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Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Quartus Liber Mysteriorum

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Δ: After a great half howre attending, and diuerse tymes our prayers to god, The black Cloth was pulled upward: and so vanished away. H appered sitting in his chayre, and his face toward me: and so looking abowt he paused a while: half a quarter of an howr. In the meane space cam one skypping lightly, a little boy, in a grene coate, and sayd, He is here, at an ynche.858 Than he sayd, Hark. To me he sayd, Ha-sir-ha. Δ: What wilt thow say to me? [Grene Coate:] I am Multin his minister, wilt thow any thing with me? I cannot tarry. Δ: Then this skipiak859 espyed a spirituall creature comming, and sayd, Ha, ar you there? Δ: And so went out of sight. Δ: This was King BABALEL, with a crown of Gold on his hed, his garment whitish, and his right sleue on his arme, blak: and the left sleve very white. He seamed to stand uppon water. The other 42 cam likewise and stode. Bab: Veni princeps860 7 principum qui sunt Aquarum Principes. Ego sum Rex potens et mirabilis in aquis: cuius potestas est aquarum visceribus. Princeps iste861 (Δ: pointing to a Prince, new come to sight which had a red long robe, and a cerclet of gold on his hed862) est Tertius principum in Heptagonon.863 Δ: I sayd Heptagono: he replyed, Heptagonωn,864 and sayd: Verè planè, et perspicuè dixi. Bab: Mensurasti aquas?865 Befafes answered, Factum est.866 Δ: I seemed to dowt of some matter here, and Befafes sayd, Thow shalt be answered in any dowt. I am thy frende. I haue fauored thee in many things.867 Ph'ers868 haue imagined vaynely of my name. For thy loue towards me, Thow shalt know my name. I was with Salomon; I was also (unknown) with Scotus.869 I was, in respect of my powr: unknown, in respect of my name. He called me Mares. Since, I was not with any. And I preserued thee from the powre of the wicked, when I told thee things of truth to come. When I rid thy howse of wycked ones and was with thee in extremities. I was with thee. Behold I was with thee throwghly. Δ: Then he bad EK Ax me, yf I knew Obelison. Δ: I had to do with Obelison, but by reason of my Skryers nawghtynes, I was in dowt what I might credit. Bef: Thow shalt know this for a most manifest truth hereafter. I am Obelison, the fifth of the Seuenth,870 which haue the skowrging of Obelison the wicked: but not wicked for euer, neyther accursed to the ende. We Angels haue tymes, and our faultes are amended.871 Δ: Shall I Note your name, by Befafes? He answered, My name is so, in dede: The Ægyptians called me Obelison in respect of my nature. Δ: I pray you what is the Etymologie of Obelison? Bef: A pleasant deliuerer.872 EK: The former 7, haue Crownes.873 Theyr letters stand betwene theyr feete.874 E I L O M F O &c. Bef: Thow hast receyued these letters allready. EK: The water seameth, contynually to pass ouer these letters. Bab: I Gouern uppon Tuesday. 1. EK: The first seuen take the water and throw it up, and it becometh clowdes. 2. The second throweth it up, and it becommeth hayle and snow. One of the first 7 sayde, Behold, Behold, Behold: All the motion of the waters, and the saltnes thereof is æqually assured by us. We giue good success in battayles, reduce ships & all manner of vessells that flote uppon the seas: Our make is great. Muse not [Δ], For whan the seas are trubbled, with the wickednes or uprore of man, our Authoritie giueth victory from him that is most Victorious. Fishes and Monsters of the sea, yea all that liueth therein, are well known with us. Behold we are (generally) the Distributers of Gods Judgments uppon the waters that couer the earth. EK: Than stept furth all the rest. 3. The Third seuen sayd, Some of us conduct the waters throwgh the earthe. Other of us, do beawtify Nature in her Composition. The rest of us ar distributers and Deliuerers of the Threasures and the unknown substances of the seas.875 Bab: Praysed be God which hath created us, from the begynning with Glory. His Glory be augmented. EK: Now the 42 diue into the Water and so vanish away: and Befafes, and Babalel also wer suddaynly gon. H standing up sayd, LO, Thus thow seest the glory of Gods creatures: Whome thow mayst use,876 with the consideration of the day, theyr king, theyr Prince, and his Character. The King and prince gouern for the whole daye.877 The rest according to the six partes of the day. Use them, to the glory, prayse, and honor of him, which created them to the Laude and prayse of his Maiestie. Δ day is 24 howres. Δ: But whan doth that Day begyn? H: Thow shalt be towght the rest. H proceded, and sayd, Vitam dedit Deus omnibus Creaturis. Venite Veni Ignis, veni Vita mortalium (inquam) Venito. Adesdum. Regnat Deus. Ô Venite. Nam unus ille Regnat, et est Vita Viuentium.878 EK: Now there commeth a King.879 and hath a Prince880 next him and after them 42, like ghostes, or smokes, with out forme: hauing euery of them a little glittring spark of fire in the myddest of them. Verè beatus881 (sayd this King that now cam.) Δ: I pray you to tell me your name. King: I am the fowrth King in the Table and the two* and twentyth in number. Δ: I understand in the Table of the names collected from the 7 Tables of 49. And in those tables taking of the first septenarie, Baligon for the first King; and in the second septenarie, Bobogel for the second King, and in the third septenarie, taking Babalel, so accownted the third, and in the fowrth septenarie, the first of septenarie is Bynepor, and so accownted the fowrth: but accownting euery one from Baligon he is the 22th: and so the fowrth and the two and twentith. EK: A Voyce I here, saying, You shall begynne to work agayn, at 6 of the clok next. Δ: Omnium bonorum largitori, laus perennis et immensa.882 Amen. Δ: Abowt half a quarter of an howre after 6: we retorned to the work and the cloth was drawn away: H sitting in the chayre. EK: There appeared a little ronning water very clere chrystalline: and on this side the 42 last specifyed. Bynepor sayd: Lo, [and than he kneled down, and semed to pray, a prety while]. The generall state and condition of all things resteth onely and dependeth uppon the distribution, and participation of my exalted most especiall and glorified powr. My sanctification, glory, and renowne, allthowgh it had begynning, cannot, shall not nor will haue ending. He that Measureth, sayd,883 and I was the ende of his workmanship. I am like him, and of him, yet not as partaking nor adherent, but distant in One degree. The Fire that holdeth, or is, the first Principle of all things in generally,884 hath his universall and unmeasurable powre in the workmanship of my Creation. Visible and Invisible, were not, withoute my record. When he [Ipse885] cam, I was magnified by his comming, and I am sanctifyed, world Without ende. Vita suprema, Vita superior, et Infima, sunt meis mensurata manibus.886 Notwithstanding, I am not of my self, Neyther is my powre myne owne, Magnified by his name: Behold I dubble life from One, unto a thowsand of Thowsands: and One thowsand of thowsands, to a number, exceding cownt: I speak in respect of mans Capacitie. I am in all and all hath some being by me: yet my powre is nothing in respect of his powre, which hath sent me. Write this reuerently. Note it with Submission: What I speak hath not byn reuealed, no not in these last tymes, of the second last world.887 But I begynne new worldes. new people, new kings, & new knowledge of a new Gouernment.888 To be short, Vitam tradidit; deditque mihi potestatem esse, Viuere, et in perpetuum glorifica... Omnibus et ubique.889 As these cannot be comprehended, what they are, with mor... So cannot any thing be browght to pas in me, without a living sight, and a perfect mynde.890 I Gouern uppon Thursday. For Instruction, the rest as before. Thow shalt work mervaylous mervaylously. by my workmanship in the highest. To whome891 (with overshaddowing thy light with life, and blessing you both, in his name of whome I am the Image,) I prayse God. EK: Now he descendeth into the Globe, and it becam very bright there among the people: which, allso, at his comming, seamed to be more cherefull. H stode up and moved his hand, aboue his hed, cumpassing with it a loft.892 After that cam a Cumpany, with a King,893 and after him a prince.894 The king had a red robe on, and a crown on his hed. The Prince had a robe of many cullours, and on his hed a Cerclet. The Cumpany [42] seemed to stand rownd abowt a little hill of Claye. Behynde this Cumpany seamed to stand an innumerable multitude of ugly people, a far of:895 Those which seeme to stand rownd abowt the little hill seme to haue in the palmes of theyr hands, letters, in order as here appereth. Δ: The king spake, Beholde, All the Earth with her bowells and secrets what soeuer, are deliuered unto me. And what I am there thow mayst know. I am great, But he, in whome I am, is greater then I. Unto my Prince, (my Subiect) are deliuered the keyes of the Mysteries of the earth. All these are Angells that gouern under him: whose Gouernment is diuided, as before. Use them, they are and shalbe at thy commaundement.896 Those that stand afarr off are the Spirits of perdition, which kepe earth with her Threasor, for him &c: and so furth.897 I haue sayd. H, standing up, sayd, His name is the fifth and the 29th: and his Prince his name, the fifth, and the 23th.898 Δ: The first name, I understand in Tabula collecta, The second name I understand, for the fifth to be in Heptagono and the 23th to be so fownd the same, in Tabula collecta. H: Venite, ubi nulla quies, sed stridor dentium.899 EK: Then cam the man agayn, with ugly fyrie flames out of his sides, which was here before, the last day.900 H beckened with his hand unto him, and his coates went to gither, and so couered that horrible sight. EK: There appeareth a rownd Table, which 42 hold and toss, all in fyrie flames. H: Write quickly, thow [EK] canst not behold it. EK: The first seameth to be a King901 with a crown on his hed, and the &c. Lo I gouern (as I902 haue sayd before) All enchanters, Coniurers, witches, & Wicked spirites that are hated of God, and included for euer, in owteward darknes (except a few which remayn in a second payne, which gape and grone for the mercies of God, and haue tyme of Joye, whose measures I haue, and kepe accownt of) are all at my government. 903 By me, thow shalt cast oute the powre of all wicked spirits. By me thow shalt know the doings and practises of euill men, and more then may be spoken or uttred to man. Blessed be his name, whose Glory is euerlasting fode to the Just, and Sempiternall9048 to the Wicked. H: The 36the name, is the King his name,905 And his Prince his name.906 is the last [saue one] written in the Heptagonon.907 H: Venite vos qui sub mea estis potestate.908 EK: Then cam bright People 42: And besides these, all the Ayre swarmeth with creatures. Theyr letters are in theyr forheds: these stand in a circle: they take the letters from theyr forheds, and set them in a Circle.909 H: Of these, I am Gouernor my self.910 Behold I am of tyme present. I am of the last Ternarie.911 Loke what may be wrowght, in all aëriall Actions, I can distribute and bestow at my pleasure: my tyme and day, is Friday. The day of the last before, is Saterday. The day of the Fifth is Wensday. H: Behold, I haue towght thee. His name be blessed who raigneth and liueth for euer. Δ: Amen, Amen, Amen. H: I will answer thee of all Dowtes herein (being demaunded of me) to morrow. For, so I call it, for thy sake: Not, for that, it is so to me. Δ: So he went away. Δ: Then cam URIEL and MICHAEL, and an other (I think RAPHAEL) and the chayre and table appered, as in the first boke hath byn shewed: And also H had his peculier chayre, at his tymes of teaching me. MICHAEL (sayd,912) Mercifull is our God, and glorious is his name Which chuseth his creatures, according to his own Secret Judgment and good pleasure. This Arte is the first part of a Threefold Art,913 ioyning Man (with the Knowledge of 1. the WORLDE, 2. the GOVERNMENT of his Creatures, and 3. the SIGHT of his Maiestie.): Unto him (Ô, I say) unto him; which is Strength, Medicine, and Mercie914 to those that feare him: Amen. Δ: Gloria, laus, honor, et perennis Jubilatio, sit Deo nostro Omnipotenti, Optimo, Maximoque.915Amen. Δ: Note, Remember, and enquire what it meaneth, that no Mention is made of Bralges the Prince, Nor of Blumaza his king in this Treatise, being a certayn Repetition of the Heptagonum stellare, going next before.916