Monday. Nouembris 19: Circiter 1 ã horã a meridie789

Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Quartus Liber Mysteriorum

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∆: Long after our comming to the stone (abowt half a quarter of an howre) the Cloth of sylence remayned drawn: and nothing appeared: but EK heard a far off very pleasant Musik the while. H: He seamed to take the cloth away with his hands. After that (abowt 6 minutes), Nothing altered or shewed, other than the standing furniture, usually of late appearing there. EK: Now come in 7 men with Musicall Instruments: and before them cam one with a veluet Coate,790 and a hat-Cap, with a sword by his syde, and a Cloke or Cape hanging on one sholder: and a blak feather in his hat. &c. Afterward cam 42 more, seeming to be very far behynde the first 7. Their Melody sownded very swetely and pleasantly all the while from the begynning. The forme of theyr Musicall Instrument: These Musiciens did play, one with an other, iestingly: they bobbed one an other, and than played agayn. The 42, which semed a far of, cam nerer and nerer, and seamed to bring a rownd thing, like a table791 in theyr hands. The 7 pipers went away: and the Man with the Cape hanging on one of his sholders (somwhat like a Nobleman) remayned. Then wer they come at hand, the 42 with the rownd table. These seamed to be of two sortes: Of which, the last 7: on the forepart to behold seamed rather wemen,792 with fardingales793 very much sprowting out, but theyr face had no peculier attyre of wemen. The 42 held the circle794 (or rownd Table) up,over theyr hed, flat wise. Then they layd the Circle down, and stode rownd abowt it. H sayd, Tam mali, quam boni, laudant te, Deus, Deus, Deus noster.795 ∆: The letters appeared to EK, and he told me them, and I began to write: LEENARB H: Thow writest in vayne.Thow hast written them allready. ∆: It is true: I see them now last before noted down. H: Loke the eight name in the Tables. [∆: of 49, collected.]. ∆: That eighth is Bobogel. Loke to his Character in the great Circle. Loke the second name in the Table with 7 angles. ∆: That I finde to be Bornogo. EK: He with the cape on his one sholder, sayeth, Nomen meum est Bobogel:796 And he that is my subiect, is Governor of the second Angle of the 7.797 Bob: I weare these robes, not in respect of my self, but of my Government. I am the Prince, Chief; [EK: He falleth down on his knees and speaketh wordes which I understand not.] yea the onely distributer, giver, and bestower of Wisdome and Science.798 I weare this apparayle, for that in dede, being a Prince I am a Cownsaylor799 to estate and dignitie. All Dignitie and gouernment that is not cownsayled by me, and my subiects, is frustrate, voyde, and cleane800 without firm grownd. Those which thow sawest, (being pipers) signifie praters.801 with unaccustomed, and not usuall Instruments: which allwayes seame to sownd that, which None but I my self, with my subiects, (yea not all of them, but the fewest) can performe. But I am true Philosophie. I am true understanding. Oh my descending from him which rayngneth, is euen uncomprehensible of the Angells. Neyther do I know, my self: But what I think,I utter, and What I measure, I am. He sayd, Ordinationem Infinitæ potestatis eleuate.802 EK: Now come Three803 out of the 42, and layd theyr fingers uppon the three first letters: and, 804,805 EK: They ioyne them selues to gither and become, all One Man; most beawtifull to behold: Whose hed and to the brest, seamed to be neare to heven. His brest and myddle part, in the ayre: His feete seamed to stand on the earth. There cam like a Fire, oute of the Crown of his hed, and to enter into the heven, hard, by it: This great high and fayre man sayde, Veritas quæsita,nostra est.807 808EK: His apparayle is diuided into two halfes: from the crown of his hed to his fete. The one half seemed to be most fresh florishing herbes: The other half seemed to be of diuerse metalls:809 and his right fote seamed to be Leade.810 He sayd (with an Aposiopesis) thus, Beatus est qui Lumen capitis mei &c.811 EK: The rest, all, quake. He sayd farder, Unus in Capite, unus in pectore, unus in pedibus.812 EK: Then stept oute 9, at ones. EK: Then the great man returned, or was restored to his former estate of three particular men agayn: and they three leaned to the Ientleman813 with the Cape on his sholder - BOBOGEL - who sayde, Dee, Dee, Dee, at length, but not to late.814 EK: In the place of the former first thre, appeared L E E. EK: Of the 9, which stept out, they of the first Ternarie815 sayde, eche thus orderly, 1. Volumus. 2. Possumus. 3. Quid non.816 This Ternarie sayd, Faciamus, quæ fecerunt, nam nos Tres sumus Adam; societate.817 EK: They become One man, as the other before, but a slender and a weak one, neyther so high as the first, euer laboring or striving with it self to stand up right, but still it bended, bowed, and inclined downward, as thowgh it wold fall for feblenes. The Body of this Compownd man, seamed to be of Gold glittring. When they retorned to theyr distinct shape: they semed naked and to be sorry, and lament: And Bobogel did put them from him, with his sworde, skabbard and all, as it hanged by his side. Theyr letters were ----- N A R. EK: Then cam the Ternarie-B L N,818 and orderly they sayd thus, {1 Ab illo. 2 Per illum. 3 Cum illo819 Bob: Qui caret hijs tribus,820 [EK: He whispereth to the first Three leaning to him: and with all, seeing me muse at the Aposiopesis, he sayd,] No No, Thow shalt not dowt [pointing to me.] In ecclesia Dei, laborabit in Vanum.821 EK: This Ternarie of men becam to haue one onely hed, and three bodyes and that one hed was in good proportion. EK: The side of the Diaphonous Globe opened, and this Transformed Ternarie did point into it, toward the multitude: and the people had theyr brests naked, and semed to wepe:822 and to wipe theyr brests, and where they wiped the place becam fayre. EK: This Ternary did seme to stand uppon a triangular stone, and to turn (as a horsmyll doth, abowt one axeltree) orderly agaynst, and by, the hole of the Globe so opened. And euery of the three bodyes, in theyr turning, as they cam agaynst the open place of the Globe, they extended, and stretch out theyr hands toward the people: The first seamed to hold a rownd ball in his hand being little, but very fayre white. The second body, his hand had in it, a little sword flamming with fyre. The third had a thing like a hatt band of lawn,823 of many cullours, which ever as his turne cam to be agaynst the opened hole, he seamed to cast toward the people, and the people did seme to be drawn to him ward, by the Casting of it toward them. These three bodyes, thowgh they turned contynually, yet did the face or Cowntenance of that One Compownd hed, stedyly and immoveably regard or loke into the Globe at the forsayd hole therof. H: A wonder to behold the heuen, much more this. EK: Now this Ternarie separated it self, and the hole or clyft in the Globe did shut to. These three did sit down by Bobogel. H: Sunt semper, et Cibus illorum est unus.824 ∆: Note: The first Ternarie, they semed to stand leaning to Bobogel. The Third Ternarie was set orderly and vicissim,825 close by Bobogel his feete, one of these betwene two of the first; euer so that orderly one of the first, and one of the Third ternarie, one of the first and one of the third; one of the first and one of the third. EK: Then cam the Ternarie A N A.826 They sayd, orderly thus, 1. Ab illo sed. 2. Cum illo sed,827 looking on his own belly. ∆: Then I demaunded of theyr Apparayle: and EK sayd that these were brauer than the former Ternary. Bobogel sayd, Aliqui a dignitate, Cæteri talia quia non sunt Digni.828 This he sayd, pointing to theyr apparayle. Then the third sayd, 3. Per illum, Per illum, Per illum,829 with a frowning cowntenance thrusting furth his hand. EK: They ioyne to gither into one hed and three bodyes.The Hole of the Globe opened very wyde now. This one Compownd Hed had many eyes, many noses, many mowthes, as thowgh it were a Cahos830 of Faces, in one hed, but three bodyes. One of this bodyes had in his hand a little Ball, like the other before, very white, but with twynkling brightnes in it. The other two bodyes, theyr hands were emptie. EK: They turn in order agaynst the Hole of the Globe: But the People regarded them not: but at the comming of the hand with the Ball, against the hole, the people loked a little up at it. Bob. sayd, Et quia carebant in ardentibus ignis.831 EK: These, being dissolued into theyr former state, go and sit (with hevy chere) by them that sat affar of from BOBOGEL. Theyr apparaill semed to be simple: theyr good apparayle was gone. ∆: Here I fownd a certayn error in my writing of the first Notes: which I haue amended in the writing of this: But while that error did trubble me, the spirituall Creature sayd these wordes. Bob: The Fawt is in EK his remembrance, and not in his will. Note this, LEE ar the Three that stand with me. NAR are the Three that I reiect. BLN are the Thre which are enterlincked with me. ANA are the Three that are reiected.832 Bob. sayd, Omnes naturam ad, Sed, Nôn in illo.833 EK: The 30 remayning,834 cam all away, and satt betwene Bobogel and the reiected Cumpany: and from that Cumpany835 cam onely 7 to the Circle agayn. Euery of these 7, sett theyr feete, eche uppon a letter of the Circle, which letters are these,836 AOIDIAB. EK: They say, In use,837 we are perfect; Misused, we are Monsters. Sumus septem Januæ Naturæ, et sui ipsius qui novit Deum.838 EK: These 7, seme to vanish into wynde, or white smoke, and to fall into the Globe. And the six reiected, turn into a black smoke: and the rest of the 30839 semed also converted into black smoke, and to fall into the Globe. Bob. sayd, In sexto et septimo sunt omnia.840 EK: The six that were next him, semed to clyng hard and close to Bobogel. (Bob: Behold.) EK: They be ioyned all into One body, and becam like the sonne, into the forme of a bowle or Globe: and so moved up or rowled up the small narrow race, or line unworne, which remayned higher then the chayre, toward the top of the Diaphanous Globe, as before is declared, so that this Princely Noble man, and his six adherents [LEE:BLN], in this manner went out of sight.841 H: Formator horum, Secundus842est in Heptagono.843 They are diuided into the day, as the other wer, before: But wheras the other are chiefly uppon that day which you call Monday, so ar these to be used onely on the Sabaoth day. Theyr use, is onely thus (obseruing the former order) with the Circle uppon the grownd.844 The first six,845 with theyr King and the seale of theyr Prince, taketh place in the whole body of the day: The other being 6 tymes six,846 are diuided into the partes of the day as before. The Letters onely where they stode, are theyr names and Characters. What doth the heven behold or the earth conteyne, that is not (or may be) subdued, formed and made by these. What lerning, grownded uppon wisdome, with the excellencies in847 Nature, cannot they manifest? One in heuen they know. One and all in Man, they Know. One and all in erth, they know. Measure heuen by a parte, (my meaning is, by these few). Let God be Glorifyed: His name praysed. His Creation848 well taken, and his Creatures, well used.849 ∆: I craued for some playner Instruction, as concerning the use of the... and he answered, H: Behold: Are thy eyes so blynde? Dost thow see and wilt not see? Thy mynde telleth thee. Thy understanding furdereth, and thy Judgment doth establish it. That as thow sawest a Body in three places, and of Three Compositions: Thowgh but two in forme, So shall this work haue relation to 1: tyme present and present use, to 2: Mysteries far exceding it, And 3: Finally to a purpose and intent, wherby the Maiestie, and Name of God shall and may, and of force must appeare, with the Apparition of his wonders, and mervayles, yet unhard of. 850 Dixi.851 ∆: Than immediately after he began agayne, as followeth, H: Venito, veni (inquam) adesto Veni Rex. O Rex, Rex, Rex Aquarum,852 Venito, venito inquam. Magna est tua; maior autem mea potestas. Deus noster, restat, regnat, et est, Quod, et sicut fuit.853 EK: Then cam one and sayd, ------------ Parati sumus nomen eius Creatoris nostri, nomen, nomen laudare Nomen (inquam) Unius nunc et viuentis. Obscura sunt hæc animis obscuris. Vera et manifesta Veris et perfectis. Ecce adsunt.854 EK: He that sayd this, is as thowgh he were a king, with a Crown on his hed: His apparayle was a long robe whitish: But his left arme was very white, and his right arme, black.855 EK: There cam after this King a Cumpany of 42: and euery one of them had a letter in his forhed,and they were 7 in a row, and six, downward. The King had written in his forhed, BABALEL.856 The first 7, (begynning from EK his left hand toward his right) had these letters, and the second, Thirdth &c had these letters as here appeare. H: At the next tyme, more. Δ: Omne quod viuit laudet Deum unum et trinum, in omne æuum.857 Amen. EK: The cloth draws.