23 May.

A DOCTRINE FOR YOU ONLY, 1584

travel,court_patronage,health_illness,angelic_spiritual,alchemy_experiment

Wednesday, mane, hora 7~ fere. There happened a great storm or temptation to E.K. of doubting and misliking our instructors and their doings, and of contemning and condemning any thing that I knew or could do. I bare all things patiently for God his sake, &c. At length the curtain was opened, and they appeared. GABRIEL: 'The time shall come that the oak that is beaten with every storm shall be a dining-table in the prince's hall. Move not, for the place is holy.' E.K.: 'There appeareth a great thing like a globe, turning upon two axle-trees.' 10 NALVAGE: 'The earth in the first air, is this...' (Pointing on that globe to it.) 6: 'We beseech you to bound or determine,the countries or portions of the earth by their uttermost longitudes and latitudes, or by some other., certaIn manner. NALVAGE: 'Our manner is not as it is of worldlings: we determine not places after the forms of legs, or as leaves are: neither we can imagine any thing after the fashion of an horn, as those that are cosmographers do. II 'Notwithstanding, the angel of the Lord appeared unto Ptolemy, and opened unto him the parts of the earth: but some he was commanded to keep secret: and those are northward under your Pole. But unto you, the very true names of the world in her creation are delivered.'12 E.K.: 'Now he showeth the North Pole, and the great mountain.' NALVAGE: 'Here be seven kingdoms. Their chief city is called Fiacim, all that are of that king's council are a:..tronomers. The king's name that now governeth is Gapsacar. 'The first... Seest thou this country? Colchica. The second... Cireniaca.' E.K.: 'Hard by a great water.' NALVAGE: 'The third... Nasamonia. The first... Carthago. The second...' E.K.: 'Now appear many crocodiles, long-necked, scaled on the body, with long tails. A great place appeareth, covered about with fire. Many great serpents appear here of 200 foot. It appeareth very eastward. No people appear here. 'There cometh from heaven like a mist, and covereth a great place, about 300 mile long, like a park, enclosed with fire. It is on a high ground. There come four rivers out of it, one east, another west, another north, and another south.13 The pales or enclosure of it seem to be arches, beset most richly with precious stones. In the gate of it stand three men like us: one is in a long gown with many pleats, the other like in a cassock, the third in the rough skin of a beast. In the name of Jesus: is this the Paradise that Adam was banished out of?' NALVAGE: 'The very same: from hence he was turned out into the earth.': 'It should seem this must be on the earth.' NALVAGE: 'It is upon the earth.': 'You said that from hence he was turned out into the earth.' NALVAGE: 'The curse of God in Adam caused the earth, whereinto he was cast, to be accursed. Therefore is Paradise distinguished from the earth, in respect of her purity: because the earth is defiled, and corrupted with man.': 'Till 45 degrees, both northerly and southerly, all is known in the most part of the world: but of any such place there is no knowledge nor likelihood by any history of these days, or of old time.' NALVAGE: 'Therefore this is cunning, and the wisdom of God. There dwelleth flesh in it that shall never die.': 'Elie and Enoch, by the Apocalypse do seem that they should suffer death, under Antichrist, if we understand right. There is Eiie, Enoch and John: they shall seem to be dead, by his power, but not dead.'14 E.K.: 'Here appear men with talons like lions. Here appear little men with long beards: their bodies as children's bodies. Here appear people with one eye in their head, seeming to be in their breast, toward the Equinoctial.': 'I remember of people called Arimaspi.'15 NALVAGE: 'This day's lesson is as much worth as all between this and Mauretania.': 'I beseech you, to what part is Atlantis and the annexed places under the King of Spain, called the West Indies?' NALVAGE: 'When these 30 appear, they can each tell what they own. Prepare for tomorrow's Action.': 'Most gladly.' E.K.: 'If you prove yourself true, you shall win me to God.'.1 126.1