Wensday: Nouemb 21. hora 7 a meridie

Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Quartus Liber Mysteriorum

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Δ: There appered the first table, covered with a cloth of silk changeable cullour red and grene:917 with a white cloth under it: all hanging very low. The first Chayre allso: wherein Michael used to sit. And H did appere likewise, and his peculier chayre:918 and he standing by it. But the Diaphanous Globe, and the people or world in it, did not now appere, and, bycause no voyce or word cam from those spirituall creatures, yet: I declared that I did attend theyr pleasure first, as a scholer comming in the presence of his Master, and whan they had sayd those things which were for us first, (at this instant) to lerne, that than, I wold move some dowtes of the premisses, as I was yesterday advised to do. H, he held up his rod (which had two portions or partes of it black and one, red): and sayde, Ô quanta est hõis infirmitas et Corruptio, qui Angelis, idque suis bonis, fidem autem Deo, vix habet? Omnia mundana, fæces: Mundi Corruptiones in se habent: Deus noster, Deus noster, Deus (inquam) ille noster verus, cum Veris suis angelis, eique919 inseruientibus Semper verus est. Pete quæ vis? Dixi: et quod dixi, obumbratum est veritate, iusticia et perfectione.920 Ecce, (Δ: holding up the rod921). Hîc (Δ: pointing to the ende of the rod). Per hoc (Δ: pointing to the middle of it). Et a Mensurae fine, nos nostramque mensurabis potestatem. Age (inquam) Quid vis?922 Δ: I, than, of the premisses used a little discourse: how they might parabolically,923 betoken other more profownd matter, and litterally other: yet what sense so euer the premisses had, that theyr first rudiments and Text was to be made somwhat playner to me, then yet they were: bycause I dowted as well of the understanding of some of that, I had written, as allso of mys writing: eyther throwgh EK his mys reporting to me matter shewed to him, or by my mys-hering or negligent writing &c. To some part therof he sayd these words ensuing. H: In umbra mortis non est æqualitas. Obscurum enim nihil est quod per illum [EK] recepisti. Age.924 H: Thow hast a work of three proportions in esse;925 of 7 in forme: which is of it self diuided by a number septenarie, of the course, estate and determination of things aboue, things next, and things below: which, of it self is pure perfect and without blemish.926 Notwithstanding I will answer thee thus. The 7 Kings are orderly conteyned in the first of the Seuens diuided in generall numbers: whose names are expressed; published and perfectly formed within the first grownd and fowndacion of this Threefold work.927 The kings I meane with theyr Characters,928 and the names of theyr 7 liuing and semper adherent Ministers:929 Whose names thow mayst see not onely there written, but openly, and most playnely, truely, and sincerely spoken of before:930 as, by due examination of thy bokes thow shalt manifestly perceyue. Notwithstanding, as euery king, in his Maiestie, doth comprehend the dignitie of his whole seat and estate, so I of my self being the First, haue the gouernment of my self perfectly, as a mysterie known unto my self: which is a thing unlawfull to be published unto man and lawfull931 in respect of the charge committed unto us: and the slender Dignification of mans frayle estate; Which thow mayst see in the Heptagonon: where, there wanteth a name: the rest of the Cr... the utter Circumference of the Globe, are the Six Kings Or... following: according as they are written in the Mysteries of the... which do begynne the932 Powres, with theyr Prince,933 and theyr Characters orderly taken, by and uppon the Heptagonon... Ô God, how easy is this first understanding. Thow hast byn told perfectly, playnely and absolutely, not onely the Condition dignitie. and estate of all things that God hath framed: But allso withall, thow wart deliuered the most perfect forme and use of them.934 But this will I tell thee (to the intent thow shalt know: and forby cause I wold not, thow sholdest be ignorant in true Wisdome) that those Six Names in and uppon the Heptagonum are Collected, do growe and are gathered from the names in generally aforesayd.935 Take the Names, I will teache thee to know them, which els, [without] by direction936 thow canst not fynde. Loke thy First Table. I am called BALIGON with men. Thow hast Noted my name (which is secret) among the Angels,937 begynning with this letter M, consisting of 7 letters, the last being an A. I am called MARMARA: but otherwise CARMARA: but that letter M, shall not be expressed, &c. Thow seest, next, BOBOGEL, He it is that is the Second King. Thow seest the name BORNOGO, to be the first938 uppon the Heptagonum: it is his Prince. And therfore I did Note him with a Coronet, and not with a Crown: nay rather, but with a Cerclet abowt his hed. &c939 Δ: I concluded (of his instruction) the Kings and theyr Princes, theyr names to be thus lerned out of the Table Collected of 49, names, it is to weete, * Addendo 7 - fit hic processus. Ergo addendo 7, numero 43, proueniet 50: numerus: major 40 quam 49 per.1. qui respicere pt illum: primum Regem Baligon.942 ** addendo 7, fit processus hic g°. Si 7 addantur numero 37: inde emerget 44. pro proximo principe.943 and farder he sayd, The Characters of Kings, are in the Globe:944 and of the Princis in the Heptagonon. Δ: Note: from the on the last side, untyll these words finished, he was out of sight: and whan he had ended these words, he cam in sight agayn: and browght a thing in his hand like a sterre: or Heptagonum. H: Beholde. Euery one of these Princis hath945 his peculier Table. Thow hast Noted the First Table which begynneth, as I will tell thee. 1. 2: In BOBOGEL, that O, (the second letter) is the first of the Table OESNGLE and the second of Befafes, is the second, and the thirdth of the third: and the fowrth of the fowrth and the fifth of the fifth, and the sixth of the sixth, and E, (in the seuenth. Bnagole is the seuenth and last of this first seuen of this first Table: accownted the first. ¶ AVZHILN. The second seuen by like order is gathered of Babalel, and the rest of his septenarie. And so furth, to the ende downward as thow didst before &c. 2. 3: In the second Table; L (the first letter therof) is out of Bobogel his last letter, the second letter, is the sixth of Befafes; the third, is the fifth of Basmelo &c and so you haue LEENARB.947 For the rest kepe that order downward to the ende of the last Name Bamnode. Tranversim, quasi retrograde.948 3. 4: In the Third, begyn at the lower949 letter [of the latter950 worde] of the last of the second seven: and so upward, toward the right951 hand: Δ: The last word is of second seven is Bnagole: the last letter therof is e: which is the first of this Third Table: and the i, in Brisfli, is the second, and the 1 in Branglo the thirdth, and than so furth, upward, overthwart, toward the left hand: till ye come to Bobogel, his second letter, being O. Then to N in Bonefor: e in Bermale: o in Bragiop. &c. 4. 5: For the Fowrth, loke, Bobogel. Then loke to this fowrth Table the first B of the Table is the first B of Bobogel. The second B of this Table, is the B of Befafes. The third letter is a, the second letter of Basmelo. The fowrth letter, R, is the thirdth of Bernole. The fifth is the fowrth of Branglo. The sixth, is the fifth of Brisfli. The seuenth is the sixth of Bnagole. And so in to the next sevens downward orderly for the rest of the table. 5. 6: The Fifth begynneth from Bnagole upward: begynning at the last letter being e: and then upward croswise exactly tyll the B of Bobogel. And so of the next seuen, for the next: begynning at the n of Bonefon, and so furth. 6. 7: In the sixth, (the Infernall Table) The first is B of Bobogel, The second is A of the 15th: The third is N of the 22th: the fowrth, is the fowrth of the 29: The fifth of the 36: the sixth of the 43: and the seuenth of the 49: being E in Bamnode, two letters being taken in that last