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10 Apr.

SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL, 1584-1585 - topics: travel,court_patronage,money_legal,angelic_spiritual

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10 Apr. - Daybook Entries. Records travel, court patronage, money legal, angelic spiritual: Mane, circa octavam horam, we came to the accustomed place, in my oratory at the top of the tower: a small heated room, handsome and commodious.

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Records travel, court patronage, money legal, angelic spiritual: Mane, circa octavam horam, we came to the accustomed place, in my oratory at the top of the tower: a small heated room, handsome and commodious. And a while after, we three all seated (I being prepared to write; Ed. Kelly on the other side of the same...

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SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL, 1584-1585

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travel,court_patronage,money_legal,angelic_spiritual

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Thursday. Mane, circa octavam horam, we came to the accustomed place, in my oratory at the top of the tower: a small heated room, handsome and commodious. And a while after, we three all seated (I being prepared to write; Ed. Kelly on the other side of the same table-which was new and very fine-and Fr. Pucci upon a bench by the oratory wall), a voice came down from on high, as it were with a kind of spiritual echo of a sound, hard by the face of E.K., and which seemed to be issuing not far from E.K.'s mouth, and which thence reached his ears with words that were certainly English (that their power and proper signification might much more exactly and truly be conveyed to us). VOICE: 'The God of heaven and earth appears to you: you, who are shepherds, and placed outside the polluted city: who seek the star and the visitation of him who will come to you, who have escaped out of the hands of Herod. Yet the fullness of time has not yet come. 'Read these things, and I will visit you again.' I did read the premises to the two people present, Master Edward Kelly and Francis Pucci, and from these words we gained great consolation and strength of spirit. In the afternoon that same day, Thursday (after dinner), at the time appointed, a voice smote the ears of E.K., saying: 'Come.' At once we hurried to our oratory (the place where we were accustomed to receiving the divine visitation), and after reciting a short prayer from the Psalms, we waited for the voice of the Lord. VOICE: 'Listen to me.' For some minutes there was silence after these words. VOICE: 'I have brought you out from a cursed nation, puffed up with pride: reformers who resist the law and ordinance of the Holy Church, which is the ordinance of Jesus Christ. By performing miracles, and with a powerful hand, I have brought you forth and put you in this place. I have made manifest to you the bread of knowledge and understanding, and (since I am the spirit of wisdom) I have instructed you in the knowledge of Christ, which is the science of all things. /l 186 /l

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Thursday. Mane, circa octavam horam, we came to the accustomed place, in my oratory at the top of the tower: a small heated room, handsome and commodious. And a while after, we three all seated (I being prepared to write; Ed. Kelly on the other side of the same table-which was new and very fine-and Fr. Pucci upon a bench by the oratory wall), a voice came down from on high, as it were with a kind of spiritual echo of a sound, hard by the face of E.K., and which seemed to be issuing not far from E.K.'s mouth, and which thence reached his ears with words that were certainly English (that their power and proper signification might much more exactly and truly be conveyed to us). VOICE: 'The God of heaven and earth appears to you: you, who are shepherds, and placed outside the polluted city: who seek the star and the visitation of him who will come to you, who have escaped out of the hands of Herod. Yet the fullness of time has not yet come. 'Read these things, and I will visit you again.' I did read the premises to the two people present, Master Edward Kelly and Francis Pucci, and from these words we gained great consolation and strength of spirit. In the afternoon that same day, Thursday (after dinner), at the time appointed, a voice smote the ears of E.K., saying: 'Come.' At once we hurried to our oratory (the place where we were accustomed to receiving the divine visitation), and after reciting a short prayer from the Psalms, we waited for the voice of the Lord. VOICE: 'Listen to me.' For some minutes there was silence after these words. VOICE: 'I have brought you out from a cursed nation, puffed up with pride: reformers who resist the law and ordinance of the Holy Church, which is the ordinance of Jesus Christ. By performing miracles, and with a powerful hand, I have brought you forth and put you in this place. I have made manifest to you the bread of knowledge and understanding, and (since I am the spirit of wisdom) I have instructed you in the knowledge of Christ, which is the science of all things. /l 186 /l