I mean in respect of the profoundnesse thereof The first leaf as you call it is the last of the Book And as the first leaf is a hotchpot without order So it signifieth a disorder of the World and is the speech of that Disorder or Prophesie Write the Book after your order backward but alter not the form of letters I speak in respect of the places E. K. Now a beame shooteth through him from the Stone and so through his head and out of his mouth his face being from E. K. toward Δ. ..... Write the 49. You have but 48 already Write first in a paper apart E. K. Said that Galvah her head is so on bright fire that it cannot be looked upon The fire so sparkleth and glistreth as when an hot iron is smitten on an Anvil especially at the pronouncing of every word It is to be noted also that upon the pronouncing of some words the Beasts and all Creatures of the World every one shewed themselves in their kind and form But notably aH Serpents Dragons Toads and all ugly and hideous shapes of beasts which all made most ugly countenances in a manner assaulting E. K. but contrariwise coming to and fawning upon Galvah It is to be noted also that by degrees came a second beame and a third beame of light into Galvah from the Stone and all the three together appeared the third participating of the other two The second beame came at the word Larb pronounced when also Frogs and Serpents appeared c. The third beame upon the word Exi pronounced Note also that the manner of the firy brightnesse was such and the grisely countenances of the Monsters was so tedious and greivous and displeasant to E. K. that partly the very grief of his minde and body and partly the suspecting the Creatures to be no good Creatures neither such greivous sights necessary to be exhibited with the Mysteries delivering unto us had in a manner forced him to leave off all But I again with reasonable exhorting of him and partly the providence and decree Divine wrought some mitigating of his grief and disquieting Gal. ..... These are these seven Δ. Blessed and praised for ever be He who is one and three and whom mighty ministers or governours do incessantly glorifie 1583. Gal. ..... Thy folly and weaknesse is great God comfort thee Δ. He spoke to E. K. for his excessive disquietnesse and suspecting of the verity or goodnesse of Galvah Δ. Note Now the beames were all retired into the stone again likewise all the Creatures and Vermine or ugly shaped Beasts are all gone We were willed also divers times to pray At sundry pangs of E. K. his grief and disquietnesse sundry speeches were uttered by the spiritual Creature among which these noted ..... He that is angry cannot see well From him that is perverse God turneth his face The hindrance of punishment is the mercy of God which imputeth not sin unto them whom he bath Chosen Therefore be patient and reconcile thy self to God E. K. I do it with all humility and sincerity of minde and beseech God to help me with his grace for of my self I cannot do so yet I am Thomas Didymas I will believe these things when I see the fruits of them Δ. He seemed yet again to doubt whether this Creature and the rest partakers of this action were soundly good and void of all halting or abusing us E K. How can you perswade me that ye be no deluders Gall. ..... I will prove it by contrary The servants of darknesse have their Garments stained their mouths stinck of blasphemy and lies but our Garments are no such neither do our lips speak any untruth and therefore we are of God for whosoever is of the truth is of God Moreover the Devil is known by his works for the spirit of God controlleth them the spirit of God agreeth with us and useth no controlment against it therefore it is not Daulesse In one thing thou mayest know us differing from Devils The wicked spirits alwayes abhor this word Mercy But it is the Doctrine that we preach in respect towards you we are not now then evil But this way teacheth hardnesse and is a stumbling block to the wicked but the beauty of the 〈◊〉 is not able to be expressed Happy are they which are covered with the Pearls of Righteousnesse and on whose head there is a Garland of godlinesse For unto those belongeth to taste of the Fountain of true wisdom Is it not written of this book that it teacheth nature in all degrees The judgement hereof is Intellectual And wash your feet and follow me Δ. Lord wash thou our feet or else we shall not be clean Gall. ..... How thou art God knoweth But comfort your selves in this That neither this Testimony can perish neither unto you can remain any slavery Quia vestra erit victoria in him and for him to whom I leave you Δ. What shall I do with these 21 words now received Gall. ..... There are onely the words of the first leaf Δ. I pray how shall I bestow them or place them Gall. ..... In them is the Divinity of the Trinity The Mysterie of our Creation The age of many years And the conclusion of the World Of me they are honoured but of me not to be uttered Neither did I disclose them my self For they are the beams of my understanding and the Fountain from whence I water Δ. I beseech you how shall I write these names in the first leafe Gall. ..... They are to be written in 5 Tables in every Table 21 Letters Δ. How shall I place the 5 Tables upon two sides three in the first and 2 in the second or one in the first and 4 in the second or how else Gall. ..... As thou seest cause Δ. Shall I write them in Letters of Gold Gall. .... The writing hath been referred to thy discretion with collours and such things as appertain to the writing thereof Vpon the first side write three Tables and on the second two Δ. How thus Gal. .... Set them down I will direct thy judgement Δ. When now Gal. .... Not now E. K. She is gone Δ. Deo Nostro sit Laus honor Gratiarum actio perennis Amen Wednesday 19. Junii Hora 2. a Meridie Δ. I made a prayer to God and there appeared one having two Garments in his hands who answered ..... A good praise with a wavering minde Δ. God make my minde stable and to be seasoned with the intellectual leaven free of all sensible mutability E. K. One of these two Garments is pure white the other is speckled of divers colours he layeth them down before him he layeth also a speckled Cap down before him at his feet he hath no Cap on his head his hair is long and yellow but his face cannot be seen at the least it was turned away-ward from E. K. continually though
The Order of the Inspirati MAHOMET receives his Law by Inspiration APPOLONI ê° TYANEUS in Domitians tyme Edw Kelly Prophet or Seer to Dr. Dee Roger Bacon an English man PARACELSUS Receits from the Inspiration of Spirits Dr. Dee avoucheth his Stone is brought by Angelicall Ministry A TRUE FAITHFUL RELATION OF What passed for many Yeers Between DR. JOHN d ee A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. ELIZ. and King JAMES their Reignes and SOME SPIRITS TENDING had it Succeeded To a General Alteration of most STATES and KINGDOMES in the World His Private Conferences with RODOLPHE Emperor of Germany STEPHEN K of Poland and divers other PRINCES about it The Particulars of his Cause as it was agitated in the Emperors Court By the POPES Intervention His Banishment and Restoration in part AS ALSO The LETTERS of Sundry Great Men and PRINCES some whereof were present at some of these Conferences and Apparitions of SPIRITS to the said D. d ee OUT OF The Original Copy written with Dr. DEES own Hand Kept in the LIBRARY of Sir THO. COTTON Kt. Baronet WITH A PREFACE Confirming the Reality as to the Point of SPIRITS of This RELATION and shewing the several good USES that a Sober Christian may make of All. BY MERIC CASAUBON D. D. LONDON Printed by D. Maxwell for T. GARTHWAIT and sold at the Little North door of S. Pauls and by other Stationers 1659. MVNIFICENTIA REGIA 1715 GEORGIVS D. G. MAG BR FR. ET HIB REX F. D. PREFACE WHAT is here presented unto thee Christian Reader being a True and Faithful Relation c. as the Title beareth and will be further cleared by this Preface though by the carriage of it in some respects and by the Nature of it too it might be deemed and termed A Work of Darknesse Yet it is no other then what with great tendernesse and circumspection was tendered to men of highest Dignity in Europe Kings and Princes and by all England excepted listned unto for a while with good respect By some gladly embraced and entertained for a long time the Fame whereof being carryed unto Rome it made the Pope to bestir himself not knowing what the event of it might be and how much it might concern him And indeed filled all men Learned and Unlearned in most places with great wonder and astonishment all which things will be shewed and made good to the utmost of what we have said in the Contents of this book by unquestionable Records and evidences And therefore I make no question but there will be men enough found in the world whose curiosity will lead them to Read what I think is not to be parallell'd in that Kind by any book that hath been set out in any Age to read I say though it be to no other end then to satisfie their curiosity But whatsoever other men according to their several inclinations may propose to themselves in the reading of it yet I may and must here professe in the first place in Truth and Sincerity that the end that I propose to my self so far as I have contributed to the Publishing of the Work is not to satisfie curiosity but to do good and promote Religion When we were first acquainted with the Book and were offered the reading of it having but lately been conversant in a Subject of much Affinity to wit of Mistaken Inspiration and Possession through ignorance of Natural causes which labour of ours as it was our aime at the first in publishing of it to do good so we have had good reason since to believe that we did not altogether misse of what we aimed at we could not but gladly accept of it And as we gladly accepted so we read unto the end with equal eagernesse and Alacrity Which when we had done truly it was our Opinion That the Publishing of it could not but be very Seasonable and Useful as against Atheists at all times so in these Times especially when the Spirit of Error and Illusion not in profest Anabaptists only even of the worst kind that former Ages have known and abhorred doth so much prevail but in many also who though they disclaim and detest openly and heartily too I hope most of them the fruits and effects that such causes have produced in others yet ground themselves neverthelesse upon the same principles of Supposed Inspiration and immaginary Revelations and upon that account deem themselves if not the Only yet much better Christians then others And I was much Confirmed in this Judgment when I was told as indeed I was at the first by them that knew very well that the Most Reverend Pious and Learned Archbishop of Armagh lately deceased upon reading of the said book before his death had declared himself to the same purpose and wished it Printed But because it is very possible that every Reader will not at the first be so well able of himself to make that good use by good and Rational Inferences and Observations of this sad Story as is aimed at my chiefest aim in this Preface is to help such And because it is not lesse probable that this Licentious Age will afford very many who with the 〈◊〉 of old that is Jewish Epicures believe no Spirit or Angel or Resurrection who therefore being prepossessed with prejudice when they hear of so many Spirits as are here mentioned and so many strange Apparitions in several Kinds will not only fling back themselves but will be ready to laugh at any other that give any credit to such things Although I will not take upon me to convert any by Reason that are engaged into such an opinion by a wicked life that is Unjust practises Luxurious lewd courses open profanenesse under the name of Wit and Galantry and the like because I think it is very just with God to leave such to the error and blindnesse of their Judgments so that without a Miracle there can be little hopes of such Yet I shall hope that such as are Rational men sober in their Lives and Conversations such as I have known my self yea men of excellent parts in other things men that are both willing to hear and able to consider that such I say may receive some satisfaction by what I shall say and propose to their Ingenuous consideration in this matter Were we to argue the case by Scripture the businesse would soon be at an end there being no one Controverted point among men that I know of that can receive a more Ample Full Clear and speedy determination then this business of Spirits and Witches and Apparitions may if the Word of God might be Judge But I will suppose that I have to do with such who though they do not altogether deny the Word of God yet will not easily however admit of any thing that they think contrary to Reason or at least not to be maintained by Reason I shall therefore forbear all Scripture Proofs and Testimonies in this particular and desire the Christian Reader
to be afraid of it Of the Transmutation of Metals what may be done by Art I will not take upon me to determine I am apt enough to believe that some strange things in that kind may be done if a man will go to the cost of it and undergoe the trouble upon so much uncertainty of the event But that which we call ordinarily and most understand by it The Phylosophers Stone is certainly a meer cheat the first author and inventor whereof was no other then the Divel Legi etiam Spiritum supernorum revelatione traditam antiquitus artem faciendi Auri me aetate idem usu evenisse c. saith one Jo. Franc. Picus Mirandula of the learnedst Author that I have seen of that subject in defence of it I meant If he mean Supernos Spiritus such as appear in form of Angels of Light such as deluded Dr. Dee and daily doth those that hunt after Revelations and Prophecies and unlawful Curiosities I grant it But that any good Angels did ever meddle in a practice commonly attended with so much imposture impiety cousenage as this commonly is I shall not easily grant Though I must add I make great difference if we will speak properly between Arts faciendi auri a thing I do not deny to be feasible by natural means and that we call the Phylosophers Stone as before already intimated And for that objection of his why evil Spirits should not be the Authors or revealers of it unto any though otherwise for some other reasons he thinks it probable because it is not likely that God would suffer 〈◊〉 to give such power unto men like themselves whom only among men they favour and respect that is wicked ungodly men First I answer That is a very weak objection since we know by constant experience of present and future Ages that they are not of the best of men commonly that are the greatest and richest But Secondly There is no great cause to fear that any thing hitherto revealed or hereafter to be revealed I believe of this secret should enable men good or bad to do much hurt in the world The greatest hurt is to themselves who are deluded yea and beggerd many first or last and to some few not very wise whom they cousen as themselves have been cousened And for this that they can do no more we are beholding not to the Divel who certainly would not be vvanting to himself or to any opportunity to do mischief by himself or his Agents but to God vvho doth not give him the povver So much to 〈◊〉 out of my respect to his name and for the better satisfaction to the Reader I ovve the sight and use of the book to my Learned friend Dr. Windett before mentioned I am much confirmed in that opinion of the Divel being the Author by vvhat I find of it in the book vvhich hath given me this occasion to speak of it Were there nothing else but the gross and impudent forgeries that have been used to commend it unto men some entituling the Invention to Adam himself others to Solomon and the like and the many books that have been counterfeited to the same end and again the most ridiculous and profane applying expounding of Scriptures a thing usually done by most that are abettors of it those things vvere enough to make a man to abhor it Sure enough it is that not only Dr. d ee but others also vvho had part of that precious Powder brought unto them by Spirits and expected great matters of it vvere all cheated and gull'd and I believe it cost some of them a good deal of money Prince Rosemberg particularly by those Spiritual Chymists Let them consider of it that have been dealing in such things as they shall see cause So still we see that in all these things as we said before the Divel is not beholding to others as might be suspected but others have been beholding to him As for his Divinity in highest points if he spake the truth it was for his own ends as we said before He can do it who makes any question In controverted points we may observe that he doth serve the scene and present occasion and I make no question but had Dr. d ee gone to Constantinople and been entertained there with respect his Spirits there would have shewed themselves as good Mahometans as elsewhere good Roman Catholicks or Protestants We have somewhere a very pretty Tale I would say a curious Observation if I thought it true concerning the nature of the Serpent or Addar handsomly expressed how she traineth her yong ones to set them out abroad into the world that they may shift for themselves Twenty days as I remember are spent in that work Now whether it be so really I cannot say certainly but I suspect it It is not in Aristotle and I looked in Aldrovandus and I could not finde it But whether it be so or no let no body wonder for this was the maner of Preaching formerly and may be yet perchance in some places among Monks and Fryars in great request They would make a story of Man or Beasts as they thought fit themselves and their Fancies best served pretty and witty as much as they could whether it had any ground of truth or no no man required The moralization was good If the Divel have done so here it was not through ignorance for he is too good a Naturalist and I believe there is somewhat even in Nature though we know it not why both in sacred and prophane History Spirits and Serpents are so often joyned of which is true and real but as hath been said it served his turn and that is enough And although having considered it as an Objection how the Divel cometh to speak so much truth as will be found in this Book no man I think will expect I should give an account of any false Doctrine or Divinity that it may contain Yet one point I think fit to take notice of and protest against it as false erronious and of dangerous consequence and that is where it is said That a man in some cases may kill another man Prince or other without apparent cause or lawful Authority and therefore punishable by the Laws of Man who nevertheless may expect a great reward at the hands of God for his act How this may agree with the Principles of New Lights and Anabaptistical Divinity I know not it is very contrary to the Principles of that Orthodox Divinity lately professed and established by Law in England I have now said in this main Objection as I apprehended it what I think was most proper and pertinent and I hope may satisfie But I have somewhat else to say which in this case of Divels and Spirits in general I think it very considerable and may satisfie perchance in some cases where nothing else can We talk of Spirits and read of Spirits often but I think it is very little that we know
the best ofus all of them of their nature or differences And how then can it be expected that we should resolve all doubts And though I think it is not much that any man ever knew and rightly apprehended or can as he is a man in this business yet my opinion is though I know it is much gainsaid and opposed that ancient Platonick Phylosophers of the latter times understood much more then most Christians I do not write this as though I thought or would have any thought by others to be the worse Christians for being ignorant in these things but rather in my opinion any man the better Christian by much who doth not regard it or desire it For my part although I must acknowledge that some scruples of my minde did induce me to lock into many 〈◊〉 until I was satisfied which otherwise I had never done yet I profess to believe that it is so little that can be known by man in this subject and subject to so much illusion as that I think no study is more vain and foolish and that I would not go three steps out of my doors more then what I did to satisfie my minde in some matters of Faith if any such scruple did arise to know as much as the profoundest Platonick or Phylosopher yea or Magician of them all ever knew Certainly he is but a weak Christian when so many high Mysteries are proposed unto us in Christ by his Gospel and of so much consequence that cannot bestow his time better They that have any hopes through Faith in Christ and a godly life to be admitted one day into the presenceof God and to see face to face as God hath promised will they hazard so glorious a hope by prying through unseasonable unprofitable curiosity into the nature of these vassal Spirits which God hath forbidden But because it doth concern Religion in general that we believe Spirits à nd when Objections are made that cannot be answered many are scandalized and Atheists ready to take the advantage of it I say that it should be no wonder to any sober and rational if we cannot resolve all doubts since it is so little that we know or can know beyond the bare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this matter Most Christians are bred in and to this opinion that all Spirits so commonly called are either Angels of Heaven or Divels of Hell I know no Scripture for it or determination of any general Councel that I remember at this time at least and so long I do not think my self bound against apparent reason For the conceit of all evil Spirits or Divels being in Hell I think learned Mr. Meade hath taken that to task in some of his Works and sufficiently confuted it The very word Spirit is a term of great Ambiguity We understand by it commonly substances that are altogetherimmaterial Many of the ancient Fathers it is well known did not allow of any such at all besides God But we think that to have no visible Body and to be purely immaterial is all one God knows how many degrees there may be between these but we cannot know it neither doth it concern our salvation for which we have reason to praise God But if it were so that all Spirits are either Divels or Angels what shall we make of these that are found in mines of which learned Agricola hath written of those that have been time out of minde called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence probably as we have said elsewhere Gobelin in English is derived who live in private Houses about old Walls and stalks of Wood harmless otherwise but very thievish so frequent and so known in some Countreys that a man may as well doubt whether there be any Horses in England because there are none in some parts of the World not found in all America I think till some were carried thither Neither can I believe that those Spirits that please themselves in nothing else but harmless sports and wantonnesse such as have been known in all Ages such as did use to shave the hairs of Plinius Secundus his Servants in the Night as himself relates a very creditable man I am sure in his Epistles and the like that such Spirits I say have any relation either to Heaven or to Hell We might insist in more particulars but we do not desire to dwell upon it at this time and there is yet somewhat else to be said And what I have said of some Platonicks I did not intend thereby to justifie all their absurd or superstitious Opinions in this Argument of Spirits As they have searched furrher into it then others besides damnable experience having confounded Magick with Phylosophy yea almost turned all Phylosophy into Magick so it was consequent they would fall into more Errors and Absurdities yet withal they have found somewhat that doth better agree with daily experience then what is commonly known or believed Sinesius was a Bishop but as he doth appear to us in his Writings a better Platonick then a Christian In a place in his Treatise De insomniis he sheweth how evil Spirits come to inhabit men and to possesse their Brains His terms are very course and apparantly ridiculous but there may be some truth in the Opinion For if there were not a very near and intimate conjunction it were to be wondered how the Divel comes to know the very thoughts of Witches and Magicians as is found by experience averred by more then one And in this very Book if I be not mistaken somewhat may be observed to that purpose It is possible there may be more kindes of possession then one and that some men that never were suspected have had a spirit besides their own resident in them all or most part of their lives I have done with what I could think of upon which objection can be made The next thing is to make the way clearer to the Reader by some consideration of the method of the Books and explanation of some terms and phrases there ufed at which perchance some may stick at the first At the very beginning a man may be to seek it the Title of it Liber sexti mysteriorum sancti parallelus novalisque 1583. both as it relates to that which follows and as it reflects upon somewhat before by which it may be inferred that the book begins here abruptly and imperfectly of this I am now ready to give an account to the Reader and it is very fit it should be done First concerning Titles such as will be found here many more besides this the whole book or relation being subdivided into many parts in general I say that according to the Doctors genius we have said before he was very Cabalistical that is full of whimsies and crotchets under the notion of Mysteries a thing that some very able otherwise have been subject unto and the high opinion he had of these actions and apparitions they are mostly very concealed and
unto him to hasten his second comming for his elects sake iniquity doth so on this earth abound and prevaile and true faith with Charity and Evangelicall simplicity have but cold slender and uncertrin intertainment among the worldly-wise men of this world Therefore herein concluding I beseech the Almighty God most abundantly to increase and confirm your Graces heavenly wisedome and endue you with all the rest of his heavenly gifts for the relieving refreshing and comforting both bodily and spiritually his little flock of the faithfull yet militant here on earth Amen An EPILOGUE Good my Lord I beseech Your Grace to allow of my plaine and comfortable Epilogus for this matter at this time 1. Seeing my studious exercises and conversation civill may be abundantly testified to my good credit in the most parts of all Christendome and that by all degrees of Nobility by all degrees of the Learned and by very many other of godly and Christian disposition for the space of 46. years triall as appeareth by the Records lately viewed by two honourable witnesses by Commission from her Majestie 2. And seeing for these 36. years last past I have been her most Excellent Majesties very true faithfull and dutifull servant at whose Royall mouth I never received any one word of reproach but all of favour and grace In whose Princely Countenance I never perceived frowne toward me or discontented regard or view on me but at all times favourable and gracious to the great joy and comfort of my true faithfull and loyall heart And thirdly Seeing the works of my hands and words of my mouth here before notified in the Schedule of my books and writings may beare lively witnesse of the thoughts of my heart and inclination of my minde generally as all wise men do know and Christ himself doth avouch It might in manner seem needlesse thus carefully though most briefly and speedily to have warned or confounded the scornfull the malicious the proud and the rash in their untrue reports opinions and fables of my studies or exercises Philosophicall but that it is of more importance that the godly the honest the modest the discreet grave and charitable Christians English or other lovers of Justice truth and good learning may hereby receive certaine comfort in themselves to perceive that Veritas tandem praevalebit and sufficiently be weaponed and armed with sound truth to defend me against such kind of my adversaries hereafter they will begin afresh or hold on obstinately in their former errors vain imaginations false reports and most ungodly slanders of me my studies ¶ Therefore to make all this cause for ever before God man out of all doubt Seeing your Lordships good grace are as it were our high Priest and chief Ecelesiasticall Minister under our most dread and Soveraigne Lady Queen Elizabeth to whose censure and judgement I submit all my studies and Exercises yea all my Books past present and hereafter to be written by me of my own skill judgement or opinion I do at this present time most humbly sincerely and unfainedly and in the name of Almighty God yea for his honour and glory request and beseech your Grace when and as conveniently you may to be well and throughly certified of me what I am Intus in cute Reverendissime in Christo Pater Dignissime Archipraesul cognosce agnosce vultum tà m internum quà m externum pecoris tui And wherein I have used do or shall use pen speech or conversation otherwise then as it appertaineth to a faithfull carefull sincere and humble servant of Christ Jesu That your Grace would vouchsafe to advertise me So I trust Ultima respondebunt primis in such sort as this Authentick Record in Latine annexed ad perpetuam rei memoriam doth testifie having never hitherto had occasion to shew that in any place of Christendome to testifie better of me then they had proofe of me themselves by my conversation among them The Almighty therefore be highly thanked praised honoured and glorified for ever and ever Amen But now in respect of the generall intent of this briefe discourse I most humbly and reverently exhibit to your Graces view and perusing the originall monument and authentick Record before mentioned fair written in Parchment with the Seal whole and perfect duly appendant as I have 46. years and somewhat longer preserved it The true Copy whereof your Grace doth see to be verbatim as followeth UNiversis Sanctae matris Ecclesiae filijs ad quos praesentes literae perventurae sunt Vicecancellarius Caetusque omnis Regentium non Regentium Universitatis Cantabrigiae Salutem in Domino sempiternam Conditiones Merit a hominum in nostra Universitate studentium affectu sincero perpendentes eos solos testimonio nostro ornandos esse arbitramur quos scimus ob eruditionem morum probitatem promeritos esse ut istud beneficium à nobis consequantur Quamobrem cùm hoc tempore ipsa veritas testimonium nostrum sibi postulat vestrae pietati per has literas significamus Quòd dilectus nobis in Christo Johannes Dee Artium Magister in dicta nostra universitate foeliciter versatus plurimam sibi doctrinae honestatis laudem comparavit De cujus gradu conversatione quae honestissima semper fuit ne qua uspiam ambiguitas aut quaestio oriri possit apud eos quibus hujus viri virtutes haud satis innotuerint visum est nobis in dicti Johannis gratiam has literas nostras Testimoniales conscribere conscriptas publico Academiae nostrae sigillo obsignare quò majorem apud vos authoritatem pondus literae nostrae habeant Bene valete Datum Cantabrigiae in plena Convocatione Magistrorum Regentium non Regentium Academiae praedictae 14. Calend. Aprilis Anno à Christo nato 1548. PERORATIO THe Almighty and most mercifull God the Father for his only Son our Redeemer Jesus Christ his sake by his holy Spirit so direct blesse and prosper all my studies and exercises Philosophicall yea all my thoughts words and deeds henceforward even to the very moment of my departing from this world That I may evidently and abundantly be found and undoubtedly acknowledged of the Wise and Just to have been a zealous and 〈◊〉 Student in the School of Verity and an Ancient Graduate in the School of Charity to the honour and glory of the same God Almighty and to the sound comfort and confirming of such as faithfully love and fear his Divine Majestie and unfainedly continue in labour to do good on earth when while to whom and as they may Amen Very spedily written this twelfth even and twelfth day in my poore Cottage at Mortlake Anno. 1595. currente à Nativitate Christi ast An. 1594. Completo à Conceptione ejusdem cum novem praeterea mensibus Completis Alwayes and very dutifully at your Graces commandement Jo. Dee A TABLE Of the several Actions contained in this Book with the most Considerable Matters
by Apparitions His affairs in England Sir Henry Sidney falsly reported dead by spirits Alb. Lasky conspired against Cracovia promised to Doctor Dee a place of rest and again p. 70. XXXVIII p. 69 Doctor Dee's questions not answered XXXIX ibid. The questions again Mystical and Cabalistical elusions Some things obscurely answered XL p. 71. Alb. Lasky in part rejected as unworthy yet to be King of Moldavia ¶ Their coming to Cracovia XLI p. 73. These Visions and Actions magnified as incomparable mercies and favours The Trinity acknowledged Cabalistical mysteries XLII p. 76. Great mysteries promised 49 Tables 49 Calls c. Their virtue XLIII p. 77. An illusion A further progresse in the Cabale of Tables and Calls with shew in the spirits of marvellous reverence XLIV p. 78. The first Table Mystical numbers and letters c. XLV p. 80. Ed. Kelley a Magician and for it reproved Further proceeding in the promised Cabale Great opposition of wicked spirits in shew whilest this wonderful Cabale is delivered XLVI p. 82. A Prayer in words zealous used by the spirits prescribed to Doctor Dee c. Proceedings in the Cabale More opposition in shew of wicked spirits Bodily reverences and prayers often used The first Call ended The use and vertue of it XVII p. 88. More opposition in shew of wicked spirits XLVIII p. 89 The Sabbath or Sunday to be kept XLIX ib. More opposition yet the work proceedeth L p. 91. Nothing appeareth Ed. Kelley upon good grounds very confident that they were Devils all that had appeared hitherto and their pretended mysteries very fopperies c. LI ib. Kelley of that mind still and resolved to brain Doctor Dee Doctor Dee's great confidence but upon little grounds whereof see in the Preface of the contrary LII ib. Kelley reproved The mysterie of Numbers The Creation Fall of Adam The language he spake c. ¶ Ed. Kelley reconciled LIII p. 93. Somewhat heard by Doctor Dee also to his wondering Sermon-like stuff of Predestination Election c. delivered by spirits The Keyes Their use and vertue Move not c. often repeated explained The worke goes on LIV p. 199. The work goes on but not without as is conceived opposition LV p. 102. Mystical Apparitions explained and applyed to Doctor Dee c. The holy Book to be written by God himself according to promise LVI p. 104. A prayer the work goes on LVII p. 111. Mystical Apparitions explained New instructions for future Actions The Dayes the dresse of the place LVIII p. 115. A parable against Ed. Kelley who contesteth with the spirits about the lawfulnesse of his Magick yeildeth neverthelesse to bury in the ground his Magical Books and Characters which is accepted so one of 27 be burned An Apparition shewing as it proved the present estate of A. L. LIX p. 118. Kelley's obedience The work goes on The former ceremonies used LIX .... Ed. Kelley at last very well satisfied that all is from God and very devout LX p. 138. Gods power He not tyed to time The Incarnation of Christ acknowledged Warnings to Al. L. and promises LXI p. 139. Calls Aires What and how to be used Divisions and Governments of Angels Divisions of the Earth Al. Lasky his case Mapsama or Dic nobis under Gabriel Jes s acknowledged Good Instructions Humility c. A good Prayer ill applyed LXII p. 146. An illuder Obedience Faith without which Gods promises not irrevocable Examples in Scripture The Cabale of Calls c. as before LXIII p. 153. Ed. Kelley doubtful again The parts of the Earth revealed unto Ptolemy by an Angel Some Characters and Prophesies of divers places of the World Some mistaken I believe Constantinople The Turk The Arke of Noe. The place of Paradise Eli Enoch John where reserved A contradiction observed by Doctor Dee not answered by the spirits Rome ¶ The spirits upon good grounds suspected and answered by Ed. Kelley for illuders and cozeners who is opposed by Doctor Dee with much confidence and some appearance of reason Some mistakes in the writing from what cause LXIV p. 159. Ed. Kelley very bold and perverse as censured by Doctor Dee with the spirits yet not without good ground of reason all well considered The Book the leaves dimensions and other particulars of it Not to be written but by Angels Al. Lasky yet in favour LXV p. 160. God all in all The Devil in perpetual opposition How dangerous truly spoken though by the Devil to deal with him Infidelity punished Anabaptistical Prophesies and Promises Al. Lasky suspected LXVI p. 162. Ed. K. reproved and exborted to repent earnestly yea with tears in shew Devils and their businesse both with good and bad Some Cabalistical stuff promised ¶ p. 164. Ed. Kelley's Confession of heretical damnable opinions by him held and believed His repentance abjuration of Magical arts and practices conversion unto God believed by Doctor Dee upon great probabilities to be hearty and sincere His thanks to God for it ¶ 165. More of Kelley's conversion No Apparition and why divers conjectures of Dr. Dee LXXVII p. 166. Apparitions to comfort and confirm Al. Lasky LXVIII Visions and Apparitions to Ed. Kelley first alone then in the presence of Doctor Dee The visitation the mercies of God Great promises Exposition by spirits of the Vision ¶ Ed. Kelley tempted and doubtful again LXIX p. 171. A Vision to Ed. Kelley and Al. Lasky with promises out of the Psalms LXX p. 171. Furniture of the Table crosses c. The Table of the Earth Governour Angels c. The Book the title of it Let those c. and doctrine of Enoch revealed unto him by speciall favour counterfeited by D. and Magicians their Characters Mystical Tables Figures Words c. Linea spiritus Sancti a horrible profanation but such are most Cabalistical mysteries mystical crosses c. Solomons knowledge if you will believe them how far it extended ¶ LXXI p. 178. The Cabale goes on The wonderfull extent of it Diseases how to be cured or procured by it Money coined and uncoined given by whom ¶ LXXII p. 181. LXXIII p. 183. The secrets of States so Trithemius too we have his Tables but never was any man the wiser whereof more in the Preface Medicine Christ his earthly Kingdom All things in these Tables Ave suddenly gone Madimi appeareth Doctor Dee wanteth money but can get none A gingling but false Prophesie concerning the Emperour to succeed Rodolph See also p. 243. ¶ Ed. Kelley his rage and reviling much distiked by Dr. Dee repented of by Kelley himself taken notice of his repeutance by the spirits An extraordinary extraordinary so apprebesided by D. Dee storm of Thunder and Rain ¶ LXXIV ibid. More Cabalistical instructions somewhat like Magick as Kelley thought concerning the practice of it Dreadful Prophesies of sudden alterations in the World Al. Lasky in favour The Book to be prepared c. Ed. Kelley a perfect Magician by his own acknowledgement ¶ LXXV p. 185. Patience and Humility commended A
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
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
have not done so to our knowledges ..... Therefore shall you drink of a Cup that you would not but it shall not fall in these dayes but in the dayes to come Moreover E. K. The fire cometh out of his mouth as he speaketh ..... If you go it is if you go not it also shall be Δ. Make that dark speech plain for I need you not Δ. We were willed to go but with this condition that Laskie should make provision ..... I have not sealed this sin unto thee Δ. but yet I have measured out a plague and it shall light upon you all But unto Lasky I have sealed it and it shall be heavy E. K. Doth not A. L. use all the means he can for provision making ..... The time shall come when I am and will appear unto thee in a Vision and of seven Rods thou shalt chuse one unto you both I speak For I will not let passe my dishonour unpunished neither will I sell my name like an hireling Notwithstanding in the midst of my fury I will be mercifull unto you when you think I have forsaken you then shall the Rod break in pieces Δ. Lord deal with us as we have just cause to put our trust in thee not onely in the principal state of our salvation but also in this Action ..... You go I will not forsake you And what I have said that I have said And it is a living spirit and shall bear witnesse of it self For great is the God of Hosts in power and in all his works and words most just Δ. Lord is it thy will that we shall go before this A. L. toward Prage ..... If you tarry it is and if you go it shall be Δ. Lord make that plain unto us Thus sayeth the Lord if you tarry it is because I am which am strength and triumph against mine enemies and so against the enemies of those that put their trust in me And shall be because I am just and because it is For that I am I am and my spirit is justice and truth which before was is and shall be and after world without end Δ. Lord shew us the light of thy countenance and be not wrathfull against us any longer be a comforter unto us in our journey to be undertaken ..... Move me not for I am gone E. K. He is gone Δ. Misericordia Domini sit super nos nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen ANNO 1584. On Wednesday the first day of August at afternoon hora 3. we entred on our journey toward Prage in the Kingdom of Beame whither we came on thursday sevenight after by three of the Clock that is exactly in eight dayes We came by Coach I E. K. and his brother and Edmond Hilton so that we came to Prage Augusti 9. by the new Calender but by the old July 30. two dayes before August the old Calender Miserere Nostri Deus Noster neque in eternum irascaris nobis PRAGE 1584. Augusti 15. Wednesday we began on the day of the assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary in the excellent little Stove or Study of D. Hageck his house lent me by Bethlem in old Prage Which Study seemed in times past Anno 1518. to have been the Study of some Student or A skilfull of the holy stone a name was in divers places of the Study noted in letters of Gold and Silver Simon Baccalaureus Pragensis and among other things manifold written very fairly in the Study and very many Hierogliphical Notes Philosophical in Birds Fishes Flowrs Fruits Leaves and six Vessels as for the Philosophers works these verses were over the door Immortale Decus par gloriaque illi debentur Cujus ab ingenio est discolor hic paries And of the Philosophers work on the South-side of the Study in three lines uppermost was this written Candida si rubeo mulier nupta sit marito Mox complectuntur Complexa concipiuntur Per se solvuntur per se quandoque perficiuntur Vt duo que fuerant unum in corpore fiant Sunt duae res primo Sol cum Luna tamen in imo Confice videbis fit ab hiis lapis quoque Rebus Lunae potentatu peregit Sol Rebis actu Sol adit Lunam per medium rem facit unam Sol tendit velum transit per ecliptica Coelum Currit ubi Luna recurrit hunc denuo sublima Vt sibi lux detur in sole quae retinetur Nec abiit vere sed vult ipst commanere illustrans certe defunctum corpus aperte Si Rebus scires quid esset tu reperires Haec ars est cara brevis levis atque rara Ars nostra est Ludus puero labor mulierum scitote omnes filii artis hujus quod nemo potest colligere fructus nostri Elixiris nisi per introitum nostri lapidis Elementati etsi aliam viam quaerit viam nunquam intrabit nec attinget Rubigo est Opus quod fit ex solo auro dum intraverit in suam humiditatem And so it ended MYSTERIORUM PRAGENSIUM Liber Primus Caesareusque Anno 1584. Stylo Novo Augusti 15. incoeptus ad Omnipotentis Dei Laudem Honorem Gloriam Amen Δ. FIeri potest quod anni 1588 aliorum supputatio initium suum habent ab ipsa die Passionis Christi vel Ascensionis in Caelum Atque hac 〈◊〉 33 vel 34. anni plures considerari debent quia tot annorum Christus erat tempore suae passionis vel ascensionis Addas igitur annis 1588 34. inde emergunt anni 1622. acqueiste numerus propius accedit ad tempus annorum diluvii Arcae cujus simisitudinem fore circa secundum Christi adventum Scripturae docent Vel cum post creatum Adamum Anno Mund. 1655 Diluvium Aquae omnia deleverit viventia Post Christi nostri Adami spiritualis restitutionem in Caelum Anno 1655 qui erit anno 1688. expectamus Diluvium ignis quo omnia sunt Immutanda vel Charitatis ardoris Christiani magnum futurum specimen Non faciet Dominus DEVS verbum nisi revelaverit Secretum suum ad servos suos prophetas Leo rugiet quis non timebit Dominus Deus loquucus est Quis non prophetabit Amos Cap. 3. B. Nihil mali invenimus in homine isto Quid si spiritus locutus est ei aut Angelus Act. Apost Cap. 23. C. Dico enim vobis quod multi Prophetae Reges voluerunt videre quae vos videtis non viderunt audire quae auditis non audierunt Lucae 10. E. Matthaei 13. B. Charissimi nolite omni Spiritui credere Sed probate Spiritus si ex Deo sint quoniam multi pseudoprophetae exierunt in mundum In hoc cognoscitur Spiritus Dei. Omnis Spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse ex Deo est c. Johannes Epistola 1. Cap. 4. A. Quisquis confessus fuerit quoniam Jesus
potentissimo Principi ac Domino Domino Rudolpho Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto ac Germaniae Hungariae Bohemiae c. Regi Archiduci Austriae Duci Burgundiae Stiriae Carinthiae c. Comiti Tyrolis c. Domino meo clementissimo Pragae An. 1584. Augusti 17. Caesareae Majestis Vestrae Humillimus fidelissimus Clientulus Joannes Dee Monday †Pragae Augusti 20. Mane circa horam 7. Δ. Precibus ad Deum fusis ex more nostro c. 1. I propounded If the letter written for Rodolphus were as it should be 2. Secondly because we were willed to invite the good Angels for the book writting I asked how we should invite them 3. As concerning our wives and my familly sending for I required when that should be done Δ. Quickly apparition was made E. K. Here is Vriel Δ. Welcome be the light of the Highest VRIEL ..... Wo be unto the world for her light is taken away Wo wo be unto man for the eye of light hath for saken him Wo wo be to the understanding of man for it is led out with a threefold spirit the spirit of errour and ignorance And wo be unto such as believe not the glorious and supereminent light of this Testimony for they are not written with the life neither shall their portion be with the living Thus saith he that is a mere stone which sitteth between the seat of light and darknesse whose wings are great and more than mighty wherewith he gathereth the Stars and the powers that hang upon the firmament of the first and lesser light placing them and powering them in the Spirit of Truth and through his own power the power of the word whereby all things are and are comprehended in that he is as well in the heavens of Glory Chastity and Message as also in places unknown to us Behold those that dig into Nature with dull Mattocks and dull Spades are such as of every congeled substance can imagin but not judge are foolish and of the world whose imaginations are become the instruments of vanity and the piercers of him which is the father of ignorance Wo be unto them for their disputations and doctrines are dogma's and dull Wo wo unto them for they are such as please themselves and are become fathers to many lewd children of whom it is written They are become stiff-necked and proud and the followers of their father Therefore have I gathered my self together and am hidden from them because they are proud and haters of innocency These teach not unto you a doctrine neither are you partakers of their Bankets for the Spirit of God is plain pure and most perfect These breath not upon you neither are the Ornaments of your Garlands enterlaced by these But by him are you lifted up that is the God of Justice and the Discloser of his own secrets and the headlong drawer of things to an end Therefore believe and dream not with the world For the world shall perish and all her adherents and shall be cast into the pit of wo everlasting Read the Scriptures and understand them but wrast them not with the wicked Look into the simplicity and nakednesse of God his Promise View the innocency of some that received them And let not the wickednesse of those that the Lord made vertuous go out of your remembrance But so Triumpheth true power so gathereth he himself together to discomfort the Serpent Of the lightest he maketh the heaviest and of the weakest the strongest And in the weakest vessels worketh he his mercy And why Behold lest the world in her proud imaginations in the ornaments of her pearls and most pretious wits should brag saying I can compare with the Lord. Hear my voice for it is of God The world bringeth forth no good thing neither are the doings of man accepted but where the spirit of humility dwelleth Out of the depth of darknesse hath God made light And lo the light is great and the darknesse comprehendeth it not So in the weakest will he be exalted The Spirit that speaketh unto you is he that hath a Tower to build a strong Tower and a mighty yea such a one as hath not been from the beginning No not from the beginning Great is the foundation thereof for it is of Iron But greater are her walls for they are of Diamond Most great are her Turrets for they are the seven Heads that behold judge and gather And they are made of Truth the Spirit of Eternity Vnto the laying of every stone are you made privy And for this Tower are you provided 1. For lo the first hath appeared and shewed himself mightily 2. And the second hath redeemed and overcome Satan 3. And lo the third appeareth and shall visibly shew the power of God to all Nations For Now cometh the Desolation of the World And the fall of her pride And this is the last Rod that measureth and shall be broken For it is said Now will I hear you from under the Altar Now will I revenge the blood of your brethren O you ignorant and of weak faith Know you not the times that are to come O you that spit out the meat of comfort yea when it is put lovingly into your mouths Why are you sorrowfull Why rejoyce you not that the God of Justice is girded and hath whetted his sword upon a thousand thousand Mountains of fire Why laugh you not the world to scorn and deride her fornication weep not upon her for she is accursed Neither wonder at her for she will be more wonderful You have received this Doctrine in Chambers and in secret places But it shall stand in the great City and upon 7 Hills and shall establish her self in truth Purifie the walls and sweep out the dust and cobwebs the works of the venemous that it may be cast into the River and brought into no remembrance Yea it shall sit in Josaphat in Judgement against the wicked and shall become a fire engendred in the cave of Thunders Therefore When you are commanded lift up your heads and fear not for whom the Heavens shall fight But in your selves be patient and continue to the end That your Crowns may exceed the Garlands of the Earth Thus saith the Lord Lo I have promised thee that my Angel shall visit thee And so it shall be But if I now visit thee Thus will the world say hereafter Lo he hath fained a Doctrine for himself Lo he excelleth in subtilty When I gave my laws they were not secret neither was the place unsanctified When the Comforter cometh girdeth himself against the son of wickednesse Then must you be known and seen unto the Earth But I will give thee the choice Chuse therefore whether thou wilt banket Now because I have promised thee Or tarry till I see the time more convenient For lo if Rodolph hearken unto my voice He shall wonder
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
Mother hath commanded me I will go back and will desire that my mouth may be sewed up with a double threed for assure your self I will not come again willingly But if she say again Go I will come Hui wherefore doth God give bread to Dogs or suffereth his sonne to shine to the bottomlesse Caves I know a cause but yet I am torn in spirit O Mother Mother if thou shouldest speak unto this people out of and from above the Clouds they would melt before thee yea they would fall But lo thou speakest unto them by thy daughter that they may stand and hear but they hear not But I swear unto thee they despise thee What shall therefore become of them I go I will see if I can absent my self from them Δ She went away as if she had been angry in the mean space we argued after our former manner E. K. as he was wont and I still in my constant hope of Gods mercies E. K. Now she is here again E. K. She putteth off her peticoat and putteth on an other Garment full of pleats of a golden colour and after that an other Garment upon that Garment with many Crowns bordered on it with hands out of every of them and a great part of the Arm they are right hands the first Garment which she put off and flingeth it into a fire Madimi ..... I speak unto you though I say nothing Madimi ..... The counsels from above are perfect because they descend But the wrappings of mans wit are unperfect knots hard to put together and harder to unlose Therefore they are not But these are of God and they are true Envious minds and false hearts do hunt after thee and they have said and have conspired But I have said unto them be it unto them as they have measured unto others And that which they have nonrished in corners let it be fire and consume their dwelling 〈◊〉 Let it seek out their brothers Let their throats be burst in pieces Let it range 〈◊〉 their Kingdomes and let it burn down the gate of their borders that the way may be wide for a narrow way serveth not where I bring in mischief I will bring her to the borders and will place her in the Gates and will say unto her Accipe tibi vim And I will give her a two edged sword but I will not enter in with her because I will not hear their Lamentations neither be moved with their groanings These are the hard and heavy knots that the evil spirit and mans wit hath wrought togther But because they are humane they shall perish Truly it seemeth good to my Mother and me and our consent thinketh good also and the rather because she hath prepared the way by her own wisdome which part of the North you must alwayes look unto and be directed by For why that Constellation is true and doth teach those that erre Those also that are right it comforteth them But I will go unto my Mother and ask her once more whether I may hide these things from you E. K. She is gone Δ We read over the premisses and gathered that some treachery was devised against me And therefore I beseech God to give us his counsels and advises to be my guide and protector my light and comfort E. K. Here she is again Madimi ..... That you both or if you will be distracte one of you go secretly hence and speedily unto Lasky So shall it come to passe that he whom they intended to imprison saying we will compel him to perform his word least he peradventure triumph elsewhere against us may at last open the Prison Doores for them and salute a strange King even in the self same place where they shall eat to morrows Dinner But when they perceive that you are gone Then will they understand that you knew and that the spirit of God was amongst you I come again E. K. She is here againe Madimi ..... If these words be true bear witnesse of the truth if you think them to be false you need not follow them Δ How soon would you advise me to be going hence you see how bare I am of money Madimi ..... Do so as in an eminent danger I have spoke the last word Sed adhuc tria Omnia 〈◊〉 voto Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti sapienti misericordi sit omnis gratiarum actio Laus Honor Gloria nunc semper Amen Monday Februarii 25. à meridie circiter 1½ E. K. Fell on his back as one had written as he sat at the Table Hereupon we resorted to the Shew-Stone c. Precibus ad Deum finitis citò apparuit Angelus Dei E. K. Here is Madimi Madimi ..... You have vowed to your selves and to the Lord perform your vowes That which God commandeth that do Excuse your selves with men and gird up your Garments to the travaile Not in Waggon but on Horse-back E. K. I pray you to give us some instructions of my Lord Lasky his being Travaile hence directly and unto Wratislania and there I will meet you E. K. I pray you to deal openly with us according to our frail state and to declare unto us of my Lord Lasky his estate Madimi ..... You depend not upon Lasky but Lasky dependeth upon you if he do evil his punishment is ready if he do well he doth it for himself I am greater then you and my eye stretcheth farther then yours yea though you went to morrow you have 〈◊〉 some dayes Δ I must carry my Books with me we must be at the least three horse Madimi ..... Not so but thou shalt hide them Δ Am I to 〈◊〉 hither again before my wife come from hence Madimi ..... I am not flesh neither do I move or am moved with flesh But if you fulfill the first the rest followeth Δ Secretly and speedily Do this as though you committed theft for if the 〈◊〉 be diminished the purpose shall also want successe Ductus es sequere si vis The hand is open and ready to take hold on you what therefore shall I say more to you Δ What hand I pray you Madimi ..... Manus amplectens non rapiens Δ Lord I understand not that neither E. K. She is gone Δ In manus tuas Domine Commendamus nostra corpora animas nostras spiritus nostros Amen Wednesday February 27. Δ I and E. K. and Thomas Kelly as servant rode to Limburg otherwise named Nimburge six miles from Prage in the way toward Bressel otherwise named 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 28. Manè circa 6 horam At Limberg Thursday Note I had caused from 4 of the clock in the morning the Horses to be looked unto so as by five or assoon as it was break of day we might be riding In the mean space while E. K. yet lay in his bed awake and I was in the next Chamber by in ordering
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
former accounted friends might shew themselves to the boy as Madimi Il 〈◊〉 and chiefly Vriel because as he was first which appeared to the joyning of E. K. and me together so he might be also the Director in the translating of E. K. his office to Arthur Then said he I marvel if you had no apparition here for I somewhat thinking of Arthur and his proceeding in the 〈◊〉 of skrying came here into the gallery and I heard you pray and opening the window I looked out and I saw a great number going in and out of this Chappel at the little hole in the glass window I saw Madimi Il and many other that had dealed with us heretofore but shewed themselves in very filthy order and Vriel appeared and 〈◊〉 all to be of God and good And therefore I wonder if here you have no shew perhaps there is somewhat but Arthur seeth it not Δ. True it is and how should I help him herein seeing I cannot yet see or skry E. K. I will come and see if there be any thing Δ. I pray you do Note and so E. K. looked towards the stone and he by and by said Here appeareth somewhat and pointed to Arthur where and asked him if he saw any thing and he said No. Then said E. K. I see like a white Marble square table or book lying on a wooden desk Δ. I pray you Sir take the pains to look and discern what is here shewed E. K. I see written upon that book Beata quae per peccatum mihi domum corruentem hominibus integram reddit E. K. Now a leaf of that book is turned open and there is written on it but I cannot reade it yet Now I see it Ego sum qui dedi daturus sum vobis legem ex qua mortalibus perpetua requies felicitas sit ventura E. K. Now another leaf is turned over and appeareth written Estote ergo tales quales me meosque decet rati coram me ambulate E. K. Now turneth over the leaf of it self Ne populus esuriens suiens negligentia obstinatia vestra vel ruat vel saltem E. K. Now the leaf turneth Pro tempore alimento careat E. K. Now the desk and book or table is gone Δ. Note By and by after while E. K. did look into the stone he said E. K. I see a hand appear a very great one white with the fingers spred abroad E. K. The hand is gone but there remaineth writing Videbitis audietis brevi omnes Si interim E. K. It is as if it were upon the side of a white Globe afar off The Globe turneth so swiftly that I cannot well read it Animi ad meliora compoti E. K. The Globe turneth so swiftly that I cannot read it till it stand still Sese mihi meis E. K. Now again the Globe is turned most swiftly Filiorum more subjicient Si vero per meipsum loquor jure alieni vagabundi alias vobismet ipsis disimperitis non oculo sed corpori immo omnibus membris casus ruina paratur Quales enim in futuro eritis vobis ut scivetis nullo modo licet Majora enim à superis mortalibus prae foribus sunt quotidieque instant quam vel primo vel secundo etatis modulo fuerunt Qui aures erigat Cui intellectus sapiat Omnia peccata apud me postponuntur huic insaniens propter me sapiat Immo adulterizans propter me in sempiternum benedicetur premio afficietur celesti E. K. Now the Globe is gone Δ. Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui sancto erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen So we left off Trebonae Actionis Tertiae altera pars Preces ad Deum Omnipotentem pro sua veritate nobis impartienda ad nominis suo laudem honorem gloriam Δ. Note Arthur was set to the stone but nothing appeared E. K. had brought the powder with him as he was bidden to do Then I desired him to apply himself to see as he was wont And so he did E. K. Here appear all in the stone that appeared yesterday unto me in the air in that most disorderly and filthy manner They are in the like apparel as yesterday Δ. O God confirm us in thy truth sor thine own honour and glory and suffer us not to be overcome with any temptation but deliver us from all evil now and ever E. K. There appeared Madimi Il. and the rest And so they are here but now all the rest are gone and onely Madimi remaineth Madimi openeth all her apparel and her self all naked and sheweth her shame also E. K. Fie on thee Devil avoid hence with this filthiness c. Mad. In the Name of God why finde you fault with mee Δ. Because your yesterdayes doings and words are provocations to fin and unmeet for any godly creature to use Mad. What is sin Δ. To break the Commandement of God Mad. Set that down so Mad. If the self-same God give you a new Commandement taking away the former form of sin which he limited by the Law What remaineth then Δ. If by the self-same God that gave the Law to Moses and gave his New Covenant by Christ who sealed it by his blood and had his witnesses very many and his Apostles instructed by his holy Spirit who admonished us of all cleanness in words and works yea and in thoughts if by the same God hose former Laws and Doctrines be abrogated and that sufficient proof and testimony may be had that it is the same God Then must the same God be obeyed For only God is the Lord of Lords King of Kings and Governour of all things E K She kneeleth and holdeth up her hands Mad. The Laws of God and of his Son Christ stablished by the testimony of his Disciples and Congregation and by the force and power of his holy Spirit are not in any particular vocation abrogated but rather confirmed For 〈◊〉 it falleth out that God being offended at the wickedness of any man or of some man private sendeth down his Spirit of Death infecting and tempting another mans minde so that he 〈◊〉 void of Reason and riseth up against him whom God is offended with and striketh him so that he dyeth This before man is accounted sin before God it shall be imputed unto him for righteousness Even so whatsoever the Spirit of God teacheth us from him though it appear sin before man is righteousness before him Therefore assure your selves that whatsoever is seen and heard amongst you is from above and is a sign and 〈◊〉 even this day before you for I that touched thy Son might also have taken away his breath But O you are of little understanding But behold I teach you That unto those that are accounted righteous through the good will of God sin is justly punished but not as unto the wicked For
400 Dollers yearly Gah S diu The Spirits of the fourth Angle are Δ It is yet a mystery to what book these and such words have relation they are in every Call following That word thou hast not it is Acam E. K. Like a cloud covereth between me the things in the air Δ 6 2 Sapáb That is Af that word have not there Peral you want that word Nal. ... E. K. 〈◊〉 came between E.K. His eyes and the shew-stone E. K Now all the 〈◊〉 are bowed downward E. K. Clouds Fortè sic E. K. Clouds * Dwelling in the rightenesse of the heavens as continual comforters Nal ..... Δ 5 1 C. al that you have not The ninth Nal ..... That is P. you have not mark the mysterie 5 Δ 9 West Nal. ..... 〈◊〉 And that you have not Δ. I understand the end of this earth c. 4 Δ 8 Ol. That you have not That is Daox that you have not 〈◊〉 ..... That you have not Nal. ..... Math. you have it not 6 10 Mian ..... ob ..... That you have not Δ 8 12 Δ 7 11 There is no language for these words in the Call At large Darg ..... Of the first flame Sons Daughters Nal .... Ol .... Nal ..... Quar. Nal ..... or extreaam Justice Δ 10 14 Nalvage Δ 9 13 Eran 18 14 Δ This is the 14 25 I received them in the holy Language Emod Stretch forth Δ 12 16 Faxs Faxes or Faxis to be sounded I find in the Call Taxs. I finde also in some words T or F indifferently used Δ. 13. 17 We have no more now Hora 12. NOTE Note the third of the third Book which is the seventh from the beginning is not yet Englished Vide post Julii 11. hora 4. There is the Call Englished NOTE The great and peculiar mercies of God shewed on us Genes 27. Up and be gone Stephen Bather King of Poland Note of the death of the righteous now and then Flee But 10. dayes Particular Temptations Provide for this Journey Spiritus Sanctus Be gone Enoch The Book confirmed Nal. Ave. It is a king of slate-stone 50 Dayes labour 〈◊〉 his prayer to God One Creatour of all things A Seer The Call of Angels Δ There were no Kings in 〈◊〉 his time Consider therefore how to ask this doubt of this phrase prophetical In 〈◊〉 I find cap. 8. that unjudged Nations had Kings long before Saul his time Therefore there might be some in Enoch his time or he prophesied of them * Ave. That is to say thrice a day Thrice a day What is meant by the phrase or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in respect of good Angels De secundo adventu Christi Wednesday following The Curtain appeared straight way At four of the Clock after noon NOTE 〈◊〉 Δ. He is one of sigillum Dei one of the Septenarii whereof Ave and ... are The Translation of the Call into English Many enemies bodily and ghostly Ile .... Ni That you have not Vide Supra Thursday at four of the Clock afternoon Nineteen Calls received The use of these 19 Calls Ilemese Ilemese 〈◊〉 asper 〈◊〉 Note If. Note In the same instant 〈◊〉 Watch-men Keepers 〈◊〉 of the earth kar in palato very much .... Note How this One Call may serve the 30. God his promise fulfilled before August Counsel for preparation The reading of the Book The letters The mysteries of this Book Dwell together 〈◊〉 pene 〈◊〉 Be gone May 21. Mane Et à Meridie per Mapsama ... 27 Junii per A V E. Reg. 1. cap. 15. A. L. His plague threatned Δ. O most mercifull and just God Obedience d ee Is pardoned No more secrets of God to be opened to A. L. 10 Dayes Δ. Fortè Madnesse procured in the K. and he is now recovered Δ. A scourge to follow unto us Lord be mercifull A. L. Conjectura levicula Nota de Anno 88. Societas Jesu Δ. 72 Angels Δ. Vide Apocalypseos cap. 16. sed videtur quod non sequenter ordine veluti quis ex textu judicaret Ast non asseritur hic effusam esse etiamsi saepe olim vindicatum requirebant illi qui sub altari sunt nondum illis erat concessum c. Sic hic dici potest Madimi est ex ordine potestatum * Vide 26. Junii Mater Madimi The Rainbow Apocalips 4. Faith shall hardly be found on the Earth Seven Woes 〈◊〉 Madami my friend This name of God is in Satan his Traiterous information to be taken head of A. L. My wife children and houshold must be moved to Grage Mater Maditni Trinity IF RODOLPHUS Δ. Either E K V 1. 263. speake not this or 〈◊〉 omitted to write it at the first If Dei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum Δ. de R. The marvellous beginning of this last time Mapsama A paper book to be prepared Jajurandum ad Dee pro A. L. Misericurdia Dei super Δ. Cum Imperore Rod. Prophetia de Δ. * Mathei 7. D. New lessons New books No dicas coram Angels non est Providentia 〈◊〉 siastes cap 5. * Libelli Monadis Hieroglyphicae Theoremate 20. jam ante 20 annos editi * D Δ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Aliquid deest forte The Spirit of Pride This Testimony to be believed upon great displeasure else Heavens of Glory Chastity Angels God to us is the Discloser of his own secrets Humility Vriel hath a Tower to build c. Δ. and E. K. Primus Filius Spiritus Sanctus Desolatio de qua Propheta loquutus est Apocalyps cap. 18. F. Δ. 〈◊〉 Tempus est tacendi tempus est I quendi veluti de 〈◊〉 Christi Matth. 17. B. Marc. 9. B Luc 9. B. 12. A. Constat Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 10. C. Quod in 〈◊〉 audietis predicate super tecta c Luc. 12. * Joel cap. 3. †Fear not †Promise of visitation for the 48. great Calls and the Holy Book wilting and practising * Legissatio manifesta in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichristi eversio per Spiritum SS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. 〈◊〉 ad Thess. 2. cap. 2. An Election or Choice offered to Δ. RODOLPHUS Imp. A Vision The Garden of Comfort 1. One of those men saith He meaneth of the first and second which gathered flowers and of the third Respice 〈◊〉 2. 3. Note 〈◊〉 sine qua non causa proxima 〈◊〉 ut differunt 〈◊〉 A defiler of the flowers The Garden of Wisdom Three manner of wise men Fury and Re-Open unto venge Rudelph the Emperour must be made 〈◊〉 of all RUDOLPHUS IMPER 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 6. Uriel ..... His voyce Earth A 〈◊〉 of our choice made Prepare The Promise becometh life God well pleased A new promise to Δ. a Camber vide Anno 1582. 15. Martii * Δ. Fortè intelligit Rolandum infantem meum cui vitam reslituit Deus miraculosè quasi Cracoviae An. 1584. Julii 14. Sed Deus tu nosti quod hoc mihi tam mirum cidetur
same event in Dr. Dee though otherwise as he doth appear to us innocent and well qualified That this was his case and error I will appeal to his own confession though he makes it his boast in more then one of his Letters or addresses where he professeth That for divers years he had been an earnest suter unto God in prayer for Wisdom that is as he interprets himself That he might understand the secrets of Nature that had not been revealed unto men hitherto to the end as he professeth and his own deceitful heart it may be suggested unto him That he might glorifie God but certainly that himself might become a glorious man in the world and be admired yea adored every where almost as he might be sure it would be had he compassed his desire And what do we think should put him upon such a desire with hopes to obtain it but an opinion he had of himself as an extraordinary man both for parts and for favour with God But however had he been to the utmost of what he could think of himself besides his Spiritual pride of thinking so of himself as great a sin as any in the eyes of God his praying for such a thing with so much importunity was a great tempting of God and deserving greatest judgments Had he indeed been a suter unto God for such Wisdom as the Prophet Jeremie describeth 11. v. 24 25. Let not the Wise man glorie in his wisdom c. but let him that glorieth c. And for such knowledg as our Saviour commandeth Joh. 17. 3. And this is life eternal that they may know thee c. And his blessed Apostle 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 2. For I determined not to know any thing c. he had had good warrant for his prayers and it is very likely that God would have granted him his request so far as might have concerned his own salvation and eternal happiness Besides it is lawful nay fit for a man to pray for Gods blessing upon his labours for competency of wit and capacity that he may do well in his vocation and glorifie God But for a man to aspire to such eminency above other men and by means that are not ordinary as that conceited Phylosophers Stone and the like and to interest God by earnest solicitations in his ambitions extravagant desires that God who hath said of himself That he resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble must needs be so great and so high a provocation if well considered as that I begin to doubt whether it be charity to pity him that suffered so justly and deservedly I do not know but it is as lawfull for any man obscurely born to pray for a Kingdom for a Common Souldier that he may have strength to encounter thousands or for an ordinarie Maid that she may become the fairest of women In all these it is possible to glorifie God we grant were it fit for us to prescribe unto God neglecting those that he hath appointed by what means he should be glorified and could we secure our selves that in pretending to Gods glory we do not seek our own I wish that our great undertakers and reformers such is their wisdom they think of Arts and Sciences would seriously think of this they especially who take upon themselves to make all men wise and of one mind and to reconcile all doubts and difficulties in Religion and otherwise in a word to make Truth to be imbraced by all men Should these men tell us that if they had had the creating of the world and the ordering of all things and there be I think in the world that have said little less from the beginning they would have made an other guess of things then God had done We would have considerd of it perchance what might be the ground in any mortal man of such wonderful confidence But such being the condition of the world as it is and such of men naturally or to speak as a Christian since the fall of Adam and the consequencies of it the curse of God c. to make all men wise of one mind good religious without an infinite omnipotent power such as of nothing was able to create a world can any man sober and wise hear it hear it with patience that thinks it impossible yea strange that Castles should be built in the air or the heavens battered with great guns And yet such books are read yea and much set by by some men My judgment is That they are to be pityed if distemper be the cause as I believe it is in some that boast of such things but if wise and politick to get credit and money as some I believe it is a great argument of their confidence that there be many in the word that are not very wise But to return to Dr. d ee It might be further added and proved by examples that some men of transcendent holiness and mortification in the sight of men so sequestred from the world some of them and the vanities of it that for many years they had conversed with God alone in a manner yet through pride and conceit of their own parts and favour with God fell into delusions and temptations if not altogether the same yet not less strange and dreadful Such examples Ecclesiastical Story will afford and other books of that nature but I have them not at this time and I conceive I have said enough to this 〈◊〉 But of his Praying too somewhat would be observed His Spirits tell him somewhere that he had the Gift of Praying Truly I believe he had as it is ordinarily called that it is that he could express himself very fluently and earnestly in Prayer and that he did it often to his own great contentment Let no man wonder at this I have shewed elsewhere that some that have been very wicked yea some that dyed for blasphemy and with blasphemy in their mouth to the last gasp have had it in a great measure and done much mischief by it It is no disparagement to Prayer no more then it is to the best things of the world and what better and more heavenly then prayer well used if they be abused And it is commonly observed that the corruption of best things is most dangerous What bred those pernicious hereticks that so long troubled the world and could not be 〈◊〉 but by absolute destruction but long affected prayers therefore called Euchites or Messaliani that is to say the Prayers and Enthusiasms And as to that point of inward joy and comptacency which some Schismaticks and wicked men find in themselves at their prayers which ignorant deluded people think to be an argument of the Spirit It is certain and is a mystery of nature that hath may I speak it without bragging been brought to light of late years at least by my self and fully discovered That not only the inward heat of mental conception where there is any vigor but also the musick
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. 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satisfie my desire which was to understand the natures of all his creatures and the best manner how to use them to his divine honor and glory and the comfort of the elect and also to the reproof and confusion of the adversaries of his name and honour And herein I had dealed sundry wayes And at length had found the mercies of God such as to send me the instruction of Michael Gabriel Raphael and Vriel and divers other his good and faithful Messagers such as I had here now brought books about 18 to shew him the manner of their proceeding And that I thought it good to begin at the last book which also concerned most this present Emperour Rodolph And so I did and so by degrees from book to book lightly I gave him a taste or sight of the most part and also let him see the Stone brought me by Angelical ministery c. All things being seen and heard that in six hours I could shew him at length he required of me what conclusion or summary report he should make to the Emperour I answered as he had occasion of the things seen and heard but if he would follow my counsel somewhat expert in these Divine and Angelical doings That his Majesty was to thank God for his great mercies and graces offered and that by me one who most sincerely and faithfully gave his Majesty to understand the will of God herein and that his Majesty was to do as Mary the blessed Virgin did to lay up all these my informations in his heart and to say Ecce servus Domini fiat voluntas tua and so to attend the manner of the Lord his proceeding while he framed his life as it became every Christian to do He said that he would write for his own memories help some short note of his observations of my speeches and things seen and marked and that he would to morrow being Sonday or on Monday if he conveniently could make a report to the Emperour and so with all speed give me to understand further of the Emperour his Majesties will and pleasure Hereupon courteously he brought me down to the street door of his house and I came home after seven of the Clock and an half in the evening The mercies of God be on me and his name be magnified and extolled in this world and for ever Amen Note In the mean space while I was thus occupied with the foresaid Mr. Curtz E. K. was visited at our Lodging with a wicked Tempter who denied any Christ to be and that as the heart received comfort of all the Members of the body So that he who is God of all things received comfort by Angels and other the Members of the world and that I was now with one who would use me like a Serpent with head and tayl compassing my confusion c. he earnestly reviled E. K. in divers manners he said that E. K. should be damned and said moreover that of our practises should never come any fruitfull end c. Δ. The eternal and Almighty God confound the Adversaries of his truth and glory and of his Son Jesus Christ our Redeemer and the Triumphant Conquerour against Hell fin and the Devil Amen PRAGAE On Monday and Tuesday the 17 th and 18 th of September I sent Emericus up to the Castle to listen after answer of that Doctor Curtz his report to the Emperour of that he had perceived by me But on Monday Octavius Spinola had sent into the Town for Emericus and told him that the Emperour had care and desire to understand my doing with the Doctor And therefore asked Emericus if I had been with the Doctor and he affirmed that I had Hereof said he the Emperour will be glad And yet as I began to note Emericus coming on Tuesday in the face of the Doctor in the Ritters stove had not one word spoken to him that either he had spoken to the Emperour or he had not And therefore I suspect that the Doctor dealeth not honestly faithfully or wisely in this so weighty a case And forasmuch as he told me that the Emperour his Majesty was perswaded that he was pious c. perhaps he would be loath now to prefer me to the speech of the Emperour seeing both he himself and the rest of his counsel stood perswaded to the contrary of this King Hereupon this great delay upon sinister report made to the Emperour might follow c. Note Fryday Septemb. 21. Circa horam 10. Ferè Mane †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. were together in my Study earnestly discoursing of Auricular confession publick confession and confessing to God alone and of the Authority of the Church and the manner of the same Authority using to release or retain fins E. K. saw one walk on the Table between him and me Thereupon I framed me to write and note what should be shewed or said E. K. willed me to set down the shew-stone So I did and he looked E. K. I see him here with the Scarf over his head and face untill his waste but I see his hair yellow behinde on his head c. Mitte lucem tuam O Deus varitatem tuam ut ipsae nos ducant ex hac valle miseriae ad montem Sanctum Sion ad coelestia tua Tabernacula Amen Uriel ..... I am Uriel the servant of the most wise mighty and everlasting God which visit you for two causes The first that I may open unto you true and perfect light such as darknesse comprehendeth not infallible and true meat the power and spirit of the everlasting God The second that I may counsel you against the world and teach you to triumph against her frowardnesse For who hath trusted in the Lord and hath been cast down or what is he that hath cried aloud and is not heard Therefore I say unto you Hear my voyce For I am of truth and put against darknesse and in me are published the light and mysteries of the Trinity from time to time and in all ages unto those that fear and obey God Two things there are which are the seals and marks of Satan which bring eternal death and damnation to all such as are noted or burned with them that is to say lying and froward silence Behold the words of Christ unto the subtile your father is a lyar from the beginning and the Devil Hearken unto my voyce He that 1 teacheth false Doctrine openeth 2 his mouth against truth or defiraudeth 3 his brother is a lyar and shall not be forgiven 1. For first he sinneth against his Creator which created all things in truth 2. Secondly he offendeth against the truth and his Redeemer which is the son of God very Christ. 3. Thirdly he offendeth against the spirit of God of the Father and the Son the holy Ghost which shall not be forgiven And therefore doth he incurre the rigour of Gods justice his eternall damnation
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