you to urge me with mine own spirit Behold I am mighty Because I am the joy of the faithfull For I am called the Temple of the Holy ones and the beauty of Israel The spirit of man crieth out and pierceth into the Lord as the swiftnesse of an Arrow And he heard them Therefore thus doth the winde of Cabon open her mouth and sweareth by the Jaspar Pillar that standeth in the Temple of Reconciliation and it Thundereth and is said Be it done And behold the doors open and the Holy Altar is covered The beasts with many feet bring up burnt-offerings And there is a sacrifice that ascendeth up and it is a mighty winde such as hath not been since the beginning of dayes Open your ears therefore and prepare your selves to hear For this ..... is mighty for it is of peace My Justice saith the Lord is sealed and you have sinned mightily My arm is stretched forth and I must be magnified For vengeance is gone forth and is appeared already But who is he that resisteth the venome of the earth or instructeth man to avoid the Darts of poison He saith unto you Thus it is because I have sanctified you and have made you holy to the earth Therefore will I help you But not as you desire For your prayers and unrighteous life shall become bands of yarn And I will make a contention betwixt Sathan and you If therefore you labour hard and open fervent mindes such as are not of the world and can binde this sword and cloud of vengeance fast from amongst you Be it so unto you for it is your own righteousnesse For Sathan hath reviled and hath said Then shalt thou see But so long as they are Holy and become righteousnesse they are become safe but when they fall Satan entreth in For the power of righteousnesse is become a Conquerour if it fight mightily And Satan shall be confounded by a righteous judgement For I have decreed it and by my self I swear it I will be a righteous Judge betwixt you Therefore take heed you sinnot not nor go into death For great is the fall of vengeance Be not therefore defiled with the filthinesse of the wicked Neither delight in such as counterfeit truth For I am one fire that judgeth all things And I delight in people that are joyfull with one Banket For those that fill their bellies at the houses of strangers Become enemies to me For I have said My spirit is holy and my annointed righteous Let the earth rise up and continue in her wickednesse Yea let them say we have found the anointed But my continuance is truth and they are become liars For my spirit worketh and behold there are wonders in the sight of men And wheresoever I dwell such is my power Be therefore of One house that you may eat together Least you banket too much and so become deceivers I am one and am known by One And unto One Which One I am married unto And I am mercifull Whosoever abideth not therein is an Adulterer Avoid you darknesse for righteousnesse is present and my spirit entreth Blessed are such as believe Amen Even to the Amen E. K. He is gone There appeare some bands linked together as Chaines about the Cloud Δ. Welcome be these bands E. K. He is here again ..... and saith ..... eth ..... Why are you become dull Why are you yet ignorant Seest thou these ..... He pointeth and speaketh to E. K. E. K. I see them I thank God ..... These bonds are your own righteousnesse And as they appear before the Lord so shall they binde vengeance together But if you become weak you fall But pray that you fall not For they are the dayes of sorrow The spirit of God is twofold present Jah agian and present Nah gassapalan Therefore take heed For in the first you are blessed and it may return But he that is filled with the second shall be drunken for ever The first is power present and a comfort inmeasurable glorifying and strengthning all things that are agreeable to it But when they differ it returneth The other is the spirit of the first and the second Almighty and everlasting unmeasurable and inexplicable drowning the will of man that becometh strong in the fountain of gladnesse and understanding true wisdom her self and not returning Pray therefore that you may be perfect and that you may be seasoned For it is a salt that savoureth to the end The peace of God be amongst you E. K. He cast off his Cloudy Lawn and went away He seemed to be 〈◊〉 Δ. Yet we beseech you more expresly and particularly to deal with us c. ..... It is said ..... It is written ..... It is true Cease Δ. Gloria Laus Honour Triumphus Jubilatio sit Deo nostro omnipotenti Nunc semper Amen Wednesday Novemb. 20. Mane hor. 11½ Lubek Δ. As thou hast of thy mercies O Lord given us some shew of thy favour bent toward us so are we desirous to understand how our Letters have wrought upon our friend his heart to joyn with us to call for thy mercies pardon and help for if they have Then do we hope our bands of acceptable life whereby to binde vengeance prepared and intended against us shall wax more and stronger by thy great mercy and help to thy well-pleasing in thy service hence forward E. K. The Cloud and bonds appear But the bands appear fewer Δ. O Lord is our state since yesterday become weaker with thee And shall it so narrowly be exacted Thy will be done who art holy just and most wise O God E. K. The bonds about the Cloud now are onely two which before were six or seven The bonds seem of a smoky ashy collour spirally going about the Cloud ..... Judgement is the end of Justice distributing and delivering also to every thing seen heard or determined to his proper end uprightly Are you able to deny this Δ. The end of our actions words and thoughts may seem twofold One of us intended and ment to be good The other not depending upon our weening but according to exact wisdom what is the end of the same here deemed the proper end if I understand right A voyce Lo judgement is the end of Justice in things that are handled uprightly whereof you finde the Omnipotencie and Truth of him that judgeth Omnipotently Which beholding your Combat hath girded himself together and beholdeth the Lists and be judgeth uprightly For be hath sworn it Arm not your selves therefore as weaklings But provide as mightie and couragious Souldiers for your own defence I am without corruption saith the Lord and lean not with the windes of Basannah Δ. O Lord give me leave to request thee c. A voyce But I am just and judgement her self Enter not therefore into my holy places Neither kneel down before my sanctuaries saying the Lord hath Chosen us He liveth and it is true for ever For I have said
I prescribe laws unto them What it pleaseth thee to offer they receive So what it pleaseth them to offer unto me will I also receive Behold I say O Lord If I shall call upon them in thy name Be it unto me in mercy as unto the servant of the Highest Let them also manifest unto me How by what words and at what time I shall call them O Lord Is there any that measure the heavens that is mortal How therefore can the heavens enter into mans imagination Thy Creatures are the Glory of thy countenance Hereby thou glorifiest all things which Glory excelleth and O Lord is far above my understanding It is great wisdom to speak and talke according to understanding with Kings But to command Kings by a subjected commandment is not wisdom unlesse it come from thee Behold Lord How shall I therefore ascend into the heavens The air will not carry me but resi teth my folly I fall down for I am of the earth Therefore O thou very Light and true Comfort that canst and mayst and dost command the heavens Behold 〈◊〉 these Tables unto thee Command them as it pleaseth thee and O you Ministers and true lights of 〈◊〉 Governing this earthly frame and the elements wherein we live Do for me as for the servant of the Lord and unto whom it hath pleased the Lord to talk of you Behold Lord 〈◊〉 hast appointed me 50 times Thrice 50 times will I lift my hands unto thee Be it unto 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee and thy holy Miniters I require nothing but thee and through thee and for thy honour and glory 〈◊〉 I hope I shall be satisfied and shall not die As thou hast promised 〈◊〉 thou gather the clouds together and judge all things when in a moment I shall be changed and dwell with thee for ever These words were thrice a dayes talk betwixt Enoch and God In the end of 50 dayes there appeared unto him which are not now to be manifested nor spoken of he enjoyed the fruit of God his promise and received the benefit of his faith Here may the wise learn wisdom for what doth man that is not corruptible I have not that I may say any more unto you But believe me I have said great things unto you If you will have me hereafter I will come Δ ..... Consider well my words and what 1 have now said unto thee for here thou mayst learn wisdom and also see what thou hast to do Δ. I will if it please you read over some of these Invitations which I have made and written here in this Book Ave. ..... You may not use that word Obedientes Δ. You spake of a first word to call and of a second to constrain Ave. ..... It signifieth it urgeth them more in God I have said Δ. Note what is meant by the name of God that was said to constrain being the second names of two before given E. K. He is gone and all covered with the Curtain Δ. All honour praise and glory all thanks and power is due to our God and King So be it Amen Monday Julii 9. Manè hora 7. three quarters †Cracoviae Orationibus quibusdam finitis ad Deum deinde ad Gabrielem Nalvage c. E. K. As soon as he looked he found the Stone covered with the white Curtain Δ. A pause of a ¼ of an hour In which space I used sundry ejaculations to God and his good Angels Δ. This day was appointed we attend therefore your instructions At length they appeared not but used a voice A voice ..... This day but the Sun declining the fourth hour Δ. Your meaning is that at after noon at 4 of the clock The voice ..... As thou hast written Δ. The will of the Highest be done Amen Monday A Meridie hora 4. Δ. As E. K. was saying to me that he thought that the Angels might tell the certain day and times of things to come and that Angels could now fall no more c. Of such things touching Angels suddenly a voice was heard as followeth A voice ..... Herein will I talk with you my brethren E. K. Gabriel onely appeareth neither Nalvage nor the Table appeareth He sitteth in a Chair and with his fiery Dart. Gabr. ..... The 〈◊〉 inspired with the Holy Ghost were assured of the coming of their Messias of their Christ But what day or in what year was not of mans understanding Christ himself opened unto his Disciples his death and the manner thereof but the day and hour he never disclosed So likewise the Scriptures speak of the coming of Christ but the day and hour the Son of man knoweth not But because in time to come and for this action the message of the highest And assured and infallible Doctrine in respect that God appointed you no certain time is necessary For for this cause you waver my brethren and may lose the benefit of God his favour and mercies O weaklings examine the Prophets look into the doing of the Apostles There alwayes went a promise before the end But the end was the benefit and fruit of the promise Some alleadge Paul some Peter some Daniel But in this case shall you alleadge the sayings of God spoken in the spirit of truth by me Gabriel the servant of the highest God for three causes hideth the end and the very time of his heavenly purposes As after a little silence you shall shortly hear E. K. A cloud covereth him E. K. Now he appeareth again Gab. ..... First by reason of his own inexplicable Est non est esse which is without the circumference strength capable vertue and power of man his intellectuality whereby he appeareth to be verily one God and incomprehensible Secondly because Lucifer with his yea sayers damned justly should never taste of his light nor understand his secret judgements which he would and might do if they were delivered to mans imagination and discourse Because it is within the circumference and compasse of his Creation Consider of these two E. K. Now he is covered in a white Cloud again Δ. The first reason or cause we do not sufficiently understand or conceive Deus est esse Sanctis Deus Non est esse Impiis Deus For In the judgement day God in his son Christ shall shut up his perpetual and everlasting Justice wrath and anger with Hell and damnation Leaving them and forsaking them and in no case to be called their 〈◊〉 Fratres mi non habebunt Deum But they shall be without a guide and without a Centre Hereby you may understand Esse non est esse To the purpose Thirdly that man firmly perswaded of things spoken of by God above his capacity to come and unknown might worthily in the strength of faith and through the effect of his promises merit his favour in Christ and receive eternal salvation justly before God and his Angels These are the three causes Δ. This last
cause if it would please you to make more plain it should greatly enform us and confirm us ..... These are the three onely causes that the ends of God his determinations are secret 1. In the first that God might appear omnipotent 2. In the second sealed up in himself from the knowledge of such as have rebelled to their destruction 3. In the third that man might justly be made worthy of the places prepared for him Nalvage is called away and cannot be in Action with you till Wednesday Then shall you have the Calls that you look for And so enter into the knowledge and perfect understanding of the 49 Gates and Tables if you will Δ. O Lord thy will and mercy be shewed upon us Gab. ..... But understand that it is a labour the hardest and the last Δ. Violenti nihil difficile God strengthen our will and faith Gab. ..... I have nothing else to say unto you But God be mercifull unto you and forgive you your sins Δ. Amen Gab. ..... And that you go hence make haste Δ. E. K. He is gone Δ. Gloria Patri filio spiritui Sancto sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Wednesday Julii 11. Mane hora 6½ Cracoviae Oratione dominica finita c. Δ. We await the promise which you made us O Gabriel A voyce Not now but at the fourth hour declining as before E. K. And why not now as well A voyce He that laboureth in his own harvest laboureth when he list but he that fisheth on the Sea must be ruled by her course Δ. Fiat voluntas Dei Wednesday Julii 11. à Meridie hora 4. Δ. At the first looking the Curtain appeared to E. K. his sight Δ. When it shall please thee O God we are desirous to receive wisdom from thee Δ. At six of the Clock appeared a little one yellow like a little Childe his hair fine yellow and a very amiable face To avoid reproach and for the truth of the word I visit you instead of Nalvage which cannot come I am 〈◊〉 Mese the servant of the highest which instead of Nalvage will and am able to supply his place Δ. So be it in the name of Jesus Ilem ..... Many and strong are your enemies both bodily and ghostly But be you strong and you shall prevail Therefore say what you will have me do Δ. That if it please you that Nalvage would have done The East is a house of Virgins Δ. He distinguisheth it not by fingers Ile ..... Well you shall have fingers Singing praises with ornaments so bright Move amongst such as appear the flames of first glorie work wonders sing praises wherein on all creatures unto the Creator the Lord whose and hath opened his mouth Kingdoms be mighty and and continuance amongst us they are become are as the third for Twenty eight and fourth unto this remembrance living dwellings strong Towers is given in whom and power the strength of man places of comfort and rejoyceth The seat of mercy our strength and and continuance waxeth strong they are apparail'd O you servants of mercy in our comforter Ile ..... Lo there you have it Δ. I pray you to consider of the form of the promise for we were promised to receive the Calls we looked for and so to be fit for the 49 Gates c. If this you have done be the performance of those the words of Gabriel or no I pray you consider Ile ..... For the thirty Calls or thirty Call to morrow at the fourth hour I will ease you sufficiently Δ. I beseech you if I shall not offend to request it What is the cause of Gabriel and Nalvage their absence Ile ..... Spiritual Contention between Satan and them and more then man can or may understand Δ. Then I pray you why was not this supply sent at the time appointed Ile ..... It is not of God to think that God is of time All things are tied unto him and nothing can be separated from him Notwithstanding he may separate himself from them But you shall understand that these nineteen Calls Δ. There are but 18. besides the first to God ..... There are nineteen besides the first are the Calls or entrances into the knowledge of the mystical Tables Every Table containing one whole leaf whereunto you need no other circumstances 1. The first Call beginneth Ol Sonf. In English 1 raign 2. The second beginneth Adgt. In English Can. 3. The Call of the third Table beginneth Micma In English Behold E. K. A white cloud cometh about him but hideth him not Ile ..... But you must understand that in speaking of the first Table I speak of the second So that the second with you is the first 4. As this last behold is the fourth but with you the third 〈◊〉 It is the seventh but the third of the fourteenth Ile ..... It is the Call of the third 5. The next in English is I have set Otherwise O thil 6. The sixth The mighty sounds Otherwise Saphah 7. The seventh The spirits  Gah 8. The eight The East  ROa. Ilem ..... Look that that you call the third Δ. It is Raas 9. The next The midday the first  Basenn lo or Basemlo 10. A mighty  Micaoli 11. The Thunders of judgement and wrath  Coraaxo There cometh a white bright Cloud about him 12. The mighty seat Sai Ox Cai al. E. K. Every time he speaketh he pulleth fire out of his mouth and casteth it from him 13. O you  Nonci 14. O you swords  Napti E. K. Now a white Cloud goeth round 15. O you sons  No Romi 16. O thou the Governour  Ils Tabaam Il. ..... There you lack the third word Δ. What is that ..... Of the first flame it answereth to L al purt You had not the exposition of the third word 17. O ye of the second flame  Ils 〈◊〉 a purt 18. O thou third flame  Ils di al part 19. O thou mighty light  Il micalZo al part Thus you have not lost your labour E. K. Now he wrappeth the Cloud that was under him about his head ..... God be with you E. K. Saw him go upward Δ. Glory be to God praise and honour for Amen Thursday Julii 12. à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. †Cracoviae Ocatione Dominica finita breviter ad 〈◊〉 quibnsdam dictis E. K. The Curtain appeared at the 〈◊〉 looking Δ Now in the name of 〈◊〉 as conceining those 30 Calls or thirty Call we await your information of Ilemese Δ. After divers parcels of our Actions past with Nalvage being read which were very well of us liked at length Ilemese appeared and after he had shewed himself the Curtain being opened he drew the Curtain to again Δ. I then said three Prayers out of the Psalms c. E. K. Now he standeth as Nalvage used to
here at this Embassadour Table That I was a Conjurer and a bank rupt alkimist and came here to get somewhat of the Emperour and that I had sold my goods and given to the Lord Laskie the mony and that he had deceived me To these untruths the Embassadour did reply in my behalf for which I meant to thank him c. Uriel ..... Even as the accursed and cast down most wilfully abhorreth hateth and dishonoureth the God of 〈◊〉 because of his mightiness and power over him So do all those that suck and hang upon his dugs that are coveteous and desirous of worldly promotion that gape and thirst after the glory of this world abhor hate and continually vex and dishonour such as love Justice or dwell under the wings of the God of power and Triumph Herein may you rejoyce that you are partakers and innocents 〈◊〉 at and despised with the worl in the fellowship of God and of his Son Christ. Herein may you be glad that you are sealed and dwell with the Fathers and that you play also upon the Harpe of David for verily as they are so shall you be and as they are made righteous by reason of their election and crowned toward eternal Joy So shall your Election establish your righteousnesse and give you Garlands of eternal comfort Those that are on the Seas are fearful of the windes And why because of the motion of the place and of the power of nature But it is not so with you for you dwell in Castles made of marble wrought out of the middest of a sure rock a most stable foundation For why I am sure that God dwelleth in you and you in him Therefore lift up your heads and rejoyce when you are afflicted and keep the image of God sincere and perfect in you that you may alwayes be merciful in the Image of his Son Christ. But when the Lord openeth his mouth and calleth you together saying Venite audite Then lay away all mercy for the God of Justice dwelleth amongst you Who dwelleth in a house till it be perfectly finished or what is he that putteth on a garment before it be made Be you assured that where the house is finished and your garments made you shall both enter and be clothed with comfort Comfort of wisdom and power I am mindful of you and will be mindful of my promise toward you And If you remain and dwell fortè together deest and be constant in me you shall passe the Thunders that are to come you shall be witnesses of my power and shall enter into the Land of Promise with those that shall be comforted where these dayes shall have an end O my brethren this world exceedeth in wickednesse and is a terrour to the good Angels Because of the souls that she devoureth But when lightnesse is rewarded and Justice sitteth in place Then shall she bear no weight but be made all one with the bottomlesse pit Despise her despise her for she is an 〈◊〉 Behold I have entred in amongst you and it is my Spirit that leadeth to the Embassadour from Spain I will reward him Therefore as thou hast opened me unto the wicked so let also the good bear witnesse of me The Lord is become a firebrand in fury and hath armed himself and hath taken unto him his great Target and the Spear of his indignation Accursed are they that have offended him Tum verò aeterni Genii Immortalis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 URIEL Saniel Azaelque Quae mala quisque hominum patraverit ante Scientes E tetris animas tenebris caliginis omnes Judicio sistent ad formidabile patris Magni Immortalis solium c. Orat. Sibyl pag. 79. Ubi sequuntur plura de VRIELE And when I separate them in the day of wrath to come as one of the fingers and gatherers in of the 〈◊〉 of God Then they shall know that I am URIEL which will not forget the wickednesse of their hands nor their blasphemous mouth in that day of revenge After a certain time cometh Michael unto you and shall shew unto you his bloody Sword and you shall stand under his Banner He shall hold up his hands and shall fight against the Hills for you and your enemies shall not be Vnto which time receive you Light and Comfort and be contented with adversity in the Lord. My brethren it is better to be poor with those that are poor in spirit then to be rich with those that are gluttons and with the Princes of the Earth Thou shalt be with Caesar in despite of the Devil I have said Δ. Gloria patri filio Spiritui Sancto Sicut erat in Principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Note As I had finished this Action and was come to my Study door Emericus was returned again from the Spanish Embassadour to whom I had sent him desirous to know his leasure for me who had now sent me word by Emericus to come to diner so he would have leasure c. Whereof I was right glad and went thither to diner who into his inermost Study where he himself was writing of letters caused me to be brought And after I had complained of injury and violence done unto me by foul slanders and that at his Honours Table to which his Honour in my behalf had replied and therefore most humbly and sincerely I did thank him I said that the Emperous Majesty himself could bear me witnesse that I used this phrase unto him that I came not for his riches as Non veni ad vos O Serenissime Caesar propter divitias vestras ut inde ego dives fierem sed à Deo missus non audeo aliter facere quam ejus ad ve tram Caesaream Majestatem voluntatem declarare c. And therefore How falsly they slandered me it was evident and because I perceive that Doctor Curtz hath not dealt neither with due entertainment of me as of a stranger or a Sudent or a Mathematitian or of one whom to my face he gave great praise unto as of one long since of great fame in Germany and so in his good estimation c. And least of all as of one who offered so great curtesies to the Emperours Majesty as he was made witnesse of I thought good to send unto the Emperours Majesty this letter following and so read it unto him after diner when I shewed him Librum Pragensem sive Caesareum and moreover Librum decimum whose former title was Libri Sexti Mystici Tertiarius and there shewed him divers Actions in Latine already translated because now to translate so to him of the English did seem to me both tedious and to him not so readily pleasant All things on his 〈◊〉 considered his summary final conclusion was as well of the last offer in this my letter as
He desired a Copy of the Emperour his foresaid letters that he might consider circumspectly of the Contents before he should deliver them whereunto I consented Renderiug his honour thanks I departed After my return home I found E. K. resolved to go from hence to morrow for his wife and so straightway into England which was to me a grief But what can I do but refer all to the mercies of God whom I have called upon for wisdom to serve him withal I have 〈◊〉 my trust in the Lord I have not murmured at any such pangs and tentations hitherto The mercies of the Highest be upon me as I have put my trust in him Amen Now were we all brought to great penury not able without the Lord Laskies or some heavenly help to sustain our state any longer Besides this I understood of the Queens displeasure for my departure and of the Bishop of London his intent to have begun to have accused me of Conjuration and so to have had the secret assistance of you know whom Tu es Deus fortitudo mea refugium meum Susceptor meus liberator meus Amen Wedensday Septembris 26. Ante Meridiem Pragae About 10 and a half of the clock Dr. Curtz sent with Mr. Simon Hageck his servant to know my lodging He had passed not far off in a lane on horseback his self going into the Town and so met Mr. Simon Hageck at the lanes end c. Thursday Septembris 27. †Pragae 〈◊〉 About 7. of the clock came Dr. Curtz his servant from his Master to tell me that his Master would come unto me at 9 of the clock At 9 of the clock came Dr. Curtz on horseback to me to my lodging at Doctor Hageck his house by Bethleem my wife he saluted and little Katharine my daughter Mr. Kelly had gotten him into his chamber not willing to be seen After he was come up into my little Study and there set in Mr. Kelly his usual place and I in mine I began to complain of the great injury done unto me here for I came as a sincere and faithful servitour of the Emperour his Majesty intending all goodnesse and honour unto him no hindrance losse or hurt neither came I propter divitias Caesaris mihi 〈◊〉 as I said expressely unto his Majesty I was before I came hither of good name and fame both in this Court and all Europe over As you your self Mr. Doctor quoth I can bear me witnesse and other in this Court divers And that here my name and fame should suffer shipwrack where I thought I had been in a sure Haven of my principal Patrone My thinketh that great in jury is done unto me I know no means how to help it but to give you warning of the envious malitious back biters that also are about this Court that as you find occasion you might encounter with this evil and foul monster in so mighty a Princes Cause intruding it self The Doctor seemed not to know what I meant I told him that at a Noble-mans Table There was of great account who said that there was an English man come to the Emperours A bankrupt 〈◊〉 a Conjurer and Necromantist who had sold his own goods and given the Lord Laskie the money and that he had beguiled him and that now he would fain get some of the Emperour his money from him c. The Doctor seemed greatly to mislike these slanderous words and said that he never heard of any such with some few words more of the wicked manner of back biters After this as 〈◊〉 the report making to the Emperour of that I had shewed unto him at his house as before is noted he said that he had made a plain and sincere report Whereunto the Emperours Majesty had as yet given no answer And to be plain with you said he his Majesty thinketh them almost either incredible or impossible and would have some leasure to 〈◊〉 of them and is desirous to have the sight of those Latine Actions you shewed me or a Copy of them and especially of that which containeth a paraphrasis of the Apostolical Creed I answered that my Books I would not deliver out of my hands And as for a Copy of them I would at leasure write it that his Majesty might have it And then I told him farther that because it was so long before I heard any word of him I had letters ready to send to the Emperours Majesty to have farther declared my mind unto him and I declared unto him the tenor of them and he told me that about three of the clock after noon his man should go to the Court and if then I would send them his man should carry them I answered that I would expect a day or two for the Emperours return hither After this we talked of some Mathematical matters And I shewed him the little Book de superficierum divisionibus set forth by me and Commandinus printed at Pezaro in Italy He said that he never saw it before I bad him then take it with him to peruse and that if I had another Copy I would give it him but I had none other but that I shewed him also the Propaedeamata Aphoristica de praestantioribus quibusdam Naturae virtutibus which he had never seen before After this with mutual curtesies offered on both parts after the manner of the world he took his horse and returned homeward Friday Septembris 28. Pragae Intending to send the Emperours letter here before written to his Majesty by my good friend the Spanish Embassadour I wrote this letter to send to the Embassadour in that behalf and as concerning the credit of these Actions Illustrissimo Domino Domino Don Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente serenissimi atque Catholici Hispaniarum Regis apud sacram Caesaream Majestatem c. Legato Domino suo observandissimo Illustris Magnifice Heros Multis hoc probari potest testimoniis exemplis quod illa quae preter vulgarium artium scientiarum decreta Nova supra vulgaritèr Studiosorum expectationem hominibus licet piis candidis quidem Divinitùs revelantur mysteria cum summa difficultate vel intelliguntur à paucissimis vel vix sine suspitione admittuntur aut creduntur à 〈◊〉 Ast qualis in nostris si rectae piéque informatae rostris adhibeatur judicium esse potest suspitio Nam à Deo Omnipotente per multos jam annos fideliter ardenter constanter per preces requisita sapientia Una scilicet quae penes nos quidem videtur esse radix occasio tanti istius Doni obtinendi Ast in coelesti suo Palatio ante conditum mundum determinata assignata erga nos Misericordia gratia Omnipotentis Dei praecipuum solidum immobileque hujus tanti mysterii est censendum fundamentum In quo mysterio talis relucet per potentes fidelesque Angelos Isagogica Informatio De Arcanis Dei consiliis tam in
and honour and will during my being praise thy holy Name E. K. He is gone and went away mounting upward c. Quis sicut Deus noster qui humilitèr resplicet peccatores sua ditat 〈◊〉 Illi soli sit omnis laus honor gloria nunc semper Amen ✚ Pragae Monday Aprilis 1. Manè circa 8. Δ A remembrance for me England Letters A. L. His Letters opened and some yet kept Emerick his traiterous dealing to be deciphered Counsel for the manner of our going and what things shall be needfull to take with us Δ Praecesfeci visitatas alias ex tempore ejaculationes pro auxilio Dei omnipotenti necessario in omnibus nostris Dei prescripti tractandis negotiis c. E. K. Here is a tall man with white clothes with wide sleeves and his garment very much pleated and a thing like a Cypress scarf before his face black which had been many times doubled and with a knot behind him Two others there are by him on his left hand one of them is apparelled in a green thing like a Cassock comming down to his middle leg and a pair of shooes on his feet and a hat on his head The other in a marble Jerkin like a leather Jerkin with panos and a pair of Hose with round Breeches of the same stuff his neither stocks like common black and usual shooes and on his head an hat as the other hath of the English fashion The first hath a little beard short aburn 〈◊〉 The other hath a young beard whitish ..... Why do you provoke me to indignation E. K. He seemeth to speak to them two looking on them Why accuse you me of doing wrong Have I not lead you out by the hand from the Serpents Carried you against nature thorow the waters Have I not held you up from falling Have I not brought you hither unto the Hill E. K. There appeareth a very great Hill up to the Heavens by him This is the entrance The way is open for you ascend And are you not yet ashamed to urgeme If I have done you wrong wrong be unto me If I have done more then I ought to do why do you vex me Δ He seemeth to mean us E. K. He speaketh to them two I have said unto you eat and you have not I have told you it is time to eat but you have your own time I have said unto you Go before Follow me But in this case I will not be 〈◊〉 against you These 〈◊〉 that record my sayings shall 〈◊〉 judgment against you Therefore now unto you E. K. He turneth toward you Δ Here you see the Hill here you see the way open Here you see no hinder ance Yet 〈◊〉 these men accuse me trouble me Determine you against them Call not at these Doores any more untill you be called unto them Ye have said if before the Lord if you had not it had been better for you E. K. He treadeth them two under his feet all to pieces and taketh his hands and flingeth the bloud of them about and it sticketh to the sides A voice ..... What is it to me if man had never been E. K. He wrappeth up the place of their lying as if it were a Cloth and putteth or tumbleth them out of fight E. K. Now he is gone like a Whirl-wind away LORD Δ I am heartily sorry for any thing I have said or done which hath provoked thy indignation thy mercy be upon us and not the rigor of thy most just Judgment Amen Thy Name be alwayes praised Amen O Lord I find my own weaknesse and frailty continually and therefore I call unto thee for thy gift of Wisdome that I might wisely and discreetly serve thee all the dayes of my life O Lord the escapes of my lips and the folly of my heart pardon I most heartily beseech thee And if thy helping hand forsook us and much more if thy indignation work against us we are in most miserable and pitifull case have pity have mercy have compassion on us Lord Lord Lord forgive this our offence whatsoever Suffer us not to be confounded through our little faith O God help our faith help help or else we perish K. K. Here he is againe ..... When the Lord bad thee go if thou had'st so done and had'st not taken thine own time more had been given unto him and more had been added unto thee But now Letters came that have passed through the hands of Sodomites and Murderers through whose hands they are accursed you rejoice you receive comfort you determine to goe But if you had left those letters behind you had come when I bad you go Then had my Name been untouched Therefere is the Lord angry and forgetteth not this offence For he that dealeth with me dealeth not as with a man for I have nothing in me tied to time much lesse hath he that sent me Δ O God what a wretched miserable man am I thus to fall and to offend my God O Lord that thou judgest is very just for man would have taken indignation against his servant that should not go where he biddeth or that would seek or use better credit to encourage him to his duty then his Masters c. Many times hast thou been wearied Have mercy O God Et dele omnes 〈◊〉 meas cor mundum crea in me averto iram tuam a nobis Is thy fury implacable or shall thy anguish last for ever what is slesh and dust before thee ..... There shall remaine the sting of this offence in both your generations until the fifth And I swear unto you by heaven Δ Spare this Sentence of indignation O God against us Thou hast said in what hour soever a sinner is sorry for his sinnes and turneth unto the Lord c. And Lord I am heartily sorry I bewaile with teares this great offence thou seest my contrite heart O God O God O God c. ..... This hath added much even hath bound up the rod which I spoke before unto thee Δ Thy mercies be recorded likewise O Lord and praised from Generation to Generation After this we sat and considered and perceived and confessed the greatnesse of our offence how it concerned much the Honour and Glory of God if we had gone without receiving the advertisement of those Letters So should they hear the and the King St. have perceived that we had the direction of God and of his good Angels and not to have depended upon mans letters or perswasions c. we both a like confessed this great misdoing and so framed our selves to make all speed away that possible we could the mercies of God be upon us now and ever E. K. He is here and said Be thou shut for twenty dayes and withal pulled a thing-like a Curtain about the Stone and the Stone seemed to be full of the same substance being like the froth of the Sea
thou wilt If therefore these wonders be so great in heaven wonder thou not at our silence Therefore be patient and say unto the earth Why groanest thou so hard or why is thy body so rotten Hast not thou justly deserved these things for thy iniquity I say if you be partakers of these secrets how much more shall you be partakers of that sweetnesse which is the eternal dew and very bread it self of life SO. E. K. He is gone Δ. I prayed a pretty while after with thanks-giving c. Soli Deo nostro omnis laus potestas gloria in seculorum saecula Amen Junii 14. 1583. Friday a meridie Hora 4½ Δ. The golden vayl or curtain appeared covering the whole stone whereas all other vayls and curtains before did use to cover but the more part or those things which were the standing implements of the action for that time This appeared as soon as he looked into the stone I made long and often prayers of thanks-giving calling for grace mercy and wisdom with such particular instructions as I had written down the doubts requiring light or resolution in them c. At length appeared a woman like an old maid in a red Peticote and with a red silk upper bodies her hair rould about like a Scottish woman the same being yellow she stood afide from the green Sarcenet belonging to the stone and she said ..... God speed my friends Δ. A good greeting to wish us speed by him Amen E. K. I never saw this woman before ..... It may be you have seen me but my apparel may alter my fashion E. K. She seemeth to go in a great path before her very speedily Δ. I pray you whither make you such a speedy journey ..... I am going home I have been from home this seven-night Δ. Distance of place cannot protract time in your journey homeward ..... Jesu now he will be angry with me as he was with his maid Δ. Every Action not yet effected whether is it at home or from home Δ. God grant you then to make speed homeward and to your home and all we to the home where the highest may be well pleased ..... So so you talk too wisely for me Δ. God make me to talk wisely indeed and God take all vanity from my heart ..... You may think me a vain huswife to be going thus long But by me you may perceive how vain all worldly wisdom is I am in a better case then many are for though I be from home yet am I going home some there be that neither have home neither can go home E. K. Now cometh a goodly tall aged man all in black with a Hat on his head he hath a long gray beard forked he saith to the Maid thus Old man ..... wihther go you maid Maid ..... Belike Sir you may be some kyn unto these men for they are also desirous to know whither I do go Old man ..... Me thinks I should have known you before Maid ..... If you knew me before you may the easier know me now Old man Where have you been and if thy gravity were as good as thy ancient dissembling I would tell thee Old man ..... These words be very large what is the cause thou wilt not be acquainted with me I never did thee harm and I have desired to be acquainted with thee a long time Maid ..... With counterfeit gravity I will never be acquainted neither thy age and thy fame nor thy hairs nor the sobernesse of thy countenance can move me to any acquaintance for that thou never delightedst in true wisdom Old man ..... Then go your way Like an Harlot Maid ..... If wicked words do prove an Harlot then thou hast judged thy self E. K. Now she goeth on forward and the Old man is gone out of fight There appeareth now a young man sitting on the side of a Ditch and to him she said Maid ..... What aileth you to weep Young man ..... I weep for thy discourtesie Maid ..... Thou canst 〈◊〉 move my conscience No I say thou canst not move me to pirty E. K. She licketh his tears and saith Maid ..... Every thing else hath some saltnesse but here is none Young man ..... Oh I pray thee do something for me Maid ..... Oh to qualifie these tears is no other then to dry rotten Hemp with a mighty fire Young man ..... I will see thee hang'd before I will weep any more Maid ..... Every thing commonly teacheth of it self E. K. The young man went away stamping and angry and now she is come where a multitude of young Children are there is much meat on a Table and the Children being not high enough to reach it pull'd the maid by the Cloaths and pointed to the meat she goeth round about the Table there is but one dish-uncovered and that feemeth to be like dew she putteth her fingers into the Dish and letteth the Children lick and they fall down dead Maid ..... Blame Justice and not me for if the Children had ever tasted of this meat before they might have continued E K Now she meeteth a thin visag'd man very feeble who staggered on his staffe and he said Feeble ..... Help me for Gods sake Maid ..... I will do my best E. K. As she came toward the man the man fell down She heaveth him up and again he falleth down and she lifteth at him still Maid ..... Good will forms but the matter is not sufficient This is long of thy self Feeble ..... Oh I say help me Maid ..... It is too late to help thee I came this way many times before and thou never soughtest help at my hands It is written he that desireth not help till he be helplesse he shall be voide of the benefit of an helper E. K. The feeble man goeth away and she departeth from him Now she cometh towards a man going up an hill who had torn all his Cloaths off with brambles and bryars There stand a great many of Mawmets little ugly fellows at the top of the hill who threw stones against him and so force this climing man or goer up the hill to tumble down again to the foot of the hill The skin doth seem to be off his hands and his feet and they very raw with his excessive travail with hands and feet up that hill Now there appear men eating meat below at the foot of the hill who offered him meat to eat But he laboureth up the hill again one of these men said come let me bind up thy feet The Clymer ..... Vnto him that hath no wearinesse there belongeth no sorrow E. K. She standeth and vieweth him The Clymer ..... I pray you help me Maid ..... It is impossible for thee to get up here Clymer ..... Of my self it is I will never be of the minde It is impossible Maid ..... Come on I will do the best I can E. K. She leadeth him over stones and rocks Maid ..... Thou
It may be undetermined I will also see whether you be strong inwardly or privily rotten For with the world your weaknesse is great Whosoever overcometh shall rejoyce But I will be a God in my Covenant and will hold on my promise Fight therefore as it becometh you and cast off the world Make flesh subject and strangle your Adversary For unto such belongeth the entrance into my Chambers and the use of my will as the Horn of my glorie For it is written light dwelleth not in darknesse Neither hath darknesse comprehended any light For darknesse is the Cave of errour and the reward of sinners Thus sayeth he which beholdeth your sorrows And it is a fight for many daies which appeareth neither in the one nor in the other nor giveth he answer untill the end E. K. There is one come in like a Ghost and he taketh all the hangings away which beautified the place like to Curtains Now all the sides of the stone are darkish and the Cloud standeth in the very middle thereof Now the bands seem brighter then ..... because the place is so darkish Δ. O Lord many daies Combat is assigned us And forasmuch as Militia est vita hominis super Terram we are now in a great uncertainty of our Combat ending E. K. There standeth the number of 40. upon a great Labell and nothing else Δ. This 40. O Lord what betok eneth it dayes weeks or years Well Whatsoever it be Blessed be the name of the Highest Our God King and Father E. K. Δ. E. K. Now is one come in very brave like a Preacher I take him to be an evil one Δ. Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini E. K. He saith nothing Not so much as Amen ..... Are you so foolish to think that the power of God will descend into so base a place E. K. The power of God descending descendeth to beautifie the place And whatsoever he beautifieth he doth it mercifully And so through his mercy he descendeth among us that put our trust in his mercies ..... It is true But unto those that are righteous Δ. Christ his coming hath been to save sinners His conversation was among sinners halt lame blinde and diseased So likewise Now our frailty or impurity will not exclude his presence or the Ministery of his faithfull Angels ..... What in this base manner Δ. Do you mislike the manner ..... Can any that hath any drop of wisdom like it Δ. Are you wise ..... Or else I could not see thy imperfections Δ. Which be they Accuse me ..... What greater imperfection then to imagine much more believe that the Angels of God will or may descend into so filthie a place as this corruptible stone is Considering the clearnesse and bignesse of the aire or the places that are prepared in mans bodie for such entrances Δ. Who causeth thee to come here ..... Thy folly Δ. Art thou good or bad ..... I am good or else I could not see the bad Δ. Ergo thou art a lyar for thou sayd'st No good Angel would or might come here into this stone Δ. Thus will God be glorified against wicked Satan and his Ministers His fetch was very subtile As To bring in doubt all the Actions performed in this ftone What canst thou answer E. K. He sayeth nothing Neither can he say any thing He seemeth to be a very foolish Devil Δ. Mendacem oportet esse memorem Now be packing hence ..... I will abide here Δ. Where God will permit thee there mayest thou be But we will as now cease And we thank God highly of this comfort and victory We beseech him that we may as prosperously overcome all other Diabolical assaults or sophistical or untrue perswafions and all his Temptations Amen Glory Honour power and praise be to our Almighty and living God the Lord of Hosts Jehovah now and ever Amen Saturday Novemb. 23. à Meridie hora 1½ Lubek E. K. Here appeareth the same bad one sitting who last appeared The Cloud with the sword appeareth at last with two wreaths on one side and two on the other spirally This Creature taketh the cloudy pillar and throweth it from him divers times He sayeth Call as long as thou wilt I will keep thee for seeing any more sights here Δ. Or Lord attend unto thy glory Attend unto thy honour regard the arrogancy of this Luciferine brag against thy younglings expressed Δ. And of the Lord Alb. Laskie c. ..... He shall come to destruction as thou and thine to miserable beggery Because he hath consented to them that are Ministers of iniquity spirits of falshood E. K. He looketh on a bare book when he saith thus ..... The power of God entreth into the Soul of man and doth visit the Chambers of his understanding openeth his will with power The spirits of darknesse are ready for every place and can deceive saying This is of God Vnto these you have 〈◊〉 and have sworn it as a Covenant between God and you But I am come from God and am entred indeed and will make you hungry in your own foolishnesse that you may become wise None hath entred here with power but I. And I will tarry here And I will be a wall betwixt you and your imaginations and betwixt those that have tempted you and your weaknesse For thou hast called upon God and he hath heard thee and I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... Laws of salvation are ready follow them The way into darknesse is wide and easie and where light is it encreaseth joy Be thou therefore warned by me Nay I have said Δ. Thou hast said here That thou art God is that true For thou hast said Thou hast called upon God and he hath hard thee And I am he that sayeth so unto thee ..... I see thee And thy wisdom is nothing Make of me what thou canst I am the messager of God ..... Avoid darknesse avoid darknesse avoid darknesse E. K. He plucketh down violently in the stone the Clouds and all becometh light in the stone ..... Ly here with thy fellows Those that are of wisdom let them understand Δ. O Sapientia patris aeterni illumina mentes nostras ut tibi serviamus in sanctitate Justitia toto vitae nostrae tempore Amen ..... Carmathar a Knight of the Rhodes was thirteen years deceived with one that appeared as he thought in glorie wisdom in the image of Christ. Antony was beguiled in divers wayes The Prophets Apostles have doubted in many things But because they faithfully believed they were not rejected Their hope became fruitfull and they blessed with understanding from above If so be also you repent and be sorry in that you have yielded unto the instruments of wickednesse and follow on as they your fathers have done you shall also become wise But I say unto you That which you have consented unto is amisse and false worse then errour it self For where have you tasted anie
Let us seek other wayes Then you are not counted perseverers neither are your works worthy reward But humane reason can perswade and give judgement against these follies much more are they damnable and deserve correction in the voice and judgement of such as are pure He that dealeth with the wicked is a lyar and shall have his reward But the end of comfort is in the purenesse of spirit But O you of little wisdom you rise up against the windes and yoke your wits against the mountains Nay you cast your selves down headlong where there is no mercy For what blasphemie is it to say If it be the will of God it must follow Is not man subject to the bringing in of his own labours And are not they allowed to his comfort being brought in The soul of man is the Image of God after his form which keepeth within himself the power of his divinity in the heavenly Spirit whereby he hath Authority to consent with God in the workmanship of his Will and Creatures Which Power being sealed already giveth unto man as King of himself to consent to his own salvation conjoyning and knitting himself together either with perseverance in the assured hope of mercy or with wilfull drunkennesse to the reward of such as fall Therefore Become Holy For the soul beautifieth when it is beautified in it self Resist not the Will of God which is mighty on you Be not obstinate Be humble Rejoyce not for this World But be glad that your names are sealed and that you shall correct the World Despair not through weaknesse for from whom cometh strength If puddles become Seas the end is more wonderful But yet greater when sinners are called to the knowledge and performance of God his Will thorough his mercies Even as one day perisheth and is not although he hath been Even so it is and shall be the state of this World For the Earth must sing O Sanna with the Heavens And there must be One veritie And Hierusalem shall descend with an horn of glory to the end The Sun and Moon shall be witnesses and wonder at their stay The Kings of the Earth shall become proud in themselves and are unable to be tamed with man But I will yoke them saith the Lord with correction And force them one to imitate anothers steps Yea they shall tread the grapes alike For in my Vineyard Corruption shall not dwell with Authority Neither shall the Prince of Darknesse usurpe my further honour E. K. He speaketh much in a smaller voice than he did I cannot perceive it He turned back and spake ..... I speak these things for your understanding and that you may be strengthened E. K. He turneth back again as before and speaketh I know not what ..... My dear brethren therefore rejoyce in Comfort and the image of Peace and remain faithful that you may be fed with that food that shall preserve and alwaies rest before the mighty flames of Zanzor where there dwelleth no defiled Creature nor any unrighteousnesse E. K. He turneth now back again as before speaking He seemeth now to lean against a Pillar of Copper great and round And he is become lesse than he was Now he standeth on the top of the Pillar Now he kneeleth down his back being turned A voice saith to him ..... Swear ..... 1 He said ..... It is done He said ..... The first voice openeth his mouth and saith There is a great rumbling and roushings of falling of Towns or Houses as it were in the Stone He said ..... The will of God is sealed in this Prophesie and it shall endure A voice ..... Swear ..... 2 He said ..... I have done He said ..... It thundereth and it is the second voice The effect of God his Will is not of time and therefore not to be known of man till that moment and end of time shall appear wherein it must be published and finished with power E. K. Now it thumbleth again very terribly as though a vvhole Town should fall down into a great Valley A voyce ..... Swear ..... 3 He said ..... I have ..... And it is the third and the last voyce All things that are crooked shall be made straight The winde of the heavens shall walk through all the earth Wisdom shall sit in her Majestie Crowned in the top of an Hill with exalted glorie It is the end E. K. Now all dasheth in a flame of fire Pillar and he and all and so flieth upward A voyce ..... He that hath ears let him hear Another voyce It shall be Amen E. K. Now the Curtain cometh before all as it vvas at the beginning this day Δ. O Lord for thy great mysteries declared unto us this day we most humbly thank thee But on our parts there remaineth some matter .... thy hands by some of thy good Ministers we desire to have some advertisement as of the Lord Alb. Laskie Secondly of Vincent Seve c. E. K. A very little Creature appeareth and saith The little one A word and away The hearts of Princes are the secrets of the Lord Such they are as unlock the doings of this world Δ. Of A. L. his delay in coming contrary to our defire and expectation I would gladly understand the cause c. The little one Those things that are of wickednesse are not of our remembrance This stay shall hinder a third part of his glory But all your life is not of him Nor he of you If he become good he shall be well rewarded He is forward Vincent is in France E. K. He is gone suddenly This Creature stood betvveen the Curtain and the forepart of the stone it vvas one of the least Creatures that ever I savv Δ. All Honour praise and thanks be to our God Almighty now and ever Amen Thursday Januarii 9. The Lord Albert Laskie came to Stetin Hor. 2½ à Meridie Fryday Janurii 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hora prima incipiebat per 2. horas durabat Stetini Sonday 12. Januarii 1584. Stetin Δ. After Dinner we were talking together of our affairs A voyce in E. K. his head said Jam venit hora. Δ. After Supper as I had a desire to shew to E. K. some places of St. Johns Apocalypsis a voyce said to him Equus albus est initium Doctrinae vestrae Et est verbum Dei 10. 9. sunt Novemdecim Δ. Hereupon seeking in the 19. Chapter of the Apocalypsis we found the Text Equus albus c. versu 11. A voyce Ne dubites Sum enim servus Dei To this purpose appertain these places of Scripture c. These are the dayes wherein the Prophet said No faith should be found on the earth This Faith must be restored again and man must glorifie God in his works I am the light of God Δ. Then by like He is VRIEL ..... I am a witnesse of the light These are the times when Justice and truth must take place Behold I touched him
doth the God of Heaven and earth mean to deale with the World Think you not that this is more than love Look therefore narrowly into your selves Vncover the doings of your life and secret Chambers Enter into judgement with your selves Vnto thee I speak To E. K. Hast thou not run astray from the Lord and committed Idolatry Δ. He told E. K. of his faults which E. K. would not expresse to me and I desired him to listen to them and to do as it appertaineth to a Christian c. Gab. ..... But thus saith the Lord I am a pure Spirit that participateth not with the defiled neither can I enter in mercy into that house which is defiled A great saying my Brethren For hereby you are monished to make your consciences clean to open your selves in pureness to the Lord that he may enter into you with comfort For so long as thou dealest with wicked spirits will the Lord keep back his hands and thou keepest back the Lord. For shall it not be said hereafter Lo is not this man known to have dealing with the wicked And as the foolish voices of the people are Is not this he that can constrain the wicked with further arguments by repetition of thy doings Well if thou wilt be the Minister of God If thou wilt go forward in his works If thou wilt see the happy times that are to come thou must abstain from evil and thou must sweep thy house clean Thou must put on thy best garments And must become humble and meek Let not thy life be a scandal to the will of the Lord and to the greatnesse of his works For the power that is within thy soul in respect of his essential quid is of great force and ability to perform those things that proceed with power which is the cause that the wicked ones obey thee for they fear themselves when they see the seal of thy Creation This is therefore the Cause that God finding thee as he passeth by by his Angel fit in matter but my brother God knoweth far unfit in life O Consider the dignity of thy Creation Consider that the affection of God toward thee is more than love See how he beareth with thy infirmity from time to time O I say yet Enter into judgement with thy self And consider that thou art now at a Turning where there lieth two wayes One shall be to thy comfort The other to thy perpetual wo. Let not good ground bring forth weeds lest it choke her self Δ. We will call unto God for his mercies graces and help c. O consider my brother that the appearing and works of the devil are but of necessity That is to say that he that is good by resisting of the devil may manifest and make plain to the powers and spirits of Heaven the strength of his faith and assurance of his Hope and so necessarily by the promise of God inherit everlasting life to the which he is elected To the wicked that because of their disobedience and partaking with them that are the Angels of darknesse even those that strive against the Lord they might worthily be damned according to the necessity of God his judgement See therefore they appeare unto thee either for the greatness of thy wickedness or else because they suspect thee to be elected If thou therefore think thy self elected despise them If thou therefore think to be a spirit dignified and in glory Then be faithful in the assurance of hope and resist the devil that we may testifie thee before the heavens and before the God of Justice E. K. He weepeth Δ. E. K. and I also could not hold our teares Ah my brother great are the joyes of Heaven Remember what Hell is for to thee the Fornace was open Remember the vision thou hadst of hell and of her powers at Mortlake For nothing my brother is done without a cause Remember thou couldst not abide it No not to see Think thyself accursed therefore if thou feel it For if Sodom had seen it they would have been converted E. K. He prayeth 1. I have now told you of the Jealousie of God and of the cause thereof 2. I have also told you that the house of God must be clean and without spot E. K. Now there cometh a brightnesse about him 3. Lastly I have told you of that necessity which causeth the devils to work and appear and have exhorted you to the love of God and repentance which were the things I onely had 〈◊〉 speak of Δ. O Lord seeing we are uniformly desirous that the Action may proceed and that we crave thy mercy and graces as well for the pardoning of our wickedness past as for the confirmation of us in thy service What shall we look for touching the proceeding being thus stayed to our great grief Gabr. ..... You have to receive the will of God but what it is I know not those three dayes you begin your Journey And you are also to learn what the Angel is and how many Subjects he hath Δ. Which Angel Gab. ..... That governeth Hyleich which is the matter of the 4 Elements And which onely is an Element The Princes and Governours also of the 4 Elements and of their Generation how they receive mixtion and in what quantity With their Ministers that are under them Δ. I said to E K. These shall be part of your practice and portion Gab. ..... You are all to joyn joyntly in the Harvest of the Lord The Angels also of the †48 angles of the heavens and their Ministers For they are these that have the thunders and the windes at Commandment These make up the time and then cometh the Harvest E. K. He is gone Δ. Non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam Tu enim Altissimus Omnipotens sempiternus vivus verus Deus noster es unus Trinus Cui Angelicus caelestisque chorus decantat perpetuò Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Dominus Deus Zebaoth Amen Friday Cracoviae Junii 8. Mane hora 7½ Post preces ejaculationes varias gratiarum actiones pro magna misericordia Dei erga nos propter E K. qui jam patefecit mihi horrenda multiplicia heresium blasphemiarum dogmata quibus illi hostes Jesu Christi illum imbuerant quòd jam onfessione 〈◊〉 vellet sacrosanctum mysterium corporis sanguinis Christi recipere issisque malis Angelis renunciare omnes illorum fraudes detegere c. Conversio E. K. ad Deum abdicatis omnibus Diabolicis experimentis c. Nihil apparuit hodie Albeit the like had never happened to us that I remember but that either Cloud Vail or some Voice was perceived by E. K. Yet this doing we not onely took patiently but E. K. used many good reasons to prove that servants ought to attend so long as it pleased their Master to have them await his coming
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
But I say give ear unto my words For I will sift the dust and finde out the Pearle that of a long time hath lyen trodden under the feet I will come again E. K. He is gone Δ. We read over the premisses and so expected the rest E. K. He is again here Uriel ..... Now let us joyn these things together All flesh offendeth and is a lyar Who therefore shall be saved or escape eternal damnation He it is I sa that when he hath lyed and spoken against the truth doth not frowardly drown'd and keep down his sin in silence For lying meriteth the vengeance of the Trinity But he that is wilfully froward sealeth up his own damnation For this cause my brethre and to the intent that the mercies of God might alwayes be ready for sinners hath he provided the light and comfort of his spirit left as a continual workman in the Church and spouse of Christ. I teach you briefly that he whosoever opening his mouth against the spirit of truth and with wilfull frowardnesse continueth in his lying without reconciliation to the Church sinneth against the holy Ghost and shall be damned eternally I come again E. K. He is gone E. K. He is here again Uriel ..... Be now therefore admonished I say be warned And considering you be sinners acknowledge your offences least in the end your sin be against the holy Ghost and so not to be forgiven But herein they erre with you that expound the Scriptures saying that man sinneth and cannot be forgiven because he sinneth against the holy Ghost I teach you my brethren that there is no sin against God but it is against the holy Ghost If so be in the end it be shut up with wilfull silence Whensoever therefore you have offended acknowledge I say your sins before God and his Angels That God may forgive you and the Angels bear witnesse of your forgivenesse and shut not up your sins in froward silence If thou commit adultry if thou blaspheme the name of God if thou be a lyar yea if thou speak against the truth yea if thou say there is no God as the foolish do Despair not saying I have sinned against the holy Ghost because I am a sinner and a blasphemer of the name of God because I have spoken and opened my mouth against the spirit of truth But go unto the Church which is governed by the spirit of God and there with hearty and open confession disclose and make plain thy offences that the holy Ghost may bear witnesse in the spouse and Church of Christ That thou hast not sinned against him to eternal death Because thou art not drowned in froward silence For although God bear witnesse of repentance Although he hear and open his ears yet consider also he hath hands and must untye those bonds wherewith you are bound What are the hands of God but his spirit wherewith he maketh and created all things Therefore when thou hast cried out and art sorry endeavour thy self also to be lifted up by the hands of God Learn a similitude in Christ which signifying the power of his Church commanded the offender to go and wash himself and so he was whole I speak this for thy E.K. instruction I say also unto thee E.K. Go and wash thy self For thou art a lyar thou art a drunkard And therefore thou art a sinner And if thou persevere and shadow thy sins with wilfull silence frowardly then sealest thou thy self with the second brand and canst not be forgiven because thou sinnest against the Ghost Ananias fell down at the feet of Peter not onely for that he lyed but because after his offence he was wilfully silent Here thou mayest consider the greatnesse of God his mysteries and secrets of his will and of favour that he stretcheth out unto thee in mercy for thou art a Childe and must ascend and must become a man The rest after you are refreshed Δ. We went to Dinner to our Host his house Δ. Thanks honour glory and praise be unto the Almighty Trinity now and ever Amen Δ. After we had been at Dinner they read over the premisses and considered them quietly E. K. Here he is Δ. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the highest to whom be all honour and glory Amen Uriel ..... Lo Lo Lo I sa which of you hath an eye that seeth not no the world the vanity and folly of worldlings and such as are choked with the mildew of vanity and worldly promotion For thus sayeth the Lord wherein could I shew my self more either unto this age or unto this Emperour then with rebuking him for his sins from Heaven Who is able to promise more or to perform assureder then I which lighten and make all things Yet they believe not 〈◊〉 they rejoyce in their own folly and despise me yea because they despise thee whom I have sent with my word unto them Δ. Is despised of Rud and Curtz E. K. Well thus sayeth the Lord they have despised their own Garlands and have trodden their food under feet They have rent their Robes in pieces and have cast them into the waves They are become masterlisse Dogs for I have forsaken them And lo Rodolph I will scatter thy bones and thy head shall be devided in many pieces I will bring in thy enemies over all thy Kingdoms and for thy sake shall many thousands perish He also that thinketh himself wise if he dye a natural death then say I am not neither that I live with my people But because thou hast done that which I commanded thee and hast not forgot my name Lo I will plant thee my self and thou shalt grow and out of thee shall spring a mighty and a terrible sword whose Hilts shall be as the Carbuncle and edge like unto the sting of a Dragon and I will not suffer thee to fall neither shall thine enemies ride upon thee Truely truely thou shalt know I am with thee But be patient for Satan hunteth hard after thee Thou shalt have alwayes a * prick even unto thy last grave But therein shall thy faith be exalted and thy reward great ..... I come again E. K. He is gone E. K. Here he is again Uriel ..... Lo for thy labour I will reward thee And so it shall be Behold I had determined to have rooted out the English people to have made a wildernesse and desart of it to have filled it with many strange people and to have tied the sword to it perpetually Δ. This is no contradiction for thus this wildernesse and filling is to be understood But Δ. The filling of it with strangers should have been for the conquest and in a manner razing or defacing of all Cities Towns and Castles and so to have brought it to a wildernesse and desart But Lo I will give thee that land onely for thy sake it shall not
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
authority you can do nothing Therefore if your authority be not why take you upon you the doings of the Church which it is one thing to seek to understand the Scriptures and an other thing to teach the Scriptures according to his understanding for he that teacheth teacheth by Authority but if he have no Authority he is an Usurper My brethren remember your selves and consider you are Children you are not vestri juris but alieni Therefore do nothing that is of your selves But follow as good childre the steps of your Mother which Mother is a pure Virgin and is alwayes instructed with the wisdom of the Comforter What meat she shall give unto you her Children and how she shall bring you up and instruct you Simplicity is much worth and obedience is a Garland before the Lord. But Curiosity is the Devil Have you not read That the bread of the holy ones is not to be cast unto ` Dogs Look unto your selves whether you be Dogs or no. See if your life be holy your doings straight and just your patience manisold your affliction great for the Lord if you find not your selves so you are not Children If you be not Children you are not Sonnes if you be not Sonnes you have no Mother if you have no Mother you are Dogs you are devourers of the bread of Children currish senselesse and against God Enter therefore into judgment with your selves Consider you are created by God Consider you are redecmed by God Consider also you are also left to the spiritual tuition and comfort of God which God hath made of you a Congregation a holy and sanctified fellowship feeding alwayes as brethren together under his wings and at his Lable which feedeth you with the bread of life and understanding with the body and bloud of Jesus Christ the Sonne of the Living God With understanding that you may know the will of your Father which is in Heaven and knowing him be obedient which is the conclusion of your vocation Shake not off therefore the yoke of Obedience least you put away also the Cup of understanding and so know not the will of your Father But my thinketh you are starved your guts are shrunk up your bones and sinewes are withered What is the cause thereof When received you the bread of the Lord When received you nourishment O you of little faith and lesse understanding you erre and runne astray you are blind you follow not the will of your Father Return Return and say within your selves O eternal God and loving Father great is thy care and mercy over us which being led astray with Satan and the spirit of darknesse hast brought us home which being blind hast set open before our eyes our eyes also opened the true path and line of understanding Happy are we whom thou lovest so deerly and unto whom the care of our health is so dear We will therefore praise thy Name and return from our errors we will acknowledg our sinnes and follow thy Commandements for thou O Lord art onely just and true and thy mercy is everlasting Thy Lawes are sweet and thy love and kindnesse mighty amongst us Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Zebaoth all honour praise and glory be nnto thee for ever Δ Amen ..... After a while I return again E. K. He is gone Δ Note I read the premisses to Fr. Pucci in Latin which seemed to us to be wonderfully pithy and to the purpose c. E. K. He is here againe URIEL ..... Francis Pucci give ear vnto my word Stay a while Δ Hereupon Fr. Pucci did kneel on both his knees URIEL ..... True it is that as thy spirit moved thee so God hath called thee to the partaking and understanding of his will to be fulfilled in punishment and wrath against the falshood and deceit of the earth And therefore hath God in his great love and exceeding mercy called thee away from the Sonnes of the accursed and from the way of unrighteousnesse wherein if thou follow him in simplicity of Conscience and righteousnesse the works of faith thou shalt be confirmed for I say unto thee I will power my vengeance upon the whole Earth and I will chasten her in her iniquity and in the middest of her pride I will throw her down head-long and she shall triumph no more And because thou hast humbled thy self my spirit shall be with thee and thou shalt understand And this wicked Monster that sitteth in the Holy Temple and sinneth against the Highest shall be thrown down head-long with his pride And he shall be chastised and corrected with the mouth of you two For at the house of the Lord Judgment must begin And the rebelling sonne must be scourged before the wicked servant be punished Fear not I will put 〈◊〉 your words strength and power And if he hear you not but stretch forth his hands against you I will rain fire and brimstone from Heaven and his dwelling places shall sink And the Lake that shall remain shall bear witnesse against him for evermore Lift up thy heart therefore and despise the World Fight with her manfully and be not overcome Moreover acknowledg thy sinnes and fly unto the Lord. Seek out his House and eat of his bread for thou hast much need of it The seeds that thou hath sown abroad gather up again least thou be punished for the sins of thy Brethren Thy Soule standeth deare before the Lord which is the cause that he hath mercy upon thee which saith unto thee If thou be obedient before the Lord follow the instructions and discipline of the holy Ghost and do the works of righteousness and Charity my Spirit shall rest upon thee I have said K. E. He is gone Δ I read over the last parcel in Latine to Francis Pucci after he had in very penitent sort thanked God confessed himself an offender as he was here noted c. E. K. He is here again URIEL ..... Your Penance and Devotion premised The blessing of God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in his everlasting truth and light comfort you blesse you and be merciful unto you Δ Amen URIEL ..... Extingue lumen Nam decedo Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti aeterno Lucis Veritatis Authori sit omnis laus gratia actio honor gloria nunc sine fine Amen Anno 1585 Augusti 6 PRAGAE Actionis Puccianae posterior pars Videns E. K. nubem jam recessisse conspexit ut supra URIELIS caput quasi in 〈◊〉 alium vidit Angelum cujus pars inferior nube ignea continebatur Capitis veri capilli circa hameros sparsi orachia nuda apparebant Dextra autem Librum tenebat quadrata figura tegmine quasi ignito 〈◊〉 colore velatim Foliorum verò exterior margo albicans erat Septem retinaculis quasi totidem seris clausus esse liber videbatur Atque super retinaculorum ora sigilla quasi aurea impressa
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
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
despised and withall was urged with replies to the contrary by him made and promises in that case of the loss of his souls health if they were not of God Whereunto upon as it were some farther taste of them or opinion grounded upon the frailty of zeal he ceased not also to pawn unto me his soul c. which his perswasions were the chief and onely cause of my this so long proceeding with them And now also at this instant and before a few dayes having manifest occasion to think they were the servants of Sathan and the children of darkness because they manifestly urged and commanded in the name of God a Doctrine Damnable and contrary to the Laws of God his Commandements and Gospel by our Saviour Christ as a Touchstone to us left and delivered did openly unto them dislike their proceeding and brotherly admonished the said Worshipful and my good friend Mr. JOHN d ee to beware of them And now having just occasion to determine what they were to consider all these things before mentioned by me and wisely to leave them and the rather because of themselves they as that by their own words appeareth upon our not following that Doctrine delivered gave unto us a Quietus est or pasport of freedome But the Books being brought forth after some discourse therein after a day or two had and their words perused spoken heretofore did as it were because of the possible verity thereof Deo enim omnia sunt possibilia gave us cause of further deliberation so that thereby I did partly of my self and partly by the true meaning of the said Mr. d ee in the receiving of them as from God and after a sort by the zeal I saw him bear unto the true worship and glory of God to be as that was by them promised by us promoted descend from my self and condescend unto his opinion and determination giving over all reason or whatsoever for the love of God But the women disliked utterly this last Doctrine and consulting amongst themselves gave us this answer the former actions did nothing offend them but much comforted them and therefore this last not agreeing with the rest which they think to be according to the good will and wholesome Law of God maketh them to fear because it expresly is contrary to the Commandement of God And thereupon desiring God not to be offended with their ignorance required another action for better information herein in the mean vowing fasting and praying Mrs. d ee hath covenanted with God to abstain from the eating of fish and flesh untill his Divine Majesty satisfie their mindes according to his Laws established and throughout all Christendome received To this their request of having an action I absolutely answer that my simplicity before the Highest is such as I trust will excuse me And because the summe of this Doctrine given in his name doth require obedience which I have as is before written offered I think my self discharged And therefore have no farther cause to hazzard my self any more in any action Wherefore I answer that if it be lawful for them to call this Doctrine in question it is more lawful for me to doubt of greater perril considering that to come where we are absolutely answered were folly and might redound unto my great inconvenience Therefore beseeching God to have mercy upon me and to satisfie their Petitions doubts and vows I finally answer that I will from this day forward meddle no more herein 22. of April 1587. By me EDWARD KELLY. Aprilis 24. Trebonae Δ. PRayers to God made in respect of this strange and new doctrine requiring his Divine Majesty to be merciful unto us and to give us wisdom and faith that we may herein please him and that we cannot finde how we may do the thing required being contrary to the Laws of Moses Christ his Church and of all Nations Therefore seeing God is not contrary to himself we desired that we might not be contrary to him or his Laws c. Δ. Not long lo there appeared a great flame of fire in the principal Stone both standing on the Table before E. K. which thing though he told me I made no end of my Prayer to God And behold suddenly one seemed to come in at the south window of the Chappel right against E. K. But before that the stone was heaved up an handful high and set down again well which thing E. K. thought did signifie some strange matter toward Then after the man that came in at the window seemed to have his nether parts in a cloud and with spred-abroad arms to come toward E. K. At which sight he shrinked back somewhat and then that Creature took up between both his hands the stone and frame of gold and mounted up away as he came E. K. catched at it but he could not touch it At which thing being so taken away and at the sight thereof E. K. was in a great fear and trembling and had tremorem cordis for a while But I was very glad and well pleased ¶ Here appeareth a fire in this other stone also and a man in the fire with flaxen hair hanging down upon him and is naked unto his Paps and seemeth to have spots of blood upon him He spake and said as followeth If I had intended to have overthrown you or brought you to confusion or suffered you to be led into temptation beyond your strength and power then had the Seas long ago swallowed you Yea there had not a soul lived amongst you But the law and tidings to mankind of gladness are both grounded in me I am the Beginning and the Ending And behold happy is he that delighteth in me for in me is truth and understanding Whatsoever you have received you have received of me and without me you have received nothing Behold I my self was even the figure of misery and death for your sins Why therefor disdain you to be figured after me I will gather the four quarters of the earth together and they shall become one And as I have made you the figure of two people to come and amongst them the executors of my Justice So likewise have I sanctified you in an holy Ordinance giving you the first fruits of the time to come Happy is he that is a Serpent in the wilderness hanged up upon the Cross being the will and figure of my determination and Kingdom to come I am even in the doors and I will overthrow all flesh I will no more delight in the sons of men * Contrary to my self I teach you nothing For this Doctrine is not to be published to mortal men but is given unto you to manifest your faith and to make you worthy in the sight of the heavens for believing in me of your vocation to come Therefore I say unto you Rejoyce and be not careful for to morrow for I even I have provided for you Sin no more
400 Dollers yearly Gah S diu The Spirits of the fourth Angle are Δ It is yet a mystery to what book these and such words have relation they are in every Call following That word thou hast not it is Acam E. K. Like a cloud covereth between me the things in the air Δ 6 2 Sapáb That is Af that word have not there Peral you want that word Nal. ... E. K. 〈◊〉 came between E.K. His eyes and the shew-stone E. K Now all the 〈◊〉 are bowed downward E. K. Clouds Fortè sic E. K. Clouds * Dwelling in the rightenesse of the heavens as continual comforters Nal ..... Δ 5 1 C. al that you have not The ninth Nal ..... That is P. you have not mark the mysterie 5 Δ 9 West Nal. ..... 〈◊〉 And that you have not Δ. I understand the end of this earth c. 4 Δ 8 Ol. That you have not That is Daox that you have not 〈◊〉 ..... That you have not Nal. ..... Math. you have it not 6 10 Mian ..... ob ..... That you have not Δ 8 12 Δ 7 11 There is no language for these words in the Call At large Darg ..... Of the first flame Sons Daughters Nal .... Ol .... Nal ..... Quar. Nal ..... or extreaam Justice Δ 10 14 Nalvage Δ 9 13 Eran 18 14 Δ This is the 14 25 I received them in the holy Language Emod Stretch forth Δ 12 16 Faxs Faxes or Faxis to be sounded I find in the Call Taxs. I finde also in some words T or F indifferently used Δ. 13. 17 We have no more now Hora 12. NOTE Note the third of the third Book which is the seventh from the beginning is not yet Englished Vide post Julii 11. hora 4. There is the Call Englished NOTE The great and peculiar mercies of God shewed on us Genes 27. Up and be gone Stephen Bather King of Poland Note of the death of the righteous now and then Flee But 10. dayes Particular Temptations Provide for this Journey Spiritus Sanctus Be gone Enoch The Book confirmed Nal. Ave. It is a king of slate-stone 50 Dayes labour 〈◊〉 his prayer to God One Creatour of all things A Seer The Call of Angels Δ There were no Kings in 〈◊〉 his time Consider therefore how to ask this doubt of this phrase prophetical In 〈◊〉 I find cap. 8. that unjudged Nations had Kings long before Saul his time Therefore there might be some in Enoch his time or he prophesied of them * Ave. That is to say thrice a day Thrice a day What is meant by the phrase or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in respect of good Angels De secundo adventu Christi Wednesday following The Curtain appeared straight way At four of the Clock after noon NOTE 〈◊〉 Δ. He is one of sigillum Dei one of the Septenarii whereof Ave and ... are The Translation of the Call into English Many enemies bodily and ghostly Ile .... Ni That you have not Vide Supra Thursday at four of the Clock afternoon Nineteen Calls received The use of these 19 Calls Ilemese Ilemese 〈◊〉 asper 〈◊〉 Note If. Note In the same instant 〈◊〉 Watch-men Keepers 〈◊〉 of the earth kar in palato very much .... Note How this One Call may serve the 30. God his promise fulfilled before August Counsel for preparation The reading of the Book The letters The mysteries of this Book Dwell together 〈◊〉 pene 〈◊〉 Be gone May 21. Mane Et à Meridie per Mapsama ... 27 Junii per A V E. Reg. 1. cap. 15. A. L. His plague threatned Δ. O most mercifull and just God Obedience d ee Is pardoned No more secrets of God to be opened to A. L. 10 Dayes Δ. Fortè Madnesse procured in the K. and he is now recovered Δ. A scourge to follow unto us Lord be mercifull A. L. Conjectura levicula Nota de Anno 88. Societas Jesu Δ. 72 Angels Δ. Vide Apocalypseos cap. 16. sed videtur quod non sequenter ordine veluti quis ex textu judicaret Ast non asseritur hic effusam esse etiamsi saepe olim vindicatum requirebant illi qui sub altari sunt nondum illis erat concessum c. Sic hic dici potest Madimi est ex ordine potestatum * Vide 26. Junii Mater Madimi The Rainbow Apocalips 4. Faith shall hardly be found on the Earth Seven Woes 〈◊〉 Madami my friend This name of God is in Satan his Traiterous information to be taken head of A. L. My wife children and houshold must be moved to Grage Mater Maditni Trinity IF RODOLPHUS Δ. Either E K V 1. 263. speake not this or 〈◊〉 omitted to write it at the first If Dei 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum Δ. de R. The marvellous beginning of this last time Mapsama A paper book to be prepared Jajurandum ad Dee pro A. L. Misericurdia Dei super Δ. Cum Imperore Rod. Prophetia de Δ. * Mathei 7. D. New lessons New books No dicas coram Angels non est Providentia 〈◊〉 siastes cap 5. * Libelli Monadis Hieroglyphicae Theoremate 20. jam ante 20 annos editi * D Δ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Aliquid deest forte The Spirit of Pride This Testimony to be believed upon great displeasure else Heavens of Glory Chastity Angels God to us is the Discloser of his own secrets Humility Vriel hath a Tower to build c. Δ. and E. K. Primus Filius Spiritus Sanctus Desolatio de qua Propheta loquutus est Apocalyps cap. 18. F. Δ. 〈◊〉 Tempus est tacendi tempus est I quendi veluti de 〈◊〉 Christi Matth. 17. B. Marc. 9. B Luc 9. B. 12. A. Constat Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 10. C. Quod in 〈◊〉 audietis predicate super tecta c Luc. 12. * Joel cap. 3. †Fear not †Promise of visitation for the 48. great Calls and the Holy Book wilting and practising * Legissatio manifesta in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichristi eversio per Spiritum SS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epist. 〈◊〉 ad Thess. 2. cap. 2. An Election or Choice offered to Δ. RODOLPHUS Imp. A Vision The Garden of Comfort 1. One of those men saith He meaneth of the first and second which gathered flowers and of the third Respice 〈◊〉 2. 3. Note 〈◊〉 sine qua non causa proxima 〈◊〉 ut differunt 〈◊〉 A defiler of the flowers The Garden of Wisdom Three manner of wise men Fury and Re-Open unto venge Rudelph the Emperour must be made 〈◊〉 of all RUDOLPHUS IMPER 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 6. Uriel ..... His voyce Earth A 〈◊〉 of our choice made Prepare The Promise becometh life God well pleased A new promise to Δ. a Camber vide Anno 1582. 15. Martii * Δ. Fortè intelligit Rolandum infantem meum cui vitam reslituit Deus miraculosè quasi Cracoviae An. 1584. Julii 14. Sed Deus tu nosti quod hoc mihi tam mirum cidetur