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
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
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
his head and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn and challenged Alexander to fight But Alexander went from him and said Nolo 〈◊〉 Kelleie Nolo Hereupon E. K. took up a stone and threw after him as after a dog and so came into the house again in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander The rage and fury was so great in words and gestures as might plainly prove that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself or of me or his brother c. This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual enemy Satan wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted and almost overcome to my great grief discomfort and most great discredit if it should as the truth was have come to the Emperours understanding except he had known me well c. I was in great doubt how God would take this offence and devised with my self how I might with honesty be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour c. for a time till God redressed it After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse by yeilding much to his humour c. and saying little not long after came my messager from my wise at Cracovia and Hugh my servant with him to my great comfort through her letters and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written About 2 of the clock after Noon came this letter to me of the Emperour his sending for me Nobilis Praeclarissiméque Domine Domine observandissime CAEsar jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum Hero meo ut Dominationem vestram ad se evocaret ad horam secundam qua eam audire cuperet Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis Cubiculis Is enim eam ad Majestatem suam introducet Quod reliquum est me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dominationis vestrae 〈◊〉 Arnoldus Vander Boxe Hereupon I went straight up to the Castle and in the Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock and the Chamberlain Octavius Spinola spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window and called him who came up to me and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for He came to me very curteously told me of the Emperours desire to see me and to speak with me So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber and came out again for me and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber and the Privy Chamber where the Emperour sat at a Table with a great Chest and Standish of Silver before him my Monas and Letters by him c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica dedicated to his father But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian and also unto his Majesty and that the rather because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty He then thanked me for his fathers Book and did affirm that he believed me that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse And of my estemation with the learned of the world he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour and also of my zealous mind towards his grace And commended the Book 〈◊〉 but said that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity and added that the Spanish Embassadour told him that I had somewhat to say unto him Quod esset pro sua utilitate I answered So I have and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no I found that we were alone Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning but for this sorty years continually in sundry manners and in divers Countries with great pain care and cost I had from degree to degree sought to 〈◊〉 the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world And I found at lengh that neither any man living nor any Book I could yet meet withal was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for And therefore I concluded with my self to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things to send me such wisdom as I might know the natures of his creatures and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory And in this purpose made divers assayes and at length it pleased God to send me his 〈◊〉 whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long fervent constant and 〈◊〉 prayer in the cause before specified And that His holy Angels for these two years and a half have used to inform me and have finished such works in my hands to be seen as no mans heart could have wished for so much yea they have brought me a Stone of that value that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the vertue or dignity thereof c. And that these things be true I protested and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty said I and have a message from him to say unto you and that is this The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me and rebuketh you for your 〈◊〉 If you will hear me and believe me you shall Triumph If you will not hear me The Lord the God that made Heaven and Earth under whom you breath and have your spirit putteth his foot against your breast and will throw you headlong down from your seat Moreover the Lord hath made this Covenant with me by oath that he will do and perform If you will forsake your wickednesse and turn unto him your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become your prisoner Which Devil I did conjecture to be the Great Turk said I This my Commission is from God I feigne nothing neither am I an Hypocrite an Ambitious man or doting or dreaming in this Cause If I speak otherwise then I have just cause I forsake my salvation said I. The Emperour said he did believe me and said that he thought I loved him unfaignedly and said that I should not need so earnest protestations and would not willingly have had me to kneel so often as I did Farther I said His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly
rest care not Δ Thy mercies be sealed upon us for ever and ever ô Lord of Hosts E. K. Now is a red thing like a Cloud come all over the stone Ignem tui amoris praepotentis fidei in cordibus nostris accende ô Deus Omnipotens nunc semper Amen Anno 1585. Augusti 6. Unica Actio quae Pucciana vocetur Que durabat ab hora 5. manè ad horam 11. PRAGAE Actio Pucciana ✚ Pragae Actionis Puccianae prior pars Augusti 6. Tuesday Manè circa ortum Solis nobis heri injungebatur Fusis de moere praecibus c. praesentibus nobis Δ E. K. Fr. Pucci ut praescriptum erat Disposita erat Mensa foederis Candelaque cerea accensa E. K. Here is one covered in white to the brest all white apparalled he hath a long glasse in his left hand full of filthy loathsome stuffe like matter or like bloud and milk or curds mingled together and a staffe about an ell long in his right hand he setteth the end on the ground he pointeth with his staffe toward the Table of Covenant Accede Dominum Δ He E. K. came to the Table of Covenant and looked into the Holy-stone and saw the same vision but his face is here bare and he seemeth to be Vriel Δ Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini ô beata Dei Lux URIEL ..... Gloriatibi Domine Rex coeli terrae quies venturus es E. K. Now I see the foundation of an old thing as though it were of a Church A voice ..... Measure Measure from the East to the North and from the North to the West part for behold the rest is judged already URIEL ..... I have measured Lord 25 and the half of twenty five 37½ The voice ..... Divide into three parts Δ The third part of 37½ is 12½ URIEL ..... It is done The voice ..... Vnto the Kings of the East give the first Unto the Kings of West give the second The remnant measure unto the dayes of the North that the fire of my indignation may be a bridle amongst them and that the whole World except the excepte may drink of the sorrow of the Prophetia seventh part of the half time yet to come URIEL ..... Thy mouth O Lor is a two-edged sword thy judgments are perpetual and everlasting thy words are the spirit of truth and understanding thy Garments most pure and smelling incense Thy Seat without end and triumphing who is like unto thee amongst the Heavens or who hath known thy beauty Great art thou in thy holy ones and mighty in thy word amongst the Sonnes of men Thy Testament is holy and undefiled The glory of thy Seat and the health of thy Sonnes Thy anointed is sacrificed and hath brought health unto the faithful and unto the Sonnes of Abraham Thy spirit is everlasting and the oil of comfort The Heavens therefor gather themselves together with Hallelujah to bear witnesse of thy great indignation and fury prepared for the Earth which hath risen up with the Kings of the Earth and hath put on the Wedding Garments saying with her self I am a Queen I am the daughter of felicity Remember all ye that are drunken with my pleasure the Character I have given you and prepare your selves to contend with the Highest set your selves against him as against the anointed for you are become the Children of a strong Champion whose Sonne shall garnish you with the Name of a Kingdome and shall poure wonders amongst you from the starres which shall put the Sunne the steward of his Waggon and the Moon the handmaid of his servants But O God she is a Lyar and the fire brandof destruction For behold thou art mighty and shalt triumph and shalt be a Conquerer for ever E. K. Now the Stone is full of white smoak Δ A Pause E. K. The smoak is gone and here standeth one over him in the aire with a Book whose nether parts are in a cloud of fire with his hair sparsed his arms naked the Book is in his right hand a four square Book with a red fiery cover and the leaves be white on the edge it hath 7 seales upon it as if the claspes were sealed with 7 golden Seales And there are letters upon the Seales the first E. M. E. T. T. A. V. ..... Take this Book ut veritas Luce magis clarescat Et Lux veritate fiat valida Data est enim tibi potestas dandi aperiendi hunc librum mundo mundis URIEL .... Gloria tibi Rex coeli terrae qui fuisti es venturus es hinc enim judiciū meretricis E. K. Now Vriel taketh the Book kneeling upon both his knees URIEL ..... Rejoyce O you sonnes of men lift up your hearts unto heaven for the secrets of God are opened and his word let out of Prison Rejoyce O you sonnes of God for the spirit of truth and understanding is amongst you Rejoyce O you that are of the Sanctuary for you shall be full of wisdom and understanding Rejoyce O thou the House of Jacob for thy visitation is at an end and thy visitation is beginning The four winds shall gather thee together and thou shalt build up the trodden wall The bridegroom shall dwell with thee And lo behold the Lord hath sworn and wickednesse shall not enter into thee neither shall the Spirit of the Highest go from thee but thy fathers bones shall have rest And thou shalt live eternally The bloud of the Innocents shall be washed away from thee and thou shalt do penance for many dayes Then shall the Lamb stand in the middest of thy streets O Hierusalem and shall give Statutes unto thy people and inhabitants All Nations shall come unto the House of David The Mothers shall teach their infants saying Truth hath prevailed and the Name of the Lord shall be the Watch-man of thee O City E. K. Now all is full of a white clond URIEL ..... Silence unto me and rest unto you for a season E. K. All is disappeared and the stone seemeth cleer Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Δ Legi praemissa Latine ipsi Fr. Pucci pauca locutus sum de regibus aliis qui haec putant esse nostras imposturas à nobis aec mala ratione tractari c. E. K. He is here again E. K. He sitteth in a chair of Christal with his Book in his lap and the measuring rod in his right hand and the glasse vial in his left hand URIEL ..... Seeing that power is given unto me and that truth is added unto my Ministery and I am become full of light and truth I will open your eyes and I will speak unto you the truth that you may shake off the lumpishnesse of your darknesse and profound ignorance and walk in truth with your fathers Give ear therefor diligently unto my voice and imbibe my sayings within the liquor of
Behold None of the Orders either of Heaven or Earth are armed to open their mouthes in my Name teaching or opening this Doctrine unless it were of me for I am the First and the Last And I will be Shepherd over all that the Kingdom of my Father may come and that my Spirit may be upon all flesh where there shall be no law nor need of light I my self am their lanthorn for ever And behold I will be as a Rock between you and the teeth of Leviathan which seeketh to set you asunder and to bring you to confusion And I am and am holy and holiness it self Out of me cometh no unclean thing For even as the time of Moses was wonderful to all the Gentiles even so shall those days to come be unto the Nations and Kings of the earth I am a law for ever And behold power is given unto me from above And I have visited the earth and have thrown my curse upon her And lo she shall become barren He that fasteth and prayeth doth but that which is commanded He that also fulfilleth 〈◊〉 will is justified before me for who is he that raiseth up or who is he that casteth down Yea even I it is that have taken you four Trees out of the forrest of the world and have covered you hitherto with my wings And behold this that is taken away shall be restored again to you with more power And Might shall be in it and a brestplate unto you of Judgement and Knowledge And if there be any of you that seeketh a Miracle at my hands and believeth in my words let him or her present themselves here the next Monday with the rest and he shall perceive that I was the Judge of Abiram and the God of Abraham Walk before me as the sous of my Father in all righteousness And follow you that which you call unrighteousness even with gladness for I can make you whiter then snow Your unity and knitting together is the end and consummation of the beginning of my harvest I will not dally with you but I will be mighty in deed amongst you And lo I will shortly open your eyes and you shall see And I will say ARISE and you shall go out What I am I am E. K. The flame and all is disappeared Δ. Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc in sempiterna saeculorum saecula Amen E. K. ..... said after that his body had in it like a fiery heat even from his brest down unto all his parts his privities and thighs Deo Omnipotenti Misericordi Regi seculorum sit omnis laus honor gloria nunc semper Amen J. D. E. K. J. D. J. K. WEE four whose heads appeared under one Chrystalline Crown and in one pillar united and enclosed do most 〈◊〉 and heartily thank thee O Almigh y God our Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier for all thy mercies and benefits 〈◊〉 received in our own persons and in them that appertain unto us And at this present do faithfully and sincerely confess and acknowledge that thy profound wisdom in this most new and strange Doctrine among Christians propounded commended and enjoyned unto us four onely is above our humane Reason and our Catholick Christian Profession to like of for that in outward shew of words it seemeth to us expresly to be contrary to the purity and 〈◊〉 which of us and all Christians thy followers is exactly required No withstanding we will for thy sake herein captivate and tread under foot all our humane timerous doubting of any inconvenience which shall or may fall upon us or follow us in this world or in the world to come in respect or by reason of our embracing of this Doctrine listned unto of us as delivered from thee our true and living God the Creator of heaven and earth who onely hast the true original power and authority of sins releasing and discharging and whose pardoning or not imputing of sin 〈◊〉 us through our lively faith in the most worthy Merit and precious Blood of thy Lamb immaculate shed for us is and shall be our Justification and Salvation We therefore according to blessed Raphael his counsel lately given most humbly and sincerely require thy divine Majesty to accept this our Covenant with thee to the intent that all thy merciful and gracious promises made unto us four and any of us may be to us performed and also that thy divine purposes in us and by us may be furthered advanced and fulfilled That as we acknowledge thy divine wisdom and grace opened unto us in this thy last mystical Admonishment of universal unity to be between us And dost most instantly and earnestly will us to accept and use the same as both mystically most needful and also lawful and just with thee which Admonishment standeth upon two parts that is to wit upon true and consummate Christian Charity between us four unviolably to be kept And also upon the New Matrimonial-like licence and liberty indifferently amongst us four to be used So we the same four above-named which hereunto will also subscribe our Names do this day Covenant with thy Divine Majesty besides all other respects chiefly upon the two principal intents and respects before here rehersed truly and unfeignedly to accept and perform henceforward amongst us four in word thought and deed to the uttermost and best of our power a perfect unity and with incomparable true love and good Christian Charity friendship imparting and communicating each unto other all and whatsoever we have or shall have hereafter during our lives And as for the Matrimonial-like licence we accept and allow of it And promise unto thee O our God the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth to fulfil the same in such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the go 〈◊〉 are permitted to fulfil and have been by divers testimonies commended for and by divine Doctrine willed to fulfil in Matrimonial-like conversation whensoever thy 〈◊〉 and allurements Matrimonial-like shall draw and perswade any couple of us thereunto Beseeching thee as thou art the onely true Almighty and everlasting God Creator of heaven and earth Thou wilt in thy infinite mercies not impute it unto us for sin blindness rashness or presumption being not accepted done or performed of us upon carnal lust or wanton concupiscence but by the way of Abraham-like faith and obedience unto thee our God our Leader Teacher Protector and Justifier now and for ever And hereunto we most humbly and faithfully require thy Divine Majesty to be our witness And moreover we call thy holy Angels and to bear record for thy honour and glory and for our discharge now and for ever And for a further consummation of this New Covenant on our behalf by thy will and permission made with thee the God of heaven and earth we the same four first notified and particularly and vùlgarly named John Dee Edward Kelley Jane Dee
the best ofus all of them of their nature or differences And how then can it be expected that we should resolve all doubts And though I think it is not much that any man ever knew and rightly apprehended or can as he is a man in this business yet my opinion is though I know it is much gainsaid and opposed that ancient Platonick Phylosophers of the latter times understood much more then most Christians I do not write this as though I thought or would have any thought by others to be the worse Christians for being ignorant in these things but rather in my opinion any man the better Christian by much who doth not regard it or desire it For my part although I must acknowledge that some scruples of my minde did induce me to lock into many 〈◊〉 until I was satisfied which otherwise I had never done yet I profess to believe that it is so little that can be known by man in this subject and subject to so much illusion as that I think no study is more vain and foolish and that I would not go three steps out of my doors more then what I did to satisfie my minde in some matters of Faith if any such scruple did arise to know as much as the profoundest Platonick or Phylosopher yea or Magician of them all ever knew Certainly he is but a weak Christian when so many high Mysteries are proposed unto us in Christ by his Gospel and of so much consequence that cannot bestow his time better They that have any hopes through Faith in Christ and a godly life to be admitted one day into the presenceof God and to see face to face as God hath promised will they hazard so glorious a hope by prying through unseasonable unprofitable curiosity into the nature of these vassal Spirits which God hath forbidden But because it doth concern Religion in general that we believe Spirits à nd when Objections are made that cannot be answered many are scandalized and Atheists ready to take the advantage of it I say that it should be no wonder to any sober and rational if we cannot resolve all doubts since it is so little that we know or can know beyond the bare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this matter Most Christians are bred in and to this opinion that all Spirits so commonly called are either Angels of Heaven or Divels of Hell I know no Scripture for it or determination of any general Councel that I remember at this time at least and so long I do not think my self bound against apparent reason For the conceit of all evil Spirits or Divels being in Hell I think learned Mr. Meade hath taken that to task in some of his Works and sufficiently confuted it The very word Spirit is a term of great Ambiguity We understand by it commonly substances that are altogetherimmaterial Many of the ancient Fathers it is well known did not allow of any such at all besides God But we think that to have no visible Body and to be purely immaterial is all one God knows how many degrees there may be between these but we cannot know it neither doth it concern our salvation for which we have reason to praise God But if it were so that all Spirits are either Divels or Angels what shall we make of these that are found in mines of which learned Agricola hath written of those that have been time out of minde called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from whence probably as we have said elsewhere Gobelin in English is derived who live in private Houses about old Walls and stalks of Wood harmless otherwise but very thievish so frequent and so known in some Countreys that a man may as well doubt whether there be any Horses in England because there are none in some parts of the World not found in all America I think till some were carried thither Neither can I believe that those Spirits that please themselves in nothing else but harmless sports and wantonnesse such as have been known in all Ages such as did use to shave the hairs of Plinius Secundus his Servants in the Night as himself relates a very creditable man I am sure in his Epistles and the like that such Spirits I say have any relation either to Heaven or to Hell We might insist in more particulars but we do not desire to dwell upon it at this time and there is yet somewhat else to be said And what I have said of some Platonicks I did not intend thereby to justifie all their absurd or superstitious Opinions in this Argument of Spirits As they have searched furrher into it then others besides damnable experience having confounded Magick with Phylosophy yea almost turned all Phylosophy into Magick so it was consequent they would fall into more Errors and Absurdities yet withal they have found somewhat that doth better agree with daily experience then what is commonly known or believed Sinesius was a Bishop but as he doth appear to us in his Writings a better Platonick then a Christian In a place in his Treatise De insomniis he sheweth how evil Spirits come to inhabit men and to possesse their Brains His terms are very course and apparantly ridiculous but there may be some truth in the Opinion For if there were not a very near and intimate conjunction it were to be wondered how the Divel comes to know the very thoughts of Witches and Magicians as is found by experience averred by more then one And in this very Book if I be not mistaken somewhat may be observed to that purpose It is possible there may be more kindes of possession then one and that some men that never were suspected have had a spirit besides their own resident in them all or most part of their lives I have done with what I could think of upon which objection can be made The next thing is to make the way clearer to the Reader by some consideration of the method of the Books and explanation of some terms and phrases there ufed at which perchance some may stick at the first At the very beginning a man may be to seek it the Title of it Liber sexti mysteriorum sancti parallelus novalisque 1583. both as it relates to that which follows and as it reflects upon somewhat before by which it may be inferred that the book begins here abruptly and imperfectly of this I am now ready to give an account to the Reader and it is very fit it should be done First concerning Titles such as will be found here many more besides this the whole book or relation being subdivided into many parts in general I say that according to the Doctors genius we have said before he was very Cabalistical that is full of whimsies and crotchets under the notion of Mysteries a thing that some very able otherwise have been subject unto and the high opinion he had of these actions and apparitions they are mostly very concealed and
of Jubanladaech or of Il or whom soever else it shall please thy Majesty to send E. K. A man with a black Gown appeareth with a Cap falling in his neck with a big Book under his arme Δ. It should seem to be Aphlafben my good Angel E. K. He hath a white Robe under the black Gown which goeth all under his Gown trailing behind him but the white Robe traileth not his Gown hangeth on him as though it were falling off his shoulders behind Δ. In the Name of Jesus the King of Glory are not you Aphlafben my good Angel by the mercy and power of God so assigned E. K. He looketh very anciently ..... Impire Most high Glory and thanks throughout all Creatures be unto thee O eternal God first ... Secondly redeeming and Thirdly sanctifying the World in his Creation Now and for ever And as long as it shall be said Osanna in the Quire of the High God .... Amen Δ. ..... Amen ..... Amen ..... Amen ..... Manifold are the Mercies of God towards man whose basenesse deserveth no such grace and most unspeakable blessing But such is God what he justifieth himself in the strength of his mercy and heveth his honour with his own holinesse For what is man that can justifie himself or that hath any thing wherein his bowels can rejoyce Wherein can he determine happinesse to himself Or how can be compare himself with the trees that are fruitful If the life of man be sin then is it hateful But who is he that hateth it But even he which is above and is farthest from 〈◊〉 Great therefore O man are thy miseries when naturally thou art and lovest to be hated of God whose service is Justice and whose delight Peace Consider therefore the Mercies of God through his loving kindnesse towards thy weaknesse And acknowledge his Power which maketh those strong which have no force of themselves Gather not up your own inventions But be faithful servants performing the will of him which sanctifieth you with obedience for of dust you are become flesh and of flesh the servants of sin that at length you might be made free through your own consents in the mercies of him which hath entred into your weaknesse and weighed out his blood for your Redemption Even he which hath payed the uttermost penny of your Ransome And why Not to the intent you should brag of your selves But hath charged in condition you should maintain justice 〈◊〉 the works of Righteousnesse Vnto whom is Heaven a seat but unto such as are faithful servants Wherein the Dignity of your Master is known of whom it is said Blessed are those that serve the God of Hosts If anything now happen unto you that is the riches of your Master Be thankful for it and consider his liberalitie And how much the more he openeth his Treasures to you Be so much the more thankful For unto such belongeth the ownership of more and the reward of such as are ten times faithful Happy are these to whom it is said Thou good servant Be no Gadders for there is no house to the house of your Master Take heed also least you minister his bread to such as are his enemies and so unworthy for unto both these belongeth the reward of unfaithfulnesse Be not high-minded when you borrow your riches lest the moths enter in and corrupt your garments for Pride is the deph of sin .... Cease not to rebuke the dishonourers * as o .... Neither maintain the honour of any other For he that entertaineth you hath sealed you for others And hath strengthened you with Authority The Rod of his Justice Generally these things have been spoken unto you and these Lessons are not yet to learn But happy are those whom God sanctifieth being unholy And ten times blessed are the Temples wherein his Holinesse dwelleth True it is as thou sayest Generally men are sanctified the people of the Earth through all Nations mystically through the mercies of God But where the sanctification agreeth not with the thing sanctified there entreth wickednesse The Spirit of God is not sanctified in Hell Neither is his holy Temple beautified with the feet of the unrighteous It is written Dogs honour not bread neither defiled places things that are holy For as Hell dishonoureth Heaven in respect of unrighteousnesse So those that are wicked dishonour the vertuous and such as are truely holy by society and they stink of their wickednesse For it is written And Satan went from the presence of the Lord leaving a stink behind him The light of the Sun is taken from the Earth by the congealed cloud The sins of the people and filthinesse of places are put between vertue and the things Sacramental Therefore it is not true that thou mayest lawfully call upon the Name of God in unhallowed places Δ. I crave pardon for my ignorance and errour herein But I required not to know of the heavenly Mysteries Onely such things I demanded information of which not onely were above humane power to answer and so might seem worldly mysteries but also the true good news of them might many ways be comfort unto us and ours ..... Behold in Israel the rough stones are acceptable Altars And the stinking Caves have been known unto the Lord. And why Because the place was holy neither this filthinesse here nor of any thing else created hindreth But the filthinesse of the place and Country wherein they are defiled for in pure places the defield are blessed David sanctified Saul with the presence of his Annointing and his Harp spake out the wonders of the Lord. We come unto you here because the wild of God in you shineth But the filthinesse of this Country 〈◊〉 the beauty of our message Not that it is obscured in us but hindered through wick ..... from you Therefore flee the company of Drunkards and such as we ..... their own understanding E. K. He holdeth up his face and hands to heaven-ward ..... Drunkards and such as defile themselves are apt to know things worldly not as wise men do but that the World may be a plague to their iniquity Thou desirest pardon and calledst th ... businesse a worldly mystery But the mysteries of this world are put under the feet of the faithful which overseen through God are generally comforted and directed Then therefore what care remaineth either of the Seas or of the slimy Earth where on the one side thou regardest the Ship and on the other side Money I say unto thee God correcteth this world and the casualties thereof lest those that are of thee should 〈◊〉 his name Δ. Blessed be his holy Name and his Power magnified for ever ..... Thy goods are safe And the Earth shall provide for you Be not you careful for unto the just yea even the hairs of his head are numbred I am silent for the World for it is not my propriety But notwithstanding ask and thou shalt not be denyed Δ. As concerning Vincent
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
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
the mystical and holy voices of the Angels dignified and in state disglorified and drent in confusion which pierceth Heaven and looketh into the Center of the Earth the very language and speech of Children and Innocents such as magnifie the name of God and are pure Wherein the Apostles understood the diffuse sound of the World imperfected for mans transgression These Tables are to be written not by man but by the finger of her which is mother to Vertue Madimi said her mother would write them An. 1583. Wherein the whole World to flesh incredible all Creatures and in all kinds are numbred in being and multitude The measure and proportion of that substance which is Transitory and shall wax old These things and mysteries are your parts and portions sealed as well by your own knowledge as the fruit of your Intercession The knowledge of Gods Creatures Vnto me are delivered five parts of a time Wherein I will open teach and uncover the secrets of that speech that holy mysterie To the intent the CABALA of NATURE in voyce substance of bodie and measure in all parts may be known For there is nothing secret but it shall be revealed and the son of GOD shall be known in POWER and establish a Kingdom with righteousnesse in the earth and then cometh the end For the earth must come under subjection and must be made pure That death may be swallowed in his own Kingdom and the enemy of righteousnesse finde no habitation The word of God endureth for ever His promises are just His spirit is truth His judgements inscrutable Himself Vniversall He it is of whom you labour The promises of God in this earthly Noble man shall be fulfilled Salomon used the places of honour and was exalted Thus sayeth the Lord. I have sealed him against hatred and have made his seat open Let him therefore arise up that the people may see him For mortal men have places of honour and in their own Courts they come to be exalted Who is he that made the earth and dignified him with a living Soul Even he it is that exalteth and in whose hands the Kingdoms of the earth are setled Behold the fifth time shall come in respect of the parts of time and it is the day that hath been promised Then shall your eyes be open Then shall you see A voyce Stay there ..... Nal. I obey E. K. Now I see him passe away over the Christalline Table which is round like a Cart wheel having a great knop in the middle Δ. As concerning our ordering of the Table and the rest of the furniture we are desirous to know what is now to be done seing now we are come to the end of this first journey A voyce Be it thy charge I will put to my hand Δ. Mean you it to be my charge to order these things as my imagination shall be instructed by God his favour A voyce It is so said before Δ. Gloria Honour gratiarum actio Deo omnipotenti Deo nostro Domino Patri Nostro nunc in sempiterna seculorum saecula Amen Tuesday February 18. a Meredie hora 3. Lasko Stylo veteri ast 28. ..... Die stilo novo Δ. After some prayers made E. K. saw as he thought Nalvage standing at my left hand Δ. In nomine Jesu Christi Redemptoris nostri Estis vos Nalvage Nal. Tu dicis E. K. The lower part of him is in a Cloud but all his upper part is out he hath a thing like a Pall hanging down behinde him from his head He hath like a round .... of boane in his hand he seemeth to be as farre as the Church And I see him as well winking as directing my open sight on him Nal. What is it you require Δ. The exposition of the time delivered to you in five parts Nal. Read it Δ. I read and when I came to the place that death may be swallowed c. Nalvage said as followeth Nal. That is the last Conquest Go forward Δ. In reading Nal. I. Δ. I read to the end Nal. The finger of the highest peruseth nature amongst you by himself and in her own motion Through which action things become that were not by Generation And in the same time vanish as though they were not by corruption A year it is Wherein nature looketh with many eyes through ..... dwelling places unto some as a Nurse and to the rest as a step-mother And so it is meant in the Scriptures For a time is an year purposed by determination in the judgement of God which is not known to man how or when it shall happen Another year is a time established and presently delivered as the present judgement of God This is that I speak of A time is an year The parts are known amongst you E. K. I never heard any speak so leisurely Nal. Now look to your understanding I speak of two years One appointed in the judgement and determination of God to come and unknown to man The other the time of the judgement of God and before determined now present Notwithstanding before determined There is difference between an year mystically promised and unknown and the time that is mystically promised and known Annus my sticus sumitur dupliciter Unus qui est Tempus cognitum Deo homini non revelatum Tempus hoc dicitur apud Deum Annum nos illud computamus Aliud est pra finicum cognitum Deo Angelis revelatum homini Annus est praesens This last is the year I speak of Δ. What are your parts of that year Nal. March April May June July August ..... In illo autem die invenietis Christum The words of this Doctrine must agree and times E. K. When come you with the rest of your words Nal. As it is given me so I give it unto you A great unpatience Δ. He was thus interrupted by E. K. Must end their course in the promise of God In These weeks are the fruits of my labour to be known For I must unfold unto you and open the secrets of this mystical and Delivered speech Whereby you may talk in mortal sounds with such as are immortal And you may truely know the nature and use of God his Creatures Therefore be diligent in hearing and Receiving For the course of man is contrary But the determination of God most certain You are answered ..... Mean you these Lenten weeks or the weeks of all the fore-rehersed moneths ..... Of my whole appointed time E. K. He standeth higher up ..... May we without offence require your ..... at all times as our case requireth Nal. Your labour is my readinesse ..... You see I have an Ague It hat is your counsel therein Nal. I have to counsel you from God Δ. Blessed be the Fountain of counsel and of all goodnesse E. K. He sheweth an house and six or seven on the top of it with Torches They are like shadows .....
I will yet lead thee and they ascended The Prophet held up his hands and SAID I SEE and behold he that was naked arose and said I SEE ALSO And the Seas arose and a great tempest and broke down the banks and entred on the earth doing much harm to the people of that Kingdom And lo there arose a wind the SECOND and there were four beasts such as are in the world and were never known And they came swimming and so landed on the Hill And the Prophet said Arise draw out your swords and kill them and so they did Behold the blood of them vanished into aire and the flesh became earth The entrals of them wasted away with the waters and their bones burned with a 〈◊〉 fire The second wind arose and there were five Crowns in the midst of them sate the Father of life with a golden head whose Feet bathed themselves in due and sweet Manna and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Put forth your hands and they did so But lo they were afraid for he that stood in the 〈◊〉 of the Crowns was full of beauty And the Prophet said Fear not come with me and he opened 〈◊〉 them the secrets of the Crown for in every one of them was a golden sentence And the secrets of the Hill began to shake and there was a great Earthquake The third wind arose and the twelve Cedar trees that were never corrupted came and planted themselves in twelve places of the Hill and they brought forth strange fruits not as Cedar trees do The Prophet said Gather for I know you hunger that you may be refreshed While they thus talked the fourth wind arose and behold all the mountain was a flaming fire and there were five Earthquakes such as were not since the beginning of the world The Prophet took them up for they were become as dead And suddenly The Firmament and the waters were joyned together and the Whale CAME like unto a legion of stormes or as the bottomless Cave of the North when it is opened and she was full of eyes of every side The Prophet said Stand still but they trembled The waters sank and fell suddenly away so that the Whale lay upon the Hill roaring like a Cave of Lions and the Prophet took them by the hands and led them to the Whales mouth saying Go in but they trembled vehemently He said unto them the second time Go in and they durst not And he sware unto them and they entred in and he lifted up his voyce and cried mightily Come away and 〈◊〉 they stood before him richer then an Emperour Throne for unto him that was naked were elothes given unto him that was a child and a man were 12 gates opened And the Prophet cried mightily and said This Whale cannot die and lifted up his voyce again and said Within this Whale are many Chambers and secret dwelling places which I will divide betwixt you on the right side unto the which was a child and now a man there are twelve opened but unto thee that hast provided strange Garments for thy self and not such as men use to wear I will give thee head hart and left side whose places are 46. You shall enter and be possessed this day together And behold the son shall return again 21 times and in one year but not all at one time You shalt depart hence into a dwelling that shall be all one where there is no end the place of comfort and inspeakable glorie I have said Δ. As you have delivered us a parable aenigma or prophesie so I beseech you for the setting forth of God his honour and glory to expound what is meant by the Whale the naked man the Childe c. Gab. .... Nal. .... The Prophet is in his name The naked man is Dee The Childe is Kelly The Prince is the Devil The Hill is the World The waters are the bosome of God The 4 beasts are the 4 Elements The 12 Trees are the 12 parts of the Heavens The Whale is the spirit of God The Chambers are the degrees of wisdome The Thunders and windes are the ends of God his Will and Judgements The rest are not to be spoken This I take to notifie to us the judgement and arbitrement of God between us in respect of our Petition to his Divine Majesty now made whereby we may be assured what to judge of the Creatures which do deal with us in this action and of the impugners or diswaders of the credit of it This I take to be sent and delivered unto us of the meer mercy and providence Divine regarding his own glory and the sincerity of my hope and confidence which I put wholly in him and alwayes will ...... You are happy for you believe E. K. what am I. Δ. as happy if you believe likewise Δ. Are you not to deliver us our lessons orderly as we have begun to receive ...... Understand that by the Prophet delivering Pen Ink and Paper Δ. As concerning the book writing by the highest what shall I expect thereof ...... There is no point of faith Δ. I believe verily that it shall be written by the power of the highest Nal. ..... The power of the highest confirmeth me but not my power the highest Δ. Be it as the will of God is E. K. The white Curtain is drawn Δ. Gloria Patri Filio spiritui sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum E. K. Amen Saturday 28. Aprilis Mane hora 8. Cracoviae Oratione praemissa statim apparebant E. K. They are here Gab. ..... Move not for the place is holy Δ. Holy holy holy is he who sanctifieth all things that are sanctified E. K. He maketh Crosses with his Rod toward the four parts of the world and then kneeleth down a while Gab. ..... Happy is he that hath his skirts tied up and is prepared for a Journey for the way shall be open unto him and in his joynts shall there dwell no wearinesse his meat shall be as the tender 〈◊〉 as the sweetnesse of a bullocks Cud. For unto them that have shall be given and from them that have not shall be taken away For why the bur cleaveth to the willow stem but on the sands it is tossed as a feather without dwelling Happy are they that cleave unto the Lord for they shall be brought unto the store-house and be accounted and accepted as the Ornaments of his beauty But pray with me O thou eternal foundation and strength of all things mortal and immortal which delight in thy face and in the glorie of thy name Consider the foundation of our fragility and enter into the weaknesse of our inward parts for we are become empty whose salt is not nor hath any savour Fortifie and make us strong in thee and in thy strength Have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us Have
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
The third of the tenth by the ninth TABITOM Ta bi tom  Whose Ministers are 1617. Have patience  The first of the eleventh governed by the tenth  Ministers 3472. MOLPAND Mol pand  The second governed by the sixth Ministers 7236. VSN RDA Vs nar da. The third by the third  Ministers as before 5234. PONODOL Po no dol  The first of the twelfth go by the sixth TAPAMAL Ta pa mal The second of the twelfth by the eighth Angel GEDOONS Ge do ons The third of the twelfth by the second AMBRIOL Ambriol The first of the thirteenth governed by the tenth  Ministers 8111. GECAOND Ge ca ond The second by the first of the Tribes LAPARIN La pa rin The last of the thirteenth by the seventh of the twelve DOCEPAX Do ce pax  Is Italia The first of the fourteenth by the fifth of the Tribes TEDOAND Te do and. This is England and Scotland too called anciently by the name of Britania There liveth not a man that knoweth the truth of the British Originals Δ. The British Originals The second of the 14. by the seventh VIVIPOS Vi vi pos The last of the fourteenth by the twelfth  Ministers 8230. OO NAMB O o a namb. E. K. Now he prayeth E. K. Now Gabriel standeth up Gab. ..... The Lord pardoneth your fasting and accepteth the inward man labour also to morrow You shall have the rest Δ. May I be bold to ask you one question Gab. ..... You may Δ. Is the Queen of England alive or dead ..... She liveth I am nothing near the earth E. K. The Curtain is drawn We prayed joyntly some prayers Δ. Upon my motion for the Lord Al. Las. how to deal with the Chancelour the Curtain was drawn open And he in the green who appeared to day came into the stone and said as followeth Thus sayeth the Lord Joyn body to body but let mindes be separate for he is despised in the sight of God and is delivered over to destruction which doth tarry till it finde him ready Israel deceived Egypt and saw Egypt overthrown Let him do what he will with him but let him not joyn his minde with him Δ. We are desirous to know your name My name is called Dic illis I am one under Gabriel and the name of Jesus I know and honour Δ. Jesus declared his name and so have other good Creatures before unto us Map My name is Mapsama Δ. Is dic illis the Etymology thereof Map It is Δ. How much it importeth for us to understand the best counsel that is to be given to A. L. you know c. Map ..... I am commanded and I have done my commandment But see that thou and he fulfill those things that are commanded you by me Δ. You said I should be his mouth to you How shall I execute that I pray you Map ..... Not to me but to God Δ. By prayer mean you Map ..... Yea and by presence Δ. By presence with whom Map ..... Thou shalt go from hence with him to the Emperour God will stir up farther matter by thy presence there Δ. Shall all our Lessons be finished and sufficient power delivered unto us according to the promise of God ..... you shall be able to practice by Sunday Δ. By which Sunday ..... But the practices that are the instructions of the Highest are not but in lawful causes and for necessity to glorifie God and against 〈◊〉 Δ. What shall then be the hability of my skill to practice before Sunday nex Map ..... These Calls touch all the parts of the World The World may be dealt withall with her parts Therefore you may do any thing These Calls are the keyes into the Gates and Cities of wisdom Which Gates are not able to be opened but with visible apparition Δ. And how shall that be come unto Map ..... Which is according to the former instructions and to be had by calling of every Table You called for wisdom God hath opened unto you his Judgement He hath delivered unto you the keyes that you may enter But be humble Enter not of presumption but of permission Go not in rashly But be brought in willingly For many have ascended but few have entred By Sunday you shall have all things that are necessary to be taught then as occasion serveth you may practice at all times But you being called by God and to a good purpose Δ. How shall we understand this Calling by God Map ..... God stoppeth my mouth I will answer thee no more Δ. Misericordia Dei sit super nos veritas ejus fulgeat floreat in cordibus nostris Amen Δ. E. K. read this prayer devoutly and I joyning my mind to his pronunciation thereof kneeled by Domine Jesu Christe Deus salutarium nostrorum Cnjus nomen fit benedictum 〈◊〉 quotidie qui ascendisti super Coelum 〈◊〉 ad dextram Dei patris denuo venturus ad judicandum in nubibus cum potestate magna majestate mirabili educ nos vinctos in peccatis in fortitudine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ut dealbemur per remissionem peccatorum super nivem adeo ut beneplacitum sit tibi habitare in nobis nos 〈◊〉 te Amen Δ. Ex Psalterio post 67 Psalmum Tuesday Cracoviae Maii 22. 1584. in Whitson-week Mane circa 7. After our sitting and some prayer used appeared a very little Creature on the Cushion by the Stone saying Put out your Candle for you shall have nothing to do to day Δ. What is your name that we may 〈◊〉 your message for our excuse seeing we were bid yesterday to labour to day E. K. He is gone Δ. After that about half an hour there appeared our Instructors as before time Gab. ..... Move move 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the place is holy E. K. Gabriel standeth up and after a while said ..... The heavens are called 〈◊〉 because of their obedience The earth accursed because of her frowardnesse Those therefore that seek heavenly things ought to be obedient lest with their frowardnesse they be consumed in the end burnt to ashes with fire as the Earth shall be for her unrighteousnesse Therefore be you obedient and full of Humility using the instrument of righteousnesse which is faith That you may be 〈◊〉 of the celestial comforts which are the hire of such as forsake their frowardness It hath been said unto you .... Measure not out Gods building It hath been said unto you .... Continue to the end It hath been also told you ... That the Determinations of God are not as yet established upon you For it is written It may again be 〈◊〉 I speak this for your instruction For many have the power of God but not unto righteousnesse as was evident amongst the Jews in the choice of their Kings In the very 〈◊〉 of God amongst those that entred into the holy place For all that the Prophets 〈◊〉 were not good Not
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
here appeared and would have snatched at the stone what was it and who sent it Gab. ..... It is a wicked power which the Kings Enchanters have sent amongst you but be hath his reward for returning Δ. What was his intent I beseech you and I marvel that his Enchanters were able to detect any of our doings to the King Gab ..... The King knoweth not your doings Δ. I beseech you as concerning the 48 leaves being commanded to be bound and to be silvered what if I caused seven white leaves to be bound before and seven behinde for the more aptnesse for the binding Gab. ..... Vse thine own judgement God will appear no more unto you untill you take your journey Δ. We believe The Lord will perform his promises Gab. ..... According to your faith be it unto you E. K. Now he hath pulled a white Curtain about the stone and the stone is dark Δ. Semper laudetur qui Trinus unus est Omnipotens sempiternus Amen Wednesday Junii 20. à Meridie 1584. Cracoviae Δ. It is first to be noted that this morning early to E. K. lying in his bed and awake appeared a Vision in manner as followeth One standing by h s beds head who patted him on the head gently to make him the more vigilant He seemed to be cloathed with feathers strangely wreathed about him all over c. There appeared to him E. K. four very fair Castles standing in the four parts of the world out of which he heard the sound of a Trumpet Then seemed out of every Castle a cloath to be thrown on the ground of more then the breadth of a Table-cloath Out of that in the East the cloath seemed to be red which was cast Out of that in the South the cloath seemed white Out of that in the West the cloath seemed green with great knops on it Out of that in the North spread or thrown out from the gate under foot the cloath seemed to be very black Out of every Gate then issued one Trumpeter whose Trumpets were of strange form wreathed and growing bigger and bigger toward the end After the Trumpeter followed three 〈◊〉 bearers After them six ancient men with white beards and staves in their hands Then followed a comely man with very much Apparel on his back his Robe having a long train After him came five men carrying up of his train Then followed one great Crosse and about that four lesser Crosses These Crosses had on them each of them ten like men their faces distinctly appearing on the four parts of the Crosse all over After the Crosses followed 16 white Creatures And after them an infinite number seemed to issue and to spread themselves orderly in a compasse almost before the four foresaid Castles Upon which Vision declared unto me I straight way set down a Note of it trusting in God that it did signific good After noon as E. K. sat by me he felt on his head some strange moving whereby he deemed that some spiritual Creature did visit him and as we were continuing together and I had red to E. K. some rare matter out of Ignatius Epistles Policarpus and Martialis some of the Sacrament and some of the Crosse a voyce answered and said That it is true that the sign of the Crosse is of great force and vertue After this the spiritual Creature seemed to E. K. to be very heavy on his right shoulder as he sat by me in my study And as E. K. considered the numbers of such as he had numbred to passe out of the four Gates it is to wit 1.3.6.1.5 The spiritual Creature said the number 16. is a perfect number consisting of 1.3 6.1 and 5. He said further more God the father is a standing Pillar Δ. Upon which word I asked him if I should write such matter as he was to speak And he answered to E. K. at his right ear ..... If thou 〈◊〉 Δ. His voyce was much like unto a mans voyce not base nor hollow ..... Divided with a straight line is one and two Δ. What is to be divided with a straight line ..... The Pillar Δ. In the name of Jesus who art thou ..... The servant of God Δ. Art thou sent from God with good tydings or message ..... What I am he knoweth of whom I bear witnesse Δ. What is your name either as you are notified among the blessed Angels or called by of any mortal man If you be of Verity and so of Charity you cannot mislike my speeches E. K. He sayeth nothing Δ. Belike he is not sent unto us by God for if he were he would do his message ..... I am AVE Δ. This AVE is one ex filiis filiorum of whose order Rocle is vide sup lib. 2. 4. Δ. If you be AVE In the name of Jesus say that all wicked Angels are justly condemned and that by the mercy of God in the merits of Christ mankind elect is to be saved Ave. ..... The visitation of God is twofold 1. In respect of his secret will and purpose and in particularity And in that he hath 2 sealed us with the good will of mankind to their comfort But if I be a scandal to the word then am I not of righteousnesse But my righteousnesse is of the world Therefore That I visit you of my self can be no offence Those that are and die in wickednesse are dishonourable and far from the mercies of God For it is written I am a God to the living Therefore do I dishonour them such I say as are wicked The mercies of God which is the true Manna comforteth the comforted and giveth hope of amendment of such as run astray are sinners and may return Therefore I say The mercies of God which is the Fountain and sweetnesse of the love of God is a thing most blessed most holy most to be desired in Heaven and Earth and of me the creature and servant of God to be reverently spoken of and required For it is the food wherewith we live even the very bread wherewith we are rejoyced Thus much thou hast required Δ. I did so for so is his Justice against the impenitent and his mercies to his Elect testified truely Ave. ..... Have patience I will return after a few moments Δ. Hereupon in the mean space we considered the premises and liked very well of the scandal or offence avoiding Because it was lastly Junii 18 said God will appear no more to you until you take your journey And secondly he answered my request of God his Justice against the wicked Angels and also of his mercies towards mankind Δ. About a quarter of an hour after there seemed a thing to come again on E.K. his right shoulder and as before he caused his shoulder to be very warm where it lighted on Δ. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini Hallelujah E. K. Amen Ave. ..... The place is sanctified Δ. Sanctus Sanctus
have often promised you so in the time of your necessity and grief I visit you Δ. Thanks be to the Highest Mad. ..... Not as the friends of the world do but as a comforting spirit exalting the servants of God and cherishing them with celestial food But my mother is at hand which openeth unto thee the will of God Believe me many are the woes of the world and great are the sorrows that are to come For the Lord prepareth his Rain-bow and the witnesses of his account and will appear in the heavens to finish all things and the time is not long Blessed are those that believe for faith shall flee from the Earth and her dwelling places shall be in caves and unknown mountains and in parts of the Earth which the Lord hath kept secret for such as shall triumph and rejoyce in the Judgement to come 1. Wo be to women great with child for they shall bring forth Monsters 2. Wo be unto the Kings of the Earth for they shall be beaten in a Mortar 3. Wo be unto such as paint themselves and are like unto the Prince of pride for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours and of their own children 4. Wo be unto the false preachers yea seven woes be unto them for they are the teeth of the Beast He that hath ears let him hear 5. Wo be unto the Virgins of the Earth for they shall disdain their virginity and they shall become Concubius for Satan and despise the God of Righteousnesse 6. 〈◊〉 unto the Merchants of the earth for they are become abominable 〈◊〉 they are the earth and the 〈◊〉 meat of Kings But they are foolish 〈◊〉 they shall fall into the 〈◊〉 that they have digged for others 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be vnto the books os the earth for they are corrupted and are become a wrasting stock and firebrand to the conscience Stay a season for my mother cometh Δ. We read over the premisses and so conferred of the verity and weight of them And all 〈◊〉 while Madimi stood still in E. K. his sight as E K. told me But because we were 〈◊〉 to stay I moved no question but 〈◊〉 to have some understanding how my wife and children at Craecovia did Hereupon Madimi said as followeth Mad. ..... Hear what I say unto thee Δ. The King of darknesse whetteth his teeth against thee and 〈◊〉 with great rage to overwhelm the world upon thee And he seeketh the destruction of thy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and thirdly thy overthrow The life of thy Children yea he tempteth thy wise with 〈◊〉 and to be 〈◊〉 into her self Δ. Why with despair ..... But his lips are sealed and his claws made dull that when he would bite he cannot And where he 〈◊〉 the bloud follow to not But hear what thy friend sayeth unto thee Both in her self and by him that moveth her to speak As thou art the servant of the God of victory so shalt thou 〈◊〉 in the God of stretchforth and Conquer Δ. Madzilodarp Thy wife thy children thy servants and more then that such as favour thee 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of thy house are under the protection and defence of such as are of power against whom neither the rage of such as raign neither the fury of Authority though it hath the help of Satan can prevail For why God hath care over thee But thy faith is sowewhat lower Take heed of Satan he will 〈◊〉 himself unto thee But beware of him For sin keepeth back the power of God which is oftentimes deferred for another season Yea even for the wickednesse of one Soul Lasky I look for but I see not 〈◊〉 I 〈◊〉 my eyes after him and cannot finde him 〈◊〉 he hath 〈◊〉 himself behinde some Mountain or is creft into a Cave for he appeareth not Δ. I beseech you what is the cause thereof Is he not gone from Cracovia Mad. ..... Sin is the greatest Mountain and he rejoyceth when he pleaseth himself and in the 〈◊〉 of his flesh Crecpeth into a Cave from us Lo I look for him and cannot see him yet see all the world over It is a sign that God is not with him Δ. I beseech you is he not gone from Cracovia yet Mad. ..... I tell thee I see him not I can say nothing of him Δ. Lord our coming hither was to come with him Mad. ..... Therefore brought I thee hither that thou shouldst not tarry with him Knowest thou not that God is marvellous in his works Hast thou not heard of his secret judgements If thou hast Think he hath care over thee For also thy wife and children and the rest of thy houshold must be moved hither Δ. When I beseech you Mad. ..... Let that be my charge to answer thee E. K. Now here appeareth a little fire like the same which appeared before but it hath no beams from it as it had before Mad. ..... Hic haec est Mater mea E. K. Pointing to the fire E. K. She falleth down on her face prostrate Now she riseth again This fire entreth into her mouth she is waxen of higher stature then she was she hath now three faces Δ. Now it is the vertue of the Trinity in her so represented Mad. ..... I. And I have a few things to say and I say E. K. I hear a marvellous noise as of many Mountains falling Mad. ..... Arise and believe The time is come that of the foolish I will make the wise And of such as are sinfull men my anointed if they encline their ear unto my voyce E. K. The noyse is marvellous And which of the mouths doth speak I cannot discern Mad. ..... First thou shalt write unto Rodulphus as I shall enspire thee Then shalt thou go unto him saying That the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto thee E. K. A great noyse still And rebuketh him for his sins I never heard any such noyse it is as if half the world were rushing down an hill Mad. ..... If he hear thee Then say unto him He shall triumph Fear thee not If he hear thee not Say that The Lord the God that made heaven and earth under 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 and hath his spirit putteth his soot against his breast E. K. A great noyse still And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from his seat Lo this I swear unto thee I will do If he forskae his wickednesse and turn unto me His seat shall be the greatest that ever was and the Devil shall become his prisoner E. K. There came great flashes of fire out of her and so out of the stone and suddenly she was in her former shape again Δ. In the name of Jesus Mad. ..... Where this voyce entreth no man hath to say For it is the beginning so it is likewise the end Therefore enquire not any more now but cease For this is the marvellous beginning of this
cutting and nature Not to the intent it should be credited but to the intent it should be a stumbling block to the action in time to come which is now My brethren he is a marvellous work-man and one that striketh now the most strings in a manner all But he hath his reward Therefore do I deny it to be spoken by me or of me Δ. So by God his Grace I did conceive and undoubtedly think and of many other things besides that I have occasion of reforming the Records that the heavens may agree as the phrase was used Mad. ..... Many there are not But such as are gather them together let me sift them Δ. I thank God for that his mercy Δ. Now I beseech you to the second my present request before propounded it may please you to give answer Mad. ..... When the King sendeth a Present to a Noble man or unto any one that he favoureth he loveth or delighteth in The Messager carrieth it delivereth it within his house E. K. She seemeth to smile ..... He to whom it is sent enjoyeth it he useth it yea peradventure being a dainty dish eateth of it Afterward the King sendeth to him by the same messager saluteth his houshold and commandeth him to say Thus sayeth the King Go to such a man and salute him Tell him that I will visit him and that I say so Behold he sitteth still and 〈◊〉 not neither doth he the Commandment of his Superiour For lo sayeth he The King commanded me not his messager came and would so But whether the King will so or no I know not But hearest thou Thou wicked man hast thou not eaten of his meat and enjoyed the benefit of his present before Yes A threefold benefit which shall continue untill the * seventh Angel and untill the third woe Man begetteth a Son and lo his wife is with Childe and she 〈◊〉 for the time of her deliverance If the question be moved unto him his wife not yet delivered whether he have issue or fruit of his body say thou unto me what shall he answer Δ. As it shall please God Mad. ..... That is no answer Δ. Then he may say He is in hope to have the issue his wife goeth great withall may this seem an answer 〈◊〉 beseech you Mad. ..... Though the Childe be not yet born he hath issue Deliverance is by reason of the issue and not called issue of the deliverance for he is a son as well unborn as born So is it of you Thou hast prayed unto God and he hath heard thee And lo the issue which he giveth thee is Wisdom But 〈◊〉 the Mother of it is not yet delivered For If woman know her times and seasons of deliverance Much more doth he which is the Mother of all things But thou mayest rejoyce that there is a time of deliverance and that thy gift is compared to a woman with childe For as the one is and shall be visible so is wisdom granted and shall appear yea a lively and most perfect Creature Behold the Angels of the Lord have been sent down from God unto him E. K. here is sight which is of this houshold in God He hath brought unto thee that which he tasteth not himself And yet thou doubtest saying How shall I say the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me Unto thee Δ we are we have appeared for unto thee sent And because his eye hath seen therefore we have joyned him vnto thee that in the time of darknesse thou mightest see Δ. It is to be made perfect before the time of his visitation And before the time of thy visitation thou must be made perfect And because it is of thee and not of him Therefore doth not God impute unto him his offences but placeth in you the figure of time to come Supra lib. 15. 1584. Junii 2. For some there be that naturally shall draw in the 〈◊〉 of the Lord. And other some there be that must have their times and seasons For thy houshold affairs I say nothing yet neither for thy Letter sent or Messenger Nam Deus agit in 〈◊〉 sicut vult I have nothing else to say unto thee but blessed be those that believe in the Lord for they have their reward E. K. She goeth away divided into a great many pieces of fire Deo Nostro Omnipotenti eterno sapienti sit omnis honor Laus Gloria Note At noon this day I received Letters from the Lord Laskie from my wife and from my brother Nicolas Fromonds in England how Mr. Gilbert Mr. Sled Mr. Andreas Firmorshem my Book-seller used me very ill in divers sorts The Dates of the Letters from England were of the 15. and 16 th day of April 1584. My wife is in great sorrow for my brother Nicholas At night after Sun set Emerich Sontag brought me word from the Spanish Ambassadour that he had delivered to the Emperour this day my Letters and Book and that he took them graciously and thankfully and said that within three or four dayes he would let the Spanish Ambassadour understand when he would give me audience Deus bene vertat ad sui nomiuis honorem Laudem Amen Saturday Septembris 1. Ante Meridiem Circa 10. †Pragae Δ. As I and E. K. sat in my little Study after our talk of divers matters and of my expecting audience at the Emperour his hand c. E. K. saw three little Creatures walk up and down in the Sun-shine about an handfull from the pavyment and the Creatures themselves very small not an hundfull long like little shadows or smokes and the path wherein they walked seemed yellow They walked a good while to and fro till at length I suspected that they were sent to us and so prepared the shew-stone But E. K. said he had rather see them thus out of the stone I said that in the stone we have warrant that no wicked thing shall enter but without the stone Illuders might deal with us unlesse God prevented it c. E. K. said again he had rather deal thus ..... His meaning is above thy sight E. K. Now two of them seem to kneel down in the Sun beams ..... Blessed be God the Father God the Son and God the holy Ghost the most holy and blessed Trinity One true mighty perfect everlasting and incomprehensible God Δ. Amen Amen Amen ..... Which will be comprehended with those that live in the Heavens the true Church of God of such as measure him by faith and not reason which hath sent us to do his will Both in that he will turn his heart And in that he doth vouchsafe to make you witnesses of his secret purposes and determinations in hand The 1 middlemost said I am the midst of the third and the last Δ of the spirit of life Vnderstood in this temporal controversie and conflict of mans Soul but
the living God unto whom all things are given in Heaven and in Earth if therefore All be his then he giveth And if you receive it hardly Consider how hardly you ought to deliver it again And if it be a fire reviving the form of all worldly things Then cast it not to Swine neither yet worship it Behold you are men But in having it you must cease to be men for by it you enter upon and into all immortality And by it you sacend into the true knowledg of our fore-fathers and state of Innocency But I hear a voice I will depart and come again E. K. Now all is vanished away Δ We read over the premisses to our comfort and instruction we beseech God to continue his graces and mercies on us and in us to his honour and glory here and for ever E. K. Now he is here again ..... The will of God is upon me and snatcheth me unto other things To morrow in the morning with empty Bellies I will tell you what it is you 〈◊〉 Δ Fiat voluntas Dei ad ejus budem honorem gloriam 〈◊〉 semper Amen ✚ Pragae Anno 1585. January 17. Thursday 〈◊〉 circa horam 8. ½ Oratione 〈◊〉 finita aha brevi ejaculatione pro lumine veritate Dei obtinendis c. Post quartam horae partem venit E. K. Here he is now Δ 〈◊〉 laus honor sit Deo nostro Omnipotenti Amen ..... Honour and thanksgiving with lowd voices be unto our Lord Jesus Δ Amen E. K. Amen E. K. He hath a great heap of earth or little hill natural by him of orange or tawny colour drawing somewhat to a Lion tawny E. K. A Woman commeth and with a spade diggeth about it Now commeth a child a man-child out of a dark place with a fire shovel in his hand The Woman hath taken away all the earth and there appeareth water where the earth was The boy casteth out that Water with the fire shovel The Woman laugheth at that The Woman is in green clothes and the boy in red Now commeth a Woman with child or with a great belly in white clothes she putteth her hand down to the ground and pulleth out a little Glasse full of red oil Now commeth an old man with a Crab-tree staffe on his back his clothes of motly colour This old man taketh the Glasse from the Woman by force with his fist he breaketh the Glasle and all the oil runneth about his arm and out of that oil did seem a Book to come a very little Book ..... Plainer truer or better can nothing be E. K. He said this looking on the Book ..... These four found but none HAD FRUIT but the last Hear and write the mysteries of God with humble hearts not sitting but kneeling before Sanctum Sanctorum Δ I kneeled and so prepared my self to the writing In the Name of Jesus our Redeemer and the Wisdom 〈◊〉 of God Almighty E. K. He kneeleth himself E. K. Now goeth fire out of his mouth streamingly he turneth himself to the 4 parts of the World spouting out or breathing fire vehemently E. K. Now commeth one like an angel hovering over him in the aire and biddeth him Hold up his hand ..... Thou 〈◊〉 swear by heaven and earth and by him that sitteth on the Throne that thou shalt open thy mouth and speak no more then is conteined in this Book E. K. He delivereth him a Book out of his Bosom ..... I have sworn E. K. The Angel is gone Now truly the place is holy E. K. He holdeth the Book in his hand which the Angel gave him The Book is as if it were of Ivory bone The Book is open he looketh on it The letters seem to be blewish ..... There is silence in us and in the heavens E. K. Now all is full of smoak Δ 〈◊〉 paululum tacitus E. K. Now it is clear again ..... He seemeth to read of the Book ..... Take of your Dlasod E. K. The book seemeth to be written in the holy Characters ..... Dlasod dignified E. K. ..... My brother leave off thy childishnesse murmur not thou hindrest me E. K. He is again in a Cloud E. K. Now he is cleer again ..... And Luminus or from due degrees ..... Read it Δ I read it ..... Take off your Dlasod dignified and Luminus or from due degrees E. K. He seemeth to labour much about the reading of it ..... Gather or take fierce degree ..... I feel no power therefore have patience ' ..... Notwithstanding work it diverse dayes multiplying four digestions E. K. Now he is in a Cloud again ..... Pray that it may be given unto me of God ..... And double then Dlasod and thy Rod Inr. It is a word which cannot be sounded ..... Mend it Rlo. Δ Must it be Rlodnr ..... Look about you for Satan would hinder you of Gods benefits ..... Rlodnr ..... Diligently ..... Pray that you may understand Δ We prayed ..... For until thou watch so continuing E. K. A Cloud standeth by him and now commeth before him as other times before and then goeth away from before him again ..... it a holy hour descendeth ..... Note this very well for here you may be cast over shoes E. K ..... This Cloud is in thee Δ VVe had talk of the foresaid Cloud ..... Of every work there ascendeth one Audcal and so every Law Rlodnr E. K. Now he is covered in his vail or cloud again E. K. Prayed a short fervent prayer whereat I rejoyced much E. K. Now there commeth a beam from above into his head as big as my little finger ..... And purpose Dlasod take a swift Image and have the proportion of a most glorious mixture Audcal and also Lulo Continue and by office seek Rnodnr backward by the red digestion But he by the common or red Darr doth gather most ripest work purge the last fortene well fixed Then the four through your Rlodnr I said Roxtan finished more together at the lower body by one degree 〈◊〉 be by you for him hold it for him in one of them E. K. Now helyeth down prostrate ..... Vntil of the last thing E. K. ..... In him become his red and highest degree of his resurrection through coition E. K. Now there commeth a great thing like a fire and covereth him Now sit up Δ We did rise up from kneeling ..... After a while I come again ..... There is the whole work E. K. Here is again ..... Bring forth the book of Enoch ..... Read your lesson ..... Δ I read the former Take off your c. Gather your six words 4 words consist of 6 letters and two of 4. Rlodnr read that in the upper angle descending in the first square It is a great thing to know which is the first table there in Nature Deliver the Book here Δ I gave the Book to E.K. ..... Look where
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
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
hence-forward to walk prosperously according to the well pleasing of his divine Majestie and that he would grant unto William Rosenberg E. K. and me his graces so abundantly that in us his honour might be increased and glory advanced mightily and triumphantly c. E. K. Here is a round fire like a Sunne Vox ..... Frigida praeparatio Frigida oratio Frigidam hoc exigunt responsuns 〈◊〉 tamen Gulielmo mediatorem agnum respondere paratum consulite E. K. He is gone now Δ Tu justus es Domine nos impii tu sanctus es Domine viae tuae immaculatae nos nec orare neque nos praeparare sine tuo auxilio gratia unquam possimus Tuam igitur 〈◊〉 concedas gratiam de tanto errore nostro dignam agere poenitentam ut agnum mediatorem nostrum omni tempore nobis inveniamus propitium ex tua clementia illius meritis lpiritus tui Sancti afflatu consolatorio Amen Cui Trino uni Deo vero Omnipotenti sit sempiternus honor laus perennis gloria perpetua Amen ✚ Trebone Actio Secunda ex septem Anno 1586. Octob. 14. Tuesday Mane post solis ortum Circa 7. Precibus fusis gratiisque actis pro misericordiis Dei infinitis erga nos tam in pradst inatione quà m in executione in patria in 〈◊〉 in hac peregrinatione pro liberatione nostra ex manibus hostium in Pragensi exilio pro sua continua tutela pro redactione nostra cum honore gloria in illo ad quietem securitatem cum Willielmo Rosenbergio jam lebamus quid ipse potissimum nobis proponere velit ex suis mvsteriis quid de 〈◊〉 esset statuendum quid de operibus Philosophicis juxta 〈◊〉 propositum quid de errore in practica nuper facta sit statuendum quid praetere a nobis jam praecipue sit faciendum ad 〈◊〉 vocandum paratos nos esse juxta Dei beneplacitum c. Δ I had set up Mensam foederis with the appurtenances and had set the Angelical Stone in the frame of Gold on the 〈◊〉 onely E. K. and I being in the goodly little Chappel next my Chamber appointed to our uses A voice ..... Let him come that is to come Δ I went for the Lord Rosenberg whom I found in his Oratory of the Church hearing of Masse And he came with me and sat in his 〈◊〉 E. K. I see a great plain like unto a field as though it were a Mile over in the end of it there is a great high rotten Tree all the grasse is as though it were withered and burned there commeth a beam as of fire from Heaven and lighteth upon the Tree now there commeth water out of the root of the Tree as though it were a Sea and spreadeth all the plain over And the Tree openeth and there commeth a Man out of it his hair hangeth down unto his girdle stead his garment covereth him down from his shoulders and hangeth behind him down upon the water The earth hath now drunk up all the water and the Man standeth upon the dry ground All the place is full of green grasse about a cubit high Now the Man is out of sight It seemed to be as beyond and without the Stone The Vision is clean dis-appeared Δ I expounded this Vision in Latin to the Lord Rosenberg E. K. In the middest of the Stone seemeth to stand a little round thing like a spark of fire and it increaseth and seemeth to be as bigge as a Globe of 20 inches Diameter or thereabout Vox ..... Wo be unto the World wo be unto the World and Worldlings Wo be unto you Sonnes of men for you are withered and 〈◊〉 the field of the Lord bringeth you not forth you are defiled and being defiled you defile also the beauty of your Seat And behold behold behold I say you that are the King and Princes of the Earth tyed and knit together upon one stemme you are all rotten and barren behold you bring forth no fruit but even as the grasse that withereth he is a dis-glory to the place even so are you that is grasse of your situation and dwelling for behold you have no leaves much lesse fruit Wo wo wo unto such a generation which lacketh moisture and the fire of comfort The 〈◊〉 that carrieth you is the Seat and holy place which also is contaminated And lo behold as it wer withered if holinesse be hidden whereupon you stand how wicked are those that are governed by you how wicked are you and how abominable how full of corruption are you that stand without all beauty moisture or comfort The time shall come that the power and might of God which here speaketh amongst you in the fire and spirit or his holy truth shall come down from above from Heaven from the Seat of comfort from the everlasting Throne and shall fall down not into you nor amongst you for you shall be rooted out but into the stemme and into the root which is the holy place and the house of comfort And behold the power of God of him that speaket shall be mighty strong and of infinite power So that like a Woman with Child she shall bring forth in the Church of God a man clothed with a white garment which is JUSTICE unspotted which may walk with infinite power and in the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and beauty upon the abundance of graces and the waters of comfort which shall slow out of the holy Seat And behold ô you Sonnes of men you shall be full of understanding and of the spirit of Wisdome and the grace of God of him that speaketh with yo shall be plentiful and strong amongst you So that you shall spring and beautifie the Earth and the House of Christ And behold the higher boughes and mighty branches shall lose their vertue and be cast down because they have placed themselves upon the outward rotten Stock to the dishonour of him that hath called them and there shall no more strength or vertue be amongst you but you shall be subject to verity and be 〈◊〉 with an iron rod by him that came out and walked on the waters Then shall be peace and rest 〈◊〉 shall 〈◊〉 descend E. K. Now is all dis-appeared away out of sight Δ I read the former 〈◊〉 in Laune to the Lord Rosenberg A Pause Δ Tu justus es Domine Judicia tua vera tu omnipotens ô Deus noster brachio tuo nullus nos 〈◊〉 Justitia E. K. Now he is returned again in the form he went away in A red crosse commeth over it pure red so yellowish A Pause So that 〈◊〉 Name of the God of Righteousnesse and of his Sonne Christ shall be magnified in 〈◊〉 § And 〈◊〉 behold by my self I swear that after a few Moneths the time expired I will 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 he holy place
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
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
o d x z I a p a n l I 600 a x t I r v a s t r I m r g o a n n q a c r a r 624 ..... The black Cross is right and needeth no mending But thus much I do to let thee understand that thou mayest consider thy self to be a man And beneath this understanding unless thou submit all into the hands of God for his sake who else leaving you all naked provideth in his creatures to his own glory ..... Cara tibi uxor carior tibi sapientia charissimis tibi ego sum Electus tremis hesitando peccas Noli igitur ad genium carmen sapere sed obtempera mihi ductor enim tuus sum autor spiritus omnium Hec omnia à me sunt licita vobis ..... I admonish you as the children of God to consider your vocation and the love of God towards you and not to prefer your reason before the wisdome of the highest whose mercy is so great towards you That you are chosen from the number of men to walk with him and to understand his mysteries and with all to execute his justice and praise throughout the Nations and people of the earth Consider that if he finde you obstinate the plagues of haynous sinners and contemners of the gifts of God shall fall upon you to your great overthrow This is the last time of your trial Therefore shew your selves lovers of him that hath led you and covered you with a mighty shield Or shortly look for the reward of such as have contemned the Wisdome and Majesty of the Highest I Raphael counsel you to make a Covenant with the Highest and to esteem his wings more then your own lives Δ. When E. K. had brought me these things I greatly rejoyced in spirit and was utterly resolved to obey this new Doctrine to us peculiarly of all people of the world enjoyned And after some little discourse and conference hereof we went to bed this 20. 20. day of April at night Aprilis 21. Δ. Thus am I resolved O Almighty God as concerning the case so hard to flesh and blood to be resolved in thus And thus I desire that we all four might with one minde and consent offer and present unto thee this writing as a Vow Promise and Covenant if it so please thy divine majesty to accept it WEE four whose heads appeared under one Chrystalline Crown in one pillar united and inclosed do most humbly and heartily thank thee O Almighty God our Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier for all thy mercies and benefits hitherto received in our persons and in them that appertain unto us And at this present do faithfully and sincerely confess and acknowledge that thy profound wisdome in this most new and strange doctrine among Christians propounded commended and enjoyned unto us four only is above our humane reason and Christian profession to like of For that in outward shew of words it seemeth to us expresly to be contrary to the purity and chastity which of us and all Christians thy followers is exactly required Notwithstanding we will herein captivate and tread under-foot all our humane timorous doubting of any inconvenience which shall or may fall upon us or follow us in this world or in the world to come in respect or by reason of our imbracing of this Doctrine listened unto of us as delivered from our true and living God the Creator of heaven and earth who only hath the true original power and Authority of sins releasing and discharging And whose pardoning and not imputing of fin unto us through our lively faith in the most worthy merit and precious blood of the Lamb Immaculate shed for us is and shall be our justification and salvation We therefore according to blessed Raphael his counsel last given most humbly and sincerely require thy Divine Majesty to accept this our Covenant with thee for that thy merciful promises made unto us may be to us performed and thy divine purposes in us and by us may be furthered and advanced and fulfilled That as we acknowledge thy divine wisdome and grace offered unto us in this thy last mystical Admonishment And dost most earnestly will us to accept the same as lawful and just with thee Which Admonishment standeth upon two parts That is to wit upon our true Christian charity spiritual between us four and also upon the Matrimonial licence and liberty indifferently among us four to be used So we the same four which hereunto will subscribe covenant with thy Divine Majesty upon the two principal respects before rehearsed truly and unfainedly to accept and perform henceforward amongst us four in word thought and deed Christian charity and perfect friendship and all that belongeth thereto And as for the Matrimonial-like licence and liberty we accept and allow of it and promise unto thee O our God to fulfill the same in such sort as the godly are permitted to fulfill and have been by divers testimonies commended for and by Divine doctrine willed to fulfill in Matrimonial conversation whensoever thy motions and allurements Matrimonial-like shall draw and perswade any couple of us Beseeching thee as thou art the onely true Almighty and Everlasting God Creator of Heaven and Earth Thou wilt in thy infinite mercies not impute it unto us for sin blindness rashness or presumption being not accepted done or performed upon carnal lust or wanton concupiscence But by the way of Abraham-like faith and obedience unto thee our God our Leader Teacher Protector and Justifier now and for ever And hereunto we call the holy Heavens to be witnesses for thy honour and glory O Almighty God and our discharge now and for ever Amen I Edward Kelly by good and provident according to the Laws and ordinances of God determination and consideration in these former Actions that is to say appearings shews made and voyces uttered by the within named in this Book and the rest whatsoever Spirits have from the beginning thereof which at large by the Records appeareth not only doubted and disliked their insinuations and doctrine uttered but also divers and sundry times as coveting to eschew and avoid the danger and inconvenience that might either by them their selves or the drift of their doctrine ensue or to my indamagement divers wayes happen sought to depart from the exercises thereof and withal boldly as the servant of the Son of God inveighed against them urging them to depart or render better reason of their unknown and uncredible words and speeches delivered and withall often and sundry times friendly exhorted the Right Worshipful Master JOHN d ee the chief follower thereof as also in the Records appeareth to regard his souls health the good proceeding of his wordly credit which through Europe is great the better maintenance to come of his wife and children to beware of them and withall to give them over wherein although I friendly and brotherly laboured my labour seemed to be lost and counsel of him
me is nothing Are you more discreet then I am wise or more honest than I am holy Righteousness and righteousness is that which is rewarded with honour Behold I made all things Is it not contrary to Nature that the lights of heaven should stand Why therefore at the prayer of the Carpter call you upon the Sun in my name Calling I say upon my name did the Sun stand still Rebuke him therefore if he hath done amiss or teach him why he so abused Nature O you wretches I say unto you you are the last of the beginning of the times to come so figured by my determination and eternal purpose And behold the Son and Moon shall stand still even at your voyces and the Mountains shall bring themselves together before the face of man at your commandement that the people and Kings of the earth may say Lo this is the finger of him that hath created all things Be therefore obedient and full of faith And see that all things be one amongst you and cleave not asunder lest I take vengeance upon you for behold Sathan hath power to cast you asunder but a little he shouldbe faithful therefore and provident be watchful and take heed for you have made a Covenant and behold it is written before my face in heaven even as whatsoever I have spoken unto you is laid up in my treasures Take heed that you run neither to the right hand neither to the left but that you cast away your selves for me As I humbled my self to death wherein the unity between my Congregation and me was before my Father perpetually sealed whereby I am alwayes present with such as put their trust in me Even so as the East and the West the North and the South Esau and Jacob shall be gathered together through the power I will give you and united for ever in the Kingdome of my Father which is to come in one holy and eternal fellowship so be you contented also to be the figures of the things that are to come by you that it may be a perpetual testimony before the heavens and before men of your perfect and sound faith And thou even thou that hast tore in peeces even this morning again this Covenant which thou hast made with me Behold the time shall come that thou shalt be torn in peeces thy self and I will turn even my face away from thee for a time And even as thou hast obstinately and ignorantly blasphemed the company of my holy messagers even so shall the people of the earth obstinately and ignorantly throw thee out from Town to Town And even as thou hast done unto me even so shall men do unto thee But because thy minde was inwardly never to forsake me even so shalt thou never be forsaken of me but I will return again unto thee And now behold thou hast made a bargain and behold thou thinkest to take thee up a new dwelling place and thou shalt not do so But who so receiveth thee into his house shall as truly as I am both he and his family fink down into the very lake of hell But before thou enter in I will by dreams and visions warn him therefore run not abroad Take heed of the Tempter Thou made a Covenant with me which thou canst not in breaking of the papers put out for my register is eternal And those that bear witness before me are the compass of my wings And lo behold Carpio hath for his former intent of separating you cut off the day of his Father and is become fatherless Behold even shortly shall his mother perish also And if hereafter he attempt any farther I will throw the vengeance of Justice upon him that he shall be a laughing stock to the people amongst which he was born Wo be unto them that riseth up against me ..... After a while I come again E. K I thought we should have nothing else but Δ. I read this over to E.K. E. K. He is here again He that pawneth his soul for me loseth it not and he that dyeth for me dieth to eternal life Behold you shall both as Lambs be brought forth before men in your latter dayes and shall be overthrown and slain and your bodies tossed to and fro But I will revive you again and will be full of power And you shall be comforted with the joyes of your brethren for I have many that secretly serve me and when you have shewed your obedience the second day after come here again before me for I will lead you into the way of Knowledge and Vnderstanding And Judgement and Wisdome shall be upon you and shall be restored unto you And you shall grow every day wise and mighty in mee E. K. He is gone and in going he made a Cross toward us of blessing Rerum omni Creatori Omnipotenti Misericordi Justo Domino nostro Deo nostro sit omnis laus honor gloria gratiarum actio Jubilatio Nunc in sempiterna saeculorum saecula Amen I can and by our two Consents and at the request of Jane Δ ... unto the women And Mr. E.K. hereupon said to his wife That his boots were now put off and changed his purpose of going away with Carpio now God confirm his minde in all good purposes according to the well-pleasing of the Highest Amen ..... Δ ..... As I and E.K. walked out at the new stairs into the new Orchardward along the little River to view the small fish and returning to the fore stairs again E.K. saw twain as high as my son Arthur fighting by the River side with swords and the one said to the other thou hast beguiled me Then I at length said unto them Can I take up the matter between you one said yea that you can in what is it quoth I Then said he I sent a thing to thy wife by my man and this fellow hath taken it from him They fought fore and at length he that had it was wounded in the thigh and it seemed to bleed Afterward he that was wounded did bring a yellow square thing out of his bosome then I guessed it to be my Stone that was taken away The other said unto him let it be carried suddenly he seemed to have been out of sight and to be come again he threatned the other that had wounded him and said he would be even with him The other said Hast thou laid it under the right pillow of the bed where his wife lay yesternight At length they both went one after another into a little Willow tree body on the right hand next the new stairs into the garden the tree seemed to cleave or open and they to go in Hereupon we went away And I coming to my Chamber found my wife lying upon her bed where I lay yesternight and there I lifted up the right pillow upon which she lay resting herself being not well at
honour and glory Amen E. K. The field appeareth a very level ground covered with pretty grass even to the brinks of the ..... It is bright if the Sun light but I see not the Sun but the clear sky over it Δ. Pausa semihora unius E. K. Now cometh the horseman and rideth by into the field and so doth Madimi Now cometh the third and so goeth away into the field Now cometh she that was left here she standeth still she hath a book in her hand covered as it were with Moss three inches at the head and four inches long and a finger thick it hath no Clasps it is plain Pausa The fourth hour after dinner repair hither again And whatsoever you shall reade out of this book receive it kneeling upon your knees and see that you suffer no Creature female to enter within this place Neither shall the things that be opened unto you be revealed unto your wives or unto any Creature as yet for I will lye with you a while and you shall perceive that I am sweet and full of comfort and that the Lord is at hand and that he will shortly visit the earth and all his whole Provinces E. K. She turneth her self into a thousand shapes of all Creatures and now she is come to her own form again She hangeth the Book in the air Give God thanks and so depart Δ. All laud thanks honour and glory be to our God our King and Saviour now and ever Amen 1587. Saturday the same day AFter Dinner about four hours or somewhat less we resorted to the place A voyce to E. K. Kneel toward the East so he kneeled at the table of Covenant with his face toward the East and I at my table opposite to him Δ ..... In the Name of God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Amen Recte sapere intellegere doceto nos O Dominus nam sapientia tua totum est quod quaerimus Da verbum tuum in ore nostro sapientum tuam in cordibus nostris fige E. K. The Book remaineth hanging in the ayre A voice ..... Kelly I know it is troublesome for thee to kneel Sit. Pausa magna Δ ..... So E. K. rose from kneeling and did sit ..... E. K. Now she is here that last advertised us She taketh the book and divideth it into two parts and it seemeth to be two books the half cover adjoyning to one and the other half cover belonging to the other the sides with the covers are towards me ..... Wisdome is a pearceing beam which is the center of the spiritual being of the holy Spirit touching from all parts from whence the Divinity sendeth it out and is proper to the soul or unto substances that have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so that whatsoever shall have end can never attain unto that which is called Wisdome Neither can things that are subject to the second death receive any such influence because they are already noted and marked with the seat of destruction Happy is he whom God hath made a vessel of salvation for unto him belongeth joy and a crown of reward Adam your forefather and first paren in respect of his creation that is to say in respect of his imaginative composition received no strength but by the Holy Ghost for the soul of man is free from all passions and affections until it enter into the hody unto the which it is limited so that being neither good nor bad but apt unto both he is left by Divine providence and permission joyned together to the end of the one or the other But wheresoever wisdome dwelleth it dwelleth not with the soul as any property thereof but according to the good will of God whose mercy concurreth on every side into him and taketh up a mansion therein to utter out and manifest his great goodness And even as the heavens are glorified continually with the Spirit of God So is the s ul of man glorified that receiveth sanctification thereby for no man is illuminated that is not sanctified neither is there any man perfectly sanctified that is not illuminated I speak this my brethren for that you shall understand That no man did or can ever attain to wisdom that perfect wisdome which I speak of without he become a Center in his soul unto the mercies and good will of God comprehending him and dwelling in him therefore lift up your eyes and see Call your wits together and mark my words To teach you or expound unto you the mysteries of the Books that you have already received is not in my power but in the good will of God after whose Image I am Which good will of God is the descending of his holy Spirit abundantly upon you and into you opening all your senses and making you perfect men for Adam understood by that grace and his eyes were opened so that he saw and know all things that were to his understanding So have all those more and less that have been counted wise received the gifts of the Holy Ghost which setteth the soul on man so on fire that he pierceth into all things and judgeth mightily The Apostles which knew even the thoughts of men understood all things because the holy Spiritamade a dwelling place in them even so shall it happen unto you For you are the chosen of this last dayes an such as shall be full of the blessings of God and his Spirit shall rest with you abundantly Mark therefore what I have to say unto you A hundred dayes are limited unto you during the which time you shall every seventh present your selves in this place and you shall laud and praise God And behold I will be present amongst you And before these dayes pass when power is given me so to do I will enter out of this Stone unto you and you shall eat up these two books both the one and the other and wisdome shall be divided between you sufficient to each man Then shall your eyes be opened to see and understand all such things as have been written unto you and taught you from above But beware ye take heed that you dwell within your selves and keep the secrets of God untill the time come that you shall be bid SPEAK For then shall the Spirit of God be mighty upon you so that it shall be said of you LO were not these the Sorcerers and such as were accounted Vagabonds Other some shall say Behold let us take heed and let us humble our selves before them For the Lord of Hoasts is with them And you shall have power in the Heavens and in the lower bodies And it shall be taught you at all times inwardly even what belongeth to the hearts of men Then shalt thou E. K. have a new coat put on thee and it shall be all of one colour Then shalt thou Δ. also have power to open that book which God hath committed unto thee but