23 Mar.

NEW WORLDS SHALL SPRING OF THESE, 1582-1583

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Saturday, a meridie. E.K. being come, with Mr John Husey of Blockley (on the 22 day of March), and E.K. being desirous to understand somewhat of our spiritual friends as concerning such matter as had fallen out very strange to him and Mr Husey: about a certain monument of a book and a scroll found in Northwick Hi1l9 by the direction and leading of such a spiritual creature, as when they had gotten the same, and they endeavoured by art to have some exposition of the scroll, written in strange characters, they were willed to repair to me, and there they should be answered, &c.: which thing now they did..1 53.1 Being therefore now ready to receive instructions of our friends, there appeared in the Stone one, in a fool's coat, going about a cloud, which appeared first in the Stone. 1 charged him if he were the enemy of God to depart. He tore his clothes all, and appeared all hairy under, and said: 'You have pierced the force of my iniquity.': 'Glorify God and depart.' He said: 'I have done, for 1 am leaving.' He went away as it had been a bunch of feathers pulled in pieces. The cloud waxed bigger, and went all to the right hand. At length the table appeared, but the chair seemed not to be of the same sort it was, but more glorious. Then appeared three, of which two went away, and one tarried behind. He showed a tree, and a great deal of water at the root or bottom of it: and he said 'Hath this tree now any fruit?': 'I see it not. But the skryer may say.' E.K.: 'The water cometh up the tree, and it swelleth, and it hath fruit, great, fair and red.' MEDICINA DEI: 'Lo, 1 eat of it myself, and it lighteth the hearts of those that are chosen.' (He seemeth to eat.) 'So is it in thee.'