Triumphus tibi in inferno ubi non est Laus nec Gloria Quae jam infusa sentio doceo Sed modo lingua ideomate praedicto E. K. He turneth round when he speaketh Nal. ..... Omnis Caro maximè est sibi applicabilis in natur a perfectione sua Igitur revelanda sunt Mysteria Dei non ut audiantur sed ut intelligantur E. K. Now cometh a great smoak now I see nothing now he is gone A voice ..... Hear E. K. I see no body E. K. Methinketh that two speak or else this voice giveth an eccho ..... The unpatient and troublesome spirits of indignation wrath blasphemy and disobedience continually contend bear arms and ravenously run wilfully against those that are the .... Messagers and Angles of the Dignified and Triumphant Glory which is now the Ministery of him that is Dignified in his Father To the honour and glory of those that are humble and faithful in obedience Yea those wicked ones keep open wars against God and his Annointed in Heaven and Earth onely for the safeguard and true keeping of such as love God and follow his Commandments rejoyce in Truth and are visited in Righteousnesse Dark speeches to the flesh but words mixed with humane understanding wher ein briefly I will manifest the envy between the wicked in respect of their enviousnesse and those that are justified in Heaven which fight in the government of mans soul in the Creatures of God Not in that they know they shall overcome But in that they are envious and proud from the beginning Their contention is evidently amongst you which are joyned in the service of God Not as Deservers but as Chosen whose vessels and power are best known unto God E. K. One standeth on my left shoulder and saith Sinister ..... Dost thou not hear how like a fool he speaketh without all reason Thou art a spirit of lying Thou art one farthest from the glory of God Thou art a sower of lyes and a teacher of false doctrine E. K. Thus faith he on my left hand Sinister ..... Speak for I have power over thee Canst thou deny it Dexter ..... Thou thinkest so because thou hadst power But the brightnesse thou badst is turned into iniquity True it is thou hadst power to banish the wicked out of Paradise But me thou knowest not because thou hast not banished me In respect of thy dignification which sprang with power I say with the Hallelujab But in respect of thy 〈◊〉 Thus saith the Lord Posui tenebras à tergo meo Sinister ..... Fy upon God that ever he created me Dexter ..... Even thus do they seek continually to enter into the weakest vessel of envy not to triumph for they know they shall not but they hinder the time with man wherein they may offend his conscience E. K. I hear howling and lamenting Dexter ..... Such are those of whom thou seekest aid and comfort Those that appear unto thee have sought thy soul And the fruit of them is according to their destruction Believe them not It is said before Thou dealest with devils What reward shall he reap that fighteth against the Highest Or taketh part with such as are banished from Righteousnesse Much more shall his punishment be which seeketh help of those that are dishonoured For dishonour ..... to imperfection and is become a monster for destruction It is written .... Nothing can stand before the Lord that is imperfect Much more that imperfection weakened which obeyeth the imperfect Leave for the kingdom of Righteousnesse is at hand And thou must vow Hear the Lord That thy sins may be forgiven thee For the Prophesies of the Lord are not uttered to the world with the seales of the wicked Therefore become holy that thou mayest augment the benefit of God bestowed amongst you and render it to the world as the message of truth with thanksgiving Meum est pauca dicere Δ. Sed quis sis Nescimus an non idem Naluage qui nobiscum prius egisti hodie Nal. ..... I am E. K. Why call you those Devils with whom I deal not offending my conscience but intending to do good to my self and my neighbours If you be of God where is the fruit of your doctrine c. Nal. ..... If they were not Devils and enemies of truth they would praise and honour God in his Messengers of truth But because these Actions are true and the truth of them shall be the destruction of their kingdom Therefore devilishly and enviously they resist the will of God Denying the power Blaspheming his truth and infecting his vessels In our Doctrine there is nothing taught but the state of the world here and to come The prophesies of time and the knitting up of God his mysteries opened from time to time to those that are his sanctified as testimonies in the Creation and Operation of his Creatures whereof this doctrine is a part The Prophets in their times were not ignorant by revelation of the good will of their Creator The Apostles in Christ his Kingdom were made partakers of the mysteries to come of the state of mans salvation and ending of this combat which is in that day when all Creatures shall receive their reward The Church of God is alwayes garnished and furnished with spiritual Revelations as a Mansion or Dwelling-place of the Holy Ghost These latter dayes and end of harvest must have also Labourers For no Age passeth away but through the hands of God who maketh the end of his doings known to the World To the end the World may consent unto him in Glory So that this Doctrine is the mysteries of the word of God sealed from the beginning now delivered unto man for that Reformation which must be in One unity established unto the end The very part of that Circle which comprehendeth the Mysteries of the Highest in his Prophets Apostles and Ministers yet to come which are alive and shall bear witnesse of eternal Comfort The fruit of our Doctrine is that God should be praised For of our selves we seek no glory But we serve you to your comfort teaching you the will of God in the self same Christ that was crucified sold and died in the Patriarchs and published to the World by his Disciples and is now taught unto you in the remission of sins .... greatest in the World for the end of all things The very key and entrance into the secret mysteries of God in respect of his determination on earth bringing with it reward in the end of eternal glory which is the greatest Treasure Those that tempt thee do it in respect of the fear they have of the power of God springing in thee Let this suffice The World is vain in respect of eternal joyes Heaven and Earth passeth away The reward of the Righteous endureth E. K. Nal. ..... What do you see imperfect in all that hath been delivered Δ. Nal. ..... You have 49 Tables In those Tables are contained
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
Seve his state and being we are very desirous to be informed E. K. Vincent Seve appeareth here going down by Charing Crosse. There is a tall fellow with a cut berd with him in a skie-coloured cloak Vincent hath a great ruff This man waiteth on him with a Sword He is going down into Westminster Ward He is now talking with a Gentleman on horseback who hath five men following him with Cape-cloaks short and mustaches And he on horse back is a lean visaged man with a short Cloak and a gilt Rapier his horse hath a Velvet foot-cloth E. K. In Vincent his forehead is written Where power wanteth rigor weakneth E. K. Vincent laugheth heartily and sheweth two broad teeth before He holdeth a little stick within his fingers crooking On his left hand he hath a skar of a cut on the nether side of his hand Vincent hath a pair of bootes on which come straight on his legs and very close A great many boats appear at White-Hall One is graffing in the Garden there Many people are now coming out of Westminster Church The Gentleman on horseback alighteth now and goeth down toward the Court before Westminster-Hall He goeth now up a pair of stairs and there standeth a fellow with a white staff Vincent is gone in with him The servant walketh without The servant goeth to a Waterman there The Waterman asketh him whether that be he that is the Poland Bishop The servant asketh him what hath he to do Now the servant goeth from the Waterman Now cometh one down the stairs and saith to the Serving-man that his Master shall be dispatched to morrow The servant saith He is glad of it Now all that Shew is vanished away Now come there two handsome men they have Cloaks on their shoulders and they have hats on like Tankard Crowns One of these said A ..... I understand by the King that he beareth him great favour The other said B ..... But Kings when they become rich wax Covetous But do you think he will come this way A ..... Yea mary if he be wise for he shall find no better friendship than in Denmark Here is the fellow he hath brought a bag of Amber E. K. He taketh the fellow by the shoulder and saith Come away He hath been an old doer E. K. Now they are gone and that Shew E. K. Now is the first man in the black Gown come again ..... Thus you see the World answereth for the World Be merciful Flee privy leakes for the Devil is ready at every corner Be Humble and Obedient That receiving the reward of true servants you may rejoy 〈◊〉 Enheritors of everlasting freedom The reward of such as are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 end God grant you may 〈◊〉 Amen E. K. Now cometh the Vail again which all this while was gone behind the Stone Δ. Deo nostro Omnipotenti misericordi justo sit omnis honor laus gratiarum actio nune in secula seculorum Amen Δ. While we were at Bream among many other things told and delivered to E. K. as he was by himself by a spiritual Creature I know not who nor of how good estate or what estate he was of This parcel among them he held in writing and imparted to me And I thought my pains not ill bestowed to keep the same in record here Ganilus that in house most fiery fairer than the Sun Hath honour great saith give place your former course is run Therefore first framed clouds unknown draw near with mighty storms Wherein such bodies lie obscur'd or take ten thousand forms Your bellies strowting long disclose and on the harlot earth Seem fair to man as when the waves as Midwife help ... r birth Twice shall the Sun put on the heavens and once look quarter way And working 〈◊〉 worlds build up a City where men say The Holiest stood And Beares bring in usurping fire at hand And people spread return whose new built altars flaming stand Whilst such as strangers were Catesy cry and bloody knife With privy shame defil'd bekyes a thing n ... sometime rife From midnight unto noon two parts and more shall slaughter feel And all the World from South taste all down force of fire and steel Small wonder though the earth at shadows fighting nothing grieve When mighty Seas shall dry and heavens lie who can live That mortal eyes shall see a Temple built with precious Stones Or Creatures strange made new in sight of old and long dri'd bones Or Angels dwell on earth but I whose firy fingers can Unloose thrice sealed Books and utter worlds unknown to man I see these cursed wights whose borders lead thy journey on Shall with the thirtieth moneth be bought or sold or fully gone And England perish first with Moths long harbour in her skirts The Spaniard lose their King and France rebel and fall by spirts And holy man ten dayes besieged at home with these dayes whelps Till he at length made free by sudden force of vertues helps The Polish King hath played and friendly man shall then bear sway Amongst earthly friends and such as hope of former faith decay At last wear highest Crown if fall from vertue makes no losse And midst this coil to come in space of new come lay for tosse Then 〈◊〉 Come other times most Holy and a Kingdom shall From Heaven come and things forthwith again to Order call Saturday 2. Novembris we rod from Bream two great mile to a Nunnery called Ostarhold Sunday Novembris 3. we came to Fure or Fureden Monday Novemb. 4. we came to bed to Harburgh Tuesday Novemb. 5. we came to Buxtenhaden and there by 9 of the clock in the morning we took waterin two great Skutes or Boats Horse-wagon and our stuff and all and ferryed down the little water till we entred the Elb and so crossed straight over to Blanken nasen there dmed and after dinner by coaches we came to Hamburgh where my Lord lay at the English house and we at another 〈◊〉 a widows house Wensday Novemb. 6. we rid to 〈◊〉 4 mile from Hamburgh a little Village having left my Lord behinde and also missing my Children and servants which were gone before us an other way to my great grief till by midnight by sending out messengers to listen and enquire after them I heard of them I my Wife Rowland Nurse and Myrcopskie my Lord his man Thursday Novemb. 7. We came to Lubek aud were there at Inne at the signe of the Angel or rather St. Michael at a Widow her house a very honest Hostesse Saturday Novemb. 9. I received Letters from the Lord Albert Laskie of the English mens ill dealing and consulting with the Towns-men of Hamburgh for my stay and conveying back again into England c. Wednesday 13. Novembris 1583. Mane hora 9½ At Lubek Per horam ferè per intervalla varias fecimus petitiones saepe oravimus At length appeared a sword two edged firy or rather bloudy and a bunsh
of rags hanging at the top of it The rags seemed of Woollen and Linnen Cloath like a bundle of Rags gathered out of a Taylers shop The sword stood upright in a manner but leaning from E. K. his face though it seemed to smite at E. K. A voyce So be it O Lord for thon art mighty Be it so unto them For they have embraced an Harlot and have forgotten thy jealousie E. K. The svvord shaketh mightily Many are the Harlots that svvarm upon the earth and innumerable are their Children and such as they foster Their revvard is ready E. K. The sword now shaketh again mightily ..... He that entreth into the house of the wicked is defiled but he that consenteth with an Harlot is accursed He that delighteth in her secrets shall be stabbed And Leprosie shall dwell in his house for ever Δ. O Lord I trust this respecteth none of us in common sense to be understood ..... He that delighteth in light loveth not himself but desireth the love of him that illuminateth But thus saith God I will not dally with you Neither shall you handle me as you have done For your Horedom is wilfull and your vanities worse But this I leave amongst you that you shall know that I am righteous For he that despiseth me is accursed and unto him that dissembleth my fashion are miseries without number So unto them that enterinto the house of blasphemy is vengeance ready at hand Δ. O Lord what is this Man is but earth where the heavens dwell neither are the works of man acceptable but with righteousnesse E. K. There appeareth a man with a Bible about his neck like a Doctor and he standeth miserably in fire And so likewise appeared divers other with Bibles about their necks and they in fire likewise Still come flames from the earth and encrease the flames of these men about them There appeareth and endlesse ... me most terrible with fire and other most hideous shews .... They be suddenly gone away And all these men be now no more in sight A voyce Happy are those that see and can remember Blessed are those that hear and are not forgetfull Δ. These words and shews O Jesu make evident what ..... E. K. All is gone except the sword which standeth in a Cloud and there cometh a hand and setteth a seal upon the sword A voyce I brought you from iniquity to the intent you might be purified But the more I cleanse you the more you are defiled ..... I have offered of old and it shall be told I have promised and it shall be performed You have not kept my Commandments And therefore you shall be plagued He that goeth out of the way shall receive the reward of errour For stragglers are spotted people And none can be blessed but such as dwell in the Tabernacle of righteousnesse But behold I will tell it unto you but with greater hardnesse And I will make you know me before I visit you in kindnesse For thus sayeth Sathan Lo they erre still Do Justice for thy glory sake They enter into the houses of Idols And laugh with blasphemers They are silent when thy name is blasphemed Deal with them as a God or else thou art not righteous Therefore be free from Sathan that he may praise your righteousnesse Yea that he may say as he hath said Let me touch them Vntill then I will be just I will not forget this wickednesse till you be made clean For behold I have sealed it and therefore it must be finished For what is sealed of me cometh to passe Δ. A voyce He that dissembleth the image of Christ is a liar Δ. ..... Now cometh a grave man all cloathed in white with a Mytre upon his head ..... The God of peace is a comforting Medicine to such as delight in him The peace of the world is the image of God God and man which is Jesus Christ the son of the living God Which knit with the father in the spirit of truth proceeding from them both ..... everlasting will opened his mercies to his Apostles replenishing them fully and mightily with the will of the father to the comfort of the world Which made messagers thereof have delivered to the Church full and perfect Statutes as the Will of him whereunto she is united and married to be kept inviolable and without transgression This Will Covenant or Decree sealed unto the end of the world in the number of the faithfull whosoever breaketh or dissembleth is accursed or damned Therefore saith the word of God unto you You have run astray you have entred into the houses of Idols I have brought you from fire but you are entred into flames And why Because you defile your selves with the wickednesse of deceivers Whose images you saw affirmatively though not verily Continually overwhelmed with daily and inextinguible flames Continuing even so long as their errour is exalted Yea even in the professors thereof to their eternal damnation For as Christ and his Doctrine is light and truth So seem the impositions of Sathan to agree or take unto themselves shapes or likenesses of the true image of him that saveth Whereby he trusteth in himself under the colour of meeknesse into the companie of the faithfull Devouring their Souls with ravening dissembling and false likelyhoods of truth unable to be decided by man Happie are those that believe them not For he even he it is that is a liar and is oldest in deceit But as the father is eternal So is the son eternal which eternity of the father and the son is the holy Ghost eternal proceeding equally as the finger of God and spirit of truth to the general workmanship of Gods determination knit together three Persons E. K. He maketh a great reverent cursie in this omnipotency by spiritual illumination and through the holy Ghost delivered unto the Apostles as the pledge of God his mercie and promise is alwayes certainly linked joyned and engraffed into the society of those that fulfill the will of the highest perfectly and without errour whose strength shall continue and glorie branch out even unto the end of this world and beginning of comfort Therefore believe For the spirit of truth worketh wonders raiseth the dead and hath power to forgive sins Through the power of him unto whom it is ma ..... For as Christ hath all power in heaven and in earth delivered ..... So hath he delivered all power in heaven and earth to his true Church Therefore she cannot erre For where power is without measure errour hath no number Believe not therefore those that lie saying The Church of God is infected with errours For the offences of few are not counted errour but unrighteousnesse Neither can the stragling feet of a few drunken bring infamy to the whole house Δ. ..... It lieth not in my power to deliver you or reconcile you from death and Hell The tormentry and filthinesse of the world and the wrath of God But
K. Now she is gone to the place on the Cushions on the bench where she stood yesterday She doth now as young children do playing with her coats and at length sitteth down on the Cushions Mad. ..... Even as spiritual and dignified illuminations from ascension and by descending work the will of God determined in all Creatures diversly according to the measured purpose of the Highest in dispersing his will upon and into every one particularly whereby some become wise one in this another in that degree other some mighty in works whereby health and help comfort and joy is given to the faithful Even so ascending doth Hell infect sometime with error and sometime with infirmities So that from Heaven springeth health from below infirmities of body and soul. Whereby we find two immediate powers bringing forth two properties The one Comfort with Joy The other Infection with sorrow But this may be objected Hath it not been seen that the wicked cure diseases and restore health Whatsoever is of death is sorrow which is the ground of spiritual and bodily infection so that evil cannot work good How can it therefore be that the dead revive or restore health The cure therefore of all spiritual infection I mean the infections of such as are spiritual is in respect of his weaknesse and not of his strength Because Satan infecting may become weak whereby he cannot prevail and so give health by reason of weaknesse Otherwise with power bringing death all manner of wayes Δ. E. K. thought a thing whereunto she answered and he said ... my thought she answered .... in my degree thoughts .... known to me I than an .... she is of God and in God tha .... the thought of man E. K. She ... I hear ... a buz ... eare ..... These two immediate and supernatural properties are so dignified in Creation and Determination that the good Angels cannot cure or help such infirmities as are brought in by the subtile infection of the wicked themselves Vnlesse in body the immediate power of the second Person in Trinity be adjoyned in the aid and cure of the infected body which is the true Physitian And as he took upon him man his frailty so he is chief Governour over the same in all degrees If the soul be infected the Angels have no power to ... it or make it clean but by the will of the Father which is the Holy Ghost descending through the Angels into the propriety of the Church whereby the Disease is cured Therefore considering thou art infected not naturally but by spiritual and wicked inflammation stirring up thy body unto infection We that are good Angels cannot minister help unlesse we feel the immediate power of him which is the second and the water of Life Notwithstanding as we know how the infection grew either locally or really So can we find contrary places and things for comfort When Herod was infected by the Devil to kill very Christ the Son of God His purpose was not altered by contradiction to the Devil but by the foreknowledge of God which appointed Egypt for his safeguard So it is said unto thee It is thought good thou shouldst rest at CRACOVIA for it is a place sanctified both in fore-determination and now Therefore use the Sabbath and rest from labour Reap now and eat the fruit of thy labour Presse the Vine that thou mayest drink and be comforted For the promises of God are not in vain Neither are the Heavens fruitlesse For as it is said Thou art not bound but for the service of God Neither shalt thou be enriched by Princes but shalt enrich them Flesh may speak vainly and be without comfort But the promises of God cease not neither become uncertain This year to come is of great blood-shed prepared to stop the mouth of the Earth which gapeth for sorrow Therefore thou must be separated that the promises of God may be fulfilled which cometh not at your request but at his Determination most abundantly These Boords need not The paviment shall serve for it is neither the Earth nor mans hands but the Finger of him that liveth that 〈◊〉 Behold .... That the power of God might be known therefore he hath chosen those that are not regarded to the intent it may be said Lo This is of God Hast therefore and stay not for thy warning is great Those that are wise to sin in their fleshly imaginations are deceivers of themselves Which with us are not to be accused but rather unknown For the Kingdom of Heaven is divided from Hell and those that are of Hell are unknown from us For as ... and ... naturally know not one another such and so it is of us Sit tibi satis quod illam non novimus neque virtutem ullam descendentem ab illa vidimus Neither is the power of God in him for his own sake but for the Spirit that God hath planted in him For we have known him and again have forgotten him And yet we understand him But I teach thee a Mystery by irradiation into him and not by reflexion from himself As the heavens fly from the stink of the infected powers even so fly thou Ganislay Ganislay E. K. She calleth one who is now come here E. K. He seemeth to have his face half like a man and half like a woman his body being all covered with hair rugged Gan. ..... What wilt thou with me what wilt thou have E. K. Madimi shaketh her Coates and brusheth her Coates with ..... Mad. ..... Thus sayeth my Mother Beware of wilde hony and raw fruit The one clarified the other ripened may become good Those that know not wine become drunken but to such as know it it bringeth health Even so this Doctrine For unto him that it is tasted being ripe or ..... or becometh comfort and the Key of a pr. .... But unto him that tasteth it wildly and ..... Worket 〈◊〉 Your knowledge is not to have but to learn to ..... So that you may be both having and learned Small are the Treasures of this world in respect of the wisdom that judgeth NATVRE For unto him that judgeth truely what secret is hidden Those that seek the world shall be contemned of it But he that flieth from her shall use her as a slave or as the second mother doth her daughter Notwithstanding of my self I will be more appliable unto you then you shall be followers of me For for that cause am I become childish Therefore cease He is truely wise that sayeth God knoweth at all times what we have need of Be not tempters Be patient 5. Even as thy desire is so are all things in England Nothing kept back But for thy sake such as are thine are with them friendly used 6. If thou shouldest not be called home how shouldest thou enjoy the benefit of God his promise which hath said Thou shalt call her back c. to her preservation But first
E o phan OD Od. Between Chis and Virq you must put in Op a word RACLIR Ra clir MA ........ Ma a si BAGLE Ba gle ........ SGI Ca os gi DS ds IALPON Yal  Jal pon DOSIG as big  Do sig OD Od. BASGIM Bas gim OD Od. OXEX Ox ex DAZIS Daz is .... IATRIS Si a tris OD Od. SALBROX Sal brox CINXIR Cynx ir F .... BOAN Fa bo an UNALCHIS U n ál chis CONST k.  Const. DS ds DAOX Da ox COCASG gas dg  Co casg SALMAN Salman 〈◊〉 TELOC Te loch CASARMAN Casar man HOLQ Hol q. OD Od. Ti Ti. TA Ta. ZCHIS Zod chis SOBA So ba. CORMF Cormf IGA I ga NIISA Ni i sa BAGLE Bagle ABRAMG Ab ramg g not us dg Nonsp N. NCP Noncp ... Curtain is drawn ... The end of this ....... This is the seventh E. K. Now is the Curtain pull'd away and quickly pull'd again Now it is open again He is apparelled of colour between a blew and a red mingled but blew seemeth to be the ground From the shoulder on the arms is a trunk of seven pendant labels with laces On his head a very broad Hat between dun and black colour His apparel is very long NONCI Non ci si DSONF Dsonf BABAGE Ba ba ge OD Od. CHIS Chis OB Ob. HUBAIO Hu bá i o. TIBIBP Tibibp ALLAR Al lar ATRAAH A tra ah OD Od. EF Ef. DRIX Drix FAFEN Fa fen MIAN Mi an AR Ar. ENAY E nay OVOF O vof SOBA So ba. DOOAIN Do ó a in AAI A a i. IVONPH I vonph SOBA So ba. VPAAH Vpa ah CHIS Chis NANBA Nan ba. ZIXLAY Zix lay DODSIH Dod sih ODBRINT Od brint TAXS Taxs. He maketh Cursie H ..... Hu 〈◊〉 ro TAST Tas tax YL Yl si ...... Do a lim ..... E o lis ..... Ol log ..... Ors ba. DSCHIS Ds chis AFFA Af fa. MICMA Mic ma. ISRO Is ro MAD Mad. OD Od. LONSHITOX Lon shi tox DS ds JUMD Jumbd LUSDAN Lus dan. EMOD E mod DSOM dsom OD Od. TLIOB Tli ob DRILPA Dril pa. GEH jeh  Geh YLS as Yils  yls MADZILODARP Mad zi lo darp That is the Twelfth ........ ILS. ................ Di alpert ............... Za car ............... Go bus .................. Zamran ......... O do ... ICLE CICLE QAA Qáa. That is a call ¶ This is the eighth NAPEAI Na pe ai BABAGEN jen  B ba gen DSBRIN Ds brin OOAONA Ux.  O O Ao na LRING LRING VONPH Vonph SOBAIAD So bai ad IVONPOVNPH I von po vnph AL. ON Al don DAXIL Dax il OD Od. TOATAR To a tar E. K. The Curtain is pluck't to A voyce That is the thirteenth E. K. Now it is open again E. K. He is now as if he had a pall or Robe of Gold with a strange Cap of Gold on his head ... Ils. ......... Mi ca ol zod L. IRT Ol pirt IALPRG Yal  I al purg BLIORS B liors DS Ds. ODO Odo BUSDIR Bus dir OIAD O i ad OVOARS O vo ars CAOSGO Ca os go CASARMG Ca sar mg. LA ... Là i à d ERAN E ran INTS Brints CAFAFAM Ca fa fam DS Ds. IVMD I vmd AQLO 〈◊〉  A q lo. ADOHI A do hi. QZMOZ Moz OD Od. MAOFFAS Ma óf fas BOLP Bolp COMOB IORT Co mo bli ort PAMBT Pambt Curtain is now pluckt to A voice ..... That is all Blessed be the Creator of all who hath mercy on all E. K. Now he is here apparelled as he was wont to appear Nal. ..... Thus hath the Lord kept promise with you and will not forget the least part of his whole promise with you Keep you therefore promise with the Lord for he is jealous and not to be defiled Proceed as you now do The next Monday you shall have as many Δ. Will it please you to deliver us the English of these 14 now as you were wont to do Nal. ..... The English will have a day by it self Nal. ..... The Δ. Third Monday to come you shall have them all So that you have but three dayes to labour Δ. You speak of the next Monday and the third and speak nothing of the second Monday and you said that the English will have a day by it self And you say we have but three dayes to labour c. Nal. ..... What I have said is so Go also and refresh your selves E. K. The Curtain is drawn A voice ..... Stay there A voice ..... Give God thanks and make an end E. K. Prayed the 145. and 146. Psalm kneeling reverently and I likewise in heart consenting thereto attentively listning Note ..... E. K. is very well perswaded of these Actions now thanked be the Highest who is Almighty Δ. Laudate Dominum de Caelis laudate eum in excelfis laudate eum omnes Angeli ejus laudate eum omnes virtutes ejus Quia ipse dixit facta sunt nobis Non 〈◊〉 taliter omni nationi Soli Deo nostro laus omnis Victoria Triumphus Jubilatio Amen Monday Cracoviae Maii 21. 1564. Mane hora 5. Actio Tertia Lunaris E. K. There appeareth neither Vail nor any thing else in the Stone Δ. At length appeared one but none of them he is jolly and green with a long like green Velvet Robe his hair long like yellow Gold nothing on his head but his hair He standeth as though he stood in a cloud above the usual paviment in the air ..... Lo the Sun shineth and men fear no rain the clouds are dispersed and they look not for a tempest But when it raineth mightily or the heavens frown then keep they their houses saying one to another What unreasonable Tempest is this what Hail-stones are these Good Lord who ever saw such windes were there ever such windes So shall it be of the power of God which holdeth in his hands the windes and scattereth cloudes abroad with his feet For of his coming shall it be said amongst you My Spirit hath vexed me and I am troubled Why hast thou brought in things greater than thy self or where shall this power dwell that overshadoweth me Wanting you shall desire as you do and being filled you shall think you have too much Flesh can never be throughly mortified but with death Think not that the Lord is as the Sun that keepeth his continual watch through the heavens which because be is made for a time is also tied to time He that sitteth and judgeth keepeth no course but a continual performance of his long-before providence For he that useth him otherwise shall be rejected because his Δ. dwellings are not in the mansions of the faithful Lift up your ears therefore for thus saith the highest Who made the heavens or spread them like a garment Who breathed into man the spirit of understanding Who overthrew the proud world with waters Who smiled at the ruin of Pharaoh Who rooted the wicked out
added Three dayes before you take your voyage shall you meet me here For I have something to say unto you which shall be hidden till then Let Lasky stretch out his lims For I will love him and let him gape wide And take much for the Vessel is wide that he shall drink of Let him not despair for he that governeth the windes and dwelleth not in the hands of man be it is that shall comfort him Glory be to God the Father Glory be to God the Son Glory be to God the holy Ghost All the Heavens rise up and glorifie God Δ. Amen Map ..... Hallelujah Δ. I beseech you as concerning the rest of the Calls or invitations we are most ready to receive them now Map ..... Pray that those three dayes to come may satisfie those three dayes that are past Δ. I beseech you to let me understand whether I shall take with me onely this Table-Cloath Map ..... With the shew-stone that is made for your self A voyce ..... Cause the book to be made all ready Δ. I understand that I shall cause the leaves to be silver'd and so prepared Δ. Misericordias Domini in eternum cantabo Ejus nomen sit benedictum ex hoc nunc in sempiterna seculorum secula Ille solus est Deus Noster Omnipotens eternus vivus Illi soli omnis honor laus Gloria Amen Saturday Cracoviae 2 Mane circa 7. Post preces aliquot 〈◊〉 meas statim ferè apparuit E. K. I see him that we call Gabriel sitting in his Chair alone Gabr. ..... God is a spirit essential and in himself Essential and working by himself Essential in all works and dignifying them by himself So that the beginning and ending of all things that are already or are in him already and to come is placed in the fountain and well-spring of all life comfort and encrease Whereby we see that the heavens and the mighty powers therein from the highest unto the lowest things that shall have an end and the earth with all that she bringeth forth yea the lower parts though after another manner and by another course do all hang and are established in and upon the unspeakable 〈◊〉 in the providence of him How therefore can the Heavens run awry Or the earth for the 〈◊〉 sake want a comforter Or the lower places look for comfort If it be so therefore that the heavens cannot erre Or if the power of God be so mighty and so full of prevailing If in the house of light there be no darknesse or from the Heavens can descend no wickednesse And why because they are dignified in the power of God What is he that should live and distrust the Lord But 〈◊〉 The power and quality of the Devil is not onely manifest but also still contendeth against the power and will of God stirring up and provoking man to fast at full Bankets to study for good and evil To rise up against the Lord and against his power And to vex the Lord himself which cannot be vexed at the wickednesse of the Devil Even for this cause sayeth the Lord unto you How long will you wallow in wickednesse How long will you be drunken with folly How long will you rise up against the Lord and against me * Saying And if this be the power of God Are these the Messagers of the highest Is this the will of God Or can it be that he hath care of the earth But these are the blasphemies of your mouth But I see I must differre my self for a time and must raise up a Table where there shall eat more worthy Consider what it is to deal with Devils Is it not to take part with Rebels Is it not to be Traitors against the annointed in his own Kingdom Is it not a greater sin then the sin of the Devil For why The Devil sinneth in himself and therefore had his fall But your sin is in your selves and by the Devil and therefore it is the greater But as it is said before Where is there a moniment upon the earth that the people have raised up in the remembrance of wickednesse Many there be that say Lo there is Hierusalem Lo there was the Lord buried Lo there the flouds divided themselves with all the rest in remembrance of the Lord But none there is that say Lo in this place the wicked have risen up and prevailed Therefore to cleave unto the Lord is good and to follow a sensible Doctrine which bringeth with it self the loathsomnesse of wickednesse and the study to do well that the wicked may be confounded Alas let the whole earth rise up thrusting up his hand even this hand can gather them all together what therefore can the Lord do when he frowneth O unreasonable Creatures and worse then beasts more ignorant then the beasts that grase in the Mountains Are you not afraid of the power of God when it becometh a skourge For doubt you not to deal with those that are wicked you of no faith wherefore hath the Lord made the earth but to be glorified in the creatures thereof And what is he that glorifieth God on earth but man Think you not therefore that the Lord bath not care of his people Think you that there is a Seat upon earth wherein he hath not hidden the might of his free power Doth Satan get a Soul that he is not privy of Believe O you of little Faith for it is the power of God it is the Key of the whole world which is the Key of mans conscience If he lock not the door but depart and leave it open Wo be to that Soul for the Prince of darknesse entreth and is possessed to the eternal wo of his dwelling place If therefore the earth be a Cave unto him that made it as appeareth by his Prophets and by the Son of God What are you Or how empty are you When you think it is in vain that the Lord hath appeared unto you But in you two is figured the time to come For many shall cleave unto the Lord even at the first call And many shall doubt of the Lord and not believe him for a season But as you two shall dwell in one Center if you yet do look forward and step right So shall the face of the whole earth be for 800. one hundred and fifty years For the fruit of Paradise shall appear that nothing may be on earth without comfort For lo the first shall be last and it shall be a Kingdom without corruption Now now hath the Serpent wallowed his fill Now Now are all things in the pride of their wickednesse Now now is the Heir ready most like his father But wo unto the earth through his government For his Kingdom shall have an end with misery And these are the latter dayes And this is the last Prophesie of the World Now now shall one King rise up against
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
When shall we practice Ave his Calls c. Gab. ..... My brother thou hast least care Thou drawest both of God and man That is promised thee shall be payed thee and that which is to come thou shalt be partaker of Δ. To E. K. for he hath no care neither for meat nor drink for him and his neither is he destitute of 400 Dollers yearly pension and is to have some help by Art Nal. ..... Say the first word of the Call Δ. Sapah It is the fifth for 4 being Englished E. K. He holdeth up all his hand and on his thumb standeth written and on the fingers orderly very big letters There was no word there that fignified Nine the third word should be E M. Nine to vanne the earth Wherefore mighty and Hearken unto in the firmament  my voice of waters 7699 I have talked of you whom continual Workmen  the first whose courses and hath planted visit with comfort I move you a Torment the earth in power and presence to the wicked and are whose works and in government shall be a Garland and a Song of honour to the righteous continuance and the praise giving unto them as the second of your God fiery darts and the third in your Creation Nal. ..... That is one E. K. Now he plucketh the Curtain over all Δ. Because you said that Acam betokening 7699. was to be put in his place I have viewed and numbred and I find the words of the Call more than the English parcells by many For the English parcels are 41 and the Call hath above 50. A voice ..... You have OD the fourth word of that Call The whole Call is placed there and ought to be the next Number the words of the next Call Δ. So that the next Call ought to have this English E. K. Now he sheweth again Nal .... The mighty sounds nineteen whose have entered and numbers into the third Angle gave them are as and vessels the first  to water the ends are become the earth and as Olives with her Creatures the Contents of time in the Olive Mount and Therefore looking with gladnesse they are Come ye upon the earth the brothers and and of the first obey  and second your Creation dwelling in the brightnesse and visit us in peace of the Heavens the beginning and comfort as of their own seats conclude us continual comforters which as receivers unto whom are garnished of their mysteries I fastened with continual burning 〈◊〉 for why Pillars of gladnesse 69636. Our Lord and Master   is all one Nal. ..... That is it that went before E. K. Now he draweth the Curtain Δ. I understand this to be the English of the fifth Call and that before of the sixth the Numbers of the parcels seem to agree So that we have now the English of the fifth and sixth Call Thanked be God E M Af. and Peoal three words which you said we had not I finde them in the Calls your meaning perhaps is some other then the common words E. K. Now he hath opened again A mighty These upon Guard gather up their hands of fire the Mosse are with two edged swords of the earth Marble flaming as the rich man sleeves which have doth Happy is he the Viols his Treasure on whom eight cursed they frown not of wrath are they For why for two times whose the God of righteousnesse and iniquities rejoyceth a half they are in them whose in their eyes Come away wings are And not are Milstones your viols of Wormwood greater For and then the earth the time of the marrow And is such as of salt from their mouths requireth have setled runne comfort their feet Seas  in the West of bloud  and Their heads  are measured are covered  with their Ministers with Diamond  9996 That is and  E.K. Now he draweth the Curtain Δ. As I was comparing the Call to this English a voyce said Nall .... It is the next Call Δ. I understand it to be the fourth Call or E. K. Now he openeth The midday the first like Come away is as unto the Harvest For the third Heaven of a Widow the Crowns made How many are there of the Temple of Hiacinct pillars which remain and 26. in the glory the Coat In whom of the earth of him that is was and shall the Elders which are be Crowned are and shall not see are divided become strange death untill Come which this house appear I have prepared fall to the terrour for my own righteousnesse and of the earth saith the Lord the Dragon and whose long continuance sink to our comfort shall be C me away and as Buckles For of such to the stouping Dragons the Thunders as and have spoken are prepared E. K. Now he hath covered all again Δ. As I was speaking of his diversities saying This you have not and this you have not A voyce said Some you have and some you have not whether you have or have not it is a mystery E. K. There is a little fire in the stone going about it like a little Candle The Curtain is open and a great Cloud over them Now they appear clear The Thunders of Judgement and wrath are of lamentation of a moment numbred and roar and weeping with an hundred Torb are harboured laid up mighty Earth-quakes in the North for And in the 〈◊〉 the earth a Thousand Math. of an Oak that surges whose times which branches 5678. rest not or labour still are in the 24 th neither Neasts parte know 22.   E. K. Now cometh a Cloud over them very white like smoke Now they appear again Which the Thunders Yea burn any wo night time be to the earth and here for day One rock th And bringeth out her iniquity vomit out a thousand is the heads even as was of Scorpions the heart and shall be and of man great live Sulphur doth Come away mingled his thoughts But with poyson wo wo wo not These be wo wo wo your noyses E. K. Now the Curtain is drawn again after a quarter of an hour E. K. Now he appeareth Nal. ..... Consider by these whose businesse you have in hand O you of sorrow 3663.  that range binde up that in the South your girdles the Lord and and may be magnified are Visit us whose name 28. Bring down amongst you the Lanterns your train is wrath c. ..... Here must words in the end of the first Call follow at Move c. Δ. But this Call it differeth a little expresly Δ. They are the 14 last words in the holy language thus Zacar e ca od zamran odo ic Qua Zorge lap zirdo Noco Mad Hoath Jaida Another spake it is measured The mighty seat and and groaned cried with a loud voyce it
Gregorian Calender and the fourth day of July by the old Calender Rowland my Childe who was born Anno 1583. January 28. by the old Calender was extreamly sick about noon or midday and by one of the Clock ready to give up the Ghost or rather lay for dead and his eyes set and sunck into his head c. I made a vow if the Lord did foresee him to be his true servant and so would grant him life and confirm him his health at this danger and from this danger I would during my life on Saturdayes eat but one meal c. Remember on Wednesday night the eighteenth of July as I walked alone about nine of the Clock in the evening in the Chamber before my Study above in divers places of that Chamber appeared flashes of fire and did not lighten abroad Munday Julii 23. Mane Circiter 8. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita Δ. I read Mapsama his first words of the book to be prepared of 48 leaves to be silvered and would gladly know what I was now to do By and by at the first looking into the stone E. K. There appeared ten Pikes all black on the ground in a Circle as it were and 1 in the middle a great Pike standing up And Vera falsis falsa seemed to be written in the middle of that Circle somewhat blacker then all the rest which seemed to be as new molten Pitch A voyce ..... Qui non in 7. vivant in undecimo Δ. I made a short discourse to God of my sincere and just dealing hitherto of the book of Enoch written of the book to be silvered how hardly I can get it performed to my contentment the books being laid on the Table that of Enoch and that as it were silvered c. I craved therefore the expofition of this dark shew and as yet nothing pleasant or plain My conscience is clear and I trust in the Lord his mercies E. K. After this appeared a man all black naked all over ..... O thou that art just and hast a clear conscience answer me Δ. In the name of Jesus ..... Who commanded thee to be gone ..... I take the Commandment to have been from God ..... Thou hast broken the Commandment of God Δ. I can in no case yield thereunto ..... You have dishonoured the Lord which is just in the bottom of his own breast and gave you warning and commanded you to go which is the Lord of Heaven and Earth Δ. O Lord my first charge was in these words Thou shalt go from hence with him to the Emperour It was also said that he should make provision for this one voyage and for the rest God had provided So that seeing I was to go with him and he hath not yet provided doing what he can what shall I say or do ..... True it is thou hast had the victory and thou and thy Children have tasted mercy Thou art one of those that when I command thee to leave nothing with life yet thou savest the fatlings to offer before him that abhorreth such sacrifice Δ. Lord I know no such act of mine The Lord be mercifull to me For when it should come to such a case God knoweth I would spare none ..... O thou just man shaking his head thou art become a Saul ..... Wherefore did God answer me take the Kingdom out of Saul his hands Δ. It appeareth in the Bible because obedience was better then sacrifice ..... Even so if thou badst been obedient thy obedience had been regarded But I say unto thee the Lord oweth thee nothing for thy labour he bath payed thee to the uttermost As for Lasky I will give him over to the spirit of errour and he shall become more poor so that his own Children shall despise him But it shall not come to passe in these dayes For I will keep my promise with you You do the Commandment of Princes and Lords and Masters But when the God of Justice without your desert entertaineth you and placeth you and dwelleth amongst you which is able to give you all things commandeth you to go and that for your own profit you think it nothing to offend him But true it is That Obedience pleaseth the Lord for thererin his Creatures glorifie him most All Worship all Honour all Love all Faith all Hope all Charity all the knitting together of the Heavens consisteth in Obedience For if you had been obedient the very stones of the earth should have served your necessity For the Lord will not be found a lyar Δ. O Lord be mercifull to me I could not do thy Commandment in going without A. Laskie and him I was not able to cause to goe without provision And to our judgement he seemeth marvellously to be carefull to make provision but still he hath hinderance ..... Thou hearest thou the Lord forgiveth thee but from henceforth he commandeth thee that thou open not the secrets and the judgements which the Lord shall open unto thee of the times to come unto Laskie Δ. I pray you to say somewhat unto us as concerning this book to be silvered Else what shall I do if I have not direction herein the case being so hard ..... As concerning the book when thou art at the end of thy journey it shall be told Δ. Misericordias Domini in aeternum Cantabo Amen Hallelujah Amen Tuesday Julii 31. Mane hora 7. †Cracoviae Oratione Dominica finita variis ejaculationibus factis tam ad Gabrielem quam Nalvage Ave Mapsama Ilemer quà m maximè ad Deum ipsum pro suo lumine auxilio protectione tam in ipsa actione quà m itinere praesenti futuro versus aulam Caesaris After a great hour attendance At length appeared one all naked black and about the stone a Circle of black He said ..... Were you not commanded to go after ten dayes Δ. It is true ..... And what followeth Δ. I appeal unto the mercy of the highest for that I have not offended upon wilfulnesse ..... Say what followeth Δ. It followeth that we may drink of a Cup which we would not c. And also we were willed to provide for this journey which provision onely now is made for us two and not yet for A. L. himself ..... Thus sayeth the Lord I have stretched out my hand and you have hindred me I have brought things unto their course but you have thrust your selves between When I appointed you 10 dayes did I not also tell you that the earth was mine Am not I the God of heaven and earth by whom you breath The same which also forsaketh not my people in the time of need I have opened my wings but you have refused my cover I have brought in madnesse into the house of the unjust but you have prevented my judgement And because you have done so and have trusted more in the mallices of the world then in my power Δ. Lord we
so much doth the gift that is given thee from above excel all earthly treasure Notwithstanding because that Manna is loathsom unto thee behold what is said unto thee this day Thou art made free neither shalt thou any time hereafter be constrained to see the judgment of the highest or to hear the voices of the heavens But thou art a stumbling-block unto many Notwithstanding my Spirit shall dwell with thee and in the works of thy hands thou shalt receive comfort And the power which is given thee of seeing shall be diminished in thee and shall dwell upon the first-begotten Son of him that sitteth by thee as I have * before said In the mean season shall he be exercised here before me until the time come that his eyes shall be opened and his ears receive passage towards the highest And these fourteen dayes shall it be a time unto thee of chusing or refusing For I will not cast thee away neither out of my house unless it be long of thy own ignorance and wilful despising of my great benefit If thou therefore be weary of it the fourteenth day hence bring hither and lay before me the Powder which thou hast for thou hast offended me as a false steward in taking out of that which is not thine own I will no longer dally with you but will give unto you according unto your works Δ. O God be merciful unto us and deal not with us according to the wickedness frowardness and blindness of our hearts Amen NOTE Δ. UPon this former part of the Third Action General where my first begotten Son namely Arthur was assigned to the Ministry of seeing and hearing in place and stead of E. K. if he would utterly refuse the same office hitherto by him executed and by him to be executed until the seven actions general finished And that the same Childe and Son in the mean space that is to say between the day of the part of Action received and the end of the same determined to be fourteen dayes after should be exercised before God I thereupon thinking that E. K. would should or best could instruct and direct the Childe in that exercise did alwayes await that E. K. would of himself call the Boy to that Exercise with him and so much the rather because he said that he was very glad now that he should have a Witness of the things shewed and declared by spiritual Creatures And that he would be more willing to do what should be so enjoyned to him to do then if onely he himself did see and that for divers causes But when E. K. said to me that I should exercise the Childe and not he and that he would not I thereupon appointed with my self to bring the Childe to the place and to offer him and present him to the service of Seeing and Skrying from God and by Gods assignment and of the time of fourteen dayes yet remaining being the 15 16 17 dayes of April and next before the 18 day the day assigned to end the Action in to have the Childe exercised in them And thereupon contrived for the Childe this order of Prayer ensuing Die Mercurii summo mane die Aprilis 15. anno 1587. Trebonae In the Name of God the Father of God the Son and of God the Holy Ghost Amen Glory be to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O Almighty and Everlasting the true and living God have metcy pity and compassion on my father John Dee and on me Arthur Dee who being now called hither by thy assignment am now here present and ready in all humility obedience and faithfulness to serve thy Divine Majesty with all the gifts and graces which thou hast hither to endued me with and with all other which of thy most bountiful and fatherly mercy thou wilt henceforward bestow upon me Lighten therefore O Almighty God mine eyes and open thou mine ears Quicken Instruct and Confirm in me and unto me my discretion judgement understanding memory and utterance that I may be a true and perfect Seer Hearer Declarer and Witness of such things which either immediately of thy Divine Majesty or mediately by the ministry of thy holy mighty and faithful Angels shall be manifested declared or shewed unto me now and at all times and occasions for the advancing of thy Praise Honour and Glory Amen Hereupon Wednesday morning the 15 of this April I brought the Childe to the holy Table being in order of the furniture thereto belonging and set before him the Stone in the frame my first sanctified Stone and caused him on his knees to say the foresaid Prayer And I also praid to the Childs hearing other Prayers to God for the purpose in hand and at his coming to look and see in the Stone There appeared to him as he judged divers little square figures with pricks and divers other figures and lines which I caused him with his own hand to imitate upon a paper with pen and ink The lines were white and some of the pricks also but other of the pricks were black as of ink Arth. Two old men with black beards and with golden Crowns upon their heads do appear One is now gone this holdeth his hands before him like a Maid Arth. Now in the place of those square marks I see two Lions the one very exactly and gaping About the upper brim of the Stone they appear and the Lions feet be waxen greater and greater I see another man from the breast upward I can see no hair on his head I see a great company of feet and their garments skirts somewhat above their ankles and they are like womens kirtles with gards about them I see another man without a doublet in his shirt and with a white Cloke about him hanging his hands down by his sides Δ. Nothing else esteemed or judged to be shewn in the Stone by the Childe we ceased that Exercise and committed all to Gods mercies Δ. On Thursday and Friday I determined each of them two dayes that the Childe shall thrice in the day be put to the Exercise and each time repeat the Prayer prescribed thrice Δ. In the forenoon I brought the Childe to the Exercise and he said as followeth I see two men with Crowns of gold upon their heads their apparel is black and white I cannot see their feet Their faces are white their eyes are black like spots of ink There appear now two other without Crowns of the which one standeth whole before and of the other I see nothing but the head which standeth behinde the first I see not any with Crowns now The apparel of him is white that I see I see no hands of him I see nothing now The squares and pricks appear again as yesterday And I doubted it was something of the Glass it self as there were in it certain
what a miserable World should we have What man so sober or innocent that could enjoy himself at any time with any comfort or security But again what man can read this sad story and can be so perswaded of his own Wisdom or innocency but will in some degree reflect upon himself and will be moved to praise God that notwithstanding many provocations in several kindes as damnable curiosity open prophaneness frequent Oathes Curses Perjuries scandalous Life and the like God hath been pleased to protect and preserve him from the force and violence of such enemies of mankinde I said before from les beginnings greatest confusions had ensued which is very true as in the case of Bacchus particularly many Ages before and in the case of Mahomet afterwards two notable lewd Euthusiasts by whom as Instruments evil Spirits by Gods permission brought great alterations in Governments and wrought much mischief and 〈◊〉 among Men and Women we shall elsewhere shew more at large By due consideration of all Circumstances as chiefly their confident and reiterated Addresses unto and Attempts upon so many great men in Power and Authority and the like I am much of opinion that these Spirits had as great hopes of Dr. Dee as ever they had of Bacchus or Mahomet But God was not 〈◊〉 at that time to permit that their malice and subtilty should prevail And I think if we consider it well we have reason to 〈◊〉 God for it England might have been over-run with Anabaptism when I say Anabaptism I mean Anabaptism confirmed and in full power not as it appears in its first pretentions long before this God be thanked that it was not then and God keep it from it still I hope is the Prayer of all truly sober and Religious And in very deed I know no reason but the Wisdom and prudence of their Majesties Councel that then were in opposing Dr. Dees 〈◊〉 addresses and Sollicitations may under God challenge and 〈◊〉 some part of our Thanks and Acknowledgement Again The Divel we see can Pray and Preach as to outward appearance we mean for truly and really God forbid that any thing sacred and holy should be thought to proceed from Divels and talk of Sanctity and Mortification as well as the best And what he can in his own person or by himself immediately there is no question but he doth by his Ministers and Instruments much more more ordinarily and frequently I mean Let any man judge then whether it be the part of a sober wise man not onely to hear such men as can give no account of their calling but also to follow them to embrace their Doctrine to be of their number or Congregation and all this upon this account because they can pray and preach very well as they think and judge at least and talk very godlily and zealously How much more inexcusable they that will clave unto such though they see and know them scandalous in their Lives Proud Insolent Ignorant Seditious Intolerable because they can pray and preach and talk as best agreeth with their own humor and gives them best content Can any man think they follow God in this who would have all things done in order and is not a God of Confusion 1 Cor. 14. 33 40. when all they do tends to nothing else but disorder and confusion I confess it is possible that men lawfully called may prove bad enough we have divers examples in the Scripture But if a man simply and ignorantly be mis-led by such certainly his judgement will be much lighter then they can expect who will not use the means that God hath ordained in so great and weighty a business as the salvation of Souls is I know not what these men can say for themselves except it be that they are resolved to make use of the Liberty of the times to please their humor they may do it but if that bring them to Heaven they have good luck But the business of praying is that I would principally insist upon You see here how Dr. d ee where he gives an account of himself to the Emperor and others bears himself much upon this that so many years he had been an earnest Suitor unto God by Prayer to obtain Wisdom such wisdom as he was ambitious of I believe him that he had prayed very earnestly and with much importunity many times This was the thing that made him so confident of his Spirits that they must needs be good Spirits and Angels I know a man I have no comfort to tell it but that I would not conceal any thing that may be a warning unto others and yet I will have a respect unto him too But I knew one a very innocent man in his outward conversation and as I believe very really Humble Religious very Learned and Orthodox and one that had suffered for his Conscience as others have done in these times This worthy man being engaged in a controverted Argument upon which his phancy had wrought very much or rather which had much wrought upon his phancy he had written much filled much Paper and was desirous to communicate unto me as his friend what he had done But when I perceived that the drift of his writing was out of the Law and the Prophets to shew the necessity of some things which I thought of a more indifferent nature I was not willing to meddle with it and begun to argue against his main drift and to shew my disliking After many words to and fro he began to press me with this that he had often prayed with much earnestness and he was very confident that God had heard his Prayers Yea he proceeded so far that if God were true he could not be deceived and used many other words to the same purpose at which I was much amazed but could do no good upon him such was his confidence and violence upon this occasion though otherwise a very moderate ingenuous man And thus I found him more then once or twice Truly I think God was very merciful unto him that took him away in good time But certainly this business of Prayer and praising is a business as of great comfort the greatest that mortal man is capable of upon earth so of much more danger and delusion then many do believe And if caution and circumspection be to be used in any thing that belongs to Religion I think it ought in Prayer as much as any thing And since I have adventured to tell one story upon mine own credit I will tell one more upon better authority which I have long desired for the observableness of it to communicate unto the world and to that end had once inserted it in a Treatise of mine which I thought would have been Printed but it was not I will first give the English of it that all men may reap the benefit and then set it down in the words of my Author mine own Father Isaac Casaubon of b. m. as I have it to
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
thy Prince What 〈◊〉 thou know of them Cease till you hear the number of their destruction Desire what plague you will saith the Lord upon this people for their ungratefulnesse and they shall be afflicted For the Lord is angry with them and he saith Judge you this wicked people their Town Men Women and Children And it shall be seen that the Lord the God of Heaven and Earth hath mercy on you Δ Non nostra sed Dei voluntas fiat ad ejus nominis laudem honorem Gab. ..... Bid the fires fly from Heaven and consume them and it shall be done Or say Let the Earth swallow them And they shall perish 〈◊〉 I have made Heaven and Earth saith the Lord and .... Justice is for my people I am a flaming fire amongst you and the Rod of Justice It is said Heave up thy hands and thou shalt be heard The peace of him that is the spirit of wisdome inflame your mindes with love and charity and grant you continuance to his glorie Δ. Amen Deo AEterno Omnipotenti Misericordi sit omnis laus honor Gloria Amen Tuesday 15. Octob. We made hard shift to get from Dockum to Angem by sun set Thursday 17. Octob. We came from Angem to Embden going without the Isles and coming in at Wester Emb. We came before the Town by six of the Clock after noon but could not get in at the Gates and therefore we lay all night a shipboard but my Lord A. L. went over to the lodging on the other shoar Friday 18. Octob. We came into the Town My Lord lay at the white Swan toward the water-side and I and E. K. with my Children and Many at the three golden Keyes by the English house Sunday 20. Octob. This day morning about eight of the Clock we went in a litte Hoy from Embden toward Lyre my Lord tarried at Embden We came late to Lyre and the same night we went from thence in a lesse Scute by Styk-husen to Oppen Munday 21. Octob. By nine of the Clock in the morning we came to Oppen a very simple Village and from thence we went straight way to Oldenburgh Tuesday 22. Octob. From Oldenburgh by Delmenhurst to Breame and were lodged at an old Widow her house at the sign of the Crown Saturday Octobris 26. Hora 12. scil in Meridie At Breame Δ. The Lord Albert Laskie being at Styck-husen behinde us with the Earle John of Embden and Friesland c. E. K. The Curten seemeth to be far backward in the stone and the stone to be clear between the Curten and the fore-part Under the Curten I see the leggs of men up to the knees Δ. Then appeared one and said Il. ..... Room for a Player Jesus who would have thought I should have met you here E. K. He is all in his ragged Apparel down from the Girdle steed But above he hath a white Satten Gerken Δ. By the mercies of God we are here And by your will and propriety and the power of God you are here Il. ..... Tush doubt not of me for I am I. L. E. K. My thinketh that the gravity of this Action requireth a more grave gesture and more grave speeches Bear with me though I say so unto you Il. ..... If I must bear with thee for speaking foolishly which art but flesh and speakest of thy own wisdom How much more oughtest thou to be contented with my gesture which is appointed of him which regardeth not the outward form but the fulfilling of his will and the keeping of his Commandments which is God whose wisdom unto the world is foolishnesse but unto them that fear him an everlasting joy mixed with gladnesse and a comfort of life hereafter Partaking infallible joyes with him that is all comelinesse and beauty How say you to this Sir Ha Ε. K. He turneth up his heels to Ε. K. E. K. I do not understand your words for because I do onely repent your sayings Il. ..... It is the part of him that is a servant to do this duty Of him that watcheth to look what he seeth For the greatest point of wisdom is reverently to consider thy calling It is said do that which is appointed for he that doth more is not a true servant E. K. How can that be Il. ..... Speak when they time cometh Sir here is mony but I have it very hardly Bear with me for I can help thee with no more Come on Andras where are you Andras E. K. Now cometh one in a Gown to him The Gown is bare like a prentice of London a young man Il. ..... Did not I bid thee go yonder and fetch me money Andras ..... Whither Il. ..... This is one of them that forgetteth his businesse so soon as it is told him And. ..... Sir I went half way Il. ..... And how then Speak on Speak on And. ..... Then being somewhat weary I stayed the rather because I met my friends The third day I came thither but I found him not at home His family told me that he was newly gone forth Il. ..... And you returned a Coxcombe Well thus it is I placed thee above my servants and did what I could to promote thee and endeavoured dayly to make thee free But I am rewarded with loytring and have brought up an idle person Go thy way I will deliver thee to the Officer The Officer shall deliver thee to the Prison and there thou shalt be rewarded For such as do that they are commanded deserve freedom but unto those that loytre and unto such as are idle vengeance and hunger belongeth E. K. He taketh him by the arm and delivereth him to a man with a staffe in his hand and he putteth him in at a door E. K. Now Il himself goeth into a house which all this while appeared on the left hand Il. ..... Come on E. K. Now he bringeth another by the hand Il. ..... My thinketh you should be a fit man to do my message E. K. Now he whispereth him in the ear and pointeth out h .... Il. ..... I warrant the man be not abashed A strange matter Pointing to E. K. Il. ..... I have businesse in Denmark and this fellow is afraid to go thither Tell him thou comest from me and that I will come my self shortly I know he will do so much for me he hath had much acquaintance with me ..... I care not if I had some man to keep me Company E.K. This new come man said so E. K. He whispereth again with this man in his ear Il. ..... These good fellows are not ready or else they might go with thee Go thy way in Gods name See that you do your businesse I keep such servants as none in all the Countrey keepeth E. K. He keepeth no servants Il. ..... Meddle with that you have to do with all I pray this man and that man and every one deceiveth me Good Lord where should a man finde a true
friend now adayes I will go and tell the knave that he provide for himself For it will be marvellous hard weather You were best to do so least you blow your Nails E. E. He speaketh to one within the house Il. ..... Thus you see me Masters how I am troubled with my servants How now what aileth thee E. K. There cometh a woman round about his house and she seemeth to passe by him She is in English Attire Il. ..... I will know what aileth her to cry What aileth thee Woman One of my Children is dead Il. ..... Alas poor Childe How can Children resist cold she might have kept it warmer Cold pierceth where shot cannot enter Δ. This woman is not of our Company I trust None of our Children shall perish in this cold Il. ..... Ha A your Children you keep them warm It will do them no hurt Those that are warned 〈◊〉 danger to come For many things are prevented by the quality of wisdom Δ. I trust we shall safe arrive at the place appointed in Cracow or elsewhere Δ. But as concerning Vincent Seve brother in Law to the Lord Albert Laskie I pray you to shew us the truth of his state E. K. I see him walking in a street and a thick man with him And Gerlish seemeth to comeafter him The thick man his beard is somewhat like my Lord his beard he cometh after Vincent Vincent hath a black satten Dubblet on cut with crosse cuts He hath a ruffe about his neck along one edged with black or blue Δ. I beseech you I. L. to shew us what Town that is Il. ..... Speaking to him that sheweth it for I shew it not Δ. O God Il. ..... I remember not the name of any such Town Quem Deus non amat non novit E. K. Now the Town appeareth again the Sea runneth by it There is an old rotten Church standing at the Town end The Town seemeth to be 60. or 80. miles off E. K. It seemeth to be Embden in my judgement E. K. But Vincent and Gerlish seem not to be in one Town or street Δ. I beseech you to say unto us whether A. L. be furnished with money at Grave John his hand so as may serve our turn or no. Il. ..... If I have not told you already I will You grudge at me E. K. He speaketh to E. K. Il. ..... Judge my words with reason and thou shalt finde them true Touch them with understanding and thou shalt finde them profound My words are true Because I am sent by Truth Neither are we to speak gravely when we take upon us the persons of Buyers and Sellers Whosoever doth the will of his Master truely in this World shall be laughed to scorn But whoso speaketh worldly and sendeth out shadows is accounted a pillar of the Earth Happy are those which are not foolish neither in works say There is no God Such request such answer Such earthly minde such heavenly motions Yet Heaven speaketh truth and the Earth lyeth This is not my office which I have taken in hand yet because I have dealt with you as a worldling I was the fitrest to answer your worldly expectation Δ. As you have dealt with us not according to your office but according to our worldly expectation So now do we desire to understand somewhat according to our higher and heavenly expectation of our doing the determined will of the Highest E. K. He is gone and all the Stone as red as blood Δ. E K. Now he is come again and standeth in the fire Il. ..... Thus saith the Lord I have taught you how to live I have set you Statutes and have wished you my Peace Follow me and I will be your God For unto them that are wise shall there be more wisdom given But unto them that are become foolish my wisdom is a ... These five years to come are the Deliverance ... Yea sorrow shall bring forth her Children My Honour shall be defaced and my holy Places pluckt No man hath ever seen such a world For Now shall they say unto the Mountains Come and cover us and unto the Waters Swallow us up for we know there is no God neither is there any care of Mankind I will plague the people and their blood shall become Rivers Fathers shall eat their own Children And the Earth shall be barren The Beasts of the field shall perish And the Waters shall be poisoned The Air shall infect her Creatures And in the Deep shall be roaring Great Babylon shall be built And the son of wickednesse shall sit in Judgement But I will reserve two Kingdoms untouched And I will root out their wickednesse Yea thus saith the Lord 〈◊〉 the North shall come a Whirlwind And the Hills shall open their mouths And there shall a Dragon flie out such as never was But I will be glorified by you and by those that are not yet dead And you shall have power such as I will be glorified by Keep therefore the Statutes which I taught you Forget not my words For unto those that look back there is great wo. Happy are they that continue to the end Amen E. K. Now he is gone Δ. ..... E. K. Now he is come again Il. ..... Thus saith Jehova I am the beginning and the end The root and life of all Righteousnesse I say By my self I am with you And will blesse you in Righteousnesse Cease therefore to move me for I am Almighty And inquire not of me what I have determined For Time groweth and I am a Just God Therefore Cease Cease I say I in my self say Cease Call not upon my name in defiled places Least the wicked ones hear what I determin I will visit you at your journyes end I will testifie my promise to you Be in haste therefore And flie from sin And flie the society of such as are accursed For I am jealous over my people Yea I will not suffer them to drink or taste of their vessels Be you unto me a people that I may behold my people And I will be unto you both A God for ever E. K. IL. saith Amen and falleth all in pieces as small as ashes E. K. Now all is Clear and the Curtain is come again Δ. Deo Omnipotenti sit omnis Honor laus gloria in secula seculorum Amen Friday 1 Novemb. 1588. Mane At Breame Δ. Albeit we were willed O Lord to Cease yet understanding the same warning to have been meant for Enquiring of thy Mysteries and secret Determinations wherein we intend now not to deal but in matters before and last moved and wherein we were not fully satisfied that now we may more expressely be certified and that is of three things First for Vincent Seve Secondly for Edmond Hilton gone with the Ship toward Dansk And Thirdly as concerning help for money for the Lord Alb. Laskie And herein we crave either the ministery
Let us seek other wayes Then you are not counted perseverers neither are your works worthy reward But humane reason can perswade and give judgement against these follies much more are they damnable and deserve correction in the voice and judgement of such as are pure He that dealeth with the wicked is a lyar and shall have his reward But the end of comfort is in the purenesse of spirit But O you of little wisdom you rise up against the windes and yoke your wits against the mountains Nay you cast your selves down headlong where there is no mercy For what blasphemie is it to say If it be the will of God it must follow Is not man subject to the bringing in of his own labours And are not they allowed to his comfort being brought in The soul of man is the Image of God after his form which keepeth within himself the power of his divinity in the heavenly Spirit whereby he hath Authority to consent with God in the workmanship of his Will and Creatures Which Power being sealed already giveth unto man as King of himself to consent to his own salvation conjoyning and knitting himself together either with perseverance in the assured hope of mercy or with wilfull drunkennesse to the reward of such as fall Therefore Become Holy For the soul beautifieth when it is beautified in it self Resist not the Will of God which is mighty on you Be not obstinate Be humble Rejoyce not for this World But be glad that your names are sealed and that you shall correct the World Despair not through weaknesse for from whom cometh strength If puddles become Seas the end is more wonderful But yet greater when sinners are called to the knowledge and performance of God his Will thorough his mercies Even as one day perisheth and is not although he hath been Even so it is and shall be the state of this World For the Earth must sing O Sanna with the Heavens And there must be One veritie And Hierusalem shall descend with an horn of glory to the end The Sun and Moon shall be witnesses and wonder at their stay The Kings of the Earth shall become proud in themselves and are unable to be tamed with man But I will yoke them saith the Lord with correction And force them one to imitate anothers steps Yea they shall tread the grapes alike For in my Vineyard Corruption shall not dwell with Authority Neither shall the Prince of Darknesse usurpe my further honour E. K. He speaketh much in a smaller voice than he did I cannot perceive it He turned back and spake ..... I speak these things for your understanding and that you may be strengthened E. K. He turneth back again as before and speaketh I know not what ..... My dear brethren therefore rejoyce in Comfort and the image of Peace and remain faithful that you may be fed with that food that shall preserve and alwaies rest before the mighty flames of Zanzor where there dwelleth no defiled Creature nor any unrighteousnesse E. K. He turneth now back again as before speaking He seemeth now to lean against a Pillar of Copper great and round And he is become lesse than he was Now he standeth on the top of the Pillar Now he kneeleth down his back being turned A voice saith to him ..... Swear ..... 1 He said ..... It is done He said ..... The first voice openeth his mouth and saith There is a great rumbling and roushings of falling of Towns or Houses as it were in the Stone He said ..... The will of God is sealed in this Prophesie and it shall endure A voice ..... Swear ..... 2 He said ..... I have done He said ..... It thundereth and it is the second voice The effect of God his Will is not of time and therefore not to be known of man till that moment and end of time shall appear wherein it must be published and finished with power E. K. Now it thumbleth again very terribly as though a vvhole Town should fall down into a great Valley A voyce ..... Swear ..... 3 He said ..... I have ..... And it is the third and the last voyce All things that are crooked shall be made straight The winde of the heavens shall walk through all the earth Wisdom shall sit in her Majestie Crowned in the top of an Hill with exalted glorie It is the end E. K. Now all dasheth in a flame of fire Pillar and he and all and so flieth upward A voyce ..... He that hath ears let him hear Another voyce It shall be Amen E. K. Now the Curtain cometh before all as it vvas at the beginning this day Δ. O Lord for thy great mysteries declared unto us this day we most humbly thank thee But on our parts there remaineth some matter .... thy hands by some of thy good Ministers we desire to have some advertisement as of the Lord Alb. Laskie Secondly of Vincent Seve c. E. K. A very little Creature appeareth and saith The little one A word and away The hearts of Princes are the secrets of the Lord Such they are as unlock the doings of this world Δ. Of A. L. his delay in coming contrary to our defire and expectation I would gladly understand the cause c. The little one Those things that are of wickednesse are not of our remembrance This stay shall hinder a third part of his glory But all your life is not of him Nor he of you If he become good he shall be well rewarded He is forward Vincent is in France E. K. He is gone suddenly This Creature stood betvveen the Curtain and the forepart of the stone it vvas one of the least Creatures that ever I savv Δ. All Honour praise and thanks be to our God Almighty now and ever Amen Thursday Januarii 9. The Lord Albert Laskie came to Stetin Hor. 2½ à Meridie Fryday Janurii 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hora prima incipiebat per 2. horas durabat Stetini Sonday 12. Januarii 1584. Stetin Δ. After Dinner we were talking together of our affairs A voyce in E. K. his head said Jam venit hora. Δ. After Supper as I had a desire to shew to E. K. some places of St. Johns Apocalypsis a voyce said to him Equus albus est initium Doctrinae vestrae Et est verbum Dei 10. 9. sunt Novemdecim Δ. Hereupon seeking in the 19. Chapter of the Apocalypsis we found the Text Equus albus c. versu 11. A voyce Ne dubites Sum enim servus Dei To this purpose appertain these places of Scripture c. These are the dayes wherein the Prophet said No faith should be found on the earth This Faith must be restored again and man must glorifie God in his works I am the light of God Δ. Then by like He is VRIEL ..... I am a witnesse of the light These are the times when Justice and truth must take place Behold I touched him
and he became a Prophet Δ. Mean you Esdras Vriel Yea in his ninth Chapter of the fourth book There you shall finde manifestly the Prophesie of this time and this action Δ. Alak we think the time very long before we entred in the right trade of our true lessons Ur. When you have the book of God before you Then I will open these secrets unto you Δ. But Alak the time is very long thereunto the more is our grief Ur. The Bible it is Δ. I meant somewhat of our other book which is to be written Ur. I will speak of that also Δ. This delay is greatly to our grief and occasion of many temptations Ur. The temptations of the world are nothing unto the wise happie are they that feel temptations with emptinesse of the belly The Timber is not yet seasoned or else thou shouldest Prophesie I mean not thee E. K. Δ. Vincat manifesta veritas E. K. He is gone Honor Gloria Laus benedictio sit Deo Nostro qui in ALBO EQUO Justitias suas facturus est Amen Monday Januarii 13. Mane hora. 9½ Stetin Δ. After our long discourse upon the 9 th Chapter of Esdras c. Vriel came and stood he ..... Iy upon E. K. his head not visibly Ur. Read the sixth Chapter For faith must flourish The world is rotten and is skalden in their own sins Δ. E. K. Read it and in the 28. verse thus it is Florebit autem fides vincetur corruptela ostendetur veritas quae fine fra ..... Diebus tantis c. E. K. A voyce saith Open the Shew-stone E. K. At length appared one in a long vvhite Garment The Curtain went aside and the feet of men appear not now This man seemeth twice so high as Δ. He hath nothing on his head but long hair hanging down behinde him He is tied or girded about as though he vvere tied vvith many girdles URIEL I am Vriel said this man The light and hand of him that created Heaven and Earth that talked with Esdras and did comfort him in affliction and the same that hath talked with you Yea from the beginning of this action Therefore gird your selves together and hear the voice of the Lord Listen I say to such things as are hid I say to them that dwell above the Heavens Behold this is the last sleep of the world and the time that the power of the highest hath armed himself saying Come O ye strength of the Heavens and follow me For the earth hath cried vengeance and hath cursed herself and despaireth Come I say For I will place the seat of righteousnesse That my Kingdom may be in One And that my people may flourish Yea even a little before the end And what is this E. K. He spake these four words in another Tune E. K. He looketh up to heaven A voyce Blessed art thou which respectest thy Justice and not the sins of man Ur. This is the voice of the Angel that now taketh place Δ. May we be so bold as to demand the name of that Angel Ur. No It is not lawfull I swear by all things that are contained within this holy book By the seat of God and him that sitteth thereon That the words which have been spoken in this Action and shall be now spoken by me are true Three years are yet to come even in this moneth that beginneth the fourth year shall the Son of perdition be known unto the whole world Suddenly creeping out of his hole like an Adder leading out her young ones after her to devour the dust of the earth Δ. The sentence is dark in respect of the time Consider well Δ. I suspect 42 moneths now and then to be understood for an year Ur. This moneth in the fourth year shall Antichrist be known unto all the world Then shall wo wo dwell amongst the Kings of the earth For they shall be chosen all anew Neither shall there any that ruleth now or reigneth as a King or Governour of the ..... le live unto the end of the third year But they shall all perish Their Kingdoms be overthrown The earth wasted The Rivers become bloud with the bloud of men and beasts mixed together In this time shall the Turkish state be rooted up and cast from the earth And instead of him shall enter in that Devil the father of liars and such as dwell in the house of Vanity Behold This * Prince shall fly through his Kingdoms as the Greyhound after his spoyl devouring his possessions and cutting down the wicked But he shall become proud The Prophets of the Lord shall descend from Heaven cloathed with their old Garments very fresh and not stained Thy eyes shall see them Out of these books shall the true Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles be gathered Which are not to be understood but with the spirit of understanding the spirit of wisdom and truth Behold I will say unto you my self Come Hear For the voyce of the Lord is with power Therefore be milde and of humble spirit For lo the time shall come And I have seven books such as shall be delivered unto one of you And I will meet thee walking in the fields And will stretch forth my hand saying Come Then shall thine eyes see those things that thy spirit doth And thou shalt become a man of understanding For I will give thee bread and thou shalt eat it such as shall be the bread of sufficient comfort E. K. It thundreth in the stone Of thee pointing to E. K. thus sayeth the Lord. Thou art flesh and become stuhborn Thy judgement waxeth dull and thy heart sealed But I will unseal thee and thou shalt be partaker But because thou hast offended me not with power in worldly things I will make thee a great Seer Such an one as shall judge the Circle of things in nature But heavenly understanding and spiritual knowledge shall be sealed up from thee in this world For thou art become stony and hast cried out against my Saints Notwithstanding your life shall be together Thou shalt be a workman of nature looking into the Chambers of the earth The Treasures of men Many things are pluckt from thee which were thine But not from you because I have promised them What is be that bridled the windes Δ. At your prayers Or who is he that preserved you from the bloudy imaginations of men and hatreds of the world invincible Is it not be that is God of Heaven and Earth Is it not he that made both flesh and Soul Yea even he it is that sayeth Fly from the wickednesse and society with Devils Leave off to sin against the Lord for he is of great power This is the last time that any shew shall be made in this stone For lo the promise of the most highest shall be fulfilled E. K. Now I see all those men whose feet I saw before
In the name of God what may this mean E. K. These shadows go up and down the side of the house thrusting their Torches into the sides of it The house is like this very house They go round about the house There are eight of them They have claws like Eagles When they sit they are like Apes They set a fire on it and it burneth mightily Now your wife runneth out and seemeth to leap over the Galery rayl and to ly as dead And now come you out of door and the Children stand in the way toward the Church And you come by the yern door and kneel and knock your hand on the earth They take up your wife her head waggleth this way and that way You look up to heaven still and kneel upon one of your knees The stone house quivereth and quaketh and all the roof of the house falleth into the house down upon the Chests And one of these baggage things laugheth The house burneth all off Your wife is dead all her face is battered The right side of her face her teeth and all is battered She is bare-legged she hath a white Peticote on Now the apparition is all gone Marie seemeth to be pulled out of a pool of water half alive and half dead her hair hanging about her ears They hold her up Now they carry her out at the Gate You seem to runne in the fields and three or four men after you You run through waters All disappeareth And now Nalvage appeareth again He seemeth to have wept Δ. Nal. ..... God giveth you warning that you may eschue them Δ. And how shall I eschue them Nal. ..... Thus sayeth the Lord. Behold I have sealed thee for my self for my people and for my servant Therefore shalt thou not perish No not the least hair of thy bodie Fear not be strong in faith For I come shortly Hearken therefore to my voyce I say therefore hearken to my voyce For the spirits of wickednesse and confusion have risen up against thee If therefore they prevail against my purposes Then shall it be no world Neither are there any heavens But this place is not for thee yet if thou wilt be it unto thee I will seal destruction both for a time and for ever Be mighty therefore in me All the earth rageth in wickednesse And sinne smelleth thee ready now to creep out of his hole If thou move thy seat it shall be more acceptable For even this year shalt thou see the beginning of many troubles And the entrance of this LASKO into the bloudy service of the world E. K. He seemeth to spit fire and so vanish away O Jesu Christ we have committed our selves into thy hand and do submit our wills to thy government What should this mean of terrible destruction threatned to my wife and maiden And as it were frenzie to light on me for sorrow These things cannot well agree with our former assured protection E. K. I see a little wench on the bench all in white she sayeth ..... How do you sir ... making cursie to Δ. Δ. Better it is known to you then to my self how I do ..... Sir I have been ...... land at your house where they are all well Δ. Thanked be God ..... Amen .... The Queen said She was sorry that she had lost her Philosoper But the Lord Treasurer answered He will come home shortly a begging to you They were black Sir Herry Sidney died upon Wednesday last A privy enemy of yours ..... I ever took him for one of my chief friends ..... But this it is Truely none can turn the Queens heart from you I could not come into your Studie The Queen hath caused it to be sealed up You have been used to good Cities It were good you did consider it Little words are of great matter Δ. Where I pray would you wish me to settle my self first ..... My mother would give you counsel to dwell at LASCO Δ. Do you dissent from your mother ..... I. Δ. Upon what ..... Jesu you think that I am an unwise maiden The Devil bringeth the sound of my mouth to thy ears E. K. For I said CRACOVIA and he spake LASCO Δ. Seing your mother would wish me to dwell at CRACOVIA at what other place would you wish me to dwell ..... Lux ante faciem Tenebrae post tergum E. K. Now I feel a hussing thing go from my head ..... I pray you be not offended with my simplicity My mother and I am all one In us is no discord I pray you bear with me if I say I be the Concord of time These are my words My mother would have you dwell at CRACOVIA And I consent unto it Let them that be wise understand Alwayes pray that you may hear truely and receive faithfully Δ. May I before I go any further demand if you be Madimi ..... I am so Sir Δ. As concerning this terrible Vision here shewed what is either the intent or verity of it Mad. Sir will it please you to hear me Δ. The verity is most acceptable to me alwayes Mad. ..... I think your book saith This man his way is prepared c. Δ. I trow the words are His seat is made open or made manifest Mad. ..... It is so Bear with me I think it is so Δ. What will you say thereof Mad. ..... And upon earth Princes have h ... in their own Courts I remember He was sealed at Mortlake Contra omne malum Then cannot the King of Poland nor the Chancelor prevail against him Yet Vendiderunt animam ejus Δ. Lord be merciful unto ... What Trayterous dealing I beseech you to say ... 〈◊〉 in that case He is our great friend and for the service of God furthering Mad. ..... You met a man by the way He is an Irish man But as ... me he said he was a French man I heard the King when .... him to go into England But he could not poison him there ... Therefore he followed him all the way But if he return again They say We will exalt him But send thou thy Army and we will send him Wherefore hath the King absented himself but to betray his Kingdom Truely I can tell no other cause My Mother saith within these few dayes after be .... calleth it a little talk Let him go to Cracovia .... himself as David did before Saul It may be the people will like well of him Tush Tush Timor innatus will never prevail Although he hate him he cannot hurt him E. K. She saith so turning her head back to one that spake to her Sir if you tarry here you will have great grief in this house Δ. How long I pray you would you wish me to tarry here or how soon to be rid hence Mad. ..... Hark ... He E. K. marvelleth what I will say now E. K. So I did indeed Mad. ..... The Physitian saith infected air is to be avoided in
to 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
were such as her self and she lifted up her head and leaned upon her twice writhen taile and beheld the Sun stedfastly for her envy was toward that City and she said within her self My children are yet young the time grew and they became big and she went unto the Spring and smiled and said with a laughing voice The Earth is fallen into thee thou art choked but hearken unto my voice Thou shalt receive comfort But she would not And she lifted up her voice and roared for she was full of craft and deceit And she said unto the shingles through the which the Spring runs or rather syeth Thou art full of emptinesse and void places Let my children therefore hide themselves within thee for a season and they were contented And she departed willingly and saith within her self Now I know I shall be Lady of the City And after a few years the young Serpents became great so that the one half of their bodies dwelt within the Shingles the rest troubled the passage of the Spring So that the Spring groaned for the injury that was done against her was great A great misery for the Hill is become desolate without the water and the City and the beasts perish for want of drink for the people groan and are ful of sorrow This City and Serpents are 60. now and judgement must be had betwixt the Shingles and the Spring for between lieth the life and death of the City Thus saith the Lord unto thee pointing to E. K. Gird up thy self and fit down Consider both parts and give judgement for thy mouth shall this day be the judgement of the Lord. E. K. Do you mean me Ë. K. As the Lord hath put the Authority of Judgement into my hands so I beseech him to give me wisdom and understanding to judge right And because the judgement hereof is committed to me I suspect some other mystery to lie hidden in this my judgement required But if it shall please God that my friend here Master Dee shall give me his advise I shall think my self well satisfied ....... Consider with your self saith the Lord and give judgement against the Shingles for the fault is plain Consider two points the necessity of the Spring that it must come that wayes and secondly the health of the City E. K. My judgement is that the Shingles and Serpent should be removed away by an Earthquake from the place which they encumber and let that there may be a fit new place and course for that Spring to the relief of that City as before it was ...... Be it so as thou hast said for it is a just judgement Now hearken what the Lord saith The people and City of the Hill is the world which are from time to time by the mercy and spring of Gods wisdom relieved quenched according to the extremity and necessity of their thirsting But the people and City are such as are of the Temple and Church of God which drink of his mercy to their comfort The Camels and other beasts are the people of the Earth which delight in sin and in their own imagination which also are relieved with those that are of the City but the diversities of their bodies doth cause the diversity of the ends of their comfort The Hill wherein the Spring is signifieth his Prophets and such as are drunken in the Lord Thrâ—ugh whom inwardly the mercies and will of God and of the Highest are open from time to time according to the secret will and determination of such as are within the City of his Elect. But the frailties and affections of their flesh and outward man are their fond imaginations and loose Shingles wherein the Serpent the old Devil hath harboured her children the spirits of darknesse and deceit which alwayes resist the Will of God and are put between the mercies of God and his people Moses Daniel Esdras all the rest of the Prophets Christ his twelve Paul the Messenger of God they did all hurt the Congregation of the Faithful in their flesh until they gave sentence against themselves as thou hast done with amendment of life for who is worthy to know the secrets of our God but he that delighteth in righteousnesse is obedient full of faith and the spirit of understanding Be it therefore unto thee as thou hast said Let the Shingles and Serpents be separated that the Fountain may feed as before All the trash that thou hast of the wicked burn it E. K. I do not know they are wicked ...... Their doings with thee are the hindrance of the Will of God and therefore they are wicked ...... Thou hast given judgement against thy self Take heed thou offend not thy own soul. Δ. Send down thy Spirit O Lord and illuminate E. K. his heart with perceiving of his wrong opinion c. E. K. If Moses and Daniel were skilful in the Arts of the Egyptian Magicians and were not thereby hindred for being the servants of God Why may not I deal with these without hindrance to the Will of God ...... Darknesse yeilded unto light the Greater excluded the lesser The more a man knoweth wickednesse the more he shall hate it being called back The more they knew the shadow so much more they delighted in the body For the doings of the Egyptians seem and are not so The doings of the Lord are and continue for as the Painter imitateth the gestures of man in his faculty so doth the Devil the substances and things created and made by God Stand up and look into the whole World into her youth and middle age for they are past Where are the monuments that Satan hath builded E. K. Hath Satan builded any monuments ...... Yes Hath he not builded him a Fort upon the whole Earth Hath he not the victory over the Saints Dwelleth he not in the Temple of the Highest Triumpheth he not in the Cities of the whole World Yes ...... But without comfort are his victories without pleasure his dwelling places For he knoweth his time is at hand He that now giveth freedom shall become bound And unto whom the whole World is as a Garden shall there be no one foot left Therefore are all his pleasures vanity all his Triumphs smoak and his Authority nothing indeed but a meer shadow For that that is not cannot be where it is said of the Lord it shall not be Neither can truth light or wisdom ascend from the Earth but descend from the Heavens Compare the Earth into the which the Devil is thrust as into his dwelling with the Heavens which are provided for the holy Consider the pain of the one and the pleasure of the other The seat of Gods Justice and Fountain of his Mercy The Cave of Darknesse and the Diadem of Light And then cry wo wo wo unto such as erre and whose lives are but shadows For their felicity is such as from whence it came and their reward is all one with the spirit and
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
Sanctus est Dominus Deus Zeboath Ave. ..... I in the favour of God considering and by force of his secret love toward you how Satan purposeth yet and daily to over come you thought good through the mercies of God to prevent his malice and the effect thereof Δ. O blessed be thou our God of mercies and all comfort Ave. ..... That although yet the Harvest be not the Vineyard might yeild some fruit whereby God might be glorified and you in despite of the world revived and comforted might rejoyce and shake off the present cares to come For if those that be unworthy can seem to be lifted up and to enjoy the fruits of the Earth by the Tempter Much more ought the true servants of God to feel his fatherly goodnesse Those that trust in me saith the Lord shall not be driven to despair neither will I suffer the beast of the field to tread such as I delight in under The Earth is mine and the glory thereof The Heavens are mine also and the Comforts that are in them Why hath Therefore the father of Darknesse risen up saying 1. I will shut up the Earth from them 2. I will seal up the mindes of men and they shall become barren towards them 3. Their miseries shall be great even unto death For this cause That he might waken the Lord when he is asleep That those that trust in him might be comforted He hath sealed the Earth from you and I will open it unto you He hath said you shall be poor But I say you shall become exceeding rich 1. I will blesse you with a twofold blessing That the Earth may be open unto you which at last you shall contemn 2. And that my blessing and laws may dwell amongst you wherein you shall rejoyce unto the end Δ. O blessed blessed blessed God of power goodnesse and wisdom Ave. ..... This was the cause that I appeared to thee E. K. this morning Now therefore 〈◊〉 unto me for I will open unto you the secret knowledge of the Earth that you may deal with her by such as govern her at your pleasure and call her to a reckoning as a Steward doth the servants of his Lord. I expound the Vision The 4 houses are the 4 Angels of the Earth which are the 4 Overseers and Watch-towers that the eternal God in his providence hath placed against the usurping blasphemy misuse and stealth of the wicked and great enemy the Devil To the intent that being put out to the Earth his envious will might be bridled the determinations of God fulfilled and his creatures kept and preserved within the compasse and measure of order What Satan doth they suffer And what they wink at he wrasteth But when he thinketh himself most assured then feeleth he the bit In each of these Houses the Chief Watchman is a mighty Prince a mighty Angel of the Lord which hath under him 5 Princes these names I must use for your instruction The seals and authorities of these Houses are confirmed in the beginning of the World Vnto every one of them be 4 characters Tokens of the presence of the son of God by whom all things were made in Creation Ensignes upon the Image whereof is death whereon the Redemption of mankind is established and with the which he shall come to judge the Earth These are the Characters and natural marks of holinesse Vnto these belong four Angels severally The 24 old men are the 24 Seniors that St. John remembreth These judge the government of the Castles and fullfil the will of God as it is written The 12 Banners are the 12 names of God that govern all the creatures upon the Earth visible and invisible comprehending 3 4 and 5. Out of these Crosses come the Angels of all the Aires which presently give obedience to the will of men when they see them Hereby may you subvert whole Countries without Armies which you must and shall do for the glory of God By these you shall get the favour of all the Princes whom you take pity of or wish well unto Hereby shall you know the secret Treasures of the waters and unknown Caves of the Earth And it shall be a Doctrine for you onely the instrument of the World For the rest of your Instructions are touching the Heavens and the time to come of the which this is the last and extream knowledge This will I deliver unto you because I have yeilded you before the Lord. Vpon Monday next I will appear unto you and shall be a Lesson of a few dayes E. K. The will of God be done Δ. Amen Ave. ..... In the mean season desire you of God such things as are necessary for you He that filleth all things and from whom all things live and in and through whom they are sanctified blesse you and confirm you in peace Δ. Amen Δ. I beseech you to Notifie this mornings Vision by words as all other holy Prophets have recorded theirs Ave. ..... A Vision The sign of the love of God toward his faithful Four sumptuous and belligerant Castles out of the which sounded Trumpets thrice The sign of Majesty the Cloth of passage was cast forth In the East the cloth red after the new smitten blood In the South the cloth white Lilly-colour In the West a cloth the skins of many Dragons green garlick-bladed In the North the cloth Hair-coloured Bilbery 〈◊〉 The Trumpets 〈◊〉 once The Gates open The four Castles are moved There issueth 4 Trumpeters whose Trumpets are a Pyramis six cones wreathed There followeth out of every Castle 3 holding up their Banners displayed with 〈◊〉 the names of God There follow Seniors six alike from the 4 Gates After them cometh from every part a King whose Princes are five gardant and holding up his train Next 〈◊〉 the Crosse of 4 Angles of the Majesty of Creation in God attended upon every one with 4 a white Cloud 4 Crosses bearing the 〈◊〉 of the Covenant of God with the Prince gone out before which were confirmed every one with ten Angels visible in countenance After every Crosse attendeth 16 Angels dispositors of the will of those that govern the Castles They proceed And in and about the middle of the Court the Ensigns keep their standings opposite to the middle of the Gate The rest pause The 24 Senators meet They seem to consult I AVE STOOD BY THE SEER It vanisheth So I leave you Δ. Omnium bonorum largitori Omnipotenti Deo sit aeterna laus gratiarum actio honor omnis Jubilatio Amen Junii 22 23. Note On Friday and especially Saturday E. K. had great Temptations not to credit this Action and was said unto by a voice how our Instructors would use cavillation of our disordered life to forsake us and not to perform according to our expectation of the former promises to be performed by them A voice said likewise to
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
Δ. God onely knoweth and no creature but by him for all things are kept uncertain until the end ..... You beget children know you the hour wherein they shall be born ..... You begin labour can you tell what point of time you shall end in Δ. God only is the Fountain of all wisdom and truth ..... Well then I see you are drowned in ignorance and know nothing E. K. He turneth round very swiftly ..... Even as the Adder leadeth out her young ones the first day one foot out of her hole not because they should eat but because they might acquaint themselves with the air and her subtlety The second day one yard and more she encompasseth her hole and windeth to and fro and teach-them to creep and so five or six dayes till they know how to move and stir their bodies After the seventh day she leadeth them further and faineth deceit striking the ground with her tail as though it were the sound of some one at hand And then gaping beginneth to hisse and stirreth up fear unto her young ones so that they enter into her mouth And thus she doth till they be 12 or 13 dayes old Then she leadeth them a stones-cast and exerciseth them both with fear and hiding themselves And when they sleep being young and wearied with labour she stealeth from them and maketh a noise amongst the leaves and small stones with the moving of her hinder parts To the intent she might see what shift her wormes can make which stirred up with fear and missing their mother so learn to couch themselves in the Chymnes of the earth At length after silence the mother thrusteth out her self and doubleth her tongue with the sound whereof she useth to call them They come together and rejoyce wreathing themselves diversly about her body for joy She for a recompence suffereth them to hang upon her back and so waltereth to her hole where she gathereth the leaves of the earth and after she hath chewed them small and tender with her teeth and mingled them with the dust she spueth them out again and beginneth to lick them by little and little as though she hungered which she subtlely doth that her wormes might eat and forget their hungrynesse Finally in 20 dayes they become big and as skilful in the property of their kind ... she I say leadeth them out into a fertile place and full of dew and full of bushes and places apt to cover them where they feed dwell observe their craft and at last forsake their mother Even so it is with you So the Lord the true Serpent and worme leadeth you out from day to day according to your strength and as you grow to the intent you might at last be brought unto the pleasant dew and food of his mercy which is Triumphing true wisdom But this the Lord feareth of you that as the wormes did so you will forsake your mother Δ. Forsake us not O God Confirm thy graces in us and we shall not forsake thee The nature of the Serpent is not to forsake his young Δ. O Lord we depend onely on thee and without thy grace and continual help we perish The Lord told Noe long before the Flood would come he believed him Therefore he is safe in both worlds The sons in law of Lot sunk into Hell for that they derided the words of God and believed them not His wife became a salt-stone for that she looked back and did contrary to the Commandment of God Moses had the reward of his holinesse in this world pluckt back because he said Can this c. I as the messenger of God am as one that say Cave Take heed that you become not son in laws though you passe the fire Take heed you look not back for if you do you shall not see the flood neither shall the Lord put a vail betwixt you and vengeance neither I say shall the promises of God come in your dayes If God had taken you up into the heavens and placed you before his Throne and told you the things that are to come you would believe But that you cannot do The Lord is merciful he descendeth into your houses and there telleth you what is to come where you may under land But you believe him not Therefore saith the Lord of you I fear you will forsake your mother But if you do it I say if you do it I will make of the Mothes men that shall testifie my name E. K. I ever told you I do not believe them nor can believe them nor will desire to believe them ..... If you be faithful you be able to comprehend If you be obedient and humble The Creatures of Heaven shall abide with you Yea the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost shall make his dwelling with you If you persevere even with faith and humility you shall see the wicked dayes that are to come enjoy the promises of God and be partaker of those blessed days that follow For wonders unheard of in and of the world are at hand You are warned The Spirit of God rest with you Δ. Amen Δ. O Lord shall we continue in this wavering or stiff-necked willful blindnesse and frowardly keep out thy mercies and graces by our fleshly sense and unreasonable perswasion against the verity of thy true Ministers 1. All things are committed to thy charge Δ. O Lord as much as ever I can do by prayer or otherwise I do and yet I enjoy no fruit of my long travel 2. Thou hast ground sow if thou can Δ. How can I without further instructions and help and now when I require Ave to come he cometh not O Lord comfort me 3. AVE shall come when thou hast need of him Δ. In te Domine speravi spero sperabo In die Tribulationis exaudies me Refugium meum spes mea vita beatitudo mea Jesu Christe tibi cum Patre Spiritu Sancto sit omnis honor laus Gloria Gratiarum actio Amen Monday †Cracoviae Junii 2. Manè hora ½ Oratione dominica finita mora aliqua interposita aliquot aliis ex psalterio recitatis precibus post varias meas ad Deum ejaculationes At length Ave appeared to E. K. in the Shew-stone c. Δ. O Lord all honour thanks and praise be unto thee who hearest the prayers of thy simple servant Δ. First for the reforming of diversity of letters in the names written I require your aid unlesse you will first say somewhat else By the same Jesus who sitteth on the right hand of his Father and is the wisdom of his Father I request you to proceed with us Ave. ..... So that the body of Christ now is glorified and immortal Δ. Most true it is Mors illi ultra non non dominabitur Ave. ..... But as the Prophets that were fullfiled with the Holy Ghost and Spirit of God before 〈◊〉
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
offices both toward God and man A voyce ..... To morrow morning I will meet you here the third hour Δ. The third hour after the Sun rising mean you A voyce ..... I. Δ. Let us hartily thank the Lord and praise him alwayes His Mercy and Grace be upon us now and ever Amen Fryday Julii 13. Mane hora 7. †Cracoviae Δ. Oratione Dominica finita c. Δ. At the first looking E. K. saw the Curtain usual to appear and somewhat plighted and shortly A voyce ..... Read that you have done Δ. I read hitherto that was written E. K. Now they appear the Curtain being drawn away But the round Table or Globe appeared not E. K. Now they have drawn the Curtain over them again Δ. Blessed be they that are come in the name of our God and for his service E. K. Now they appear and the Table or Globe with them Ile ..... The rest Δ. In the name of Jesus and for his honour OD And Od.   Gad. FARGT the dwelling places Farg t. BAMS Let them forget Bams OMAOAS their names O ma o as CONISBRA the work of man Co nis bra OD and Od. AUAVOX his pomp A ua vox   g dg TONUG Let them be defaced To nug ORSCATBL his buildings Ors cat bl NOASMI let them become No as mi. TABGES Caves Tab ges LEVITHMONG for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the field Levith mong   Ki. UNCHI confound Un chi OMPTILE her understanding Omp tilb. ORS with darknesse Ors. BAGLE for why Bagle MOOOAH it repenteth me Mo o Oah. OLCORDZIZ I made man Ol cord ziz LCAPIMAO one while L ca pi ma o. IXOMA XIP let her be known Ix o máx ip ODCACOCASB and another while Od ca co cash Gab. ..... Move not for the place is holy E. K. All is covered E. K. Now it is open GOSAA a stranger Go sa a. BAGLEN because Baglen PII she is Pi i. TIANTA the bed Ti án ta ABABALOND of an harlot A bá ba lond   gt or dgt. ODFAORGT and the dwelling place Od fa orgt   lotch or loch TELOCVOVIM of him that is fallen Te lóc vo v im   yax MADRIIAX O you heavens Má dri iax TORZU arise Tor zu OADRIAX The lower heavens O ádriax   ka OROCHA underneath you O ró cha ABOAPRI let them serve you A bó a pri TABAORI Govern Tabá o ri PRIAZ those Priáz ARTABAS that govern Ar ta bas   dir ADRPAN Cast down A dr pan CORSTA such as Cor sta DOBIX fall Dobix YOLCAM bring forth Yol cam E. K. Now the Curtain is drawn PRIAZI with those Pri á zi ARCOAZIOR that encrease Ar co a zior ODQUASB and destroy Od quasb   dg QTING the rotten Qting RIPIR No place Ri pir PAAOXT let it remain Pa a oxt   Kor SAGACOR in one number Sa gá còr VML Adde Vml. OD and Pur PRDZAR Diminish Prd zar   cúrg CACRG until Ca crg. AOIVEAE the Stars A oi vé a e. CORMPT be numbred Cormpt TORZU arise Tor zu ZACAR Move Zacar ODZAMRAN and appear Od zamran ASPT before Aspt. SIBSI the Covenant Sib si E. K. Now he hath drawn the curtain again BUTMONA of his mouth But mo na DS which Ds. SURZAS he hath sworn Sur zas TIA unto us Tia BALTAN in his Justice Baltan ODO Open Odo CICLE the mysteries Cicle QAA of your Creation Qáa. OD and Od. OZAZMA make us Ozazma PLAPLI partakers Pla pli IADNAMAD of undefiled knowledge Iad na mad The first Aire is called Lil. The second Arn. The third Zom 4 Paz. 5 Lit. 6 Maz. 7 Deo 8 Zid 9 Zip 10 Zax 11 Ich ik 12 Loe. 13 Zim 14 Uta 15 Oxo 16 Lea. 17 Tan. 18 Zen. 19 Pop. 20 Chr 21 Asp. 22 Lin. 23 Tor. 24 Nia 25 Uti 26 Des. 27 Zaa 28 Bag. 29 Rii 30 Tex There is all Now change the name and the Call is all one Δ. Blessed be he who onely is alwayes one Δ. I take these names to be as primus secundus tertius and to 30. A voice ..... Not so they be the substantial names of the Aires Δ. It was said they had no proper names but were to be called O thou of the first Aire O thou of the second c. I pray you reconcile the repugnancy of these two places as they should seem E. K. The Curtain is opened E. E. Now Gabriel standeth up Gabr. ..... Thus hath God kept promise with you and hath delivered you the keyes of his store-houses wherein you shall find if you enter wisely humbly and patiently Treasures more worth than the frames of the heavens But yet is not August come Notwithstanding the Lord hath kept his promise with you before the time Therefore Now examine your Books Confer one place with another and learn to be perfect for the practice and entrance See that your garments be clean Herein be not rash Nor over hasty For those that are hasty and rash and are lothsomely apparelled may knock long before they enter There is no other reading of the Book but the appearing of the Ministers and Creatures of God which shewing what they are themselves shew how they are conjoyned in power and represented formally by those letters E. K. Now he taketh the Table and seemeth to wrap it up together Δ. Seeing I have moved the doubt of their names I pray you to dissolve it Gab. ..... You play with me childishly Δ. I have done Gab. ..... Thinkest thou that we speak any thing that is not true Thou shalt never know the mysteries of all things that have been spoken If you love together and dwell together and in one God Then the self-same God will be merciful unto you Which blesse you comfort you and strengthen you unto the end More I would say but words profit not God be amongst you E. K. Now they both be gone in a great flame of fire upwards Δ. Laudibuste celebrabo Domine Deus quoniam non praevaluerunt Inimici mei super me Domine exercituum clamavi ad te tu salvasti me Convertisti dolorem in gaudium mihi dissolvisti luctum meum circumdedisti me laetitia Misericordias tuas in aeternum cantabo Notam faciam veritatem tuam in vita mea Os meum narrabit Justitiam tuam omni tempore beneficia tua certè non novi numerum Sed Gratias agam donec mors rapiat tibi psallam quamdiu fuero Laudem tui loquetur os meum omne vivens celebret nomen tuum Sanctum in perpetuum semper Laudate Dominum O vos Angeli ejus potentes virtute facientes jussus ejus obedientes voci verbi illius Collaudate Deum Universi exercitus ejus Ministri ejus qui facitis voluntatem ejus Omne quòd vivit laudet te Domine Amen 1584. Remember that on Saturday the fourteenth day of July by the
now and ever Amen Tuesday 21. Augusti Ante Meridiem horam Circiter 9. †Pragae Precibus finitis invito Vriele ut nos illuminaret dirigeret consolaretur c. E. K. Vriel is here and about his head at a little distance is a bright part of a Circle like a Rain-bow c. Δ. We propounded unto you yesterday O you faithfull messager of the highest as concerning this letter how it is liked when it is to be sent and by whom c. Uriel ..... O earth how great a Monster art thou and how great is thy wickednesse which makest dull mans capacity and carriest him away into an obscure and rash sense Not without a cause art thou hated with the highest yea not without a cause are thy Garments made short My brethren how long will you be grievous to the Lord how long I say will you be without understanding O how long will you consider your own commodities and neglect the harvest of the Lord Δ. I understand nothing of the occasion of these speeches Uriel ..... But behold for you have chosen unto your selves a visitation and have broken the visitation of the Lord. For when you were commanded you went not and unto your selves you chuse dayes for advantage Well I say Take your choice and become wise for I am ready to deliver I say prepare your selves and be ready But I fear me yea I know it that you will become foggy and misty Notwithstanding thus sayeth the Lord Since you will become wise Chastise your self for a few dayes and abstain and you shall see that I am a God that can visit and mightily I am not man that my promises may not be neither speak I of any thing that liveth not for I am light and the breath of understanding Because you have followed my Commandments yet some of you obstinately and rather as reprehenders then obedient servants I will put a snaffle unto Satan and unto his Ministers and thou shalt sit in judgement against the wicked For I will multiply thee and thy houshold And of thy seed yea even of thy seed will I finder out a Camber and will root out a people which I have long favoured And for this cause spared I him unto thee for unto him that loveth me will I be a just rewarder The branches of the wicked do I cut off and make worse then the Asses dung But unto the faithfull will I send honour and a Crown of rejoycing Hui who is he that I cannot reward him Or where dwellest thou in Heaven or in Earth that art and rejoycest not by me If thou follow my Commandments and I once begin to love thee I have told thee that I will place thee here Δ. In this Citie Uriel ..... Not as a Citizen but as an owner of many houses But take heed thou be be just to me and do what I command thee Δ. Lord thou knowest my heart help and supply my wants Uriel ..... Behold the Corn is not ripe neither are the Grapes red nor the Sun hath not yet seasoned them Therefore yet need I not Stewards but Overseers And as yet Laborers are to me as shadows Because not yet no not yet is the time of my visitation therefore he that bringeth his Syckle now must not reap for me but must rejoyce in himself Happy is he that tarrieth the Lord least afterward the doors be shut and the feast at an end All wisdom and sciences comprehended in wisdom that worketh for himself is of the world But the wisdom that I give I give openly and without reproach that I also rejoyoing in the wisdom 〈◊〉 be gl rified and exalted with a Diademe of honour When Sodom cried for vengeance had I it not ready Could not I from heaven have consumed them with the breath of my own mouth I in my self know it and am witnesse But lo in the pride of their filthinesse I had regard to time And that it might be known to all Nations licensed my Angels and gave them power And lo then made a promise unto all Nations that they should be blessed in Abraham even the same moneth that I destroyed the Sodomites These things did I as unto Noe and unto Seth whom I l ved I made them privy of time to come and opened unto them my judgements because the world should be justly condemned After the same manner made I a promise unto you Lo after the same manner have I called you to counsel But you have chosen the lowest and have refused the highest places and have regarded your own comforts and not my visitation I commanded thee not to go into the woods and to fetter Wolves neither to saw the Tygers teeth I delivered you not unto the wicked neither suffered I them to rejoyce over you But I have brought you from death and from the dayes of lamentation and have dealt with you as faithfull brethren do in their divisions Not that I forget my self but that I would be magnified and that you might see your wildnesse and naked rashnesse Many are there upon the earth which would have burst with gladnesse and have rent their Garments in pieces If I had touched them with the least of these Counsels so I call them because they are my secrets Is it not sufficient that I have brought you hither fafe Have promised you a sure help Lo you wrast me for what is he of the world to whom I shall confirm letters Δ. This is spoken in respect of God his judgement required of the letter They grieve me because they are the doings of man O man let man answer unto thee and let it suffice thee that the mark whereat thou shootest is in my hand My work is not a work of hours nor dayes But when I command do speedily When the Thunders fall from Heaven and burn up the Earth scale her face and leave her naked Then Then will you believe Behold He that is a man being new born is accounted a Monster Is it not written Lo the Lord looked from heaven in his visitation and in the midday and groaned upon her for she had vexed him Happy is he that is ready when he visiteth That which I command let it be done For when the Kings of the earth say do this They play not also the parts of their servants and subjects but lo it is done Suffer me I pray yo to have that favour Δ. Deo Nostro Misericordi Pio Justo sit omnis Honor Laus Gloria Amen Tuesday 21 Augusti †Pragae After Dinner as we E. K. and Δ. were in my Study and conferring of my choise and very sorry that we had made our choise not of the best E. K. saw Vriel in the stone which yet stood unput up and said he had seen him there ever since we began So coming to the stone he said as followeth Uriel ..... Murmur not amongst your selves
from the beginning the whole course of this Angelical leading instructing and comforting of me for so I was commanded that I should from the beginning nakedly open unto Rodolph the manner of God his visitation and shew unto him the holy Vision Which my charge I am ready to do The Emperour said at another time he would hear and understand more I spake yet somewhat more in the purposes before to the intent they might get some root or better stick in his minde To be short he thanked me and said he would henceforward take me to his recommendation and cāre and some such words of favour promised he used which I heard not well he spake so low In the end perceiving that his will was to end for this 〈◊〉 I did my duty with cursie and at the door going out I turned back and made 〈◊〉 and so came into the next Chamber where the Noble Octavius Spinola came to me again and with curteous words offered me great friendship I took my leave of him and so came through the Ritters Stove or Guard Chamber and so down and home I had a large hour audience of his Majesty Deus bene vertat ad sui nominis Laudem Honorem Gloriam Amen Wedensday Septembris 5. 1584. Mane circiter horam 8. †Pragae 〈◊〉 finitis c. Repetivi ter hanc Sententiam Mitte lucem tuam O Deus̄ veritatem tuam quae nos ducat perducat ad montem Sanctum Sion Tabernacula coelestis Hierusalem Δ. I have to the best of my ability both written and spoken unto Rodolph as I was willed how it worketh or taketh place in his heart is known to thee O God c. Now I am to receive farther instructions what is to be done in this cause or else whatsoever shall please the Highest c. E. K. Now here is Vriel and a black thing like a Sarcent of silke before his face and over his head behind by the rest of his garments it seemeth to be Vriel God make all things white and make us whiter than Snow What that black Scarf importeth I know not but I suspect Uriel ..... Such as defile the seat of the Soul and are suffocated with drunkennesse enter not into the Kingdom of Heaven neither can behold the ornaments of the Lord his beauty See how Satan how he runneth headlong about and through you See how he maketh his dwelling place within you of whom the Lord gave you warning saying Satan seeketh to sift you Lo he hath done wickednesse against the Lord and against you for he hath blemished the eyes of your understanding E. K. He speaketh other words between which I understand not Uriel ..... Is not Jesus God and the High Priest of the Lord placed on the right hand of his Father Δ. He is we believe it Uriel ..... Is not Satan as the Prophet sa it suffered to stand and triumph on the right hand of the Lord of Hosts and Justice as the open enemy of the Lord and of his annointed True it is and he hath almost given you the overthrow Δ. Assist us O God and be our strength against this most subtile and mighty enemy Uriel ..... But because he is subtile and hath power given unto him for a time and hath striven against you not for your own sakes but because you are of the Spirit of the Highes and against his testimony Therefore doth not God in his Justice impute the sins of the eye unto the body Δ. Lord thy mercies are infinte praised be thy name for ever Uriel ..... But commandeth the Δ eye to be reconciled as the spirit of Truth hath taught E. K. He is gone Δ. Glorified be God for his most loving kindnesse and infinite mercies towards us fraile and sinful creatures and we beseech thee to shew us the light of thy countenance to our comfort and direction Amen Vide Septemb. 13. of Reconciliation Δ. As I was putting up all Vriel appeared again with his black Scarf as he did before but paused a while before he spake any thing Δ. In thy name O Jesu we attend thy words by thy messager to be uttered Uriel ..... Give ear unto my voice E. K. Now he is become like a great wheele of fire like a waggon wheel He thrust out his hands on the sudden and so became like a wheel full of mens eyes it turneth round it is full in all places of those eyes like living and seeing eyes Now cometh fire out of it in 4 places Now there is a great Eagle which is come and standeth upon it It is a white Eagle The wheel turneth still notwithstanding that she standeth on it E. K. She hath in her beake like a scrol of parchment She hath two monstrous eyes one like fire red her right eye as big as my fist and the left eye is Chrystal-like She standeth hovering with her wings spread and her stern or taile spread Under the wheel is a great valley and in it a great City and a Hill on the East part of it And all toward the South are Hills The City is as as big as six of Cracovia and many ruins of houses in it there appear There is one place in it covered square like a little Chappel It hath a little round pinacle in the end of it and over it in the air hanging a little fire bright There be many like unto fowles like Ravens and their heads like unto bright fire They flie into a Country a great way off from this City Now Vriel standeth beside the wheel and the wheel is as it was before and he as before with the Scarf The Eagle cryeth and skriketh as a Gull or the Sea fowles do Vriel seemeth to descend from the air above and to come to the side of the Shew-stone Uriel ..... The Lord hath chosen you to be Witnesses through his mercy and sufferance not in the office of 〈◊〉 but in the offices and dignities of the Prophets which is alwayes beautified with the wings of the Cherubims with the voices that cry a thousand thousand times in a moment before the Lord and before the Majesty of his eternal Seat wherein you do exceed the Temples of the earth wherein you are become separated from the world and whereby you are lifted up as of the houshold of the Blessed even by the very hand and finger of the Highest Δ. Blessed blessed blessed is the Lord to whom Cherubim and Seraphim incessantly sing Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Amen Uriel ..... But that it may appear that he it is that revealeth which gathereth the Clouds together and is the breath of all things that live Because I say it may appear that the Lord visiteth and is of power and that the imaginations of man flie before themselves as the dust of the earth doth before him that moveth it 1 open unto
be consumed And after certain moneths I will bring thee home yea thou shalt live till thou be able to passe the waves without a ship and to ascend the Hills as the Spiders do Notwithstanding I will take the Crown from the house it is in and I will place it as I have Prophesied unto thee Notwithstanding for a time thou shalt live with Caesar. ..... I come again E. K. He is gone Δ. O Lord what shall become of my good friend the Lord Laskie E. K. Here he is again Uriel ..... Of Lasky thus it is said Thou Δ. hast groaned for him and hast placed him in thy Δ. heart From henceforth will I reconcile him unto me and I will cease my anger upon him and he shall come hither * shortly But he is a wanton and very prone to sin But hear what I say unto thee E. K. He seemeth to have talk with one afar off Caesar thought thou hadst had the Philosophers stone and as yet he thinketh so Even as I choaked the gluttenous Israelites with quayles so will I choake him with that secret Behold thou shalt write unto him saying that he regardeth not heaven And say unto him that thou canst make the Philosophers stone I will perform it unto thee Thou shalt do it And I will give unto thee a special vertue in healing That whensoever thou comest hither Thou shalt understand the truth And this I do because they shall not despise thee Δ. O Lord for me to be despised in doing thy commandment is honour and comfort to me But as concerning thy honour and glorie Thou in thy wisdom knowest what is best to be done Uriel ..... Notwithstanding thou shall see him perish before thy face Lo from this time I will blesse thee marvellously and I will help thee in all thy works Do thou alwayes And make me thy Buckler Δ. What shall I do with Doctor Curtz as concerning his answer Uriel ..... Handle him like a man for he will deceive thee E. K. I request you but one thing for all my labour and travel that is that this Doctor might this night be bereft of his life to the terrour of other c. Uriel ..... Have patience God turneth all to his glory and your commodity To morrow I have something else to say Deus Noster in coelo omnia quaecunque volrit fecit Ille solus est Omnipotens aeternus sapiens Bonus Justus Misericors Illi debetur omis Laus gratiarum actio honor gloria Amen Saturday 22. Septemb. Manè Circiter horam 9. Precibus ad Deum finitis variis ad ipsum Ejaculationibus pro 〈◊〉 veritate Dei c. quibusdam de Rudolphi Curtzii corruptis Judiciis qui Dei Misericordias juxta carnis sensum judicare ausi sunt apparuit Vriel facie velata ut ante Uriel ..... For this cause say I unto thee write unto Rudolph saying I can make the Philosophers stone Because I would place thee with them according to their hope and imagination That whilest they think little of me and of the sweetnesse of my message and testimony I might burst out amongst them as the mighty waters do out of Hills when the earth moveth For I have said unto thee I will place thee here If I sow thee here what Raven can pluck thee up by the roots No I will hide thee as the Hen doth her Chickens And I will make thee spring to their destruction For why thou shalt overcome that mystery for thy own sake Δ. For the glorie of God his honour and triumph all good come unto me Uriel ..... Behold since they will not tye thee unto them from heaven Thou shalt tye them unto thee from earth That thou mayest rejoyce when thou seest their destruction and be ready cloathed for him that is to come It was said unto thee my mother saith she will chuse an Emperour in ernest But it is Ernest that shall sit upon his seat Behold ' there shall be no seed left in him for his wickednesse Yea the blessings that I have offered him shall return again and I will leave his house naked But when he seeth and hath Gold which is the thing he desireth and those that counsel him do most desire him for Then shall he perish with a most cruel terrible and unheard of mischief But lo I have written his name within my hand because I would not forget to punish him Behold I could send the windes to devour him and could open the Caves of the earth to swallow him which would turn to my honour But I have a care over you Now I am unto you in mercy and wisdom But I will be with you in terror and miracles And I will deal with you in a higher degree And you shall hear my voyce as men do their brethren Δ. What thou wilt O Lord for thy honour and glory That be Uriel ..... But those that are his counsellers have commanded him rather then counselled him to have no dealing with thee at all And he is possessed with a great and a mighty Devil And behold Belzagal which is the fury and Prince of the Turks doth assist him in his wickednesse for he knoweth it may come to passe that his Kingdom shall be short But give ear unto me Fawn thou upon Caesar as a worldling that thou mayest draw him with the world to see the glory of God but to his destruction For lo how much more a mans felicity is in this world the more shall be the burden of his destruction There be that gape after thy books and speak vainly of things that are not Therefore I counsel that they dwell not long with Poland Behold when Lasky cometh he shall not hastily return into Poland till I whisper in his ears He is dead that sought thy life I have more to say but they are not yet necessary Δ. I beseech you to tell me when I shall prepare my self to go for my books c. Uriel ..... I speak not that I know not but chuse thy own time Now will I become a Courtier E. K. He is gone Fiat voluntas Dei ad ejus laudem honorem gloriam Amen Monday Septembris 24. Mane hora 8. †Pragae Δ. At the first looking E. K. saw Vriel but covered with his Scarf c. Notwithstanding I said some prayers to God on my knees and came and said here Mitte lucem tuam veritatem 〈◊〉 O 〈◊〉 ut ipsae nos ducart ad montem Sion c. It is to be remembred that for two causes we repaired to the Shew-stone the one by reason of the letter which I had written to the Emperour and was minded to go to shew it to the Spanish Embassadour before I sent it to the Emperour to have his opinion of it and also to bear it Secondly by reason of foul slanderous words which were spoken of me
thou E. K. seest the letter clear E. K. looked and saw a spark of light upon R then on L c. Δ He was led by light appearing on the letters to read the six words Dlasod Roxtan Rlodnr Audcal Darr Lulo ..... Here is Quaternarius in Circumferentia and Quaternarius in Centro There be the 4 mediating wayes to the Center All that may be spoken in that you call Animal Vegetable or Mineral workmanship of Nature is here as in a part of the four This far now more as you desire it But that you may see I am a Companion with the rest E. K. He is gone Δ Benedicamus Domino Deo nostro Omnipotenti Patri Filio Spiritui sancto Amen ✚ Pragae Januarii 18. Friday Manè horam circiter 8½ Orationibus fusis ad Deum ut Mysteria nobis exhibita hesterno die explicentur ut detracta literae cortice succus spiritus veritatis manifestus fiat c. tandem apparuit ille cum velo cinereo E. K. Here he is upon a green endlesse plain field and as I see abroad in the field so the Heaven appeareth and all circumstances of the air abroad but my thinketh that I am from the earth aloft and see all under me as if it were in a valley ..... Now what have you learned out of that Lesson Δ We perceive the grace and favour of God to deliver us Mysteries in outward terms determined but in the fruitful inward verity as yet unknown to us ..... Behold I have delivered you through the Will of God the true perfect and most plain Science or understanding of all the lower Creatures of God their natures fellowship together and perfect knitting together which is fourfold The first the knitting together of celestial influence and the Creatures below The second the centre of every body Essential The third the combination of many parts or bodies concurrent to one principle The last the true use and knowledge of every substance to be conjoyned and distributed Take a pause E. K. He speaketh a language which I cannot sound after him Δ We read the premisses and discoursed of them E. K. Now he is here again ..... In the Lesson which I have taught you is this knowledge with the rest contained Therefore seek and turn the earth upfide down Labour that you may receive fruit for unto him that worketh and hath strength strength shall be given and the reward of a workman Many years the daughter of long time are not necessary to the opening of this Mystery Many moneths have nothing to do here For lo it is a labour of one day for in one day you may understand to tear this Lesson in pieces and to understand what every word signifieth But here is to be considered in the learning of this Lesson three things the place that every word occupieth the place that every letter occupieth and the number and place that every word and letter is referred unto For here place and number are apart and bear an Image of the work that they intreat of But number and place must be joyned together and thereby shall you taste of that which followeth true wisdome Be therefore diligent and pray for the grace of God that you may learn and understand The manner of mans teaching look not for in me for I have nothing to do with man See how you can digest this E. K. He is stept aside E. K. He is here again Δ I discoursed ..... ¶ Now hear of what I shall say unto you I will open unto you a Mystery the key and foundation into the entrance and knowledge of the divine wisdome delivered unto you in a Science palpable conteined in letters and words unorderly placed as a Chaos and therefore not to be understood but by order to be reduced and drawn into their places and thereby to be understood For you have not a letter nor the form of a letter nor the place of a letter but they are all counted with us as the stars are counted with God The letters and words working into all reason as the stars do into the lower creatures Therefore humbly receive that which I have to say unto you or shall open unto you as obedient Scholars kneeling First a little with me praise God E. K. He is on his knees E. K. prayed the 142 Psalm Domine exaudi orationem meam and I with heart consented and greatly rejoyced in the aptnesse of the prayer as E.K. his case chiefly required and mine also .... I come again E.K. He is gone Δ We conferred and considered many things to the praise of God and the contempt of the worldly wisdome c. E. K Now he is come again E. K. Now there commeth a white curtain before him ..... Now hear my voice for thou canst not see me 120 One Seventy three 67 29. 20 Read Δ I read ..... it must be 120. ..... 33. E. K. I hear a voice as if baskets and earthen pots were thrown from place to place from one side to another 105 ..... 78. 〈◊〉 95. 100. 60. 91. * K. K. I hear as it were a whistling very basely or lowly whu whu whu c. ..... Say what you have Δ I read all the 12 numbers ..... Make a note there Δ I made * as you see before ..... 39. E. K. Had a very heavy thing on his head and in his cap it seemed as if it would have crept into his head ..... 51. 52. 83. 6. 7. 12. 20. 88. * ..... Note that Δ So did I as before with * as a full point Notable ..... Take thou E. K. also pen ink and paper and note the numbers also that you may agree E. K. Took pen ink and paper ..... Write thou E. K. also the numbers that he hath written E. K. Wrote out all the former numbers 5 5 ..... 11. 13. 〈◊〉 62. 63 141. 9. 81. 18. 26. 54. 123. 105. 14. 27. 115. 135. 137. 10. 64. 46. 59. Δ I became here almost in a found I was forced to rise from kneeling Our guide and Schoolmaster bad me go away and E. K. should write out the rest But it was not our friend that so bad 139. 22. 3. 45. 128. 86. 72. 68. 58. 142. 121. 143. 24. 63. 69. 55. 19. 15 25. 37. 31. 17. 76. 57. 75. 40. 42. 79. 119. 8. 96. 113. 93. 84. 70. 49. 32 17. 122. 136 71. 2. 138. 43. 109. 106. 126. 116 131. 77. 4. 103. 16. 124. 30. 102. 110. 50 48. 89. 44. 97 101. 82. 129. 130. 90. 34. 98. 99. 65. 28. 112. 114. 47. 144. 107. 132. 61. 133. 134. 66 80. 53. 73. 35. 92 111. 21. 127. 108. 56. 118. 125. 104. 87. 42. 94. 38. 85. 74. Thou E. K. hast all done After Dinner we repaired to our businesse and by and by apparitioa was made ..... And luminous all one word ..... Now set your numbers as they follow in order so orderly over
Gloria laus jubilatio sit Deo nostro altissimo Domino Dominantium Regi Regum immortali Amen ✚ Pragae Januarii 21. Monday Mane hora 9½ Δ Oratione Dominica aliis precibus ad Deum fusis pro ejus gratia auxilio per fideles fous Ministros nostros conatus promovendos c. E. K. Here he is Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini cujus nomen sanctificetur exaltetur 〈◊〉 in aevum per omnes gentes .... Remember that you are flesh and by your works deserve nothing at Gods hands Now then if you be man then are you of earth earthy But according to your similitude grafted in the image of God in his Sonne Jesus you are heavenly But behold God is opposite unto you and his spirit 〈◊〉 not unto you in that you are flesh in that you are earth in that you are filthy in that you are the children of Satan and that therefore take part with him against Christ anointed of the Lord. E. K. He is out of sight now Now if you be opposite or more contrary to the image of him which dwelleth in you if you dwell in him what do yee here why presume you to enter within the Doores of him to whom you are an adversary Herein you shew your ignorance and the lumpishnesse of your fragility in that you seek of him unto whom you are odious or crave the bread which is due and necessary for his children and servants But hear my voice Petentibus dat sed petentibus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sed non alienis Notwithstanding of his mercy and for that he knew before the beginning of all worlds the 〈◊〉 of your vessels and remembring that you have been of his houshold mercifully he hath hitherto 〈◊〉 at you and at your presumption and fed you with that bread which is not the bread of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now considering that you continue in your wickednesse continue in your rebellion against his Majesty and fight 〈◊〉 under his banner which is accursed he taketh his bread from you shutteth up his Doores against you warneth his servants against you and is become a fire-brand of wrath against you But here you will say were not we of those number unto whom he made a promise you were so But upon condition That if you would bridle your tongues from 〈◊〉 evil and become wholly his But you are neither his nor bridle your tongues but speak 〈◊〉 before the Lord and the Messengers of his light and covenant Therefore are you not inheritors of his promise Behold while the grapes grew and the corn ripeneth God did expect your return for no hour is unacceptable unto him But now the harvest commeth that the corn must be cut down and the grapes pressed you are not as you said you would be nor as you promised Therefore are you excluded for in the vineyard there commeth no strangers nor in this harvest commeth any hirelings for it is not the harvest of man Δ Now either fulfill your promise and return from the multitude of your sinnes or murmur not though you be shut out of Doores The earth of it self bringeth forth nothing for it is the lump and excrement of darknesse whose bowels are a 〈◊〉 lake But where the heavens yield and the Sunne poureth down his force she openeth her self and becommeth spongy receiving mixture to generation and so is exalted above her self and bringeth forth to the use of man Even so the Body when it lyeth in the puddle and hotchpotch of his earthly filthinesse and darknesse making himself equal with beasts whose dignity is not but in their use E. K. Now he is here again ..... Two things you have to be instructedin in Rlodnr and in the Law of Coition and Mixture The first is the instrument working and drawing things together of one nature The second is the bonnds and termes wherein every mixture consisteth and beyond the which it cannot go The first of 4 parts every part conteining conteineth his conteined double The first is Tepens this teacheth the rest These two things can I open unto you in two revolutions which is but one dayes work But now I cease to open any more unto you till I see the favour of God more open unto you After 7 dayes I will come again until then I neither am nor speak Δ The mercies of God be upon us now and ever Amen ✚ Pragae Jesus Mercy Monday Januarii 28. Mane hora 10 ferè Oratione Dominica aliis pro misericordia divina fusis precibus extemporandis After diverse pitiful complaints of our frailty and calling for favour grace and mercy he appeared ..... Let the heavens prepare themselves to hear the earth scatter her self before my voice for I am the Trumpet of the Highest and the piercing Spirit dispersed into all creatures which are from the beginning in God and made to his glory and the use of man-kind that in man he might be glorified Give ear therefore gird up your garments and seatter your hair abroad before the Lord which is glorified in me and through whom I speak and these are my words Harden not your hearts against the Lord neither exalt your selves above him that hath created you But humble your selves and consider you are flesh mortal transitory and full of sinne My brethren my brethren sinne and flesh appear not before the Lord neither such as are sinners and fleshly vessels apt or fit for the Lord to dwell in Understand what the Lord is and how great he is a Judg to the wicked great and terrible a father to the holy and sincere just full of mercy and loving kindnesse If you now therefore be holy and put on the garments of Innocency and walk before him in righteousnesse Then look to have the reward of Children Then look for his fatherly mercies and loving kindnesse Then then rejoyce at the garments of glory prepared for you But if you seek him in judgment and stir him up to wrath and anger if you cause him to call the terrible thunders provided for the wicke about him in the most furious flames of his indignation to gather you together like whirl Winds if you draw his holy Angel from you and spoil you of your armes if he sit down upon the mouth of vengeance and arm himself with righteousnesse against your wickednesse Then look for the horrible and unspeakable reward of the wicked and the consuming fire of Justice sharper then the two-edged sword Who hath stood before the Lord in Justice or who dare quarrel with the highest What flesh hath seen the Lord in his Majestie or can appear before him as righteous Tear your selves therefore in pieces and fall down before the Lord worship him as a father and become his children for his Judgments my brethren are terrible and his wrath is without measure Many wayes you are bound and tyed unto God As by discipline you learn But three special
came And that which hath offended in nothing shall be a second opposite from God and out of God which shall have continuance world without end And it shall be alwayes vexed the Spirit of God mediating not of the substance or purenesse of God or of his Spirit but with the self-same Nothing out of which God created all things Seeing therefore that the Will of God which is his Image separating Nothing from eternity in time made all things being the work of six dayes But I teach you a Mystery All things that through God are moved to the Center by the Spirit of God which is the center of the Godhead are not after the world after the consummation of the world as Angels and the blessed souls are not to be reckoned with that Nothing But are of God because they dwell in him of whom it is said There they shall not need the Sun nor the Moon the Lamb himself shall be their light and a shining lamp for ever Note here that the Trinity first second and third totally not moved but by himself in himself time bringing forth all things according to his Word made all things except Man For why when all things had pleased him not because they were but because by the Word the Image of himself and wherein he is delighte they were made he made man as the Scripture teacheth you how by the Spirit of God in Moses that he should injoy and use the benefit of all this something proceeding from nothing in the Creatures of God in their kind that in him God might be glorified not onely in this world which is your earth vail of misery but also and chiefly that the memory of his exceeding and great mercy omnipotency might remain before him in heaven in the image of man and the most excellent Creatures world without end E. K. Now he is faln into ashes again as before E. K. Now he standeth up again as before ..... Here is the making of man to be considered for of the most excellentest dignified and 〈◊〉 part of Nothing distributed as it were approaching neer unto God God made the Soul of man as a thing knit or tied in the convex of his own Sphere not taking part with Nothing materially but with Nothing Immortal The Soul was made spiritual and increasing wherein the Philosophers the wise men of this world are deceived and hath been a secret shut up in the Book of Esdras not fit for the world For even as flesh by conjunction and commixtion of likelihoods proper in their own nature to bring forth the 〈◊〉 of himself so doth the most execllentest part of man taking part with the vicinity of God and so 〈◊〉 moving bring forth after the manner of eternity every living soul the Spirit of God conjoyned with the 〈◊〉 working with him in his infinity 〈◊〉 in the beginning God hath not numbred 〈◊〉 all souls that shall enter into those vessels or other part But the matter material in himself he knoweth and hath limited beyond the which there cannot be Therefore it is conteined in Number Not that it is 〈◊〉 in Number to be numbred but within the proportion of number conteined in the knowledg of 〈◊〉 Christ taking 〈◊〉 with man and so to be numbred Adam fell 〈◊〉 God his Commandment and therefore was his soul darkened bare and naked because he wanted the beauty and excellency of Gods Spirit wherein he dignified him and made him like unto himself being a living soul. He was cast out and now casteth off misery wanting the knowledge of those things for the which he was created Now God the image of his Father grieved at the fall of man and moved with pity vouchsafed because of the excellency of man to enter into man being before 〈◊〉 into this part of nothing into man Not that he would beautifie himself with any thing that man had But that Become man begotten of the Holy Ghost he might as you know by the Scriptures make man acceptable again with God his Father God himself with God in unity for 〈◊〉 and Terrour is God the Father Mercy and love is God the Son Wisdome and knowledge is God the Holy ghost He since 〈◊〉 became man put not on the flesh of man to become a lyar but that the flesh of man might be full of the spirit of truth and understanding E. K. Now he is faln again into ashes E. K. Now he is up again And so receive forgivenesse of sins and be at one with God which is to say in his favour taking hold in God not as created and from Creation sinful by fall But by ransonse and redemption as bought and made free in Jesus Christ which offered up the Sacrifice of frankincense gold and myrrh of true propitiation for the quick and the dead Now my brethren give good ear what I say unto you The wisdome of the Father in love created and made man dignifying him and exalting him as the Lord and Master over all Creatures mortal But how by Plasmation For it is written Let us make man Here thou seest also the Scripture saith that God took of the Earth Mark this word and consider it when I shall apply it Now if this power if this Plasmating if this Taking which was the Word become man perfect man then followeth it that man was and is God creating and created If therefore this conjunction or knitting together of God and man bear the image of him in excellency and power which created all things and by whom this Nothing was spread abroad and had form in his parts then followeth it that the self-same God and Man being truth speaking of himself unto his Disciples saying This is my body E. K. Now he is fallen again in ashes E. K. Now he is up again ..... Read Δ I read Now my brethren give good ear c. E. K. Now he holdeth up his hands ..... did in breaking of bread which signifieth the earth in taking it signified the power of making and his own Office and breaking it before his Disciples according to the secret sense of mans soul then being yet alive give himself in the bread and in breaking unto his Disciples as the sense of his word spoken E K. He speaketh that I understand not ..... did import and truly signifie himself his 〈◊〉 body to suffer and suffered in that in him in his Godhead and wisdome before the worlds it was so his very true body and very true blood But notwithstanding 〈◊〉 Consider of this E. K. He is gone Δ Blessed be E. K. Now he is here again ..... Mark here for whom and unto whom Christ took and brake bread also took the Chalice and called it his blood of the New Testament which shall be given Here you see that in faith and Sacramentally it was given unto his Disciples there which was also to be given upon the Crosse for the redemption of man kind for else
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
and honour and will during my being praise thy holy Name E. K. He is gone and went away mounting upward c. Quis sicut Deus noster qui humilitèr resplicet peccatores sua ditat 〈◊〉 Illi soli sit omnis laus honor gloria nunc semper Amen ✚ Pragae Monday Aprilis 1. Manè circa 8. Δ A remembrance for me England Letters A. L. His Letters opened and some yet kept Emerick his traiterous dealing to be deciphered Counsel for the manner of our going and what things shall be needfull to take with us Δ Praecesfeci visitatas alias ex tempore ejaculationes pro auxilio Dei omnipotenti necessario in omnibus nostris Dei prescripti tractandis negotiis c. E. K. Here is a tall man with white clothes with wide sleeves and his garment very much pleated and a thing like a Cypress scarf before his face black which had been many times doubled and with a knot behind him Two others there are by him on his left hand one of them is apparelled in a green thing like a Cassock comming down to his middle leg and a pair of shooes on his feet and a hat on his head The other in a marble Jerkin like a leather Jerkin with panos and a pair of Hose with round Breeches of the same stuff his neither stocks like common black and usual shooes and on his head an hat as the other hath of the English fashion The first hath a little beard short aburn 〈◊〉 The other hath a young beard whitish ..... Why do you provoke me to indignation E. K. He seemeth to speak to them two looking on them Why accuse you me of doing wrong Have I not lead you out by the hand from the Serpents Carried you against nature thorow the waters Have I not held you up from falling Have I not brought you hither unto the Hill E. K. There appeareth a very great Hill up to the Heavens by him This is the entrance The way is open for you ascend And are you not yet ashamed to urgeme If I have done you wrong wrong be unto me If I have done more then I ought to do why do you vex me Δ He seemeth to mean us E. K. He speaketh to them two I have said unto you eat and you have not I have told you it is time to eat but you have your own time I have said unto you Go before Follow me But in this case I will not be 〈◊〉 against you These 〈◊〉 that record my sayings shall 〈◊〉 judgment against you Therefore now unto you E. K. He turneth toward you Δ Here you see the Hill here you see the way open Here you see no hinder ance Yet 〈◊〉 these men accuse me trouble me Determine you against them Call not at these Doores any more untill you be called unto them Ye have said if before the Lord if you had not it had been better for you E. K. He treadeth them two under his feet all to pieces and taketh his hands and flingeth the bloud of them about and it sticketh to the sides A voice ..... What is it to me if man had never been E. K. He wrappeth up the place of their lying as if it were a Cloth and putteth or tumbleth them out of fight E. K. Now he is gone like a Whirl-wind away LORD Δ I am heartily sorry for any thing I have said or done which hath provoked thy indignation thy mercy be upon us and not the rigor of thy most just Judgment Amen Thy Name be alwayes praised Amen O Lord I find my own weaknesse and frailty continually and therefore I call unto thee for thy gift of Wisdome that I might wisely and discreetly serve thee all the dayes of my life O Lord the escapes of my lips and the folly of my heart pardon I most heartily beseech thee And if thy helping hand forsook us and much more if thy indignation work against us we are in most miserable and pitifull case have pity have mercy have compassion on us Lord Lord Lord forgive this our offence whatsoever Suffer us not to be confounded through our little faith O God help our faith help help or else we perish K. K. Here he is againe ..... When the Lord bad thee go if thou had'st so done and had'st not taken thine own time more had been given unto him and more had been added unto thee But now Letters came that have passed through the hands of Sodomites and Murderers through whose hands they are accursed you rejoice you receive comfort you determine to goe But if you had left those letters behind you had come when I bad you go Then had my Name been untouched Therefere is the Lord angry and forgetteth not this offence For he that dealeth with me dealeth not as with a man for I have nothing in me tied to time much lesse hath he that sent me Δ O God what a wretched miserable man am I thus to fall and to offend my God O Lord that thou judgest is very just for man would have taken indignation against his servant that should not go where he biddeth or that would seek or use better credit to encourage him to his duty then his Masters c. Many times hast thou been wearied Have mercy O God Et dele omnes 〈◊〉 meas cor mundum crea in me averto iram tuam a nobis Is thy fury implacable or shall thy anguish last for ever what is slesh and dust before thee ..... There shall remaine the sting of this offence in both your generations until the fifth And I swear unto you by heaven Δ Spare this Sentence of indignation O God against us Thou hast said in what hour soever a sinner is sorry for his sinnes and turneth unto the Lord c. And Lord I am heartily sorry I bewaile with teares this great offence thou seest my contrite heart O God O God O God c. ..... This hath added much even hath bound up the rod which I spoke before unto thee Δ Thy mercies be recorded likewise O Lord and praised from Generation to Generation After this we sat and considered and perceived and confessed the greatnesse of our offence how it concerned much the Honour and Glory of God if we had gone without receiving the advertisement of those Letters So should they hear the and the King St. have perceived that we had the direction of God and of his good Angels and not to have depended upon mans letters or perswasions c. we both a like confessed this great misdoing and so framed our selves to make all speed away that possible we could the mercies of God be upon us now and ever E. K. He is here and said Be thou shut for twenty dayes and withal pulled a thing-like a Curtain about the Stone and the Stone seemed to be full of the same substance being like the froth of the Sea
a woman comming and she is here now she is all covered in green as with a cloud I may through it discern her fair face and her hairs dispersed abroad The place about her seemeth to be concave replenished with light of the Sunne she standeth as in a hollow shell or Oval figure concave ..... Stephen lift up thy head amongst the stars of Heaven for the Spirit of God is with thee and thou art become the Darling of the Highest but the Lord will reprehend thee for thy sins Behold thou shalt stand and thy sword shall be made holy See therefore that you honour him labour for him and obey him as the anointed and 〈◊〉 of the Lord. For why his spirit shall be plentiful amongst 〈◊〉 and he shall put the pillow of rest under your heads E. K. The more she speaketh the more the place is bright ..... The Prince of Darknesse shall lie as a stumbling block in his way but he shall stride over him without offence The earthly Creatures have not to do in this receptacle Therefore take heed thou defile it not If thou follow the rules of calling them thou shalt see that the air is their habitation Other wayes irregularly they appear in such vessels But such as are prepared for them Take heed therefor thou defile not the place of the Justified with the presence of those that are accursed But as they are of two sorts so let their appearing places be divers Thy servant is conducted and shall not stumble but shall return that the name of God may be blessed Now cease thy voice for our presence until the Lord hath rebuked Stephen in the consideration whereof consisteth the seal of his Election Verbum shall be the first word wherein the Lord shall shew himself unto him Behold I am full of the light of heaven and I shut up and go E. K. She is gone Δ Note all those things I intended or desired to be satisfied in are answered me without my asking Misericordia Pax Lux Dei nobis semper adsint omnis autem laus honor gloria sit Deo nostro Amen Notae 〈◊〉 Monday Tuesday Wednesday May 6 7 8. E. K. was very unquiet in mind and so expressed to me in words for that A. L. had not paid him his money long since due and chiefly for that he doubted very much of A. L. his turning to the Lord with 〈◊〉 his heart and constantly So much did A. L. his former life and ungodly living and dealing offend him and so void was he of any hope that he became in a great 〈◊〉 of mind to find us coupled with so 〈◊〉 a man I shewed A. L. his last Letters how he was in a 〈◊〉 of his own belonging to the 〈◊〉 Rithwyan vvhich he had now by a stratagem won from the unjust delaying of his adversary and what penance and contrition he was in what meditations and what godly purposes c. But E. K. would not hope of conversion and thereupon utterly and 〈◊〉 intended with all speed to be gone from hence toward Prage and willed me if I would to prepare my Letters He became very blasphemous against God to my great grief and terrour what the issue thereof would be so great was the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 against God and his holy purposes in us that almost greater could not be uttered I used as quiet words as I could assuring him of Gods mercies alwayes ready and his helping hand for all such as put their trust in him and call upon him in their 〈◊〉 and times of need and so did betake him to God for that Tuesday night being past 9 of the clock Wednesday morning as I was at my prayers in my study over his Chamber and had made declaration of this cause and of the perplexity most grievous that I was in to see my friend and partner E. K. thus carried away with so grievous a temptation so manifold and 〈◊〉 E. K. yet lying in his bed did call his brother Thomas to him and willed him to callme to him Thomas came when I had in manner ended my devotions and prayers for me I went to him yet lying in his bed And after I had wished a good morrow and sate by him on the Bench at his beds head he began and said such matter as followeth E. K. A Spirit appeared to me this morning by my Bed-side and bid me be quiet Bad me will you to go to morrow with both your servants to my Lord as secretly as you could Bad you comfort him Bad you bring him with you Bad you to go to the King as you came homeward Bad me to board in the mean space with the Italian Doctor at Perins house Bad me lie here every night Hereupon I was most glad and joyful and praised God for his marvellous mercies loving kindnesse and goodnesse toward us and declared my self assured that God had put out his term and setled the degree For the performance of his purposes and promises made to us for his own honour and glory And so with joy and thanks given E. K. for his courteous imparting these good news to me I went about my businesse intended which was to go to the Table of the Lord as I was prepared for it and so went to the Barnardines Church Soli Deo nostro sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio nunc semper Amen Note I had in my prayers alledged to God that albeit I was in great perplexity and agony of mind yet since I was willed to cease my voice for having at any angelical presence I said he of his divine clemency and care over us in these great desires might counsel us and direct us though we did not urge our request as we were wont The conclusion and shame which many wayes would follow if this intended purpose of E. K. should go forward and take place was so great that we might seem to the world to have been led to that evil end by a manifold digression rather then otherwise led in mercy and verity wherein I requested God to regard his own honour and glory c. ✚ Cracovia Maij 20. Monday à meridie horam circiter 6. in mansio meo NOTE Δ. Δ E. K. sitting with me in my study told me that after my going to Rithian to the Lord Lasky he had very many apparitions and divers matters declared unto him of the state of Christendom c. He said moreover fault was found with my manner of standing before Stephen I should have made some more ample declaration of my Calling and knowledge in these our actions Secondly that I did mistake the phrase spoken unto me at Prage of the rod binding up For he said that Michael Dee should die that I should thereby be afflicted and divers such things he told me and among other that he was willed to be ready to leave me when he should be called for he said our actions
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
that I buy a Kingdom for thee with gold or silver Wilt thou that the Kings and Princes of the earth shall laugh the Almighty God of the heaven and earth to scorn Have I at any time preferred such as trust in me to the government of my people by giving them the excrements of the earth Look down upon my servant Abraham Look down upon his children Call to remembrance my servant David Set Solomon before thy eyes The Kings and Princes of Judah and of Jerusalem Consider with thy self the Calling of the twelve The government and state of such as have been Princes amongst the flock Christian. Have they been hired or promoted Have they been lifted up by me with gold or silver or such like trumpery the Monsters of the earth In necessity to pay Tribute the fish ministred wherewithall Tribute might be paid according to custom In the calling of Abraham multiplication of seed was promised which was to be a multitude in people mighty and great upon the face of the earth David was 〈◊〉 in the least of his brethren even to be King of Israel not by the 〈◊〉 of precious stones gold or silver A Sling he had a Satchel with a few stones Solomon was commanded to build me a Temple without any sum or stint The 〈◊〉 went from place to place intending to teach neither carried they gold or silver but onely a scrip or bag prepared for their common victuals and nourishment Many Princes and Kings have published my Name without any promise made unto them from heaven Notwithstanding unto Abraham I have plenty as his necessities required and unto his children as I had limited Unto David being King riches followed his State and unto his son Solomon plenty both at home and abroad to build my Temple Unto the Apostles I gave in the time of the calling of my people the spirit of understanding whereby they understood and had power to teach And unto such as stretched out their hands for my name I have abundantly given and it hath been faithfully and for the love of me taken in hand Believe therefore with Abraham and with his children Bring thy fling and bag before the people of the Lord against Goliah Endeavor thy self with Solomon to build a Common-wealth wherein I will be exalced as the servant of the Son of God and as his follower Go forward as thy own power and ability shall serve thee For thus saith the Lord of Hosts Thou hast nothing but what thou hast received of me neither thou neither thy father Provide therefore of that thou hast which is mine that is to say of that which thy power can extend unto in thine own faculty and riches to shew thy good will and ready endeavours in such things to be brought to pass as thou hast learned of me That is to say Neglect not the time of this thy visitation neither despise this Kingdom wherein thou shalt reign for in so doing I dwell with thee for ever and with thy posterity which shall be in me mighty When thou art entred into it whatsoever Treasure there is in my house or amongst you Take it use it Make thee a 〈◊〉 of it with two edges that with the one thou maist cut off the bastards head and with the other build up the Monuments and the houses of cleanliness godliness and understanding That the East again may flourish and that I may make one Floc from the Sun-rising to his going down In the mean season shall the Powder which thou hast to be multiplied be extended and multiplied with them that are here present that it may be apt for thy uses and the strengthning of thy faith The one half of it thou shalt keep as the perpetual remembrance of me even thou and thy posterity Unto him that is thy head do thy true obedience although his heart be bardued against thee and thirsteth after thy destruction For behold thy enemy that seeketh to devour thy Soul ceaseth not to lay 〈◊〉 for thee that thou maist become odious to common people But the time shall shortly come when thou shalt have justice against him See therefore that thou smite see I say again that thou smite him for Justice is the hand of the Highest punishing such as offend either against him or his Innocent These that now come unto thee have brought thee a great Cluster of grapes even as big as they can both carry amongst the which notwithstanding there are many rotten But behold the foolishness from above shall appear wisdom before them when their wisdom shall become foolishness before me and before themselves Round about thee thou shalt receive assistance and many hearts shall be made glad in thee As for my Treasures to be opened To him that defileth my Seat and the Sword of Justice To him that harboureth abomination in his own houses and listneth unto wicked counsel Unto him which hath despised me which is accursed of me shall none of my Treasures be opened I have judged him and it shall appear shortly That which is Caesars give unto Caesar and that which is mine unto the House of my Honour Be obedient as the servant of God unto thy Superiours and whilest thou maist diligently do Justice Thy Country shall receive such remembrance of thee as shall never be rased from the face of the earth until the fire come down from heaven consuming all things Be full of humility and abandon pride Bow down thine ears nnto the poor Be often sorry for thy dayes mis-spent Be strong for ever in me Pausa Δ Thy wife is even at the door of sickness But behold I am even he the Lord of health E. K. As unto thee Barrenness dwelleth with thee because thou didst neglect me and take a wife unto thy self * contrary unto my commandment for neither young nor old rich nor poor are respected with me but what I will have done is just and whosoever doth it not is privily if he be not openly punished for his offence Therefore thou shalt have the womb which thou hast barren and fruitless unto thee because thou hast transgressed that which I commanded thee Be it unto thy brother as his service trust and confidence hath been in me and towards me Lay your hands to work and your bodies unto labour and participate one with another as is commanded you That the blessing which I have promised you may go forward in you and that your labour may bring forth good fruit The fourteenth day hence shall this Action end In which day you shall once again assemble your selves here together And now behold I say unto thee unto thee that hast thy eyes opened and thy ears made perfect which hast been exalted by the sight of the heavens why dost thou call upon me desiring to be made free Is it a burthen unto thee to be comforted from above O foolish man by how much the heavens excel the earth by
whatsoever you have done unto other men even the self-same shall light upon you but happy is he that receiveth not justice through the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 but through the grace and mercy of God The Apostle Paul abounded in carnal lust he was also offensive unto his brethren so that he despaired and was ready to have left his vocation untill the Lord did say unto him My mercy and grace 〈◊〉 thee Beleeve me that we are from above Which considered Consider also That as you cannot comprehend the heavens so likewise can you not comprehend the wisdome of God which saith I will be merciful unto whom I list and unto whom I will not I have none in store Foolish is he that asketh why And 〈◊〉 I say unto you Stumble not against God Who he is that made you Who is he that hath given you power to look up towards heaven You are fools and of little understanding This day saith G d unt you B hold you are become free Do that which most pleaseth you For behold your own reason riseth up against my wisdome Not content you are to be heires but you would be Lords yea Gods yea the Judgers of the heavens Wherefore do even as y u list but if you forake the way taught you from ab ve behold evil shall enter into your senses and abomination shal dwel before your eyes as a recompence unto such as you have done wrong unto And your wives and children shall be carried away before your face Δ. The Almighty God of heaven and earth be my comfort as I desire comfort in his service and give me wisdome as I desire it for his honour and glory Amen E. K. I see a white pillar and upon the pillar I see four heads Shee tieth the pillar round about with a list The four heads are like on two heads and on two Wolves heads Now there cometh a thing like a white Crown of Christal and standeth upon all our four heads The heads seem to be inclosed by the necks within the pillar Now she taketh the pillar and goeth up with it Now she bringeth an half Moon down and written in it as followeth Injustum nihil quod justum est Deo Now she goeth round about upon a thing like a Carpet she goeth now beyond where is an Orchard she cutteth branches of two trees and shee seemeth to insert them or graff them into another Now she goeth into a black place behinde the wood and bringeth a thing with her in a chain An ugly thing like a Devil Mad. ..... Behold seest thou this wherewithall thou thoughtest to overthrow and most infect thou art utterly overthrown and shalt never return again E. K. Now he leapeth and the ground openeth and he sinketh in and there seemeth a stink of brimstone to come to my Nose from the pit Now the grafts are all grown in the tree as if they were all of one tree Now she cometh out of that orchard Now she goeth round about the orchard and leaveth a darkness like a cloud round about the orchard Mad. ..... Visible to God but invisible to man E. K. Now she cometh again upon her Carpet Behold if you resist not God but shut out Satan through unity amongst you thus it is said unto you Assemble your selves together every seventh day that your eyes may be opened and that you may understand by him that shall teach you what the secrets of the holy books delivered you are That you may become full of understanding and in knowledge above common men And in your works go forward and detract no time that you may also have fruit Unto William I will be merciful for ever according to my promise But I will buy him no Kingdom after the manner of man with money But what I have determined unto him shall happen unto him And he shall become mighty in me ¶ And this Powder which thou hast brought here is appointed for a time by God and cannot be used until then without offence Happy is he that heareth my words this day and happy is he that understandeth them But if you deny the Wisdome of the Highest and account us his Messengers Creatures of darkness This day you are made free And look that you lay up all things that is spoken of from above and whatsoever hath been taught you as well the books as instruments You shall shortly have to do again with the cruelty of the Emperour and the accursed Bishop Whereunto if you go forward with God you shall be taught to answer If you leave off as soon as you hear of it be going into Germany lest you perish before then I have no more to say unto you but my swiftness is from above E. K. Now she maketh her self ready c. Mad. ..... If my friendship like you not I beseech God send you as good will as I in powe bear towards you I have not one word more given me to speak E. K. Now she is gone Δ. I was glad that an offer was made of being every seventh day to be taught the secrets of the books already delivered unto us Thinking that it was easie for us to perform that unity which was required to be amongst us four understanding all after the Christian and godly sense But E. K. who had yesterday seen and heard another meaning of this unity required utterly abhorred to have any dealing with them farther and did intend to accept at their hands the liberty of leaving off to deal with them any more which his understanding as it was strange and unpleasant unto me so I earnestly requested to be resolved therein in manner as followeth At the same time and in the same place this ensued NOTE Δ. Upon Mr. Kelly his great doubt bred unto me of Madimi her words yesterday spoken to him that we two had our two wives in such sort as we might use them in common it was agreed by us to move the question whether the sense were of Carnal use contrary to the law of the Commandment or of Spiritual love and charitable care and unity of mindes for advancing the service of God E. K. Upon a Scroll like the edge of a Carpet is written De utroque loquor Δ. The one is expresly against the Commandement of God neither can I by any means consent to like of that Doctrine And for my help in that verity I do call down the power of Almighty God the Creator of heaven and earth and all the good Angels his faithful Ministers to assist me in the defence of my faithful obedience to the law of the Gospel and of his Church Assist me O Christ. Assist me O Jesu Assist me O holy Spirit E. K. It appeareth written upon a white Crucifix as followeth Mea gratia major est 〈◊〉 Gratia enim 〈◊〉 mea est ut hominibus insanis 〈◊〉 beatitudo Et que ita dicta sunt Vel sint vel hodie libertas vobis restituitur Amen dico
and Jone Kelley have faithfully obediently willingly and wittingly subscribed our Names with our own hands day of May Anno 1587. In Trebon Castle And finally as thou hast warned us O God that this doctrine and doings should unto no mortal man else be disclosed but among us onely the above-named four to be kept most secret and hast said that whosoever of us should by any means disclose the same and he also or she to whom the same should be disclosed should presently and immediately be strucken dead by thy Divine power So we all and every of us four do request thee most earnestly and Covenant with thee as our God that so all this doctrine and doing may be kept most hid and secret and also that the sudden and immediate bodily death may light and fall on the discloser and on him or her to whom the same doctrine or doing any manner of way shall be disclosed or known Amen Amen Amen JOHN d ee Note and remember That on Sunday the third of May Ann. 1587. by the new account I John Dee Edward Kelley and our two wives covenanted with God and subscribed the same for indissoluble and inviolable unities charity and friendship keeping between us four and all things between us to be common as God by sundry means willed us to do Ad Dei honorem laudem gloriam in fide obedientia Factum esto Amen 1587. Trebonae in the fine Chappel Δ. THe foresaid Covenant being framed by me John Dee as near as I could according to the intent and faith of us required to be notified and declared by the works of unity both spiritual and corporal Now it was by the women as by our selves thought necessary to understand the will of God and his good pleasure Whether this Covenant and form of words performed is and will be acceptable and according to the well liking of his Divine Majesty And that hereupon the act of corporal knowledge being performed on both our parts It will please his Divine Majesty to seal and warrant unto us most certainly and speedily all his Divine Merciful and bountiful Promises and Blessings and also promises us wisdome knowledge ability and power to execute his justice and declare and demonstrate his infallible verity amongst men to his honour and glory Hereupon E.K. and I went to the Chappel to the South Table Δ. To this intent I prayed to the Almighty God Creator of heaven and earth fatherly favourably and mercifully to regard the singleness and straits of my heart desiring him to encrease the faith and to open the eyes of my heart that I may see Opera digitorum mirabilia ejus nobis sicuti necessaria for his service and glory and for the confusion and overthrow of his enemies Amen I read over the Covenant verbatim before the Divine Majesty and his holy Angels Pausa ¼ horae E. K. Here appeareth Madimi As a thing like a head with three eyes cometh upon her head and one of the eyes seem to come one into another Mad. ..... Pepigistis Δ. Pepigimus Ratum est perumpite sunt vobis omnia communia Dei non hominis estote Promissa quae sunt possidete Vobis destinata vera sunt AEternus sum E. K. She is gone E.K. My thought an infinite number of spiritual Creatures stood afar off behinde her like as in an half Moon Δ. Illi qui AEternus est Omnipotens Sapiens Bonus Verus Misericors rerum omnium Creator Redemptor noster Illuminator omnium lumine vero Collustratoru Sit omnis gratiarum actio laus benedictio honor gloria Nunc in sempiterna saeculorum saecula Amen 1587. Trebonae PReces ad Dominum Creatorem Cali terrae c. Then as concerning the Covenant which was made subscribed and delivered in but the next day required again of Mr. E.K. and in his wifes name to put out his name c. But when he had it he cut it into equal parts keeping that half wherein his subscription and his wifes were and delivered unto me the other half but after a few dayes desired to have the sight and reading of both together and then he kept the other part from me also But afterward Madimi did with her finger draw on the two papers make them whole again c. and then she gave the print of my Characters and said a red Circle should alwayes appear in the Stone to all mens sight c. E. K. There is here a great Globe of fire hanging in the top of the Stone and in the Globe a man standing with a purple Robe like Christ I cannot well perceive his face ..... Who sitteth upon the Cherubins and is carried abroad with their wings Who is he that is lifted up in thunders and in the voyce of many waters exalted and magnified through the power of a Seraphin which is the power of him that made him Who is he that stretcheth out his arms and imbraceth all things Who is he that is not and is Who is he that numbreth the Stars as the letters of a V lumne or entreth down into the waves In the multitude of his wonders who is he that maketh his Whelps there where the Sea glideth and keepeth them in Chains till the day of his stretch-forth power come Who is he that maketh his habitation in the Sun or filleth the Moon with a perpetual River Who is he that hath made Winter and Summer times and seasons Who is he that is the Lord of all beasts and fowls Who is he that hath made you of nothing even he it is that hath led you out even he it is that hath carried you to the Seas even he it is that hath kept you sleeping and preserved you waking Even he it is that hath 〈◊〉 his thunders underneath your and hath harnished you With the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 against the people of Ethan yea even he it is I say that is and liveth for ever and hath provided you as the chiefest reapers yea and over-seers of his harvest which hath made you a promise That the Kings of the earth shall be inriched by you and hath made you free from all men against the day when you shall see me But O you of little faith and understanding O I say you of little faith and understanding how long will you be your own masters nay your own servants how long do you contemn the profound and unspeakable floods of my wisdome and fore-knowledge in you How long I say will you run after your own imaginations and contemn the present counsels which I give you hindring the power that is ready to fall upon you O 〈◊〉 of little faith and understanding Behold I have prepared a banket for you and have brought you even unto the doors but because you smell not the feast you disdain to enter happy is he that entreth in through me For I am the very gate to all felicity and joy and without