E. K. changed his place ..... You shall see my face lo it is white E. K. Now he putteth on his Pied Coat and his Pied Cap he casteth the one side of his Gown over his shoulder and he danceth and saith ..... There is a God let us be merry E. K. He danceth still There is a heaven let us be merry Doth this Doctrine teach you to know God or to be skilfull in the heavens ..... Note it E. K. Now he putteth off his Cloathes again Now he kneeleth down and washeth his head and his neck and his face and shaketh his Cloaths and plucketh off the uttermost sole of his shooes and falleth prostrate on the ground and sayed ..... Vouchsafe O God to take away the wearinesse of my body and to cleanse the filthinesse of this dust that I may be apt for this purenesse E. K. Now he taketh the white Garment and putteth it on him ..... Mighty is God in his great Justice and wonderful in his immeasurable mercy The heavens taste of his Glory The earth is confounded at his wisdom In hell they tremble at him as at a Revenger This sheweth thee O to be a God and stretcheth forth thy Glory from the East unto the West for thy Heavens are Statutes and thy Creatures Laws that thou mayest be accounted a God of Justice and Glory Because thou art a God Therefore there is a Heaven For unto the Prince of Righteousnesse there belongeth a place of Glory Into the which there entereth none that are defiled neither such as are blemished with the spots of iniquity Manus Haec bona est ..... E. K. putting forth his right hand Haec Autem mala ..... E. K. putting forth his left hand Qui Habet aures intelligat E. K. Now he sitteth down on the Desk-top and looketh toward me Δ. This Parable is in general somewhat understood of us but in particular how it may be or is to be applied presently we understand not ..... Beware lest error enter within the dwelling place of Righteousnesse I have said E. K. He seemeth now to be turned to a woman and the very same which we call Galvah E. K. Now he is come down to the usual place on the Table Δ. I have assayed divers wayes to place the five Tables on the two sides on this first leaf Is it to your likeing as I have done it in the five little Triangles Gal. ..... As concerning the setting down of the five Tables it is sufficient as it is done The cause why I appeared thus was that you might avoid error Δ. I pray you to shew us the means how that error was or is to incumber us Gal. ..... Whosoever taketh servants of the wicked to prove the Glory of God is accursed But O Satan how many are thy deceits Note my Companion E. K. would have caused personal apparitions of some of the reprobate spirits before the Prince Albert Laskie in my Study thereby to shew some experience of his skill in such doings But I would not consent to it And thereupon Galveh gave judgement and warning of such an error of my Companion his intent c. Gal. ..... Behold it is said before he go from hence I will pour water into him And my Angel shall annoint him as I have determined Hide therefore Nothing from him For you belong unto him Neither can flesh and blood work those things that I have Glorified in him All things that are established in God are Glorified I speak this for thy understanding Neither let your hearts be hardned for the Earth is condemned and these things shall come to passe Credit is all that I seek saith the Lord for when I come I shall be sufficiently believed I take the God of Heaven and Earth to judge and swear by him as a witnesse that these words are true and shall endure unto the end The general points of mans Salvation are concluded already but the special gift belongeth unto God God strengthen you against his adversary Δ. Amen Gal. ..... Soon you shall know more Δ. This Prince would gladly know Whether it shall be best for him with the first opportunity to be going homeward Gal. ..... It shall be answered soon and what questions soever he also demandeth Δ. May he be here present at the action doing Gal. ..... Those that are of this house are not to be denied the Banquets therein Δ. May I request you to cause some sensible apparition to appear to him to comfort him and establish his minde more abundantly in the godly intent of God his Service Gal. ..... If you follow us let him be governed by us But whatsoever is of the flesh is not of us E. K. She seemeth to weep for the water cometh forth of her eyes Δ. You perceive how he understandeth of the Lord Treasurer his grudge against him And perhaps some other also are of like malitious nature What danger may follow hereof or incombrance Gal. ..... The sum of his life is already appointed one jot cannot be diminished But he that is Almighty can augment at his pleasure Let him rejoyce in poverty Be sorry for his enemies And do the works of Justice E. K. She seemeth to put the air over her and so to enter into a Cloud of invisibility and so disappear Δ. Deo gratias agamus Wensday afternoon circa horam 5. The Lord Albert à Lasky being present Δ. We attended of Galvah some instructions or discourse concerning the Lord Laskie E. K. At length appeared before the Lord Lasky in the air an Angel in a white Robe holding a bloody Crosse in his right hand the same hand being also bloody Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Crucifixi a te requiro qui Crucis Trophaeum hic Gestas ut illa nobis signifies quae sunt ad Christi gloriam cui sit honor Laus perennis E. K. Now he is come from before the Lord Lasky and standeth here on the Table he turneth himself to all the four quarters of the World he kneeleth down He prayeth ..... O God Why should the people upon earth rejoyce or wherein should the pleasures of their sensual delights be fixed Why doth the Moon hold her course or why are the Stars observing an order Why are thy people thus scattered abroad Because iniquity hath caught the upper hand The Doors of our God are polluted with blasphemy his Temples desolate his Commandments violated and his Glory accounted as nothing But wilt thou suffer or canst thou hold thy hand from thy great and mighty strokes Most High God Most Mighty God Most Honourable God have mercy upon thy people respect the Creation the Creation I say of those wherein thou hast delighted Suffer not the Serpent to extol his head above thy Altars neither let thy holy Vessel be poisoned with his venome For thou art Mighty and overcomest all and who can rebel against thy Prowesse Bend down thy mereiful eyes Behold this
to the house in St. Stephens street which I had hired for a year for 80 gylders of 30 gr And Master Edward Kelly came to us on Fryday in the Easter week by the new Gregorian Kalendar being the 27 day of March by the old Kalendar but the sixth day of April by the new Kalendar Easter day being the first day of April in Poland by the new Gregorian institution CRACOVIA Martii 13. An. 1584. Omnis Honor Laus Gloria Gratiarum Actio sit Deo Nostro Omnipotenti Trino uni 〈◊〉 semper Amen Δ. MENSIS MYSTICUS SAOBATICUS Pars prima ejusdem Tuesday morning Anno 1584. Aprilis 10. stilo novo Gregoriano CRACOVIAE AFter our divers prayers and contestation of our humility obedience and credit in these Actions and being come now to Cracovia the place sanctified whereunto we were willed to make hast c. At lenth appeared Nalvage E K. He hath a Gown of white silk with a Cape with three pendants with tassels on the ends of them all green it is fur white and seemeth to shine with a wavering glittering On his head is nothing he hath no berd His physiognomy is like the picture of King Edward the sixth his hair hangeth down a quarter of the length of the Cap somewhat curling yellow He hath a rod or wand in his hand almost as big as my little finger it is of Gold and divided into three equal parts with a brighter Gold than the rest He standeth upon his round table of Christal or rather Mother of Pearl There appear an infinite number of letters on the same as thick as one can stand by another the table is somewhat inclined on one side he standeth in the very middle his garment covereth his feet his breast seemeth smooth as the down remaining of a Swan when all the feathers be off so is his neck c. He is lean and long-visaged Δ. The infinite mercies of God be on us and the light of his countenance shine on us and his favourable countenance be on us Nal. ...... Amen unto him that is and was and liveth for ever E. K. He looketh earnestly on his table and turneth him to view it Nal. ...... All things are in order Thus saith the Messenger of him which is the God of Wisdom Is your worthinesse such as you can merit so great mercy or are your 〈◊〉 cleansed and made apt to receive and hold the sweet liquor pure understanding it self Δ. Hath the Sun entred into your bowels or have you tasted of the night-dew Where are your wedding Garments or after what sort do you provide for your marriage Unseasoned you are and withered flesh partakers of those things which make you holy through which partaking and the secret providence of him that is the Highest you became dignified to the end and are sufficiently washed for the time of entrance O stiff-necked people you deserve nothing and yet you have the hire of such as labour But what can corruption be partaker of those things that are incorruptible or man which savoureth in himself can you savour also of the Almighty O you weaklings O you of no faith O you Cankers of the earth Where is the shame you have Where are the tears you let fall Where is the humility you are taught to Nay you are such as say in your hearts if the Spring be fair the Harvest is like to be good If these thing come to passe it is the finger of the Lord. But such is your imperfection such are the fruits of the flesh and the vanity of mortality Notwithstanding consider that you are servants Do therefore the will of your Master You are become free Be faithful and thankful to him that is the giver of liberty Nay you are become children partakers of the counsel of him that sitteth and seeth and saith I am Therefore be sober faithful and waver not for the inheritance of your Father is great your freedom is without recompence and your Master the King of Justice Where are the people or in what generation did they dwell that hath been thus acquainted and drawn into familiarity with the true Servants and Angels of God Unto whom have those mysteries been opened Is it not said of those that are sanctified The Lord appeared unto them in a vision But he cometh to you when you are awake Unto them he came unlooked for unto you he cometh requested Arise up therefore and be not forgetful what the Lord hath done for you for the things of this World are not until they be done neither is there any thing assured but by the end It was said unto Abraham And I will destroy them He believed it but he asked not when Great is the reward of Faith for it giveth strength But those that are faithful are not of this world Notwithstanding you have said as it was said by the Disciples to Christ when they were yet unpure and blind When shall these things come to passe Lord what is meant by this or that Simple Faith excelleth all Science For Heaven and Earth shall perish in their corruption But the voices of the Lord much more his promises are become Angels for ever For as the Sun begetteth in the earth and is father of many things that live in corruption and have end So is the God of Heaven the bringer forth and begetter of things celestial with life and for ever For why Dixit factum est Every Idea in eternity is become for ever and what is thought is become a living creature I teach you a mystery As the tree in sappy life watering her self throughly bringeth forth the ornaments of her own beauty So the spiritual part of man being good and dignified burnisheth himself with his sound and faithful thought I mean the glory and shew of his own beauty for the soul of man groweth either with beauty to salvation or with dishonour and filthinesse to damnation I have done my Commandment I have as a Schoolmaster warned you and as a friend counselled you I will also teach you E. K. He speaketh in a thin small voice Δ. He used a great pause and silence E. K. He standeth and pointeth with his rod to the letters of his Table as if he made some account or reckoning He went out of the middle and measured how may steps it is about Nal. ...... Pater Filius Spiritus Sanctus Fundamentum substantia principium omnium E. K. Thought in his minde rerum and he answered his thought saying What need I say rerum The Grammarians will be on my side Omnium is more than to say omnium rerum E. K. This seemeth to be spoken by some other in my imagination Nal. ...... Omnium is the thing that is my charge E. K. He still conferreth place to place c. So. E. K. Now he standeth still Corpus omnium .... E. K. He pointeth to the whole or round table which he standeth on 1. The substance
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
the Door of the study upon me I arose and went after him and took him by the shoulders to keep him from the Door and withal called aloud to my folks Come here how here is violence offered unto me whereupon they came in all and my wife and so afterward by degrees his fury asswaged and my folks my Wife and his went away and after he had sitten two or three hours with me he saw on my head as I sat writing Michael stand with a sword and willed him to speak which he did forbear to do above a quarter of an hour as E. K. said At length he spake as followeth E. K. Here appeareth Michael on your head and hath bid me divers times to speak to you Δ I disposed my 〈◊〉 to write and Michael 〈◊〉 bring the Stone E. K. Here appear 12 with him 4 behind him and 4 on each sides of him 4 and all with swords of fire and he the hindermost of them had a Barrel of Glasse on his back full of fire the 12 were all in red Coats Michael ..... The Prophet Nunc ergo Notum faecimus Domine Rex quoniam si civitas haec aedificata fuerit ipsius mutilati fuerint descensus tibi non erit 〈◊〉 neque in Phoenicem E. K. Now they all kneel down about him They look pitifully with their faces upward as though they were praying they be all in blood red Garments and Michael his sword is as the sword I once did see him have whose edge did open E. K. Now answer me to the purpose whether I shall have the Circle of Letters which I did desire Michael ..... Is there any like unto thee O Jehovah in Heaven and in Earth or can thy enemies rise up saying against thee and shall they stand O thou whose look is more terrible unto thy Angels then all the fires which thou hast created either in the bottomlesse pit or in the life of all Elemental Creatures or above in the heavens if they were gathered together in one can be terrible to man Hast thou not made Heaven and Earth and hast put thy head no where and thy feet somewhere because without thee there is not and without thee there cannot be O thou that hast numbred the Starres and art Dominus Dominantium above those that govern them and more in knowledg then their Government Thou Thou Wilt thou suffer thy Name to be trodden under foot Thou Thou Wilt thou correct the Heavens and the whole seed of man Wilt thou drown the World with waters and root the wicked from the face of the Earth Wilt thou cast down the lothsome and wicked Cities that they may grow in the terrour of thy judgment Wilt thou send so many Plagues into Egypt Wilt thou suffer all these things to be done and many more memorable which are all in thee And thou permit one Man one Soul to be thus carried away with Satan to the dishonouring and treading under foot of thee and thy light of thee and thy truth If the King exalted him which magnified Truth before the strength and Policy of Women extolled him before his Princes and caused for his sake the building of this Temple to go forward Wilt thou not punish him that despiseth truth that preferreth the wantonnesse and 〈◊〉 of the World that errant strumpe before thy word and before the strength of a heavenly Authority Art thou so become a little one that thou art lesse then a King hast thou turned thy face so far aside that thou 〈◊〉 not this Rebellion Can one man be dearer unto thee then the whole World was or shall the Heavens be thrown head-long down and shall he go uncorrected Hast thou Mountaines and Stones untrodden on out of the which thou caust shew thy Praise and Honour Are there not yet Infants which may be sanctified to speak with the Heavens that thou so hidest thy selfe away from Justice What What if those that often cry for grace receive it not yet dost thou give it unto him that commeth from it Sane stupor Coelis stupor terris What are not so many Fires as wait upon me sufficient to arm Satan with vengeance against this Δ wicked one O thou Beast O thou roaring Lion O thou Monster O thou Whirlpool O thou terrible Murtherer E. K. Hast thou plac't headlong many thousands into Hell and dost thou linger to rage upon this imp whom thou hast so long sought for Is it not written least peradventure he find them sleeping and so overcome them But behold whom thou findest sleeping is ready for thee willing to go with thee what sparest thou art thou so bold to give authority unto thy Ministers to confound nay to so blind that thou canst not see so great an Hill Behold thy Ministers cry out unto thee and send thee word calling thee Master King Take heed the City be not built take heed the walls of it be not lifted up and as they that were the Messengers of the King made evident before his face that it was against his commodity to have the Temple of the Lord built up to have the City new shapen to have the Walls made strong because it should hinder his 〈◊〉 into Coelosyria and the rest E. K. Now the 12 he excepted fall down Mich. ..... And thy Ministers have they not said unto thee if this work of the Lord go forward if the City sent down from the Heavens may receive a place to set her selfe in if the Walls and Rampters of this that was built above shall be placed on any place of the World on earth Behold Behold will it not hinder thy cause will it not subvert thy Kingdome will it not turn thee out of Doors will it not bring thee to aterrible day before the Lord Is it not written that that day shall be terrible to Satan and his Angels And wilt thou suffer a Door to be opened wherein it may enter it behoveth thee Satan here to bend thy bow it behoveth thee now to draw up thy arrowes And if thou intend to plant on earth that it may grow time is yet now to weed out this Message from above ` Do thy Messengers give thee warning of these things dost thou hold back thy force when the Porters will betray the City would deliver it into thy hands would break down the walls before thee what I say art thou like to enter thou that loseth no opportunity art thou so negligent Behold the Doors stand open before thee why entrest thou not Dost thou want fire lo he that 〈◊〉 it hath fire for thee 〈◊〉 rumor Behold he offereth himself a companion what wouldest thou more unto these things thou hearest the sayings of thy servants which say unto thee O Satan if this City be built and the walls erected Thou canst not go into the Holy Land And lo hearest thou not them neither dost regard this opportunity whence art thou so forgetful O God great
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
your hearts that the sap of your understanding may receive strength and that you mayflourish with acceptable Truth as the chosen servants and Ministers of the Highest Totus mundus in maligno positus est and is become the open shop of Satan to deceive the Merchants of the Earth with all abhomination But what are you the Pedlers of such wares or the Carriers abroad of lies and false doctrine Do you think it is a small matter to tie the sense of Gods Scriptures and mysteries unto the sense and snatching of your Imaginations Do you count it nothing to sit in judgment against the Spirit of God leaving him no place but at your limitation Is it lawful before the Sonne of God to spend the whole dayes yea many yeares with the Sonnes of Satan the lying imps and deceivers of the World Are you so far entred into the shop of abhomination that you point unto the Sonne of God the time of his comming the descending of his Prophets and the time wherein he shall visit the Earth Moses durst not speak but from the Lords mouth The Prophets expounded not the Law but the voice of the Lord. The Sonne of God spake not his own words in that he was flesh but the words of his Father His Disciples taught not but through the holy Ghost Dare you therefore presume to teach and open the secret Chamber of the Highest being not called Tell me have you left your Merchandize and the counting of your mony deceitfully gotten to beome Teachers of the Word of God Are you not ashamed to teach before you understand yea are you not ashamed to lead away where you cannot bring home Hypocrites you are and void of the Holy Ghost lyars you are become and the enemies of Christ and his holy Spirit Peradventure you will say in reading the Scriptures we understand But tell me by what spirit you understand them what Angel hath appeared unto you or of which of the Heavens have you been instructed It may be you will say of the Holy Ghost O thou fool and of little understanding Dost thou not understand that the Holy Ghost is the School-master of the Church of the whole Flock Congregation of Christ If he be the School-master therefore over a multitude it followeth then that one doctrine taught by the Holy Ghost is a lesson or an understanding of a multitude But what multitude are of thine understanding or of what Congregation art thou Wilt thou say thou art scattered Thou speakest fasly thou art a runnagate But behold I teach thee and thy error is beforethy face Whosoever doth understand the Scriptures must seek to understand them by Ordinance and spiritual tradition But of what spiritual tradition understandest thou or by what Ordinance are the Scriptures opened unto thee Thou wilt say thou art informed by the Holy Fathers and by the same Spirit that they taught by the same Spirit thou understandest Thou sayest so but thou dost not so Which of thy Fore-fathers hath tied reason to the Word of God or the understanding of the Scriptures to the Discipline of the Heathen I say unto thee that thy Fore-fathers were dear unto Christ were pertakers of the heavenly visions and celestial comforts which visions and celestial comforts did not teach unto them a new exposition of the Scriptures but did confirm and give light unto the mysteries of the Holy Ghost spoken by the Apostles the ground-layers and founders of the Church Whatsoever therefore thou learnest of thy Fore-fathers thou learnest of the Apostles and whatsoever thou learnest of the Apostles thou hast by the Holy Ghost But if thou expound the Fathers after thy sense not after the sense of the Apostles thou hast not the Holy Ghost but the spirit of lying Therefore humble thy self and fall down before the Lord. Lay reason aside and cleave unto him Seek to understand his word according to his holy Spirit Which holy Spirit thou must needs find and shalt find in a visible Church even unto the end I will plainly say unto thee That Truth may appear mightily in light Whosoever is contrary unto the will of God which is delivered unto his Church taught by his Apostles nourished by the Holy Ghost delivered unto the World and by Peter brought to Rome by him there taught by his Successors held and maintained is contrary to God and to his Truth Luther hath his reward Calvin his reward The rest all that have erred and wilfully runne astray separating themselves from the Church and Congregation of Christ obstinately and through the instigation of their father the Devil have their reward Against whom the Sonne of God shall pronounce judgment saying Go you deceivers into Hell fire provided for your Father and his Children from the beginning You rise up amongst your selves saying The Pope is Antichrist For by this name you call him an evil man he may be and fall from his vocation But he can never be Antichrist For Antichrist is he the sonne of the Devil a man flesh and bloud born of a wicked and deceitful Harlot that shall seduce the people swell with the strength of his father and resist God in Earth amongst men as his father did in Heaven among the Angels utterly denying his Omnipotency and setting himself against him O you fools and of little understanding When unto the Apostles the Keyes of Heaven were given that is to say the same authority and power of Christ Jesus the Sonne of the Living God to forgive sinnes and to exclude sinners from the Kingdome of Heaven An when unto the same Apostles it was said also Come behind me Satan you have not under standing to see into the mysteries of the Highest if the Sonne of God did commend and reprehend his Disciples why may not therefor a Bishop be counted good and evil if it follow therefor that good aend evil may be a Bishop it followeth also that neither good nor evil addeth unto the Authority of a Bishop but unto his own life if he be good he reapeth the benefit of his goodnesse but if he be evil he is a Lyar because his Doctrine is against himself if therefore for the sinne of man God hath suffered many in the spirit of Ananias to sit in the holy place it is for your finnes sake and for your rebellious nature to be punished And not for the obscuring or darkning of his Church Open your eyes therefore and understand and cleave to the Church for the Church sake and not for the love of man Despise not the Church because of the transgressions of man But submit your neck under that holy yoke and ordinance which shall lead you to the Congregation governed by the Spirit of God wherein you shall under stand the secrets of God his Book to be interpreted according to the sense of your fathers whose understanding was the finger of the Holy Ghost you cannot authorise your selves and without
who otherwise might justly take offence to take notice upon what ground it is that I forbear But though I will not use any Scripture for proof yet by way of Application I hope I may be allowed to use some Scripture words which may direct us perchance to a good Method in the examination of this businesse The Apostle saith in a place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 professing themselves to be wise they became fools I shall not enquire of whom and upon what occasion it was spoken I draw no argument from it only because there is a shew of great Wisdom in this Opinion and yet as I conceive as much of Error and falshood that is Folly as the word is often used as in any other false opinion that is lesse popular I will frame my discourse to this issue first to enquire what it is that makes it so popular and plausible among them especially that pretend to more then ordinary Wisdom and then secondly lay it open as I am able to the view in its right colours that the Folly or falshood of it may be discernable even to ordinary judgments 〈◊〉 then as for them that deny Spirits c. we say The world is full of imposture to know this to observe it in all Trades in all Professions in all ranks and degrees of men is to know the world and that is to be wise Though we call them Juglers yet they deserve to be thought the plainest dealing men of the world that shew their tricks openly in the streets for money for they professe what they are They are the truest Juglers that do their feats and they for mony too most of them under the Veil and Reputation of Holinesse Sanctity or Saintship Religion Virtue Justice Friendship fine words to catch men that are of easie Belief and thinks that every thing that glisters must needs be gold Hence it is that men that have had the Reputation of Wise men in the world have commended this unto us as greatest Wisdom NOT EASILY TO BELIEVE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epicharmus got more credit for this one saying and hath done more good too perchance then many that have been the Authors of vast Volumes Now if those things that are exposed to sense the proper Objects of our Eyes and Eares be lyable to so much Imposture and Deceit that the wisest can scarce know what to believe How much more caution do we need in those things that are so much above Sense and in some respects contrary to Sense and that is Spirits that we be not deceived If we consider the Nature of man his Bodily frame the Affections of his soul the Faculties of his mind we shall have no occasion at all to wonder if most men are apt to believe and to be cheated But as no cause to wonder so as little cause to imitate Felix qui rerum potuit cognoscere causas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a desire of or to strange things that may cause amazement is the proper affection of the vulgar that is of most men which they bring into the world with them it is the observation of the wisest of men that have written concerning the affairs and actions of men and cannot be rid of but by wisdom which is the happinesse of few Errandi non necessitas tantum sed amor Seneca somewhere speaking of the Nature of Man There was a time when the world was much governed by Oracles private men went unto them as unto God Kings and Princes sent unto them to be advised about greatest matters and so much faith was ascribed unto them generally that the very word became a Proverb appliable unto those things whereof no question can be made Yet those very ancient Heathens that tell us of these Oracles tell us of their vanity and though they say not That all were false and counterfeit yet whilest they acknowledg it of some they give us just occasion to suspect that it might have been found as true of the rest also had like care been taken to examine the truth of them also Again there was a time and that time not many hundred years yet past when Miracles were the only discourse and delight of men Ghosts and Spirits were in every house and so prone were men to receive what was delivered unto them in that kind that Miracle-makers were much put to it not to make their stories probable for that was not stood upon but to make them wonderful enough insomuch that some have been forced to complain publickly of the credulity of the people who yet themselves tell us much more I dare say then was ever true As of Miracles so of Exorcismes How many Divels and Spirits have been driven out of men and women supposed to be possessed by solemn Exorcismes to the great wonder of the beholders which afterwards upon further search and examination have been convicted to have been nothing but the artifices and subtil contrivances of men Sentences and Judgments have passed upon such cheats when they have been discovered in most places of Europe which have been published But they have done strange things though some that were thought possessed and things impossible to ordinary sense to be done by Nature It is very true some have But they that know what strange things may be done to the amazement of all not acquainted with such mysteries by long Use and Custome they will not easily wonder so as to make a supernatural thing of it though they see things which to their sight and of most cannot but seem very wonderful and almost impossible As for the bodily temper of man and of his Brain it hath been sufficiently by some late books of that subject Enthufiasme both by reasons from Nature and by sundry examples proved that a very little distemper of the brain scarce discernable unto any but those that are well versed in the study of Natural causes is enough to represent Spirits Angels and Divels 〈◊〉 and Stories of Heaven and Hell to the Fancy by which sober kind of Madnesse and deliration so little understood vulgarly many have been and are daily deceived and from these things through the ignorance of men strange things sometimes have ensued and the peace of Common-weales hath suffered not a little Aristotle in his Meteors tells of one that alwayes saw so he thought at least another man's shape before his eyes and how they happened unto him naturally he gives a reason Hyppocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a very short Discourse but full of excellent matter sheweth how some both men and women through Natural causes come to fancy to themselves that they see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Divels and Spirits and to be tormented in their Souls even to the making away of themselves by their own hands The Author of the book De Morbo Sacro very ancient too but not right Hyppocrates as many are of opinion hath excellent matter too to the same purpose but I have not the book
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
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
the mystical and holy voices of the Angels dignified and in state disglorified and drent in confusion which pierceth Heaven and looketh into the Center of the Earth the very language and speech of Children and Innocents such as magnifie the name of God and are pure Wherein the Apostles understood the diffuse sound of the World imperfected for mans transgression These Tables are to be written not by man but by the finger of her which is mother to Vertue Madimi said her mother would write them An. 1583. Wherein the whole World to flesh incredible all Creatures and in all kinds are numbred in being and multitude The measure and proportion of that substance which is Transitory and shall wax old These things and mysteries are your parts and portions sealed as well by your own knowledge as the fruit of your Intercession The knowledge of Gods Creatures Vnto me are delivered five parts of a time Wherein I will open teach and uncover the secrets of that speech that holy mysterie To the intent the CABALA of NATURE in voyce substance of bodie and measure in all parts may be known For there is nothing secret but it shall be revealed and the son of GOD shall be known in POWER and establish a Kingdom with righteousnesse in the earth and then cometh the end For the earth must come under subjection and must be made pure That death may be swallowed in his own Kingdom and the enemy of righteousnesse finde no habitation The word of God endureth for ever His promises are just His spirit is truth His judgements inscrutable Himself Vniversall He it is of whom you labour The promises of God in this earthly Noble man shall be fulfilled Salomon used the places of honour and was exalted Thus sayeth the Lord. I have sealed him against hatred and have made his seat open Let him therefore arise up that the people may see him For mortal men have places of honour and in their own Courts they come to be exalted Who is he that made the earth and dignified him with a living Soul Even he it is that exalteth and in whose hands the Kingdoms of the earth are setled Behold the fifth time shall come in respect of the parts of time and it is the day that hath been promised Then shall your eyes be open Then shall you see A voyce Stay there ..... Nal. I obey E. K. Now I see him passe away over the Christalline Table which is round like a Cart wheel having a great knop in the middle Δ. As concerning our ordering of the Table and the rest of the furniture we are desirous to know what is now to be done seing now we are come to the end of this first journey A voyce Be it thy charge I will put to my hand Δ. Mean you it to be my charge to order these things as my imagination shall be instructed by God his favour A voyce It is so said before Δ. Gloria Honour gratiarum actio Deo omnipotenti Deo nostro Domino Patri Nostro nunc in sempiterna seculorum saecula Amen Tuesday February 18. a Meredie hora 3. Lasko Stylo veteri ast 28. ..... Die stilo novo Δ. After some prayers made E. K. saw as he thought Nalvage standing at my left hand Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Redemptoris nostri Estis vos Nalvage Nal. Tu dicis E. K. The lower part of him is in a Cloud but all his upper part is out he hath a thing like a Pall hanging down behinde him from his head He hath like a round .... of boane in his hand he seemeth to be as farre as the Church And I see him as well winking as directing my open sight on him Nal. What is it you require Δ. The exposition of the time delivered to you in five parts Nal. Read it Δ. I read and when I came to the place that death may be swallowed c. Nalvage said as followeth Nal. That is the last Conquest Go forward Δ. In reading Nal. I. Δ. I read to the end Nal. The finger of the highest peruseth nature amongst you by himself and in her own motion Through which action things become that were not by Generation And in the same time vanish as though they were not by corruption A year it is Wherein nature looketh with many eyes through ..... dwelling places unto some as a Nurse and to the rest as a step-mother And so it is meant in the Scriptures For a time is an year purposed by determination in the judgement of God which is not known to man how or when it shall happen Another year is a time established and presently delivered as the present judgement of God This is that I speak of A time is an year The parts are known amongst you E. K. I never heard any speak so leisurely Nal. Now look to your understanding I speak of two years One appointed in the judgement and determination of God to come and unknown to man The other the time of the judgement of God and before determined now present Notwithstanding before determined There is difference between an year mystically promised and unknown and the time that is mystically promised and known Annus my sticus sumitur dupliciter Unus qui est Tempus cognitum Deo homini non revelatum Tempus hoc dicitur apud Deum Annum nos illud computamus Aliud est pra finicum cognitum Deo Angelis revelatum homini Annus est praesens This last is the year I speak of Δ. What are your parts of that year Nal. March April May June July August ..... In illo autem die invenietis Christum The words of this Doctrine must agree and times E. K. When come you with the rest of your words Nal. As it is given me so I give it unto you A great unpatience Δ. He was thus interrupted by E. K. Must end their course in the promise of God In These weeks are the fruits of my labour to be known For I must unfold unto you and open the secrets of this mystical and Delivered speech Whereby you may talk in mortal sounds with such as are immortal And you may truely know the nature and use of God his Creatures Therefore be diligent in hearing and Receiving For the course of man is contrary But the determination of God most certain You are answered ..... Mean you these Lenten weeks or the weeks of all the fore-rehersed moneths ..... Of my whole appointed time E. K. He standeth higher up ..... May we without offence require your ..... at all times as our case requireth Nal. Your labour is my readinesse ..... You see I have an Ague It hat is your counsel therein Nal. I have to counsel you from God Δ. Blessed be the Fountain of counsel and of all goodnesse E. K. He sheweth an house and six or seven on the top of it with Torches They are like shadows .....
Man in his Creation being made an Innocent was also authorised and made partaker of the Power and Spirit of God whereby he not onely did know all things under his Creation and spoke of them properly naming them as they were but also was partaker of our presence and society yea a speaker of the mysteries of God yea with God himself so that in innocency the power of his partakers with God and us his good Angles was exalted and so became holy in the sight of God until that Coronzon for so is the true name of that mighty Devil envying his felicity and perceiving that the substance of his lesser part was frail and unperfect in respect of his pure 〈…〉 sse began to assail him and so prevailed that offending so became accursed in the sight of God and so lost the Garden of felicity the judgement of his understanding but not utterly 〈◊〉 favour of God and was driven forth as your Scriptures record unto the Earth which was covered with brambles where being as dumb and not able to speak he began to learn of necessity the Language which thou E. K. callest 1 Hebrew and yet not that 2 Hebrew amongst you in the which he uttered and delivered to his posterity the nearest knowledge he had of God his Creatures and from his own self divided his speech into three parts twelve three and seven the number whereof remaineth but the true forms and pronuntiations want and therefore is not of that force that it was in his own dignity much lesse to be compared with this that we deliver which Adam verily spake in innocency and was never uttered nor disclosed to man since till now wherein the power of God must work and wisdom in her true kind be delivered which are not to be spoken of in any other thing neither to be talked of with mans imaginations for as this Work and Gift is of God which is all power so doth he open it in a tongue of power to the intent that the proportions may agree in themselves for it is written Wisdom sitteth upon an Hill and beholdeth the four Winds and girdeth her self together as the brightnesse of the morning which is visited with a few and dwelleth alone as though she were a Widow Thus you see there the Necessity of this Tongue The Excellency of it And the Cause why it is preferred before that which you call Hebrew For it is written Every lesse consentesh to his greater I trust this is sufficient E. K. As concerning the power What is it Gab. ...... What it is that it is for the knowledge of it may lead you to error Δ. This answer offended greatly E. K. and thereupon he left off and would receive no more at their hands God make him patient and a favourer of this Action as soon as it is needful that he should be Δ. Laudetur magnificetur extollatur nomen Jesu Christi in omne aevum Amen Note on Tuesday after Noon circa horam quartam as we two sat together E. K. said that he thought upon the matter Et quod jam vellet duas horas mihi concedere singulis diebus ad recipienda illa quae illi tradere vellent Ego autem illi maximo Deo gratias egi quia hanc esse mutationem dextra excelsi factam verè judicavi nam ante prandium rigidissimus erat in contraria opinione sententia Wensday Cracoviae Aprilis 25 Mane hora 7. The Vail appeared as at first almost After half an hour Gabriel and Nalvage appeared after my manifold prayers and discourses Δ. Two keyes we have received by the mercy of the Highest and your ministers the rest we attend according to the merciful will of the Highest Gab. ...... Move not from your places for the place is holy Δ. Shew a token O Lord when thy will is whereby to perswade thy merciful dealings with us and the presence of thy faithful Ministers Δ. The frame of the Stone gave a crickling no hand touching it or otherwise any mortal or worldly thing moving it I heard it very certainly and to E. K. it seemed the sound of a bunch of keyes as if they had quickly been shaken and strongly E. K. Gabriel fitteth and Nalvage standeth Gab. ...... My Brethren he arken to my voice for I am the true servant of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the dignity whereof is sufficient both for the verity of the Doctrine and the confirmation and perswasion of your mindes for as God is the Father of the Faithful so he sheweth himself unto the faithful whereby you may prove the great comfort and consolation that you may justly gather of the mercies of God as touching your Election For at what time hath God appeared unto the unrighteous or where do you read that ever he visited the reprobate For the reprobate hath no visitation but in the rod of Justice But you may rise up among your selves saying lo we are froward we want faith True it is the acts of faith but not the roots of faith But I say unto you that the power of God in his Election is the Basis of mans purity and acceptation But here there is a Caveat That man imagining his Predestination and perfect Election justifieth not himself for wheresoever this is found or this Doctrine preached amongst you either simply in man or publickly in Congregation it is the sure sign and token of their perpetual ignorance and confusion For the Will and Power of God belongeth not to our measure for it was the cause of rebellion amongst us much lesse among men which are fighting yet for the Glory of their reward Behold it is a sin in him that judgeth of his brothers Conscience Much more is it a threefold error to form the imaginations of sin by whose imaginations they are Be not proud therefore of the gifts of God but become humble Neither justifie your self in respect that this is the word of God delivered unto you for your own selves But the more you receive be the more thankful and the more you be in the strength of God the more use you the purenesse of humility Of whom it is said Behold my Spirit hath entred yea into my servants and they are become humble and meek in the sight of men But if we be the servants of the God of Abraham then are we the spirits of truth and understanding for our faith is dignified in the sight of the heavens and we are become mighty in the power of the Almighty Therefore ought we to be believed Now if you will confesse your selves to be the children of Abraham then must you also accept of our Doctrine For the meat whereby Abraham lived is the same food we minister unto you of whom it is said He believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousnesse Even so do you that you also may be righteous wherein do you differ from Abraham Were you not
answered with the first words I spoke to day Δ. Deo Opt. Max. sit omnis honor laus Gloria nunc semper Amen Thursday Maii. 24. Δ. Because E. K. came not according as it was bidden yesterday to follow the Action I went to his Study door and knocked for him And I requested him to come and he refused so to do and gave me a short and resolute answer That he would never more have to do with these Actions I asked him the reason why He would give none But earnestly denied to proceed I told him that his words yesternight that he could not this day deale did very much grieve me c. whereof he made small account So I went into my Study again and committed the Cause to God After half an hour and lesse he came speedily out of his Study and brought in his hand one Volume of Cornelius Agrippa his works and in one Chapter of that Book he read the names of Countries and Provinces collected out of Ptolomeus as the Author there noteth Whereupon he inferred that our spiritual Instructors were 〈◊〉 to give us a description of the World taken out of other Books and therefore he would have no more to do with them I replied and said I am very glad that you have a Book of your own wherein these Geographical names are expressed such as for the most part our Instructors had delivered unto us and that according to the Tenor and form of my request to him so to have them expressed for 〈◊〉 more perfect information by those known names to understand those 91 unknown and unheard of names of seven letters every one whereby they our Instructors I mean are very greatly to be thanked and to be deemed in all reasonable mens judgements most friendly and far from cosenage or abusing of us And farther I said that I my self had here set down on a paper all the 91 names together orderly as we received them and that I had here brought the description Geographical of the whole earthly Globe and also Pomponius Mela set forth in English with the Chartes thereunto belonging fairly described by hand To the intent he might see the verity of their words yesterday delivered unto us for the performance of my request made to them on Tuesday last in this form of words as the Book hath it recorded thus Δ. As you gave us a taste or warning of Italia and Britania so if it be thought good to you we are desirous to understand of the rest the Application to such names as we understand Whereby you may perceive said I to E. K. how your reason is marvellously confounded by your wilful phantasie For so much as wherein you would find fault in our spiritual Instructors doings Therein they have done that which I requested them as appeareth and that to the intent of known Countries we might understand which Angels had the government for such purposes as occasion might offer or require our practices to be tryed in This quoth I is to grosse your error and to wilful your wrangling But I do in narrower points peruse and consider their words and doings In which though sometimes my writings after your declaration hath been amended by them yet the occasion of miswritting for the most part hath been either in your misreporting what you saw and heard or in my wrong hearing or writing and sometime by the spiritual present correcting of my writing and sometime longer after c. But for all this E. K. remained of his wilful intent and so departed to his Study again And I committed God his Cause into his own hands care and ordering as may be best for his honour and glory So be it Monday Maii 28. hora 10½ ante meridiem Δ. I said the Lords Prayer E. K. Here appeareth nothing but the clear Stone Now there appeareth a white circle more than usual it is as it were a white smoak very large comprehending all the heavens in manner having as it were the breadth of my finger in the circumference or border of it Δ. After this an hour and an half after divers our discourses of my Wife her speeches and usage toward E. K. c. E. K. Here appeareth one like him in the green that appeared last day the Etymologie of whose name is Dic illis and his name Mapsama Δ. In the name of Jesus and for the honour of Jesus we beseech you to deliver the verity of your message Maps ..... He liveth and he saith Arise up and say unto them How many times have I opened my armes to embrace you How oft have I wept over you as a father But you are still stiff-necked and disobedient children Lo I cease yet and will not impute this wickednesse unto you Δ. O blessed God blessed God blessed God of mercies Maps ..... Because my promises may be notwithstanding that the sons of men may not say such a day cometh in the Bridegroom nor at such a time shall the Lilly spring Let the day that I will visit you in be unknown unto you E. K. I thought you would say so Map ..... But this you shall do utter part ..... Bind up together 48 leaves whose skin shall bear Silver Whose Perimeter shall be 〈◊〉 30 inches in length 8 in breadth 7. Δ. Do you require it to be parchment or paper Map ..... I have said Δ. What shall I then do after I have caused 48 leaves to be bound Map ..... This done rise up and perform your Journey as you are commexded Δ. I have heard onely of the binding of the book Mean you after the binding of the book that this journey shall be entred into Map ..... I Δ. What shall I do with the book after I have bound it E. K. I will answer for him .... burn it Map ..... The fourteenth day of your rest even this Table-Cloath and none other shall be spread for a Banket E. K. He pointeth to this Diaper Table-Cloath Whereunto you shall invite the Angels of the Lord In the middest of the Table lay down the book and go forth make also the doors after you That the heavens may justifie your faith and you may be comforted For man is not worthy to write that shall be written neither shall there be found many worthy to open that book I have entered already into the Emperours heart But it may be he will become wilfull If he do a hundred and twelve dayes remain and he is not For I have cut down the banks the waters may rush out that there may be a sudden alteration In this now time When I warn you you shall return But you please me much if you believe If time govern not my providence repine not but let my providence govern time Look neither for the Sun nor Moon but be ready alwayes For whom I finde apt shall be made 〈◊〉 And to him that is barren shall there be little
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
Madi ..... How do you E. K. She maketh a low cursie Δ. I declared our admiration of Ave his so sudden departure aud required her opinion of the case Mad. ..... Surely Sir I cannot tell but I will go see if my mother can tell Δ. He that is the Creatour of all things be mercifull unto us and lighten our hearts with true knowledge as our trust is in him E. K. She went away and came again after a little while Mad. ..... My mother sayeth you should have been at the Emperours Δ. But you see it is impossible to get thither without some good provision of money made by our great friend A. L. I pray you what can you say of Ave Mad. ..... My gentle brother Ave is a good Creature indeed you might have made more of him Δ. I beseech you to give us some Declaration of Ave his last words Mad. ..... There is no word unperfect My brother Ave his nature is to be plain and short Δ. I pray you to say somewhat more plainly of Ave his last words Mad. ..... If it were the commandment of my mother I could do it But this is the good will of my brother toward you Δ. As your brother hath done this of his good will so do I desire you of your good will to do or say somewhat to our comfort Mad. ..... Sir I pray you pardon me I may not meddle with Ave his doing I have nothing to say to you but I know my Mother hath much to say to you As the mighty thunder cometh so cometh the promise of God Rodulphus the Emperour now If the Emperour my mother sayeth do any thing against Lasky or hinder she answereth in earnest there shall be an Emperour A. L. Earnest is means to be Emperour vide 22 Sept. Prage Δ. Make your sentence more perfect Mad. ..... Therein lieth a mystery A Mystery A comfortable promise My Mother my Sisters Ave Il my self and the rest of us will not be from you in your need Δ. Now is our need as we have declared Mad. ..... Sir Content your self For yet a season you must have patience God blesse you for as yet I feel nothing to say to you Misericos clemens pius est Deus Noster Cujus nomen sit benedictum Nunc semper Amen Note About seven of the Clock this afternoon E. K. came again up into my study and seing me reading and considering this Action began to finde talk of it and willed me to assay the practise of it if I understood it And to be brief by little and little fell to this issue that he confessed himself to be very sorry that he was so far raging in words as he was this day Nay said I any man living else would have found just cause of comfort and to give thanks for AVE such speeches to him as he used unto you upon true compassion and no skoff c. B t you by and by called him Devil and raged on 〈◊〉 against Michael and Gabriel and the heavenly powers with most horrible speeches c. He became very penitent and acknowledged that he had offended God and said that surely it was of the Devil for he did not remember his words but he is sure that they were not decent and beseeched God to forgive him And so did I and was very glad of this his reforming himselfe and we being oft before called down to supper were going out of my Study and as he was almost at the door to go out he said to me I feel a very heavy thing upon my shoulder and it is warm with all Whereat I put to the door and we sat down again Verily thinking as it was that it was the presence of AVE whereupon I said unto the Creature Δ. In the name of Jesus Ave art thou there he answered immediately after as followeth Ave ..... Because thou E. K. 〈◊〉 acknowledged my honour again I will also acknowledge my help toward you But where man curseth the Heavens what holy Creature can abide Or where Satan is brought into possession by free will of man what good Angel is he that departeth not Δ. O Lord confirm thy mercies upon us from henceforth Ave. ..... As concerning your Action The Heavens bear witnesse of it Yea yesterday did the good Angels contend with the wicked and there was a great conflict betwixt them and that about the love of God towards you and your Action But I will visit you again in the morning and will perform my good will in God toward you But 〈◊〉 must pray often if thou wilt avoid temptation God be mercifull to you forgive you and strengthen you to the end Δ. Amen sweet Jesu Amen Δ. When all was thus ended I delivered to E. K. my Psalter book with the short prayers annexed to every Psalm where he himself very devoutly and penitently prayed three of them and I hearing also of them gave my consent in heart to the same prayers Δ. To God onely be all praise honour and glory now and ever Amen Wednesday 27. Junii Cracoviae Mane horam circiter 7. Oratione Dominica finita peculiari Oratione contra Tentationes Sathanae apparuit ipse AVE c. E. K. He is here Δ. Gloria Patri filio spiritui sancto c. Amen Ave. ..... In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Δ. Amen ..... Now what is that that is hard to you 4. First whether the Table for the middle Crosse of uniting the four principal parts be made perfect or no. Ave. ..... Thou hast found out the truth of it Δ. I think a mystery did depend upon the choice of the three names Lexarph Comanan and Tabitom Ave. ..... That is not to our purpose Δ. You bad me 〈◊〉 out of the Tables the Characters of fewest Letters and I found them to be OARA JA and L you said they are eight you said there are eight in four I know not what this meaneth Ave. ..... You must make up the name Paraoan Δ. What shall become of the L aversed Ave. ..... It may be N or L. Δ. What must I now do with that name Ave. ..... In Exarph there wanteth an L. which L. is of more force then the N. and therefore it is set in the Tables As far as that N. stretcheth in the Character so far shall that Countrey be consumed with fire and swallowed into Hell as Sodom was for wickednesse The end of all things is even at hand And the earth must be purified and delivered to another The Heavens shall be 77 times above themselves And the earth shall bring forth without Tillage Prophets speak of dayes as presently that are far off But we speak of dayes that are hard at hand For immediately after your being with Caesar shall the whole world be in sudden alteration Battails and bloudshed great number The Kings of the
I prescribe laws unto them What it pleaseth thee to offer they receive So what it pleaseth them to offer unto me will I also receive Behold I say O Lord If I shall call upon them in thy name Be it unto me in mercy as unto the servant of the Highest Let them also manifest unto me How by what words and at what time I shall call them O Lord Is there any that measure the heavens that is mortal How therefore can the heavens enter into mans imagination Thy Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance Hereby thou glorifiest all things which Glory excelleth and O Lord is far above my understanding It is great wisdom to speak and talke according to understanding with Kings But to command Kings by a subjected commandment is not wisdom unlesse it come from thee Behold Lord How shall I therefore ascend into the heavens The air will not carry me but resi teth my folly I fall down for I am of the earth Therefore O thou very Light and true Comfort that canst and mayst and dost command the heavens Behold 〈◊〉 these Tables unto thee Command them as it pleaseth thee and O you Ministers and true lights of 〈◊〉 Governing this earthly frame and the elements wherein we live Do for me as for the servant of the Lord and unto whom it hath pleased the Lord to talk of you Behold Lord 〈◊〉 hast appointed me 50 times Thrice 50 times will I lift my hands unto thee Be it unto 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee and thy holy Miniters I require nothing but thee and through thee and for thy honour and glory 〈◊〉 I hope I shall be satisfied and shall not die As thou hast promised 〈◊〉 thou gather the clouds together and judge all things when in a moment I shall be changed and dwell with thee for ever These words were thrice a dayes talk betwixt Enoch and God In the end of 50 dayes there appeared unto him which are not now to be manifested nor spoken of he enjoyed the fruit of God his promise and received the benefit of his faith Here may the wise learn wisdom for what doth man that is not corruptible I have not that I may say any more unto you But believe me I have said great things unto you If you will have me hereafter I will come Δ ..... Consider well my words and what 1 have now said unto thee for here thou mayst learn wisdom and also see what thou hast to do Δ. I will if it please you read over some of these Invitations which I have made and written here in this Book Ave. ..... You may not use that word Obedientes Δ. You spake of a first word to call and of a second to constrain Ave. ..... It signifieth it urgeth them more in God I have said Δ. Note what is meant by the name of God that was said to constrain being the second names of two before given E. K. He is gone and all covered with the Curtain Δ. All honour praise and glory all thanks and power is due to our God and King So be it Amen Monday Julii 9. Manè hora 7. three quarters †Cracoviae Orationibus quibusdam finitis ad Deum deinde ad Gabrielem Nalvage c. E. K. As soon as he looked he found the Stone covered with the white Curtain Δ. A pause of a ¼ of an hour In which space I used sundry ejaculations to God and his good Angels Δ. This day was appointed we attend therefore your instructions At length they appeared not but used a voice A voice ..... This day but the Sun declining the fourth hour Δ. Your meaning is that at after noon at 4 of the clock The voice ..... As thou hast written Δ. The will of the Highest be done Amen Monday A Meridie hora 4. Δ. As E. K. was saying to me that he thought that the Angels might tell the certain day and times of things to come and that Angels could now fall no more c. Of such things touching Angels suddenly a voice was heard as followeth A voice ..... Herein will I talk with you my brethren E. K. Gabriel onely appeareth neither Nalvage nor the Table appeareth He sitteth in a Chair and with his fiery Dart. Gabr. ..... The 〈◊〉 inspired with the Holy Ghost were assured of the coming of their Messias of their Christ But what day or in what year was not of mans understanding Christ himself opened unto his Disciples his death and the manner thereof but the day and hour he never disclosed So likewise the Scriptures speak of the coming of Christ but the day and hour the Son of man knoweth not But because in time to come and for this action the message of the highest And assured and infallible Doctrine in respect that God appointed you no certain time is necessary For for this cause you waver my brethren and may lose the benefit of God his favour and mercies O weaklings examine the Prophets look into the doing of the Apostles There alwayes went a promise before the end But the end was the benefit and fruit of the promise Some alleadge Paul some Peter some Daniel But in this case shall you alleadge the sayings of God spoken in the spirit of truth by me Gabriel the servant of the highest God for three causes hideth the end and the very time of his heavenly purposes As after a little silence you shall shortly hear E. K. A cloud covereth him E. K. Now he appeareth again Gab. ..... First by reason of his own inexplicable Est non est esse which is without the circumference strength capable vertue and power of man his intellectuality whereby he appeareth to be verily one God and incomprehensible Secondly because Lucifer with his yea sayers damned justly should never taste of his light nor understand his secret judgements which he would and might do if they were delivered to mans imagination and discourse Because it is within the circumference and compasse of his Creation Consider of these two E. K. Now he is covered in a white Cloud again Δ. The first reason or cause we do not sufficiently understand or conceive Deus est esse Sanctis Deus Non est esse Impiis Deus For In the judgement day God in his son Christ shall shut up his perpetual and everlasting Justice wrath and anger with Hell and damnation Leaving them and forsaking them and in no case to be called their 〈◊〉 Fratres mi non habebunt Deum But they shall be without a guide and without a Centre Hereby you may understand Esse non est esse To the purpose Thirdly that man firmly perswaded of things spoken of by God above his capacity to come and unknown might worthily in the strength of faith and through the effect of his promises merit his favour in Christ and receive eternal salvation justly before God and his Angels These are the three causes Δ. This last
the living God unto whom all things are given in Heaven and in Earth if therefore All be his then he giveth And if you receive it hardly Consider how hardly you ought to deliver it again And if it be a fire reviving the form of all worldly things Then cast it not to Swine neither yet worship it Behold you are men But in having it you must cease to be men for by it you enter upon and into all immortality And by it you sacend into the true knowledg of our fore-fathers and state of Innocency But I hear a voice I will depart and come again E. K. Now all is vanished away Δ We read over the premisses to our comfort and instruction we beseech God to continue his graces and mercies on us and in us to his honour and glory here and for ever E. K. Now he is here again ..... The will of God is upon me and snatcheth me unto other things To morrow in the morning with empty Bellies I will tell you what it is you 〈◊〉 Δ Fiat voluntas Dei ad ejus budem honorem gloriam 〈◊〉 semper Amen ✚ Pragae Anno 1585. January 17. Thursday 〈◊〉 circa horam 8. ½ Oratione 〈◊〉 finita aha brevi ejaculatione pro lumine veritate Dei obtinendis c. Post quartam horae partem venit E. K. Here he is now Δ 〈◊〉 laus honor sit Deo nostro Omnipotenti Amen ..... Honour and thanksgiving with lowd voices be unto our Lord Jesus Δ Amen E. K. Amen E. K. He hath a great heap of earth or little hill natural by him of orange or tawny colour drawing somewhat to a Lion tawny E. K. A Woman commeth and with a spade diggeth about it Now commeth a child a man-child out of a dark place with a fire shovel in his hand The Woman hath taken away all the earth and there appeareth water where the earth was The boy casteth out that Water with the fire shovel The Woman laugheth at that The Woman is in green clothes and the boy in red Now commeth a Woman with child or with a great belly in white clothes she putteth her hand down to the ground and pulleth out a little Glasse full of red oil Now commeth an old man with a Crab-tree staffe on his back his clothes of motly colour This old man taketh the Glasse from the Woman by force with his fist he breaketh the Glasle and all the oil runneth about his arm and out of that oil did seem a Book to come a very little Book ..... Plainer truer or better can nothing be E. K. He said this looking on the Book ..... These four found but none HAD FRUIT but the last Hear and write the mysteries of God with humble hearts not sitting but kneeling before Sanctum Sanctorum Δ I kneeled and so prepared my self to the writing In the Name of Jesus our Redeemer and the Wisdom 〈◊〉 of God Almighty E. K. He kneeleth himself E. K. Now goeth fire out of his mouth streamingly he turneth himself to the 4 parts of the World spouting out or breathing fire vehemently E. K. Now commeth one like an angel hovering over him in the aire and biddeth him Hold up his hand ..... Thou 〈◊〉 swear by heaven and earth and by him that sitteth on the Throne that thou shalt open thy mouth and speak no more then is conteined in this Book E. K. He delivereth him a Book out of his Bosom ..... I have sworn E. K. The Angel is gone Now truly the place is holy E. K. He holdeth the Book in his hand which the Angel gave him The Book is as if it were of Ivory bone The Book is open he looketh on it The letters seem to be blewish ..... There is silence in us and in the heavens E. K. Now all is full of smoak Δ 〈◊〉 paululum tacitus E. K. Now it is clear again ..... He seemeth to read of the Book ..... Take of your Dlasod E. K. The book seemeth to be written in the holy Characters ..... Dlasod dignified E. K. ..... My brother leave off thy childishnesse murmur not thou hindrest me E. K. He is again in a Cloud E. K. Now he is cleer again ..... And Luminus or from due degrees ..... Read it Δ I read it ..... Take off your Dlasod dignified and Luminus or from due degrees E. K. He seemeth to labour much about the reading of it ..... Gather or take fierce degree ..... I feel no power therefore have patience ' ..... Notwithstanding work it diverse dayes multiplying four digestions E. K. Now he is in a Cloud again ..... Pray that it may be given unto me of God ..... And double then Dlasod and thy Rod Inr. It is a word which cannot be sounded ..... Mend it Rlo. Δ Must it be Rlodnr ..... Look about you for Satan would hinder you of Gods benefits ..... Rlodnr ..... Diligently ..... Pray that you may understand Δ We prayed ..... For until thou watch so continuing E. K. A Cloud standeth by him and now commeth before him as other times before and then goeth away from before him again ..... it a holy hour descendeth ..... Note this very well for here you may be cast over shoes E. K ..... This Cloud is in thee Δ VVe had talk of the foresaid Cloud ..... Of every work there ascendeth one Audcal and so every Law Rlodnr E. K. Now he is covered in his vail or cloud again E. K. Prayed a short fervent prayer whereat I rejoyced much E. K. Now there commeth a beam from above into his head as big as my little finger ..... And purpose Dlasod take a swift Image and have the proportion of a most glorious mixture Audcal and also Lulo Continue and by office seek Rnodnr backward by the red digestion But he by the common or red Darr doth gather most ripest work purge the last fortene well fixed Then the four through your Rlodnr I said Roxtan finished more together at the lower body by one degree 〈◊〉 be by you for him hold it for him in one of them E. K. Now helyeth down prostrate ..... Vntil of the last thing E. K. ..... In him become his red and highest degree of his resurrection through coition E. K. Now there commeth a great thing like a fire and covereth him Now sit up Δ We did rise up from kneeling ..... After a while I come again ..... There is the whole work E. K. Here is again ..... Bring forth the book of Enoch ..... Read your lesson ..... Δ I read the former Take off your c. Gather your six words 4 words consist of 6 letters and two of 4. Rlodnr read that in the upper angle descending in the first square It is a great thing to know which is the first table there in Nature Deliver the Book here Δ I gave the Book to E.K. ..... Look where
elected and applyeth himself to the necessity of his Election doing the works that are righteous before the Lord and receiveth comfort by the visitation of Gods mercy is sealed to the end of his Election in gladnesse and through the value and strength of Perseverance and cannot fall so far that he shall be bruised or run so far astray that he shall not be able to remember himself Happy are those that are elected But happy happier are those that persevere in their Election These are those unto whom God imputeth not their sinnes These are those that sinne and Satan are a weary of for they are not able to prevaile These are those which are numbred in the Book of God and whose 〈◊〉 as yet for their comming But the altar shall be opened and they shall rise But is there a mercy fixed and doth this mercy also fix Justice Or as I have called it the Image of Justice It is evidont So also is there a Justice that is fixed a Justice triumphing a Justice mighty ' a Justice unable to be resisted a Justice that Prayer prevaileth not against yea a Justice that Hell and the Devil are condemned in This is that Justice this is that two edged sword this is that Iron Mall wherewith those that refuse their Election or are not elected following the necessity of wickednesse are and shall be cut in pieces with beaten into small powder and be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone This is he that sealeth up the second Hell with the second death This is that you ô you starvelings you vagabonds you stiff-necked and stinking sinners ought to dread and fear Hath God elected you and do you disdain it Hath he provided a Seat for you an Honour for you a Crown for you a Wedding Garment for you his eternal glory for you And will you force him to cast it into the fire Shall the finger of God write you and shall the vengeance of God root you out Repent I say and flie from your iniquity Return into the way of the Lord least God seeing your wickednesse your un-natural and inhumane rebellion your disobedience against your father thrust himself upon your necessity with his justice and vengeance Which thing if you do Prayer prevaileth not◠much lesse is their resistance Are you not afraid to lose the sight of God and to be deprived of the glory of his Majestie Are you not afraid of the unspeakable flames and fire-brands of Hell which are prepared for the wicked What shall I say unto you Shall I take pity upon you Why care you not for your selves Shall I pray unto God for you You pray not for your selves Shall I bestow goodnesse upon you Hui you despise it Shall I bring three Sheep from the Mountains and shall I lose two of them before I come home O you mortal men be merciful unto your selves Take pity on your selves Fall into the true judgment of light and darknesse of good and evil of eternal Glory and Damnation For behold I tell you that God is ready to thrust himself yea to throw himself as a might stone upon you Against the which there is no time of prayer nor nothing that can prevaile I have here taught you and exhorted you Exhorted you to forsake your wickednesse and to cleave unto the Lord. Taught you that those that are elected may lose their election and may be established in their Election Also that those that are not elected run by the rule of necessity unto the end of their wickednesse which is rewarded with eternal fire From the which God of his mercy and in his Sonne Jesus Christ who hath redeemed you is yet ready if you will to deliver you Hal rowgh ha Δ We long discoursed of sundry things and each reproved other of haughtinesse or pride of mind how justly we did it God knoweth E. K. He is here still Δ O Lord order these matters with us and between us to thy Honour and Glory E. K. ..... Thou E. K. and we receive at one fountain we are created and made by one God to the end we should glorifie him as our Creator you as your Redeemer and Creator But lo we are of Heaven heavenly comforted and nourished with the glory of God wherein since the Δ division made amongst u we erre not you to the intent you may be proved are covered with mortality and corruption to the intent that the judgment of God may allow you for those places you are apt to inherit If therefore we be both refreshed of God have our beginning from God as from our Creator let us both acknowledg his goodnesse and glorifie him in the works of our hands we in our angelical forms you in the Skirmish wherein you fight by fighting manfully and overcomming Yet of us thou hast as those have that are rewarded in the labour of him that is sent in message from the giver If the King send his Messenger unto thee he ought for three causes First for the person from whence he commeth Secondly for the authority of his message or goodnesse of reward Thirdly that by him you receive the benefit whereby you are gratified Even so deal with us for us he may say you fare the better by him in respect of his labour and the authority that he useth so may we say you fare the better by us But let the heaven and earth bear witnesse besides the benefits of Go of our good will towards you But answer me E. K. What say you to me wherein ..... As touching your receiving as touching thy taking part with Christ Jesus very 〈◊〉 man the Son of the living God whose precious blood cryeth out continually before his Father for the sins of the people Whether is greater the authority of truth by the Church Militant or Triumphant Answer you E. K. to that E. K. By the Church Triumphant ..... Even such is our authority Therefore it is greater then the authority of him that is a fleshly Priest If the Angels that have appeared unto you had appeared also unto the Jews saying Crucifie not the Son of God they would not have done it For though they believed not man yet would they have believed an Angel Therefore did God the Father acknowledge his Son Christ by both Churches as you may read by the Angels that appeared to the Shepherds acknowledging from heaven the truth that Jesus was the Son of God E. K. What is the Church I did not think that the Angels were of any Church The Church is the number of those which are governed by the Holy Ghost and that continually sing Holy Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Zebaoth But that we sing so the Scriptures bear witnesse Therefore we are of the Church and our testimonies are true I counsel you therefore to put on humility and to make your selves subject before the truth Love one another not because you are men but because you are partakers of
if I say unto them go out set your 〈◊〉 against the wicked Behold I will be amongst you and fight for you who is it that heareth me where is your faith become who is he that believeth me O you wicked Generation shall the Lord call you and seeke your deliverance and will you know of the Lord with what meanes he will work amongst you is the God of Heaven and Earth become amongst you an Ingineer or a Merchant a Hoorder up of worldly treasure or one that rideth on horse-back to battail you stinking Carrion you hateful wretches before Heaven and Earth you blind hirelings Who devided the Seas who threw down Jericho who overthrew the wicked Kings who destroyed the Cities of the wicked who fought against the reprobate Giants and the flesh of mankind who opened the windowes of Heaven and consumed you all except as you read eight persons yea if out of the windowes I can consume you what shall become of you if I open my doors if I send out my servants against you and my innumerable army Is it not said whatsoever I put into your monthes that speake Why do you so but for the truths sake If therefore I bid you doe is not my truth all one I am full of sorrow for no man openeth his doors unto me no man believeth me no man remembreth that I made Heaven and Earth Stay a while that I may weep with my self E. K. All the stone is become black and full of fiery specks Δ After we had read the premisses E. K. Here is another now come in green a man with nothing on his head but onely his yellow hair He hath like a pair of black boots under his garments close to his legs like buskins c. Δ Note Ilemese appeared in July Anno 1548 and did make an end of Nalvage his work c. He appeareth their like a little child with yellow hair c. Δ Iteach you he paused after a pretty while Thus saith the Lord thou must answer Steven according to the hardness of his hart Answer him thus for the Mean Lo King the God of Heaven and Earth hath placed me before thee and hath shewed unto thee his will hath nourished up me his servant from my youth unto this day in the fear of him and the fervent desire of true wisdome whereby I have attained through his hel unto the knowledge and secrets of the things in Nature which knowledge behold in the name of God and for his sake and because he hath chosen thee lo I offer up unto thee and willingly made thee partaker of This done be not afraid to open thy mouth unto him as thou didst unto Rodolph in writing Behold ô Kin I can make the Philosophers Stone for so they call it Bear thou therefore the Charge and give me a name within thy Court that I may have access unto thee and yearly maintenance of thee for us both Command him also or strike a band of secrecy between him thy selfe and Lasky Take heed thou want not faith for I will help thee And he shall have a great Treasure I will see them if he will labour for me But it may be Lasky will hold him by the heele Δ What mean you by that phrase ..... As Jacob did Esau. Vnto this apply thy self and give thy whole endeavor from time to time also I will open my mind unto Stephen through thee or in the presence of himself But let Lasky open this unto him The Camp is known unto me Δ I understand not this point ..... Let him understand thou art minded so to doe For this seven dayes aske no more answer Δ How and if the King be desirous of any action ..... I respect not the King Δ I beseech you be not offended that I aske your name ..... Ilemese E. K. He is gone Δ The other will come again A voice Non venit Therefore shut up the window Deus Coeli Teriae da nobis Fidem ✚ Nyepolonicze in Aula Regis St. Junii Tuesday a me idie circa horam tertiam The King send for me to hear what I had to say to him as I had send him word that I had to say somewhat to him in God his behalfe When I was come into his privy Chamber and all others excluded but onely the Lord Lasky who came with me and stayed by the King his commandement I said thus verbatim as followeth Δ Ecce ô Rex Deus Coeli 〈◊〉 me ante oculos Vestros posuit vobis suam declaravit voluntatem me autem servum suum à juventute mea ad praesentem diem enutrivit in timore illius desiderio ferventi verae sapientiae qua ratione ejus auxilio 〈◊〉 sum cognitionem secreta 〈◊〉 naturalium quà m cognitione ecce in nomine Dei ✚ Cracovia Junii 6 Mane horam circiter 8 Orationibus finitis pro luce veritate Divina quae nos ducerent perducerent ad montem sanctum Sion c. I have ô Lord according to my simple abilitie endeavoured my self to declare to Steven those things I was willed accept ô Lord my intent and give me thy graces and encrease my faith that I may in my doings and sayings please thee or not offend thy divine Majestie and now ô Lord we await thy further direction not presuming to propound as now matter such as our 〈◊〉 state might move us unto but therein we crave this aide thy light and wisedome c. K. E. Here is a great head with wings like a Cherubim all of fire the eyes are very big as big as your hat and his head as big as this Table ..... He that is a sleep let him sleep on he that is in the high way let him not return home He that eateth let him not rise but eat still and he that weepeth let him weep still he that rejoyceth let him rejoyce for ever He that goeth awry let him not return into the way He that planteth his Vineyard let him not see it he that gathereth the grapes let him not drink of them he that blasphemeth the name of God let him blaspheme for he returneth not But he that looketh up unto Heaven let him not cast his eyes upon the Earth Behold the Lord hath forgotten the Earth and it is a burden to me that I am here therefore I go Vnto those that do well the Steward is ready with the reward wo be unto the Monster of the Earth for he is accursed E. K. He is gone and flyeth in a strange order upward in a special line in manner A voice Put all things to silence that the Lord had touched 〈◊〉 The receptacle and the Books see you open them not nor touch them until you hear more from me But be of right heart and walke the ways that you are returned into Take this one lesson you are in 〈◊〉 with me and for the
Behold None of the Orders either of Heaven or Earth are armed to open their mouthes in my Name teaching or opening this Doctrine unless it were of me for I am the First and the Last And I will be Shepherd over all that the Kingdom of my Father may come and that my Spirit may be upon all flesh where there shall be no law nor need of light I my self am their lanthorn for ever And behold I will be as a Rock between you and the teeth of Leviathan which seeketh to set you asunder and to bring you to confusion And I am and am holy and holiness it self Out of me cometh no unclean thing For even as the time of Moses was wonderful to all the Gentiles even so shall those days to come be unto the Nations and Kings of the earth I am a law for ever And behold power is given unto me from above And I have visited the earth and have thrown my curse upon her And lo she shall become barren He that fasteth and prayeth doth but that which is commanded He that also fulfilleth 〈◊〉 will is justified before me for who is he that raiseth up or who is he that casteth down Yea even I it is that have taken you four Trees out of the forrest of the world and have covered you hitherto with my wings And behold this that is taken away shall be restored again to you with more power And Might shall be in it and a brestplate unto you of Judgement and Knowledge And if there be any of you that seeketh a Miracle at my hands and believeth in my words let him or her present themselves here the next Monday with the rest and he shall perceive that I was the Judge of Abiram and the God of Abraham Walk before me as the sous of my Father in all righteousness And follow you that which you call unrighteousness even with gladness for I can make you whiter then snow Your unity and knitting together is the end and consummation of the beginning of my harvest I will not dally with you but I will be mighty in deed amongst you And lo I will shortly open your eyes and you shall see And I will say ARISE and you shall go out What I am I am E. K. The flame and all is disappeared Δ. Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc in sempiterna saeculorum saecula Amen E. K. ..... said after that his body had in it like a fiery heat even from his brest down unto all his parts his privities and thighs Deo Omnipotenti Misericordi Regi seculorum sit omnis laus honor gloria nunc semper Amen J. D. E. K. J. D. J. K. WEE four whose heads appeared under one Chrystalline Crown and in one pillar united and enclosed do most 〈◊〉 and heartily thank thee O Almigh y God our Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier for all thy mercies and benefits 〈◊〉 received in our own persons and in them that appertain unto us And at this present do faithfully and sincerely confess and acknowledge that thy profound wisdom in this most new and strange Doctrine among Christians propounded commended and enjoyned unto us four onely is above our humane Reason and our Catholick Christian Profession to like of for that in outward shew of words it seemeth to us expresly to be contrary to the purity and 〈◊〉 which of us and all Christians thy followers is exactly required No withstanding we will for thy sake herein captivate and tread under foot all our humane timerous doubting of any inconvenience which shall or may fall upon us or follow us in this world or in the world to come in respect or by reason of our embracing of this Doctrine listned unto of us as delivered from thee our true and living God the Creator of heaven and earth who onely hast the true original power and authority of sins releasing and discharging and whose pardoning or not imputing of sin 〈◊〉 us through our lively faith in the most worthy Merit and precious Blood of thy Lamb immaculate shed for us is and shall be our Justification and Salvation We therefore according to blessed Raphael his counsel lately given most humbly and sincerely require thy divine Majesty to accept this our Covenant with thee to the intent that all thy merciful and gracious promises made unto us four and any of us may be to us performed and also that thy divine purposes in us and by us may be furthered advanced and fulfilled That as we acknowledge thy divine wisdom and grace opened unto us in this thy last mystical Admonishment of universal unity to be between us And dost most instantly and earnestly will us to accept and use the same as both mystically most needful and also lawful and just with thee which Admonishment standeth upon two parts that is to wit upon true and consummate Christian Charity between us four unviolably to be kept And also upon the New Matrimonial-like licence and liberty indifferently amongst us four to be used So we the same four above-named which hereunto will also subscribe our Names do this day Covenant with thy Divine Majesty besides all other respects chiefly upon the two principal intents and respects before here rehersed truly and unfeignedly to accept and perform henceforward amongst us four in word thought and deed to the uttermost and best of our power a perfect unity and with incomparable true love and good Christian Charity friendship imparting and communicating each unto other all and whatsoever we have or shall have hereafter during our lives And as for the Matrimonial-like licence we accept and allow of it And promise unto thee O our God the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth to fulfil the same in such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the go 〈◊〉 are permitted to fulfil and have been by divers testimonies commended for and by divine Doctrine willed to fulfil in Matrimonial-like conversation whensoever thy 〈◊〉 and allurements Matrimonial-like shall draw and perswade any couple of us thereunto Beseeching thee as thou art the onely true Almighty and everlasting God Creator of heaven and earth Thou wilt in thy infinite mercies not impute it unto us for sin blindness rashness or presumption being not accepted done or performed of us upon carnal lust or wanton concupiscence but by the way of Abraham-like faith and obedience unto thee our God our Leader Teacher Protector and Justifier now and for ever And hereunto we most humbly and faithfully require thy Divine Majesty to be our witness And moreover we call thy holy Angels and to bear record for thy honour and glory and for our discharge now and for ever And for a further consummation of this New Covenant on our behalf by thy will and permission made with thee the God of heaven and earth we the same four first notified and particularly and vùlgarly named John Dee Edward Kelley Jane Dee
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