Anno 1581 Decembris 22. Mane136 Mortlak

Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Mysteriorum Liber Primus

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Δ: After my fervent prayers made to God, for his mercifull cumfort and instruction, throwgh the ministery of his holy and myghty Angel, named Anael,137 (yf it wer his diuine pleasure) I willed, the Skryer, (named Saul) to loke into my great Chrystaline Globe, yf God had sent his holy Angel Anael, or no: And Saul loking into my forsayd stone, (or Chrystall Globe) for to espie Anael, he saw there one,138 which answered to that name. But being ernestly requested of me to tell the Truthe yf he were Anaël, An other did appere very bewtifull, with apparell yellow, glittering, like gold: and his hed had beames like ster beams, biasing, and spredding from it; his eyes fyrie. He wrote in the stone very much in hebrue letters, and the letters seamed all transparent gold: which, Saul was not able eyther presently to reade, that I might write after his voyce, neyther to imitate the letters in short tyme. A bright ster, did go up and down by him. There appeared allso a white dog, with a long hed.139 And many other visions appeared, with this second: The first being voyded quite away. Thereuppon I sayd, as followeth, Δ: In nomine Jesu Christi, Quis tu es?140 He answered to Saul his hearing. AN: Potestas omnis, in me sita est.141 Δ: Quake?142 AN: Bona, et mala.143 Δ: Then appeared in the stone, these two letters M. G. I then axing him some questions, de Thesauro abscondito:144 He answered, AN: Ne perturbes: Nam hæ sunt Nugse.145 And withall appeared many dedd mens skulls, on his left hand. He sayd to me, AN: Ubi est potestas tua?146 Δ: Cur quæris de potestate aliqua mea?147 AN: Cur? Signifi, non mihi placet.148 Δ: I, thereuppon, set by him, the stone in the frame: and sayd, Δ: An bonus aliquis Angelus, assignatus est huic speculo?149 AN: Etiam.150 Δ: Quis?151 AN: He answered, by the shew of these letters in the stone. Δ: Bonus ne ille Angelus, de quo in scripturis fit mentio?152 AN: Maximè.153 Δ: Fieri ne potest, quod ego eundem videam, et cum illo agam?154 AN: Ita.155 And therewith appeared this character- Δ: Quid per hoc, significare velis?156 AN: Alterius Angeli character est.157 Δ: Cur hîc, et nunc ostendis?158 AN: Causam ob magnam.159 Make an ende: It shalbe declared, but not by me. Δ: By whome then? AN: By him that is assigned to the stone: but not, tyll after the feast. And then thow must prepare thyself, to prayer and fasting.160 In the Name of God, be Secret: and in all thy doings praying, tyll thow hast thy desyre: which shall not be far of. After Newyeres tyde, Deale, But not on the Sabaoth day. Pray contynually. When it shall pleas god, to stir thee up, Then procede. In the brightest day, When the Sonne shyneth: In the morning, fasting, begynne to pray. In the Sonne Set the stone. Deale both Kneeling, and sitting. I haue done for this tyme. My name is ANNAEL. I will speak ones more to thee: and than farewell: for thow shalt not haue me any more. Be not to hasty in wrath. Δ: Is this, that, you ment to speak? AN: I. Do good to all men. God hath sufficient for thee, and for all men. Farewell. Δ: Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc et semper: et in sæcula sæculorum.161 Amen. Δ: Remember, that diuerse other particulars, mowght haue byn Noted of this dayes Action: but these may suffice: And yet it is not to be forgotten, that as he sayd his name was Annael (with a dubble n) so he allso confessed himself to be the same Annaël which is prepositus orbis veneris:162 and allso Chief governor Generall of this great period, as I haue Noted in my boke of Famous and rich Discoueries.163 Consider and Remember: That this Note, of the Action, (had with holy ANNAEL), is, of prince Befafes, (otherwise called Obelison) accownted as the Prolog of my first boke of mysticall exercises