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Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Mysteriorum Liber Primus

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Δ: After E.T. his calling into the stone, appeared a tall man, with a sceptre (very great) of gold, glittring. His body all red: and out of his hed, did shote out beames of light, like the sonne beames. Δ: Being desirous, to know who he was, and his name, I requested him ernestly thereto. But he answered, as followeth, Invocate nomen Domini, et agnoscetis eum.215 Δ: Then I prayed the psalme, Deus misereatur nostri, et benedicat nobis &c.216 After that, he sayd, I am mighty. Δ: Bycause he delayed to declare his name, E.T. the skryer did require him, in the name of God the father, Jesus Christ his sonne, and of the holy ghost, to express his name: and he answered in speche. So I will by and by. Δ: Then he seamed to take from his hed little bright sparcks, like little candells endes: and to stick them abowt the chayre: and he went rownd abowt the chayre: and than he spake, as followeth, I am mighty, and working wonders: I am SALAMIAN.217 I rule in the hevens, and beare sway uppon erth in his name, who be blessed for euer. Thow doost dowt at me. I am the servant of God, in his light: I serve him. I say, I serve him, with feare and reverence. My name is SALAMIAN: Mighty in the Sonne, worker of wordly actions, as well internall, as externall: known unto God: whose name I know, and bless for euer. Δ: Then appeared a big flame of fyre by him in the ayre. Sal: Thow knowest not, or thow wilt not know, that Mamon, with his servants, are present abowt thee: whose presence doth hinder the presence of the vertues Adonay our comming. Blessed be God, in the highest. Amen. Δ: He toke the forsaide flame of fyre, and flung it up unto the heven ward. Sal: Mamon is a king whome God hateth: whose sect, contynually tempt, provoke and stir-up wickednes, against the Lord, and against his annoynted. But he dyeth: blessed be God for euer. Driue him away. Δ: It is incomparably more easy for you to do. And as for my parte, I fele neyther in body, nor sowle, any token of his presence or working. Thereuppon he caused the whole chamber (which we were in) to appere very playnely in the stone: and so there shewed a great cumpany of wycked spirits to be in the chamber: and among them, One, most horrible and grisely thretting,218 and approaching to our heds: and skorning and gnashing at us. Sala: God determines his mysteries, by Arte and vertue. Δ: Then he willed me very egerly, to drive them away. And I prayed fervently. And there seamed One to come into the stone, which had very long armes: and he draue them away courragiously: And so they were driuen away. After that presently, cam one into the stone, all white. Salamian reached this white one a Cup. The white man held-up the Cup: and sayd, as followeth, Lo, this is my name. God shall bless you. Fear not: your faithfullness provoketh me to tell my name, and this it is: (putting furth the Cup again) for, I am called Medicina Dei.219 I will shew thee, and I will shew you, the Angel of your Direction, which is called OCH.220 Δ: This name he spake: he shewed it allso on the Table (before him) written. Raph: He is mighty in the sonne beames: He shall profit thee hereafter. Δ: Then cam in an other, and sat down in the chayre: and he sayde, as followeth, The strength of God liueth: and God raigneth for euer. I am Fortitudo Dei. Δ: Why, then, you are Gabriel: and I toke you hitherto to be Michaël. How shall I then amend my boke, in respect of your name, allwayes before, written Michael? For.Dei: What thow hast written, that hast thow written: and it is true. Write down this name. POLIPOS.221 Dost thow understand it? Δ: No, God knoweth. For.Dei: When that day commeth, I will speak with thee: yf thow observe that which I haue commaunded thee.222 As truely, as I was with SALOMON, so truely will I be with thee. Δ: Then cam in an other, whom we toke to be Uriel: for he went allso, as he was wont, and leaned at the Table. For.Dei: Search for wisdome and lerning, and the lord will deliuer it unto you. Δ: I wold to god, I knew your name truely, or what peculier letter I might set for you, to Note your words and Actions by. For.Dei: Name I haue none, but by my office. SALAMIAN cam not hither, but by me. He is a mighty Prince, governing the hevens, under my powre. This is sufficient for thy Instruction. I was with Salomon, in all his works and wonders: and so was this, whome God had appointed unto him. The Diuines know his name: and he is not hidden from the face of the erth: His name is written in the boke which lyeth in the Wyndow. Δ: Do you mean Agrippa his boke? And is it there expressed by the name SALAMIAN?223 For.Dei: I haue sayde. Δ: What order will you appoint unto us two, in respect of our two beings to-gither? My frende here, may haue other intents and purposes of his affayres, then will serve me, for his ayde hauing in these Actions. For.Dei: Joyne in prayers. For God hath blessed you: Dowt not. Consider these mysteries. Δ: Then they in the stone used talk to gither: but not well to be discerned of the eare of E.T. At length F.D. talked very much, and spedily to E.T. and disclosed unto him (which he expressed not to me, at the stone but afterward) all the manner of the practise, and the Circumstance abowt the Action intended, with the Gold lamin, the ring, the seales &c. And after I had spoken somwhat, in requesting him, to shew me the manner, How I shold artificially prepare euery thing spoken of, he sayd, F.D: [... Use me, in the Name of God, for all occasions.224...] Blessed225 be God, who revealeth all Mysteries, &c. I am strength in nede. And Lo, here is Medicine for the sore. We bless the Lord: We gouern the erth, by the societie of Gabriel: whose powre, is with us: but he not here. &c. Use Patience. Ur: I liued with Esdras: I liued in him, in the lord, who liueth for euer.226 Raph: I liued with Tobie: Tobie the yonger.227 Δ: This was the white creature, that spake this. F.D: We liue in the Lorde: who be praysed for euer. Δ: I stode silent a good while. FD: What wilt thow? Δ: I did attend, what you wold say. F.D: I haue sayd. Δ: I haue byn long at this tyme, in my dealing with you. I trust, I do not offend you therewith. But, for my parte, I could finde in my hart to contynue whole dayes and nights in this manner of doing: euen tyll my body shold be ready to synk down for wearines, before I wold giue ouer. But I feare, I haue caused wearines to my frende here. F.D: In vertue is no wearines. Δ: Now he stode up, out of his chayr: and he, and they all, ioinctly blessed us, stretching theyr hands toward us, Crossingly. And so they went away. The Table and the chayre remayned and the glyttring sparckles, or drops of streaming little lightes were of the chayre immediately. Δ: Glorie, thanks, and honor be unto the Almighty Trinitie. Amen.228