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
any sight or sense experience or evidence to the contrary not to believe at least not to acknowledg This doth clearly appear by one that may be believed though I have met with it in more in such things Lucian himself a profest Epicurean Atheist who doth commend Democritus Epicurus and Met rodorus the most famous of that Sect for their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he calls it their fixed irrevokeable unconquerable resolution when they saw any strange thing that by others vvas admired as miraculous if they could find the cause or give a probable guesse vvell and good if not yet not to depart from their first resolution and still to believe and to maintain that it vvas false and impossible It is a notable passage and vvhich excellent use may be made of I vvill therefore set dovvn his ovvn vvords for their sake that understand the Language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of some of Alexander the false Prophet his devices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Who doubts that this is the resolution of many also in these dayes not of them only vvho are Epicureans vvhose manner of living as vve have said before doth engage them to this opinion but of others also vvho think it not for their credit the vanity of vvhich belief nevertheless might easily appear there being nothing so mean and ordinary in the vvorld vvherein the Wisdom of the vvisest in the consideration of the causes by the confession of best Naturalists may not be posed to believe any thing that they cannot give a probable reason of Not to be wondred then if we see many notwithstanding daily experience to the contrary to stick so close to those tenets which they have wedded themselves unto with so firm a resolution from the beginning never to leave them be they right or wrong As for Aristotle I confesse his authority is very great with me not because I am superstitiously addicted to any of his opinions which I shall ever be ready to forsake when better shall be shewed unto me but because besides the judgment of all accounted wise and learned in former ages I am convicted in my judgment that so much solid reason in all Arts and Sciences never issued from mortal man known unto us by his writings without supernatural illumination Well Aristotle doth not acknowledg Spirits he mentions them not in any place Let it be granted And why should it be a wonder to any man that knows the 〈◊〉 and purpose of Aristotle's Phylosophy He lived when Plato lived he had been his fellow Scholer under Socrates and for some time his Scholer but afterwards he became his aemulus and pleased himself very much to oppose his Doctrine insomuch as he is censured by some Ancients for his ingratitude The truth is Plato's writings are full of Prodigies Apparitions of Souls pains of Hell and Purgatory Revelations of the gods and the like Wherein he is so bold that he is fain to excuse himself sometimes and doth not desire that any man should believe him according to the letter of his relations but in grosse only that somewhat was true to that effect Indeed he hath many divine passages yea whole Treatises that can never be sufficiently admired in their kind but too full of tales for a Phylosopher it cannot be denyed Aristotle therefore resolved upon a quite contrary way He would meddle with nothing but what had some apparent ground in Nature Not that he precisely denyed all other things but because he did not think that it was the part of a Phylosopher to meddle with those things that no probable reason could be given of This doth clearly appear by a Divine passage of his De part 〈◊〉 l. 1. c. 5. where he divides Substances in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eternal and Incorruptible that is in effect Spiritual for even Spirits that were created might be termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is properly That have not their beginning by 〈◊〉 but we will easily grant that the creation of Angels good or bad was not known to Aristotle we may understand God and Intelligences and those that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is are 〈◊〉 He goes on As for Divine Substances which we honour we can say but little of them though we 〈◊〉 it because so little of them is exposed to sense and Reason Mortal things that we are familiarly acquainted and daily converse with we may know if we take pains But much more should we rejoice in the knowledg yea though we know but a very little part of things Divine for their excellency then in the knowledg of these worldly things though never so perfect and general But the comfort that we have of them which doth make some 〈◊〉 is the certainty and that they come within the compasse of Sciences What could be said more Divinely by a man that had nothing by revelation Truly there appeareth unto me if I may speak without offence and misconstruction more Divinity in those words then in some books that pretend to nothing else Add to this another place of his in his Metaphysicks where he saith That though things supernatural be of themselves clear and certain yet to us they are not so who see them only with Owles eyes Can we say then that Aristotle denyed those things that he forbore to write of because they were their natures and their qualities above the knowledg of man Neither is it absolutely true that Aristotle never wrote of Spirits and 〈◊〉 Cicero in his first book De Divinatione hath a long story out of him of a shape or Spirit that appeared in a dream to one Eudemus his familiar friend and quaintance and foretold him strange things that came to passe Clemens exandrinus hath a strange story out of him of a Magical Ring one or two hich Excestus King of the Phocenses did use and foresaw things future them It is to be found and seen among the fragments of Aristotles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he did not deny Witches may appear by that mention he makes of them in more then one place How much he ascribed to common report and experience though no reason could be given doth appear by his ' reface to his Treatise De Divinatione per insomnia where he proposeth the case how hard it is for a rational man to believe any thing upon report which he can see no reason for nay which seemeth contrary to reason as for a man to foretel by dream what shall happen in another Kingdome far off without any apparent cause But on the other side saith he not less hard to deny that which all men or most men do believe to wit that there be such predictions For to say his own words that such dreams come from God besides what else might be objected which might easily be understood by them that understand his Doctrine it is most unreasonable to believe that God would send them to men either vitious in their lives or idiots and fools of
Operations and Apparitions in the place of Edward Kelley and the like And again his Humility Piety Patience O what pity that such a man should fall into such a delusion but we shall consider of the causes in its right place afterwards upon all occasions temptations distresses most eminent throughout the whole Book Let these things be well considered and above the rest his large and punctual relation of that sad abominable story of their Promiscuous carnal Copulation under the pretence of obedience to God Let these things I say be well considered and I think no man will make any question but the poor man did deal with all possible simplicity and sincerity to the utmost of his understanding at that time And truly this one thing as we said before excepted his mistaking of evil Spirits for good it doth not appear by any thing but that he had his understanding and the perfect use of his Reason to the very last as well as he had had any time of his life Again let it be considered that he carryed with him where ever he went A STONE which he called his Angelicall Stone as brought unto him by an Angel but by a Spirit sure enough which he shewed unto many to the Emperor among others or the Emperors Deputy Dr. Curts as I remember But more of this Stone afterwards We may therefore conclude surely enough That Dr. d ee in all this Relation did deal with all simplicity and sincerity I shall only add That whereas I used the word Reality before concerning those things that appeared according to this Relation I would not be mistaken as though I intended that whatsoever the Divel did seem to do or represent it was Really and Substantially as it seemed and appeared that would be a great and gross mistake The very word Apparition doth rather import the contrary All I understand by Reality is that what things appeared they did so appear by the power and operation of Spirits actually present and working and were not the effects of a depraved fancy and imagination by meer natural causes By which strange things I confess may be presented and apprehended too sometimes by the parties with all confidence as we said before though all be but fancy and imagination But all circumstances well considered make this Case here to be of another nature and it may be it was the policy of these Spirits to joyn two of purpose in this business to make the truth and reality of it the more unquestionable hoping if God had given way they should have passed in time for good Spirits abroad generally and then we should have seen what they would have made of it From lesse beginnings I am sure greatest confusions have proceeded and prevailed in the world as we shall shew elsewhere And since that in all this business as we said but now Dr. d ee did not deal alone but had a constant Partner or Assistant whom sometimes himself calleth his Seer or Skryer one by name Edward Kelly it will be requisite before we proceed further that we give some account of him also According to Dr. Dee's own relation here An. Dom. 1587. April 7. Trebonae in the particulars of his Son Arthur's Consecration after his manner which he calls His offering and presenting of him to the service of God Uriel one of his chiefest Spirits was the author of their Conjunction but when and how it hapned being but obiter mentioned there we do not find any where and more then what I find here I have nothing to say For certain it is by this whole story from the beginning to the end of it that Kelley was a great Conjurer one that daily conversed by such art as is used by ordinary Magicians with evil Spirits and knew them to be so Yet I would suppose that he was one of the best sort of Magicians that dealt with Spirits by a kind of Command as is well known some do and not by any Compact or agreement this may probably be gathered from sundry places But that he was a Conjurer appearereth first by that where he proffered to raise some evil Spirit before the Polish Prince Palatine Albert Lasky of whom more by and by for a proof of his Art But Dr. Dee would not suffer him to do it in his house Wicked spirits are cast out of him to the number of 15. P. 32. But I make no great matter of that in point of proof because all there upon his bare report only But see p. 63. c. where it is laid to his charge and he answereth for himself and his Spirits See also where at last he yielded to bury not to burn his Magical books But read his own confession where you shall find him speak like one that knew very well what did belong to the Art and the record made by Dr. Dee concerning a shrewd contest that hapned between Dr. Dee and him it was about some Magical things wherein Edward Kelly carried himself so fiercely that Dr. Dee being afraid of his life was forced to call for help Peruse well this place and I presume you will require no further light as to this particular concerning Kelly As for the several Epistles in Latin most that will be found here as also Narratives of several meetings and conferences they carry so much light with them being set out with so many remarkable circumstances of time place persons c. that no man of judgment that hath any knowledge of the world will or can make any scruple of the sincerity and fidelity of either reports or Deeds and monuments such I account the Letters to be herein contained A man might with little labour that had all kind of books at command have found somewhat concerning most outlandish persons in them mentioned I could not intend it and I think it would have been a needless labour If any make any question let them make search I dare warrant it unto them they shall find all things to agree punctually But because Albert Lasky next to Edward Kelley is the man most interressed in this story I will give you some account of him out of Mr. Cambden his Annals Anno Dom. 1583. E Polonia Russiae vicinâ hac aestate venit in Angliam ut Reginam inviseret Albertus Alasco Palatinus Siradiensis vir eruditus corporis lineamentis barbâ promisissimâ vestitu decoro pervenusto qui perbenignè ab ipsa nobilibusque magnoque honore lautitiis et ab Accademia Oxoniensi eruditis oblectationibus atque variis spectaculis exceptus post 4. menses aere alieno oppressus clam recessit But of all Letters here exhibited I am most taken I must confess with the Bishops Letter that was Nuncius Apostolicus he seemes to me to speak to the case very pertinently take Puccius his account along in his long letter to Dr. d ee of his conference with the said Bishop concerning the same business and to have carryed himself towards Dr. d ee
of outward words is able to occasion it Indeed it is a point that doth deserve to be well considered of in these times especially For when young boyes and illiterate men and the number is likely to increase now that Catechizing is so much neglected are turned loose to exercise themselves in this gift as they call it and when by long practice they have attained to some readiness and volubility which doth occasion some inward lightsomeness and excitations or perchance somewhat that may have some resemblance to spiritual sorrow and compunction they presently think themselves inspired and so they become Saints before they know what it is to be Christians And if they can Pray by inspiration why not Preach also So comes in Anabaptism by degrees which will be the ruine of all Religion and civil Government where ever it prevails And I believe that this fond foolish conceit of Inspiration as it hath been the occasion of much other mischief so of that horrid sacriledge shall I call it or profanation I hope I may do either without offence for it is not done by any publick Authority that I know of the casting and banishing of THE LORDS PRAYER out of many private houses and Churches then which I think Christ never received a greater affront from any that called themselves Christians I am not so uncharitable as to believe that it is done in direct opposition to Christ by any real Christians but in a furious zeale by many I believe against set prayers But this is not a place to dispute it Certainly as the Lords Prayer is a Prayer of most incredible comfort to them that use it devoutly and upon good grounds a good foundation of Religion and sound Faith I mean so I believe that set Prayers in general are of more concernment to the setling of Peace in the Commonwealth then many men are aware of But let this 〈◊〉 for my opinion there be worse I am sure that pass currently Again A man may wonder I cannot tell whether an objection may be made of it that Dr. Dee though he were at the first deluded to which his own pride and presumption did expose him as many have been yet afterwards in process of time when he found himself so deluded and shuffled with when Edward Kelley did use such pregnant arguments to him as he did more then once to perswade him that they were evil Spirits that appeared unto them nay when he had found by certain experience that his Spirits had told him many lies foretold many things concerning Princes and Kingdoms very particularly limited with circumstances of time which when the time was expired did 〈◊〉 at all come to pass yet for all this he durst pawn his Soul for them that they were good Spirits and continued in his confidence so farre as our Relation goes to the last I answer Such is the power of this kind of Spiritual delusion it doth so possess them whom it hath once taken hold of that they seldom any of them recover themselves In the dayes of Martin Luther 2 great and zealous reformer of Religion but one that would have detested them as the worst of Infidels that had used the Lords Prayer as some have done in our dayes as appears by what he saith of it in more then one place there lived one Michael Stifelius who applying to himself some place of the Apocalypse took upon him to Prophecy He had foretold that in the year of the Lord 1533. before the 29 of September the end of the world and Christs coming to Judgment would be He did shew so much confidence that some write Luther himself was somewhat startled at the first But that day past he came a second time to Luther with new Calculations and had digested the whole business into 22. Articles the effect of which was to demonstrate that the end of the world would be in October following But now Luther thought he had had tryal enough and gave so little credit to him that he though he loved the man silenced him for a time which our Apocalyptical Prophet took very ill at his hands and wondred much at his incredulity Well that moneth and some after that over our Prophet who had made no little stir in the Country by his Prophecying was cast into prison for his obstinacy After a while Luther visited him thinking by that time to find him of another mind But so far was he from acknowledging his error that he down right railed at Luther for giving him good counsel And some write that to his dying day having lived to the age of 80. years he never recanted And was not this the case of learned Postellus who fallen into some grievous wild fancies in his latter dayes though sound enough still in other things could never be reclaimed though means were used from time to time the best and gentlest in respect to his worth and person that could be thought of But what talk we of particular men Consider the Anabaptists in general Above an hundred years ago they troubled Germany very much it cost many thousands their lives They roved up and down No sooner destroyed in one place but they sprung whilest that season lasted in another Their pretences every where were the same Revelations and the Spirit the wickedness of Princes and Magistrates and Christ Jesus to be set up in his Throne Well at last they were destroyed in most places Stories of them have been written in all Languages read every where and their lamentable end Can all this hinder but that upon every opportunity of a confused and confounded Government they start up again in the same shape and form as before the same pretences the same Scriptures for all the world miserably detorted and abused to raise tumults and seditions in all places Such is the wretchedness of man that is once out of the right way of Reason and Sobriety But withall we must say in this particular case of Dr. Dee's though his obstinacy was great and marvellous yet it must be acknowledged that great was the diligence and subtility of his Spirits to keep their hold and some things sometimes happened as his danger and preservation about Gravesend when he first here related went out of the Realm very strangely and such was the unhappiness of his misapplyed zeal that he made a Providence of whatsoever hapned unto him as he desired So much for Dr. Dee himself But of his Spirits a greater question perchance may be moved If evil wicked lying Spirits as we have reason to believe and no man I think will question how came they to be such perswaders to Piety and godliness yea such preachers of Christ his Incarnation his Passion and other Mysteries of the Christian Faith not only by them here acknowledged but in some places very Scholastically set out and declared It seemeth somewhat contrary to reason and as contrary to the words of our Saviour Every Kingdom divided against it self c. But
either of Fact and History or Doctrine in each of them I. Page 1. THe first apparition of Madimi in the shape of a Girle Alb. Lasky his Pedegree This Al. L. whereof more in the Preface being the first designed by the Spirits as a fit Instrument under pretence of godlinesse and reformation to turn all things upside-down in the World But that plot failing then the Emperour of Germany after him Stephen King of Poland after him Prince Rosimberg were thought upon and applications as will be found here made unto them to that end What alterations and destructions of men and kingdoms would have ensued had God given way as in Mahomets case c. may be collected out of sundry passages of this Book II p. 3. Anabaptistical exaggerations of the general wickednesse and a Promise of a general Reformation by A. L. Of Isabel Lister tempted and hidden Treasures III p. 5. Mystical numbers and letters for a Magical Lamin IV ib. Ed. Kelley his rage and fury how reproved and appeased The Book the Scroll and the Powder V p. 9. Great threatnings of future judgements in all places VI p. 10. Divers Apparitions Of good Angels never appearing in the shape of women Trithemius his assertion reproved The Book Divine inspiration See also p. 23. as thou shalt find me to move thee and divers other places promised in the writing and ordering of it ¶ This Book had things succeeded should have been instead of a Bible as the Alcoran and much of the same subject is among the Mahometans See p. 18 20 61. c. A very effectual way to draw people under colour of a New Law new lights and doctrines which Anabaptists have alwayes pretended unto from Heaven VII p. 14. Divers mystical Apparitions and discourses Charles Sled possessed and dispossessed VIII p. 18. The Contents and worthinesse of the Book IX ib. A sudden Sun-shine The Book named Some lines of it Ed. Kelley's pangs and agonies at some Visions before Dr. Dee Good Angels how to be known from evil X p. 20. Promises to A. L. confirmed by an oath Ed. Kelley desirous and ready to raise a Devil by his Art before A. L. but not permitted by Dr. Dee XI p. 22. Apparitions before the Lord Lasky The Devil Prayeth and Anabaptistically bewaileth the wickednesse of the World Of Angel-Guardians Sudden death sentenced against the L. Laskies servant for interrupting though but casually the Action XII p. 23. The Book and divers instructions about the writing of it XIII p. 24. Apparitions in the air Ed. Kelley scandalized and appeased Prayers for him in Latine and English composed by the Spirits XIV p. 25. The Prayer the use and excellency of it XV ib. Apparitions and Prophesies in the presence of the Lord Lasky XVI p. 26. The Book to be written as it is not improbable the Alcoran was by Spirits Some things uttered in Greek of which see in the Preface Ed. Kelley preparing to be gone stayed with the promise of 50 pound yearly XVII p. 28. Divers informations and cautions given by Spirits to Dr. d ee concerning secres enemies at Court c. Strange mysteries concerning Guardian Angels Al. Lasky's Seal XVIII p. 30. New pranks of Kellyes Dr. d ee much perplexed Dr. d ee himself heareth c. More of the L. Laskies Pedegree The mystery of the Trinity Faith Hope and Charity Ed. Kelley 〈◊〉 in shew of many devils XIX p. 33. Dr. d ee and his Company set out of Mortlack in England not far from London for Cracovia in Polonia Their danger and deliverance at Queenbo ough XX ibid 〈◊〉 Apparitions Sermon-like stuff delivered by the Spirits in Latine who tell Dr. Dee that it was they that had preserved him in his late danger ¶ Very likely indeed that they were the immediate cause as of the danger so preservation at that time to have the more hold upon him for the time to come For they tell him often of it afterwards ¶ A continuation of the journey XXI p. 35. Apparitions in the presence of the L. Lasky Most things here in Latine for his sake ¶ A continuation of the journey XXII p. 36. Several Apparitions Some evil spirits he acknowledged appear and blaspheme XXIII p. 39. Sermon-like stuff of mortification c. Dockum in Germany to be destroyed men women and children or saved at Dr. Dees pleasure as his Spirits make him believe ¶ A continuation of the journey XXIV p. 41. Stage-like carriage and speeches such as is seen and heard in Pulpits sometimes of Spirits at which Ed. Kelley is offended how excused Prophesies and threatnings of great woes XXV p. 43. Dr. Dee's several questions of worldly concernments eluded by Sermon-like stuff of Sanctification c. and some idle Apparitions ¶ Anabaptistical Predictions of great Commotions c. and Christs Terrestial kingdom p. 46. ¶ Continuation of the journey XXVI p. 47. Dr. Dee to his great grief and amazement rebuked for his abode and actions in unsanctified places ¶ The constant practice of his spirits when they could not perform what they had promised to make him believe it was for his or some of his companies offences and provocations XXVII p. 49. Glorious Promises made to Dr. Dee His present estate in England not very good He doubteth this present Apparition to be illusions of Devils and is much troubled XXVIII p. 51. Gods Greatnesse Justice c. set out in a prophetical-like stile His Spirit twofold XXIX p. 52. Some spirits tell Dr. Dee all former apparitions were but illusions of evil spirits and he made a fool by them ¶ And all this while he supposeth these to be the temptations of the Devil to make him the more confident at other times when the Devil appeared unto him in a better shape and did most abuse him XXX p. 54. A continuation of the same Project Examples of dangerous iliusions XXXI p. 55. A continuation here also Counsel given to Doctor d ee to burn his blasphemous which he accounted most holy Books ¶ A continuation of the journey XXXII p. 56 The same Project here also The conclusion of this personated temptation by the apparition of better as is supposed spirits XXXIII p. 57. Sermon-like stuff of humility perseverance c. Cabalistical doctrine of emanations c. Alb. Lasky excepted against and some promises revoked XXXIV p. 59. Some places of the Apocalyps and of Esdras applyed to these Actions XXXV p. 60. Esdras again Strange Predictions but Anabaptistical and false of the destruction of Kings and Kingdoms within few years after The New Book to be instead of the Bible See before the contents of the Sixth Action ¶ A continuation of their journey XXXVI p. 62. Apparitions good so esteemed and evil spirits contest Ed. Kelley rebuked for his Magick New Lights of doctrine promised The holy Language not Hebrew and the vertue of it Cabale of nature Christ's Terrestial Kingdom as before XXXVII p. 65. Christ to be revealed Doctor Dee's wife and maid threatned
〈◊〉 c. ¶ CXVII p 378. Doctor Dee himself heareth and feeleth More reproofes Doctor d ee to prevail against his enemies but commanded speedily to 〈◊〉 for Prague to prevent imprisonment c. ¶ CXVIII p. 379. Here again hastened to be gone Al. L. his case ¶ CXIX ibid. They begin their journey but by an Apparition in the way after some goodly promises made to Doctor Dee for his obedience and Predictions all false of judgements upon the Emperour and exaltation of Stephen King of Poland c. they are commanded to return back again and to return to Prague ¶ Which done Doctor Dee's Child is christened some of the chiefest in the Emperours Court being Godfathers and Godmothers ¶ CXX p. 382. The Prophets of old times summoned why visited c. The eternal generation of Christ the Son of God Platonically set out Divine Necessity the cause of all things Election Perseverance c. Earnest 〈◊〉 and exhortations Christ again The Church Militant and Triumphant Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley much taken with this goodly stuff and confirmed in their Errour ¶ p. 387. The pretious Lesson before spoken of of revealing the secret of the Philosophers Stone ¶ CXXI p. 388. The Lesson and some obscure words of it expressed in English Ed. Kelley desirous to be rid of his office ¶ CXXII p. 389. Jane Dee Doctor Dee's wife her earnest and humble Petition to God so the poor woman thought and his Angels for relief in her great necessity The Petition answered first with reproof but commendation and promises afterwards The spirit confesseth he had no power to procure them money but instead of it pretends to give them good counsel to get out of Prage speedily c. ¶ A Record of a hot conflict between Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley about some Magical papers in which conflict Doctor Dee thought himself in danger of his life and was faine to cry out for help ¶ CXXIII p. 391. An Apparition fitted for the occasion The fault of Ed. Kelley's refractorinesse laid upon the malice and envy of the Devil and some places of Esdras applied to that purpose Ed. Kelley rebuked but comforted and confirmed with a promise of no evil spirit to be suffered to trouble him henceforth and many good exhortations with a Parable also to that purpose ¶ Some questions proposed by Doctor Dee who is referred to the Book of Enoch ¶ CXXIV p. 395. Doctor Dee c. sharply reproved for not fulfilling the command of a speedy departure with more expedition He acknowledgeth convicted by some plausible considerations his fault and prayeth fervently ¶ CXXV p. 396. The Stone shut up for twenty dayes Their journey from Prage to Cracovia and in the way strange whirlewinds Some strife about their house Al. Lasky by whom Doctor Dee is brought to the King sustinem for sisterem to be corrected c. delivers his Commission c. He receives the Communion so doth Ed. Kelley ¶ CXXVI p. 398. The Kings presence required by spirits at these Apparitions ¶ CXXVII ibid. Superstitious prayers by appointment of spirits to the Angels Governours of Kingdoms and Nations Stephen King of Poland greatly in favour with God and to be the Minister of great things Doctor Dee doth apprehend which Kelley doth often professe to have found in himself that the spirits knew his thoughts ¶ Ed. Kelley very unquiet and blasphemous Yet confirmed again by some Apparitions to Doctor Dee's great comfort who still very devoutly and innocently had not he brought this grievous delusion upon himself by tempting God so grievously doth submit unto and comfort himself in God ¶ CXXVIII p. 400. Apparitions in the presence of Al. Lasky Promises to Doctor Dee and to King Stephen Al. Lasky upon conditions to be received into favour again ¶ Doctor Dee receives the Communion again ¶ CXXIX p. 401. Apparitions at the Court of the King of Poland in the presence of Al. Lasky one of the Princes Palatine of the Country who is offered by the spirits sudden destruction of the King if he desire it or to see him struck with Leprosie or otherwise corrected if so rather Al. Lasky his pious and religious answer and choice for which he is commended The spirits will not endure though requested to deal with the King in the Hungarian Tongue They promise to speak to him in Latine A good blessing and formall absolution pronounced by evill spirits ¶ CXXX p. 402. ¶ Doctor Dee c. brought to Stephen King of Poland who upon some conditions is willing to be present yet makes an objection out of Scripture as not fully satisfied that these apparitions c. were from God To which Doctor Dee makes an accurat answer by which it doth appear that either he had studied the case very well or was helped as other reall Enthusiasts by his spirits but very full of faults in the Copy and so printed More here I think then in all the Latine of the Book besides We take notice of it in the Errata ¶ Before the Action a fervent Prayer of Doctor Dee's of his calling revelations Al. Laskie King Stephen c. ¶ In the Action or Apparition King Stephen sharply reproved for his sins But upon condition of repentance and submission to God in this way the Kings of the earth intoxticati calice Meretricis a phrase often used in this Book that is drunk with the cup of the Whore are to do homage unto him and he right Anabaptisme to work strange execution c. Very lofty language here used Fige pedem in Aquil. c. ¶ XXXI p. 406. Sad complaint as from God of incredulity The Incarnation of Christ and thereby priviledge of Christians above the Israelits Tears Doctor Dee sent with an errand to King Stephen and a direct promise and profer of the Philosophers Stone ¶ Doctor Dee delivers his errand in Latin but here our records I know not by what chance are very defective King Stephen it seems did not prove so credulous as was expected ¶ CXXXII p. 408 The spirits are angry and command all to be shut up for a season till further order the account of some moneths is wanting ¶ CXXXIII p. 409. The power of God The Jewes and Jerusalem to be restored And now one Francis Puccius a Florentine a zealous and learned Papist being entertained and admitted to these secrets with great hopes of some good to be done by this fellowship Rome also being designed henceforth for the Scene see p. 417. the spirits apply themselves and fit their speech to this end and occasion The interpretation of Scriptures The Fathers The Church Luther and Calvin condemned The Pope of Rome cannot be say the spirits the Antichrist and think they prove it Exhortations to return to the Church and a form of Prayer or Thanksgiving to that purpose In the conclusion the spirits apply themselves to Puccius personally He is to rebuke the present Pope here called a wicked Monster against whom if he will not
be perswaded terrible judgements are denounced ¶ The same Action because the spirits here rather chose to speak English than Latine whereof somewhat is said in the Preface in Latine by Doctor Dee ¶ CXXXIV p. 417. The summe of Francis Puccius his commission in high Language Future Actions in Rome ¶ But here followeth a hiatus of some 6 moneths which bereaves us of many particulars In the mean time happened the sentence of banishment against Doctor Dee by the Popes mediation and authority as his Nuncio p. 434. doth acknowledge and so brake the purpose of going to Rome though much driven on by Puccius c. as will appear ¶ p. 418. Doctor Dee's record of a strange thing a very miracle in his judgement that hapned in his presence and sight to wit Books that had been burned by him or in his sight restored unto him whole and entire by spirits c. ¶ CXXXV p. 419 Prince Rosimberg you may see his Titles p. 425. called and admitted into the Society to be partaker of the Mysteries and the Executioner of so supposed Gods judgements c. ¶ Prince Rosimberg upon relation of what had been revealed concerning himself accepts of it thankfully promises amendment and prayes for the Emperour whose Vice-Roy he was in Bohemia c. that he may not be destroyed but repent rather ¶ p. 421. A Letter of his with his own hand to Doctor Dee to the same purpose ¶ Doctor Dee's Journey to Leipsig ¶ His Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary to Queen Elizabeth wherein is observable his wonderfull confidence and vain boasting though not without some grounds as a very Enthusiast and deluded man though it cannot be denied that some Enthusiasts upon lesse grounds when God hath been pleased to give way have had far better successe ¶ p. 424. One Jul. Ascanius his Letter to Doctor Dee informing him of some reports and attempts against him in Germany as a Necromancer c. ¶ p. 425. A Letter of Doctor Dee's to Prince Rosimberg complaining of those reports and attempts by the Nuncio c. ¶ 426. Another to the Emperour of the same subject ¶ The sentence of Banishment against Doctor Dee c. in the German Tongue ¶ p. 429. Prince Rosimberg his questions and petitions miraculously as was conceived answered A white paper being set upon the Altar whilest Masse was said the said paper after Masse was found all written and as soon as copied out all the Letters of it vanished A Copy of the said paper or miraculous writting ¶ ibid. Some observations of Doctor Dee's upon Francis Puccius of whom before his carriage whereby it did appear vnto him that the said Puccius did not deal truely and sincerely which troubled Doctor Dee who much desired to be rid of him ¶ p. 430. A conflict of his with the said Puccius about their going to Rome c. ¶ p. 431. A Paper delivered by Puccius to Doctor Dee as from the Nuncio by which they are absolved from all crimes were they never so great and hainous so they will go to Rome Puccius his inconstancy about that Paper ¶ Doctor Dee's Letter to the said Nuncio upon that occasion wherein among other things to tell him of these Books that had been burned and were miraculously restored and of many more burned part of these Records certainly not yet restored but promised and expected ¶ The said Letter after some contest about it committed to Puccius to be carried and delivered ¶ More of Puccius his not faithful dealing Some Heresies also of his Some other things laid to his charge by Doctor Dee ¶ p. 434. The Popes Nuncius his answer to Doctor Dee grave and courteous At the beginning of it aut for autem to be correct ¶ p. 435. A Paper here inscribed and stiled Oraculum Divinum in Kelly's absence written and delivered as Doctor Dee doth here record by spiritual and divine means the drift whereof is to confirm Prince Rosimberg At whose request the sentence of banishment is mitigated ¶ p. 436. A long and submissive Letter of Francis Puccius to Doctor Dee c. where among other things he gives him a very punctual account of what had passed in discourse between the Popes Nuncius and himself concerning their cause apparitions high attempts c. well worth the reading His encounter with a Jesuit before the said Nuncio What account Prince Rosimberg and some other great men made of them ¶ p. 444. Kelley to Doctor Dee Doctor Dee to his Wife but nothing considerable in either ¶ CXXXVI p. 444. ¶ CXXXVII p. 445. Apparitions in the Stone after 6 moneths intermission renewed with expressions of great devotion in Doctor Dee but with many Woes and threatnings by the spirits who neverthelesse Prince Rosimberg being present promise fair to him and give him some instructions how to carry himself ¶ Francis Puccius very troublesome but at last quieted with the restitution Doctor Dee at this time abounded with money 2000 Ducats in one bag Prince Rosimberg had a good purse of 800. Florens which the said Puccius had formerly contributed for the service ¶ CXXXVIII p. 448. Doctor Dee makes bold to propose some questions tending to the secret of the Philosophers Stone as I take it out of season but is rejected and doth humbly submit THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND PART Part II. ACtion I p. 1. Sermon-like stuff Doctor Dee having a zeal but not according to knowledge mervailously affected with it Prince Rosimberg his expectation of money answered and eluded with great subtilty by example out of Scripture of Abraham David Solomon c. The precious Powder he had how and when to be used Judgements to be executed upon several Great ones sure enough if they had prevailed by Prince Rosimberg as from God Ed. Kelley his Wife barren why He very weary of his office reproved for it and another Arthur Doctor Dee's son to be substituted in his place yea and his portion of the precious Powder to be taken from him if he do not repent II p. 4. Arthur first presented and prepared by Prayer c. enters upon his Office Seeth divers things in the Stone Lions Men c. but heareth not III p. 5. Arthur again as before Three Exercises in one day IV p. 7. Arthur again as before in two Exercises more V p. 8. Ed. Kelley in his Office again sees and hears as before Uriel first authour of Doctor Dee's and Ed. Kelley's conjunction A New Law promsed here again Anabaptistical Doctrine of committing Adultery for Gods sake c. ¶ Of some words here see the Errata VI p. 9. Here the spirits begin to shew themselves in their own likenesse apparently teaching doctrines of Devils and yet still as their instruments at this day in divers places in the name of God Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley are exhorted yea commanded to have their Wives in common The case argued on both sides stifly and eagerly Other strange Doctrine of Devils noted and rejected
become holy ..... I said not so he said it that beareth witnesse of himself Vnto this obey the other three Angels of the Table E. K. On the other farther corner of the Table on E. K. his right hand is a Crosse like an Alphabet Crosse. This Crosse and the other T do seem to lye upon the Table in a dim dunnish or a sky colour All the Table over seemeth to be scribled and rased with new lines ..... The earth is the last which is with the Angels but not as the Angels and therefore it standeth in the Table of the seven Angels which stand before the presence of God in the last place without a Letter or number but figured by a Crosse. ..... It is expressed in the Angle of that Table wherein the names of the Angels are gathered and do appear as of Michael and Gabriel Δ. I remember there is an Alphabetary Crosse. E. K. Now in the corner of the Table on the right hand to E. K. appeareth another Crosse somewhat on this fashion †and there appear'd these Letters and Numbers b 6 4 b ..... It is in that Table which confisteth of 4. and 8. E. K. In the last corner of this earthly Table appeareth a little round smoke as big as a pins head E. K. Now is all covered with a mist. E. K. Now I hear a great voyce of thumbling and rumbling in the stone E. K. Now all waxeth clear again Now hoveringly over the Table appear infinite sort of things like worms sometimes going up and sometimes down these seem somewhat brightish Over these higher in the aire appear an infinite sort of small little blackish things bigger then Motes in the Sun and they go up and down and sometime come among those worm-like Creatures ..... The Lord appeared unto Enoch and was mercifull unto him opened his eyes that he might see and judge the earth which was unknown unto his Parents by reason of their fall for the Lord said Let us shew unto Enoch the use of the earth And lo Enoch was wise and full of the spirit of wisdom And he sayed unto the Lord Let there be remembrance of thy mercy and let those that love thee taste of this after me O let not thy mercy be forgotten And the Lord was pleased And after 50. dayes Enoch had written and this was the Title of his books let those that fear God and are worthy read But behold the people waxed wicked and became unrighteous and the spirit of the Lord was far off and gone away from them So that those that were unworthy began to read And the Kings of the earth said thus against the Lord What is it that we cannot do Or who is he that can resist us And the Lord was vexed and he sent in amongst them an hundred and fifty Lions and spirits of wickednesse errour and deceit and they appeared unto them For the Lord had put them between those that are wicked and his good Angels And they began to counterfeit the doings of God and his power for they had power given them so to do so that the memory of Enoch washed away and the spirits of errour began to teach them Doctrines which from time to time unto this age and unto this day hath spread abroad into all parts of the world and is the skill and cunning of the wicked Hereby they speak with the Devils not because they have power over the Devils but because they are joyned unto them in the league and Discipline of their own Doctrine For behold as the knowledge of the mystical figures and the use of their presence is the gift of God delivered to Enoch and by Enoch his request to the faithfull that thereby they might have the true use of Gods creatures of the earth whereon they dwell So hath the Devil delivered unto the wicked the signs and tokens of his error and hatred towards God whereby they in using them might consent with their fall and so become partakers with them of their reward which is eternal damnation These they call Characters a lamentable thing For by these many Souls have perished Now hath it pleased God to deliver this Doctrine again out of darknesse and to fulfill his promise with thee for the books of Enoch To whom he sayeth as he said unto Enoch Let those that are worthy understand this by thee that it may be one witnesse of my promise toward thee Come therefore O thou Cloud and wretched darknesse Come forth I say out of this Table for the Lord again hath opened the earth and she shall become known to the worthy E. K. Now cometh out of the Table a dark smoke and there remaineth on the Table a goldish slime and the things which hovered in the aire do now come and light down on that slime and so mount up again He said ..... Non omnibus sed bonis E. K. He taketh the smoke and tieth it up ..... I tie her not up from all men but from the good Now cometh a dark Cloud over all again Δ. A pause E. K. Now it is bright again He said ..... Fiant omnia facillima ..... Number E. K. I see lines and scribblements as before going athwart the lines E. K. I count thirteen lines downward ..... Stay there E. K. I count twelve this way overthwart E. K. In the just middle of every square are little pricks The Table seemeth to be eighth yards square E. K. Now come upon these squares like Characters They be the true Images of God his spiritual Creatures ..... Write what thou seest E. K. I cannot Δ. Endeavour to do your best for he that biddeth you do will also give you power to do E. K. Did his best at length fire flashed in his face and shortly after he said I perceive they be easie to make so that I tell the squares by which the lines do passe and draw from middle prick to middle prick Δ. At length E. K. finished the Table he said that these seemed to be yellowish Gold E. K. You heard one here say I write my own damnation ..... He might have said you write his damnation Pray and write as many more lines Δ. After awhile E. K. did with great ease finish the four parts of the Table E. K. The stone is become dark A voyce .... Cease for an hour Δ. May we passe from our places as now ..... I. Δ. After a little hour past we returned and as we talked of the premisses he said ..... 〈◊〉 no time Δ. He said in the stone being clear again ..... In the name of God be diligent and move not for the place is holy ..... Take the first square write from the left hand toward the right you shall write small letters and great Say what you see to E. K. r Zilaf Autlpa Δ. I finde here one square among these Characters that hath nothing in it .....
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
all men the most vile and contemptible who have been observed to have such dreams oftner then better and wiser men So leaving the businesse undetermined he doth proceed to the consideration of those Prophetick dreams for which some probable reason may be given Yet in the second Chapter he saith directly That though dreams be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet they may be perchance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for such he acknowledges Nature to be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only I will not enquire further into the meaning of these words it is not to be done in few words It plainly appears that nothing troubled him so much for he repeats the objection twice or thrice as that God should be thought to favour either wicked men or fools I wish no worse Doctrine had ever been Printed or Preached concerning God But still let it be remembred that he knew of no Divine Word or Revelation Yet Jul. Scaliger in his Commentaries upon Hypocrates De Insomniis doth wonder that Aristotle should stick so much at this and seems himself to give a reason grounded in Nature Indeed he saith somewhat as to the case of fools and idiots but nothing that I remember that reacheth to wicked men also Let these things be considered and let the Reader judge of how different temper Aristotle was from that of ancient or later Epicures This mention of Aristotle and Plato puts me in mind of Socrates their Master his Familiar Spirit no Shape but a Voice only by which his life and actions were much directed The thing is attested by so many so grave Authors whereof some lived at the very time others not long after or in times not very remote that I know not how it can be questioned by any man Neither indeed is it that I remember by any Heathens or Christians of ancient times and there have been books written of it divers in Greek and Latine whereof some are yet extant But whether it were a good Spirit or an evil some men have doubted and it is free for any man to think what he pleaseth of it For my part I ever had a Reverend opinion of Socrates and do believe if there be no impiety in it as I hope not that he was as among Heathens in some respect a fore-runner of Christ to dispose them the better when the time should come to imbrace and it did it effectually the Gospel Many other Phylosophers that have been of greatest fame were certainly great Magicians as Orpheus Pythagoras Empedocles and the like as by those things that have been written of them by several ancient authors may be collected But above all I give the pre-eminence to Apollonius Thianeus a man of later times and of whom we may speak with more confidence and certainty This was the man whom ancient Heathens very tenacious of their former worship and superstitions did pitch upon to oppose unto Christ. His Life hath been written by divers four of them were joyned together and opposed to the four Gospels and Hierocles a famous Phylosopher of those times made a Collation of his Miracles with those of Christs who was answered by Eusebius yet extant Sure it is they prevailed so much that he was for a long time worshipped by many and in sundry places as a very God yea by some Roman Emperors as we find in History Philostratus hath written his Life in very Elegant stile as Photius judged in 8 books which are extant And though they contain many fabulous things as any man may expect by the undertaking yet have they so much truth and variety of ancient learning that I think they deserve to be better known then commonly they are but cannot be understood I am sure as they should be by any translation either Latine or French that ever I saw For the Paris Edition though it boast of great things as the manner is yet how Tittle was performed may easily appear unto any that will take the pains to compare it with the former edition of Aldus Which I speak not to find fault but because I wish that some able man would undertake the work there is not any book by the Translations yet extant that more needeth it What use Scaliger made of him may appear by his frequent quotations in his Notes upon Eusebius in the History of those times As for Appollonius his Miracles or wonderful Acts which is our businesse here though many things have been added some probably done by Imposture yet I do not see how it can be doubted but he did many strange things by the help of Spirits which things may be judged by due observation of circumstances as for example That being convented before Domitian the Emperor in the presence of many he presently vanished and was seen a great way off at Puteoli I think about the same time That at the very time when Domitian was killed at Rome he spake of it publickly and of the manner of it at Ephesus and so of many others which seem to me as unto most almost unquestionable The greatest wonder to me is that such was his port and outward appearance of Sanctity aud Simplicity that even Christians have thought reverently of him and believed that he did his wonders by the power of God or by secret Philosophy and knowledg of Nature not revealed unto other men So Justine Martyr one of the ancient Fathers of the Church judged of him as is well known Most later Phylosophers that lived about Julians time and before that as also the Emperors themselves many of them were great Magicians and Necromancers as may easily appear partly by their own writings and partly by the History of those times I do very much wonder whether any man being a Scholer and not strongly prepossessed that doth not believe Spirits c. can say that he ever read the books of Tryals and Confessions of Witches and Wizards such I mean as have been written by learned and judicious men Such as for example I account Nichol. Remigius his Demonolatria ex judiciis capitalibus 900 plus minus hominum c. grounded especially upon the Confessions and Condemnations of no lesse then 900 men and women in Lorraine within the compasse of few years That he was a learned man I think no body will deny that hath read him and that he was no very credulous and superstitious man though a Papist that also is most certain and I have wondred at his liberty many times I know not how it is now in those places but by what I have read and heard of the doings of Witches and Sorcerers in Geneva and Savoy in former times I could say somewhat of my self how my life was preserved there very strangely but my witnesses are not and I will not bring their credit in question for such a businesse I am of opinion That he that should have maintained there that there was no such thing as Witches or Spirits c.
what I have found in my F. his Ephemeris or Daily account of his life tending to this purpose Anno Dom. 603. Kal Junii Quem memsem et reliquos omnes velis ô Deus c. 〈◊〉 q. hetum egimus cum matre uxore affine et viro nobili Dom. de Couns et nobili item matrona D de St. Pons qui omnes in re pietatis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ecclesiam hujus loci assiduè celebravimus Inter alios Sermones quos habui cum D. de St. Pons de ministro provinciae Vivaretii sumus locuti cui nomen Mercero Regit ille in eo tractu plutes parvas Ecclesias habitat a. in loco qui dicitur Chasteau-double Acceperam de eo ex valgi rumoribus quod vim Daemonas ejiciendi haberet quaefivi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de D. de St Pons quid rei esset Illa seriò affirmavit plures Daemoniacos decem aut circiter in Ecclesiam auductos eo concionante primùm dein orante 〈◊〉 et Confesstone omnium fuisse sanatos Quosdam Demonas it a eum certis signis 〈◊〉 ut res apud omnes fieret testatissima Porró autem omnes qui sanati sunt 〈◊〉 Catholicam Romanam ante semper professos Mercerum verò impatientissum ferre si qnis inter loquendum ut fit diceret Mercerum Diabolos ejicere non 〈◊〉 se 〈◊〉 Ecclesiam Dei esse nominandam cujus precibus ardentissimis Dei aures 〈◊〉 Dom et illi et universo gregi suorum benedicat Amen In English for their sakes that understand no Latine and that it be not required alwayes for it would be very tedious this is the effect At such a time in such a place he had the opportunity to meet with a grave whether Lady or Gentlewoman Matron one he had a very good opinion of her name M. de St. Pons and having often heard by common report of a certain Protestant Minister that was said to cast out Divels he did accurately inform himself by her she living it seems very near if not in the same parish of all particulars concerning that businesse who did averre it to be most true and that ten or thereabonts Demomoniacks or possessed men all making profession of the Roman Catholick Religion had been brought to the Church at several times as I take it and that publickly and by the generall confession of all then present and by some notable signes sometimes at the going out of the Devils they were upon his Praying after Sermon all delivered But that he took it very hainously if any said that he had cast out Devils For not I said he but the earnest Prayers of the Church have prevailed with Almighty God to work this wonderful thing As for Oracles It is true Heathens themselves acknowledg that some were the jugglings of men Sometimes Princes sometimes private men as now of Religion of Preaching and Praying and Fasting of Masses and Processions most Princes and States in all places made good use of them to their owne ends and made them speak what themselves had prompted But a man might as probably argue because some have been so freely acknowledged to have been by compact and subornation it is the more likely that those of which never any suspicion was should be true We read of many in Herodotus of one which was contrived by fraud but there we read also that when it came to be known though care had been taken that it might not the chief Contriver a great man was banished or prevented worse by a voluntary Exile and the Sacred Virgin or Prophetesse deposed But not to insist upon particulars which would be long it is most certain and it will cleerly appear unto them that are well read in anciedest Authors and Histories That all Heathens generally the wisest and learnedest of them those especially that lived when Oracles were most frequent did really believe them to be which they pretended unto and that they were so indeed for the most part taking it for granted that their Gods were Divels or Evil Spirits by many circumstances of Stories and by other good proofs may be made as evident neither was it ever doubted or denyed alwayes granted and presupposed that as in all worldly things much imposture did in tervene and intermingle by ancient Christians acknowledged I am sure by most if not all But I have spoken of them elsewhere already and therefore will be the shorter here Our last Objection was If there be Devils and Spirits Why do they not appear unto them who do what they can as by continual curses so by profane curiosity to invite them First We say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When we have good ground for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to stick at the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because we do not understand the reason is as much as to say that we think we should be as wise as God Aristotle did not meddle with things that he could give no reason of yet he did not deny them as we have shewed and it is one thing to require a reason of things meerly natural and another of those that happen by a meer secret Providence But this will give them no great satisfaction who perchance believe a God some as much as they believe a Devil Secondly Therefore we say There may be some natural reason too upon Aristotles grounds Aristotle as hath been shewed elsewhere compares the effects of Melancholy from whence he deriveth all kind of Enthusiasm to the known effects of Wine What is the reason that some men with little wine will quickly be drunk and become other Creatures being deprived for the time of the use of reason Others though they drink never so much will sooner burst then reel or speak idly as some in their excess grow merry others sad some calm and better natured others furious some talkative others stupid The Devil knowes what tempers are best for his turn and by some in whom he was deceived he hath got no credit and wished he had never meddled with them Some men come into the world with Cabalistical Brains their heads are full of mysteries they see nothing they read nothing but their brain is on work to pick somewhat out of it that is not ordinary and out of the very ABC that children are taught rather then fail they will fetch all the Secrets of Gods Wisdom tell you how the world was created how governed and what will be the end of all things Reason and Sense that other men go by they think the acorns that the old world fed upon fools and children may be content with them but they see into things by another Light They commonly give good respect unto the Scriptures till they come to profest Anabaptists because they believe them the Word of God and not of men but they reserve unto themselves the Interpretation and so under the title of Divine Scripture worship what their own phansie prompts or the devil puts into
and preserved But by Truth and Sincerity intending not only Dr. Dee's fidelity in relating what himself believed but also the reality of those things that he speaks of according to his relation his only but great and dreadful error being that he mistook false lying Spirits for Angels of Light the Divel of Hell as we commonly term him for the God of Heaven For the Truth then and Sincerity or Reality of the Relation in this sense I shall first appeal to the Book it self I know it is the fashion of many I will not say that I never did it my self that are buyers of books they will turn five or six leaves if they happen upon somewhat that pleaseth their fancy the book is a good book and when they have bought it it concerneth them to think so because they have paid for it but on the other side if they light upon somewhat that doth not please which may happen in the best they are as ready to condemn and cast away It is very possible that some such buyer lighting upon this and in it upon some places here and there where some odd uncouth things may offer themselves things ridiculous incredible to ordinary sense and construction he may be ready to judge of the whole accordingly But for all this I will in the first place appeal to the book it self but with this respect to the Reader that he will have patience to read in order one fourth part of the book at least before he judge and if by that time he be not convicted he shall have my good will to give it over Not but that all the rest even to the end doth help very well to confirm the truth and reality of the whole Story but because I think there is so much in any fourth part if diligently read and with due consideration that I despair of his assent that is not convicted by it For my part when the book was first communicated unto me by that Right worthy Gentleman who is very studious to purchase and procure such Records and Monuments as may advantage the truth of God all truth is of God and the honour of this Land following therein the example of his noble Progenitor by his very name Sir Robert Cotton known to all the Learned as far as Europe extendeth I read it cursorily because I was quickly convinced in my self that it could be no counterfeit immaginarie businesse and was very desirous to see the end so far as the book did go Afterwards when I understood that the said worthy Gentleman especially as I suppose relying upon my Lord of Armagh's judgment and testimonie which we have before spoken of was willing it should be published and that he had committed the whole business unto me I read it over very exactly and took notes of the most remarkable passages as they appeared unto me truly I was so much confirmed in this first opinion by my second reading that I shall not be afraid to profess that I never gave more credit to any Humane History of former times All things seemed unto me so simply and yet so accurately and with so much confirmation of all manner of circumstances written and delivered that I cannot yet satisfie my self but all judicious Readers will be of my opinion But nevertheless to help them that trust not much to their own judgments let us see what can be said First I would have them that would be further satisfied to read Dr. d ee in that forecited Preface where he doth plead his own cause to acquit himself of that grievous crime and imputation of a Conjurer But that was written I must confess long before his Communication with Spirits yet it is somewhat to know what opinion he had then of them that deal with Divels and evil Spirits But after he was made acquainted and in great dealings with them and had in readiness divers of these his books or others of the same Argument containing their several conferences and communications to shew and the manner of their appearing exactly set down observe I pray with what confidence he did address himself to the greatest and wisest in Europe To Queen Elizabeth often and to her Council as by many places of this Relation doth appear but more particularly by his Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham Secretary c. That he did the like to King James and his Councel may easily be gathered by the Records in this Relation of 1607. but much defective But then to the Emperor Rodolphe to Stephen King of Poland and divers other Princes and their Deputies the wisest and learnedst their several Courts did afford for the time the particulars of all which addresses and transactions are very exactly set down in the book Nay such was his confidence that had it not been for the Nuncius Apostolicus his appearing against him at the Emperors Court by order from the Pope he was as by some places may be collected resolved for Rome also not doubting but he should approve himself and his doings to the Pope himself and his Cardinals In all these his addresses and applications being still very ready to impart all things unto them that would entertain them with that respect he thought they deserved yea readily which is very observable even to receive them into this Mystical Society whom he thought worthy and in some capacity to promote the design as de facto he did divers in several places Albertus Alasco Prince Palatine of Polonia Puccius a learned man and Prince Rosemberg in Germany who were long of the Society besides some admitted to some Actions for a while as Stephen King of Poland and some others We will easily grant as elsewhere hath been treated and handled at large that a distempered brain may see yea and hear strange things and entertain them with all possible confidence as real things and yet all but fancy without any real sound or Apparition But these sights and Apparitions that Dr. Dee gives here an account are quite of another nature yea though possibly the Divel might represent divers of these things to the fancy inwardly which appeared outwardly Yet of another nature I say and not without the intervention and operation of Spirits as will easily appear to any man by the particulars Besides the long Speeches Discourses Interlocutions upon all occasions and occurrences in the presence of more then one alwayes and externally audible to different persons for the most part or very frequently That these things could not be the operation of a distempered Fancy will be a sufficient evidence to any rational man Again let his usual preparations and Prayers against an Apparition or Action as he called them his extraordinary prayers upon some extraordinary occasions as upon Edward Kelley his temporary repentance and another for him when he was about to forsake him in Latine a long one Stephen King of Poland being then present And again when his Son Arthur was to be initiated to these Mystical
very moderately and friendly II. Now to Objections The first shall be this Although 't is very probable that Dr. d ee himself dealt simply and sincerely yet since he himself saw nothing for so himself acknowledgeth in some places but by Kelley's eyes and heard nothing but with his ears Is it not possible that Kelley being a cunning man and well practised in these things might impose upon the credulity of Dr. Dee a good innocent man and the rather because by this office under the Doctor he got 50 l. by the year as appeareth Truly this is plausible as it is proposed and like enough that it might go a great way with them that are soon taken and therefore seldom see any thing in the truth or true nature of it but in the outward appearance of it only But read and observe it diligently and you will find it far otherwise It is true indeed that ordinarily Dr. d ee saw not himself his business was to write what was seen but in his presence though and heard by Kelley Yet that himself heard often immediately appeareth by many places I shall not need any quotations for that himself feeleth as well as Kelley In the relation of the Holy Stone how taken away by one that came in at a window in the shape of a man and how restored both saw certainly In the story of the Holy Books how burned and how restored again part of them at least which Dr d ee made a great Miracle of as appeareth by some of those places there also both saw certainly And Albert Lasky the Polonian Palatine saw as well as Kelley Besides it doth clearly appear throughout all the book that Kelley though sometimes with much adoe perswaded for a while to think better of them had generally no other opinion of these Apparitions but that they were meer illusions of the Divel and evil Spirits such as himself could command by his art when he listed and was acquainted with insomuch that we find him for this very cause forsaking or desirous to forsake Dr. Dee who was much troubled about it and is forced in a place to Pawn his Soul unto him to use his own words that it was not so and that they were good Spirits sent from God in great favour unto them But for all this Kelley would not be satisfied but would have his Declaration or Protestation of his suspition to the contrary entred into the book which you shall find and it will be worth your reading I could further alledge that if a man considers the things delivered here upon several occasions being of a different nature some Moral some Physical some Metaphysical and Theological of highest points though sometimes wild enough and not warrantable yet for the most part very remote from vulgar capacities he will not easily believe that Kelley who scarce understood Latine not to speak of some things delivered in Greek in some places and betook himself to the study of Logick long after he had entred himself into this course could utter such things no nor any man living perchance that had not made it his study all his life-time But that which must needs end this quarrel if any man will be pertinacious and put all things out of doubt is that not Kelley only served in this place of Seer or Skryer but others also as his son Arthur and in his latter dayes when Kelley was either gone or sick one Bartholomew as will be found in all the Actions and Apparitions of the year 1607. which as I suspect was the last year of the Doctors life or beyond which I think he did not live long Secondly It may be objected or stuck at least How Dr. d ee so good so innocent yea so pious a man and so sincere a Christian as by these papers his delusion and the effects of it still excepted he doth seem to have been God would permit such a one to be so deluded and abused so rackt in his soul so hurried in his body for so long a time notwithstanding his frequent earnest zealous prayers and addresses unto God by evil Spirits even to his dying day for ought we know as he is here by his own relation set out unto us Truly if a man shall consider the whole carriage of this businesse from the beginning to the end according to this true and faithful for I think I may so speak with confidence account of it here presented unto us this poor man how from time to time shamefully grosly delayed deluded quarrelled without cause still toled on with some shews and appearances and yet still frustrated and put off his many pangs and agonies about it his sad condition after so many years toil travel drudgery and earnest expectation at the very last as appeareth by the Actions and apparitions of the year 1607. I can not tell whether I should make him an object of more horror or compassion but of both certainly in a great measure to any man that hath any sense of Humanity and in the examples of others of humane frailty and again any regard of parts and worth such as were in this man in a high degree True it is that he had joyes withal and comforts imaginary delusory it is true yet such as he enjoyed and kept up his heart and made him outwardly chearful often times I make no question such as the Saints as they call themselves and Schismaticks of these and former times have ever been very prone to boast of perswading themselves that they are the effects of Gods blessed Spirit But even in these his joys and comforts the fruits and fancies of his deluded soul as in many others of a distempered brain is not he an object of great compaspassion to any both sober and charitable If this then were his case indeed what shall we say if nothing else I know not but it ought to satisfie a rational sober humble man If we say That it is not in man to give an account of all Gods judgments neither is there any ground for us to murmule because we do not understand them or that they often seem contrary to the judgment of humane reason because it is against all Reason as well as Religion to believe that a creature so much inferior to God by nature as man is should see every thing as he seeth and think as he thinks and consequently judge and determine in and of all things as God judgeth and determineth The Apostle therefore not without cause would have all private judgments for of publick for the maintenance of peace and order among men it is another case deferr'd to that time when the hearts of all men shall be laid open all hidden things and secret counsels revealed But we have enough to say in this case without it For if Pride and Curiosity were enough to undoe our first Parent and in him all mankind when otherwise innocent and in possession of Paradise Should we wonder if it had the
the word Perfect because all perfection belongs unto God properly it shall suffice to say That the knowledge Divels have of things Natural and Humane is incomparably greater then man is capable of If so how comes it to pass that in many places of this Relation we find him acting his part rather as a Sophister that I say not a Juggler then a perfect Philosopher as a Quack or an Empirick sometimes then a True genuine Naturalist And for language not to speak of his Divinity which he might disguise of purpose to his own ends rather as one that had learned Latin by reading of barbarous books of the middle age for the most part then of one that had been of Augustus his time and long before that But that which is strangest of all is that as in one place the Spirits were discovered by Ed. Kelley to steal out of Agrippa or Trithemius so he thought at least so in divers other places by the phrase and by the doctrine and opinions a man may trace noted Chymical and Cabalistical Authors of later times yea if I be not much mistaken and Paracelsus himself that prodigious creature for whom and against whom so much hath been written since he lived these things may seem strange but I think they may be answered For first we say The Divel is not ambitious to shew himself and his abilities before men but his way is so observed by many to fit himself for matter and words to the genius and capacity of those that he dealeth with Dr. d ee of himself long before any Apparition was a Cabalistical man up to the ears as I may say as may appear to any man by his Monas Hieroglyphica a book much valued by himself and by him Dedicated at the first to Maximilian the Emperor and since presented as here related by himself to Rodoiphe as a choice piece It may be thought so by those who esteem such books as Dr. Floid Dr. Alabaster and of late Gafarell and the like For my part I have read him it is soon don it is but a little book but I must profess that I can extract no sense nor reason sound and solid out of it neither yet doth it seem to me very dark or mystical Sure we are that those Spirits did act their parts so well with Dr. d ee that for the most part in most Actions they came off with good credit and we find the Dr. every where almost extolling his Spiritual teachers and instructers and praysing God for them Little reason therefore have we to except against any thing in this kind that gave him content which was their aim and business Secondly I say If any thing relish here of Trithemius or Paracelsus or any such well may we conclude from thence that the Divel is like himself This is the truest inference It is he that inspired Trithemius and Paracelsus c. that speaketh here and wonder ye if he speaks like them I do not expect that all men will be of my opinion yet I speak no Paradoxes I have both reason and authority good and plausible I think for what I say but to argue the case at large would be tedious Of Trithemius somewhat more afterwards will be said But we must go far beyond that time A thousand years and above before either of them was born was the BOOK OF ENOCH well known in the world and then also was Lingua Adami upon which two most of the Cabala stands much talked of as appears by Greg. Nissen his learned books against Eunomius the Heretick To speak more particularly because so much of it in this Relation the BOOK OF ENOCH was written before Christ and it is thought by some very learned though denyed by others that it is the very book that S. Jude intended A great fragment of it in Greek it was written in Hebrew first is to be seen in Scaliger that incomparable man the wonder of his Age if not rather of all Ages his learned Notes upon Eusebius It was so famous a book antiently that even Heathens took notice of it and grounded upon it objections against Christians It may appear by Origen against Celsus in his book 5. p. 275. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But S. Jerome and S. Augustin speak of it more peremptorily as a fabulous book and not allowed by the Church How much of it is extant besides what we have in Scaliger I know not nor what part it is so often mentioned in this Relation By what I have seen it doth appear to me a very superstitious foolish fabulous writing or to conclude all in one word Cabalistical such as the Divel might own very well and in all probability was the author of As for that conceit of the tongue which was spoken by Adam in Paradise we have already said that it is no late invention and I make no question but it proceeded from the same Author Yea those very Characters commended unto Dr. Dee by his Spirits for holy and mystical and the original Characters as I take it of the holy tongue they are no other for the most part but such as were set out and published long agoe by one Theseus Ambrosus out of Magical books as himself professeth you shall have a view of them in some of the Tables at the end of the Preface Some letters are the same others have much resemblace in the substance and in transcribing it is likely they might suffer some alteration But it may be too the Spirits did not intend they should be taken for the same because exploded by learned men and therefore altered the forms and figures of most of them of purpose that they might seem new and take the better So that in 〈◊〉 this the Divel is but still constant unto himself and this constancy stands him in good stead to add the more weight and to gain credit to his Impostures Not to be wondred therefore if the same things be found elsewhere where the D. hath an hand With Cabalistical writings we may joyn Chymical here also mentioned in many places I have nothing to say to Chymistrie as it is meerly natural and keeps it self within the compass of sobriety It may wel go for a part of Physick for ought I know though many great Physicians because of the abuse and danger of it as I conceive have done their best formerly to cry it down I my self have seen strange things done by it and it cannot be denyed but the wonders of God and Nature are as eminently visible in the experiments of that Art as any other natural thing However it is not improbable that divers secrets of it came to the knowledg of man by the Revelation of Spirits And the practice and profession of it in most them especially that profess nothing else is accompanied with so much Superstition and Imposture as it would make a sober man that tendreth the preservation of himself in his right wits
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
Figure be in the Text it self and of some consequence for the better understanding of the rest The Greek p. 25. b. is exactly set out as it was found and yet to be seen in the original written by Dr. Dee himself But little or nothing can be made of it as it is written and it is a sign that Dr. Dee who writ it as Edw. Kelley reported it unto him and afterwards plodded upon it as doth appear by some Conjectures and Interpretations found in the original and here also exhibited as well as he could was no very perfect Grecian much less Edw. Kelley who could not so much as read it which made Dr. d ee to write some things that he would not have Kelley to read in Greek Characters though the words were English I would not alter any thing that was in the Original But the words I believe spoken by the Spirit and so the Greek is warrantable enough were these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This I think was intended of Edw. Kelley who was ever and anon upon projects to break with Dr. d ee and to be gone as here presently after and in divers other places of this relation nay did really forsake him sometimes for some time The sence verbatim is this This fellow or Friend will overthrow this work of Apparitions you must understand to which he was requisite because the Divel had not that power over Dr. Dees Body to fit it though he did promise it him for such sights His baggage or furniture is in a readiness And he doth very much endeavor To withdraw himself from this common friendship Take heed that you give him no occasion For he doth mightily plot by art and cunning How he may leave you for ever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the first line may seem unusual for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but it is an elegant Metaphore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not usual and happily it should have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so uttered but that is nothing Certainly he that could speak somuch Greek called here Syrian to jeer Ed. Kelley could not want Latine at any time to express himself which nevertheless might be thought where we finde him speaking English to them that understood it not so that Dr. Dee was fain to interpret it But we cannot give an account of all his fetches and projects He had a consideration I make no question I cannot think of any thing else that the Reader need to be told that is of this nature and it may be some what might have been spared However the Reader will consider that as in all Books so in this It is one thing to read from the beginning and so to go on with heed and observation without skipping and another thing to read here and there which would require a perpetual Comment which is the wretchedness of most Readers in these 〈◊〉 days of Learning and therefore they have Comments or Rhapsodies rather accordingly similes habent labra lactuses never more true of any thing It may be some will wonder what made the Spirits to fall upon English Genealogies and Stories it is at very beginning therefore I take notice of it for the Readers sake that is yet and cannot otherwise a stranger to the Book The business is Dr. d ee was 〈◊〉 grown into great league and confederacy with Albert Lasky or à lasco rather a great man of Polonia You had before what Cambden 〈◊〉 of him of his coming to England at this verytime and his going away which doth very well agree with our dates here It seems though nobly born and to great dignity yet his thoughts did aspire much higher and though no rich man for a man of his rank and quality yet expecting such matters from Dr. d ee and his Spirits as he did he could finde money enough to supply their wants upon occasion The Spirits were very glad of the occasion and did what they could to 〈◊〉 him according to his humor Being then at that very time upon deliberations that much depended of Alb. Laskey and his good opinion among other things his Pedegree which must needs please a vain man very well was taken into consideration That every thing there said doth exactly agree to the truth as I do not warrant it so neither am I at leisure at this time to take the pains to examine We must never look further in those things that are 〈◊〉 by such then if it were or be pertinent true or false to their end and present occasion Besides it is very possible which I desire the Reader to take good notice of that both here and elsewhere the Transcribers as they could not read sometimes and were forced to leave some blancks though seldome to any considerable prejudice of the sence so they might mistake also having to do with an Original that was and is yet to be seen so defaced and worm-eaten as this is written as we have said by Dr. d ee himself Besides the authentickness of the Original Copy written by Dr. Dee himself the Reader may know that the Originals of the Letters that are here exhibited are all ormost of them yet preserved and to be seen in Sir Tho. Cottons Library IV. I am now come to the last of the four things that I promised to shew the several good uses that may be made of this Book and which were principally looked upon in the publishing of it This order indeed I proposed to my self but great part of this occasion offering it self upon other matter is already performed in the former Discourse so that but little is now left to be done However I will sum them up and represent them together that every Reader may have them in readiness and in view for his use the better The first is against Atheists and such as do not believe that there be any Divels or Spirits We have argued it I confess pretty largely at the beginning of this Discourse or Preface and I hope some may receive competent sat sfaction by what we have said But if no Argument had been used setting aside Scripture Authority which would be impertinent against Atheists I do not know what can be more convincing then this sad Story so exactly so particularly so faithfully delivered Truly they must see further then I do that can finde what to answer rationally and to oppose This is a great point and a great ground of Religion but this is not all For if there be Spirits indeed so wicked and malicious so studious and so 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 men and to do mischief which is their end all which is so fully represented in this Relation then certainly must it follow that there is a great over-ruling Power that takes care of the Earth and of the Inhabitants of it of them especially that adore that Power and worship it with true affection and sincerity For without this over ruling Power
what a miserable World should we have What man so sober or innocent that could enjoy himself at any time with any comfort or security But again what man can read this sad story and can be so perswaded of his own Wisdom or innocency but will in some degree reflect upon himself and will be moved to praise God that notwithstanding many provocations in several kindes as damnable curiosity open prophaneness frequent Oathes Curses Perjuries scandalous Life and the like God hath been pleased to protect and preserve him from the force and violence of such enemies of mankinde I said before from les beginnings greatest confusions had ensued which is very true as in the case of Bacchus particularly many Ages before and in the case of Mahomet afterwards two notable lewd Euthusiasts by whom as Instruments evil Spirits by Gods permission brought great alterations in Governments and wrought much mischief and 〈◊〉 among Men and Women we shall elsewhere shew more at large By due consideration of all Circumstances as chiefly their confident and reiterated Addresses unto and Attempts upon so many great men in Power and Authority and the like I am much of opinion that these Spirits had as great hopes of Dr. Dee as ever they had of Bacchus or Mahomet But God was not 〈◊〉 at that time to permit that their malice and subtilty should prevail And I think if we consider it well we have reason to 〈◊〉 God for it England might have been over-run with Anabaptism when I say Anabaptism I mean Anabaptism confirmed and in full power not as it appears in its first pretentions long before this God be thanked that it was not then and God keep it from it still I hope is the Prayer of all truly sober and Religious And in very deed I know no reason but the Wisdom and prudence of their Majesties Councel that then were in opposing Dr. Dees 〈◊〉 addresses and Sollicitations may under God challenge and 〈◊〉 some part of our Thanks and Acknowledgement Again The Divel we see can Pray and Preach as to outward appearance we mean for truly and really God forbid that any thing sacred and holy should be thought to proceed from Divels and talk of Sanctity and Mortification as well as the best And what he can in his own person or by himself immediately there is no question but he doth by his Ministers and Instruments much more more ordinarily and frequently I mean Let any man judge then whether it be the part of a sober wise man not onely to hear such men as can give no account of their calling but also to follow them to embrace their Doctrine to be of their number or Congregation and all this upon this account because they can pray and preach very well as they think and judge at least and talk very godlily and zealously How much more inexcusable they that will clave unto such though they see and know them scandalous in their Lives Proud Insolent Ignorant Seditious Intolerable because they can pray and preach and talk as best agreeth with their own humor and gives them best content Can any man think they follow God in this who would have all things done in order and is not a God of Confusion 1 Cor. 14. 33 40. when all they do tends to nothing else but disorder and confusion I confess it is possible that men lawfully called may prove bad enough we have divers examples in the Scripture But if a man simply and ignorantly be mis-led by such certainly his judgement will be much lighter then they can expect who will not use the means that God hath ordained in so great and weighty a business as the salvation of Souls is I know not what these men can say for themselves except it be that they are resolved to make use of the Liberty of the times to please their humor they may do it but if that bring them to Heaven they have good luck But the business of praying is that I would principally insist upon You see here how Dr. d ee where he gives an account of himself to the Emperor and others bears himself much upon this that so many years he had been an earnest Suitor unto God by Prayer to obtain Wisdom such wisdom as he was ambitious of I believe him that he had prayed very earnestly and with much importunity many times This was the thing that made him so confident of his Spirits that they must needs be good Spirits and Angels I know a man I have no comfort to tell it but that I would not conceal any thing that may be a warning unto others and yet I will have a respect unto him too But I knew one a very innocent man in his outward conversation and as I believe very really Humble Religious very Learned and Orthodox and one that had suffered for his Conscience as others have done in these times This worthy man being engaged in a controverted Argument upon which his phancy had wrought very much or rather which had much wrought upon his phancy he had written much filled much Paper and was desirous to communicate unto me as his friend what he had done But when I perceived that the drift of his writing was out of the Law and the Prophets to shew the necessity of some things which I thought of a more indifferent nature I was not willing to meddle with it and begun to argue against his main drift and to shew my disliking After many words to and fro he began to press me with this that he had often prayed with much earnestness and he was very confident that God had heard his Prayers Yea he proceeded so far that if God were true he could not be deceived and used many other words to the same purpose at which I was much amazed but could do no good upon him such was his confidence and violence upon this occasion though otherwise a very moderate ingenuous man And thus I found him more then once or twice Truly I think God was very merciful unto him that took him away in good time But certainly this business of Prayer and praising is a business as of great comfort the greatest that mortal man is capable of upon earth so of much more danger and delusion then many do believe And if caution and circumspection be to be used in any thing that belongs to Religion I think it ought in Prayer as much as any thing And since I have adventured to tell one story upon mine own credit I will tell one more upon better authority which I have long desired for the observableness of it to communicate unto the world and to that end had once inserted it in a Treatise of mine which I thought would have been Printed but it was not I will first give the English of it that all men may reap the benefit and then set it down in the words of my Author mine own Father Isaac Casaubon of b. m. as I have it to
pretty similitude if true whereof see in the Preface of the Adders dealing with her young Infidelity how great a sin Yet Ed. Kelley still incredulous for all this and very resolute ¶ LXXVI 186. Christ his coming in Triumph c. The Book of Invocation Satans Pretended opposition Some Prophesies Promises and Instructions LXXVII p. 187. Some questions belonging to the Cabale partly eluded partly answered Invocations of good Angels Set Prayers not allowed and why Evil spirits how to be dealt with The Book of Invocations and now Set Prayers allowed of LXXVIII p. 189. Sermon-like stuff of the use of 〈◊〉 c. Some promises to Doctor Dee and Ed. Kelley A Progresse in the Cabale of Calls LXXIX p. 195. Doctor Dee and his fellow reproved Doctor Dee with great humility doth answer for himself Enoch the Book delivered unto him the same in substance as this they say by God His Prayer Humility c. LXXX LXXXI p. 197. The spirits appoint their time and appear The precise time of Christs coming and other Prophesies not revealed unto men for three reasons LXXXII LXXXIII p. 198. 199. The spirits c. as before The nineteen Calls and their beginnings LXXXIV p. 200. More Calls and mysteries but not without pretended opposition of wicked spirits Adam's fall The Curse upon it and the effect of it LXXXV p. 206. More Calls and Aires An apparent contradiction observed by Doctor Dee but cunningly evaded by the spirits Doctor Dee his Hymne and spiritual but not from God because not well grounded rejoycing and thank giving His son Roland in great danger LXXXVI p. 210. Doctor Dee's contest with his spirits he asserts his own innocency and to the utmost of his power obedience but is baffled by the spirits Al. L. rejected LXXXVII p. 211. The same contest prosecuted here also with some threatnings ¶ Their coming to Prague ¶ Some Chimical gibbrish fit stuff to amuse unsettled braines found in the house concerning the Philosophers Stone Read there and. si rubeo m. sit nupta m c. ¶ p. 213. Some conjectures and meditations of Doctor Dee's upon some places of Scripture LXXXVIII The VI Viol in the Apocalypse as understood by Doctor Dee A very good blessing pronounced by an evill spirit Divers Woes denounced Somewhat of Doctor Dee's Wife Al. Lasky Doctor Dee sent to Rodolphus Emperour with a message as from God LXXXIX p. 217. The Angelical Book New orders about it Al. Lasky though rejected yet to be great for a while Inspiration promised to Dr. d ee about a Letter to the Emperour ¶ A Copy of the said Letter by inspiration probably enough of spirits as a man may ghuesse by the stuff to the Emperour Secrecy desired XC p. 219. Sermon-like stuff The power of God Several Woes The Trinity c. Dr. d ee not being willing to be put off longer the spirits against their wills make some progresse in the Cabale Doctor Dee in the execution of Gods will to proceed with fury c. XCI p. 222. Doctor Dee sharply reproved by examples out of the Scriptures c. for chusing when it was put to his choice rather present performance than longer delay XCII p. 223. The same matter here also The yeares of Doctor Dee's life 73. and a half which perchance might come very near to the truth if we could certainly know when he died determined Ed. Kelley to die violently and so he did for endeavouring an escape out of prison he brake a leg and died of it as generally reported Doctor Dee doth repent and revoke his choice in very good language had it been upon a good ground ¶ Doctor Dee's Letter to the King of Spain his Agent or Ambassadour with the Emperour about his Letter and means of accesse to the Emperour XCIII Several questions proposed by Doctor Dee The spirits shrewdly put to it about a lye which they had told and yet by the help of Cabalistical querks and distinctions but especially of Anabaptistical infatuations in Doctor Dee they come off with credit In what sense Doctor Dee might truly say That himself had seen whatsoever Ed. Kelley had seen ¶ Doctor Dee his Letter and Present graciously received by the Emperour XCIV p. 228. Apparitions not in the Stone The priviledge of apparition in the Stone The Mysterie of the Trinity Reason an enemy to God to Delusion indeed and wildnesse sound and sober Reason as the spirits would have it The Emperour threatned The names of the spirits now appearing and how to be found in the Cabalistical Tables ¶ Some drunken pranks of Kelley's and why here recorded ¶ A letter of the Spanish Embassadour his Secretary to Doctor Dee whereby he doth signifie the Emperours desire and appointment to have him come to him Octavius Spinola Chamberlain c. brings him to him An account of what was said on both sides Doctor Dee's Monas of which see more in the Preface his Revelations and Visions His Angelical Stone c. ¶ XCV p. 231. Kelly's former miscarriage taken notice of the cause of it It is forgiven Doctor Dee c. Their Office magnified Kingdomes of the Earth to be destroyed Hierusalem restored Christ to Reigne Other Predictions very strange but not true and the certain year Rodolph Emperour to be exalted Stephen King of Poland to be destroyed Enoch's Tables Doctor Dee his Prayer and Kelley's Vow ¶ Doctors Dee's Letter to Octavius Spinola to be communicated to the Emperour but not delivered at that time by reason of the Emperour his absence ¶ XCVI p. 235. Ga. Za. Vaa spirits invited that is called upon by Doctor Dee their answer interpreted by him ¶ The former Letter with some alterations delivered and the Emperours very gracious answer to it by the said Spinola Doctor Curtzius a Doctor of the Laws one of the Emperours Privy Council accounted very Learned appointed by the Emperour to deal with Doctor Dee in his behalf ¶ XCVII p. 237. Doctor Dee asketh counsell of God he thought but first encountereth with Pilosus an evil spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as I take it and his temptations Ed. Kelley very penitent still but desirous as unfit to be out of his Office The spirits appear Reconciliation twofold with God with the Church c. Purgatory The body of Christ The case of Rodolph Emperour in case he obey or disobey The spirit of Choice in Doctor Dee explained Doctor Curtz allowed of ¶ p. 239. Doctor Curtz and Doctor Dee after some Complements by Messengers meet Their conference of six hours Doctor Dee's Relation of himself his Studies his Suite and therein though not apprehended by himself his intollerable presumption pride high opinion of himself c. Revelations Books and wonderfull confidence as of most that are so deluded ¶ Ed. Kelley strangely tempted ¶ Doctor Dee's mistrust of Doctor Curtz upon what grounds ¶ XCVIII p. 240. Lying and froward silence not ordinarily expounded Reconciliation to the Church The sin against the Holy Ghost what it is
Hyppocrates for Hippocrates c His pointing also as full points for two points as in the second page before Although and before Yet which doth much obscure the sense ¶ Besides this but I must desire the Reader first to adde the figures there none being printed Page 1. line 17. read in any age to read I say c. p. 2l 44. First then as from them th p. 3. l. 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t. p. 4. l. 14 how that happ p. 5. l 35. r. and others some to s. p. 7. l. 4. r. ingenuous prof p. 10. l. 14. which may eas p. 11. l. 43. So Justine M So quoted indeed and believed by divers but not rightly but however one of the anc p. 13. l. 19. 〈◊〉 saepissimè 〈◊〉 p. 14. l. 7. r. by the out app ibid l. 37. some mischief w. be d ibid l. 40. r. as the D. p. 15. l. 36. Jul. Caesar 〈◊〉 p. 16. l. 23. and 28. Trallianus ibid l. 43. r. Reason sight S. ibid l. ult that those m. p 18. l. 23. these cl p. 19. l. 37. admisisset ille 〈◊〉 se u. ib. 42. r. se. illi ign p. 19. l. 7. deseruit n. Ib. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ibid 20. aperirem Ibid 45. th dayes among others one melioris notae as we say by S. H. against 〈◊〉 As afterwards some 3. or 4. years after Popish impostures then used and discovered of the same nature for the advancement of their cause occasioned another of the same Authour and Subject exorcismes against Papists I have th p. 21. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ib. 23. adductos Ib. 24. cum c. s. p. 23. l. 21. Christians ackn Ib. 33. more sex Ib. 35. Sec. therefore w. p. 24 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 25. 44. true a. s. Chr. p. 26. 28. request t. p. 27. 26. yea ready wh p. 28. 11. fo rs 〈◊〉 p. c. and p ..... in Lat. p. 27. 43. presented and appr p. 30. 25. true nat but in the o. Ib. 26. obs dilig Ib. 30. for that P .... himself f. p. 31. 31. commendeth p. 33. 7. differences in r. Ib. 11. 12. of thing hath d. p. 34. 36. delayed a. p. 35. 34. confused or conf p. 35. 7. Devils w. Ibid 9. He did c. p. 37. 22. lived Th. 39. 6. more probably den Ib. 17. part it is if any part at all and not rather a new counterseit under an old vizor so oft Ib. 36. hath had a h. p. 40. 7. spirituum meâ aet Ib. 11. d. do th Ib. 15. Ars. fac Ib. 23. former a. p. 41. 23. of what is tr p. 43. 6. they may h. f. som. perchance th ibid 7. Synes ibid 23. in the T. ibid 33. conceited ibid 43. some Table p. 44. 6. about a y. p. 46. 7. priùs ost p. 47. 25. more of it It is a. ibid 27. belonged u. p. 49. 15. who b. ib. 31. 43. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 32. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 45. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 50. 12. lactucas 45. of this occ p. 52. 30. I knew p. 53 5. and praying Postscript l. 22 ministery Besides these Errata's it is fit the Reader should know that the written Copy of the Preface had many references to the pages of the Book M S. which because they did not agree with the printed pages the Printer thought impertinent to set down which neverthelesse hath bred some confusion in some places as p. 46. 47. and elsewhere but may easily be rectified by the Table at the beginning Again some marginal quotations are omitted which may be supplied P. 34. against the 3 4. and following lines Treatise of Enthusiasme Ch. 4. and 6. of Rhetor. and 〈◊〉 Enth. P. 36. against line 11 12. c. Vera ac memorabilis Historia de 3. Energumenis c. Lut. Par. 1625. dedicated to the King of France P. 48. against l. 6 7. c. De arte Gramm l. 1. cap. 41. p. 141 142. Lastly I cannot give a reason of the Italica or different letter in some places but that the Printer or some body else have pleased their phansies therein ¶ In the Table Part I Act. VI. of the same nature Act. LI. res to leave Dr. Dee Act. LXIII Some char and properties Act. CI. observe at least to ag Act. CIV no ace of his second L. ibid is want Act. CVII in the Cabale Act. CXIII but reserving of it not all CXVII from Prag Act. CXX spoken of rev CXXX intoxic CXXXV he doth tell b. of those b. Part II Act. IX pronounced ag The HOLY TABLE A Specimen of the Tables or Book of ENOCH A TRUE RELATION OF Dr. DEES Actions with spirits Liber Mysteriorum Sancti parallelus Novalisque Lesden MAY 28. 1583. Δ. AS J. and E. K. sate discoursing of the Noble Polonian Albertus Lasci his great honour here with us obteined his great good liking of all States of the people of them that either see him or hear of him and again how much I was beholding to God that his heart should so fervently favour me and that he doth so much strive to suppresse and confound the malice and envie of my Country-men against me for my better credit winning or recovering to do God better service hereafter thereby c. Suddenly there seemed to come out of my Oratory a Spirituall creature like a pretty girle of 7 or 9 yeares of age attired on her head with her hair rowled up before and hanging down very long behind with a gown of Sey ..... changeable green and red and with a train she seemed to play up and down ..... like and seemed to go in and out behind my books lying on heaps the biggest ..... and as she should ever go between them the books seemed to give place sufficiently dis .... one heap from the other while she passed between â—hem And so I considered and ..... the diverse reports which E. K. made unto me of this pretty maiden and ..... Δ. I said ..... Whose maiden are you Δ. Sh. ..... VVhose man are you Δ. I am the servant of God both by my bound duty and also I hope by his Adoption A voyce ..... You shall be beaten if you tell ..... Am not I a fine Maiden Give me leave to play in your house my Mother told me she would come and dwell here Δ. She went up and down with most lively gestures of a young girle playing by her selfe and diverse times another spake to her from the corner of my study by a great Perspective-glasse but none was seen beside her selfe ..... Shall I I will Now she seemed to answer one in the foresaid Corner of the Study ..... I pray you let me tarry a little speaking to one in the foresaid Corner Δ. Tell me who you are ..... I pray you let me play with you a little and I will tell you who I am Δ. In the name of Jesus then
is his strength that hath armed himself with it In the Serpents belly there is nothing clean neither with unhonest persons ungodly I mean is there any pure society Light agreeth not with Darknesse nor vertue with vice therefore be you of one and in one that you may agree and have the reward of one Behold it is said I will part bounds between the just and the unjust I will suffer the Enemy to sowe discord to the intent that those that are my people may be separated and have a dwelling by themselves Peruse the Scripture it is alwayes seen that the Spirit of God forceth Satan in spight of his head to separate the evil from the good by discord and herein the Devil worketh against himself We good Angels keep secret the Mysteries of God things that are to come we alwayes keep close with this exception The form of our Commandment Truth it is that a Commission is granted not onely to enquire of thee but also to attach thee and that by the Council If he go down he shall be attached therefore tempt not God Δ. But if he tarry here and his being here so known as it is it is likely that he shall be attached here to my no small grief or disgrace What is your counsel herein She said ..... It is written misery shall not enter the doors of him whom the Highest hath magnified DIXIT DICO DICTUM SIT The world shall never prevaile against you Δ. In respect of the Book the Scrowl and the Powder to be communicated What is your judgement or mind seeing when he was coming from Islington with them he was threatned to be pulled in pieces if he came with them to me ..... All that is spoken of is in very deed vanity The book may be used to a good purpose They were wicked ones But as these things are the least part of this action so are they not much to be looked after Δ. As concerning the Powder I beseech you what is your knowledge of it ..... It is a Branch of Natures life It is appointed for a time and to a purpose Δ. As concerning the earthes of the Eleven places being with expedition ..... What is now to be done with them ..... It was a foresight of God if they had been there now they had utterly perished Δ. O Jesus that is a marvellous thing ..... Helas that is nothing Δ. By nature they could not have perished in so short time ..... I have said E. K. Tell us your name ..... If you will remember my counsel I will tell you my name E. K. Your counsel was by piece-meale told me that I cannot remember it but in general ..... You do and have and I am almost HATH Δ. I understand you to be AT H in sigillo Emeth AT H ..... So am I in the number of Gods Elect. Δ. Shall not I make meanes to Mr. Richard Young as one of the higher Commissioners to do my companion here some good AT H ..... Trouble your self when you need E. K. She spake this somewhat sharply Get your friends to fignifie down good report of you Come not there in many years Δ. As concerning my writing of the holy Book how shall I do by reason of the perfect writing it in the Due Characters seeing many words are written so as the pronunciation and the Orthographie do hardly seem to agree AT H ..... You shall have a School-master sufficient to read unto you Δ. Where shall I begin AT H ..... Let him lead you to that who is within you Δ. As concerning Isabel Lister who is vext of a wicked spirit how well have I executed that which was prescribed me or how well doth it work AT H ..... Friend It is not of my charge Remember the true path that leadeth unto true honour where there sitteth a True and Just GOD who grant you his Direction and establishment of perfect life Δ Amen Amen Amen E. K. She is gone Junii 9. a Meridie hera 5. Δ. Very long I prayed in my Oratory and at my Deske to have answer or resolutions of divers doubts which I had noted in a paper and which doubts I read over distinctly they concerned the preparation of things about the Table of practice and other things above my Lamin and Stone but answer came none neither in the Stone did any thing appear no not the Golden Curtain but the Stone was of his natural Diaphanitie But I held on in pittiful manner to request some advertisement if for any our trespasses or offences this unlooked for alteration from former dealing had hapned c. At length a voice came from behind E. K. over his head and said thus A voyce ..... The judgements of our God are most profound and hard in the understanding of man There is silence above let there therefore be patience amongst you I have said Δ. Upon this answer I began to discourse of divers causes of this silence and divers manners of silences and in the end I became in a great and sorrowfull heavinesse and fear of the wrath or displeasure of God conceived for some our misbehaviour towards him since our last dealing whereupon I prayed long at my Desk standing for mercy comfort counsel and some exposition of the former sentence After a long time thus passing there appeared one in the very top of the frame of the shew-stone much like Michael Who said ..... Write for I must be gone Silence there is in heaven for the Governours of the earth are now before the Lord the doings of their seats are now disclosed every thing is NOTED For that God will be righteous in all his doings There is not this day any one that governeth the people upon earth but his government is disclosed and his government is set open and his faults revealed They without number cry Lord let thy vengeance come The earth sayeth Be it so Sathan is before the Lord He hath garnished himself with Garlands as a Conquerour and what he saith is wonderfull Therefore shall the Lord open his mouth and curse the earth and all living creatures For iniquity hath gotten the upper hand Publickly the States of mankinde in the world are condemned We are all silent and ready with our Viols to powre the wrath of God upon them when he saith BE IT SO. Therefore be you patient For our patience in an universal silence We look for the mouth of Justice But L O The Lord saith unto the Lord lift up thy eyes O God Behold the Dignity of thy workmanship yet suffer for awhile I have a people that will forsake their cruelty and put off their Garments that stink of abomination in whom thy name shall be magnified and our glory in heaven more exalted But as thou wilt so be it Behold I speak in body because I tremble as at the force of thy great indignation Notwithstanding we will what
wilt be knocked in pieces ere thou come to the top Clymer ..... Do you your good will I feel no harm E. K. Now she leadeth him in a place where Springs Quick-mires and Bogs are Maid ..... Surely thou art best to go down for thou wilt be drowned Clymer ..... I pray you help I will go as long as I may E. K. He goeth forward and sinketh almost to the throat Maid ..... It is deeper on the further side thou wert best to go down again Clymer ..... I feel the ground hard under my feet I will not yet despair E. K. Now he cometh out of those deep places and he seemeth to come to a place like the bottom of a hedge where stand stiffe thorns piked upward very sharp Now come two or three handsome fellows and said Alas let him tarry here and drink we will lead him up another way to morrow Maid ..... Farewell Clymer ..... I pray leave me not so let me go with you Maid ..... I must needs be gone I cannot tarry for thee Clymer ..... I am yet neither hungry nor thirsty and feel no wearinesse Why therefore should I stay E. K. He goeth as though the thorns prickt him and grindeth his teeth for pain Now they are come to a fair place and then she said to one Maid ..... Fetch meat and drink and cloaths and cure his wounds For unto thee belongeth the felicity of this place For neither from the highest to the lowest is there any whom I pitty but such as this is Clymer ..... I know not how I shall use these things Maid ..... The true Heirs have alwayes discretion To thee it belongeth and for thee it is prepared Vse it therefore without offence as thine own E. K. Now both he and she go into a Castle and the doors are shut after them and she cometh out again Maid ..... This is written for your understanding Let therefore your eyes be opened and be not blinde Neither forget what here hath been opened Δ. We perceive that Felicitas via ardua est multis obsita difficultatibus periculis sed constantia patientia perveniturad Falicitatis arcem which we beseech the Almighty God to grant unto us Maid ..... Well I will be going till you have supped And then I will tell you more of my minde It will be yet six or seven weeks journey before I can get home Δ. Sit benedictus Deus noster nunc semper Amen After Supper we staid awhile being come to the place and though nothing was seen or heard yet I spake assuring my self of the presence of the foresaid maid though as yet to us insensible Δ. We would gladly know thy name Maid ..... My name is Galua'h in your language I am called Finis E. K. She suddenly appeared as she spake this Δ. That Finis is Latin Gal. ..... I. Δ. You are none of those that are called filiae lucis or filiae filiarum Gal. ... No. Δ. You will not be offended if I propound a doubt somewhat impertinent to our matter in hand yet of importance for us to hear your judgement in the same Tritemius sayeth that never any good Angel was read of to have appeared forma muliebri I pray you to give us an answer to this so great 〈◊〉 Clark his words which are to be read in his little book Octo Questionum Maximiliani cesaris ..... There Quastione Sexta Sancti autem Angeli quoniam affectione nunquam variantur semper apparent in forma virili Nusquam enim legimus scriptum quod bonus spiritus in forma sit visus muliebri aut bestiae cujuscunque sed semper in specie virili Gal. ..... You think then I have some understanding Δ. Yea God knoweth I do Gal. ..... First it is evident that the Spirits of God are incomprehensible to those that are their inferiours For the higher order is incomparable unto God And by degrees those that are their inferiours are also incomparable unto them It followeth therefore that in respect of that degree in Angels things are incomprehensible Angels I say of themselves neither are man nor woman Therefore they do take formes not according to any proportion in imagination but according to the discreet and appliable will both of him and of the thing wherein they are Administrators For we all are Spirits ministring the will of God and unto whom unto every thing within the compasse of Nature onely to his glory and the use of man It followeth Therefore considering that we minister not of our selves that we should minister in that unsearchable form within the which our executions are limited But if Tritemius can say That woman also hath not the Spirit of God being formed and fashioned of the self same matter notwithstanding in a contrary proportion by a degree If Tritemius can separate the dignity of the Soul of woman from the excellency of man but according to the form of the matter then might his Argument be good But because that in man and woman there is proportion preparation of sanctification in eternity Therefore may those that are the eternal Ministers of God in proportion to Sanctification take unto them the bodies of them both I mean in respect of the Form For as in both you read Homo so in both you find one and the self same dignity in internal matter all one But Tritemius spake in respect of the filthinesse which indeed is no filthinesse wherewith all women are stained and by reasons from the natural Philosophers as a man tasting more of nature indeed then of him which is the Workman or a supernatural Master He I say concluded his natural invention In respect of my self I answer Tritemius thus I am Finis I am a beam of that Wisdom which is the end of mans excellency Those also that are called Filiae and Filiae filiarum are all comprehended in me and do attend upon True Wisdom which if Tritemius mark he shall perceive that true Wisdom is alwayes painted with a womans garment For than the purenesse of a Virgin Nothing is more commendable God in his judgement knoweth how Tritemius is rewarded If you think these arguments be not sufficient the one in respect of the first ground and the other in respect of the measure of my name I will yet alledge greater Δ. These Arguments do satisfie me But to have wherewith to stop the mouths of others who might use Cavillation upon such matters it were somewhat needful to have heard your judgement Whereas indeed our own affairs in hand are rather to be followed at this present and of greater Arguments or Instructions in this matter I trust hereafter to have understanding But as now I chiefly regard our Action in hand Gal. ..... Begin the Book next Tuesday My self will be thy Director And as my name is so I will lead unto the end All other things use according to thy
big as one of us  E. K. They swarm continually  Dominus ille Abraham Gab. ..... Adhuc D s laboro E. K. Now cometh a fire down by the same beam that came into his head E. K. Now cometh another streaming beam down to him   erit in latere tuo  Adjutor meus E. K. Looking up ..... Now cometh a bigger fire down on him   custodiet pedem tuum ne capiaris E. K. Now they run headlong down into a great pit in the earth and one pincheth me by the head Spera igitur in dominum Deum tuum  For thou shalt overcome  erit tibi Victoria maxima  in Deo propter Deum  qui est Dominus Deus exercituum E. K. Now the aforesaid spirits invade Gabriel again Gab. ..... What I suffer is not lawful for man to see Therefore Cease for a while and suffice nature But return and hear of my commandment E. K. He is gone but his Desk standeth still Sunday à meridie hor a 2. Octob. 13. Gab. ..... And hereby I teach you that those afflictions which you suffer in soul either for your offences towards God or for the imperfections of your mindes being void of brotherly charity toward your neighbours And so from you generally hereafter how great or how many soever ought not to be manifested or made open to the world but perfectly shadowed in Charity bearing your own infirmities and so the infirmity of others with quiet and hidden minde For the anguish of the soul is compared with prayer dwelling in one house which ought to laugh with the World and to weep towards heaven For every sin is noted and the least thing as well amongst the Celestial bodies as the Terrestiall is perfectly considered of For sin hath his end and his end is punishment And so contrarywise of Vertue Wisdom in the one and twentieth Ent ... ie or L ... His ground is upon mildnesse which mildnesse purifieth the body and exalteth the soul making it apt and ready to behold the heavens receive glorious illuminations and finally bringeth in the soul to participate with us not earthly but everlasting wisdom The Son of God was sanctified in his flesh through mildnesse and was not of this world because he was the mildnesse of his Father Therefore be you meek Be fervent in meeknesse Then shall you take up that Crosse which Christ spoke of following him which Crosse is the Compassion in mildnesse over thy brethren for sin sake Not as worldlings do looking but not lamenting The other part is in suffering mildly the afflictions of the world and flesh Hereby you become Martyrs for that you mortifie your selves which is true Martyrdom He that forsaketh the world for the love of God in his Son Christ shall have his reward But he that forsaketh himself shall be Crowned with a Diadem of Glory Thus saith the Lord I am jealous over you because you have vowed your selves unto me But great are the temptations of the flesh and mighty is his strength where the spirit is weak But thus saith God It is better to fill up the Soul with heavenly contemplation and coelestical food to reign in heaven and to be beloved of him Then to pamper the filthy flesh whose delight destroyeth both body and Soul It is written He that bridleth not his flesh is given to riotousnesse which is the sleep of death and the slumber to destruction But this is true abstinence when contemning the world you fly the delight therein refraining from pleasures of the body Temperating the flesh and making it weak and that for the Lord his sake For the flesh and spirit rejoyce not at once Neither can the full belly grone out true prayers Feed therefore the Soul with the love of our society And bridle your flesh For it is insolent One thing I say look to your servants See that in one house there dwell not delighters in vertue and holinesse mingled with such as harbour vice upon vice Whose drunkennesse is abomination and whose diet stirreth up fornication For wickednesse is amongst them and they fear not God neither do they abstain according as the holy Ghost by his Church hath taught Make them clean Then shall you feel our presence amongst you And we will all of us defend you from the rage of wickednesse We delight in the God of truth and in the worshippers of Justice Thus sayeth the holy Ghost Lo I have made me a Tabernacle where the God of Gods reigneth in Justice And I will sanctifie those places which rejoyce in charity Mingle therefore your Alms with charity And let your prayers and fasting be mingled with Alms deeds For he that prayeth and fasteth without mercy is a lyar Moreover let your friendship 〈◊〉 such as is of charity and not of this world Neither for the worlds sake but for the service of God All friendship else is vain and of no account Charity is the gift 〈◊〉 the Holy 〈◊〉 which Holy 〈◊〉 is a kindling fire knitting things together through Christ Jesus in the true wisdom of the Father Which fire is of no small account neither to be reckoned of as the Heathens have done For happy are those which are fed with charity For it is the meat of us that are anointed which is the son of God and the light of the world Δ Is charity the son of God Gab. ..... It is so He that walketh in charity walketh in God for charity is the will of the father is his own delight and illumination of the faithfull through his Holy Spirit The charity of the Church is the Holy Ghost But he that dwelleth in charity dwelleth in the bloud of the Lamb which is the will of the father which is the Holy Ghost Blessed are those that dwell in charity Persevere to the end Not negligently but with good will which good will is called fear Which 〈◊〉 is the beginning of wisdom the first step into rest He that continueth to the end receiveth his reward But he that leaveth off is a damned Soul Many men begin but few end Neither is your justification by the beginning but from the end Paul was justified Because he died the servant of God and not for his preaching sake He that 〈◊〉 to the end is the Childe of God inheriter of everlasting life and equal with joy himself Not the joy of joyes but that joy which God hath made equal with the joyes of his son Christ in the company of the faithfull Even in this place many persons had conspired against you But the strength of God hath sealed them And they shall not be unpunished For the Angel of the Town is sealed and his seal is to destruction Thrice cursed are those which dwell within his government But you are safe and shall be safely delivered from them In England They condemne thy doings and say Thou art a Renegade For they say Thou hast despised
you to urge me with mine own spirit Behold I am mighty Because I am the joy of the faithfull For I am called the Temple of the Holy ones and the beauty of Israel The spirit of man crieth out and pierceth into the Lord as the swiftnesse of an Arrow And he heard them Therefore thus doth the winde of Cabon open her mouth and sweareth by the Jaspar Pillar that standeth in the Temple of Reconciliation and it Thundereth and is said Be it done And behold the doors open and the Holy Altar is covered The beasts with many feet bring up burnt-offerings And there is a sacrifice that ascendeth up and it is a mighty winde such as hath not been since the beginning of dayes Open your ears therefore and prepare your selves to hear For this ..... is mighty for it is of peace My Justice saith the Lord is sealed and you have sinned mightily My arm is stretched forth and I must be magnified For vengeance is gone forth and is appeared already But who is he that resisteth the venome of the earth or instructeth man to avoid the Darts of poison He saith unto you Thus it is because I have sanctified you and have made you holy to the earth Therefore will I help you But not as you desire For your prayers and unrighteous life shall become bands of yarn And I will make a contention betwixt Sathan and you If therefore you labour hard and open fervent mindes such as are not of the world and can binde this sword and cloud of vengeance fast from amongst you Be it so unto you for it is your own righteousnesse For Sathan hath reviled and hath said Then shalt thou see But so long as they are Holy and become righteousnesse they are become safe but when they fall Satan entreth in For the power of righteousnesse is become a Conquerour if it fight mightily And Satan shall be confounded by a righteous judgement For I have decreed it and by my self I swear it I will be a righteous Judge betwixt you Therefore take heed you sinnot not nor go into death For great is the fall of vengeance Be not therefore defiled with the filthinesse of the wicked Neither delight in such as counterfeit truth For I am one fire that judgeth all things And I delight in people that are joyfull with one Banket For those that fill their bellies at the houses of strangers Become enemies to me For I have said My spirit is holy and my annointed righteous Let the earth rise up and continue in her wickednesse Yea let them say we have found the anointed But my continuance is truth and they are become liars For my spirit worketh and behold there are wonders in the sight of men And wheresoever I dwell such is my power Be therefore of One house that you may eat together Least you banket too much and so become deceivers I am one and am known by One And unto One Which One I am married unto And I am mercifull Whosoever abideth not therein is an Adulterer Avoid you darknesse for righteousnesse is present and my spirit entreth Blessed are such as believe Amen Even to the Amen E. K. He is gone There appeare some bands linked together as Chaines about the Cloud Δ. Welcome be these bands E. K. He is here again ..... and saith ..... eth ..... Why are you become dull Why are you yet ignorant Seest thou these ..... He pointeth and speaketh to E. K. E. K. I see them I thank God ..... These bonds are your own righteousnesse And as they appear before the Lord so shall they binde vengeance together But if you become weak you fall But pray that you fall not For they are the dayes of sorrow The spirit of God is twofold present Jah agian and present Nah gassapalan Therefore take heed For in the first you are blessed and it may return But he that is filled with the second shall be drunken for ever The first is power present and a comfort inmeasurable glorifying and strengthning all things that are agreeable to it But when they differ it returneth The other is the spirit of the first and the second Almighty and everlasting unmeasurable and inexplicable drowning the will of man that becometh strong in the fountain of gladnesse and understanding true wisdom her self and not returning Pray therefore that you may be perfect and that you may be seasoned For it is a salt that savoureth to the end The peace of God be amongst you E. K. He cast off his Cloudy Lawn and went away He seemed to be 〈◊〉 Δ. Yet we beseech you more expresly and particularly to deal with us c. ..... It is said ..... It is written ..... It is true Cease Δ. Gloria Laus Honour Triumphus Jubilatio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Nunc semper Amen Wednesday Novemb. 20. Mane hor. 11½ Lubek Δ. As thou hast of thy mercies O Lord given us some shew of thy favour bent toward us so are we desirous to understand how our Letters have wrought upon our friend his heart to joyn with us to call for thy mercies pardon and help for if they have Then do we hope our bands of acceptable life whereby to binde vengeance prepared and intended against us shall wax more and stronger by thy great mercy and help to thy well-pleasing in thy service hence forward E. K. The Cloud and bonds appear But the bands appear fewer Δ. O Lord is our state since yesterday become weaker with thee And shall it so narrowly be exacted Thy will be done who art holy just and most wise O God E. K. The bonds about the Cloud now are onely two which before were six or seven The bonds seem of a smoky ashy collour spirally going about the Cloud ..... Judgement is the end of Justice distributing and delivering also to every thing seen heard or determined to his proper end uprightly Are you able to deny this Δ. The end of our actions words and thoughts may seem twofold One of us intended and ment to be good The other not depending upon our weening but according to exact wisdom what is the end of the same here deemed the proper end if I understand right A voyce Lo judgement is the end of Justice in things that are handled uprightly whereof you finde the Omnipotencie and Truth of him that judgeth Omnipotently Which beholding your Combat hath girded himself together and beholdeth the Lists and be judgeth uprightly For be hath sworn it Arm not your selves therefore as weaklings But provide as mightie and couragious Souldiers for your own defence I am without corruption saith the Lord and lean not with the windes of Basannah Δ. O Lord give me leave to request thee c. A voyce But I am just and judgement her self Enter not therefore into my holy places Neither kneel down before my sanctuaries saying the Lord hath Chosen us He liveth and it is true for ever For I have said
without measure knoweth what is and what is to come which hath thus said of you Behold their ignorance is greater and they esteem not truth Lo I have heard them in the midst of their corruption yet they are become faithlesse I minister unto them but in vain But behold their mouths are closed up with idlenesse O ye of little understanding are you become so blinde that you will not see Are the windows of your eares made fast against truth Are your consciences sealed up with a thrice burnt iron Desire you light and yet refuse it Have you craved ... and now deny it yea utterly disdain it Δ. That is not true E. K Now cometh a head behind him ..... Lo the end shall become your comfort if you listen to the songs of my mouth if not everlasting folly and a reward of such as are weary to hear of Truth Now I pinched him ..... E. K. This he said looking behind him Δ. ..... Burn those blasphemous books of thine and I will teach thee wisdom Δ. Will you have me note down that sentence so ..... I will Δ. What blasphemous books can I acknowledge seeing I understand none If they contain Sentence make me to perceive it that so I may compare it with the Touchstone of God his word using the Talent of such reason as God hath given me ..... I go I go I go E. K. Now cometh a great fire down and there appeareth a great huge man with a great sword in his hand sire cometh out at his eyes and at his mouth This terrible man said ..... Maledicti sunt qui jurati sunt contra Nomen meum E. K. Now that wicked creature shaketh himself Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Redemptoris humani generis Quis tu es This was spoken to the man with the sword ..... Sume vires Δ. Deus in adjutorium meum intende c. Miserere mei Deus c. E. K Now the great huge one kneeleth down and his face is now from meward he looketh up toward heaven he hath very long hair to beneath his girdle his Robe is long and tucked up Now he standeth up ..... Cursed are they Cursed are they Cursed is he for ever I am I gave thee power and sealed thee for a time Power to use the vehemency of thine own poison but not to touch my coat Thus he saith And I am thou art a lyar from the beginning and the fountain of cursednesse Damnation is thy dwelling place Death is thy seat Vengeance is the Crown of thy disglory Because thou hast entred into my seat Hast exalted thy brightnesse blasphemed my name wherein in this Action thou continuest No point of thy charge nor of my permission Be thou accursed weakened overthrown and defaced Thou art vanqished Thy time is shortened And why I am And I say thou fightest against me and not against men I am Justice and the strength of him that liveth whom thou hast felt and shalt feel world without end Therefore Depart Depart I say E. K. Now the sword standeth by him with the rags that appeared before ..... Vengeauce prepared for others be thy reward As it was delivered unto thee so take it with thee That the malice which thou shewest to others may heap up thine own destruction Jeovah Jeovah Jeovascah E. K. The wicked Tempter falleth down into a hole and this high creature putteth the sword and rags down after him Now this great creature appeareth as small as he used to do And it is Michael Mic. ..... Veniat Lux Domini fidelium Consolatio E. K. Now is all come in as was before The Vail the feet of men appearing under c. Mic. ..... Thus hath God dealt mercifully with you Δ. His Name be praised for ever Mic. ..... Thus hath Truth vanquished darknesse Even so shall you vanquish the World in him which is the Spirit of Power and Truth For I have Sworn saith the Lord and will be merciful unto you But cease for these daies to come for they were daies delivered Let them be therefore unto you daies of Repentance For the end of 40 daies must come And this Doctrine shall be written unto all Nations even unto the end of the World The Grain is yet in the earth and hath newly consented with the earth But when it springeth and beareth seed The number shall be the last Δ. A dark Parable to my understanding is this Mic. ..... The transparent fire of Meeknesse comfort and warm your souls rectifie and make strong your bodies to the eternal comfort of the World to come in the pilgrimage which you shall endure with a heavy crosse for the Testimonie of Truth E. K. A great many voices say Amen E. K. Now he is gone and the golden Vail is drawn again Δ. Omnis laus honor Gloria Victoria Triumphus sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Vivo vero nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Amen Sonday 22. Decembris Mane we went from Rostoch toward Stetin Wensday 25. Decembris on Christmas Day morning we came to Stetin by 10 of the clock Anno 1584. Stilo veteri Stetini in Pomerania January 2. Mane hora 9. Δ. Veniat lux Domini fidelium Consolatio c. 40. dies jam completi sunt c. Expectamus praepotens auxilium Altissimi c. E. K. I cannot see but an inch into the Stone The Curtain appeareth but more deep into the Stone At length cometh one very tall in along white Gown all open and his hair of his head hanging down to his legs He hath wings upon his head armes back and legs He seemeth to descend from the Clouds and upon Clouds which lie sloapes vvise for his defcending He speaketh as follovveth ..... The purenesse of humility dispersed through the inward bowels of man is that which is called with you Perseverance Which Perseverance beautifieth and establisheth in a true and stedfast Basis those things that are acceptable in the sight of God the workes of man Hence springeth justification which .... with the love of God Herein are you become like unto us for that we are the image of Perseverance and the Glory of God But in us it is dignified In you it is and must be imperfect For nothing is of flesh or blood that receiveth perfection The Emanations from God to and into his creatures which agree in the Center of the Earth as the knitting up of things are established So that one jot of his Will neither can nor may perish wax weak or dwell in error Which foreseen from the beginning carrieth in it self the remembrance of all things to the end Through which mercy and remembrance you are become the servants of God Not for your own sakes but in that it is the Glory of him which hath called you to this exercise Troublesome to the World but rewarded with Glory If therefore your imperfections rise up and resist the Will of God saying blasphemously as you do
fall of he avens For lo the time is come And he that is the Son of Unrighteousnesse is and liveth Unto him therefore shall be given strength and power and the Kings of the Earth shall become mad yea even raging mad yea even in the third madnesse and that in the depth of their own imaginations and I will build my Temple in the Woods yea even in the Desert places and I will become a Serpent in the wildernesse for I have tucked up my garments and am fled away and She shall mourn on the Mountains without comfort Lo the Thunder spake and the earth became misty and full of fogge that the Soul of man might sleep in his own confusion The second Thunder spake and there arose spirits such as are for Sooth-sayers Witches Charmers and Seducers and they are entred into the holy places and have taken up their seats in man Woe be unto the earth therefore For it is corrupted Woe be unto the earth for she is surrendred to her adversary Woe be unto the earth she is delivered into the hands of her enemy Yea Woe be unto the sons of men for their vessels are poysoned But even then said the Lord Lo I will be known in the wildernesse and will Triumph in my weaknesse And lo he called you and you became drunken and foolish with the spirit of God And it was said Descend for he calleth and hath called and Raphael that brought up the prayers descended and he was full with the power spirit of God and it became a Doctrine such was never from the beginning Not painted or carved filed or imagined by man or according to their imaginations which are of flesh but simple plain full of strength and the power of the holy Ghost which Doctrine began as man did nakedly from the earth but yet the image of perfection This self-same Art is it which is delivered unto you an infallible Doctrine containing in it the waters which runne through many Gates even above the Gate of Innocency wherein you are taught to finde out the Dignity and Corruption of nature also made partakers of the secret Judgements of the Almighty to be made manifest and to be put in execution Which knowledge in you is to be made perfect two wayes by power mediate and immediate Immediately from God in respect of his will and secret Judgements as unto the Apostles By means and tradition as from us opening the substance and body of nature according to our own image which is the thing I have now in hand I am therefore to instruct and inform you according to your Doctrine delivered which is contained in 49 Tables In 49 voyces or callings which are the Natural Keyes to open those not 49. but 48. for One is not to be opened Gates of understanding whereby you shall have knowledge to move every Gate and to call out as many as you please or shall be thought necessary which can very well righteously and wisely open unto you the secrets of their Cities make you understand perfectly the contained in the Tables Through which knowledge you shall easily be able to judge not as the world doth but perfectly of the world and of all things contained within the Compasse of Nature and of all things which are subject to an end But behold this charge of mine is tied unto time Therefore be diligent to learn diligent to hear and that with patience For it is neither a free School nor a School of continuance For as power is not given unto me beyond the first day of August next so have you no strength to learn after because I am the staff of your Doctrine Nal. ..... I am for the comfort of the world and not for the hindrance Thus sayeth the Lord. To them that have Harvest let them reap and unto such as have labour let them work As for me I am tied to time and am ready at all times For I measure not your night nor day Δ. Thanks be unto the highest Nal. ..... Cease now with me for no more descendeth Soli Deo Honor Gloria After-noon the same Thursday ..... After some short Ejaculations of prayers to God there appeared a great black masty Dogge with whom I would have nothing to do but expect Nalvage He said that he was Nalvage We rebuked him as an Hell-hound At length he departed and Nalvage appeared but brighter then to day Nal. ..... Have you those things I told yout to day Δ. We have them in record and minde Nal. ..... Read them ...... Δ. I did read them E. K. He laugheth ha ha ha c. a great laughter He hath also a Table but seemeth not to be like the former Table of Nalvage There are ten or eleven divisions in this Table as was not in the former Table Δ. If thou art Nalvage proceed in the Doctrine of wisdom if thou are not Nalvage depart in the name of Jesus ...... I have free will and therefore I will be here Δ. Now I doubt nothing but thou art a deceiver Audite The ignorance of the wicked becometh dust which shewing it self is swept out of doors and thrown on the Dung-hills E. K. Now appeareth one like true Nalvage Nal. ..... Even so is it of the for thou hast opened thy blasphemy and being discovered art become more accursed Therefore because thou art accursed thou art not dignified but become a Vessel of iniquity And therefore hast no free-will For free-will either is or is in state to be dignified Therefore as dust I sweep thee out and cast thee into that Dunghill which is the place of the greatest woe the Dunghill and the reward of the unrighteous And because thou hast thrust thy self into the Judgements of the Lord and hast heard the secrets of the Almighty Therefore I seal thee tanquam truncus in Infernum E. K. He striketh him with an yern like a pair of tongs in form of a Mould to cast Pellets in griping his brain and underchaps and so he fell down and disappeared and in his place came Nalvage E. K. Nalvage maketh cursie toward the four quarters of the vvorld Nal. ...... My Us is as good as thy Um. E. K. In his heart thought that it might be that now one Devil mastered another and thereupon said Um. E. K. He is now accounting again on his Table as he did before Nal. ..... Vnto this Doctrine belongeth the perfect knowledge and remembrance of the mysticall Creatures How therefore shall I inform you which know them not Δ. Mean you as Babyon Boboyel c. Nal. ...... The Characters or Letters of the Tables Δ. You mean the mystical Letters wherein the holy book is promised to be written and if the book be so written and laid open before us and then you will from Letter to Letter point and we to record your instructions Then I trust we shall sufficiently understand and learn your instructions Nal.
ADNA E. K. Gabriel did throw a brightnesse upon E. K. after he had stroked his own face first E. K. started at it 49 AZRNZ Call it Zurza Δ. As ... Znurza E. K. Nalvage kneeleth down before the Table and useth many inclinations and gestures of reverence as Priests use to do at the Alter 48 MZRAF  FARZM  47 HALIP moreover PILAH Three syllables 46 HANDAI the Ark of knowledge IADNAH yadnah E. K. Nalvage cometh and kisseth the Table and kneeleth down and seemeth to pray 45 MRE with ERM 44 BAC a Rod CAB E. K. He kneeleth down again and useth such gestures as before GSN a rod E. K. Nalvage said Adjuva me O mi Deus He holdeth up his hand and kisseth the Table and useth wonderfull reverence He saith again Fer opem O mi Deus 43 ERNOZ delivered you ZONRENSG 42 SD and Δ which DS 41 RIP the holy ones Pir there is a point 40 ABAC govern Call it Caba 39 ALEROHO I made a Law Call it Ohorela I 38 MRASAC to whom Casarm I E. K. Now he kisseth the Table again 37 MASRG with admiration GRSAM 36 HELOBO your Garments OBOLEH 35 SBRU beautified URBS 34 SD and Δ which DS E. K. Now he useth the former reverent gestures again 33 IDLA of gathering ALDI 32 EGRP with the fire PRGE 31 PNONG I garnished GNONP 30 LIHT seats THIL 29 ABOS whose SOBA 28 NEIZ of my hands ZIEN 27 HOLBON the palms Nobloh  26 AT as TA.  25 HAMMOC trussed you together COMMAH A point 24 DO And As before O D.  23 ZMIZ of my vestures Zimz A point 22 AOHTON in the midst Nothoa Here is a point before the word A point 21 AAQ your garments QAA Three syllables E. K. Now he useth reverence to the Table again 20 QLOH measureth HOLQ 19 SD which DS Nal. Adjuva me mi Deus 18. GRPLAM a through thrusting fire Malprg as Malpurg 17 AT as TA. Now he prayeth as before his arms extended 16 AARG and the Moon GRAA A point 15 DASPZAN a Sword NAZPS AD. E. K. Now he prayeth again 14 AT as TA. 13 I is a word by it self 12 ROR The Sun Ror Here a point 11 LOZ bands Zol ... zod Δ. as ol A point 10 ARBOS in whose Sobra 9 OHPNOV of wrath Vonpho 8 ZLAC above the firmamets Calz 7 HSNAL in power exalted LANSH as Lonsh  Adjuva me O Deus   6 TLAB of Justice Balt. Here is a point 5 DAI the God Iad as Yad 4 OHOG saith GOTTO 3 GSROV over you Vorsg Here a point 2 FNOS Raign Sonf. 1 LO I Ol. E. K. Now he sitteth down in his Chair This is the end of the mighty and first Call ...... Pray that you may understand what it is Δ. Mean you presently Nal. ...... I presently Δ. I pray to that intent E. K. All the Stone sheweth fire and all is on fire nothing else appearing not like common fire but clear thin c. Now it waxeth clear E. K. And now Nalvage is on the top of the Globe and his seat remaineth in the former manner of fire Now Nalvage holdeth up his right hand and the same seemeth to be many hands There is on one of his fingers an I. It vanisheth away and so on divers fingers are words as follow I midst delivered Reign of you over my a you vestures rod saith and with the trussed the God you ark of together of Justice as knowledge in the moreover power palms you exalted of lifted above my up the hands your firmaments whose voices of seats and wrath I sware in garnished obedience whose with and hands the faith the fire to Son of him is gathering that as and liveth a beautified and Sword your triumpheth and garments whose the with beginning Moon admiration is as to not a whom nor through I end thrusting made can fire a not which Law be measureth to which your govern shineth garments the as in holy ones a the and flame in Move I  the therefore am  midst and the  of shew servant  your your of  Palace selves the  and open same  raigneth the your  amongst mysteries God  you of the  as your true  the Creation worshipper  Ballance be of 60 of friendly the 60 righteousnesse unto 49 Highest 49 and me  169 truth for   E. K. Now all the fingers be gone Δ. Nal. ...... It is the sense in your tongue of the holy and mystical Call before delivered which followeth in practice for the moving of the second Table the Kings and Ministers of government The uttrance of which is of force and moveth them to visible apparition moved and appeared they are forced by the Covenant of God delivered by his spirit to render obedience and faithful society Wherein they will open the mysteries of their creation as far as shall be necessary and give you understanding of many thousand secrets wherein you are yet but children for every Table hath his key every key openeth his gate and every gate being opened giveth knowledge of himself of entrance and of the mysteries of those things whereof he is an inclosure Within these Palaces you shall find things that are of power as well to speak as to do for every 1 Palace is above his 2 City and every City above his 3 entrance Be you therefore diligent that you may enter in not as spoilers but as such as deserve intertainment in the name and through the power of the Highest For great are the mercies of God unto such as have faith This is therefore the key of the first seven according to the proportion of the first Creation No more for this time A sign alwayes to make an end E. K. He drew a Curtain before the Stone of white colour The same Saturday after Noon hora 3½ 4. The white Curtain remained about half an hour after my prayer to God and some invitation to Gabriel and Nalvage at length the Curtain quaked as though wind blew it E. K. Me thinketh that I hear a stir within the Stone At length they appeared E. K. They have very eyes which twinkle as other mens eyes do and therefore I see them with my external eye not within my imagination as ..... ...... There are two kind of visions the one by infusion of will and descending the other by infusion by permission and ascending The first is the image of the Will of God descending into the body and adjoyned to the soul of man whose nature is to distinguish things of his own likenesse but shut up in prison in the body wanteth that power and therefore being illuminated by spiritual presence inwardly seeth now in part as he shall hereafter do in the whole But note that every vision is according to the soul of man in power and so is received of him that seeth The
another And there shall be bloud shed throughout all the World fighting between the Devil his Kingdom and the Kingdome of light Contentions and quarrels on the earth between man and man father and son wife and husband Kingdom and Kingdom yea even in the very beasts of the field shall there be hatred And into them shall the spirits of Contention enter For now cometh the necessity of things E. K. He now kneeleth down Gab. ..... As for you thus sayeth the Lord. I have chosen you to enter into my barns And have commanded you to open the Corn that the scattered may appear and that which remaineth in the sheaf may stand And have entered into the first and so into the seventh And have delivered unto you the Testimony of my spirit to come For my Barn hath been long without Threshers And I have kept my flayles for a long time hid in unknown places Which flayle is the Doctrine that I deliver unto you Which is the Instrument of thrashing wherewith you shall beat the sheafs that the Corn which is scattered and the rest may be all one But a word in the mean season If I be Master of the Barn owner of the Corn and deliverer of my flayle If all be heaven And unto you there is nothing for you are hirelings whose reward is heaven Then see that you neither thresh nor unbinde untill I bid you let it be sufficient unto you that you know my house that you know the labour I will put you to That I favour you so much as to entertain you the labourers within my Barn For within it thresheth none without my consent For in you shall many people be blessed and in you shall there be no division For Esau and Jacob shall be joyned together and their Kingdom shall be all one For as the Sacrifice is so must the Priests be E. K. Now he kneeleth down again Me thinketh I hear them say What shall become of Laskie E. K. And so the people say Ask me no Questions but hear what I have to say As those that desire to make a speedy Dinner and to entertain their guests go suddenly out and gather the dryest wood in the wood-pile Not because it is more wood than the other but because it is dry and most apt for the speediness of the kitchen So it is with me saith the Lord. For I respect him not in that he is a man but in respect of the manner of his minde and inward man which I find in respect of my purpose aptest in the world because be naturally hateth the wicked Therefore naturally I love him of whom I say I swear If he follow me saith the Lord I will be with him as I was with my Warrier at Hiericho And I will be mighty with him in this world and a lover of him for ever But me thinketh he will be proud If you find me weak know you that I am not weak of my self but your own weakness may be your confusion For I am a fire and take hold of such matter as I find apt E. K. He kneeleth again 1. I have now told you my Brethren of and of the manner of the power of God 2. Of the nature of Hell and of her wickednesse 3. Of the course of the World and of the necessity of things 4. Of your election and of the end thereof 5. Of Laskie and why he is elected 6. Now I am lastly to perswade you by the power of God that you make your selves apt and meet matter and that you may stand before the Lord as acceptable which you shall perform if you intend your former Lessons The ground whereof is Humility and Perseverance which because they have been often spoken of I passe with referring you to the consideration thereof Giving you one warning That this Action shall never come to passe until there be no remembrance of wickednesse or hell left amongst you and yet after for a time you must have patience For your offices are above a Kingdom Hinder not the Lord in his expeditions Remember he hath commanded you to go to the Emperour Happy is he that cometh when he is bid Go. And foolish is he that goeth not when he is bidden There use thy self for it shall be a key of thy habitation And for that place is the Angel of thy Creation sealed Love together Be humble and continue to the end Δ. Deo nostro immortali invisibili omnipotenti Patri misericordiarum ejusque filio Redemptori nostro Deo Spiritui Sancto sit omnis laus gloria gratiarum actio Amen Monday †Cracoviae †4. Junii Mane hora 8. Orationem dominicam genibus flexis recitavi variasque juxta propositam materiam ejaculationes habui variasque inter nos collationes considerationesque ultimorum verborum ipsius Gabrielis c. After almost an hour after our sitting to the Action he appeared E. K. Gabriel is here again in his Chair and his dart upright in his hand his dart is like a flame or staff of fire Δ. Blessed be God Δ. After his appearing he stayed almost a quarter of an hour before he began Gab. ..... As God in his essential being is a Spirit without demonstration so are his profound providences works and determinations unable to be measured E. K. He maketh cursie but nothing appeareth in the Stone Gabr. ..... Hereby may you find that the love of God towards you O wretches and sinners is more than a love and more than can be measured which was the cause that with his own finger delighting in the sons of Jacob he sealed this saying yea with his own finger this shew and sign of his excellent and more than love toward his people I am a jealous God which is as much to say Lo I am your friend nay rather your father and more than that your God which delighteth in you rejoyceth in you and loveth you with that affection Jealousie which is more than love which is as much to say as my love is such toward you as I am to my self But O ye stiff-necked Jews O ye Strumpets you despised the love of God you committed adultery and ran into the Temples of Idols which was the cause that the same mouth that praised you before E. K. He maketh cursie often .... Said also of you It repenteth me that I made this people Let me raze them out and make a people of thee This Idolatry was the cause from time to time that you became Captives and of Inheritours Runnagates and without a Master Vnto you also thus saith the Lord unto you my Brethren I say that are here More than the love of a father is is the love of God toward you For unto which of the Gentiles bath the Lord shewed himself Where dwell they or where have they dwelled into whose houses have the Angels of the Lord descended saying thus and thus
doth the God of Heaven and earth mean to deale with the World Think you not that this is more than love Look therefore narrowly into your selves Vncover the doings of your life and secret Chambers Enter into judgement with your selves Vnto thee I speak To E. K. Hast thou not run astray from the Lord and committed Idolatry Δ. He told E. K. of his faults which E. K. would not expresse to me and I desired him to listen to them and to do as it appertaineth to a Christian c. Gab. ..... But thus saith the Lord I am a pure Spirit that participateth not with the defiled neither can I enter in mercy into that house which is defiled A great saying my Brethren For hereby you are monished to make your consciences clean to open your selves in pureness to the Lord that he may enter into you with comfort For so long as thou dealest with wicked spirits will the Lord keep back his hands and thou keepest back the Lord. For shall it not be said hereafter Lo is not this man known to have dealing with the wicked And as the foolish voices of the people are Is not this he that can constrain the wicked with further arguments by repetition of thy doings Well if thou wilt be the Minister of God If thou wilt go forward in his works If thou wilt see the happy times that are to come thou must abstain from evil and thou must sweep thy house clean Thou must put on thy best garments And must become humble and meek Let not thy life be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatnesse of his works For the power that is within thy soul in respect of his essential quid is of great force and ability to perform those things that proceed with power which is the cause that the wicked ones obey thee for they fear themselves when they see the seal of thy Creation This is therefore the Cause that God finding thee as he passeth by by his Angel fit in matter but my brother God knoweth far unfit in life O Consider the dignity of thy Creation Consider that the affection of God toward thee is more than love See how he beareth with thy infirmity from time to time O I say yet Enter into judgement with thy self And consider that thou art now at a Turning where there lieth two wayes One shall be to thy comfort The other to thy perpetual wo. Let not good ground bring forth weeds lest it choke her self Δ. We will call unto God for his mercies graces and help c. O consider my brother that the appearing and works of the devil are but of necessity That is to say that he that is good by resisting of the devil may manifest and make plain to the powers and spirits of Heaven the strength of his faith and assurance of his Hope and so necessarily by the promise of God inherit everlasting life to the which he is elected To the wicked that because of their disobedience and partaking with them that are the Angels of darknesse even those that strive against the Lord they might worthily be damned according to the necessity of God his judgement See therefore they appeare unto thee either for the greatness of thy wickedness or else because they suspect thee to be elected If thou therefore think thy self elected despise them If thou therefore think to be a spirit dignified and in glory Then be faithful in the assurance of hope and resist the devil that we may testifie thee before the heavens and before the God of Justice E. K. He weepeth Δ. E. K. and I also could not hold our teares Ah my brother great are the joyes of Heaven Remember what Hell is for to thee the Fornace was open Remember the vision thou hadst of hell and of her powers at Mortlake For nothing my brother is done without a cause Remember thou couldst not abide it No not to see Think thyself accursed therefore if thou feel it For if Sodom had seen it they would have been converted E. K. He prayeth 1. I have now told you of the Jealousie of God and of the cause thereof 2. I have also told you that the house of God must be clean and without spot E. K. Now there cometh a brightnesse about him 3. Lastly I have told you of that necessity which causeth the devils to work and appear and have exhorted you to the love of God and repentance which were the things I onely had 〈◊〉 speak of Δ. O Lord seeing we are uniformly desirous that the Action may proceed and that we crave thy mercy and graces as well for the pardoning of our wickedness past as for the confirmation of us in thy service What shall we look for touching the proceeding being thus stayed to our great grief Gabr. ..... You have to receive the will of God but what it is I know not those three dayes you begin your Journey And you are also to learn what the Angel is and how many Subjects he hath Δ. Which Angel Gab. ..... That governeth Hyleich which is the matter of the 4 Elements And which onely is an Element The Princes and Governours also of the 4 Elements and of their Generation how they receive mixtion and in what quantity With their Ministers that are under them Δ. I said to E K. These shall be part of your practice and portion Gab. ..... You are all to joyn joyntly in the Harvest of the Lord The Angels also of the †48 angles of the heavens and their Ministers For they are these that have the thunders and the windes at Commandment These make up the time and then cometh the Harvest E. K. He is gone Δ. Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Tu enim Altissimus Omnipotens sempiternus vivus verus Deus noster es unus Trinus Cui Angelicus caelestisque chorus decantat perpetuò Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Amen Friday Cracoviae Junii 8. Mane hora 7½ Post preces ejaculationes varias gratiarum actiones pro magna misericordia Dei erga nos propter E K. qui jam patefecit mihi horrenda multiplicia heresium blasphemiarum dogmata quibus illi hostes Jesu Christi illum imbuerant quòd jam onfessione 〈◊〉 vellet sacrosanctum mysterium corporis sanguinis Christi recipere issisque malis Angelis renunciare omnes illorum fraudes detegere c. Conversio E. K. ad Deum abdicatis omnibus Diabolicis experimentis c. Nihil apparuit hodie Albeit the like had never happened to us that I remember but that either Cloud Vail or some Voice was perceived by E. K. Yet this doing we not onely took patiently but E. K. used many good reasons to prove that servants ought to attend so long as it pleased their Master to have them await his coming
his head and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn and challenged Alexander to fight But Alexander went from him and said Nolo 〈◊〉 Kelleie Nolo Hereupon E. K. took up a stone and threw after him as after a dog and so came into the house again in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander The rage and fury was so great in words and gestures as might plainly prove that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself or of me or his brother c. This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual enemy Satan wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted and almost overcome to my great grief discomfort and most great discredit if it should as the truth was have come to the Emperours understanding except he had known me well c. I was in great doubt how God would take this offence and devised with my self how I might with honesty be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour c. for a time till God redressed it After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse by yeilding much to his humour c. and saying little not long after came my messager from my wise at Cracovia and Hugh my servant with him to my great comfort through her letters and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written About 2 of the clock after Noon came this letter to me of the Emperour his sending for me Nobilis Praeclarissiméque Domine Domine observandissime CAEsar jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum Hero meo ut Dominationem vestram ad se evocaret ad horam secundam qua eam audire cuperet Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis Cubiculis Is enim eam ad Majestatem suam introducet Quod reliquum est me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominationis vestrae 〈◊〉 Arnoldus Vander Boxe Hereupon I went straight up to the Castle and in the Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock and the Chamberlain Octavius Spinola spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window and called him who came up to me and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for He came to me very curteously told me of the Emperours desire to see me and to speak with me So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber and came out again for me and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber and the Privy Chamber where the Emperour sat at a Table with a great Chest and Standish of Silver before him my Monas and Letters by him c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to his father But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian and also unto his Majesty and that the rather because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty He then thanked me for his fathers Book and did affirm that he believed me that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse And of my estemation with the learned of the world he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour and also of my zealous mind towards his grace And commended the Book 〈◊〉 but said that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity and added that the Spanish Embassadour told him that I had somewhat to say unto him Quod esset pro sua utilitate I answered So I have and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no I found that we were alone Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning but for this sorty years continually in sundry manners and in divers Countries with great pain care and cost I had from degree to degree sought to 〈◊〉 the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world And I found at lengh that neither any man living nor any Book I could yet meet withal was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for And therefore I concluded with my self to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things to send me such wisdom as I might know the natures of his creatures and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory And in this purpose made divers assayes and at length it pleased God to send me his 〈◊〉 whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long fervent constant and 〈◊〉 prayer in the cause before specified And that His holy Angels for these two years and a half have used to inform me and have finished such works in my hands to be seen as no mans heart could have wished for so much yea they have brought me a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof c. And that these things be true I protested and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty said I and have a message from him to say unto you and that is this The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me and rebuketh you for your 〈◊〉 If you will hear me and believe me you shall Triumph If you will not hear me The Lord the God that made Heaven and Earth under whom you breath and have your spirit putteth his foot against your breast and will throw you headlong down from your seat Moreover the Lord hath made this Covenant with me by oath that he will do and perform If you will forsake your wickednesse and turn unto him your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become your prisoner Which Devil I did conjecture to be the Great Turk said I This my Commission is from God I feigne nothing neither am I an Hypocrite an Ambitious man or doting or dreaming in this Cause If I speak otherwise then I have just cause I forsake my salvation said I. The Emperour said he did believe me and said that he thought I loved him unfaignedly and said that I should not need so earnest protestations and would not willingly have had me to kneel so often as I did Farther I said His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly
here at this Embassadour Table That I was a Conjurer and a bank rupt alkimist and came here to get somewhat of the Emperour and that I had sold my goods and given to the Lord Laskie the mony and that he had deceived me To these untruths the Embassadour did reply in my behalf for which I meant to thank him c. Uriel ..... Even as the accursed and cast down most wilfully abhorreth hateth and dishonoureth the God of 〈◊〉 because of his mightiness and power over him So do all those that suck and hang upon his dugs that are coveteous and desirous of worldly promotion that gape and thirst after the glory of this world abhor hate and continually vex and dishonour such as love Justice or dwell under the wings of the God of power and Triumph Herein may you rejoyce that you are partakers and innocents 〈◊〉 at and despised with the worl in the fellowship of God and of his Son Christ. Herein may you be glad that you are sealed and dwell with the Fathers and that you play also upon the Harpe of David for verily as they are so shall you be and as they are made righteous by reason of their election and crowned toward eternal Joy So shall your Election establish your righteousnesse and give you Garlands of eternal comfort Those that are on the Seas are fearful of the windes And why because of the motion of the place and of the power of nature But it is not so with you for you dwell in Castles made of marble wrought out of the middest of a sure rock a most stable foundation For why I am sure that God dwelleth in you and you in him Therefore lift up your heads and rejoyce when you are afflicted and keep the image of God sincere and perfect in you that you may alwayes be merciful in the Image of his Son Christ. But when the Lord openeth his mouth and calleth you together saying Venite audite Then lay away all mercy for the God of Justice dwelleth amongst you Who dwelleth in a house till it be perfectly finished or what is he that putteth on a garment before it be made Be you assured that where the house is finished and your garments made you shall both enter and be clothed with comfort Comfort of wisdom and power I am mindful of you and will be mindful of my promise toward you And If you remain and dwell fortè together deest and be constant in me you shall passe the Thunders that are to come you shall be witnesses of my power and shall enter into the Land of Promise with those that shall be comforted where these dayes shall have an end O my brethren this world exceedeth in wickednesse and is a terrour to the good Angels Because of the souls that she devoureth But when lightnesse is rewarded and Justice sitteth in place Then shall she bear no weight but be made all one with the bottomlesse pit Despise her despise her for she is an 〈◊〉 Behold I have entred in amongst you and it is my Spirit that leadeth to the Embassadour from Spain I will reward him Therefore as thou hast opened me unto the wicked so let also the good bear witnesse of me The Lord is become a firebrand in fury and hath armed himself and hath taken unto him his great Target and the Spear of his indignation Accursed are they that have offended him Tum verò aeterni Genii Immortalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 URIEL Saniel Azaelque Quae mala quisque hominum patraverit ante Scientes E tetris animas tenebris caliginis omnes Judicio sistent ad formidabile patris Magni Immortalis solium c. Orat. Sibyl pag. 79. Ubi sequuntur plura de VRIELE And when I separate them in the day of wrath to come as one of the fingers and gatherers in of the 〈◊〉 of God Then they shall know that I am URIEL which will not forget the wickednesse of their hands nor their blasphemous mouth in that day of revenge After a certain time cometh Michael unto you and shall shew unto you his bloody Sword and you shall stand under his Banner He shall hold up his hands and shall fight against the Hills for you and your enemies shall not be Vnto which time receive you Light and Comfort and be contented with adversity in the Lord. My brethren it is better to be poor with those that are poor in spirit then to be rich with those that are gluttons and with the Princes of the Earth Thou shalt be with Caesar in despite of the Devil I have said Δ. Gloria patri filio Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in Principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Note As I had finished this Action and was come to my Study door Emericus was returned again from the Spanish Embassadour to whom I had sent him desirous to know his leasure for me who had now sent me word by Emericus to come to diner so he would have leasure c. Whereof I was right glad and went thither to diner who into his inermost Study where he himself was writing of letters caused me to be brought And after I had complained of injury and violence done unto me by foul slanders and that at his Honours Table to which his Honour in my behalf had replied and therefore most humbly and sincerely I did thank him I said that the Emperous Majesty himself could bear me witnesse that I used this phrase unto him that I came not for his riches as Non veni ad vos O Serenissime Caesar propter divitias vestras ut inde ego dives fierem sed à Deo missus non audeo aliter facere quam ejus ad ve tram Caesaream Majestatem voluntatem declarare c. And therefore How falsly they slandered me it was evident and because I perceive that Doctor Curtz hath not dealt neither with due entertainment of me as of a stranger or a Sudent or a Mathematitian or of one whom to my face he gave great praise unto as of one long since of great fame in Germany and so in his good estimation c. And least of all as of one who offered so great curtesies to the Emperours Majesty as he was made witnesse of I thought good to send unto the Emperours Majesty this letter following and so read it unto him after diner when I shewed him Librum Pragensem sive Caesareum and moreover Librum decimum whose former title was Libri Sexti Mystici Tertiarius and there shewed him divers Actions in Latine already translated because now to translate so to him of the English did seem to me both tedious and to him not so readily pleasant All things on his 〈◊〉 considered his summary final conclusion was as well of the last offer in this my letter as
say that hath lifted thee from the Doores of Death taken thee out of the hands of Butchers and continued thee for a member of his Glory Behold I say unto thee The brightnesse of Truth over-shadoweth thee If therefore thou dwell in truth why shouldest thou be afraid Considering that she conquereth and resisteth all her Enemies Behold the World despiseth you you also shall despise the World When the Angel of the Lord poureth his wrath and vial upon the Earth and the enemies of the Sonne of God ◠in among the sheep When the self-same Plague that was in the land of Pharaoh raineth in the Houses of all that dwelleth upon the Earth such as the Lord abhorreth When the Lord with his hand shall gather up the fruits of the Earth from them Where then shall be their honors What then shall be done with money with that harlot and strumpet of the Earth Of what value shall their love be then or who shall regard their friendship In these a yeares that are to come shall all these things come to passe And this great joy shall be turned into teares of Brimstone Why you of little faith you know not how often I have been amongst you neither the Harbor that I have thrust you into Notwithstanding you murmur amongst your selves But stick fast unto him that leadeth you For he is a sure Guide And be not afraid though the Earth open her jaws against you for why I will blesse all things you take in hand saith the Lord and my spirit shall dwell amongst you Δ May I speak E. K. He turn◠him to you Δ How shall our new proceedings joyne to our old beginnings O God our guide light staffe shield and comfort c. URIEL Behold I teach you before I correct But the Doctrine I teach is Humility Patience he seemeth to speak to one above and the fear of wrath to come After which manner I have taught them by thee Δ. Therefore if thou teach Obedience through the spirit of God appearing unto thee Be thou also Patient and Obedient And Humble thy self unto them for my sake Not with the opening of any seal neather with the Counsailes that I shall deliver thee But with a ready mind Obediently desiring to performe that which thou hast promised in me I am sufficient strength and will be thy buckler and if they intend evil it shall rest upon them yea when they imagin it it shall frize within them And thy goings in and out shall be sate amongst them But behold I teach unto thee a way which thou followest not When thou mindest to do any thing in the name of God to his honour to the help of thy neighbour or thine owncomfort Go about it whatsoever it be and begin a Labour Do that thing thou intendest And see that you joyn with one consent towards God and the 〈◊〉 you are occupied in Then cry out to God for comfort for light and true understanding And it it shall be given unto thee abundantly For Lo I say unto thee E. K. I understand him not now I will open my hand unto thee and be merciful unto thee And whensoever you heap up the Wood together I will descend and give fire Behold I keep back the rest of my message for an other time Which shall be ready for you when I find you ready to receive it Δ I requested to know 〈◊〉 I should deal with the Ambassador of Spain or the Emperor or Curtius Secondly your RULE here given I understand it not For I dare not begin any labour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 divine Mans imagination is so weak c. URIEL Thon hast those that are sent unto thee here for thy instruction which shall by degrees lead thee into the 〈◊〉 of that thou art to do But it is one thing to receive Corn and abundance of grain by the blessing of God in the return of an year and an other thing to do the works of the Apostles For the spirit of God is twofold working by information and influence Coelestial through the grant of God his good will in the ministery of his Angels to the information of such as are his faithful and chosen An other thing to be inspired from God himself in his holy spirit imediately comforting and knitting Wisdom together with you beyond the power that is given unto his Angels I have spoken unto you a sound and true doctrine and have given you not fleshly but Celestial counsel Apply your self unto it as the Spirit of God leadeth you As for those wicked men that Ambassador excepte our understanding hath no name of them We remember them not neither limit any thing for them But if thou in thy simplicity and innocency canst not deal with them the fault resteth in thy own faith I am gone Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti Immortali Regi Gloriae sit omnis laus honor gratiarum actio Jubilatio Amen ✚ Pragae January 16. Wednesday Mane hora 9½ ferè Δ Precibus ad Deum fusis ut nobiscum procederet in sua misericordia lumine veritatis non in parabolis solùm manifesta sed clara manifesta veritate modo qui illi maximè placet c. E. K. I see the man again and the house the man seemeth to be covered on his face and so over with a vail of hair-cloth to his middle Δ When it shall please God all vailes and AEnigmata shall cease ..... Whatsoever I teach you hath a Mystery And I am a Mystery in my self Even so all things that you learn of me you must be content to receive as mystical instructions comprehending perfect truth and to be known to such as are true Some there be that have and have nothing yea though they have all for All is conteined But the mysteries of God are infinite and his grace is not to be determined Δ That saying is dark That which is All is conteined Beleeve you that we give holy things unto Swine Or open the finger and workmanship of God unto Sinners God forbid Moses saw God but his hinder parts The Prophets were acquainted with God but mystically The Apostles with the Sonne of God in shadows and their own impotency Yea I say unto you that she that lyeth in the lap of her Mother knoweth not but by degrees for it is the manner of Gods Wisdom both immediately and by us to keep back his Wisdom from Hell and corruption Therefore murmur not at that which you receive for it is not your own Behold if you have better you need it not for it is vanitie to seek for that you have Well since it is given you Consider what it is that is given you Consider also how it is given you and by whom Δ We know by whom as our consciences and faith teach us ..... O you of little understanding Who is he that can and hath to give but God Jesus Christ the Sonne of
Gloria laus jubilatio sit Deo nostro altissimo Domino Dominantium Regi Regum immortali Amen ✚ Pragae Januarii 21. Monday Mane hora 9½ Δ Oratione Dominica aliis precibus ad Deum fusis pro ejus gratia auxilio per fideles fous Ministros nostros conatus promovendos c. E. K. Here he is Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini cujus nomen sanctificetur exaltetur 〈◊〉 in aevum per omnes gentes .... Remember that you are flesh and by your works deserve nothing at Gods hands Now then if you be man then are you of earth earthy But according to your similitude grafted in the image of God in his Sonne Jesus you are heavenly But behold God is opposite unto you and his spirit 〈◊〉 not unto you in that you are flesh in that you are earth in that you are filthy in that you are the children of Satan and that therefore take part with him against Christ anointed of the Lord. E. K. He is out of sight now Now if you be opposite or more contrary to the image of him which dwelleth in you if you dwell in him what do yee here why presume you to enter within the Doores of him to whom you are an adversary Herein you shew your ignorance and the lumpishnesse of your fragility in that you seek of him unto whom you are odious or crave the bread which is due and necessary for his children and servants But hear my voice Petentibus dat sed petentibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed non alienis Notwithstanding of his mercy and for that he knew before the beginning of all worlds the 〈◊〉 of your vessels and remembring that you have been of his houshold mercifully he hath hitherto 〈◊〉 at you and at your presumption and fed you with that bread which is not the bread of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now considering that you continue in your wickednesse continue in your rebellion against his Majesty and fight 〈◊〉 under his banner which is accursed he taketh his bread from you shutteth up his Doores against you warneth his servants against you and is become a fire-brand of wrath against you But here you will say were not we of those number unto whom he made a promise you were so But upon condition That if you would bridle your tongues from 〈◊〉 evil and become wholly his But you are neither his nor bridle your tongues but speak 〈◊〉 before the Lord and the Messengers of his light and covenant Therefore are you not inheritors of his promise Behold while the grapes grew and the corn ripeneth God did expect your return for no hour is unacceptable unto him But now the harvest commeth that the corn must be cut down and the grapes pressed you are not as you said you would be nor as you promised Therefore are you excluded for in the vineyard there commeth no strangers nor in this harvest commeth any hirelings for it is not the harvest of man Δ Now either fulfill your promise and return from the multitude of your sinnes or murmur not though you be shut out of Doores The earth of it self bringeth forth nothing for it is the lump and excrement of darknesse whose bowels are a 〈◊〉 lake But where the heavens yield and the Sunne poureth down his force she openeth her self and becommeth spongy receiving mixture to generation and so is exalted above her self and bringeth forth to the use of man Even so the Body when it lyeth in the puddle and hotchpotch of his earthly filthinesse and darknesse making himself equal with beasts whose dignity is not but in their use E. K. Now he is here again ..... Two things you have to be instructedin in Rlodnr and in the Law of Coition and Mixture The first is the instrument working and drawing things together of one nature The second is the bonnds and termes wherein every mixture consisteth and beyond the which it cannot go The first of 4 parts every part conteining conteineth his conteined double The first is Tepens this teacheth the rest These two things can I open unto you in two revolutions which is but one dayes work But now I cease to open any more unto you till I see the favour of God more open unto you After 7 dayes I will come again until then I neither am nor speak Δ The mercies of God be upon us now and ever Amen ✚ Pragae Jesus Mercy Monday Januarii 28. Mane hora 10 ferè Oratione Dominica aliis pro misericordia divina fusis precibus extemporandis After diverse pitiful complaints of our frailty and calling for favour grace and mercy he appeared ..... Let the heavens prepare themselves to hear the earth scatter her self before my voice for I am the Trumpet of the Highest and the piercing Spirit dispersed into all creatures which are from the beginning in God and made to his glory and the use of man-kind that in man he might be glorified Give ear therefore gird up your garments and seatter your hair abroad before the Lord which is glorified in me and through whom I speak and these are my words Harden not your hearts against the Lord neither exalt your selves above him that hath created you But humble your selves and consider you are flesh mortal transitory and full of sinne My brethren my brethren sinne and flesh appear not before the Lord neither such as are sinners and fleshly vessels apt or fit for the Lord to dwell in Understand what the Lord is and how great he is a Judg to the wicked great and terrible a father to the holy and sincere just full of mercy and loving kindnesse If you now therefore be holy and put on the garments of Innocency and walk before him in righteousnesse Then look to have the reward of Children Then look for his fatherly mercies and loving kindnesse Then then rejoyce at the garments of glory prepared for you But if you seek him in judgment and stir him up to wrath and anger if you cause him to call the terrible thunders provided for the wicke about him in the most furious flames of his indignation to gather you together like whirl Winds if you draw his holy Angel from you and spoil you of your armes if he sit down upon the mouth of vengeance and arm himself with righteousnesse against your wickednesse Then look for the horrible and unspeakable reward of the wicked and the consuming fire of Justice sharper then the two-edged sword Who hath stood before the Lord in Justice or who dare quarrel with the highest What flesh hath seen the Lord in his Majestie or can appear before him as righteous Tear your selves therefore in pieces and fall down before the Lord worship him as a father and become his children for his Judgments my brethren are terrible and his wrath is without measure Many wayes you are bound and tyed unto God As by discipline you learn But three special
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
is thy mercies and far art thou above the sinnes of man O thou not only shuttest up the eyes of the wicked that they cannot see truth before their face but the profound the malice and sight of Satan that where he should most enter he misseth that place and when time serveth him that he letteth it passe But so so God thou givest to whom and where thou wilt and even as thou art terrible in Justice so likewise art thou wonderful in mercy Therefore of thee is no end neither can be added any end This thy great mercy is the cause that this blasphemous Rebellion is yet unpunished This is the cause that Satan misseth his mark and is become weak If any man make a 〈◊〉 an earthen vessel worketh he not tempereth he not to the end to make a pot But lo when he hath made it and applieth it to his intent if even he againe destroy it is he not vain Do not those that stand by him wonder at him More mervail is it that when Satan shouteth and hitteth the mark that he should be blind yea so blind that he knoweth not where to gather up his arrow But lo the Temple was built and the City stood although the work was left off for a while and he that 〈◊〉 truth went with glad tidings neither desiring rich apparel neither to sit next the King but that the City of the Lord might be built and that the Name of God might be magnified so shall it be of this City which the Lord hath sent down with his finger his unsearchable and wonderful truth the Revelation and Law of 〈◊〉 to come it shall be built it shall flourish it shall stand it shall endure it shall be magnified it shall be spoken of through all the World and it shall not cease Behold the King of Kings hath allowed it and the love of truth is great with him what hath he to do with Kings or wherein needeth he the beauty of the Earth Dominiest terra plenitudo ejus Whosoever therefore sticketh unto truth shall be exalted with God which is the King of Kings shall be magnified before his Counsellors not Counsellors fore-warning but Counsellors pertaking of holy Will not called Counsellors in respect of counselling him but in that they are made privie of the Counsel of God Before these also shall he be magnified E. K. For what end saith he all this O ye Infidels and of little faith which tast of the meat that was hidden from the Prophets which are over-shadowed with the light of heaven which have alwayes associated with the holy Ministers of God wherefore are you so stiff-necked pleasant is the yoke wherein you are linked and honourable is the earth that you draw the plow upon for the Lord followeth and his Angels drive and the seed that is sown shall be the beginning of glory O yee stiff-necked people why for sake you your visitation or runne astray from your faith that you are driven in do you make much of the Lords of the earth Do you delight in her drosse that harlot money Do you give reverence to the King and stand you in fear to break his Lawes have you a greater Lord then the Lord of Heaven and Earth have you any money or jewels to be compared to his Grace have you any honour on Earth that can stand up against the Crown of Heaven where 〈◊〉 God crowneth those that are Victors Have you any Law sweeter then the 〈◊〉 illuminations and sweet dew like comforts the voices and presence of the holy angels Be mindful be mindful and lift up your selves and be not blind but consider the time of your visitation and that which you do is the work of a King a King which is able in power strength and majestie to exalt you to strengthen you and to make you honourable but in the end of the Visitation and in the reward of your faithfulnesse work not to day and be sorry to morrow But lay sorrow a fide and continue your labour least peradventure God unhood-wink and make open the sight of Satan and so deliver you Wo wo be unto them that are delivered for beleeve me their tribulation is great There is horrour and gnashing of teeth there is misery and vengeance for ever there is horrour and the worm of conscience But two things are to be considered here whether the temptation be greater then the resistance or the resistance more dignified then the rigor of temptation Behold the work is great the labour is also equal unto it And to fight against the Princes of darknesse in a set battail requireth great force The temptations therefore that follow you must needs be great I see therefore the temptations surmounteth your strength and your dignity is not such as 〈◊〉 resist against it For why Satan striveth not with you simply for the sinne of Adultery for the dregs of Fornication for the covetous desire of money for the want of charity or because you are proud But he striveth riseth up against you and tempteth you against the Lord and against the strength of his truth whereunto you are elected Therefore I give sentence Lo because that temptations hath entred into you above your power and not so much for the subverting as of the work of the Lord intended and of necessity to be done Therefore I proceed not against you but against Satan and God shall deliver you from your temptations And this shall be a sign and token that I will hamper and bridle the jawes of theenemy that is to say so long as thou Kelly art in this flesh never shall there appear or visibly shew himself unto thee any wicked or evil spirit neither shalt thou be haled in peeces as thou hast been whosoever therefore appeareth hereafter is of God For thy eyes shall be shut up from the wicked object Et intellectu tuo Non introibit umbra mortis But now take heed thou either perverse or froward stiff-necked or disobedient The sinne is of thy self and shall fall upon thee and thou shalt not be spared as thou hast been Now watch and gird up your selves and do the will of the Highest preferre and worship truth that you may be also worshipped Lift up your selves as the servants of God and help to bring stones unto the building of this great City that you may be openers of the Gates and that the white horse may enter and that he that entreth may reward you with honour Greater then you are in the dignity of truth are not amongst mortal men neither shall there be any amongst mortal men that shall more despise the World then you therefore hath God framed one of you as a stiffe made asse to bind up the countenance of his work and to be free from yielding unto Satan which well understandeth that Satan endevoureth and that his Ministers cry out against this glorious habitation which being built the
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
vobis quia si dicerem 〈◊〉 Eas fatrem Jugula non faceret filius est peccati mortis Omnia enim possibilia licita sunt superis Neque magis 〈◊〉 sunt pudenda illis quam mortalium quorumcumque vultus Ita enim fiet spurius cum 〈◊〉 quod magis absurdum est copulabitur Et oriens cum occidente Meridies quoque cum septentrione coadunabuntur E. K. Now it is vanished Δ. Hereupon we were in great amazement and grief of minde that so hard and as it yet seemed unto me so unpure a Doctrine was popounded and enjoyned unto us of them whom I alwayes from the beginning hitherto did judge and esteem undoubtedly to be good Angels And had unto E K. offered my soul as a pawn to discharge E. K. his crediting of them as the good and faithful Ministers of Almighty God But now my heart was sore afflicted upon many causes And E. K. had as he thought now a just and sufficient cause to forsake dealing with them any more As his prayer to God of a long time hath been as in the former part of this Action may appear After our going out of the Chappel and at our being at dinner when we four whose heads so were united in a pillar shewed as is before set down I found means to make some little declaration of our great grief mine chiefly now occasioned either to try us or really to be executed in the common and indifferent using of Matrimonial Acts amongst any couple of us four Which thing was strange to the women And they hoped of some more comfortable issue of the cause And so we left off After Dinner as E. K. was alone there appeared unto him little creatures of a cubit high and they came to the Still where he had the spirit of Wine distilling over out of a Retorto And one of them whose name they expressed Ben said that it was in vain so to hope for the best spirit of the Wine And shewed him how to distill it and separate it better And moreover how to get oyl of the spirit of Wine as it burned in the lamps And began to ask E. K. what Country-man he was And when he had answered an English-man he asked then how he came hither he answered by Sea Then said he And who helped you to pass the marvellous great dangers of the Sea And so took occasion to speak of the benefits which God had hitherto done for us very many And this Ben said than among very many other things as Mr. E. K. told me on Saturday night after Supper holding on his talk almost till two of the clock after midnight That he it was that delivered him or gave unto his hands the powder And also he said either than or the next day at the furthest that unleast he would be conformable to the will of God in this last Action declared That he would take the vertue and force of the powder from it That it should be unprofitable And that he should become a beggar And of me also he said that I did evil to require proof or testimony now that this last Doctrine was from God Almighty and said that I should be led prisoner to Rome c. He told of England and said That about July or November her Majesty should from heaven be destroyed and that about the same time the King of Spain should dye And that this present Pope at his Mass should be deprived of life before two years to an end And that another should be Pope who should be Decimus quintus of his name And that he would begin to reform things but that shortly he should of the Cardinals be stoned to death And that after that there should be no Pope for some years Of England he said That after the death of our dear Queen One of the house of Austria made mighty by the King of Spain his death should invade and conquer the land c. He said One now abroad should at Milford-haven enter and by the help of the Britans subdue the said Conqueror And that one Morgan a Britan should be made King of the Britans and next him one Rowland c. He said also That this Francis Garland was an espy upon us from the Lord Treasurer of England And that Edward Garland is not his brother And that so the matter is agreed between them c. That my Lord Rosenberg should be in danger of poysoning for these certain months to come That my Tables of Enoch were in some places falsly written Of Antichrist he spake and of his appearing Of Ely and Enoch coming out of Paradise And of Saint John Evangelist that he dyed not but in Pathmos had his invisible being And that he it was who did give 〈◊〉 Apostata his deaths wound He said also that he hath at divers times preached visibly since the time of his invisible state entred He confirmed the words of the great Famine and Blood-shed that should come shortly He said that on every side of us people should be slain but that we should by the Divine protection escape He said that shortly this Francis Garland should go into England And that we should be sent for But that it were best to refuse their calling us home He said that there were four other who were made also privy of God his mysteries as we were with whom we should meet at Rome He said that Mary and one more in England should see the wonderful days to come Madimi appeared to him there also The same Ben went once away mounting up in a flame of fire and afterward upon occasion of asking him somewhat he came down so again And of the manner how to draw the oyl of the Spirit of wine being burnt he brought thither the instruments of two silver dishes whelmed one upon another with an hole passing through the middle of them both and with sponge between them in which the oyl would remain c. After all these and many other things told me by the same Mr. E.K. we departed each to his bed where I found my wife awake attending to hear some new matter of me from Mr. Kelly his reports of the apparitions continued with him above four hours being else alone I then told her and said June I see that there is no other remedy but as hath been said of our cross-matching so it must needs be done Thereupon she fell a weeping and trembling for a quarter of an hour And I pacified her as well as I could and so in the fear of God and in believing of his Admonishment did perswade her that she shewed her self prettily resolved to be content for God his sake and his secret Purposes to obey the Admonishment Δ. Note Because I have found so much halting and untruth in E. K. his reports to me made of the spiritual Creatures where I have not been present at an Action and because his memory
the King now is The Arms of 〈◊〉 Δ There seemeth to be Magical Charactors The man with the Wart 〈◊〉 Note because no wicked power can enter within this stone Close without any 〈◊〉 but where their arms are put out Δ. Fumi 〈◊〉 sunt spiritus qui 〈◊〉 vocati ante Δ. Ergo An. 1581. 6. 〈◊〉 inceperunt die Lunae The Angel standin at the window winding up the 6. smokes pointing to Δ. A. L. Note The white Curtain These Crosses seemed not to be on the ground but in the aire in a white Cloud The great Crosse seemed to be of a Cloud like the Rain-bow * E. K. and I said now in our talk 〈◊〉 That God would not visit us but at the dayes of journey taking as was last affirmed Therefore whatsoever came before was to be doubted as an illusion He therefore answereth first our doubt and then to my request he maketh answer 〈◊〉 Dei Note this manner of a thing felt warm on the right shoulder For the glory of God The malice of Sacan provoketh his own 〈◊〉 when he thought to that the 〈◊〉 might be 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 confounded Governours of the Earth 4 Angeli Terrae King 5 Princes 4 Angels The 24 Seniors in the Apocalyps The 〈◊〉 names of God The Angels of the thirty Aires supra The use in practice The higher instructions On Monday next 25 Junii A blessing Red. White Green Black * King 40. Angels on the 4 Crosles attending on the 〈◊〉 16 Angels Joan. cap. 15. C Joan. cap. 17. 〈◊〉 Vide Anno 1585. Junii 12 Cracoviae Ave. Δ. Ave. Δ. Ave. †Four Δ. Da verbum tuum in ore meâ— sapientiam tuam in câ—rde meo fige Δ. Quasi figura de terra reâ—â—vanda The Table of the Earth Δ He taketh off the coloured cloaths in due order respecting the four parts of the World The Earth * Vide 1582. 20. Martii lib. 2. Vide lib. 3. Anno 1582. Aprilis 28. Enoch 50. Dayes The title of Enochs books expounded into English â—50 Lions or wicked spirits seducers Counterfeiting Wicked Magicians Devils Characters The mercy of God to Dee To Δ. The wicked power expelled out of the earth NOTE Characters A wicked power tempting E.K. This p may stand backward or forward E. K. What is the reason of that diverse setting For beginning there it will make the name of a wicked spirit Δ. So is the name of the first division of the earth in the 29 aire A voyce to this intent This is the Table that hath 4. and D on the top by me so noted p backword ... or forward-A is arsward Linea 〈◊〉 Sancti 〈◊〉 The 3 names of God in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ten faces on the 〈◊〉 Δ. Another pronouncing of it The 4 Angels over every crosse of the 4. attendant crosses The use 4 Angels over every crosse Solomon his knowledge Six Seniors How to make the Seniors of 7. letters The encreasing of names with a letter b a T a i A or H. * To make the end of this word The King his name East To morrow Characters or Notes * Nalvage delivered them but by the same spirit of God Note The general of the first table A bodily and a true motion Δ. The ninth Chapter may be added and is of the secrets of men knowing whereof there is a peculiar Table Δ. They be 〈◊〉 names of the Teath air answering to Caspis Germania 〈◊〉 in Africa Wicked Angels whose names are of 3 letters 4. Angels above every of the lesser crosses 〈◊〉 16 such in every of the 4. principal quarters * In the crosse of union or the black crosse The 4 Angels serving to this lesser 〈◊〉 Note Appearing by one name and doin by another Physick Note †The 〈◊〉 his name made of five letters The use of the wicked powers The Call of the wicked Note 〈◊〉 Constraint Baatain A o. Baataivh Now he speaketh of the second little crosse above on the right side in the East quarter 4 Good Angels Metals The wicked Angels of this portion The table of creation Lib. 4. aliter 5. Bnasp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Transformation The four Elements The knitting together of natures 〈◊〉 à 〈◊〉 in locum All hand-crafts Note this rare action of a spiritual Creature The secrets of all 〈◊〉 sixteen Angels for Medicine Note The blessed Kingdom on earth The earth 〈◊〉 these are here to be learned out Δ. Maxime calm splendet manifesta est in 〈◊〉 coeli in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the. I heir 〈◊〉 NOTA. 〈◊〉 Deo grata acceptabilis in ipsâ 〈◊〉 Note this manner of a heavy thing on the shoulder and warm withall Δ There was a terririble storm of thunder and rain toward the end of our yester-dayes Action which I said was somewhat more then natural Mr. E. K. Penitently prayeth Δ. It is the second part of the 22 aire Δ. So is not one letter superfluous or wanting in the Tables A Prophesie of things at hand NOTE Nova Terra * Were Rodolphus Caesar. Nota 〈◊〉 malerum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A. L. Money provision In Constantinople 〈◊〉 15. 〈◊〉 24 Seniors Note This civersity of working The four plagues or quarters The book A perfect master ready The twelve names of God in the twelve Banners Four dayes Fourteen dayes Obedient White linnen vestures Ga ment and book onely once to be used 〈◊〉 than leaves Δ. Of this wicked 〈◊〉 E. K. by by after this Action said Seeing his name is come to be known and not by 〈◊〉 for I had received the Sacrament with Mr. Miniver of whom I had him never to bewray or disclose his name I will tell you somewhat of him He appeareth in many forms till at length he appear in a Triangle of fire and being constrained to the Circle he 〈◊〉 form as it 〈◊〉 of a great Gyant and will declare before for a month to come which spirits do orderly range which by name being called will do their offices with a few other circumstances used c. This indeed was one of whom I made most account c. Doubts * Declared by Gabriel and Nalvage Δ. Pagina penultima 〈◊〉 Note Note this similitude well NOE 〈…〉 H. Faith Obedience Humility A Caveat Δ. Cum maximis lachrymis haec à me valde â—ferio ad Rem dicta erant Post semihoram Adventus Christi Our bodies to be cast out into the fields Prophesie 1 11 12. Regnum futurum Δ. Be gone to the Emperour * That hold up the grapes Satan Faithful Spiritus Sanctus Docepax Tedoand Calls Nalvage is to correct ocation 〈◊〉 use of the 〈◊〉 Note The wicked 〈◊〉 are vile laves The Treasures of the Earth Our words to the wicked that keep Treasure Invocations to be made The Book Δ. He meaneth of the left side of the square center of the principal 〈◊〉 not perfect square but heteromeces The Calls to be had in English on Thursday next Our great 〈◊〉 with God Dec. His fee of A. L. of