26 Mar.

NEW WORLDS SHALL SPRING OF THESE, 1582-1583

weather,travel,health_illness,letters_books,angelic_spiritual,alchemy_experiment

Tuesday, hor. IO ante meridiem. First appeared a cloud, and that vanished away. Three came in, they made cursy to the chair, and two went away. Then the third which remained lay down on the ground as before. There came like a lamb's head, and licked him.': 'Of your so greatly commended liquor I am desirous to have farther understanding. ' MEDICINA DEI: 'What liquor is more lively than the dew of truth, proceeding from a fountain most sweet and delectable? Even that verity which thy mouth hath preached of. What water recreateth more, or cooleth ignorance deeper, than the knowledge of our celestial speech? Your voices are but feigned: shadows of the words and voices that substantially do comprehend every substance in his kind. The things which you do look on, because you see them not in deed, you also do name them amiss. Secrets there are none but that buried are in the shadow of man's soul. 'The waters shall stand, if they hear their own speech. The heavens shall move and show themselves, when they know their thunder. Hell shall tremble, when they know what is spoken to them. The first excepted, no man ever was, is, or shall ever understand this vessel.'!! E.K.: 'H~ showeth a book, as he did before, all gold. The leaves of the book are all lined, full of square places, and those square places have characters in them, some more than other, and they all written with colour, like blood, not yet dry.' He pointed orderly to them with his finger, and looked toward the skryer at every pointing. MEDICINA DEI: 'Note what they are.' E.K: 'He took from under the table a thing like a great globe, and set that in the chair, and upon that globe laid the book. He pointeth to the characters, and counteth them with his finger, being 21: and beginning from the right hand, toward the left.'12 A meridie hor. 5)1,.. Now appeareth the red cloth before the chair. There come in three. They all make cursy: and two of them went away.: 'Our desire is to know what we are to think of the man which came out of my oratory and laid the fiery ball at Mr Adrian Gilbert his feet yesterday, as he sat in my study with Mr Kelly and me. Whether it were any illusion, or the act of any seducer?' MEDICINA DEI: 'No wicked power shall enter into this place.' E.K.: 'The Stone is become very dark.' MEDICINA DEI: 'As the building is grounded and ended upon three, so must the mysteries -hereof be practised with three.': 'Must Adrian Gilbert be made privy of these mysteries?' MEDICINA DEI: 'Thou hast said. Behold, these things shall God bring to pass by his hands whose mind he hath now newly set on fire. The corners and straights of the earth shall be measured to the depth: and strange shall be the wonders that are creeping in to new worlds. Time shall be altered, with the difference of day and night. All things have grown almost to their fullness.': 'Then this Adrian Gilbert shall carry the name of Jesus among the Infidels to the great glory of God, and the recovery of those miserable people from the mouth of hell into which, for many hundred years past, and yet continually, they do fall. May he require description of the countries, for his better instruction?' MEDICINA DEI: 'I instructed thee beforehand, and told thee, that both of you must jointly learn those holy letters: to the intent that the finger may point to the head, and the head to the understanding of his charge, for discoveries making of the seas and their bounds.': 'You perceive that I have divers affairs which at this present do withdraw me from peculiar diligence using to these characters and their names learning by heart: and therefore, I v