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
tell me ..... I rejoyce in the name of Jesus and I am a poor little Maiden Madini I am the last but one of my Mothers children I have little Baby-children at home Δ. Where is your home Ma ..... I dare not tell you where I dwell I shall be beaten Δ. You shall not be beaten for telling the truth to them that love the truth to the eternal truth all Creatures must be obedient Ma. ..... I warrant you I will be obedient My Sisters say they must all come and dwell with you Δ. I desire that they who love God should dwell with me and I with them Ma. ..... I love you now you talke of God Δ. Your eldest sister her name is Esémeli Ma. ..... My sister is not so short as you make her Δ. O I cry you mercy she is to be pronounced Eseméli E. K. She smileth one calls her saying Come away Maiden Ma. ..... I will read over my Gentlewoemen first My Master Dee will teach me if I say amisse Δ. Read over your Gentlewoemen as it pleaseth you Ma. ..... I have Gentlemen and Gentlwoemen Look you here E K. She bringeth a little book out of her pocket ..... She pointeth to a in Picture the book Mad. ..... Is not this a pretty man Δ. What is his name Ma ..... My ..... saith his name is Edward Look you he hath a Crown upon his head my Mother saith that this man was Duke of York E. K. She looketh upon a Picture in the Book with a Coronet in his hand and a Crown upon his head Ma. ..... This was a jolly man when he was King of England Δ. How long since is it that he was King of England Ma. ..... Do you ask me such a question I am but a little Maiden Lo here is his Father Richard Plantagenet and his Father also Δ. How call you him Ma. ..... Richard Surely this was Richard Earle of Cambridge E. K. She turneth the book leaves and said Mad. ..... Here is a grim Lord He maketh me afraid Δ. Why doth he make you afraid Ma. ..... He is a stern fellow I do not know him what he is But this was the Duke of Clarence This was Father to Richard Earle of Cambridge Lo here is Anne his wife E. K. Turning over the leafe The same was heir to all Mortimers lands Edmund was her brother Lo Sir here be the wicked Mortimers E K. She turned over diverse leaves and then she said Ma. ..... This same is Roger Mortimer ..... My Mother saith this man was Earl of the Marches This same is his wife He had a great deale of lands by her for she was an Heire This same is wild Genvill her Father Here is a Town they call Webley Here is Beudley Here is Mortimers Clybery Here is wild Wenlock Here is Ludlow Here is Stanton Lacy. Genvill his wife was Heire of all these Here is Hugh Lacy her Father He weareth his haire long for he was Deputy of Ireland That maketh him look with such a writhen face My sister hath torne out the other two leaves I will bring them when you have supped I pray do not tell any body of me Δ. We were earnestly called for to Supper by my folks After Supper Ma. ..... Here is William Lacy Father to Hugh Here is Richard his Father And here is Sir Richard his Father and here is William Sir Richards Brother Here is his going into France Δ. Quo anno Christi Mad. ..... I warrant you my eldest Sister will tell you all Here is his going into Denmark My Sister will come shortly and tell you how he married in Poland and what issue this William had Δ. I pray declare the Pedigree down to this Albert Lascy Ma. ..... Alas I cannot tell what 's done in other Countries Δ. I know you are not Particular of this Country but Universal for all countries in the whole world which is indeed but one Countrey or a great City c. Mad. ..... Well my sister will shortly come and tell you unlooked for If you judge these things well that I have spoken Nam vera sunt Nam verus est qui me mifit Truth is all that is truth The Mortimer I spake of is the first of the six there were six Mortimers Earles of March Edmond was the last and Roger the first that Mortimer was the Grandfathers Grandfather of this Edmond E. K. There seemeth some one to call her whom I hear now Ma ..... I come Δ. She took up her Skrolls on the ground of which some were very old and she put up her book Ma ..... This may stand you in some stead Δ. Mitte lucem tuam veritatem tuam Jesu Christe Lux vera veritatis perennis Fons Amen Monday à Meridie hora 4½ Δ. We presented our selves ready for instruction receiving and presumed not to call my good Minister spiritual but by humble prayer referred all to God his good pleasure E K. The Golden Curtain which covereth all the Stone hangeth still but I heare a voice or sentence thrice repeated thus A voice ..... Sanctum Signatum ad tempus Δ. The sense hereof may be divers wayes understood and more then I can imagine but which sense is to our instruction would I faine know A voice ..... Sanctum quia hoc velle suum sigillatum quia determinatum ad tempus E K. Hard speeches but he could not perfectly discern them A voice ..... Ad tempus ad tempus inquam quia rerum consummatio All things are at hand The Seat is prepared Justice hath determined The Judge is not yet willing Mercy thrusteth it self betwixt the Divinity But it is said The Time shall be shortned E K. Saw no creature But the voice came behind him over his head till now when he espied one standing on the Table besides the silke cloth on which the Stone stood he seemed like a Husbandman all in red apparel red hose close to his legs a red jacket red buttoned cap on his head yea and red shooes He asked E. K. how he did and E. K. answered Well I thank God Δ. By your apparel it should seem you have somewhat to say concerning the Commons of this Realme and not of high School-points or Sciences I am desirous to know who sent you What is your message and what is your name for a name you have peculiar as all Creatures else Δ. He paused a good while whereupon I asked him if he considered my speeches ..... I consider your speeches for I have left nothing behind E. K. He kneeleth down and seemeth to say somewhat his speech is quick round and ready He seemeth to pray in a strange Language I perceived these words among many other Oh Gahire Rudna gephna oh Gahire c. His Countenance was directed towards the Stone ..... Vestra non mea facio E K Now he standeth up ..... Hast not thou said From
In the name of God what may this mean E. K. These shadows go up and down the side of the house thrusting their Torches into the sides of it The house is like this very house They go round about the house There are eight of them They have claws like Eagles When they sit they are like Apes They set a fire on it and it burneth mightily Now your wife runneth out and seemeth to leap over the Galery rayl and to ly as dead And now come you out of door and the Children stand in the way toward the Church And you come by the yern door and kneel and knock your hand on the earth They take up your wife her head waggleth this way and that way You look up to heaven still and kneel upon one of your knees The stone house quivereth and quaketh and all the roof of the house falleth into the house down upon the Chests And one of these baggage things laugheth The house burneth all off Your wife is dead all her face is battered The right side of her face her teeth and all is battered She is bare-legged she hath a white Peticote on Now the apparition is all gone Marie seemeth to be pulled out of a pool of water half alive and half dead her hair hanging about her ears They hold her up Now they carry her out at the Gate You seem to runne in the fields and three or four men after you You run through waters All disappeareth And now Nalvage appeareth again He seemeth to have wept Δ. Nal. ..... God giveth you warning that you may eschue them Δ. And how shall I eschue them Nal. ..... Thus sayeth the Lord. Behold I have sealed thee for my self for my people and for my servant Therefore shalt thou not perish No not the least hair of thy bodie Fear not be strong in faith For I come shortly Hearken therefore to my voyce I say therefore hearken to my voyce For the spirits of wickednesse and confusion have risen up against thee If therefore they prevail against my purposes Then shall it be no world Neither are there any heavens But this place is not for thee yet if thou wilt be it unto thee I will seal destruction both for a time and for ever Be mighty therefore in me All the earth rageth in wickednesse And sinne smelleth thee ready now to creep out of his hole If thou move thy seat it shall be more acceptable For even this year shalt thou see the beginning of many troubles And the entrance of this LASKO into the bloudy service of the world E. K. He seemeth to spit fire and so vanish away O Jesu Christ we have committed our selves into thy hand and do submit our wills to thy government What should this mean of terrible destruction threatned to my wife and maiden And as it were frenzie to light on me for sorrow These things cannot well agree with our former assured protection E. K. I see a little wench on the bench all in white she sayeth ..... How do you sir ... making cursie to Δ. Δ. Better it is known to you then to my self how I do ..... Sir I have been ...... land at your house where they are all well Δ. Thanked be God ..... Amen .... The Queen said She was sorry that she had lost her Philosoper But the Lord Treasurer answered He will come home shortly a begging to you They were black Sir Herry Sidney died upon Wednesday last A privy enemy of yours ..... I ever took him for one of my chief friends ..... But this it is Truely none can turn the Queens heart from you I could not come into your Studie The Queen hath caused it to be sealed up You have been used to good Cities It were good you did consider it Little words are of great matter Δ. Where I pray would you wish me to settle my self first ..... My mother would give you counsel to dwell at LASCO Δ. Do you dissent from your mother ..... I. Δ. Upon what ..... Jesu you think that I am an unwise maiden The Devil bringeth the sound of my mouth to thy ears E. K. For I said CRACOVIA and he spake LASCO Δ. Seing your mother would wish me to dwell at CRACOVIA at what other place would you wish me to dwell ..... Lux ante faciem Tenebrae post tergum E. K. Now I feel a hussing thing go from my head ..... I pray you be not offended with my simplicity My mother and I am all one In us is no discord I pray you bear with me if I say I be the Concord of time These are my words My mother would have you dwell at CRACOVIA And I consent unto it Let them that be wise understand Alwayes pray that you may hear truely and receive faithfully Δ. May I before I go any further demand if you be Madimi ..... I am so Sir Δ. As concerning this terrible Vision here shewed what is either the intent or verity of it Mad. Sir will it please you to hear me Δ. The verity is most acceptable to me alwayes Mad. ..... I think your book saith This man his way is prepared c. Δ. I trow the words are His seat is made open or made manifest Mad. ..... It is so Bear with me I think it is so Δ. What will you say thereof Mad. ..... And upon earth Princes have h ... in their own Courts I remember He was sealed at Mortlake Contra omne malum Then cannot the King of Poland nor the Chancelor prevail against him Yet Vendiderunt animam ejus Δ. Lord be merciful unto ... What Trayterous dealing I beseech you to say ... 〈◊〉 in that case He is our great friend and for the service of God furthering Mad. ..... You met a man by the way He is an Irish man But as ... me he said he was a French man I heard the King when .... him to go into England But he could not poison him there ... Therefore he followed him all the way But if he return again They say We will exalt him But send thou thy Army and we will send him Wherefore hath the King absented himself but to betray his Kingdom Truely I can tell no other cause My Mother saith within these few dayes after be .... calleth it a little talk Let him go to Cracovia .... himself as David did before Saul It may be the people will like well of him Tush Tush Timor innatus will never prevail Although he hate him he cannot hurt him E. K. She saith so turning her head back to one that spake to her Sir if you tarry here you will have great grief in this house Δ. How long I pray you would you wish me to tarry here or how soon to be rid hence Mad. ..... Hark ... He E. K. marvelleth what I will say now E. K. So I did indeed Mad. ..... The Physitian saith infected air is to be avoided in
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
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
in the Preface of murder condemned by the Laws of men approved by God Saint Paul impiously slandered Great promises in case of obedience The Powder The Pope here accursed yet Popery elsewhere justified Kelley scandalized Doctor Dee in great Agony Some secrets of distillation revealed by spirits The Powder again and how E. K. came by it Predictions of England c. all false and foolish Ed. Kelley his fidelity suspected Cabalistieal mysteries of Letters and Numbers not well understood by Doctor Dee c. though much helped by his spirits But at last he hath joy in spirit as he is perswaded and resolves to obey ¶ Doctor Dee Ed. Kelley and their two Wives their sense apprehensions and resolutions concerning this new doctine of promiscuous copulation enjoyned expressed in form of a Covenant so by them called with God here first exhibited and afterwards p. 20. compleated and subscribed by the Parties ¶ with a most wicked clause or conclusion of dreadful imprecations to all that should hereafter come to the knowledge of it or bring it to knowledge whereas it is much to the glory of God and true Religion that such mysteries of Hell and darknesse should come to light to be abhorred by all men and that others may be warned by such sad examples not to hunt after new doctrines and pretended inspirations and revelations ¶ p. 17. Ed. Kelley his Declaration of his dislike from the beginning of these Actions in generalle His opposition upon occasion His dislike of this new doctrine in particular as contrary to the revealed Will of God how satisfied in some measure and thereupon his readinesse to obey But upon the womens professed dislike and 〈◊〉 resolves to give over all further dealing VII p. 19. Apparitions The chief Stone carried away by spirits in their fight More exhortutions and arguments for compliance to this new doctrine Offer of a Miracle for further confirmation VIII p. 21. Another Apparition upon request made to confirm them in their purpose of obedience IX p. 22. Yet another to the same purpose The Covenant torne by Kelley made whole again by spirits The great power of God faith and obedience the main thing Great promises Judgements prouornced against Kelley his tearing the paper of Covenant Against others some already executed for enticing him away By which it seems Kelley being terrified resolves to tarry and obey ¶ The Stone strangely taken away as strangely restored in the presence and sight of both X The Act of obedience good words to countenance greatest villanies never wanted as dayly seen performed is accepted by shews and speeches Commendation of Wisdom Secrecy enjoyned XI Cabalistical Doctrine of the Creation of man The soul of man not the subject of sanctification c. Great Promises and Predictions equally true entertained with the Doctrine with comfort ¶ p. 28. Prince Rosimberg the man now in favour but miserably abused and deluded two Letters of his to Doctor Dee c. Several questions by him proposed as expecting great things and wholly to be governed by their spirits His confidence of a great Treasure in the Powder delivered unto him ¶ p. 30. Several Questions and Petitions of Doctor Dee's upon the former Proposition c. to be offered unto God among the rest one for the making of the Philosophers Stone Another for Kelley's being sick for his Wife being barren for his own Wife sick c. The Empeperour of Moscovie his great opinion of Doctor Dee and favour offered ¶ But here followeth that great hiatus or interruption of Story which bereaves us of many years spoken of in the Preface account All from hence to the end set out unto us but the sad and lamentable Catastrophie of this long Delusion Kelley is no more heard of now yet the spirits appear still in the same shape as before ¶ An. Dom. 1607. Stylo Jul. Martii 20. By this time Doctor Dee was become a very old man If he were Sexagenarius as he is stiled in Puccius his Letter P. 1. 439. l. 15. a. d. 1586. he must needs be fourscore and upwards by this But we need not take the word so precisely However if towards it then more or lesse he must be very old now as I said before THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRD PART Part III. ACtion I p. 32. Raphael pretended sent unto Doctor Dee to comfort him being besides old Age much afflicted with poverty and sicknesse II p. 33. The same Raphael Of a certain Treasure somewhere under ground as was supposed Doctor Dee's questions rather eluded than really answered Put-offs and Promises of wonderful Wisdom c. still III ibid. A Voice sent to Doctor Dee then as it seemeth alone IV p. 34. Raphael again who with many fair pretenses and very forcible Rhetorick to such a one as Doctor Dee doth deliver a message unto him of a Journey into a far Country to be undertaken by him in this his miserable case and condition of purse and body through years and present sicknesse The danger of his disobedience herein and reward of obedience the Philosophers Stone c. Doctor Dee is willing O rare faith or rather prodigious but deserved infatuation Salisbury iand his Devils if the Devil may be believed ¶ p. 36. Some Cases and Questions proposed and to be proposed ¶ It seems Doctor Dee at this time took upon him to be a Cunning-man His necessity which was great might put him to it to try all means but I think he was too honest to thrive by it V p. 39. The same Raphael Some questions I doubt how truly resolved about the Treasure The Journey hastened The History of Tobias VI p. 40. Raphael in the Stone The Jewel the Powder in Doctor Dee's possession but not yet of use to him His thankfulnesse good man VII p. 41. Raphael again in the Stone The Journey Great Promises of Wisdom c. Doctor Dee's enemies at Court Money intended by the Emperour so also p. 38. to Doctor Dee hindered Some Cases concerning others and himself at his request answered VIII p. 43. Raphael Divers Questions and Cases by him answered One John Pontoys very ambitious to serve Doctor Dee in these Apparitions ¶ Which end here in our Relation and probably with his life or at least though his spirits had promised him p. 34. addition of many years not long before his death I cannot yet learn the direct time of his death but much about this time by all reports and in England certainly Though his sin was very great as in the Preface is shewed yet because of his simple and sincere intentions towards God it may charitably be hoped that God was so merciful to him as to let him know his errour and to repent of it before his death ¶ p. 46. That which follows here is certainly intended for part of that holy Language which Adam in Paradise is said P. 1 p. 64 92. to have spoken and by which great wonders might be wrought I have neither faith nor
cutting and nature Not to the intent it should be credited but to the intent it should be a stumbling block to the action in time to come which is now My brethren he is a marvellous work-man and one that striketh now the most strings in a manner all But he hath his reward Therefore do I deny it to be spoken by me or of me Δ. So by God his Grace I did conceive and undoubtedly think and of many other things besides that I have occasion of reforming the Records that the heavens may agree as the phrase was used Mad. ..... Many there are not But such as are gather them together let me sift them Δ. I thank God for that his mercy Δ. Now I beseech you to the second my present request before propounded it may please you to give answer Mad. ..... When the King sendeth a Present to a Noble man or unto any one that he favoureth he loveth or delighteth in The Messager carrieth it delivereth it within his house E. K. She seemeth to smile ..... He to whom it is sent enjoyeth it he useth it yea peradventure being a dainty dish eateth of it Afterward the King sendeth to him by the same messager saluteth his houshold and commandeth him to say Thus sayeth the King Go to such a man and salute him Tell him that I will visit him and that I say so Behold he sitteth still and 〈◊〉 not neither doth he the Commandment of his Superiour For lo sayeth he The King commanded me not his messager came and would so But whether the King will so or no I know not But hearest thou Thou wicked man hast thou not eaten of his meat and enjoyed the benefit of his present before Yes A threefold benefit which shall continue untill the * seventh Angel and untill the third woe Man begetteth a Son and lo his wife is with Childe and she 〈◊〉 for the time of her deliverance If the question be moved unto him his wife not yet delivered whether he have issue or fruit of his body say thou unto me what shall he answer Δ. As it shall please God Mad. ..... That is no answer Δ. Then he may say He is in hope to have the issue his wife goeth great withall may this seem an answer 〈◊〉 beseech you Mad. ..... Though the Childe be not yet born he hath issue Deliverance is by reason of the issue and not called issue of the deliverance for he is a son as well unborn as born So is it of you Thou hast prayed unto God and he hath heard thee And lo the issue which he giveth thee is Wisdom But 〈◊〉 the Mother of it is not yet delivered For If woman know her times and seasons of deliverance Much more doth he which is the Mother of all things But thou mayest rejoyce that there is a time of deliverance and that thy gift is compared to a woman with childe For as the one is and shall be visible so is wisdom granted and shall appear yea a lively and most perfect Creature Behold the Angels of the Lord have been sent down from God unto him E. K. here is sight which is of this houshold in God He hath brought unto thee that which he tasteth not himself And yet thou doubtest saying How shall I say the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me Unto thee Δ we are we have appeared for unto thee sent And because his eye hath seen therefore we have joyned him vnto thee that in the time of darknesse thou mightest see Δ. It is to be made perfect before the time of his visitation And before the time of thy visitation thou must be made perfect And because it is of thee and not of him Therefore doth not God impute unto him his offences but placeth in you the figure of time to come Supra lib. 15. 1584. Junii 2. For some there be that naturally shall draw in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord. And other some there be that must have their times and seasons For thy houshold affairs I say nothing yet neither for thy Letter sent or Messenger Nam Deus agit in 〈◊〉 sicut vult I have nothing else to say unto thee but blessed be those that believe in the Lord for they have their reward E. K. She goeth away divided into a great many pieces of fire Deo Nostro Omnipotenti eterno sapienti sit omnis honor Laus Gloria Note At noon this day I received Letters from the Lord Laskie from my wife and from my brother Nicolas Fromonds in England how Mr. Gilbert Mr. Sled Mr. Andreas Firmorshem my Book-seller used me very ill in divers sorts The Dates of the Letters from England were of the 15. and 16 th day of April 1584. My wife is in great sorrow for my brother Nicholas At night after Sun set Emerich Sontag brought me word from the Spanish Ambassadour that he had delivered to the Emperour this day my Letters and Book and that he took them graciously and thankfully and said that within three or four dayes he would let the Spanish Ambassadour understand when he would give me audience Deus bene vertat ad sui nomiuis honorem Laudem Amen Saturday Septembris 1. Ante Meridiem Circa 10. †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. sat in my little Study after our talk of divers matters and of my expecting audience at the Emperour his hand c. E. K. saw three little Creatures walk up and down in the Sun-shine about an handfull from the pavyment and the Creatures themselves very small not an hundfull long like little shadows or smokes and the path wherein they walked seemed yellow They walked a good while to and fro till at length I suspected that they were sent to us and so prepared the shew-stone But E. K. said he had rather see them thus out of the stone I said that in the stone we have warrant that no wicked thing shall enter but without the stone Illuders might deal with us unlesse God prevented it c. E. K. said again he had rather deal thus ..... His meaning is above thy sight E. K. Now two of them seem to kneel down in the Sun beams ..... Blessed be God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost the most holy and blessed Trinity One true mighty perfect everlasting and incomprehensible God Δ. Amen Amen Amen ..... Which will be comprehended with those that live in the Heavens the true Church of God of such as measure him by faith and not reason which hath sent us to do his will Both in that he will turn his heart And in that he doth vouchsafe to make you witnesses of his secret purposes and determinations in hand The 1 middlemost said I am the midst of the third and the last Δ of the spirit of life Vnderstood in this temporal controversie and conflict of mans Soul but
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