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Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Mysteriorum, liber Tertius

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Δ: E.T. wold not willingly now deale with the former Creatures, utterly misliking and discrediting them, bycause they willed him to marry. Neyther wold he put of his hat in any prayer to god, for the Action with them: whereuppon I went into my Oratorie, and called unto God, for his diuine help for the understanding of his laws and vertues which he hath established in and amongst his Creatures, for the benefyt of mankinde, in his seruice, and for his glorie &c. And commyng to the Stone, E.T. saw there those two, whom hitherto, we wer instructed to be Michael and Uriel. E.T: Michael and Uriel, both kneled holding up theyr hands: and Michael seamed to sweat water abundantly, somwhat reddish or bluddish. There cam 7 Bundells down, (like faggots) from heven- ward. And Michael taketh them kneeling. And Uriel taketh a thing like a superaltare and layeth it uppon the Table: and with a thing like a Senser doth make perfume at the fowre corners of the Table: the smoke ascending up: and the senser, at the last, being set on the Table it seemed to fall throwgh the Table. URIEL semeth to be all in a white long robe tucked up: his garment full of plightes588 and seemed now to haue wyngs: (which, hitherto, from the begynning of these kinde of Actions he did not) and on his hed a bewtifull crown, with a white Cross ouer the Crown.589 Uriel taketh the 7 Bundells from Michael: and with reuerence layeth them on the forsayd Superaltare. E.T: There commeth a man, as thowgh he were all of perfect pure glistring gold: somtyme seeming to haue One eye, and somtyme Three. From under the Table commeth a great smoke, and the place semeth to shake. Uriel lieth now prostrate on his face: and Michael contynually prayed sweating. The Glorious man seemed to open the Covering of the 7 bundells (being of diuerse cullored sylk,) and there appered, that these Bundells seemed to haue in them, of all Creatures some, in most glorious shew. The glorious man seemed to stand uppon a little hill of flaming fyre. He taketh-of, of one of the Bundells a thing like a little byrd; and it hoouereth affore him as thowgh it had life: and than it rested uppon the thing like a superaltare. This glorious man590 seemeth to be open before, and his brest somwhat spotted with blud. He hath a berd forked of brownish cullour, his heare of his hed, long, hanging down to his sholders: but his face, for beutifull glittring, can not be discerned. His heares do shake, as thowgh the wynde carryed them. This man blesseth the bird, making a Cross ouer it: and, so he did three tymes. He looketh up to heven. Now the byrd, which, before, seamed to be but as byg as a sparrow, seameth to be as great as a swanne: very beutifull: but of many cullours.591 Now looketh Michael up, and held up his hands to heven, and sayeth, Sic, Sic, Sic, Deus noster.592 Uriel, (sayd)- Multiplicabit omnia, benedictione sua.593 The former Bewtifull man taketh this fowle, setteth it on the bundell, and on the place, from whence it was taken:594 And, now, the place where this byrd stode before, seameth allso, to be (proportionally) waxen as big as the byrd, (thus enlarged). This man taketh an other byrd, and putteth the wyng of it, behind the wyng of the first (as-thowgh he yoked them.)595 This second byrd, at this his first taking, was as byg, as the first was become, (encreased, as it shewed), and it was allso a very bewtifull.... E.T: All is suddenly dark, and nothing to be seen, neyther Chayre, nor any thing els. E.T: A voyce was hard, like Michael his voyce, saying, It was a byrd, and is a byrd, absent there is nothing but Quantitie. A voyce:596 Beleue. The world is of Necessitie: His Necessitie is gouerned by supernaturall Wisdome. Necessarily you fall: and of Necessitie shall rise agayne. Follow me, loue me: embrace me: behold, I, AM. E.T: Now all the Darknes vanished, the man is gon. Uriel standeth at the Table, and Michael sitteth now in his Chayre: and sayd, Mi: This doth GOD work for your understanding. It is in vayne to stryve: All Government is in his hands. What will you els, what will you els? Δ: Progressum et profectum in virtute et veritate ad Dei honorem et gloriam.597 Mi: This hath answered all our598 cauillations. Δ: What hath answered all our Cavillations? Mi: Thow hast written. One thing you shall see more, as a persuasion to the Infirmitie. E.T: The two byrds, which were there, before, and gon out of sight, now are shewed agayn: but none of the bundells appere. They seme to grow to a huge bignes, as byg as mowntaynes: incredibly byg: and they seeme to hover up in the ayre, and to fly up toward heuen, and with theyr wyngs to towch the sky: And one of them with his bill seemeth to take sterrs into it: and the other bird to take them from the same byrd, and to place them agayn in the Skye. And this they did very often: and in diuerse places of the heuen with great celeritie. After this they semed to fly ouer Cities, and townes, and to break the clowdes in peces, as they passed: and to cause all dust to flye from all walls, and towres, as they passed, and so to make them clene. And in the streetes, as these two Byrds flew, seemed diuerse brave fellows, like bisshops, and Princis and Kings, to pass: and by the wyngs of these byrds, they were striken down. But simple seely599 ones, like beggers, lame and halt, childern, and old aged men, and wemen, seemed to pass quiettly, untowched and unouerthrown of these two Byrds. And than they seemed to come to a place, where they lifted up, with the endes of theyr wyngs, fowre Carkasses of dead men (owte of the grownde) with crownes on theyr heds: wherof one seemed to be a Childe. First these 4, seemed leane, and deade: Then they seemed quick600 and in good liking:601 And they being raysed up: parted eche from the other, and went into 4 sundry wayes, Est, West, North and Sowth. Now these two fowles hauing theyr wyngs ioyned togither, light uppon a great hill: and there the First fowle gryped the erth mightyly and there appeared diuerse Metalls, and the ^ Fowle spurned them away, still. Then appeared an old mans hed, heare and all, on; very much wythered. They tossed it betwene them, with theyr feete: And they brake it: And in the hed appeared (in steede of the braynes) a stone, rownd, of the bignes of a Tennez ball of 4, cullours, White, black, red, and greene. One of them (he that brake the skull), putteth that rownd stone to the others mowth or byll. The other eateth or nybbleth on it, and so doth the other allso. ¶ Now these two byrds, are turned into men: And eche of them haue two Crownes like paper Crownes, white and bright, but seeme not to be syluer. Theyr teeth are gold, and so likewise theyr hands, feete, tung, eyes, and eares likewise All gold. On eche of these two men, ar 26 Crownes of Gold, on theyr right sholders, euery of them, greater then other. They haue, by theyr sides, Sachels, like palmers602 bags, full of gold, and they take it oute, and seemed to sow it, as corne; going or stepping forward, like Seedmen. E.T: Then sayd Michael, This, is the ende. E.T: The two men be vanished away. Mi: Learne the Mysterie hereof. Δ: Teache us (ô ye spirituall Creatures.) Than sayd Michael, Mi: Joye and helth giue unto the riche: Open strong locks: Be Mercifull to the wicked: Pluck up the poore: Read unto the Ignorant: I haue satisfyed thee: Understand: Read them ouer: God shall giue thee some light in them. I haue satisfyed thee: Both, How you shalbe ioyned, By whome, To what Intent, and purpose: What you are, What you were, What you shalbe, (videlicet) in Deo.603 Lok up this Mysterie: Forget not our Cownsayle: O GOD, thow openest all things: Secret are thy Mysteries and holy is thy name, for euer. The vertue of his presence, here left, be amongst you. Δ: Amen. Δ: What am I to do, with the wax, the Table, the ring or the Lamine? &c. Mi: When the things be ready, then thow shalt know, how to use them. Δ: How shall I do for the grauing of the ring; May not another man do it, thowgh, E.T. graue it not? Mi: Cause them to be made up, (according to Instruction) by any honest man. Δ: What say you as concerning the Chamber, for our practise? May my fardermost little chamber, serue, yf the bed be taken downe? Mi: At my next Call, for the Chamber, you shall know what to do. Δ: Benedictus Deus in donis suis: et sanctus in omnibus operibus eius.604 Amen. ended hor. 4½605