and subscribed by the parties on their parts it was thought necessary by them that God should make some manifestation on his part that he would accept it in that form of words it was written and to that end Dr. Dee with Edward Kelly went to the Chappel to the South Table and there Dr. Dee saith he first praying to Almighty God Creator of Heaven and Earth to encrease his Faith and open the eyes of his Heart He read over the Covenant verbatim before the Divine Majesty and his holy Angles After a quarter of an hour Madimi appeareth Madi Pepigistis Dr. d ee Pepigimus A Voice Ratum est perumpite sunt vobis omnia communia Dei non hominis estote promissa quae sunt possidete vobis distinata A ternus sum Edward Kelly declared formerly his opinion That all Spirits appearing in the shape of Women were evil Spirits and not good which is seems made him not again acquiesce in his apparition of Madimi he therefore May 20th required again the writing subscribed to expunge his name from it but having got it he cut it into two equal parts and kept that part wherein were his own and his Wives names and returned the other to Dr. d ee and his Wife But afterwards Madimi did with her finger drawn on the two papers make them whole again c. Then an apparition is made of Christ standing in a great Globe of Fire with a Purple Robe Christus Who sitteth on the Cherubims c. As I humbled my self to Death wherein the Unity between my Congregation and me was before my Father perpetually sealed c. So be you content to be the figures of the things that are to come by you that it may be a perpetual Testimony before the Heavens and before Men of your perfect and sound faith And thou even thou who hast tore in peices this Morning this Covenant which thou hast made with me behold the time shall come that thou shalt be torn in peices thy self and I will turn away my face from thee for a time c. But because thy mind was never to forsake me even so shalt thou never be forsaken of me Take heed of the Tempter thou madest a Covenant with me in paper which thou canst not by tearing the same put out for my Register is Eternal He that pawneth his Soul for me loseth it not and he that dieth for me dieth to Eternal life Behold you shall both as Lambs be brought forth before men in your later days and shall be slain and your Bodies tossed to and fro but I will revive you again Dr. d ee After which as I and Edward Kelly walked out at the new stairs into the new Orchard along the little River to view the small Fish and returning to the fore-stairs again Edward Kelly saw two as high as my Son Arthur fighting with Swords by the River-side and the one said to the other Thou hast beguiled me Then I at length said unto them Can I take up the matter between you One said Yea that you can In what is it said I Then said he I sent a thing to thy Wife by my Man and this Fellow hath taken it from him they fought sâ—re at length he that had it was wounded in the Thigh and it seem'd to bleed afterward he that was wounded did bring a yellow square thing out of his bosom then I guessed it to be my stone which was carried away as is mention'd before suddenly he seem'd to have been out of sight and to be come again he threatned the other that had wounded him and said He would be even with him he asked whether he had lain it under the right Pillow at length they both went one after the other into a little Willow-Tree-Body on the right-hand next the new Stairs into the Garden the Tree seem'd to cleave or open and they to go in Hereupon we went away and I coming to my Chamber found my Wife lying on her Bed where I lay yesternight and there I lifted up the right Pillow on which she lay and there I found my pretious stone that was before taken away by Madimi whereat Edward Kelly greatly wondred and doubted the verity of the shew but I and my Wife rejoiced thanking God Saturday May 23th Proeces ad Deum fundebam c. And then we requested That the Act of Obedience performed according to our Faith conceived of our Vocation from the Almighty and Eternal God of Heaven and Earth might be accepted which is by Apparition and Voice accepted and blessed So hence none doubts to conclude that the Spirits which here appeared and assumed the names and shape of an Arch-Angel and Christ were Devils transformed and neither good Angels nor Christ because they tempted to Adultery and Uncleanness Bishops set up Community of Women for Commutation money The like Community is set up by Ecclesiastical Laws and Bishops by pardoning for Money the deflouring and desertion of as many Virgins as you will so you marry them not before a Priest in a Temple and by the Popish Clergy who have liberty for a small rate or Taxa Camerae to lie with as many Women-Virgins or Wives as they will so they marry them not before a Priest in a Temple So the Authors of the Bishops Certificate of Filiation were the Daemons of Hamon Delphos and other Oracles Bishops Certificate of Filiation where it appears it was the Custom amongst the Heathens when any Son doubted or knew not his Father to consult the Devils Oracle as appears by the example of Alexander the Great Oedipus and others and the Devil gave them their Response by his Arch-bishop or Priest and if they went not to him in person but sent by Certificate in writing which is the same with the Certificate of the Bshop So the Law of Fictions of Marriage by intention of the Mind only without carnal knowledg of the Body Consensus non Concubitus and verba de praesenti without the Act and Consensus non Concubitus facit matrimonium came first from Cecrops an Idolatrous King of Athens and was since revived in imitation of him by Idolatrous Popes and the same Law was confirmed by the Pagan Goddess Juno and the Popish Mother of St. Kentegern both got with Child without a Man as after more at large mention'd to the intent Husbands might not be Unbelievers if their Wives were got with Child without them seeing it is sufficient if they had a good intention in their Mind and spoke Verba de praesenti and there was Consensus non Concubitus So the Law was first invented by Aruspices South-sayers and Astrologers of prohibiting Times and Seasons of Marriage for the Gâ—eeks Romans Times when Marriages go out and come in Chinoys and other Heathen Nations believed their Marriages could not be happy unless the Birds and the Stars were consulted for a lucky day and lucky hour to which purpose is that of
from Daemons The same or a worse initiation had those ancient Priests called Magi of the Persians for they before they could be initiated were to lye with their Mother Sister and Daughter As to the Mother Xanthus teacheth in magicis Vt magus ex matre nato nascatur oportet On which some passages collected by Saidus Batricides Patriarch of Alexandria out of the Oriental Monuments Language and Characters concerning Nimrod the Giant King of Babylon are translated by Selden de jure nat 624. viz. That when Nimrod had observed the shape of a Crown to be in the Clouds he caused a Crown to be made and set it on his Head whence it was reported amongst the vulgar that he received a Crown from Heaven And he is likewise said to be the first who worshipped the Fire for he saw fire in the East ascending out of the Earth and thereupon drew over to discern it and worshipp'd it And then appointed a Priest to offer in the same place Incense to it and from that time the Priests called Magi began to worship the fire and the name of the first Priest whom Nimrod appointed for that office was Andshan to whom a Daemon out of the midâ—st of the fire spoke these words No Man can be consecrated or understand my Sacred Rites unless he first lye with his Mother and Sister and his Daughter And Andshan did according as the Daemon taught him and from that time such Magi as performed the office of Priests used to lye with their Mothers Sisters and Daughters and Andshan was the first who began the custom That these Priests of Priapus had their Doctrine from the Devil appears by the use they put it to for these were Priests who bringing the Women to their Sacrifices and Temples drew the Israelites to Idolatry as appears Numb 25.1 where it is said And the people began to commit Whoredom with the Daughters of Moab And they called the people unto the Sacrifices of their Gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their Gods And Israel joyned himself to Baal Peor from the Hill Peor where was the Temple call'd Beth Peâ—r and mention'd Deut. 3.29 So what Priests and Gods they were who first drew Women to publick Sacrifices and Temples appears by this It 's before shewen that Laws tending to so much uncleanness as drawing marriages of Women to Temples testifie they come from unclean Spirits and not from God who is Holiness it self I shall as to that add only one more History of a Person who was in as great reputation for holiness and learning and greater than any Pope which is Doctor Dee yet was he deluded by the Devil appearing first in the likeness of an Arch-Angel and then of Christ himself and there is no other mark to prove him the Devil but the uncleanness of the Doctrine he taught though in most Angelical yea Arch-Angelical Language And this is thought by all a sufficient proof and the same argument therefore of the Uncleanness Covetousness and Ambition of this Law proves that the Popes who have been divers of them as great Magicians as the Babylonish Andshan before mention'd Plato's Daemon of Community of Women and other Magi had it from the Devil The first Law of Community of Women was given by Plato's Daemon in his private Oracle endeavoured to have been revived by the like Daemon in a private Oracle to Dr. Dee The History of the Devil appearing in shape of Christ to Doctor Dee and tempting him and his Seer Kelly to a Covenant of Community of Wives Dr. Dee's Daemon of Community of Women Anno Dom. 1583 or thereabouts Dr. Dee had two pretious Stones or Crystals which he called the seeing Stones given him by Spirits whom he believed to be good Angels And Edward Kelly had the gift of seeing all Apparitions made in those Crystals or pretious Stones and of reading and interpreting whatsoever seem'd to be written in them After long converse by Dr. Dee with these Spirits and a multitude of Apparitions represented and some Discourses of secrets and some Miracles shewen with the same The Spirit in shew appointeth to translate the gift of seeing from Kelly to Arthur the eldest Son of Dr. Dee of the burden of which Kelly desired to be freed but the success followed not to Arthur but still continued to Kelly and Madimi an Apparition who appeared to Dr. d ee himself at the beginning of his acquaintance with Spirits in the shape of a Woman appeared to Kelly in the Air being really unwilling to translate his office to Arthur and other Spirits with her in an unseemly behaviour and he is therefore again desired by Dr. Dee to see again in the same Ed. Kelly There appeareth Madimi she openeth all her apparel and her self all naked and sheweth her shame also Ed. Kelly Fie on the Devil avoid hence with thy filthiness c. Madi In the name of God why find you fault with me Dr. d ee Because your yesterdays doings and words are provocations to sin and unmeet for any godly Creature to use Madi What is sin Dr. d ee To break the Commandments of God Madi Set that down Madi If the self same God give you a new Commandment taking away the former form of sin which he limited by the Law what remaineth then Dr. d ee If the self same God that gave the Law to Moses and gave his new Covenant by Christ who seal'd it by his blood and had his Witnesses very many and his Apostles instructed by his holy Spirit who instructed us in all cleanness in words and works yea and in thoughts if by the same God those former Laws and Doctrines be abrogated and the sufficient proof and testimony may be had that it is the same God then must the same God be obeyed Madi A Privilege granted doth not abrogate a Law but confirm it c. Here Arthur was smitten in a swoon and Edward Kelly saw one in a long White-Garment make as if he would strike him and he became very sick for the time Madi Whatsoever the Spirit of God teacheth as from him though it appear sin before man is righteousness before him Therefore assure your selves whatsoever is seen and heard amongst you is from above and it is a sign and testimony this day before you for I that touched thy Son might have taken away his breath After other passages Dr. d ee desired the Seer Kelly to enquire of certain words Madimi had spoken the day before That they two had their Wives in such sort as they might use them in common whether she intended Spiritual or Carnal Community Ed. Kelly Upon a scroll like the edg of a Carpet I see is written De Vtroque Loquor Dr. d ee The one is expresly against the Commandment of God neither can I by any means assent to consent to that Doctrine and for my help in that verity I call down the Power of Almighty God Creator of Heaven
for a Farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father Yea the Child himself who is of more value than many Sparrows And in the midst of all these Enemies how shall he cry for help to his Father who is so many Millions of Miles as is the New Jerusalem absent from him How doth his Body live so long how shall his Soul after Death break through so many Regions and Legions as stand in Battalia against her ascent to so unimaginable an Height before she can reach her Fathers House as a Mill-stone cast thence with impetuous swiftness would not fall on Earth or into the Sea in Thousands of years unless it be intended every Soul which goes to Heaven must borrow Mahomet's Elborach and that would not serve neither if true what he Relates That after he had Rid like a Witch by night through the Air and was come to his last Stage within Threescore Miles of Gods Palace where he dwelt all the way was so Impassible with huge heaps of Frost and Snow that had he not been an hot Bodyed and hot Headed man he had been utterly lost and frozen to death before he had got through and being got at length to the Presence-Chamber God living in the midst of all that Snow put a cold Complement on him for he clapt him on the shoulder but it was not to Knight him with his hand so cold That it pierced him to the very Reins of his back and cast him all over into a Terrible shivering and surely if it were possible for a Soul to pass so long a Journey through so many Thousand Legions of Devils as are in the way to intercept her and she should at length Recover faint and weary to the beginning of the Threescore Northern Miles of these Mountains of Frost and Snow being so naked as Souls use to be when they come in and go out of the World and not Turbanted Coated Shooed as the Body of Mahomet It is doubted by many before she gets haâ—f way through she must turn up her Heels if she have any much sooner without Feathers than a Robin doth with them in Winter The Priests have brought their Soul to a fair pass and left her between fire and frost the Pope to burn one half and the Turk to freez the other neither do they shew a Remedy nor if the Soul is after death sensible of Good or Evil as doubtless it is or aâ—l Religion were in vain do they shew in all the Piles of their Theology how so much as one Sparrow shall be secure from falling on the ground or one Soul shall Injoy the Protection of Providence in the Center of so many Enemies as she is incircled with both in Life and after Death who seek to take all the Good from her and lay all the Evil on her they can Alas Poor Soul And why do they conceal from thee thy greatest and only present and Eternal comfort the Omnipresence of God Which if granted none of this Evil can ever happen to thee Thou art ever in his Embraces he hears thee he sees thee he is with thee and as is sayd Rom. 8 38. Neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor to come nor height nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate Vs from the Love of God though as Job saith 9.11 Lo he goeth by me and I see him not be passeth on also but I perceive him not This neither Pope nor Turk dare deny yet seek to bury in Oblivion and hide in Clouds of Darkness forbidding all Disputes of the Premisses least the truth of Conclusions which must necessary follow shake the Fundamentals of all their false Religions and the vast gains accrue to them by the same Some of the gainful Practices arising from suppressing the knowledg of the Omnipresence of God I have touch't before and some Others I have added as followeth 1. If the Light of the Omnipresence shouâ—d shine through the World they could not pretend and deceive with Magick in the name of Theology with Necromancy under the name of Prayer at the Tombs of Saints and to their bones and Reliques they could not deceive with Witchcraft and Malice under the Name of Converse with God and Good Angels nor could they pretend to be Inspirators without Miracle if God is Omnipresent in every Soul alike Divers Popes have been by Histories Nâ—ted to pretend Inspiration who have been great Magicians and the Acting or Counterfeiting many Miracles by the Romish Saints both beneficial and maleficial are common in their Legends and the Turks have as many as they And seldom a Tyrant goes to Sea but he will if he can have a Witch so will they in their Land-Enterprizes have their prophets which are the same The Tartar Chinese and American Priests are generally Magicians and are Consulted in all their Wars so were the Magi of the Persians and Brachmans of the Indians The Druids of the Gauls and Brittons and many other Nations all Witches who sometimes by the help of the Devil foretold truly and sometimes falsly success of Wars and shared with the Souldiers in the spoil Now though amongst the Heathens they were not ashamed to worship Devils whom they called gods and it was the Professed Divinity of Polytheist to Worship and Consult Inferior Spirits as well as the Supreme yet amongst Christians the Profession being only to Worship the Supreme if they Publish the Supreme to be Omnipresent they cannot pretend these Magical spirits to be God or Good Angels who confine themselves only to some Persons or Places and do Malefices either to Nations or private Persons seeing if they Pray to God Omnipresentially they may be sure to be heard for all Lawful and necessary Prayers and the unlawful and Maleficious never to be granted by him whereby the Priest will loose all his Customers for he that believeth God Omnipresent will Pray alone and not Imploy another to Pray for him to avoid the foremention'd Dangers First because for ought he knows the Priest who Prays for him may be a Magician Secondly He will not Pray to a Saint or Angel nor bring offerings as the Priest would have him because for ought he knows this Saint or Angel may be a Daemon Transformed into an Angel of Light whereby he himself should become a Magician and incite this Daemon to do Malefice 2 Such as believe the Omnipresâ—nce will not only avoid Praying by a Priest or to an Angel or Saint by whom he pretends to have Power to obtain unlawful Prayers and to do Malefice but likewise to obtain Lawful Prayers and to Receive Benefits because the Granting of a Payer both by God or an Angel or any Invisible Power is a Miracle and the Priest takes Money for every Miracle or benefit succeeds by his Prayers of benefit to the Party for whom he Prays whereby it will be manifest that the success of this Prayer is
Seas alas so many Flames can quench The Romish Tyrant on Tarpeia smil'd To see the Brittish Priests thus both beguil'd When they have sent each other unto Hell Saith he by mutual wounds hark what I tell Lest they want Fire should in the Pit profound I will them both alive burn above ground Behold the Jest the peeping Mouse and Frog With Bulrush fighting are on Hill and Bog Like Kite mean while hid in a Cloudy Day With soft mov'd Wings I 'le soar about my Prey So I at length the Croaking Frog shall gull And Mouse ridiculous in pieces pull I shall proceed next to the Form and whole Nature of Excommunication and the further manifold mischiefs it brings to all Protestant-Churches which shews Bishops who use it are neither sit Judges of Marriage nor of any thing else The Form of the Jewish Excommunication By Decree of the Cities and Command of the Saints We Anathematize and Adjure Exterminate Excommunicate Curse and Execrate by the Will of God and the Church by the Book of this Law by the Six Hundred and Thirteen Precepts written in the same by the Anathema wherein Joshua Anathematized Jericho by the Curse wherewith Elisha Cursed the Children and by the Curse wherewith he Cursed Gehazi his Boy and by the Excommunication wherewith Baruch Excommunicated Merath and by the Excommunication which the men of the great Synagogue use and by the Excommunication which Rabbi Jehuda the Son of Rabbi Jehezkiel used in this matter and by all the Anathemata's Imprecations Burnings Excommunications and Exterminations which have been from the time of our Master Moses and since by the name of Acetheriel Jah Lord of Hosts by the name of Michael the Great Prince by the name of Mittraton whose name is as the name of his Master by the name Sandalipon who Binds the Bindings by his Lord by the name of the name of Forty-Two Letters by the name of him who appeared to Moses in the Bush by the name by which Moses divided the Red-Sea by the name of Four Letters by the Writing which is Writon the Tables by the name of the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel sitting on the Cherubin by the name of the Sphaeres and Circles and the Holy living Creatures and Ministring Angels by the name of all the Angels which Minister to the Supreme God let every Israelite and Israelitess wittingly or willing violating any of the things denounced to be observed be Cursed to the God of Israel sitting on the Cherubims let him be Accursed by the Name Glorious and Bright which the High-Priest expresseth in the Day of Expiations let him be Cursed by Heaven and Earth let him be Accursed by the Omnipotent God let him be Accursed of Michael the Great Prince let him be Accursed of Mittraton whose name is as the name of his Master let him be Accursed as Acetheriel Jah Lord of Hosts let him be Accursed of the Seraphim and the Orbes and Holy living Creatures and Angels who Minister before the Supreme God in Holiness and Cleanness If he was born in the Month Nisan which the Angel called Vriel as Prince of the Rank under which he is Governs let him be Accursed of him and all his Rank and if he was born in the Month Jier which the Angel called Trephaniel as Prince of the Rank under which he is Governs let him be Accursed of him and all his Rank and if he is born under the Month Sivan c. this Cursing runs through every Month one after another in the same words Then follows Let him be Accursed of the Seven Angels set over the Seven Days of the Week and of all their Ranks and helping Powers let him be Accursed of the Four Angels set over the Four Quarters of the Year and of all their Ranks and helping Powers let him be Accursed of the Seven Palaces let him be Accursed of the Princes of the Law in the name of the Crown and in the name of the Seal let him be Accursed of the Great God strong and bright let their be Confusion of his Seed let him fall with a swift Ruin let the God the God of the Spirits of all Flesh destroy and cast him away let the God the God of the Spirits of all Flesh subdue him let the God the God of the Spirits of all Flesh overthrow him let the God the God of the Spirits of all Flesh keep him down let the Wrath of the Lord and a violent Whirlwind fall on the head of the Wicked let the Angel of Destruction fall upon him let him be Accursed in all things to which he sets himself let his Soul depart in Terror let him die of the Quinsey let not his Breath go out nor return with the Consumption Fever Burning Drought let him be smitten with the Sword with pining away with the Jaundice nor before his Destruction be freed from them let his Sword enter into his heart and let his Bow be broken let him be as Dust before the Wind and let the Angel of the Lord scatter him let his way be Darkness and Slipperiness and the Angel of the Lord persecute him let unlooked-for Desolation come upon him and let the Net which he hath hid take him let them Expell him from the Light into Darkness and from the habitual World they shall Banish him Tribulation and Straights shall terrifie him his Eyes shall see his own Destruction and he shall drink the Wrath of the Almighty let him put on Cursings as a Garment let him devour the strength of his Skin also God shall scatter him for ever and shall root him out of his Tabernacle The Lord will not rest to forgive him but the Wrath of the Lord and his Jealousie shall smoak against that man and all the Curses which are written in the Book of this Law shall lie upon him for Evil out of all the Tribes of Israel according to all the Curses of the Covenant which are written in the Law But you who adhere to the Lord your God bless you this Day he who blessed Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses and Aaron David and Solomon and the Prophets of Israel and those who amongst the Nations are Holy bless this Holy Congregation and all other Holy Congregations Except only He who shâ—ll break this Curse God of his mercy keep them and make them safe and take them out of all trouble and misery and Prolong their Days and their Years and send his Blessing and a prosperous Wind to the Work of their Hands and let Him Revenge them speedily with all other Israelites and so let his Will and Decree be Amen Seld. de Jur. Nat. Gent. Juxt Discip Ebr. lib. 4. Cap. 7.527 The Form of the Greek Excommunication against Thieves If they Restore not to him that which is his own and possess him peaceably of it but suffer him to remain Injured and Damnified Let him be Separate from the Lord God Creator and be Accursed and Unpardoned and undissolvable after