations want and therefore is not of that force that it was in his own dignity much lesse to be compared with this that we deliver which Adam verily spake in innocency and was never uttered nor disclosed to man since till now wherein the power of God must work and wisdom in her true kind be delivered which are not to be spoken of in any other thing neither to be talked of with mans imaginations for as this Work and Gift is of God which is all power so doth he open it in a tongue of power to the intent that the proportions may agree in themselves for it is written Wisdom sitteth upon an Hill and beholdeth the four Winds and girdeth her self together as the brightnesse of the morning which is visited with a few and dwelleth alone as though she were a Widow Thus you see there the Necessity of this Tongue The Excellency of it And the Cause why it is preferred before that which you call Hebrew For it is written Every lesse consentesh to his greater I trust this is sufficient E. K. As concerning the power What is it Gab. ...... What it is that it is for the knowledge of it may lead you to error Δ. This answer offended greatly E. K. and thereupon he left off and would receive no more at their hands God make him patient and a favourer of this Action as soon as it is needful that he should be Δ. Laudetur magnificetur extollatur nomen Jesu Christi in omne aevum Amen Note on Tuesday after Noon circa horam quartam as we two sat together E. K. said that he thought upon the matter Et quod jam vellet duas horas mihi concedere singulis diebus ad recipienda illa quae illi tradere vellent Ego autem illi maximo Deo gratias egi quia hanc esse mutationem dextra excelsi factam verè judicavi nam ante prandium rigidissimus erat in contraria opinione sententia Wensday Cracoviae Aprilis 25 Mane hora 7. The Vail appeared as at first almost After half an hour Gabriel and Nalvage appeared after my manifold prayers and discourses Δ. Two keyes we have received by the mercy of the Highest and your ministers the rest we attend according to the merciful will of the Highest Gab. ...... Move not from your places for the place is holy Δ. Shew a token O Lord when thy will is whereby to perswade thy merciful dealings with us and the presence of thy faithful Ministers Δ. The frame of the Stone gave a crickling no hand touching it or otherwise any mortal or worldly thing moving it I heard it very certainly and to E. K. it seemed the sound of a bunch of keyes as if they had quickly been shaken and strongly E. K. Gabriel fitteth and Nalvage standeth Gab. ...... My Brethren he arken to my voice for I am the true servant of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the dignity whereof is sufficient both for the verity of the Doctrine and the confirmation and perswasion of your mindes for as God is the Father of the Faithful so he sheweth himself unto the faithful whereby you may prove the great comfort and consolation that you may justly gather of the mercies of God as touching your Election For at what time hath God appeared unto the unrighteous or where do you read that ever he visited the reprobate For the reprobate hath no visitation but in the rod of Justice But you may rise up among your selves saying lo we are froward we want faith True it is the acts of faith but not the roots of faith But I say unto you that the power of God in his Election is the Basis of mans purity and acceptation But here there is a Caveat That man imagining his Predestination and perfect Election justifieth not himself for wheresoever this is found or this Doctrine preached amongst you either simply in man or publickly in Congregation it is the sure sign and token of their perpetual ignorance and confusion For the Will and Power of God belongeth not to our measure for it was the cause of rebellion amongst us much lesse among men which are fighting yet for the Glory of their reward Behold it is a sin in him that judgeth of his brothers Conscience Much more is it a threefold error to form the imaginations of sin by whose imaginations they are Be not proud therefore of the gifts of God but become humble Neither justifie your self in respect that this is the word of God delivered unto you for your own selves But the more you receive be the more thankful and the more you be in the strength of God the more use you the purenesse of humility Of whom it is said Behold my Spirit hath entred yea into my servants and they are become humble and meek in the sight of men But if we be the servants of the God of Abraham then are we the spirits of truth and understanding for our faith is dignified in the sight of the heavens and we are become mighty in the power of the Almighty Therefore ought we to be believed Now if you will confesse your selves to be the children of Abraham then must you also accept of our Doctrine For the meat whereby Abraham lived is the same food we minister unto you of whom it is said He believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousnesse Even so do you that you also may be righteous wherein do you differ from Abraham Were you not
barren Who hath made you fruitfull Did God make a Covenant with Abraham Even so he doth with you Did the Lord in his Ministers appear unto him so doth he and will do unto you Were the sins of Sodom the fifth that perished imported into Abrahams bosome as the secret determination of the Lord Are they also not manifest 〈◊〉 you even by the same God as touching the time and corruption of this world Rose he not up in the morning and beheld the confusion and headlong Ruines of the wicked And shall you not also see the ruine of him that is the son of wickednesse Yes unlesse you hinder your selves For the promise of your God is without exception Be mindful therefore of your selves and consider your calling That you may be still blessed in him that is the God of Abraham who is your Father In these keyes which we deliver are the mysteries and secret beings and effects of all things moving and moved within the world In this is the life of MOTION in whom all tongues of the world are moved for there is neither speech nor silence that was or shall be to the end of the world but they are all as plain here as in their own nakednesse Despise it not therefore ..... For unto them that are hungry it is bread unto the thirsty drink and unto the naked clothing A Serpent it is of many heads invincible Believe therefore that with him you way be wise that your humility may be such as may be numbred in the world I have said Nal. Move not for the place is holy E. K. What mean you by that sentence or phrase Nal. It is of two parts the first in respect of the spirit and presence of him that is holy present and teaching Secondly in respect of your consent which is obedience for obedience confirmeth the will of God in man and the will of God confirmeth mans salvation wherefore it is said move not and why because the place is holy Move neither in mind neither in body for obedience is the conclusion and confirmation of your separations from the Devils Sacrifice is accepted but obedience is better You are surely answered E. K. I like your answer well Nal. Our wisdom shall prove Rhetorick 80 Naaq in your creation It is q á an 79 LEANANA of the secret wisdom Ananael 78 ILPALP partakers It is Plapli 77 OGUP as unto the partakers It is Pugo 76 RAMAUMI apply your selves unto us It is Im ua mar 75 DO And Od. E. K. This letter turneth so about that I cannot well discerne it 74 GALGINU Descend Uniglag E. K. This letter also turneth round 73 RACAZ Move Zod a car 72 AIHOG we say Gobia 71 GMRASAC in whome 〈◊〉 70 MOIAA Amongst us A ai om 69 ZLOACIM mighty Mi ca olz 68 RAON is become Noar E. K. This Letter moveth E. K. Now he maketh a reverend Cursy 67 NIAOODDO and name Od do o a in E. K. This letter also moveth Od is and E. K. Gabriel shaketh his speare Nalvage 66 MOCACAC Flourish Ca ca com 65 ZOSUHEI his mercies Jehusoz 64 AMCIM Behold Micma E. K. Now he useth his reverent Cursies again 63 NARIMA Your selves Amiran Nal. Did I not bid thou shouldest not move E. K. He hath thrown down his rod upon the Table Δ. I had moved to the dore because I heard some going up and down the chamber without we had forgotten to shut the staire-foot dore Δ. O Lord I did it not upon any wilfull disobedience But pardon this Fault and by the grace O God I will avoid the like fault henceforward Nal. It was a great fault Δ. I beseech the Almighty to pardon it E. K. Now he is kneeled down and all his Face is under the Table Now he is up again and taketh his rod in his hand and maketh a Crosse with it three times East West North and South Nal. Sound your word Δ. Amiran E. K. He pronounceth the i so remissely as it is scarce heard and in the pronouncing of the whole word he seemeth not to move his lips 62 SUHOG I say Gobus E. K. He made long leasurely reverence 61 ROLOHOG lift up Goholor E. K. He useth reverence again Nal. The next is a name mightier then the power of the same 60 DAM of the same your God Mad. E. K. He useth long reverent Cursy again E. K. Now he holdeth up his Rod. 59 PAIOOD In the name Do oi ap E. K. He holdeth up his rod again 38 NAOOVDO and truth Od vooaen 57 TLAB of Justice Balt. 56 HALANU The Skyrts Unalah 55 NAON thus you are become Noan 54 DLIP on the earth Pild 53 GSOAC continually Caosg Now he useth courtesy 52 IGRIPLAM the fiers of life and increase Malpirgi 51 RIPNAP powring down Panpir 50 LEEANAN my power Na na e el. 46 NUAV you might work Vaün E. K. He useth reverence Now he holdeth up his Rod and shaketh it about his head 48 BAATENG your governments Gnetaab 47 ED of De is my name 46 GAONIIM the corners Mi i no ag E. K. He useth courtesie E. K. Gabriel shaketh his speare Nal. ..... It may be called Mi moag or Diuph E. K. Now he extendeth Diuf 45 DO and Od 44 POZIZI from the highest vessels Izizop 43 NEFAF to the intent that Fafen 42 BSACOC of time Cocasb 41 LIMOH the true ages Homil 40 ALC 456 Cla 39 SROV out Vors E. K. He useth most reverent Cursie 38 ILAIMPAC successively Capmiali 37 ASNOL power Lonsa 36 GRAZMOV unto every one of you arg as in barge Vomsarg 35 AGULD giving Dluga 34 BAATEN of government Netaab E. K. Many sounds are heard in the stone He kneeleth down 33 SONLIHT in seats 12. Thilnos 32 ALAAH placed you AAla 31 DO and OD 30 GRAZLAB Stewards BALZARG arg as in barge 29 LOE I made you EOL 28 ILI in the first ILI 27 LUZROT shall rise TORZUL 26 DO and  25 ADGRB sleep as burgen to bud as Burgda 24 TSD which DST 23 NEIZO mine own OZIEN 22 M except E M it is a word E. K. Now he useth reverence 21 EGSIHCI to are not Kis I Chisge 20 SIHC are Kis Chis 19 GROTLOT the Creatures of the earth org as in george Toltorg 18 NIIVQ wherein Qui in 17 HCOLET of death as och in hotch pot Teloch E. K. Now he maketh †16 HELP SOMQ or the horns Q Mos Pleh as two words 15 NIVPAT as sharp sickles Ta pu in You may call it Tapui also 14 SIHC are as Kis 13 LDNV the rest Vnd L E. K. Now he maketh a Crosse again ......... Now he stoopeth down and kisseth 12 HAPIGIG of living breath Gi gi pah 11 LIHTO the seats Othil 10 SIHC are as Kisse Chis 9 ZRON six Norz 8 HODNOLSO 12 Kingdoms Os Lon doh  A Crosse again  Os signifieth twelve Londoh 7 BAIB are Biah Biab 6 NEIZA on whose hands Azien He stoopeth and kisseth the