Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus, Caesareusque, 1584

MYSTERIORUM PRAGENSIUM Liber Primus, Caesareusque, Anno 1584. Stylo Novo.

Augusti 15. incoeptus ad Omnipotentis Dei Laudem, Honorem, & Gloriam. Amen.

Δ. FIeri potest, quod anni 1588, & aliorum supputatio, initium suum habent ab ipsa die Passionis Christi vel Ascensionis in Caelum. Atque ^[1] hac [〈◊〉], 33, vel 34. anni plures considerari debent: quia tot annorum Christus erat tempore suae passionis, vel ascensionis: Addas igitur annis 1588, 34. & inde emergunt anni 1622. acqueiste numerus propius accedit ad tempus annorum diluvii & Arcae, cujus simisitudinem ^[2] fore circa secundum Christi adventum Scripturae docent:

Vel, cum post creatum Adamum, Anno Mund. 1655, Diluvium Aquae, omnia deleverit viventia: Post Christi, (nostri Adami spiritualis) restitutionem in Caelum, Anno 1655 (qui erit anno 1688.) expectamus Diluvium ignis, quo omnia sunt Immutanda: vel Charitatis & ardoris Christiani magnum futurum specimen.

Non faciet Dominus DEVS verbum, nisi revelaverit Secretum suum ad servos suos, prophetas. Leo rugiet, quis non timebit? Dominus Deus loquucus est: Quis non prophetabit?

Amos, Cap. 3. B.

Nihil mali invenimus in homine isto: Quid si spiritus locutus est ei, aut Angelus? Act. Apost. Cap. 23. C.

Dico enim vobis, quod multi Prophetae, & Reges voluerunt videre, quae vos videtis, & non viderunt: & audire quae auditis, & non audierunt. Lucae 10. E. Matthaei 13. B.

Charissimi, nolite omni Spiritui credere: Sed probate Spiritus si ex Deo sint: quoniam multi pseudoprophetae, exierunt in mundum. In hoc cognoscitur Spiritus Dei. Omnis Spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse, ex Deo est, &c. Johannes Epistola 1. Cap. 4. A.

Quisquis confessus fuerit, quoniam Jesus est filius Dei, Deus in eo manet, & ipse in Deo, &c. Cap. eodem C.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epistola, 1 Cap. 1. b.

Gratias ago Deo meo semper pro vobis, in gratia Dei, quae data est vobis in Christo Jesu, quod in omnibus divites facti estis in illo, in omni verbo & omni scientia (sicut testimonium Christi confirmatum est in vobis) ita ut nihil vobis desit in ulla gracia, Expectantibus revelationem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui & confirmabit vos usque in finem sine crimine, in die Adventus domini nostri Jesu Christi. Fidelis Deus per quem vocati estis in Societatem Filii ejus Jesu Christi Domini nostri, &c. ^[3]

Δ. Noto Revelationem & adventum Christi secundum: deinde confirmationem quae respicit alium adhuc finem temporis: unde de Regno Christi hic in terris, secundum Joannis Apocalypsim, videri possit hic locus aliquem praebere gustum, &c.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epist. 1 cap. 1. D.

Quae stulta sunt mundi, elegit Deus, ut confundat sapientes: & infirma mundi elegit Deus, nt confundat fortia: & ignobilia mundi, & contemptibilia elegit Deus, & ea quae non sunt ut ea quae sunt destrueret, ut non glorietur omnis caro in conspectu ejus. Ex ipso autem vos estis in Christo Jesu, qui factus est nobis sapientia à Deo, & Justicia, & Sanctificatio & Redemptio. Ut, quemadmodum scriptum est. Qui gloriatur, in Domino glorietur.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epist. 1. cap. 2. C.

Nobis autem revelat Dens per Spiritum suum: Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur, etiam profunda Dei, &c. Vide praecedentia & sequentia in eodem capite.

Pragae. Prima Actio, Anno 1584. Wedensday, Augusti 15. Mane horam circiter 9.

Δ. We thanked God for his safe bringing us hither, to the place appointed by him: We desired him to direct us, as the rest of our Action requireth: And thirdly, for the Book with silver leaves, to be prepared, we required instruction, as we were promised.

Anon after E. K. his looking into the Shew-stone, he said, I see a Garland of white Rosebuds about the border of the Stone: They be well opened, but not full out.

Δ. The great mercies of God be upon us: and we beseech him to increase our faith in him, according to his well liking.

E. K. Amen.

E. K. But while I consider these buds better, they seem rather to be white Lillies.

Δ. The eternal God of his infinite mercies, wipe away our blacknesse and sins, and make us pure, and whiter than Snow.

E. K. They are 72 in number: seeming with their heads (alternatim) ^[4] one to bend or hang toward me, and another toward you. They seem also to move circularly toward the East: but very slowly. In the middest of this Circle, appeareth a little fire, of the colour of yern, hot; ready to melt: from which fire to every one of the said lillies, is a fiery beam extended; which beam toward the end, is, of more whitish fiery colour, than it is near the center.

A voice. -... E. K. A voice cometh shouting out from the Lillies, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy: and all the lillies are become on fire; and seem to tumble into that fire. And now they appear again distinctly, as before: And the fire remained in the center still: and the emanation of beams, came from it, still to the foresaid lilly buds.

E. K. I hear a sound, as though it were of many waters, poured or streaming down in the clifts of great Rocks and Mountains: The noise is marvellous great, which I hear coming through the Stone: as it were of a thousand water-mills going together.

A voice. ..... Est.

Another voice. ..... Seemeth to pray over, & quo modo est.

A voice. ..... Male & in summo: & mensuratum est.

E. K. I hear a great roaring, as if it were out of a Cloud, over ones head: most perfectly like a thunder.

Another voice. ..... The Seal is broken.

Another ..... Poure out the sixth Violl that the earth may ^[5] know her self [Viola Sexta.]

These are the dayes of wo, that are spoken of.

E. K. Now I see beyond like a Furnacemouth, as big as 4 or 5 Gates of a City. It seemeth to be a quarter of a mile off: out of the Furnace-mouth seemeth a marvellous smoke or smother to come. By it seemeth to be a great Lake of pitch: and it playeth or simpreth, as water doth, when it beginneth to seethe. There standeth by the pit, a white man, in a white garment tucked up: his face is marvellous fair; he saith very loud.

A white spiritual Creature. ..... Ascend.

E. K. Now there cometh out of the Lake, a thing like a Lion in the hinder parts, and his fore part hath many heads, of divers fashions: and all upon one trunk of a neck. He hath like feathers on his neek. He hath 7 heads: Three on one side, and three on another, and one in the middle: which branch from the neck is longer than the other, and lieth backward to his taile-ward. The white man giveth him a bloody Sword: and he taketh it in his forefoot.

The white man tyeth this Monster his 4 legs with a chain, that he cannot go, but as one shackled, or fettred. Now he giveth the Monster a great hammer, with a seal at that end where the hammer striketh, and the other is fashioned like a hatchet.

The white man said. ..... A horrible and terrible beast .....

E. K. This the white man said with a loud cry.

A voice out of the little fire. ..... Seal him, for two years of the Seven: For, so long is his power.

The Stars, with the Earth, even to the third part, are given unto thee: The fourth part thou shalt leave untouched.

E. K. The white man taketh the hammer, and striketh him in the forehead of that head which is in the middle, and lieth down backward toward his taile.

E. K. Now all this vision is vanished away. The Stone is clear.

E. K. Now Madimi appeareth, and she seemeth to be bigger than she was.

Madimi. ..... The blessing of God the Father, the Son, and (in the Father and the Son) of the Holy Ghost, in power and comfort rest upon you, take hold of you, and dwell with you, that you may be apt to receive the comfort of my childishnesse? and the reward of such Innocents, as my voice beareth witnesse of. You both, the Spirit of God, salute you: which alwayes comforteth the Just, and is the strength and stay of such as are Elected: of whom it is said, Mittam illis Angelum, in Adjutorium.

Δ. Are you Madimi (in the name of Jesus) that I may so note of you?

Mad. ..... I am Madimi, and of that order, wherein the wonders of God are wrought with ^[6] power, with you, as my words are: with my self, as my creation is.

Lo, as I have often ^[7] promised you, so in the time of your necessity and grief, I visit you.

Δ. Thanks be to the Highest.

Mad. ..... Not as the friends of the world do, but as a comforting spirit: exalting the servants of God, and cherishing them with celestial food: But my mother is at hand, which openeth ^[8] unto thee, the will of God. Believe me, many are the woes of the world, and great are the sorrows that are to come: For the Lord prepareth his Rain-bow, and the witnesses of his account: ^[9] and will appear in the heavens to finish all things: and the time is not long.

Blessed are those that believe; for faith shall flee from the Earth, and her dwelling places shall be ^[10] in caves, and unknown mountains, and in parts of the Earth which the Lord hath kept secret for such as shall triumph and rejoyce in the Judgement to come.

1. Wo be to women great with child, for they shall bring forth Monsters.

2. Wo be unto the Kings of the Earth, for they shall be beaten in a Mortar.

3. Wo be unto such as paint themselves, and are like unto the Prince of pride; for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours, and of their own children.

4. Wo be unto the false preachers, yea seven woes be unto them; for they are the teeth of the Beast.

He that hath ears, let him hear. ^[11]

5. Wo be unto the Virgins of the Earth, for they shall disdain their virginity, and they shall become Concubius for Satan, and despise the God of Righteousnesse.

6. [〈◊〉] unto the Merchants of the earth, for they are become abominable: [〈◊〉], they are [〈1 line〉] the earth, and the [〈◊〉] meat of Kings. But they are foolish: [〈◊〉], they shall fall into the [〈◊〉] that they have digged for others.

7. [〈◊◊〉] be vnto the books os the earth, for they are corrupted; and are become a wrasting stock, and ^[12] firebrand to the conscience.

Stay a season, for my mother cometh.

Δ. We read over the premisses, and so conferred of the verity and weight of them. And all [〈◊〉] while Madimi stood still in E. K. his sight (as E K. told me:) But because we were [〈◊〉] to stay, I moved no question: but [〈◊〉] to have some understanding, how my wife and children (at Craecovia) did. Hereupon Madimi said as followeth.

Mad. ..... Hear what I say unto thee [Δ.] The King of darknesse whetteth his teeth against thee, ^[13] and [〈◊〉] with great rage to overwhelm the world upon thee: And he seeketh the destruction of thy [〈◊◊〉], and thirdly thy overthrow: The life of thy Children; yea, he tempteth thy wise with [〈◊〉], and to be [〈◊〉] into her self.

Δ. Why with despair?]

..... But his lips are sealed, and his claws made dull: that when he would bite he cannot: And where he [〈◊〉] the bloud follow to not.

But hear what thy friend sayeth unto thee: Both in her self, and by him that moveth her to speak; As thou art the servant of the God of victory, so shalt ^[14] thou [〈◊〉] in the God of stretchforth and Conquer. Δ. Madzilodarp. ^[15] Thy wife, thy children, thy servants, and more then that, such as favour thee, [〈◊〉] the [〈◊〉] of thy house; are under the protection and defence of such as are of power: against whom, neither the rage of such as raign, neither the fury of Authority (though it hath the help of Satan) can prevail. For why? God hath care over thee: But thy faith is sowewhat lower. Take heed of Satan, he will [〈◊〉] himself unto thee. But beware of him. For, sin, keepeth back ^[16] the power of God, which is oftentimes deferred for another season: Yea, even for the wickednesse of one Soul.

Lasky, I look for, but I see not: [〈◊〉], I [〈◊〉] my eyes after him, and cannot finde him. [〈◊〉] ^[17] he hath [〈◊〉] himself behinde some Mountain, or is creft into a Cave: for he appeareth not.

Δ. I beseech you, what is the cause thereof? Is he not gone from Cracovia?

Mad. ..... Sin is the greatest Mountain, and he rejoyceth when he pleaseth himself: and in the [〈◊〉] of his flesh Crecpeth into a Cave from us.

Lo, I look for him, and cannot see him, yet see all the world over, It is ^[18] a sign that God is not with him.

Δ. I beseech you, is he not gone from Cracovia yet?

Mad. ..... I tell thee, I see him not; I can say nothing of him.

Δ. Lord, our coming hither was to come with him.

Mad. ..... Therefore brought I thee hither, that thou shouldst not tarry with him. Knowest thou not that God is marvellous in his works? Hast thou not heard of his secret judgements? If thou hast, Think he hath care over thee.

For also, thy wife and children, and the rest of thy houshold must be moved ^[19] hither.

Δ. When, I beseech you?

Mad. ..... Let that be my charge to answer thee.

E. K. Now here appeareth a little fire like the same, which appeared before: but it hath no beams from it, as it had before.

Mad. ..... Hic & haec, est Mater mea.

[E. K. Pointing to the fire.]

E. K. She falleth down on her face prostrate: Now she riseth again. ^[20] This fire entreth into her mouth, she is waxen of higher stature then she was, she hath now three faces. ^[21]

Δ. Now it is the vertue of the Trinity in her so represented.

Mad. ..... I. And I have a few things to say, and I say.

E. K. I hear a marvellous noise, as of many Mountains falling.

Mad. ..... Arise, and believe. The time is come, that of the foolish I will make the wise. And of such as are sinfull men, my anointed: if they encline their ear unto my voyce. ^[22]

E. K. The noyse is marvellous: And which of the mouths doth speak, I cannot discern.

Mad. ..... First, thou shalt write unto Rodulphus, as I shall enspire thee. Then shalt thou go ^[23] unto him, saying, That the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto thee. —

[E. K. A great noyse still.]

And rebuketh him for his sins. [I never heard any such noyse: it is as if half the world were rushing down an hill.]

Mad. ..... If he hear thee: Then say unto him, He shall triumph, Fear thee not. ^[24]

If he hear thee not: Say, that, The Lord, the God that made heaven and earth, (under [〈◊〉] he [〈◊〉], and hath his spirit) putteth his soot against his breast.

[E. K. A great noyse still.]

And [〈◊◊〉] him [〈◊◊〉] from his seat. ^[25]

Lo, this (I swear unto thee) I will do. If he forskae his wickednesse, and turn unto me: His seat shall be the greatest that ever was, and the Devil shall become his prisoner.

E. K. There came great flashes of fire out of her, and so out of the stone: and suddenly she was in her former shape again.

Δ. In the name of Jesus.

Mad. ..... Where this voyce entreth, no man hath to say: For it is the beginning, so it is likewise the end.

Therefore enquire not any more now, but cease: For this is the marvellous ^[26] beginning of this last time.

Δ. All thanks, Laud, Honor, Glory, and Empire be to the Eternal, Omnipotent, and our onely God of Heaven and Earth.

Amen.

Thursday, Augusti 16. 1584. Mane, circiter horam 8⅔. † Prage.

Δ. [〈◊〉] finitis, I propounded, as concerning the book to be prepared for the Angelical writing, &c. And because Mapsama had dealt about that point: Therefore I required at God his hands, the Ministery of Mapsama herein: if it were his will.

E. K. Here is Madami.

Δ. Blessed be the God of Heaven and Earth, who regardeth the sincere intent of his silly ones.

Mad. ..... When seed time is past, who soweth his Corn? Or what is he amongst men that calleth back the Sun a minute? So may it be said of you, which were [〈◊〉] in sowing, and therefore have let passe the benefit of time, wherein your seed might have multiplied. Behold, your labours are in vain, in respect of that you might have received.

..... For August is past with you the first day: And Mapsama wanteth, not by himself, but ^[27] through your negligence: whose fingers wrought, and made an end of anothers work, which was tied to time.

Nalvage was beaten back from you: But you consider not his conflict, neither thank God for that he hath finished for you: with whom [Nalvage] now, you have no power. For the Receiver and Giver for that time, were of time.

But to the entent that the Heavens may agree, (because they are the light of him, which is the ^[28] light of his father) I say unto thee that thou must prepare, of fair, and decent paper, a book. To the entent, that the paper it self may bear witnesse against you: and receive that, which should have been printed in Gold.

Δ. God he knoweth, and the Heavens, that I did the best I could, to have had the book silvered.

Mad. ..... It is so: I will bear witnesse with thee. But where the watch-men sleep, and do not their duety: Theft taketh place, and the enemies make havock.

The sins of Lasky are not a few; yea, they are such as have brought in the Prince of Thieves, which had prevailed: But God was watch-man at the inner doors. For, he doubted of thy faith, and laughed God to skorn. But hear the voice of him that sitteth: Leapers and desited people use not to carve at a Kings Table: for when his Carvers become Leapers, they are not: because they are expelled.

Even so into my Chambers, and secret judgements entreth not the Incredulous, Proud, and Skornfull sinners. But because he became worse then a Leaper, I banished him out of my Chambers, for I am more then a King.

Notwith sanding, because I have sworn unto thee for him, I will suffer him ^[29] to be exalted: But in the midst of his Triumph he shall fall, as a proud Tree doth, whose roots are uncertain.

And because thou hast believed me, and hast not murmured against me, I will be ^[30] just with thee, And with this Emperour shall be thy aboad. And through thy mouth shall spring a Cedar-Tree, whose top shall touch the Moon, and branches cover the beasts of the field, the birds of the Aire; yea, and a part of the Seas. Because thou hast taken pains for me, I will deal justly with thee, and reward thee.

The sons of wickednesse are proud, because of their promotion; are stout, because of their Kingdoms and Tominions: But they must fall, because their building doth stand on ^[31] sand.

Do my Commandment, be not afraid.

For I have new lessons to teach thee, and new books to open, such as have been sealed in the wildernesse. ^[32]

E. K. She is gone.

Δ. As concerning the Letter to be written unto Rodolphus, O Lord, I would gladly know the Argument, and when I should send it.

A voyce. ..... Incipienti, dabitur.

Δ. I understand this thus: That, when I begin to write it shall be inspired from God, as was said before.

A voyce. ..... Cease.

Δ. Deo Nostro Immortali, Invisibili, & Omnipotenti, sit omnis honor, Laus & Gloria: Nunc & semper.

Amen.

Friday, Augusti 17. Mane. † Pragae.

Δ. Because I would make no delay, for the Letter writing to the Emperour Rodolphus, I framed my self to write, beseeching God that I might so write, as might be sufficient for the purpose, &c. And thus I wrote as followeth.

Omnipotentis Nostri Creatoris (hristianorum omnium Imperatorum faelicissime, O Rudolphe) ^[33] tam est hominibus incognita illa, quae cuncta disponit perficitque PROVIDENTIA, rataque ipsa rerum series & coordinatio (à primo ad ultimum) quòd à plerisque, temerè, [〈◊〉], vel casu, hoc illove evenire modo, existimentur omnia, quae extra praeterve suorum Consilior m [〈◊◊〉], fieri conspiciant. [〈◊〉] quibus est mens [〈◊〉] veritatis lumine collustrara, & ad multiplices longisque intervallis distinctas rerum consecutiones considerandas, attention, evidentissimè deprehenden illi quidem, Quae, quibus praecurrisse, tanquam causas, [〈◊〉] necessarias, also priori, & interdum longe diversissimo, tempore, oportuerat. Atque ut varietatem nunc omittam exemplorum, (quae, ex aliorum hominum inter se collatis vitis, conditionibus, factisque adferre possim,) Exemplum satis conspicuum hoc unicum fieri possit: Nimirum illa, (incredibilis ferè) quae inter sacram Caesaream Majestatem vestram, & humillimum (in Deo) Mancipium me vestrum (ex multiplicibus utrinque praecurrentibus occasionibus) jam quasi instare videtur, In unum (idemque admirandum quid) Combinatio, Divinaque conspiratio. Ambiverunt me (Juvenem) Illustrissimi Imperatores duo: Victoriosissimus ille Carolus Quintus, & ejusdem Frater Ferdinandus, vestrae Caesareae Majestatis Magnificentissimus Avus. Hic, Posonii, Hungariae: ille verò, Bruxellae, Brabantiae. Hic, An. 1563. Ille autem, Anno 1549. Ast clementissimum Imperatorem Maximilianum, Caesareae vestrae Majestatis Patrem (Immortali glora dignum) jam [〈◊〉] Hungariae coronatum Regem, (invitissimo quidem ipso Tyranno Turcico) eodem in Posonio, eodemque, Anno 63. in deliciis habere coepi: [〈◊〉] sque rarissimas virtutes, cum fideliter colere, tum posteritati easdem reddere commendatissimas, opere quodam conabar Hieroglyphico. Quo etiam in labore exantlando, animus mihi [〈◊〉], Austriacae ^[34] familiae; alium fore aliquando aliq em, in quo maxima mea spes, & [〈◊〉] Christianorum [〈◊〉], Res, confirmaretur, (vel [〈◊〉] poterit,) Optima, Maximaque. Vestrae igitur Caesareae Majesti, In peratorum Romanorum (ex Austriacorum Principum nobilissima familia) mea aetate florentium, QUARTO: Adsum, & ego, Triplicis Alphabeti, litera ^[35] Quarta. Atque ita [〈◊〉], ut me ipsum ad pedes Caesareae Majestis vestrae demissè osculandos offeram: plurimùm gavisurus, si qua in re, Christianae Reipublicae Imperatori tanto, talique, gratus, utilisve esse potero.

Vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestati, soli, si haec aliquandi u constare patiemini (neminique detegere velitis) rem facietis valde necessariam.

Superscriptio erat haec.

Screnissimo ac potentissimo Principi ac Domino Domino Rudolpho, Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto, ac Germaniae, Hungariae, Bohemiae, &c. Regi, Archiduci Austriae, Duci Burgundiae Stiriae Carinthiae, &c. Comiti Tyrolis, &c. Domino meo clementissimo.

Pragae, An. 1584. Augusti 17. Caesareae Majestis Vestrae Humillimus & fidelissimus Clientulus

Joannes Dee.

Monday, † Pragae, Augusti 20. Mane circa horam 7.

Δ. Precibus ad Deum fusis, ex more nostro, &c.

1. I propounded: If the letter written for Rodolphus, were as it should be?

2. Secondly, because we were willed to invite the good Angels, for the book writting, I asked how we should invite them?

3. As concerning our wives, and my familly sending for: I required, when that should be done?

Δ. Quickly apparition was made.

E. K. Here is Vriel.

Δ. Welcome be the light of the Highest.

VRIEL. ..... Wo be unto the world: for her light is taken away. Wo, wo be unto man, for the eye of light hath for saken him. Wo, wo be to the understanding of man, for it is led out, with a threefold spirit, ^[36] the spirit of errour and ignorance. And wo be unto such as believe not the glorious and supereminent light of this Testimony: for they are not written with the life, neither shall their portion be with the living.

Thus saith he that is a mere stone, ( which sitteth between the seat of light and darknesse) whose wings are great, and more than mighty: wherewith he gathereth the Stars, and the powers that hang upon the firmament of the first and lesser light: placing them and powering them, in the Spirit of Truth; and through his own power, the power of the word, whereby all things are, and are comprehended: in that he is as well in the heavens of Glory, Chastity, and Message, as also in ^[37] places unknown to us.

Behold, those that dig into Nature with dull Mattocks, and dull Spades, are such, as of every congeled substance can imagin, but not judge: are foolish, and of the world: whose imaginations, are become the instruments of vanity, and the piercers of him which is the father of ignorance. Wo be unto them, for their disputations and doctrines, are dogma's and dull. Wo, wo unto them, for they are such as please themselves, and are become fathers to many lewd children: of whom it is written, They are become stiff-necked and proud, and the followers of their father. Therefore have I gathered my self together, and am hidden from them; because they are proud and haters of innocency. These teach not unto you a doctrine, neither are you partakers of their Bankets; for the Spirit of God, is plain, pure, and most perfect. These breath not upon you, neither are the Ornaments of your Garlands enterlaced by these: But by him are you lifted up, that is the God of Justice, and the Discloser of his own secrets: and the headlong drawer of things to an end. ^[38]

Therefore believe, and dream not with the world: For the world shall perish, and all her adherents: and shall be cast into the pit of wo everlasting. Read the Scriptures, and understand them: but wrast them not, with the wicked. Look into the simplicity, and nakednesse of God his Promise.: View the innocency of some that received them, And let not the wickednesse of those that the Lord made vertuous, go out of your remembrance. But so Triumpheth true power, so gathereth he himself together to discomfort the Serpent: Of the lightest he maketh the heaviest, and of the weakest the strongest: And in the weakest vessels, worketh he his mercy. And why? Behold, lest the world, in her proud imaginations, in the ornaments of her pearls, and most pretious wits, should brag, saying, I can compare with the Lord. Hear my voice, for it is of God. The world bringeth forth no good thing, neither are the doings of man accepted; but where the spirit of humility ^[39] dwelleth. Out of the depth of darknesse, hath God made light: And lo, the light is great, and the darknesse comprehendeth it not. So, in the weakest will he be exalted.

The Spirit that speaketh unto you, is he that hath a Tower to build, a strong Tower and a mighty; yea such a one, as hath not been from the beginning: No, not from the beginning. Great is the foundation ^[40] thereof; for, it is of Iron; But greater are her walls; for they are of Diamond. Most great are her Turrets; for they are the seven Heads, that behold, judge, and gather: And they are made of Truth, the Spirit of Eternity. Vnto the laying of every stone, are you made privy, ^[41] And for this Tower are you provided.

1. For lo, the first hath appeared, and shewed himself mightily. ^[42]

2. And the second hath redeemed, and overcome Satan.

3. And lo, the third appeareth, and shall visibly shew the power of God to all Nations.

For Now cometh the Desolation of the World, And the fall of her pride. And this is the last ^[43] Rod that measureth, and shall be broken: For it is said, Now will I hear you from under the Altar, Now will I revenge the blood of your brethren.

O you ignorant, and of weak faith: Know you not the times that are to come? O you that spit out the meat of comfort: yea when it is put lovingly into your mouths. Why are you sorrowfull? Why rejoyce you not, that the God of Justice is girded, and hath whetted his sword, upon a thousand thousand Mountains of fire? Why laugh you not the world to scorn? and deride her fornication? weep not upon her; for she is accursed: Neither wonder at her; for she will be more wonderful.

You have received this Doctrine in Chambers, and in secret ^[44] places: But it shall stand in the great City: and upon 7 Hills, and shall establish her self in truth: Purifie the walls, and sweep out the dust and cobwebs (the works of the venemous) that it may be cast into the River, and brought into no remembrance.

Yea, it shall sit in ^[45] Josaphat, in Judgement, against the wicked, and shall become a fire engendred in the cave of Thunders. Therefore, When you are commanded, lift up your heads, and ^[46] fear not: for whom, the Heavens shall fight.

But in your selves be patient, and continue to the end: That your Crowns may exceed the Garlands of the Earth.

Thus saith the Lord, Lo, I have promised thee, that my Angel shall ^[47] visit thee: And so it shall be. But if I now visit thee, Thus will the world say hereafter; Lo, he hath fained a Doctrine for himself. Lo he excelleth in subtilty. When I gave my laws, they were not secret; neither was the place unsanctified. When the Comforter cometh, girdeth himself against the son of ^[48] wickednesse; Then must you be known, and seen unto the Earth.

But I will give thee the choice: Chuse therefore, whether thou wilt banket Now: because I have ^[49] promised thee: Or tarry, till I see the time more convenient; For lo, if Rodolph, hearken unto my voice, He shall wonder, and rejoyce with thee: And I will exalt him, above the Kings of earth.

Stay a while: I come again.

Δ. After he had stayed a while, and read over the premisses, and talked of the manner of the Choice or Election offered: and the dealing with Rudolph: we thought good to beseech God to regard his promise, for his glory and honour, and we most humbly to thank him that he would offer a choice to me a man of no worthinesse, nor wisdom: therefore most desirous to be entred speedily into the School of Wisdom, wherein we might grow, and attend the opportunities of any thing to be done or said by us; So that (if it were his will) we were, and are desirous now to be visited, as his most merciful promise importeth.

E. K. Now Vriel is here; he hath a Chair, and is set down in it: ^[50] It is like a Throne..

Here I see a green Hill: and I see thereon three men, like learned men, in Gowns of puke-colour: they have Hats on their heads. Vriel hath in his hand a thing like a rolling-pin (of half an ell long) of Gold.

I see beyond the men, a very fair Park, enclosed with pale, piked, &c. ^[51] I see Roses and Lillies, and goodly Flowers in one part of it, and fair running waters in it, and little Hills, and all manner of Birds: And in the middle of the Park, is a turret, and in the top of that, a round thing like a Stone, which giveth light all the Park over: but without the Park pale, it is duskish or dark. These three men stand together upon the pitch of the bank of the Hill that goeth down toward Vriel.

There appear three diverse fair wayes to the Park, two from the Hill where the men stand, and one from the place about Vriel.

1. I see one man walk in the Park, und he picketh Flowers, and putting them to his mouth, they smoke, as the smoke of the snuff of a candel when the candle is put out.

2. I see likewise another man gathering of Flowers there, and he would put the Flowers to make them stick on his Coat, but they will not hang on but fall down, it is so bare.

3. I see a third man, who hath his Robes all belayed with lace of gold, great and small, and divers pretious Stones, and on his head a wreath like a Garland, very broad beset with very beautiful pretious Stones: and he trimmeth himself all over with the flowers of the Park or Garden, Now the three men are come from the Hill, before Vriel his seat.

..... I most humbly beseech you that I may have accesse into the Garden of Comfort. ^[52]

Uriel. ..... You shall: I am contented.

E. K. Now they three go toward the Garden of Comfort: they point one to another, and seem to talke one with another. They go in the path which leadeth from him [Vriel] toward the Park.

Uriel. ..... These are Wise men, for they shall escape the danger of the [Δ] first and the second, ^[53] and shall live as the [Δ] third in comfort and pleasure: For behold, Those which have entred, and now shall enter, have deserved their reward.

But some there be that enter, and respect not the end; and such shall they be as he is, which defileth the flowers.

E. K. Now here cometh a man from the Park-ward, and meeteth those three men, and giveth them three very rich garments: they putoff their former garments, and put on those rich and beautiful garments.

Uriel. ..... Othersome there be, and go the middle way, because it is the next and straightest, ^[54] and those be such as enter with their own ornaments, which are very poor and bare, and upon whose garments can hang no pleasure.

Some there are that enter [1] from me (for without me none entreth into that Garden) and ^[55] because I am the light of him that lighteth by Creation, therefore is there a way perfect, and beareth testimony from me, whereby they are thought worthy, and are [2] apparelled for that place of pleasure, and so worthily enter.

Lo they enrich themselves, being made rich with the beauty of so pleasant flowers: and they alwayes drink of the water of wisdom to their comfort and continuance. Blessed is be that so entreth.

1. He that defileth the flowers, was worthy to enter into our Garden: but because he came not ^[56] hither to my Throne, and so took the way descending from the Hill, [to [〈◊〉]] and brought into the Garden of Wisdom, his worldly apparel; which, lo, is alwayes as a mist between him and true wisdom, yet he thinketh himself satisfied.

2. He whose coat is bare, was also worthy: But because he thought himself worthy, and visited not my seat, he took the middle way, where are no ornaments: Therefore he brought in his own nakednesse which is so thredbare, that the flowers fall off it, as from a marble stone, and the waters glideth of it, as from the back of a Falcon.

Behold, I sit: happy are those, that come unto me.

Lo, you see, you may become wise; with the [1] Cloudy, wise with the [2] bare; and wise with ^[57] those that are [3] advanced; and dwell in true wisdom.

The Gate that thou shalt enter into, is a fire of fury, and of revenge: ^[58]

But be it unto thee, as thy Election is. Even from the beginning, nakedly. Rudolph, the manner of Gods visitation: Shew unto him the holy Vision: for I will make thee unto ^[59] him an hand, an arm, yea an half body. Yea I will be merciful unto him, and seal him for my self: and he shall be thy comfort. I will put my fear into him, and he shall be afraid to sin, and he shall become a rod to those that are sinful.

Happy are those, whose works are a hope; and whose faith deserveth the aid of my light. This is of God, and I am the finger. Happy are those that are directed by me. For, in me is the true path and light of direction.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ. As concerning this Gate (lastly spoken of) whereinto I must enter, that it is a fire of [〈◊〉], and of revenge: O Lord, I am afraid, if that phrase be of any displeasure to me: for I referred my Election to the will of God, as was for his honour and glory to be granted: And I have long made Petition to God for your help, and I desire nothing that should make the highest offended with me. But perhaps the service of God wherein I am to serve him now, (with his Talent of wisdom to be imparted to me) consisteth in the execution of the Justice of God, with a furious and revenging fire, as under the Altar they lie, and cry for, &c. ^[60]

..... Thou hast said —

Δ. All Laud, Honor, and praise be unto the Almighty, wise, and our most mercifull God: now, and ever.

Amen.

Tuesday, 21. Augusti: Ante Meridiem horam Circiter 9. † Pragae. Precibus finitis, & invito Vriele ut nos illuminaret, dirigeret, consolaretur, &c.

E. K. Vriel is here, and about his head at a little distance, is a bright part of a Circle like a Rain-bow, &c.

Δ. We propounded unto you yesterday (O you faithfull messager of the highest) as concerning this letter, how it is liked: when it is to be sent, and by whom, &c.

Uriel. ..... O earth, how great a Monster art thou, and how great is thy wickednesse, which makest ^[61] dull mans capacity, and carriest him away into an obscure and rash sense? Not without a cause art thou hated with the highest; yea, not without a cause are thy Garments made short.

My brethren, how long will you be grievous to the Lord, how long (I say) will you be without understanding.

O, how long will you consider your own commodities, and neglect the harvest of the Lord?

[Δ. I understand nothing of the occasion of these speeches.]

Uriel. ..... But behold, for you have chosen unto your selves a visitation, and have broken the visitation of the Lord. ^[62]

For when you were commanded you went not, and unto your selves you chuse dayes for advantage: Well, I say, Take your choice and become wise: for I am ready to deliver. I say, prepare your selves, and be ready: But I fear me, (yea, I know it) that you will become ^[63] foggy and misty. Notwithstanding thus sayeth the Lord: Since you will become wise, Chastise your self for a few dayes, and abstain, and you shall see that I am a God that can visit, and mightily: I am not man, that my promises may not be, neither speak I of any thing that liveth not, for I am ^[64] light, and the breath of understanding. Because you have followed my Commandments (yet some of you obstinately, and rather, as reprehenders then obedient servants) I will put a snaffle unto Satan, and unto his Ministers, and thou shalt sit in judgement against the wicked: For I will multiply thee, and thy houshold: And of thy seed; yea, even of thy seed, will I finder out a Camber, ^[65] and will root out a people, which I have long favoured. And for this cause spared ^[66] I him unto thee, for unto him that loveth me, will I be a just rewarder. The branches of the wicked do I cut off, and make worse then the Asses dung: But unto the faithfull will I send honour, and a Crown of rejoycing.

Hui, who is he, that I cannot reward him? Or where dwellest thou, (in Heaven, or in Earth) that art, and rejoycest not by me? If thou follow my Commandments, and I once begin to love thee?

I have told thee that I will place thee here.

[Δ. In this Citie.] ^[67]

Uriel. ..... Not as a Citizen, but as an owner of many houses. But take heed, thou be be just to me, and do what I command thee.

Δ. Lord thou knowest my heart, help, and supply my wants.

Uriel. ..... Behold, the Corn is not ripe, neither are the Grapes red, nor the Sun hath not yet seasoned ^[68] them; Therefore, yet, need I not Stewards, but Overseers: And as yet, Laborers are to me as shadows. Because, not yet, no, not yet is the time of my visitation: therefore he that bringeth his Syckle now, must not reap for me, but must rejoyce in himself. Happy is he that tarrieth the Lord, least afterward the doors be shut, and the feast at an end. All wisdom (and sciences comprehended in wisdom) that worketh for himself, is of the world: But the wisdom that I give, I give openly, and without reproach: that I also rejoyoing in the wisdom [〈◊〉] be gl rified, and exalted with a Diademe of honour. When Sodom cried for vengeance, had I it not ready? Could not I from heaven have consumed them with the breath of my own mouth? I, in my self know it, and am witnesse: But lo, in the pride of their filthinesse I had regard to time: And (that it might ^[69] be known to all Nations) licensed my Angels, and gave them power: And lo, then made a promise ^[70] unto all Nations that they should be blessed in Abraham: even the same moneth that I destroyed the Sodomites. These things did I, as unto Noe: and unto Seth, whom I l ved: I made them privy of time to come, and opened unto them my judgements: because the world should be justly condemned. After the same manner made I a promise unto you: Lo, after the same manner have I called you ^[71] to counsel. But you have chosen the lowest, and have refused the highest places, and have regarded your own comforts, and not my visitation. I commanded thee not to go into the woods, and to fetter Wolves: neither to saw the Tygers teeth. I delivered you not unto the wicked, neither suffered I them to rejoyce over you: But I have brought you from death, and from the dayes of lamentation, and have dealt with you as faithfull brethren do in their divisions: Not that I forget my self, but that I would be magnified, and that you might see your wildnesse, and naked rashnesse: Many are there upon the earth, which would have burst with gladnesse, and have rent their Garments in pieces. If I had touched them with the least of these Counsels (so I call them, because they are my secrets) Is it not sufficient that I have brought you [^[72].] hither fafe? Have promised you a sure help?

Lo, you wrast me, for what is he of the world, to whom I shall confirm letters?

[Δ. This is spoken in respect of God his judgement required of the letter.]

They grieve me, because they are the doings of man: O man, let man answer unto thee, and let it suffice thee, that the mark whereat thou shootest is in my hand.

My work is not a work of hours nor dayes. But when I command, do speedily. When the ^[73] Thunders fall from Heaven, and burn up the Earth, scale her face, and leave her naked. Then, Then, will you believe.

Behold, He that is a man, being new born, is accounted a Monster.

Is it not written? Lo, the Lord looked from heaven in his visitation, and in the midday, and groaned upon her, for she had vexed him. Happy is he that is ready when he visiteth: That which I command, let it be done. For when the Kings of the earth, say, do this: They play not also the parts of their servants and subjects, but lo, it is done. Suffer me (I pray yo) to have that favour.

Δ. Deo Nostro Misericordi, Pio, & Justo, sit omnis Honor, Laus & Gloria.

Amen.

Tuesday, 21 Augusti. † Pragae.

After Dinner as we [E. K. and Δ.] were in my Study, and conferring of my choise, and very sorry that we had made our choise not of the best: E. K. saw Vriel in the stone, which yet stood unput up: and said, he had seen him there ever since we began: So coming to the stone he said as followeth.

Uriel. ..... Murmur not amongst your selves: But rejoyce and be glad, and sound into the greatnesse of Gods mercies, which beareth all your weaknesse, and leadeth you through the foggy and perilous mists of your daily temptations even by the hand: And now, not onely giveth, but also exhorteth. I speak with you as a man. Yea, let me speak with you as a man: You are opprest with sin, and with the world, and are not yet apt for the visitation of God. ^[74]

My brethren, God hath dealt mercifully with you, hath opened unto you these three wayes desirous

Δ. In malevolam animam non introibit sapientia, nec habitabit in corpore subdito peccatis, Ecclesiastes, cap. 1.

[E. K. He speaketh other language, I understand not.]

..... That one of you might have entred into the highest Gate. ^[75] And why? Because the workman might be able, and correspondent unto the work, and time (of the Lord) to come. God hath done may great things for you: but you will not see them. Tarry awhile till I come again.

E. E. He is gone beyond a thing like a Hill.

Δ. After half a quarter of an hour he came again.

E. K. He hath a pair of Tables in his hand, made as of white bone: and therein are many names written orderly, one under another.

E. K. If I thought this to be of God, and this to be Vriel indeed, it were another matter: but their too much familiarity maketh me doubt.

Δ. The old saying is true in you, Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.

Uriel. ..... Believe me, by Heaven and Earth, I am true Uriel.

E. K. He hath another Book holden unto him, by one standing by him, who is like a shadow.

Uriel. ..... Give ear, say and chuse: for after this time, there is no choice. ^[76]

Dee, thy age and continuance in this world, in flesh, according to the finger, and second proportion, which you call Nature, is 73 years and a half: and here it is [Δ. pointing to the other Book.]

E. K. He that is like a shadow openeth the Book; it seeming to be of yern or steel. In which Book appeareth divers names, as Bamasan, Corsax, Tohomaphala, &c.

[Δ. They seemed to be the names of good Angels proper to peculiar men.]

Uriel. ..... Thou [E. K.] dost more than thou art commanded. Yet, cease a while.

[Δ. Because he [E. K.] read these names.

E. K. He spreadeth a thing like a Cloud before them.

E. K. Now he appeareth again, and the other with him.

E. K. Sudsamna appeareth in the Book, and against it 46. ^[77]

Uriel. ..... So much shalt thou [E. K.] live by nature, and die violently.

E. K. Now he is covered again.

E. K. Now he is here again.

E. K. Aflafben standeth written in that Book, and 73 with a prick over the upper part of the figure 3.

E. K. The Book is very big and full of names, and numbers against them: the leaves are very thin.

E. K. Now Vriel openeth his book himself; And there appeareth ^[78] against Aflafben, 122. And against Sudsamna appeareth 87.

Uriel. ..... Beyond the which, you cannot: Notwithstanding this life, is alwayes given by God, or at the [〈◊〉] of some one, or mo, of us his Angels. The other is natural: notwithstanding is shortened through the sin of man. I am a witness to my self, that these books and words are true.

E. K. Now he is in his Cloud again.

Δ. After a while, they appeared again, as before.

E. K. They look very gravely on their books.

Uriel. ..... Behold my brethren, God is ready to open his merciful store-houses and gates of understanding unto you: But he that liveth for himself, and for the end of this shadow, limiteth his wisdom with this number: and shall both have an end at once: But he that turneth him to ^[79] the wall, and weepeth bitterly, shall enter into this Book: But he must not build his own house, but an house for the Lord; Neither must he be visited by the challenge of promise, but by the meer mercy and good will of God, and at his pleasure and appointment: He that hath understanding let him hear.

Behold, This his pen, is a pen of Steel; But that that I raze withal, is of Gold, and a piercing Instrument. If therefore your visitation shall be after to ^[80] morrow, and that you covet to build (because you are men) Then give your names unto the yern: But if you will remember the Lord, ^[81] and adde any thing unto his building, faithfully, Then vow your names unto me, In the name of him which created you. After this time, there is no choice.

Therefore, consider; for, never before, (but once) was this mystery, and mercy of God opened ^[82] unto man.

E. K. Now he hath drawn the Cloud to him.

Δ. I am not able (O Lord) to give thee condigne thanks for these mercies: But thy will be done: Not as we will, nor as we have rashly and blindly (before) chosen: But this is our choice, to be thy servants all the dayes of our life; and we desire not long life so much, as the favour which addeth those dayes, wherein our faith may be fruitful through thy graces abounding in us. I renounce my former choice, I challenge no promise: But require thee, O God, of thy fatherly goodnesse to be my light, director, staff, strength, defence, and comfort, now and ever, Amen. ^[83]

Uriel. ..... Alwayes call unto me for the Testimony and witnesse of the promise of God, and the remembrance of this day.

E. K. He hath written after the ^[84] numbers in his own Book, Est, Est.

Δ. Ad laudem, gloriam, & honorem Dei, Esto, Esto. ^[85]

Uriel. ..... Now deai with Rodolph. and be not slack: for until thou have talked with ^[86] him, I appear no more.

Thy haste, shall prevent the slander of wicked tongues, whom Satan hath already stirred up against thee.

Δ. I understand of none.

Uriel. ..... It is best thou understand it not at all.

E. K. He putteth a Cloud over all the Stone, like a white wrink'ed Curtain: and so disappeareth.

Δ. But though you appear not, yet of Madimi I may require answer, to know when my wife and children are to be sent for, &c.

E. K. There is no answer given.

Δ. Fiat voluntas Dei, juxta illius beneplacitum: cui omnis laus gloria & gratiarum Actio, nunc & in omne aevum. Amen.

Δ. I received letters from my wife, that she and her children are well. God have the praise and thanks therefore.

Amen.

Friday, Augusti, 24. à Meridie. Pragae.

Being willed to deal with Rodolphus, first by letter, and then by speech: I thought good to send the Letter before written, for the Emperour; by the Noble Don [〈◊〉] de St. Clemente, the King of Spain his Praefectus Negotiorum with this Emperour: and thereupon by Emericus [〈◊〉], the Lord Laskie his Secretary, I wrote this to the aforesaid Don Clemente, and sent it this Bartholomew Day.

EA est hominum in terris conditio (Nobilissime vir) ut sibi soli nullus natus esse videatur: Immò neque sibi ullus omnia sponce nascenria, vel ultro ab aliis oblata, quae sibi maximè sunt necessaria recipiat. Mucuae inde hominum emerserunt societates, mutuae amicitiae, mutuae operae, Mutua dona, Rerum commutatio, & emptionis, rerumque venditionis contractus: Aliique diversi hominum existunt status, unde hominum inter homines, & cum hominibus multiplicia procurantur officia, commerciaque. Neque omnium istorum, sola est utilitas vel (quae [〈◊〉]) voluptas, scopus ille, vel finis, quem attingere conantur & student: Sed aliud aliquibus, est propositum quod Divinius quidem est, quod virtutem vel Honestatem nominare possumus; quae caelitus [〈◊〉], hominum informet mentes & orner, sibique coaptet: Adeo ut sedibus illas reddat celestibus dignas. Illud, illud, ergo est Illustrissime vir quod excellentiam vestram tam mihi pridie reddid [〈◊〉], benignam & perhumanam; Illud est quod vestram refricabit memoriam, & vestrum insigniter acuet ingenium, in Causa mea, suae Caesareae Majesti tam proponenda, quam commendanda: eoque tractanda modo, quo illa tractari Arcana debeant, quae a paucis credantur, & a paucioribus intelligantur: verissima licet sint, & ex sese utilissima. Quo citiùs Caesarea sua Majestas, mirabilent hanc & maximam Dei, non Providentiam solum sed bonitatem etiam amplexus fuerit, eo cit us & abundantiùs, meae ad illum legationis constabit sinceritas, bonitas & utilitas. Voluissem equidem hunc inclusum libellum, [〈◊〉] inclusas vestrae [〈◊〉], ipsemet atrulisse. Sed (cum venia sit dictum) ex digiti pedis mei, offensa cuticula, non cam [〈◊◊〉] ho lie pedes venire. Proinde amico meo hoc onus imposui, ut (cum vestrae Excellentiae manuum deosculatione) omnia mea vobis orferat servitia: hocque, quicquid est, pro sua Caesarea Majestate, traderet munusculi.

Prage 24. Augusti 1584.

Joannes Dee.

The Superscription of this Letter was thus,

Illustrissimo Domino, Domino Don Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente serenissimi atque Catholici Hispaniarum Regis Negotiorum apud sacram Caesaream Majestatem, &c. Praefecto, Domino meo Observandissimo.

Monday, Augusti 27. Mane circa 9. † Pragae.

Precibus finitis, I propounded to God, of Madimi four things.

First, what was the cause of the errour recorded, Febr. 18. this Anno 1584. at Lasko of Sir Henry Sidney his death?

Secondly, In what sense is this to be understood, which Madimi willed me to say to Rodolphus, An Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me?

Thirdly, Madimi said as concerning the time of my wife and children and houshold to be moved hither, Let that be my charge to answer thee?

Fourthly, Madimi willed me to write to Rodulphus: And I have done, and caused it to be delivered to Don Wilhelmo de Sancto Clemente, the Spanish Embassadour, to deliver it to the Emperour. God prosper it. Amen.

E. K. Here she is.

Δ. The eternal roots of verity bring forth fruit, to the comfort of such as delight in the pure verity for the service of God, &c. And you Madimi, as a Minister of the Highest in verity, are unto me welcome.

Mad. ..... Even as mans fingers [or a thing,] touching, moving, or forcing an instrument ^[87] musical, is the cause, without the which it cannot sound, or drink up the air; which again seeking issue, and feeling a stay, is the [objectum] cause of concord or dissonancy, according to the inward spirit and imagination of the thing that moveth, or of the finger moving; So the earthly part of man, which hath no motion of it self, (radicall) moveth by touch or finger (whatsoeve) spiritual, and sendeth out sounds; not according to her self, but according to the fiery, yea invisible, and spiritual power, wherewithal it is moved.

Hereby we learn, that mans body, and his organical motions, hath three manner of movers; centraliter, ^[88] by the property and perfection of the Soul, a superiore, and by descension, from the Angels or participants of understanding: E contrario, and ascending, spirits wicked, and tempters, all moving.

But here you must note, That as the Sun depriveth the Moon in respect of her end, which is to ^[89] give light, but not of her self; So do the Angels and higher powers drown and overshadow the soul in man when they are present: working from God and in themselves, (as from abov) and not by the soul as any root, or first cause of the motion.

But when the Devil entreth, and ascendeth, he worketh not by force, but by enticement, and so ^[90] allureth the soul, to grant of his possession: whereby he entreth and becometh strong.

Those that have ears let them hear; for my words are wisdom, and the grounds of many Sciences.

Then, by a similitude, is the world wax: Mans body wax: and ^[91] the natural motions of things, naturally extended, wax also: But our purpose is of man; which at one instant receiveth three impressions: ^[92] Missive, Natural, and Offensive.

Whereby you may perceive, That man greatly needeth to pray ^[93] against temptation: For the last Seal, is sign of him that oweth ^[94] the wax, Happy are those, that can watch and pray: for such they are that grant not any room or interest, to the wicked ascender. ^[95]

I answer you: If you be but as a string, Challenge but your own duty: But take heed, you be in tune.

E. K. She speaketh, but I cannot expresse it.

Δ. I pray you let nothing of your words, that you utter to us, or before us, be unrecorded.

Mad. ..... You are not worthy to write it: for it is the harmony of the heavens. Stay a while; for I would open that unto you, which I perceive I may not: but I come again.

[Δ. We read over the premises, and weighed them as instructions of the three divers movers of mans senses internally, &c. And so after a quarter of an hour

E. K. Here she is again.

Mad. ..... For he that purifieth his house, and straweth rushes, and beautifieth the chambers with Garlands, is worthy to receive (because of his aptnesse) such as are messagers of understanding and light. My friends and brethren, marvellous is the God of Wisdom in all his doings and works, and full of variety are the works of his hands.

E. K. Now she speaketh again; I understand it not.

..... But to the Answer: The end of my purpose, Satan, perceiving you [E. K.] as well to be ^[96] moved by him because of your own grant, as by the motion wherewithal you were moved and illumenated: and being the father of suttlety, and a froward understanding [〈◊〉], even in this one sentence; yea, with this one lye, to overturn, or at least to Hemish the worthinesse of our message, and of your receiving: because he saw the course of nature, and the doings of man, and that this man Mr. Simon Hagek, young Hagek, would first visit thee. [^[97]] therefore he thrust in a shingle of his own cutting and nature: Not to the intent it should ^[98] be credited, but to the intent it should be a stumbling block to the action in time to come, which is now.

My brethren, he is a marvellous work-man: and one that striketh now the most strings, in a manner, all. But he hath his reward: Therefore do I deny it to be spoken by me, or of me.

Δ. So by God his Grace, I did conceive, and undoubtedly think, and of many other things, ^[99] besides that, I have occasion of reforming the Records: that the heavens may agree, as the phrase was used.

Mad. ..... Many there are not: But such as are, gather them together, let me sift them.

Δ. I thank God for that his mercy.

Δ. Now I beseech you to the second my present request before propounded, it may please you to give answer.

Mad. ..... When the King sendeth a Present to a Noble man, or unto any one that he favoureth, ^[100] he loveth, or delighteth in: The Messager carrieth it, delivereth it within his house.

E. K. She seemeth to smile.

..... He to whom it is sent enjoyeth it, he useth it; yea, peradventure (being a dainty dish) eateth of it.

Afterward the King sendeth to him by the same messager, saluteth his houshold, and commandeth him to say: Thus sayeth the King; Go to such a man and salute him: Tell him that I will visit him, and that I say so.

Behold, he sitteth still, and [〈◊〉] not, neither doth he the Commandment of his Superiour. For lo, sayeth he: The King commanded me not; his messager came, and would so. But whether the King will so, or no, I know not.

But hearest thou: Thou wicked man, hast thou not eaten of his meat, and enjoyed the benefit of ^[101] his present before? Yes, A threefold benefit, which shall continue untill the * seventh Angel, and untill the third woe.

Man begetteth a Son, and lo, his wife is with Childe, and she [〈◊〉] for the time of her deliverance: If the question be moved unto him, (his wife not yet delivered,) whether he have issue, or fruit of his body, say thou unto me, what shall he answer?

Δ. As it shall please God.

Mad. ..... That is no answer.

Δ. Then he may say, He is in hope to have the issue his wife goeth great withall, may this seem an answer, [〈◊〉] beseech you?

Mad. ..... Though the Childe be not yet born, he hath issue Deliverance, is, by reason of the issue, and not called issue of the deliverance: for he is a son as well unborn as born.

So is it of you: Thou hast prayed unto God, and he hath heard thee. ^[102]

And lo, the issue, which he giveth thee is Wisdom. But [〈◊〉], the Mother of it is not yet delivered.

For, If woman know her times and seasons of deliverance: Much more doth he, ^[103] which is the Mother of all things. But thou mayest rejoyce that there is a time of deliverance, and that thy gift is compared to a woman with childe.

For, as the one is, and shall be visible: so is wisdom granted, and shall appear: ^[104] yea, a lively, and most perfect Creature.

Behold, the Angels of the Lord have been sent down from God, unto him [E. K.] here is sight, which is of this houshold in God: He hath brought unto thee that which he tasteth not himself: And yet thou doubtest, saying, How shall I say the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto me?

Unto thee, [Δ] we are we have appeared: for unto thee, ^[105].] sent. And because his eye hath seen, therefore we have joyned him vnto thee, that in the time of darknesse thou mightest see.

Δ. It is to be made perfect before the time of his visitation.

And before the time of thy visitation thou must be made perfect.

And because it is of thee and not of him: Therefore doth not God impute unto him his offences, but placeth in you the figure of time to come.

Supra lib. 15. 1584. Junii 2.

For some there be that naturally shall draw in the [〈◊〉] of the Lord. And other some there be, that must have their times and seasons.

For thy houshold affairs, I say nothing yet, neither for thy Letter sent, or Messenger. ^[106] Nam Deus agit in [〈◊〉], sicut vult.

I have nothing else to say unto thee: but blessed be those that believe in the Lord, for they have their reward.

E. K. She goeth away, divided into a great many pieces of fire.

Deo Nostro Omnipotenti, eterno & sapienti: sit omnis honor, Laus & Gloria. ^[107]

Note. At noon, this day I received Letters from the Lord Laskie, from my wife, and from my brother Nicolas Fromonds in England: how Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Sled, Mr. Andreas Firmorshem, my Book-seller, used me very ill in divers sorts.

The Dates of the Letters from England were of the 15. and 16th. day of April 1584. My wife is in great sorrow for my brother Nicholas.

At night after Sun set, Emerich Sontag brought me word from the Spanish Ambassadour, ^[108] that he had delivered to the Emperour this day my Letters and Book: and that he took them graciously and thankfully, and said that within three, or four dayes he would let the Spanish Ambassadour understand, when he would give me audience.

Amen.

Saturday, Septembris 1. Ante Meridiem Circa 10. † Pragae.

Δ. As I, and E. K. sat in my little Study: after our talk of divers matters, and of my expecting audience at the Emperour his hand, &c. E. K. saw three little Creatures walk up and down in the Sun-shine, about an handfull from the pavyment: and the Creatures themselves very small, not an hundfull long, like little shadows, or smokes, and the path wherein they walked seemed yellow. They walked a good while to and fro, till at length I suspected that they were sent to us; and so prepared the shew-stone: But E. K. said, he had rather see them thus out of the stone. I said that in the stone we have warrant that no wicked thing shall enter: but without the stone, Illuders might deal with us, unlesse God prevented it, &c. E. K. said again, he had rather deal thus.

..... His meaning is above thy sight. ^[109]

E. K. Now two of them seem to kneel down in the Sun beams.

..... Blessed be God the Father, God the Son, and God the holy Ghost, the most holy and blessed Trinity: One, true, mighty, perfect everlasting and incomprehensible God.

[Δ. Amen, Amen, Amen.]

..... Which will be comprehended with those that live in the Heavens ^[110] (the true Church of God) of such as measure him by faith, and not reason: which hath sent us to do his will; Both in that he will turn his heart: And in that he doth vouchsafe to make you witnesses of his secret purposes, and determinations in hand.

The [1] middlemost said — I am the midst of the third, and the last [Δ] of the spirit of life: Vnderstood in this temporal controversie, and conflict of mans Soul: but not according to his eternal and immensurable proportion.

The [2] on the right side said — I am the second of the third, which dwell in the spirit, and power ^[111] of God in earth: I have power to scourge them that resist the power, will, and commandment of God: and I am one of those that stand, and is perpetual.

For even as the father, son, and holy spirit are one, but of themselves and being dilated, is full ^[112] of power, and many. So are we one particularly in power, but separated; notwithstanding, spiritually, of, and amongst others, and dilated in the will of God, and into the branches of his determinations: but particularly living, and joyntly praising God.

E. K. Now [3] the other (the third) on the otherside standeth up, and sayeth.

3 ..... The Kingdom of God, and of his son Christ: (which is true God, and the substance of his father, True God of true God) is contrary to the Kingdom of this world.

Δ. The Confession and belief of the Catholick Church: not to be talked of now.

E. K. What is that, God of God?

E. K. They are disappeared: but their path appeareth in the aire, in sun-beams still.

Δ. Half a quarter of an hour they had disappeared.

E. K. They are here again.

..... Happy are those that are of his Kingdom, for it hath no end; yea, happy are those that are ^[113] the sons of saith, and not of the world: which is called Reason. Which is blinde, and is scaled with the mark of destruction. Because she prosecuted, and put to death the Son of God, the God of righteousnesse, and light of all that live.

I am the last, of the first, of the fourth, and I have power to gather up the blessings ^[114] of God, and to set them (if they be disdained) in a better soyl.

Ejus officium est transplantatio Donorum Dei.

3. For thus sayeth the God of Hoasts.

If he dream and will not hear me Gather up that he hath, and that which ^[115] should be given him: that his life may be short, and his house without comfort: that he may passe away nakedly, as a shadow. ^[116]

As lo, behold, we go, and we will dwell there; yea, even in the skirts of their Garments will we take up our habitation. And why?

Behold, this hath God said: In the morning watch them, and see how they ^[117] rise. In the day time give ear unto them, and listen unto their counsels. Stand over them in the night, and note their filthinesse. And when it exceedeth the number, strike. ^[118]

We are they that must direct your practises. ^[119]

..... Behold, let us give Testimony of our names. ^[120]

My name is — Ga — E. K. He in the middle.

My name is — Za Δ. The three names make one name of 7. Letters, Gazavaa.

My name is — Vaa

So we are called by position.

Thou shalt finde us amongst the mercifull Tables delivered unto Enoch: and so unto you.

1. The middlemost

• I am of the third Table, and am extream. ^[121]

2.

• I am of the third, but of the humanity, and the second. ^[122]

3.

• And I am the fourth, but Angular, and extream, Linear of the uppermost. ^[123]

..... We are gone.

E. K. They are out of sight.

A voyce. Follow that which is commanded thee.

Δ. AEterno, Omnipotenti; Trino & uni Deo, sit omnis honor Laus & Gloria.

Δ.

• Ga — Vltimus spiritus vivorum.
• Za — Flagillator [〈◊〉] potestati, voluntati, praecepto Dei.
• Vaa — Transplantator Donorum.

Monday, Septembris 3. Mane. ^[124] Δ. Nota. Sathanae astutum & violentum Stratagema.

Δ. There was great disquietnesse in E. K. being come home from our Hosts house, where he had lyen all night upon a form: by reason he had been (which he never was the like afore, as he said) with wine overcome suddenly: yet intending with himself to take heed of being overshot in drinking of wine: being requested by the Hostes to give her a quart of wine upon the good bargain he had in a Clock he bought of her for five Suckats: In this company of drinking was Alexander, the Lord Laskie his servant, who came with us to Prage. Unto whom E. K. (when the drink on the sudden had overcome him) said he would cut off his head, and with his walking staffe did touch him fair, and softly on the neck, sitting before him: This Alexander being half drunken himself, by & by took those words in great snuffe, and went to defend himself, and so took his weapon to him, and thereupon they by caused Alexander to go down: It was supper time; and I that night refrained to suppe, and so tarrying at my Lodging, and looking out, saw Alexander sitting on the great stone against our Lodging: I called to him, and told him that they were at supper: And he came over to me, and he had wept much; he complained of E. K. his former words, and the touch of the staffe, how it was against his credit to take that in good part, and spake many Souldiers terms of stout words, not worthy the recording. I, thereupon went to our Hosts house, and would understand the very truth; and there I found E. K. fast on sleep on a form, most soundly: for which I was right sorry: And yet better pleased to perceive the words of E. K. which so moved Alexander (being half drunken) to have been spoken by E. K. when wine, and not wit, bare rule: and so pleaded long time with Alexander, that of words spoken so as they were, no such exact account was to be given to him, &c. And after two hours perswasion caused Alexander to go to bed in our Lodging, where he used to lye, For he would have gone out, to our former Inne, in those raging half drunken pangs, he was in: which I thought not good. This Monday morning E. K. coming home, and seeing Alexander, as he came in; he said, they tell I should have spoken words, which greatly offended thee yesternight, and that I touched thee with my staff, &c. I know nothing of it, and shoke hands friendly with Alexander. Well saith Alexander, Si fuisset alius, &c. E. K. came up to me: I told him how sorry I was for this mischance, and told him of the Watchmen perceiving Alexander his disquiet mind, and hearing his words, they came to me and charged me to have a care of the peace keeping (as they did indeed) And farther said, that Alexander in his rage, said, that rather, or before, he should cut off his head, that he would cut E. K. in pieces. So soon as I had expressed that word of this drunken Alexander likewise, (whom now I saw quiet, and E. K. also quiet) suddenly E. K. fell into such a rage, that he would be revenged of him for so saying, and for railing on him in the street, as he did, &c.

Much a do I, Emericus, and his brother, had to stop or hold him from going to Alexander with his weapon, &c. At length we let him go in his dubblet and hose, without a cap or hat on his head: and into the street he hasted with his brothers Rapier drawn, and challenged Alexander to fight: But Alexander went from him, and said. Nolo [〈◊〉] Kelleie, Nolo. Hereupon E. K. took up a stone, and threw after him, as after a dog, and so came into the house again, in a most furious rage for that he might not fight with Alexander. The rage and ^[125] fury was so great in words and gestures, as might plainly prove, that the wicked enemy sought either E. K. his own destroying of himself, or of me, or his brother, &c.

This may suffice to notifie the mighty temptation and vehement working of the subtile spiritual ^[126] enemy Satan, wherewith God suffered E. K. to be tempted, and almost overcome: to my great grief, discomfort, and most great discredit: if it should (as the truth was) have come to the Emperours understanding, except he had known me well, &c. I was in great doubt, how God would take this offence, and devised with my self how I might, with honesty, be aleared from the shame and danger that might arise if these two should fight, &c. At the least it would crosse all good hope here with the Emperour, &c. for a time, till God redressed it.

After I had brought E. K. to some quietnesse, (by yeilding much to his humour, &c. and ^[127] saying little:) not long after, came my messager from my wise at Cracovia: and Hugh my servant with him, to my great comfort through her letters, and the full satisfying of me by Hugh my servant his knowledge farther than conveniently could be written.

About 2 of the clock after Noon, came this letter to me, of the Emperour his sending ^[128] for me.

Nobilis, Praeclarissiméque Domine, Domine observandissime.

CAEsar, jam jam significavit Domino Legato Hispaniarum, Hero meo, ut Dominationem vestram ^[129] ad se evocaret, ad horam secundam; qua eam audire cuperet: Dominatio vestra si ad dictam horam venire poterit: accedet statim Dominum Octavium Spinolam, qui est Majestati suae Caesareae à Stabulis & Cubiculis. Is enim eam, ad Majestatem suam introducet. Quod reliquum est, me D. vestrae quam officiosissimè etiam atque [〈◊◊〉],

Dominationis vestrae [〈◊〉]

Arnoldus Vander Boxe.

Hereupon, I went straight up to the Castle: and in the ^[130] Ritter-Stove or Guard-Chamber I stayed a little; in the mean space I sent Emericus to see what was of the clock: and ^[131] the Chamberlain, (Octavius Spinola) spied him out of the Emperours Chamber window, and called him, who came up to me, and by that time was the Chamberlain come out to me; and by Emericus he understood that I was the man the Emperour waited for. He came to me very ^[132] curteously: told me of the Emperours desire to see me, and to speak with me. So he returned to the Emperour into the privy Chamber, and came out again for me, and led me by the skirt of the Gown through the Dining-Chamber, and the Privy Chamber, where the Emperour sat at a Table, with a great Chest and Standish of Silver, before him, my Monas and Letters by him, &c. I came toward him with due reverence of three cursies, who shewed me a gracious and chearful countenance.

Then I craved pardon at his Majesties hand, for my boldnesse to send his Majesty a Letter and the Monas Hieroglyphica (dedicated to his father.) But I did it of sincere and entire good will I bare to his father Maximilian, and also unto his Majesty: and that the rather, because I had good proof of the favour which Almighty God beareth unto his Majesty. He then thanked me for his fathers Book, and did affirm, that he believed me, that I was affectionate unto his Highnesse: And of my estemation with the learned of the world, he had heard by the Spanish Embassadour; and also of my zealous mind towards his grace. And commended the Book [〈◊〉], but said, that it was too hard for his Majesties capcity; and added, that the Spanish Embassadour told him, that I had somewhat to say unto him, Quod esset pro sua utilitate. I answered, So I have, and withal looking back whether any man were in the Chamber or no, I found that we were alone: Hereupon I began to declare that All my life time I had spent in learning: but for this sorty years continually, in sundry manners, and in divers Countries, with great pain, care, and cost, I had from degree to degree, sought to [〈◊〉] the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world: And I found (at lengh) that neither any man living, nor any Book I could yet meet withal, was able to teach me those truths I desired, and longed for: And therefore I concluded with my self, to make intercession and prayer to the giver of wisdom and all good things, to send me such wisdom, as I might know the natures of his creatures; and also enjoy means to use them to his honour and glory. And in this purpose made divers assayes: and at length it pleased God to send me his [^[133]] [〈◊〉], whereby I am assured of his merciful hearing of my long, fervent, constant, and [〈◊〉] prayer, in the cause before specified: And that, His holy Angels, for these two years and a half, have used to inform me: and have finished such works in my hands, ^[134] to be seen, as no mans heart could have wished for so much; yea they have brought me a Stone of that value, that no earthly Kingdom is of that worthinesse as to be compared to the ^[135] vertue or dignity thereof, &c. And that these things be true, I protested, and took to witnesse the God of Heaven and Earth, by whose Commandment I am now before your Majesty, (said I) and have a message from him to say unto you; and that is this:

The Angel of the Lord hath appeared to me, and rebuketh you for your [〈◊〉]. If you will ^[136] hear me, and believe me, you shall Triumph: If you will not hear me, The Lord, the God that made Heaven and Earth, (under whom you breath, and have your spirit) putteth his foot against your breast, and will throw you headlong down from your seat.

Moreover, the Lord hath made this Covenant with me (by oath) that he will do and perform. If you will forsake your wickednesse, and turn unto him, your Seat shall be the greatest that ever was: and the Devil shall become your prisoner: Which Devil, I did conjecture, to be the Great Turk, (said I) This my Commission, is from God: I feigne nothing, neither am I an Hypocrite, an Ambitious man, or doting, or dreaming in this Cause. If I speak otherwise then I have just cause, I forsake my salvation, said I.

The Emperour said, he did believe me, and said, that he thought I loved him unfaignedly, and said, that I should not need so earnest protestations: and would not willingly have had me to kneel, so often as I did.

Farther I said, His Majesty was to see and understand nakedly, from the beginning, the ^[137] whole course of this Angelical leading, instructing, and comforting of me: for so I was commanded, that I should from the beginning, nakedly open unto Rodolph, the manner of God his visitation, and shew unto him the holy Vision: Which my charge I am ready to do. The Emperour said, at another time, he would hear and understand more. I spake yet somewhat more in the purposes before, to the intent they might get some root, or better stick in his minde. To be short, he thanked me, and said he would henceforward, take me to his recommendation and cāre, and some such words (of favour promised) he used, which I heard not well, he spake so low. In the end perceiving that his will was to end for this [〈◊〉], I did my duty with cursie; and at the door going out, I turned back, and made [〈◊〉], and so came into the next Chamber, where the Noble Octavius Spinola came to me again, and with curteous ^[138] words, offered me great friendship. I took my leave of him, and so came through the Ritters Stove or Guard Chamber, and so down, and home. I had a large hour audience of his Majesty.

Amen.

Wedensday, Septembris, 5. 1584. Mane circiter horam 8. † Pragae.

[〈◊〉] finitis, &c. Repetivi ter hanc Sententiam Mitte lucem tuam (O Deus̄) & veritatem tuam quae nos ducat & perducat ad montem Sanctum Sion & Tabernacula coelestis Hierusalem.

Δ. I have to the best of my ability, both written and spoken unto Rodolph, as I was willed: how it worketh or taketh place in his heart, is known to thee O God, &c.

Now I am to receive farther instructions, what is to be done in this cause, or else whatsoever shall please the Highest, &c.

E. K. Now here is Vriel, and a black thing like a Sarcent of silke before ^[139] his face, and over his head behind: by the rest of his garments it seemeth to be Vriel.

God make all things white, and make us whiter than Snow: What that black Scarf importeth I know not; but I suspect.

Uriel. ..... Such as defile the seat of the Soul, and are suffocated with drunkennesse enter ^[140] not into the Kingdom of Heaven, neither can behold the ornaments of the Lord his beauty.

See, how Satan, how he runneth headlong about and through you. See, how he maketh his dwelling place within you: of whom the Lord gave you warning, saying: Satan seeketh to sift you.

Lo, he hath done wickednesse against the Lord, and against you; for he hath blemished the eyes of your understanding.

[E. K. He speaketh other words between, which I understand not.]

Uriel. ..... Is not Jesus, God, and the High Priest of the Lord, placed on the right hand of his ^[141] Father?

Δ. He is: we believe it.

Uriel. ..... Is not Satan (as the ^[142] Prophet sait) suffered to stand and triumph on the right hand of the Lord of Hosts and Justice, as the open enemy of the Lord, and of his annointed.

True it is: and he hath almost given you the overthrow. ^[143]

Δ. Assist us O God, and be our strength against this most subtile and mighty enemy.

Uriel. ..... But because he is subtile, and hath power given unto him for a time, and hath striven against you, not for your own sakes, (but because you are of the Spirit of the Highes) and against his testimony: Therefore doth not God, in his Justice impute the sins of the eye, unto the ^[144] body.

[Δ. Lord thy mercies are infinte, praised be thy name for ever.]

Uriel. ..... But commandeth the [Δ] eye to be reconciled, as the spirit of Truth hath ^[145] taught.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ. Glorified be God for his most loving kindnesse and infinite mercies towards us fraile, and sinful creatures: and we beseech thee to shew us the light of thy countenance, to our comfort and direction.

Amen.

Vide Septemb. 13. of Reconciliation.

Δ. As I was putting up all, Vriel appeared again, with his black Scarf, as he did before: but paused a while before he spake any thing.

Δ. In thy name (O Jesu) we attend thy words by thy messager to be uttered.

Uriel. ..... Give ear unto my voice.

E. K. Now he is become like a great wheele of fire, like a waggon wheel: He thrust out his hands on the sudden, and so became like a ^[146] wheel full of mens eyes: it turneth round, it is full in all places of those eyes, like living and seeing eyes.

Now cometh fire out of it in 4 places. ^[147]

Now there is a great Eagle, which is come, and standeth upon it: It ^[148] is a white Eagle: The wheel turneth still, notwithstanding that she standeth on it. ^[149]

E. K. She hath in her beake, like a scrol of parchment. She hath two monstrous eyes: one like fire red; her right eye as big as my fist, and the left eye, is Chrystal-like. She standeth hovering with her ^[150] wings spread, and her stern or taile spread.

Under the wheel is a great valley, and in it a great City, and a Hill on the East part of it. And all toward the South are Hills. ^[151]

The City is as as big as six of Cracovia: and many ruins of houses in it there appear.

There is one place in it covered, square like a little Chappel: It ^[152] hath a little round pinacle in the end of it; and over it in the air, hanging a little fire bright.

There be many like unto fowles, like Ravens, and their heads like ^[153] unto bright fire: They flie into a Country a great way off from this City.

Now Vriel standeth beside the wheel, and the wheel is as it was before: and he as before with the Scarf.

The Eagle cryeth and skriketh as a Gull, or the Sea fowles do.

Vriel seemeth to descend from the air above, and to come to the side of the Shew-stone.

Uriel. ..... The Lord hath chosen you to be Witnesses, through his mercy and sufferance, not in the ^[154] office of [〈◊〉], but in the offices and dignities of the Prophets: which is alwayes beautified with the wings of the Cherubims, with the voices that cry a thousand thousand times in a moment before the Lord, and before the Majesty of his eternal Seat: wherein you do exceed the ^[155] Temples of the earth: wherein you are become separated from the world, and whereby you are lifted up, as of the houshold of the Blessed, even by the very hand and finger of the Highest.

Δ. Blessed, blessed, blessed, is the Lord to whom Cherubim and Seraphim incessantly sing, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Zebaoth. Amen.

Uriel. ..... But that it may appear, that he it is, that revealeth, which gathereth the Clouds together, ^[156] and is the breath of all things that live: Because I say it may appear that the Lord visiteth, and is of power, and that the imaginations of man, flie before themselves, as the dust of the earth doth before him that moveth it: 1 open unto you a Seal, yet secret and not known. ^[157]

[Δ. Zach. 13. — Et erit dies una, quae nota est Domino, &c.]

Behold, now cometh that day, that is known unto the Lord himself, wherein the Kingdoms of the earth shall begin to fall: that they may perceive how they have run astray: and how weak they are in the triumph of their pompe.

And now out of Hierusalem, out of the Church of God, and of his Son Christ, shall passe out and ^[158] flow the water of life: That the sayings of the Angels and Spirit of the Lord, may be verified upon the face of the earth, spoken by his annointed Zachary.

Now shall those dayes open themselves, which are the dayes of vengeance. ^[159]

Now, Now shall these woes, that have been spoken of and sealed, burst out, to the confusion of the wicked, and the establishment of his Kingdom, which is annointed.

Behold, I teach thee.

Those that inhabit the holy City, and usurp the authority of the Highest, are called in remembrance ^[160] before the Lord, and they shall be scattered like unto the mighty hail, that the spirits of the North have gathered against the day of revenge.

They are become proud, and think there is no God. They are stiff-necked; for they are the [〈◊〉] ^[161] of wickedness. Lo, in the dayes of Rodolph, shall this come to passe, of whom the Lord hath said, If he hear me, and believe my words, I will place Thee [Δ] unto him, as a mighty rock: ^[162] I will open unto thee [Δ] (for his instructions, and safeguard to come) my determinations in hand, and lo, to come. And when he hath wiped away his darknesse, and offence of his soul, I will appear unto him, to the terrour of all Nations.

For I rejoyce, when I exalt such as are weak: And when I help the comfortlesse, am I magnified.

Δ. Thanks, honour, and glory, is due to thee, O our God.

Uriel. ..... And behold, the day of this visitation, and of the execution of my judgements, is at ^[163] hand: And lo I open unto you another Seal (Because I have said unto you, I am true, and just.)

In the year eighty eight, shall you see the Sun move contrary to his course.

The Stars [^[164]] encrease their light: and some of them ^[165] fall from heaven.

Then shall the Rivers run blood:

Then shall the wo be unto women with child.

Then shall the time come to passe, that this Prophesie shall be known. ^[166]

For lo, the Lord hath prepared his Prophet, and he shall descend from the Heavens: as it is written by ^[167] Malachiah the Prophet.

Behold I will send before that day, (not that day I spoke of, but the great day of the Lord) Elias again amongst you. ^[168]

In the mean season will I be mercifull unto Rodolph, and will bring into his house, such as shall be skilfull: unto whom I will give my spirit, to work Gold, ^[169] Silver, and the Ornaments of his house. And he shall perceive that I blesse him, In that I have tied him to my Garments.

If, he hear thee not ^[170]

Behold, I have one in store: Yea, such an one as cleaveth unto Justice. Man is but a Reed that is shaken with every winde. The pride of Kings, is as the beauty of a Peacock: See how they run all astray. See how they tempt the spirits of righteousnesse.

Lo, (as I have said unto thee) I reserve that wicked King, not that I will be mercifull unto him. ^[171] But that he shall shortly perish with an eternal scourge.

And now hear me what I say unto thee. Hereafter, see thou tempt me not: Neither look for my presence after this order: But for great causes. ^[172]

For lo, this is the end of Teaching. Now cometh in the time of warning and of counsel.

Δ. Will you give me leave to speak?

Uriel. ..... Say.

Δ. I trust it shall not offend God at any time, to call for [Uriel] his light in matters dark to us, and above our capacity. Also in Enoch his Tables understanding and enjoying, we ^[173] are to require help of instruction at Ave: and so of other points and Doctrines already begun, we are to require their help, who have begun with us, &c.

Uriel. ..... As far as the Lord hath suffered you to enter into his Garden: Even so far (I say) Taste, and eat.

Δ. The entrance yet we have not, but the manner to enter: The perfect practise is the best entrance.

Uriel. ..... Man speaketh not with thee: wherefore dost thou wrast the Lord? All things that are delivered thee are plain.

Δ. Lord, I do thus speak to be perfectly instructed in what sense your words are to be understood, when you said: This is the end of teaching.

Δ. Vriel, or perhaps in the name of God.

Uriel. ..... Thou hast called upon me, and I have heard thee.

Thou hast desired comfort, and I have comforted thee.

Thou hast the spirit of choice. ^[174]

Be it sufficient unto thee, that the Garden of the Lord is open unto thee: where there is no hunger, nor thirst, but a filling spirit, a comforter.

† What care is it unto me, if the Kings of the earth say: Lo, this is not of me. Lo, this is not of the highest. ^[175]

Δ. Ex Dei lumine.

Uriel. ..... Behold, I am the light, and servant of God: Blessed are ^[176] those which believe, and are made partakers in this Testimony: by the which you are become Prophets, and are sanctified for the coming of the Lord.

But lo, why do I speak unto you, who have defiled your selves? I will ^[177] take up those things that I have, and will be gone. Lo, blessed is he that giveth ear unto the Lord.

E. K. Now all is vanished away, and he is disappeared: Wheele, Eagle, Citie, and all, &c.

Δ. All laud, thanks, honour and glory be to the eternal, Almighty, most just Judge, and mercifull father our God, the God of Heaven and earth, whom of his infinite goodnesse, we beseech to have mercy upon us, and to purifie our hearts and consciences, granting us humble contrition, and sincere confession of our transgressions and iniquities whatsoever. Amen.

Note. While I was thus requesting God, E. K. made a vow of penance, during his life: (in token of hearty sorrowfulnesse for his fault in that dayes action noted) never to eat his supper, or evening meal on Saturdayes, during his life; wherein I beseech the highest to regard ^[178] his inward intent, and his continual memory of the Lord his mercies, in sparing him when he most had offended him.

Δ. Deo Nostro vero, vivo, omnipotenti, & eterno sit omnis Honor Laus & Benedictio, nunc & in perpeturm.

Amen.

Wednesday, September 5. NOTE.

Δ. The morning of this Wednesday (before I prepared my self for the former action) I sent Emericus with two Letters to be delivered: the one to the Spanish Ambassadour (giving him thanks for his honourable dealing with the Emperours Majesty in my behalf) and the other to the Noble Octavius Spinola: thanking him likewise, and requiring his instruction, or advise how I might most conveniently proceed in dealing with the Emperours Majesty: The Copy of which Letter I thought good to record here, that the effect thereof consequent, might have the light of the Original cause (Divine and humane) annexed.

Illustri & Magnifico Domino, Domino Octavio Spinolae, sacrae Caesareae Majestatis à stabulis & Cubiculis Domino suo observandissimo.

ILlustris ac Magnifice Domine: Non possum satis condignas vestrae Magnificientiae agere gratias, pro singulari illa, qua me Heri amplexi estis humanitate & benevolentia: hominem quidem vobis incognitum, sed tamen virtutis & veritatis studiosissimum: quique omne reliquum meae vitae curriculum (Deo sic volente) in hoc co sumere decrevi, ut sacra sua Caesarea Majestas clarè percipiat, sibi, incredibiliter (ferè) propitiam fore Dei Omnipotentis tremendam Majestatem. Atquae quamvis videam multiplicibus multarum Regionum negotiis, suam sacram Caesareaem Majestatem occupatissimum sepissime teneri, neque aliis, illisque à me, suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati proponendis causis, commodè vacare, vel posse, vel evidenti aliqua ratione debere: TAMEN, si aliquis excogitari possit modus, pro loci, temporis, & rerum occasione, quo sua sacra Caesarea Majestas, ea penes me videre, vel ex me intelligere dignaretur, [〈◊〉] illi forent grata: Ea in re, vestrae Illustrissimae Magnificentiae libentissimè audirem vel reciperem Informationem atque Judicium. Nam in hoc totus ero, ut tempore debito, appareat, Omnipotentis Dei, & suae sacrae Caesareae Majestatis servitio (Maximè autem, pro Sacrosancta [〈◊〉] Catholicae & Apostolicae fidei Illustratione, ac Reipublicae Christiane defenfione, amplificationeque) Addictissimum, devotissimum, fidelissimumque me esse, ac fore sacrae suae Caesareae Majestatis servitorem.

Opportunitatis flos maturè colligi debet: Cito enim fiet marcidus.

4. Septembris 1584.

Illustrissimae Magnificentiae vestrae Paratissimus

Joannes Dee.

Emericus went and delivered my Letter to the Spanish Ambassadour: But this he brought back again; saying, that the Emperour was ridden very early abroad to Brandeish, or elsewhere: (not certainly being known) and that this Noble Octavius Spinola was gone with his Majesty.

Hereupon I determined with changing the Date, to ^[179] send unto him at the Emperour his Majesties returning to Prage. Deus bene vertat.

Mr. Doctor Hagek his son was by

At noon this day

I sent Letters to my wife: to my Lord [〈◊〉] and to Mr. Paul Hertoll, by the Messager of Reichenstein, on this side Nesse.

Monday, Septemb. Manè hora 9. † Pragae.

Δ. Precibus finitis; I invited Ga, Za, Vaa, (as being assigned to understand of Rodolph his doings,) that of them I might receive instructions; that my proceedings might be answerable as occasion should be given.

E. K. There appeareth written in great letters upon a right hand (and no body appearing:) the hand being very big.

E. K. And so the hand vanished out of sight: The writing was in the palm of it.

Δ. After that appeared the same hand again, with his writing

E. K. It vanished away, by and by, hand, writing, and all.

Δ. I take this (O Lord) in this sence: That I am to proceed, and to do as I intended, in ^[181] either writing to Rudolph himself, or to the Spanish Ambassadour, or to Octavius Spinola for the Emperour to give me audience, time, and place to hear, and see the Records and Monuments, which I have to shew him: And that when I had done as was commanded me, that, Then the purpose of God shall also be done.

Δ. Deus, in adjutorium nostrum intende tuaque nos dirigat sapientia, ad illud Faciendum, quod tibi maxime erit gratum.

Amen.

Tuesday, Septemb. 11. Hora 9. ferè.

Misi per Dominom Emericum Sontagium Secretarium Domini Palatini Siradiensis literas illas ad Dominum Octavium Spinolam: quas superiùs descripsi; sed ubi in illis scripseram qua me heri amplexi estis. Nunc, scripsi, qua me ante paucos dies amplexi estis, & pro, quique omne reliquum, nunc scripsi quique reliquum, &c. & pro incredibiliter (ferè) propitiam, &c. scripsi, nunc, Incredibiliter (ferè) & modo [〈◊〉], propitiam fore, &c. Et reliqua omnia scripsi ut supra annotavi: sed datae erant hae, 11. Die. Septembris. Illae autem priores, 4. Septembris.

Tradidit istas literas (Emericus) Magnifico Domino Spinolae; jam statim post prandium Caesareae Majestatis, & crastina die (post missam) pro responso, venire jussit.

Wednesday, Septembris 12. Manè.

Δ. This morning, when Emericus Sontag went up to the Castle for answer from the Emperour: By the Noble Octavius Spinola, he received the effect of this answer, which I required the same Emericus to write down with his own hand (for sundry respects;) which his own hand writing I have annexed ad majorem rei [〈◊〉]. And because his writing is not easie to be read, I have written it plainer somewhat, as followeth:

Responsum Imperatoris, per Dominum Spinolam.

Sacra Caesarea Majestas benignè intellexit quae Dominus Joannes Dee, per suae Majestis Cubicularium, Dominum Octavium Spinolam, proponi curavit: Ad quae, sua Majestas gratiosè sic se resolvit: Quòd quandoquidem Latinum Sermonem non omni ex parte exactè calleat: praeterea etiam variis & multiplicibus negociis occupata, non semper ad audientiam vacare possit, videri suae Majestati ut idem Dominus Dee, cum Magnifico Domino Doctore Kurtzio (qui & suae Majestati ab arcanis est consiliis, satisque fidus, eruditione quoque insigni pollet) tractare, & negotia sua concredere velit. [〈◊〉] quod, sua Majestas praelibato Domino Consiliario suo, Kurtzio, renunciari curabit. Sin verò, secus Domino Johanni Dee videbitur, suam Majestatem quomodocunque tandem per occupationes facere poterit, desiderio Domini Dee satisfacturam.

1584. xii. Septembris.

Emerieus Sontagius manu propria.

Pragae.

Δ. Which answer, both by word of month, and thus by writing being received by me: and the said Emericus being (by the Noble Spinola) willed at Evensong time, to bring my answer herein; which I gave him of my great good liking the same, and most humble thanks to his Majesty, for so wise and gratious his consideration had of the cause. I required the same Emericus to understand; when, and how soon Doctor Curtzius should be made privy of his Majesties pleasure herein: and so, after my dispatching of Emericus, I endeavoured my self to render thanks unto God for his mercies, graces, and truth, in these his affairs: beseeching him to frame my heart, tongue, and hand in such sort, as to his Divine Majesty, my dutifull service, doing, may be acceptable: as chiefly of me intended to his honour and glory: And secondly to the comfort of the godly and elect: And thirdly to the confusion of the proud, arrogant, scornfull enemies of truth and vertue.

Amen.

Thursday, Septembris 13. Manè, hora 7. † Pragae.

I received the Noble Octavius Spinola his answer by Emericus, as concerning my accepting of the Emperour his gratious former answer of condescending to my request, so much as he conveniently could: which my answer yesterday ^[182] night, late was delivered to the Noble Spinola. Whereunto he said, that my Answer would be most acceptable unto the Emperour: and that to morrow, meaning this Thursday) the honourable Doctor Curtz should understand the Emperours pleasure herein. Hereupon I willed Emericus to go up to the Castle, and to bring himself in sight of the Noble Spinola, if he could. Thereby to help his memory, for warning and information to be given to the said Doctor Curtz: That so we might come together, so soon, as conveniently might be.

Amen.

Thursday, Septembris 13. Manè, horam circiter 9. † Pragae.

Δ. Precibus finitis, and the case propounded of the Emperour his Answer, for dealing with Doctor Curtz, a man of his Privy Council, faithful, learned, and wise: upon the considerations alledged, I requested of God, his pleasure to be signified unto me, by some of his faithful and true Messagers: whether I shall openly and frankly deal with this Doctor, so, as the Emperour, by him may understand that which he should have done at my mouth and hands originally: And whether I may, both alone with the Emperour, and before, and with the said Doctor, deal in this Action as occasion shall serve from time to time, at my discretion, informed by his secret grace divine. —

Δ. Nothing appearing, or being heard, in a quarter of an hour space, I suspected some of our misdoings, to be the cause of the Lord his refraining to answer: and thereupon I did fall to prayer for mercy and grace, and deliverance from the assaults and malitious purposes of the Devil against us: And that I did the rather, because as I felt my good Angel ([〈◊〉] other good friend) in vertue, so I felt Pilosum, sensibly, busie, and as it were to errisie me with my offences past, or to put me out of hope, at this present, from being heard. But I held on to pray divers Psalms, and at length against the wicked tempters purposely. After my prayers and assuring E. K. that the spiritual enemy was here busie, and attended to frustrate this dayes Action: He answered, that against him [E. K.] he could not prevail, or accuse him, for his late notable fault; for he had made a reckoning, and sorrowful bewailing for that his trespass, to the Lord, and that he doubted not of forgiveness; and that he was so reconciled to God, that Satan nor any other wicked accuser, could put him in any doubt of ^[183] God his mercy, &c. And he spake very well both of repentance, Gods mercies, his justice, and of these Actions.

Mary, he confessed that by reason, he himself was an unmeet person to come before the Emperour, or Princes, &c. and therefore if it would please God to discharge him of further medling, so, by reason he might seem well at ease, &c. At length, after an hour appeared Vriel; but with a Scarf before his face, as he had last.

Δ. God send us the brightnesse of his countenance when it shall please him.

Uriel. ..... True it is, that in respect of the terrour and force of God his wrath and indignation in [1] Judgement: Reconciliation is made: through that power which is given unto the Lamb, ^[184] to whom all power is given in Heaven and Earth: But with the [2] congregation, and the members of Christ his body, the number of the faithful, the Church of God, you have not made reconciliation, ^[185] And therefore, are not sinners worthy to behold the face of true light and understanding: for there is a double Reconciliation: One (and the firs) between the Conscience and the Judge: through the force of faith and repentance: that is to say, Reconciliation against Judgement. Another, (the secon) Reconciliation ^[186] between the Spirit of Truth, (the Church of Go) and mans Conscience.

Behold I teach you a mystery.

1. Those that are at one with God, shall not be judged with the wicked in the last Judgement: ^[187] Notwithstanding the Justice of God is pure, and undefiled: and suffereth not mans fault unpunished. 2. But he that is at one with the Spirit of God, is made one with him, and without punishment.

For there are many things that God beareth witnesse of, in the soul and secret Chambers of man, ^[188] that neither the blessed, already dignified, nor to be dignified, do, or can know: which is the cause that the soul of man, (after his body sleepet) being found polluted, is received, and snatched up, of such as are the Messagers of punishment: and so, according to the multitude of their sins, are ^[189] in horrour, and punishment. Therefore not all, that are punished, shall be damned; Neither is it evident unto the Angels, who shall be saved: I speak generally:

Therefore when you offend, be also reconciled unto the Mother of the house: that you may have ^[190] place before such as are reproved.

Herein you may understand the retaining of sin; For the [^[191]] retaining of sin is a judgement: And therefore it is necessary that God should hold a general day, that those that have trusted in him, and inwardly have been sorry for their offences, may also taste of his mercy. Else how could it be verified, that the Prophet saith? If in Hell, thou art also there.

But, here, there is a Caution; All sins that are forgiven by the Church, passe not the fire: but ^[192] he that is forgiven in his heart by God, in his Son Christ; and [2] reconciled through the holy Spirit, to the body from whence he is fallen, is safe, as well from the wrath of God to come, as the punishment due unto his offences.

And therefore is the reconciling of brethren, of great force. Wherefore ^[193] hath Christ left his body with the Church? Wherefore is he called the bread of Life?

I say unto you, my brethren, that the body of Christ dignified and glorified, is true bread; is true comfort, which cleanseth sinners that are penitent, and wipeth away the punishment of adversity.

Happy are those, that eat of him, and that account not his body, as the shadow of a candle. ^[194]

Behold, I teach you: Even as the Spirit of God filleth the Congregation of the faithful; so doth the body of Christ now dignifie, fill and cleanse all that receive with sorrow: sorrow I mean for their wickednesse.

But lo : his body is become an offence unto the world. Many there are that say, This is Christ: But behold I teach you. Even as all things were made by him, spiritually: So are all, that are of his Elect, nourished through him, bodily.

Lo, he is become one power, one God; in that he is neither separated from his body; nor separateth his body from his Church.

After a while I come again.

E. K. Now he is gone away.

Δ. We read over the premises to our great comfort, in the mean time, while VRIEL disappeared.

E. K. Now he is here again.

Uriel. ..... O ye timerous birds, How long run you headlong into the Wildernesse? How long ^[195] will you be ignorant? How long will you tempt the Lord with the spirit of foolishnesse and errour? Behold thou hast not judged well of me. Behold thou hast placed me in a low room, and hast taken the Garland from my head, and trod it under thy feet: For, what is Rodolph, that is not at leisure for the Lord, the God of righteousnesse, the King of Heaven and Earth?

Are they troubled with things that are greater than I? True it is; for with me there is no trouble: for where I enter, I set all things in quiet. Will the Counsellours of the Earth, sit in judgement to sift the Lord? O ye fooles and starvelings of the Earth: O you of little understanding. Think you, that you are able to find light amongst the affairs of the World? true judgement in the imagination of man? or verity amongst the hoords and corruption of covetousnesse and falshood? ^[196]

If he be not at leisure to hear me: Have not I told thee, that I have another in store? Lo, I see, all flesh is full of folly.

Δ. It is not yet done: and therefore we ask counsel of thee; and I thank thee (O Lord) for rebuking of us, before farther errour committed. ^[197]

Uriel. ..... Lo, I gave unto thee, the spirit of choice: and therefore I will regard thy doing, and will wink at thy weakness. I will blesse all that thou takest in hand, and will cover thee with a Robe of Purple; that thou mayst understand that all is mine, and that I raise up whom I list. And I say unto thee again.: Lo, Rodolph hath heard thee, And I will poure my Spirit of truth into thee, and thou shalt be a light unto him.

But, now, If he live righteously, and follow me truly; I will hold up his House with Pillars of ^[198] Hiacinct, and his Chambers shall be full of Modesty and Comfort. I will bring the East wind over him, as a Lady of Comfort: and she shall sit upon his Castles with Triumph, and he shall sleep with joy.

Moreover I will blesse his loynes: and his House shall stand to the third generation: and to the end; for, now, the World hath hoary hairs, and beginneth to be sick.

If he despise my commandment, I will put the sword against him; and in his dwelling places shall his enemies banket. (But those that deal with thee, let them sow up their mouth: lest being cut with a Razor, they speak not.) For those that neglect my Judgements I will despise them, and their seed shall wither, as corn sown out of season: But he that loveth me, I will multiply him, And he that addeth unto me, I will adde unto him a thousand. ^[199]

But lo, thou hast the spirit of choice.

Δ. O Lord open my understanding of that saying.

Uriel. ..... Quos tu eligis, electi sunt: quo autem despicis, despiciuntur etiam.

Δ. Dwell thou in me (O Lord) for I am frail, and (without thee) very blind.

E. K. Now he is gone.

Δ. Thy glorious name (O Lord) be magnified, praised, and extolled for ever. Amen.

Δ. I perceive that I shall not deal with the Doctor Curtz now. Well, I can let him understand ^[200] that I had rather deal with the Emperour himself, and so shift my self of him.

E. K. He is here again.

Uriel. ..... Yes, deal with him: and hide nothing from him.

Δ. With Doctor Curtz, O Lord? ^[201]

Uriel. ..... I — And therefore I said, He that addeth unto me, I will adde unto him a thousand: But he that playeth with me; lo, I swear, I will blot his name from life: ^[202]

[Δ] Liberèagas: Deus est enim liber.

E. K. Now he is gone.

Δ. Deo Omnipotenti, Invisibili & misericordi sit omnis honor, laus, gratiarum actio, & Gloria: nunc & in perpetuum.

Amen.

Thursday, Septembris 13. Mane. † Pragae.

Emericus did bring himself in sight of the Chamberlain, the Noble Octavius Spinola: as I willed him: And he called Emericus to him, and told him, that this day Doctor Curtz should understand the Emperour his pleasure, to confer with me, &c.

Emericus about 10 of the clock before Noon being in the Ritters Stove (or Guard-Chamber) saw Doctor Curtz come out from the Emperour.

Friday, Septemb. 14. Mane, circa 10.

I sent Emericus to Doctor Curtz his house in parva parte: with my commendations; and to say that before, I understood of Doctor Hageck Mr. Doctor Curtz his desire to be acquainted with me: whereof I was very glad and desirous: and now I trust that the Emperour his majesty, by his Authority hath taken order with him whereby to begin our acquaintance, and (God willing) our perpetual friendship. The Doctor was at home, and to Emericus (saying the effect of my message before noted) the Doctor declared that Captaverat antea varias occasiones mecum contrahendae amicitiae, &c. and that now he is very joyful of the occasion offered by the Emperours Majesty: and that this day sundry affairs did hinder the opportunity of our meeting, but to morrow at any hour (at my choice) he would be ready to welcome me to his house: and so with the usual phrase of offering all his services to my pleasure, he sent Emericus to me with his said Answer.

Amen.

Saturday, Septembris, 15. A Meridie hora (ferè) prima. † Pragae.

I came to the foresaid (called Doctor) Curtz: about one of the clock after Noon, who had all the day been ready to have heard me, if I would so have had it: but I sent him word in the morning by Emericus, that after Noon, (as now at this hour) I would come to him. Being come, he entertained me curteously: and two chairs being at the Tables end, he gave me the preeminence (by a friendly kind of earnestnesse) Then he told me, that long since in Germany, he had heard of my fame, and had seen of my writings: and that he was very glad of the opportunity now of my coming to this (ity; and that otherwayes he was desirous of my acquaintance, but chiefly seeing the Emperour his Majesty Ore tenus (for that was his phrase) by word of his own mouth, had willed him to hear what I had to say to his Majesty. I began and declared my long course of study for 40 years, alwayes, by degrees going forward, and desirous of the best, and pure truths in all manner of studies, wherein I had passed, and that I had passed as many as were commonly known, and more than are commonly heard of. But that at length I perceived onely God (and by his good Angels) could satisfie my desire: which was to understand the natures of all his creatures, and the best manner how to use ^[203] them to his divine honor and glory, and the comfort of the elect, and also to the reproof and confusion of the adversaries of his name and honour. And herein I had dealed sundry wayes: And at length had found the mercies of God such as to send me the instruction of Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Vriel, and divers other his good and faithful Messagers, such as I had here now brought books (about 18) to shew him the manner of their proceeding: And that I thought it good to begin at the last book, which also concerned most this present Emperour Rodolph. And so I did; and so by degrees from book to book lightly, I gave him a ^[204] taste or sight of the most part, and also let him see the Stone brought me by Angelical ministery, &c.

All things being seen and heard, that in six hours I could shew him: at length he required of me what conclusion, or summary report he should make to the Emperour. I answered, as he had occasion of the things seen and heard; but if he would follow my counsel (somewhat expert in these Divine and Angelical doings.) That his Majesty was to thank God for his ^[205] great mercies and graces offered: and that by me one, who most sincerely and faithfully gave his Majesty to understand the will of God herein, and that his Majesty was to do, as Mary (the blessed Virgin) did, to lay up all these my informations in his heart, and to say Ecce servus Domini, fiat voluntas tua, and so to attend the manner of the Lord his proceeding, while he framed his life, as it became every Christian to do.

He said, that he would write (for his own memories help) some short note of his observations of my speeches, and things seen and marked: and that he would to morrow (being Sonday) or on Monday, if he conveniently could, make a report to the Emperour, and so with all speed give me to understand further of the Emperour his Majesties will and pleasure. Hereupon courteously he brought me down to the street door of his house; and I came home after seven of the Clock, and an half, in the evening.

The mercies of God be on me, and his name be magnified and extolled in this world, and for ever. Amen.

Note. In the mean space while I was thus occupied with the foresaid Mr. Curtz. E. K. was visited at our Lodging with a wicked Tempter, who denied any Christ to be: and that as the ^[206] heart received comfort of all the Members of the body: So that he, who is God, of all things received comfort by Angels, and other the Members of the world: and that I was now with one, who would use me like a Serpent, with head and tayl compassing my confusion, &c. he earnestly reviled E. K. in divers manners: he said, that E. K. should be damned, and said: moreover, that of our practises should never come any fruitfull end, &c.

Δ. The eternal and Almighty God confound the Adversaries of his truth and glory, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Redeemer, and the Triumphant Conquerour against, Hell, fin, and the Devil.

Amen.

PRAGAE.

On Monday and Tuesday the 17th. and 18th. of September, I sent Emericus up to the Castle, to listen after answer of that Doctor Curtz his report to the Emperour, of that he had perceived by me. (But on Monday Octavius Spinola had sent into the Town for Emericus, ^[207] and told him that the Emperour had care and desire to understand my doing with the Doctor: And therefore asked Emericus if I had been with the Doctor, and he affirmed that I had. Hereof (said he) the Emperour will be glad: And yet (as I began to note) Emericus coming on Tuesday in the face of the Doctor in the Ritters stove; had not one word spoken to ^[208] him, that either he had spoken to the Emperour, or he had not. And therefore I suspect that the Doctor dealeth not honestly, faithfully, or wisely in this so weighty a case. And forasmuch as he told me, that the Emperour his Majesty was perswaded, that he was pious, &c. perhaps he would be loath; now, to prefer me to the speech of the Emperour, seeing both he himself, and the rest of his counsel stood perswaded to the contrary of this King. Hereupon this great delay, upon sinister report made to the Emperour might follow, &c.

Note. Fryday, Septemb. 21. Circa horam 10. Ferè, Mane. † Pragae.

Δ. As I and E. K. were together in my Study, earnestly discoursing of Auricular confession, publick confession, and confessing to God alone, and of the Authority of the Church, and the manner of the same Authority using to release, or retain fins, E. K. saw one walk on the Table between him and me: Thereupon I framed me to write, and note what should be shewed, or said, E. K. willed me to set down the shew-stone: So I did, and he looked.

E. K. I see him here with the Scarf over his head and face, untill his waste, but I see his hair yellow behinde on his head, &c.

Mitte lucem tuam, O Deus & varitatem tuam ut ipsae nos ducant ex hac valle miseriae ad montem Sanctum Sion, & ad coelestia tua Tabernacula. Amen.

Uriel. ..... I am Uriel the servant of the most wise, mighty, and everlasting God: which visit you for two causes.

The first, that I may open unto you true, and perfect light: such as darknesse comprehendeth not, infallible, and true meat, the power and spirit of the everlasting God.

The second, that I may counsel you against the world, and teach you to triumph against her frowardnesse. For, who hath trusted in the Lord, and hath been cast down? or what is he that hath cried aloud, and is not heard? Therefore, I say unto you; Hear my voyce: For I am of truth, and ^[209] put against darknesse, and in me are published the light, and mysteries of the Trinity from time to time, and in all ages unto those that fear, and obey God.

Two things there are which are the seals and marks of Satan: which bring eternal death and damnation to all such as are noted, or burned with them, that is to say, lying, and froward silence.

Behold the words of Christ, unto the subtile (your father is a lyar from the beginning, and the Devil.)

Hearken unto my voyce: He that [1] teacheth false Doctrine, openeth [2] his mouth against truth, or defiraudeth [3] his brother is a lyar, and shall not be forgiven.

1. For first, he sinneth against his Creator, which created all things in truth.

2. Secondly, he offendeth against the truth, and his Redeemer, which is the son of God, very Christ.

3. Thirdly, he offendeth against the spirit of God, (of the Father, and the Son) the holy Ghost: which shall not be forgiven; And therefore doth he incurre the rigour of Gods justice, his eternall damnation.

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? ^[210]

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 ^[211] 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 ^[212] 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. ^[213]

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 ^[214] 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 ^[215] 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 ^[216] 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.

^[217] 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, ^[218] 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 ^[219] 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 ^[220] 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 ^[221] 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, ^[222] 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 ^[223] 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 ^[224] 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) ^[225] it shall not be consumed.

And after certain moneths, I will bring thee home; yea, thou shalt live till thou be able to passe the waves without a ship, and to ascend the Hills, as the Spiders do. Notwithstanding, I will take the Crown from the house, it is in, and I will place it, as I have Prophesied unto thee. Notwithstanding, for a time, thou shalt live with Caesar.

..... I come again.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ. O Lord, what shall become of my good friend the Lord Laskie.

E. K. Here he is again.

Uriel. ..... Of Lasky thus it is said: Thou [Δ.] hast groaned for him, and hast placed him in ^[226] thy [Δ.] heart: From henceforth will I reconcile him unto me, and I will cease my anger upon him, and he shall come hither * shortly. But he is a wanton, and very prone to sin.

But hear what I say unto thee.

[E. K. He seemeth to have talk with one afar off]

Caesar thought thou hadst had the Philosophers stone, and (as yet) he thinketh so.

Even as I choaked the gluttenous Israelites with quayles, so will I choake him with that secret.

Behold, thou shalt write unto him, saying, that he regardeth not heaven: ^[227] And say unto him, that thou canst make the Philosophers stone, I will perform it unto thee: Thou shalt do it: And I will give unto thee a special vertue in healing: That whensoever thou comest hither: Thou shalt understand the truth. And this I do, because they shall not despise thee.

Δ. O Lord, for me to be despised in doing thy commandment, is honour and comfort to me: But as concerning thy honour and glorie; Thou in thy wisdom knowest what is best to be done. ^[228]

Uriel. ..... Notwithstanding, thou shall see him perish before thy face. Lo, from this time, I will blesse thee marvellously, and I will help thee in all thy works.

Do thou alwayes:

And make me thy Buckler.

Δ. What shall I do with Doctor Curtz, as concerning his answer?

Uriel. ..... Handle him like a man, for he will deceive thee.

E. K. I request you but one thing for all my labour and travel; that is, that this Doctor might this night be bereft of his life, to the terrour of other, &c.

Uriel. ..... Have patience, God turneth all to his glory, and your commodity. To morrow I have something else to say.

Deus Noster in coelo, omnia quaecunque volrit fecit: Ille solus est Omnipotens, aeternus, sapiens, Bonus, Justus & Misericors: Illi debetur omis Laus, gratiarum actio, honor & gloria.

Amen.

Saturday, 22. Septemb. Manè, Circiter horam 9.

Precibus ad Deum finitis, & variis ad ipsum Ejaculationibus pro [〈◊〉] & veritate Dei, &c. & quibusdam de Rudolphi & Curtzii corruptis Judiciis (qui Dei Misericordias, juxta carnis sensum judicare ausi sunt) [apparuit Vriel facie velata ut ante.]

Uriel. ..... (For this cause say I unto thee) write unto Rudolph, saying, I can make the Philosophers ^[229] stone: Because I would place thee with them, according to their hope and imagination: That whilest they think little of me, and of the sweetnesse of my message and testimony, I might burst out amongst them; as the mighty waters do out of Hills, when the earth moveth: For I have said unto thee, I will place thee here; If I sow thee here, what Raven can pluck thee up by the roots. No, I will hide thee, as the Hen doth her Chickens: And I will make thee spring to their destruction. For why, thou shalt overcome that mystery for thy own sake. ^[230]

Δ. For the glorie of God: his honour and triumph, all good come unto me.

Uriel. ..... Behold, since they will not tye thee unto them from heaven: Thou shalt tye them unto ^[231] thee from earth: That thou mayest rejoyce when thou seest their destruction, and be ready cloathed for him that is to come.

It was said unto thee, my mother saith she will chuse an Emperour in ^[232] ernest: But it is Ernest that shall sit upon his seat. Behold, 'there shall be no seed left in him for his wickednesse. Yea, the blessings that I have offered him shall return again; and I will leave his house naked. But when he seeth and hath Gold (which is the thing he desireth, and those that counsel him, do most desire him, for) Then shall he perish with a most cruel, terrible, and unheard of mischief.

But lo, I have written his name within my hand, because I would not forget to punish him. Behold, ^[233] I could send the windes to devour him, and could open the Caves of the earth to swallow him; which would turn to my honour: But I have a care over you.

Now I am unto you in mercy and wisdom. But I will be with you in terror ^[234] and miracles. And I will deal with you in a higher degree: And you shall hear my voyce, as men do their brethren.

Δ. What thou wilt (O Lord) for thy honour and glory: That be.

Uriel. ..... But those that are his counsellers have commanded him, rather then counselled him, ^[235] to have no dealing with thee at all.

And he is possessed with a great, and a mighty Devil. And behold Belzagal (which is the fury and Prince of the Turks) doth assist him in his wickednesse, for he knoweth it may come to passe that ^[236] his Kingdom shall be short. But give ear unto me. Fawn thou upon Caesar as a worldling, that thou mayest draw him with the world, to see the glory of God: but to his destruction. For lo, how much more a mans felicity is in this world, the more shall be the burden of his destruction.

There be that gape after thy books, and speak vainly of things that are not. Therefore I counsel that they dwell not long with Poland.

Behold, when Lasky cometh, he shall not hastily return into Poland: till I whisper in his ears, He is dead that sought thy life. I have more to say, but they are not (yet) necessary.

Δ. I beseech you to tell me when I shall prepare my self to go for my books, &c.

Uriel. ..... I speak not, that I know not; but chuse thy own time. Now will I become a Courtier. ^[237]

E. K. He is gone.

Amen.

Monday, Septembris, 24. Mane hora 8. † Pragae.

Δ. At the first looking E. K. saw Vriel, but covered with his Scarf, &c. Notwithstanding I said some prayers to God on my knees, and came and said here. Mitte lucem tuam & veritatem [〈◊〉] O [〈◊〉]: ut ipsae nos ducart ad montem Sion, &c.

It is to be remembred that for two causes we repaired to the Shew-stone: the one by reason of the letter which I had written to the Emperour: and was minded to go to shew it to the Spanish Embassadour before I sent it to the Emperour, to have his opinion of it, and also to bear it. Secondly, by reason of foul slanderous words which were spoken of me 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 ^[238] 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. ^[239] 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 ^[240] merciful in the Image of his Son Christ. But when the Lord openeth his mouth, and calleth you together, saying, ^[241] Venite & audite: Then lay away all mercy; for the God of ^[242] 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 ^[243] house is finished, and your ^[244] garments made, you shall both enter, and be clothed with comfort: Comfort of ^[245] wisdom and power. I am mindful of you, and will be mindful of my ^[246] promise toward you. And If you remain and dwell [fortè together deest] and be constant in me, you shall passe the ^[247] Thunders that are to come; you shall be witnesses of my power: and shall enter into the ^[248] 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 ^[249] leadeth to the Embassadour from Spain. I will reward him.

Therefore as thou hast opened me unto the ^[250] 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 [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] & * [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]. URIEL, Saniel, Azaelque, ^[251]

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 ^[252] 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 ^[253] 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 of the great actions and divine purposes. For the first he declared that he was lineally descended out of the consanguinity, of one a Gentleman, but unlettred at the first, who left his wife, children, and family in ^[254] Maiorca, and ascended an Hill there, and in place solitary remained an [〈◊〉] year, and at the years end, he came down, but so learned and wise, that all who knew him before, wondred at it. And that the same man was called Raymondo Lullio: and that he made that which is called the Philosophers Stone, as in England (said he) I understand is good record of it: Therefore I see, quoth he, that it is a truth and possible: and as he hath granted the knowledge of it to one man, so he may grant it to another, &c. And as for the other higher matters, I perceive that God intendeth some great matter in this world. But I am not able to judge or determine of it: But I am of this mind, wherein I can any way further the service of God, I will be ready and obedient, &c. And as for the Emperours person himself, I find him of a good nature, curteous, and most zealously Catholick: yea ready to shed his blood in the cause, if opportunity required. He understandeth the Latine well, and speaketh sufficiently well: That is true (quoth I) for he spake well in Latine to me divers things. Moreover (said he) as concerning you, I saw him very well affectionated, making great account of your book, &c. Therefore you are not to regard these Dutch mens ill tongues, who hardly can brook any stranger, &c.

Upon farther matter that I had to shew him, I offered my ready repair unto him at all times of his good leasure being called or warned. And he desirous to see the Stone brought to me by an Angel, willed me to come to morrow also, to Diner: I promised him, and so with thanks yielded to his honour, I departed toward my Lodging at Bethelem in old Prage.

The Copy of the foresaid Letter to the Emperour.

MUltis (O Serenissime Caesar) & permagnis (ferè omnium) Creaturarum Dei, immò [〈◊〉] Dei, & coelestibus haud paucis mysteriis, arcanisque, vestrae Caesareae Majestatis jussu per me (jam, ante quatuordecim dies) fideliter, sincere, & diligenter (quantum sex horarum fieri poterat spacio) declaratis, ac manifestatis: eidem, cui, eadem penes me videnda, audienda, intelligendaque esse voluistis: Inde, nunc, quae sit vestrae Caesareae Majestari, simplex (tanquam ab aequo rerum AEstimatore) facta relatio: vel, quod cum relatione adjunctum Judicium: vel, qualis totius processus excogitata censura: vel, qualis mecum procedendi, vobis persuasa cautio; vel, quale pro Caesarei vestri responsi forma, initum captumque consilium, Non sum tam immodeste curiosus, ut expiscar, Neque aliter, vel alia ratione de sacrae vestrae Majestatis Caesareae prudenti & gratiosa (in praemissis) Resolutione, sum sollicitus, quam, me (fidelem, sincerum, & devotum) Dei Omnipotentis, & (in Deo, propterque Deum) vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestatis servitorem deceat. Video tamen me (dum nullum adhuc ad praemissa receperim responsum) per tam alci silentii (quasi) stimulum, aliquantulum impelli, ut secundò vestram Caesaream Majestatem admoneam, Ne divinam hane, & divinitus oblatam Misericordiam, tam inexpectatam, tam magnam, tam inauditam, tam admirandam, tam multiplicem, tam statui Imperatorio, Christianaeque Reipublicae necessariam, tam certam, tam paratam, eamque (per Dei Omnipotentis, Caesareaeque Majestatis vestrae, fidelem servitorem) re ipsa, vobis confirmandam, & administrandam: (si sacra vestra Caesarea Majestas voluisset) parvi momenti negotium, vel inventum aliquod humanum, aut fraudem Diabolicam, esse, fuisse, vel fore, ullo modo suspicemini, vel Credatis. Tali enim & tam gravi vestrae Caesareae Majestatis errore, Omnipotentis Dei incendi posse furorem vehementer vereor: & ne hanc Dei misericordiam respuentes, ejusdem indignantem provocetis vindictam, valde metuo. Quapropter, cum videam Caelum ipsum, & caelestia talia mysteria, non tali tantaeque curae, vestrae sacrae Majestati Caesareae adhuc esse, quali, quantaeque optassem equidem: Ego potius quam, ut, vel Deus hujus suae (prius inauditae) Misericordiae ultroque vestrae Caesareae Majestati oblatae, prorsus nullum (penes homines) haberet conspicuum judicium, argumentum, Testimonium vel experimentum: Et potius quam mea (saepe nominata) fidelitas, sinceritas, & Devotio (sive votum) erga Deum & vestram Caesaream Majestatem, omni (apud posteros nostros) careret fide, & veritatis manifestae robore: In Dei Nomine, & ad ejus laudem, honorem, & gloriam: & ut vestrae serenissimae Caesareae Majestatis satisfaciam desiderio Heroico, De lapide illo Benedicto: (Philosophorum vocato lapide) infallibiliter videndo, possidendo & utendo: Assero vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestati, lapidem eundem me (auxilio favoreque Divino) conficere posse. Et propterea; Si vestra Caesarea Majestas, me velit interim, sibi intime charum habere: Et, si, pro dignitate tanti mysterii, & Beneficii (sibi à me liberalissime & humillime exhibendi) gratiosè me tractare dignabitur (Non tamen alio quidem vel altiori me insigniens Titulo quam qui vestrae Caesareae Majestatis Philosopho & Mathematico conveniat,) Hiis literis ore & corde polliceor, sanctéque coram Deo Omnipotenti voveo: Opus illud philosophicum, Omuibus suis numeris perfectum, in manus vestras Caesareas, (& sine sumptibus vestris ad illud opus perficiendum requirendis) ac brevissimo, quo fieri poterit, tempore (Nutu Dei) me daturum. De aliis praeterea Arcanis, adhuc mihi silendum esse video. Nunc autem sacrae Caesareae Majestaris vestrae gratiosam, liberam, constantemque voluntatem, in praemissis, non aliter, nisi ex vestro proprio gratioso ore vel ex vestris Caesareis literis propriis, intelligere Cupio. Nullum enim jam nosco, dignum & aptum, qui in istis, alissque Naturae & Artis secretis, meus (penes vestram Caesaream Majestatem) fieri deberet Mercurius.

Tuesday, Septembris 25. Pragae.

Note: I went to Diner to the Spanish Embassadour: and carryed with me the Stone brought me by an Angel; and the fourth Book, wherein the manner of the bringing of it is expressed. And also I carried with me Librum Sextum Sanctum Mysticum.

After Diner, when I had shewed him these things: his final answer was, that verily he took the doing to be by good Angel: marry, the matters to be too great: Therefore (said I) they are for the service of God, and not onely man. He said he was a sinner, and not worthy to be privy, much lesse to be a doer in them: Notwithstanding whatsoever he can do therein acceptable to God, he would be most obedient thereto. He desired a Copy of the ^[255] 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, ^[256] 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 ^[257] 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 ^[258] 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. ^[259]

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 mundi creatione Creaturarumque naturis, & vero usu, quam in mundi praesentis moxque [〈◊〉] statu: Et preterea, de unius Catholicae Ecclesiae (charissimae Jesu Christi [〈◊〉], nostraeque piae matris) sanctitate, dignitate, & Authoritate (veluti in qua etiam est Sanctorum Communio, & Peccatorum remissio) & de multis nondum per nos revelandis Dei Arcanis Magnalibus & Determinationibus: Quòd tantum abest, ut aliquis (sanae mentis) Christianus, Actiones Nostras Mysticas, Diabolicas esse fraudes, contendere, immo ne suspicari quidem conetur aut possit: ut potius, tale Arcanum Dei propositum, incredibiliter admirari, rationem humanam, in eisdem examinandis, subjugare, & Dei erga Electos suos admirandam misericordiam in istis esse manifestam, humillimè, & cum summo tremore fateri velit: Ego quidem, hactenus, in istis, aliud (ferè) nihil, me esse invenio, nisi Calamum scribae, velociter per me scribentis. Nam visa auditaque (in mea praesentia) fidelissimè, de litera interdum ad literam, interdum, verbatim, interdum pluribus simul receptis verbis (ipso eodem temporis momento, quo traduntur) annotare sum solitus. Ast jam in quam multa excrevit Noster talis labor volumina? Ex quibus omnibns illum fructum, successumque expectamus, qualem praefixit ille, cujus nutui cuncta obediunt. Istas autem ad suam sacrem Caesaream Majestatem literas meas: Cum vestra magnificentia opportunitatem inveniet primam, si meo nomine: humillimè eidem exhibere dignabitur, Tum magno mihi (Divinitus) injuncto, levatus ero onere: Tum magno, à vestra magnificentia affectus beneficio: Interim verò, Dum suae sacrae Majestatis Caesareae ad istas responsum dabitur, (nimirum si ad 14. vel 16. dies prius expectandum esset) vel, statim post acceptum responsum (si tam expeditè illud recipere possum, quàm quod recepi ultimo) ad iter me accingere debeo, propter familiam, libros, & aliquam meam suppellectilem, huc (ante hyemis asperitatem) transferendam. Ubi, cum Caesareae Majestatis gratioso favore, & sub ipsius Protectione Imperatoria, voluntatem Omnipotentis Dei implere, pro viribus, & suae sacrae Caesareae Majestati inservire (tanquam ejusdem Philosophus & Mathematicus) fidelissime, de tempore in tempus, paratus esse potero.

Illustri vestrae Magnificentiae Addictissimus

Joannes Dee.

I annexed hereunto a Post-script, which followeth:

Post-scriptum.

MEarum esse partium, & consultum esse duxi vestrae Magnificentiae paucissimis verbis significare, quod heri, manè, hora nona, vir egregius, & suae Majestis Caesareae fidus Confiliarius D. Doctor Curtzius, me humanissimè invisebat in meo ergastulo, & hypocaustato, juxta Bethlehem, ubi videre poterat Bibliothecam presentem meam, nullam (ferè) aliam esse, praeter Sancta Dei Evangelia & Biblia sacra ipsosque nostrorum mysteriorum libros: Ego autem quodam humili modo (inter caeteras querelas meas) de tam longa interposita mora conquerebar, inter ejusdem (de meis rebus) factam relationem, & Caesareum de eisdem recipiendum responsum. Ille verò se simplicissimè Caesareae Majesti visa auditaque (penes me) retulisse asseruit, nullo suo, de eisdem, adhibito judicio. Verum, Caesari (dixit) quasi impossibilia vel incredibilia fuisse visa. Et de responso mihi (in hac parte) dando, secum, adhuc, suam deliberare velle Majestatem Caesaream. Unde ego de literis meis istis, suae Majesti mittendis, mentionem feci & summatim earundem tenorem, eidem enarravi. Ille easdem statim habere voluit, ipsi Caesareae Majestati à Meridie mittendas: Ego quidem Caesaris me velle ad pauculos dies expectare ad ventum dixi. Deinde de rebus Mathematicis brevissime inter nos habito sermone, illique (ad pervidendum) dato libello quodam Geometrico (per me & Federicum Commandinum Vrbinatem) in lucem olim dato, & mutuis, post, utrinque promissis officiis humanitatis & benevolentiae, abiit.

1584. Sept. 28.

Saturday, Septemb. 29. Die Sancti Michaelis.

The foresaid Letter to the Emperours Majesty, with this Letter to the Ambassadour, and this Post-script: And moreover, (according to the Ambassadour his request) the Copy of the Emperours Letter, all in one uttermore paper closed (Letter like) sealed, and with superscription to the foresaid Ambassadour; I sent to his honour on Michaelmas day at dinner time, by Emericus Sontag: Who delivered the same to the Secretary of the Ambassadour, and he to the Lord Ambassadour, as he sat at dinner.

Deus bene vertat, ad laudem nominis sui.

Amen.

September 29.

Remember that this day (after-noon) I sent Hugh on foot with my Letters to Cracovia to Edmond, that my folk should not be out of quiet, or afeard to see Mistresse Kelly, sent for, and no Letters to come from me, &c. I writ to the Lord [〈◊〉] of our want of money, &c.

Monday, Octobris 1. à Meridie circa 3. horam. Pragae. Oratione dominica finita, &c. Valde cito est facta apparitio.

E. K. Here be two, one his face is covered, and the other is not: ^[260] And he, whose face is uncovered seemeth to be Gabriel.

Δ. Sit benedictus Deus Pater, Deus filius, & Deus Spiritus Sanctus nunc & Semper. Amen.

Δ. Our chief cause (at this instant) why we resort to this shew-stone, is for to understand (according to the grounds of God his promise) the state of my wife her grievous disease, ^[261] and means to cure her, wherein if it please the Lord to be mercifull unto her and me, it shall be the occasion whereby she will all her life time praise the name of God for his mercies, and be of a quietter minde, and not so testy and fretting as she is.

..... Who are you, or from whence come you, that you'require science; which seek to be more ^[262] wise and expert, then such as are the Children and Doctors of this World? whose judgements are rash, and understanding naked: and in whose lips dwelleth no truth. Who (I say) are you, that you should deserve the majestral benefit of so great and sanctified grace? as to understand the determination of God, the power of his Angels, or the brightnesse, or obscurity of mans Soul, and understanding: You desperate sinners, and partakers with the wicked, how can you seek bread at your fathers hands: when you seek to steal into his barnes? Yea, into his house, and dining Tables: and more then that; yea, even into his privy Chambers: not to spoyl him of his houshold stuffe, ^[263] of his Gold, or precious stones, but of the diademe, and Crown of his everlasting Majesty and honour: you are thieves and robbers; and through the Dignity of your spirit you shall think to exalt your selves, and to live in Majesty with the world.

True it is, you may live so: But you live with an Harlot, and shall possesse the reward of Fornicators and [〈◊〉].

Therefore seek not to feed of such food, as the holy, and blessed messengers, and Ministers of the ^[264] God of Hosts and glory do taste of: and are comforted; for they are the spirits of truth and understanding: such as cleave unto their God, and fight against the abominations, and horrible blasphemies of the world and her adherents: which (because you set your selves against the) shall keep, ^[265] and close up the brightnesse, and obscurity of each Soul from you, that [〈◊〉] ignorance may be greater; and your darknesse [〈◊〉], and that you may return without light: to the Barathrum of ignorance, ^[266] where pride, self-love, and the Children of vanity have their hubitation.

Then (peradventure) will you say within your selves: There be other doors, there be other woods; yea, there be other wayes, let us therefore seek out them.

But behold, I will shut up from you all Elemental Vigor: So that the Fountains of coagulation ^[267] shall be dried when you seek them, and the natural nourishment and food of parts that dwell in one ^[268] proportion shall hide themselves, and be asleep when you seck them; yea, in the lowest I will place a threefold door-bar, stronger then a Rock of yearn, which shall stand between your eyes and knowledge, and you shall not see: for peradventure you may say in your selves.

Behold, there is a science known; yea, there is a conjunction of [Δ] equal qualities, opening unto ^[269] us the [〈◊〉] of comfort in infirmities, that is not so. O you foolish: for neither here, nor there, shall you finde the Lord, if you follow the steps, and defiled wayes that the world teacheth you.

For I said of you: Lo, I will place you against the world, that ^[270] my name may be magnified, and the world shall hate you for my sake.

Δ. O Lord, be mercifull unto us: Deal, O Lord, with us, as I have put my trust in thee: Turn away thy wrath (O God) and visit us in mercy: O God, O Lord, what grievous sayings are these?

Gabriel. ..... Trouble [Δ] thou not thy heart, but hear the voyce of me, Gabriel, the man of God. I am the true medecine of such as put their trust in the God of Hosts, and in his son Christ; which is the Lamb of life, and the comfort of his father, which give unto those that thirst, the true medecine ^[271] of comfort and consolation; neither shall God forsake thee, neither shall thy Soul be deceived.

But it behoveth these things to be spoken, that sin might be corrected, and ^[272] the name of him that sent us, magnified.

Δ. In nomine Dei loquitur, ^[273] qui per omnes Angelos loquitur: licet enim Vriel dixerit vel alius, tamen Deus semper loquitur. ^[274]

Gabriel. Hear my voice: as I said unto thee, so will I place thee here. And from hence thou shalt have science and understanding, and thou shalt be favourable in the eyes of him, that I favour not: that my glorie might be exalted in him, and against his childishnesse. Yet, I will be mercifull to him; yet if he hear me. E. L.

..... Vnto thee [E. K.] I say, (O thou that art a worldling) ^[275] I will stir up friends amongst you, and I will fill thy hands with that thou desirest: But that thou receivest in the one, I will pluck back in the other, that when thou wouldest be wise, thou shalt not, and when thou wouldest see, thou shalt not.

Δ. E. K. Was very much offended at these sharp words, &c. and would have left off, &c.

Uriel. ..... Inobediens es, & castigatione dignus.

Gabr. ..... As for the vertue of the holy spirit ^[276] (spoken of) the gift of medecine, and healing (which you call Physic) Alas, you know not.

Insani sunt omnes, & fatui: For, Physick is in very deed, the true, and perfect science of the natural combination, and proportion of known parts, answering in graduation real, to one principal and defined; is therefore above the capacity of such as are worldlings, and do hunt after money more then the truth of Gods spirit.

Definitie Medicina, Medicina est vera & perfect a scientia naturalis combinati [〈◊〉], & proportionis partium [〈◊〉] debito [〈◊〉] respendentium in graduatione reali ad [〈◊〉] principale, & desiaitum esse.

Uriel as a witnesse standing by.

But lo, light standeth by me, and my words are medicine: and whatsoever I speak, light beareth witnesse of me: Therefore are my words true.

..... Have patience awhile.

Δ. He disappeared.

Δ. We examined the definition of Physick to be a very apt answering, both to the Anatomical natures of man, or any patient, and also of the Herb, or simple, that is medicinal, &c.

Δ. He came again and proceeded.

Gab. .... Which consisteth of two parts, the knowledge of coelestial radiation (the cause of [1] combining) ^[277] and of Elemental vigor, the stay, and cause of [2] proportion.

The first, and coelestial is threefold, that is to say, from God, from the Angels, from mans Soul.

The second (that is to say Elementa) is the knowledge of the star [1] coagulating; of the [2] pabula of the parts nourished, of the [3] conjunction of like qualities.

(Here is the true Art of Physick)

This second is threefold.

After a while I come again.

Δ. He is come again, and proceeded.

Gab. ..... Go to.

Δ. In the name of Jesus.

Gab. ..... Then you are diseased, you are sick: you must have a Physitian: why then, your Physitian must be such as hath this Science, to judge your disease,

Whether (for sin) it come from God: and so by prayer to be cured: ^[278]

Or from the Angels, as the Ministers of Gods Justice (generally) for desert or for reproof: ^[279]

Or from the soul of man, as from the chief life of the body, whose infection radically, and by the ^[280] influence of proportions immediate, (hidden from man, but known unto us,). is called (with us) Mazah: with you, Impietas.

These are the first three, and Magicall Causes: The other three are Elementall. ^[281]

1. Either by the star, that is cause of coagulation and imbibing of mans sperm in the femine ^[282] blood, without the which it could not.

2. The other (that is the second) through infection of meates which are divers, wherewith the ^[283] thing is, [and] continueth, which in their kinds are many.

3. The last, by conjunction or mixture: which is the secret property that draweth infection from ^[284] man to man.

These if you know (for he is no Physitian if he know them not) how they are and live, and are ^[285] joyned together in their proportions, and also when they exceed, or are diminished, in that they are you shall be able to bring them to their proper being, wherein they are ratified and rejoyce.

[Δ. He was away a quarter of an hour.]

Gab. ..... Lo, these are seeds and foundations: and here I have (according to my property) touched the least of my strings for you.

If now you intend to excell the Physitians of the Earth, and to help those that are diseased, ^[286] sincerely, truly, and through the power and mercy of God;

Then must you attend upon me, and my expositions, for forty dayes, wherein I will open unto ^[287] you, many and unknown secrets; and will comfort you with this one herb or branch of my Garden, ^[288] to the intent you may perceive I am true Gabriel.

But as in you that are hearers, due obedience ought to be, so must I keep the Authority and ^[289] gravity of a Schoolmaster, suffering none to hear my Doctrine, but such as are abstinent and cleansed from their sins.

Consider therefore, what the mercies of God are, the fruit, and value of this Doctrine, and the nakednesse and necessity of the world that requireth it, and then answer me. ^[290]

For your answer is a vow unto the Lord, of whose help and comfort I bear witnesse. ^[291]

But as touching thy wife, her disease is in the first Elemental, and very dangerous, and threatneth her child, yea and her self death.

Δ. Lord, therefore I resort unto thee, who art the Curer of all dieases.

Gab. ..... But to morrow (if thou resort here,)

I will tell thee, what it is, and will define of it.

Lord, I trust, it shall be cured: What is unpossible unto our God?

Gab. ..... I cease.

Δ. Incessant praise and honour, be unto the Almighty, most bountiful, and wise God, the Lord of Hosts, our God and King.

Amen.

Remember I sent letters to Cracow by the Messager of Prage:

Tuesday, Octobris 2. Mane hora 9. † Pragae.

Δ. Orationibus finitis, ad Deum, &c. Deus in adjutorium nostrum intende, &c.

E. K. Here they be.

Δ. Gratia Dei, patris, & filii, & Spiritus Sancti, sit super nos nunc & semper & in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Δ. They paused, before they spake, very long.

Δ. Perhaps they expect our answer, as concerning our cleansing and abstaining from sins: Herein I crave at Gods hands his grace and mercy, and intend and desire both to be purged, and also to abstain not onely 40 dayes, but all my life, to the best of my ability, &c.

Gab. ..... Puris habemus omnia, Immundis nihil.

Δ. I beseech you for God his sake, & per viscera misericordiae Altissimi, that you would declare uuto us a certain remedy of my wife her disease, &c.

Gabr. ..... When thy wife was a milkie substance, growing by the perfection of the place, and influence radical, (which onely, is the gift of the Sun) then, was not the Matrix, or bag of ^[292] Nature (wherein she encreased) perfect, or of sufficient retention: By reason of a feaver going before the conception: So that, the Angelical administration, generally containing, the vessel of life, ^[293] for the proportion of the world, ^[294] entred by force of their Order immediately, before the [Δ]inward parts, were established in their nutriment and proportion.

Which is the cause, that the second ^[295] vessel, and lowest of nature (for, your terms I must use) is so thin, and tyed short, that it is not able to keep in, or retain, the simile and quidditie of her own substantial being and seed.

Wherefore, when the rest of her digestions (according to her age and natural strength) fulfil their offices, by degree to be received into that receptacle; then, doth the force of nature quail: and by the subtilty of the principle, or matter ejected, (which seeketh to take up on every center a dwelling place,) the guts and passages, are offended and scalded with an intemperate heat: the most subtile and sharpest part, being of a most penetrating vertue: (and therefore seeking passag) mixeth her self with the excrements, where resting, she turneth unto her first form, which ^[296] is blood: Whose Quintessence worketh, in her own property and beginning, and forceth the [1] excrement stercoral many times to become bloody, the other part being more heavy, notwithstanding unapt to descend, (Quia natura quaerit omne suum) becometh corrupted; and so by vertue of ^[297] nature, is cast out as an [2] excrement, being blood and matter.

But I tell thee, that so long as Nature was in the lowest degree, and the sperm kept more near together, by reason of the spiritual heat in youth, it was not faulty in her:

But in her sixteenth year, when they were more heavy and sought issue and descension, then began ^[298] Nature to feel the effect, in the places, and vessel, which is the ground of her retention, the chief basis and mother of her dwelling.

Behold now, being faetive, and the force of heat drawn to the nutriment of the Creature; Moreover ^[299] the other part Active compelled into a nearer place, by the impediment of imagination, bringeth great danger now, by reason that Nature is become very weak, and not able to make excremental expulsion.

But do [〈◊〉] thou think that there is a remedy to this disease?

Δ. Yea verily, through the wisdom and mercies of the Highest.

Gabr. ..... I have taught the disease; I will go and see if there be a remedy.

Δ. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, be merciful to my wife and me, and send her remedy and cure of her grief.

E. K. Here he is.

Gab. ..... Come again after Diner.

Δ. We had been sent for to diner, twice or thrice before. So we went.

Δ. Misericordiae Dei sint super nos.

Amen.

After Diner, circa horam 1.

Δ. We resorted to the Mystery: and shortly, they appeared both.

E. K. Here they be both.

Δ.

Gab. ..... Take pure wheat, a pinte: one Pheasant-Cock alive, an eleven ounces of Masculine Amber (which is the white Ambe) an ounce and a quarter of Turpentine. ^[300]

Δ. Of washed Turpentine?

Gab. ..... Turpentine that is washed loseth his vertue.

Break the Cock in pieces with a pestel, (his feathers pluckt off) pound the Amber small.

Put all this into a gallon of red wine.

Δ. May we take the red wine of this Country?

Gab. ..... I. Distill them, with a fire of the second heat.

[Δ. I beseech you, how long shall they stand in steep?

Gab. ..... As thou wilt.]

Still it again the second time, (the feces being cast awa) And adde something more to the fire, so that it be a quarter toward the third.

Let her fast forty hours from meat: And let her divide the Medicine into three parts.

The first part, let her drink (being milk-warm) by little and little.

The second part, let her make a sawce of, for five or six meales.

The last part, let her use in Absconditis: And she shall have health.

Δ. I beseech you, in how many dayes compass would you have this to be done?

Gab. ..... It is no question: the necessity of the thing teacbeth.

Δ. As concerning the Infant, what state is it in?

Gab. ..... Shut thy mouth: Seek not.

Δ. I am contented.

Δ. As concerning a Pheasant-Cock, I know not how or where to get it.

Gab. ..... All the creatures of the world, else, help not. I have taught, take thou care.

Δ. The thanks, honour, and praise, be to the Highest, and I thank you for your charity and good will, to impart these things unto me.

Gab. ..... You shall have no more, at me, until you be repentant, and reconciled: and are ^[301] made apt for my School.

E. K. You might give this Table vertue to cure her, or cure her with some one thing, or simple, if you be good Angels.

Gab. ..... Vnto us, the vertue of Gods Creatures are known: which we may open unto you: and ^[302] the power of giving vertue is in God: Therefore cease thy malitious tongue.

I have no more.

E. K. They are gone.

Δ. Deo Omnipotenti, Optimo & Maximo sit omnis laus honor & gloria: nunc & semper.

Amen.

Thursday, Octobris 4. Mane, hora 10.¼ circiter. † Pragae.

Orationibus variis ad Deum, & pro pane quotidiano jam in tempore necessitatis, finitis, &c. apparitio facta est.

E. K. Here is he, that is covered with the Scarf.

Δ. It was a parcel of my prayers to God

Δ. Misericordias Domini in aternum cantabo, qui me sub alia suis illaesum servavit, servat, & servabit.

Uriel. ..... Hear, O thou, [Δ] that sayest, (if I have put my trust in the) hear me, If that thou hadst taried at home, and wanted my admonishment, thy children had been scattered, thy wife had ended her dayes with sorrow: and lo, the birds of the air had rested on thy carkase. If thou wast held by the hand, and attended on, by heavenly Pilots, when the Seas would have swallowed thee, and Satan [〈◊〉] power over thee; If poison had prevailed, wherewith thy meat was often times sawced. If the continual rage of Satan and the world had overthrown thee. Then had not I been thy God, neither had done well unto thee. But out of all these I have led thee, as a father doth his child from danger, And from many more scourges and adversities unknown to thee, but ready to afflict thee. [〈◊〉] to, thou sayest unto me, If: What hast thou done for me, or added unto my ^[303] name? What hast thou lost that I have not given thee? or what canst thou have, that I pluck hack? Hear my voice. He that loveth the world, loveth not me; for what I do I do: and what I am, I am: And I made nothing without a cause. Thou hast not yet begged for my name, neither hast been imprisoned for my sake; But I have turned the prison from thee, and have opened unto thee my mysteries. I say unto thee, I am the beginning, and an undefiled Spirit, and there is no riches that is without me. If I should not suffer thee to be proved, Then were thou not for me; ^[304] For, those that are mine, taste tribulation: But when Satan hath spent his whip; If thou be found faithful, I will place my covenant with thee and thy children, And I will be revealed unto them, unto the end of the world. Silver and Gold I give not; But my blessing, is above the substance of the Earth. Dayes there be, that thou must drink of gall, and a time cometh, when thou shalt drink wine. In the mean season, those that give unto thee, I will mnltiply all they have with blessing a thousand fold; for those that give unto thee, I will give unto them; And those that pluck back from thee, I will also pluck back from them. Those that are of me, have no spot; for I am all beauty.

E. K. But will you give us meat, drink, and cloathing?

[〈◊〉] ad Cor. Epist. 1. cap. 15. versu 51. & 52 Ecce mysterium vobis [〈◊〉]: Non [〈◊〉] quidem obdormiemus: sed omnes [〈◊〉]: [〈1 line〉], &c.

The Commission, and manner of prophesying against the incredulous.

^[305] There shall come a time, (if you dwell together and love me) that in the twink of an eye, you shall breath your last, and live again: and I will kick under my feet all the proud Nations of the Earth:: for my day is at hand. But I am a jealous God: Be therefore faithful. If I send thee forth, and they hear thee not: or measure thee, as a shadow, at noon dayes, Go unto the mountains and take up stones and break them in pieces with a mighty pestel, cast them against the windes, and into the four parts of the Earth. And say, Thus and thus be it unto them: Thus and thus let the Lord work for me: and thy prophesie shall be true, and it shall come to passe that thou sayest. ^[306]

So likewise if they hear thee, do unto them, that my blessing may also be known.

Δ. Lord, what shall I do, if they hear me?

Uriel. ..... Do unto them the signs of good; as it shall come into thy mind.

I come again.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ. I thank thee O God, for this great comfort: my heart is greatly refreshed therewith: Thou art my God.

Δ. We read over the premisses.

E. K. He is here again.

Why dost thou [E. K.] seek to flee from me, aud secretly puttest into thy heart, &c. ^[307]

Δ. He spake divers things to E. K. which chiefly concerned himself: and he would not utter them as now: But he told me, That he was determined to have sold his cloths, and with as much speed as he could, with his wife, to have gone to Hamburgh, and so to England, &c. If his wife would not go, that he would.

Uriel. ..... Hear me, There is not any one, more strong, more rich, or more friendly, than I, &c.

Δ. He spake much again to E. K. of himself, which he expressed not.

E. K. It is true, I will follow God; but I doubt that you are not of God.

Uriel. ..... I will shew you the water: do what you list. I say unto thee [Δ] Take not thy ^[308] wife Jane with thee, least thou have a new sorrow.

Three of you shall go, The fourth, [T. K.] (which is [E. K.] his brothe) shall be a servant to his house.

I can well keep it. ^[309]

But when thou comest into Poland, be not known. Lead out Lasky by the hand, and bring him hither, and prophesie against his enemies, that I may break them in pieces: and may be mindful of my Covenant.

He hath much need of Counsel.

I am with you.

E. K. He is disappeared.

Δ. Deo nostro, Domino nostro & Sanctificatori nostro Omnipotenti, aeterno, & misericordi sit omnis laus, gratiarum actio, honor & gloria nunc & semper.

Amen.

Fryday, Octobris 5.

At afternoon came one of Doctour Curtz his servants from his Master to tell me, that his Master would come to me to morrow in the morning about seven, eight, or nine of the Clock, as I would, &c.

Saturday, Octobris 6. Manè.

Before seven of the Clock I thought good rather my self to go to Doctour Curtz, then to suffer him to come to me so far, and that for divers causes: So I went to him, and came before he was ready. At his being ready he came forth, but nothing with so chearfull a countenance to welcome me as he did at the first: I conjectured that he suspected that I would take his words in evil part, which he had to say to me from the Emperour, which (after I had somewhat spoken of the book that I lent him, and some other, that had written somewhat of such matter of division of superficies, and he had told me that this my book was the most excellent in that Argument, and so made a pause, he began in this sort in two parts to divide his speech, and said that Caesarea sua Majestas quantum ad sua peccata (per me reprehensa) solet Confessionarium adhibere tempore & loco opportunis, neque diffidere illum de Misericordia divina; Quantum autem ad me attinebat, paratam esse suam Caesaream Majestatem mihi gratificari & benefacere in quacumque re quae illius subjiceret Authoritati: I hereupon answered, and said: Doteo verba mea in alio sensu intellecta vel concepta fuisse à sua. Caesarea Majestate quàm intelligi vel concipi debebant. Non enim me ejus fieri Consessionarium cupiebam, sed peccata ejus ex coelo reprehensa fuisse, hoc illi significare jubebar, ut feci: unde ille consolationis plus haurire poterat, quam ex consilio alicujus sui amici vel [〈◊〉] sui, peccata ejus redarguentis, Domini enim Dei eximium declarabat favorem, &c. [〈◊〉] verò ad illam quam mihi offerebat sua Majestas Caesarea gratiam, humillimè acceptabam. [〈◊〉] verò quod desiderem titulo Philosophi & Mathematici Caesarei insigniri causa est multiplex; tum respectu secreti mei servitii erga Caesarem, sub eo praetextu caelandi quam majoris authoritatis & [〈◊◊〉] Caesarianos & Anglos meos, ne vel illis hic nugas agere videar, & nullius esse [〈◊〉], vel istis [〈◊〉] viderer aptus, contra quem suam invidiam & maledicentissimam, ut incepere, exercerent linguam impune, &c. [〈◊〉] igitur D. Curtzium ut Caesaream suam Majestam admoneret de indebitae interpretatione illorum verborum quibus vitia ejus redarguebantur, &c. Then he spake of the second Letters to the Emperour, the effect whereof he had heard at my hands, and had sent on Michaelmas even to the Emperours Majesty, a note and advise of them, as he now said. And did wish that they had been delivered before the Emperour had resolved on the former answer: Those Letters (said I) are in the Ambassadours of [〈◊〉] hands; and if he will not deliver them to day, I will fetch them for you: If you do (said he) I will deliver them [〈◊〉] way, for at eighth of the Clock [〈◊〉] shall have me in the Ritter stove, or hear of [〈◊〉] there. Then (said I) I will straight way go to the Ambassadour.

I went unto the Ambassadour of Spain, and reported all that had passed between me and D. Curtz. He said, that by reason of his divers affairs he had not good opportunity, never since the receipt of my Letters to go to the Emperours Majesty: But that this day he determined to deliver my Letters with his own hand unto his Majesty: so with thanks given to his honour I departed: I went to the Ritter stove (or Chamber of presence) where I found none of the Guard, but very many sitting without. In the stove were three, or four, of which one went straight way into the privy Chamber, and by and by D. Curtz came out from the Emperour unto me, I asked him if he had told the Emperour of my grief conceived of his misunderstanding my words: he said, I, and that the Emperour [〈◊〉] it not in evil part, and so of divers other things we had talk walking up and down together about a quarter of an hour: Among other things I told him that the Lord Ambassadour would deliver my Letters himself to the Emperours Majesty, so I departed, and he returned back to the Emperour into the privy Chamber.

Sunday, Octobris 7. Mane hora 7.

I sent to the Lord Ambassadour his house, and there I learned that the Ambassadour had yesterday delivered my Letter to his Majesty: And that answer was to be expected by D. Curtz.

After Dinner I went to Doctor Curtz home to his lodging, and he had nothing as yet to say of the Letter delivered by the Lord Ambassadour: But we fell to other talk, and I told him plainly, that I had not hitherto lived obscurely, neither without care of my good fame and name, maintaining, and increasing; therefore if here for my sincere dealing [〈◊〉] should seem to be despised, or not regarded, or to be but a trifler, my thought I should have great injury: And sure I was that the Emperours Majesty was much ruled by him, and as he did frame his judgement, so did his Majesty very oft resolve in such matters as mine; wherefore if I were not used in my causes as was reasonable, and for the Emperours honour it should not be laid to any other mans charge but to his, &c. He promised that he would deliver all in the best words he could, in friendly sort, &c. After this he shewed divers his labours and inventions, Mathematical, and chiefly Arithmetical Tables, both for his invention by squares to have the minute and second of observations Astronomical, and so for the mending of Nonnius his invention of the Quadrant dividing in 90. 91. 92. 93. &c. I then opened to him my secret of my glasse, for battering in a dark night, &c. He said that conclusion would be very acceptable to his Majesty, I told him that the glasse was at Cracovia, and his Majesty should see it by Gods leave.

After this I told him that I would full fain have a Pasport, or safe conduct to passe quietly and safely in any of the Emperours Dominions. He thought his Majesty would willingly grant that, and willed me to write three, or four lines as I would have it, and he informed me thus:

Caesaream suam Majestatem humillimè or at Joannes Dee Anglus, serenissimae suae Majestatis Devotissimus servitor, ut pro sua majori in Itineribus per amplissimum suae Caesareae Majestatis Imperium conficientis securitate, literas salvi passus fibi concedere dignaretur.

Joannes Dee.

At my coming home, I bethought me that I would gladly, the said Pasport, safe Conduct, or Letters of passage, more ample and beneficial; as for my wife, children, family, servants, and goods whatsoever, and for one whole year to dure from the date of these presents thus.

Wednesday, On Monday morning 8. Octobris.

Sacram suam Caesaream Majestatem humillimè orat, serenissimae suae Majestatis Devotissimus servitor Joannes Dee Anglus, ut eidem Joanni pro seipso, uxore sua, liberis suis, familia sua, servitoribus, Ancillis suis & suppellectili sua quacunque sua sacra Caesarea Majestas favorabiles & gratiosas suas liter as salvi quieti & liberi transitus per omnes & quascumque amplissimi Majestatis suae Caesareae Imperii partes viasque, & pro integri anni (proximè post datam praesentium sequenti) tempore quocumque, clementèr concedere dignaretur.

Anno 1584. Oct. 8.

Joannes Dee.

Monday, Octobris 8.

I went to Mr. Doctor Curtz, with these last Letters fair written, and I found him to be at the Hoff rate Camer in Counsel: and so awaiting till they rose (half an hour after 8. of the Clock) he came out with my Letters in his hand, which I left yesternight with him. I shewed him these last written: And he said they use to limit no time, but to make them indefinite. So he took the last, and I had the former Letters back again. He went with them into the privy Chamber, he said, I should not need to send for the Letters, but he would send them home by his man, and I went from him toward the Ambassadour Don Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente, whom I found coming with the Ambassadour of Spain (who came three, or four dayes before, to give the golden Fleese to the Emperour) and the Marshall of the Court to go to the Emperour presently to have audience: And as I stood in the Court of the Ambassadours lodging, and they three on hors-back coming, the Ambassadour my friend did put off his Cap, so did the new Ambassadour and Marshal twice very [〈◊〉] to me. I saw it was no time to offer speech to the Ambassadour; now of my giving thanks, taking leave, and requiring his pleasure toward the Lord Laskie: so following them to the Court, I passed for ward home toward my Lodging.

Marginal notes

1. Conjectura levicula. ↩
2. Nota de Anno, 88. ↩
3. Societas Jesu. ↩
4. Δ. 72 Angels. ↩
5. 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. ↩
6. Madimi est ex ordine potestatum. ↩
7. Vide 26. Junii. ↩
8. Mater Madimi. ↩
9. The Rainbow. Apocalips. 4. ↩
10. Faith shall hardly be found on the Earth. ↩
11. Seven Woes. ↩
12. [〈◊〉] ↩
13. [〈1 line〉] ↩
14. Madami, my friend. ↩
15. This name of God is in [〈1 line〉] ↩
16. Satan his Traiterous information to be taken head of. ↩
17. A. L. ↩
18. [〈1 line〉] ↩
19. My wife, children, and houshold must be moved to Grage. ↩
20. Mater Maditni. ↩
21. Trinity. ↩
22. IF. ↩
23. RODOLPHUS. ↩
24. Δ. Either E K V 1. 263. speake not this, or [〈◊〉] omitted to write it at the first. ↩
25. If Dei [〈◊〉] & [〈◊〉] cum Δ. de R. ↩
26. The marvellous beginning of this last time. ↩
27. Mapsama. ↩
28. A paper book to be prepared. ↩
29. Jajurandum ad Dee, pro A. L. ↩
30. Misericurdia Dei super Δ. Cum Imperore Rod. Prophetia de Δ. ↩
31. Mathei 7. D. ↩
32. New lessons. New books. ↩
33. No dicas coram Angels non est Providentia. [〈◊〉], siastes, cap 5. ↩
34. Libelli Monadis Hieroglyphicae Theoremate 20. jam ante 20 annos editi. ↩
35. D Δ [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] ↩
36. Aliquid deest forte. The Spirit of Pride. This Testimony to be believed upon great displeasure else ↩
37. Heavens of Glory, Chastity, Angels. ↩
38. God to us is the Discloser of his own secrets. ↩
39. Humility. ↩
40. Vriel hath a Tower to build &c. ↩
41. Δ. and E. K. ↩
42. Primus Filius Spiritus Sanctus. ↩
43. Desolatio de qua Propheta loquutus est. Apocalyps. cap. 18. F. ↩
44. 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. ↩
45. Joel, cap. 3. ↩
46. Fear not. ↩
47. Promise of visitation for the 48. great Calls, and the Holy Book wilting and practising. ↩
48. Legissatio manifesta & in [〈◊◊〉]. Antichristi eversio per Spiritum SS. [〈◊〉]. [〈◊〉] Epist. [〈◊〉] ad Thess. 2. cap. 2. ↩
49. An Election or Choice offered to Δ. RODOLPHUS Imp. ↩
50. A Vision. ↩
51. The Garden of Comfort. ↩
52. 1. One of those men saith ↩
53. He meaneth of the first and second which gathered flowers, and of the third. Respice [〈◊〉]. ↩
54. 2. ↩
55. 3. Note. [〈◊〉] sine qua non: & causa proxima & [〈◊〉] ut differunt [〈◊〉]. ↩
56. A defiler of the flowers. The Garden of Wisdom. ↩
57. Three manner of wise men. ↩
58. Fury and Re-Open unto venge. ↩
59. Rudelph the Emperour must be made [〈◊〉] of all. RUDOLPHUS IMPER. [〈◊◊〉] sides, [〈◊〉]. ↩
60. [〈◊〉]. cap. 6. Uriel. ..... His voyce. ↩
61. Earth. ↩
62. A [〈◊〉] of our choice made. ↩
63. Prepare. ↩
64. The Promise becometh life. God well pleased. A new promise to Δ. ↩
65. Camber, vide Anno 1582. 15. Martii. ↩
66. 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 quam virum Mariae pregnantem censeri, &c. Vide Sept. 21. Misericordiam Dei praemissam. ↩
67. Δ. I must be placed here in Prage. ↩
68. NOT YET Stewards Overseers Labourers. The Lord his visitation is not yet. ↩
69. Time. ↩
70. Δ. Promise to Abraham. Seth, the third sen of Adam. ↩
71. A promise made unto us. The choice misliked. The mercies of God upon us. ↩
72. [To Prage.] A sure help promised. ↩
73. Do the Lords Commandment speedily. Note, signes. Δ. I understand not this. ↩
74. Note our unaptnesse yet to be visited, Ecclesiastes, cap. 1. ↩
75. The workman and the work must be correspondent. To Δ. Was said, In fac supra. To E. K. in vide. To A. L. Tu vive. ↩
76. A new choice, by God his great [〈◊〉] granted. 73 and a half Dee his age. ↩
77. Angelus [〈◊〉], E. K. ↩
78. Aflafben my good argel. Sudsamna E. K. his good Angel. Vita Naturae, Gratiae. ↩
79. Δ. [〈◊〉] King [〈◊〉] did Regnum 4. cap. 20 Note. ↩
80. Augusti 23. ↩
81. Our new [〈◊〉] reformed choice. ↩
82. A great mercy, and mystery. ↩
83. The former choice renounced. This Day. ↩
84. 122 87. ↩
85. Amen. ↩
86. Rodolphus. ↩
87. Causa sine [〈◊◊〉] Note this phrase of sound. ↩
88. Three movers in man con curring. ↩
89. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
90. Note the manner of the [〈◊◊〉] in, or by man. ↩
91. Mundus Humaenum [〈◊〉], &c. tanquam Cera. ↩

92. Impressio

    • Superior,
    • Humana,
    • Inferior.
    ↩
93. Pray against Temptation. ↩
94. Impressio praedominans est consideranda. ↩
95. Δ. Per quae homo [〈◊〉] per cadem punitur: qui dixit Ascendam, &c. Jam ex Infernali statu, semper ascendendo tentat. ↩
96. The Answer to the first [〈◊〉]. ↩
97. Satan about this time was very busie with E. K. and declared his name to be Satan at [〈◊〉]. ↩
98. An intended lye by Satan. ↩
99. Reformation of the Records. ↩
100. Answer to the second in a Parable. ↩
101. A [〈◊〉] [〈◊〉] 8 9. 10. & 11. capita Apocalypseos. ↩
102. Δ. My prayer unto God for wisdom. Wisdom. ↩
103. DEVS Mater rerum [〈◊〉], idem & Pater. ↩
104. [〈◊〉] sit Deus noster, qui respicit gemitus Pauperum. E. K Not taster of that he seeth, or heareth. ↩
105. Note. Δ How the Angels of the Lord have appeared to. Δ which may seem more certain (almost) then as the phrase is [〈◊〉] of the Angels appearing to Joseph, in somnis, vide Matthaei, cap. 2. ↩
106. Answer to the third and fourth demands. ↩
107. Amen. ↩
108. Monday, Augusti 27. ↩
109. One of the 3. spiritual creatures said. He in the middle of the Thre..... ↩
110. Δ. Rod. his heart is to be turned by God, but I know not the meaning. Δ. Sunt duae literae ultimae in linea Spiritus Sancti in Tertia Tabula. ↩
111. Flagellum Dei. ↩
112. Trinitas & unitas Divina. ↩
113. Filii fidei & non rationis bumanae. ↩
114. Δ. His name is the last 3. letters of the 1. line of the fourth Table. ↩
115. Rod if. Vide lib. 15. Maii 28. 1584. ↩
116. Ga Za Vaa ↩
117. Angeli observantes [〈◊〉] opera & [〈◊〉]. ↩
118. Strike. ↩
119. Note. ↩
120. One of them sayeth. ↩
121. Δ. Of the Physick part. ↩
122. Δ. Note the third Table here meant, is that of the South, as East, West, South, and North, their placing is others. ↩
123. Δ. The three last Letters in the uppermost line of the fourth Table. ↩
124. † Pragae. ↩
125. Satan his exceeding vehement Temptation. ↩
126. Note the cause of this recording. ↩
127. 1 Comfort in time of need. ↩
128. 2 More Comfort in time of need ↩
129. Rod. ↩
130. Note the Original letter it self is in this Book. ↩
131. Octavius Spinola Chamberlain and Stall-Master in the absence of the Officer who is sent into Spain. ↩
132. Hora tertia [〈◊〉] à [〈◊〉]. ↩
133. Uriel. ↩
134. Books finished. ↩
135. A Stone brought by a good Angel. ↩
136. My message to the Emperour Rodolph done. ↩
137. All the course of our Actions and Visions, nakedly to be shewed to the Emperour. ↩
138. Octavius Spinola. ↩
139. Δ. Note, Vriel his face now not seen of the eye which had highly offended God. ↩
140. E. K. Had on Sunday last been mervallously drunk, &c. Satan. ↩
141. Jesus. ↩
142. Zach. cap. 3. a. ↩
143. The overthrow almost given. ↩
144. The eye E. K. the body Δ. ↩
145. Δ. By the eye is understood E.K. the [〈◊〉] this action, and by the body is understood John Dee Δ. ↩
146. A ↩
147. V ↩
148. A great white Eagle. ↩
149. I ↩
150. S ↩
151. I ↩
152. O ↩
153. N ↩
154. Δ. and E. K, we are Prophers through God his mercy and sufferance. ↩
155. Which have not such presence [〈◊〉]. ↩
156. Deus est qui haec [〈◊〉]. ↩
157. A Seal opened. [〈◊〉] 13. cap. B. ↩
158. Zach. cap. 13. B. ↩
159. Dies vindicts. Regnum Christi jam stabilietur. ↩
160. A Prophesie against the Clergy. ↩
161. Rod. If ↩
162. Divina [〈◊〉] ipsi Rodolpho [〈◊〉]. ↩
163. An other Seal opened. An. 1588. or which 88 else? ↩
164. Fortè leese. ↩
165. Math. 24. C. ↩
166. This Prophesie then to be known, An. 1588. — Δ. Which 88? For I have not yet had (that I remember) the year notified to be 1588. nor yet 1688. &c. Fortè An. 1688. This Prophesie is to be known An. 1588. ↩
167. Malach. cap. 4. B. Elias shall come. ↩
168. Δ. Note two dayes. ↩
169. Rod. The beautifying of Rodolph his seat Imperial. ↩
170. If Vide infra Septemb 22. ↩
171. [〈◊◊◊〉]. ↩
172. CAVE. Uriel onely in great causes is to be looked for The end of teaching, or instructing thus. ↩
173. Enoch his Tables. ↩
174. The spirit of choice Vide 13. September. Garden of the Lord. ↩
175. Note. ↩
176. This Testimony. [〈◊〉] Domini. ↩
177. Δ. He putteth us in remembrance of our frailty; and offence committed before noted. ↩
178. E K. His vow of fasting during life. ↩
179. Factum erat die 11. Septemb. sequente. ↩
180. Vltra non habeo. ↩
181. Δ Further, I have not to say, or do. ↩
182. On Wednesday. ↩
183. Reconciliation ↩
184. Reconciliation of two sorts. ↩
185. Wherefore Uriel his face is yet covered. 1. 2. ↩
186. Vide supra Septemb. 5. The eye was commanded to be reconciled to the Spirit of Truth. ↩
187. Justitia Dei. ↩
188. Δ. Ab occultis meis munda me, &c. ↩
189. A temporal punishment. ↩
190. Ecclesiae catholicae reconciliari debemus. ↩
191. Accipite Spiritum Sanctum, quorum remiseritis peccata, remit [〈◊〉] eis: & quorum [〈◊〉], [〈◊〉] sunt: Joannes 20. [〈◊〉]. Math. 16. C. 18. C. Si descendero in Infernum; tu illic es. ↩
192. Ignis purgationis. The perfect assurance by Christ and his Church or Spirit. ↩
193. Math. c. 5. D. ↩
194. Δ. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
195. Δ. Now he answereth to [〈◊〉] request first propounded. Rudolp. ↩
196. If. ↩
197. Spiritus Electionis quid sit vide pagina sequente. Rodulp. Spiritus [〈◊〉]. ↩
198. If. Δ. From the East, Comfort and Triumph. Rodolphi soboles in [〈◊〉] generationem. If. Secresie required. ↩
199. Addere Deo quo modo bonum est: [〈◊〉] infra. Spiritus Electionis supra Sept. 5. ↩
200. Δ. I spake this to E. K. ↩
201. D. Curtz. ↩
202. Δ. Frankly as my term was in my first request, or question this day made. ↩
203. Δ. Studiorum meorum scopus. ↩
204. Rodolph. ↩
205. My counsel to Doctor Curtz. ↩
206. He also said that in the former my Records that I had noted many a ly, and untruth. ↩
207. Note, the Emperour enclined to [〈◊〉], &c. ↩
208. I suspect the Doctour doth not deal sincerely. ↩
209. Trinitatis Lux & mysteria per Vrielem revelantur. Mendacium Obstinatum [〈◊〉]. ↩
210. Objectio. Solutio. ↩
211. Mendacium. Ecclesiae Dignitas & Authoritas. ↩
212. Reconciliation to the Church. ↩
213. Wilfull silence. Δ. Finalis inpoenitentia. Testes Angelici. Froward silence. ↩
214. Psal. ↩
215. Ito ad Ecclesiam. ↩
216. Δ. Voluntary [〈◊〉] is contrary to froward lence. Aures Dei, Manus [〈◊〉] Vide de Lazaro, Joh. c. 1 ↩
217. Act. 3. ↩
218. Supra. ↩
219. More assuredly. ↩
220. Contra Rud. ↩
221. Contra Curtz. ↩
222. Δ Fecit quod illi injunctum [〈◊〉]. Pactum misericordiae divinae cum Δ. ↩
223. Sathanas. * Ne magnitudo revevelationum extellat me, datus est mi hi stimulus carnis [〈◊〉], &c. Paulus ad Corinthios secunda, cap. 12. ↩
224. England pardoned for Δ. his sake. ↩
225. God will give me England, that is to say, spare it from distruction for my sake, &c. England. Δ. Our good return into England Δ. Perhaps, spiders flying in the aire, are carried by strings of their own spinning, or making, or else I know not how. Rud. I remained for the most part in Bohemia, and in the Empire, till 1589. ↩
226. A.L. A. L. Came to us to Trebon, in Bohemia, An. 1588. post captum Maximilianum à Polonis, &c. Rud. Num. 11. Psal. 77. ↩
227. A Letter to be written unto Casar. Lapis Philosophorum. A special gift in healing by the shew in this stone. ↩
228. R. Peribit. Benedictio Dei sit super nos. Supra. [〈◊〉] fac. ↩
229. A Letter to Rudolph the Emperour. ↩
230. Eruptiones [〈◊〉] ex Terrae motibus. Lapis Philosorum. ↩
231. Caesar futurus. ↩
232. It is a saying of Madimi, Junii 26. 1584. Cracoviae. Ernestus Frater Rudolphi. Δ. Blessings offered are promises with conditions. Gold, ex lapide Philosophorum. [〈◊〉] crudelis, terribilis, inaudita. ↩
233. Note. ↩
234. God in mercy, wisdom, terror, miracles. Vox Domini ut hominis futura nobis audibilis. ↩
235. Consiliarii Casaris. R. Possessus Belzagal Cacodamon Turcarum. ↩
236. Turkish, or Rudolphus Raether. My books from Poland. A. L. ↩
237. [〈1 line〉] ↩
238. [〈1 line〉] ↩
239. Deus habitat in [〈◊〉] & nos in [〈◊〉]. Image Christi Paulus ad Cor. cap. 15. F. ↩
240. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
241. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
242. [〈◊〉]. ↩
243. [〈◊〉]. ↩
244. [〈◊〉]. ↩
245. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
246. [〈◊〉]. ↩
247. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
248. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
249. A Spiritu Dei sumus ducti ut Domino [〈◊〉] Domino Gulielmo de Sancto Clemente, [〈◊〉] Regis legath heae aperiremus cui mercedem dabit Deus. ↩
250. D. Jacobo Curtzio Consiliario [〈◊〉]. ↩
251. Δ. Quantum memini in Sibyllae oraculis Graecis & Latinis facilis per [〈◊〉], [〈◊◊〉] Vrielis [〈◊〉] ill [〈◊◊〉] sunt [〈◊〉] ad [〈◊〉]. Vide & [〈◊〉] ascribe. ↩
252. Prophesia de MICHAELE. ↩
253. Math. cap. 5. [〈◊〉] ipsorum est regnum coelorum, &c. Δ. Erit cum Caesare. I understand not this, how it is, or shall be verified, or with which Caesar. ↩
254. Domini Legati Regis [〈◊〉] Responsum. ↩
255. A Copy of the letters desired. ↩
256. E K [〈◊〉] to go in o England as he pretended. ↩
257. Poverty. ↩
258. D. Curtz. ↩
259. D. Curtz. ↩
260. Vriel. Gabriel. ↩
261. [〈◊◊〉] mea [〈◊〉] periculosus. ↩
262. Gabriel: ↩
263. The robbing God of his honour. ↩
264. [〈◊〉] Argeli [〈◊〉]. ↩
265. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
266. [〈1 line〉]. ↩
267. Vigor [〈◊〉]. ↩
268. [〈◊〉]. Pabula. ↩
269. Δ. [〈1 line〉]. If. ↩
270. Nos mundi Inimici esse debemus, & mundus nos odio prosequitur propter Deum. ↩
271. Gabriel. [〈◊◊〉] super Δ. ↩
272. Nota causam acerbae increpationis istius. ↩
273. Here placing. ↩
274. [〈◊◊〉] Misericordiae capax. ↩
275. A voyce from an uncertain place. There were some wicked [〈◊〉] vexing E. K. from [〈◊〉] quietly. E. K. ↩
276. Sept. 21. in fine. ↩
277. Radiatio [〈◊〉], vigor elementalis. ↩
278. Deus 1. ↩
279. Angelus 2. ↩
280. Anima hominis, 3. Infectio anima. Impretas. ↩
281. Tres magicae causae. ↩
282. Stella. 1. ↩
283. Cibus. 2. ↩
284. Mixtio. 3. ↩
285. Attractio [〈◊〉] contagiosorum. ↩
286. Medicina vera. ↩
287. 40. Dayes. ↩
288. True Gabriel: verus Gabriel. ↩
289. Abstinnentes & purgati à [〈◊〉]. ↩
290. Responsum votum. ↩
291. Auxilium & [〈◊〉] Dei. Janae [〈◊〉] meae [〈◊〉] perticulosus. ↩
292. ☉ Virtus. ↩
293. Febri laborabat Mater uxoris ante conceptienem. ↩
294. For, so, the soul is sent in, to Δ. Of Jane my wife. ↩
295. Forsan, vasa seminaria. ↩
296. She he it. ↩
297. Excrementa bina. ↩
298. Spiritus caloris. The breathing or vapouring heat. ↩
299. Vxor jam pragnans est. Imagination. ↩
300. The physical remedy. ↩
301. [〈◊〉], Reconciliatio. ↩
302. E. K. His malitious tongue against God his good Angels. ↩
303. If. ↩
304. [〈◊〉]. [〈◊◊〉] are long in [〈◊〉]. Fel [〈◊〉], [〈◊〉] vinum. [〈◊〉]. ↩
305. O Kelly, Kelly, ↩
306. Confirmation of the Prophesie. The manner of blessing Prophetical. ↩
307. E. K. Intending to depart, and I not knowing. ↩
308. My wife not to go now to Cracow. ↩
309. Vriel our House-keeper. A. L. Against Laskie his enemies as in the former practice was taught. ↩