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Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Liber Mysteriorum Quintus

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∆: We being desirous to know the cause of this stay making, in the Tables shewing as before was accustomed; and now (24 leaves being written,) a dark clowde to hang in the place of a glorious boke, did greatly disquiet our myndes, and browght us in feare of some offence lately committed, by any one, or both of us, whereby the Indignation of the lord might be kingled against us. Hereuppon we prayed severally; and at length, (no alteration, or better Cumfert hapening to us,) I prayed in the hearing of EK, (by my desk, on my knees) in great agony of mynde; and Behold, there appeared one standing uppon, or rather somwhat behynde the Heptagonall clowde who sayd, I am sent, to understand the cause of your greif, and to answer your dowtes. ∆: I, then, declared my mynde breifly, according to the effect of my prayer. Whereunto he answered at large, reproving my appointing of god a tyme or to abridge the tyme spoken of: and among his manifold grave speaches he had these words, Prepare all things,1367 For tyme is at hand. His Justice is great; and his arme stronge. How darest thow dowt or dreame, saying: Lo, God, this may be done in shorter time &c. But such is flesh. Be rocks in faith. It is not the manner of us, good Angels,1368 to be trubbled so oft. At the time appointed, thow shalt practise: While sorrow shall be measured, thow shalt bynde up thy fardell.1369 Great is the light of Gods sinceritie. Appoint God no tyme. Fullfill that which is commaunded. God maketh clere whan it pleaseth him. Be you constant and avoyde Temptations: For True it is, that is sayde: And lastly I say, It shall be performed. What is it now thow woldest desyre to be made playner? ∆: Still he proceded uppon my answers: and at length he sayd, Neyther is the time of mans Justification known untyll he hath byn tried.1370 You are chosen by God his mercy to an ende1371 and purpose: Which ende shall be made manifest by the first begynning in knowledg in these Mysteries. God shall make clere whan it pleaseth him: & open all the secrets of wisdome whan he unlocketh. Therfore Seke not to know the mysteries of this boke, tyll the very howre1372 that he shall call thee. For then shall his powre be so full amongst you, that the flesh shall not be perceyued, in respect of his great glory. But was there euer any, that tasted of gods mercies so assuredly, that wanted due reverence?1373 Can you bow to Nature, and will not honor the workman? Is it not sayd, that this place is holy? What are the works of holines? I do aduertise you: for, God will be honored. Neyther will he be wrasted, in any thing he speaketh. Think not, that you could speak or talk with me, unleast I did greatly abase my self, in taking uppon me so unlikely a thing in forme, as to my self, &c.1374 But he doth this not for your causes, not for your deserts, but for the Glorie of his owne name. One is not to be lightened, but all. And, which all? The two fethered fowle togither with the Capitayn. Ask What thow wilt: for, untyll the 40 dayes1375 be ended, shalt thow haue no one more shew of us. ∆: Whether shall we give Cownsayle, or consent to the Captayne1376 to go down into his Cuntry, as, presently he entendeth. Ur:-As he listeth. ∆: EK sayd that this was Uriel who now had appered and answered all this. Ur:-I will ask thee one question. Haue we any voyce or no? ∆: I do think you haue no organs or instruments apt for voyce: but are mere spirituall and nothing corporall: but that you haue the powre and property from god to insinuate your message or meaning to eare or eye, in such sort as mans Imagination shall be, that both they here and see you sensibly. Ur:-We haue no voyce but a full noyce that filleth euery place:1377 which whan you ones taste of, Distance shall make no separation. Let there one come that may better answer: not in respect of thy self but one, more nerer to thy estate.1378-Do thy Duty. ∆: He sayd this, to one who cam in, and he departed him self. ∆: This new come Creature sayd, Wold you haue any thing with me, Il?1379 ∆: Who art thow: Art thow one that loveth and honoreth our Creator? Il: Will you see my hart?-EK: He openeth his body and sheweth his hart: and theron appered written EL. ∆: He semed to be a very mery Creature, and skypped here and there, his apparell was like as of a vyce in a play: and so was his gesture1380 and his skoffing, as the outward shew therof was to be vulgarly1381 demed: but I did carefully ponder the pith of the words which he spake: and so forbare to write very much which he spake at the begynning by reason EK did so much mislike him, and in a manner toke him to be an Illuder. ∆: As you are appointed to answer us by the Messager of God, so answer us, (who desyre pure and playne verity,) as may be correspondent to his Credit that assigned you, and to the honor of God who Created us. Il:-My answer is Threefold:1382-I answer by gesture, by my apparayle, & will answer thee by my wordes. ∆: Do you know where the Arabik boke1383 is that I had: which was written in tables and numbers? Il:-It is in Scotland:-A minister hath it; it is nothing worth. The boke conteyneth fals and illuding Witchcrafts. All lawde honor and prayse be to the One and euerlasting God: for euer and euer.1385 ∆: The Lord Threasoror,1386 hath he, any bokes belonging to Soyga? Il:-He hath none: but certayn Introductions to all artes. ∆: But it was reported to me by this Skryer1387 that he had: certayn peculier bokes perteyning to Soyga: otherwise named ysoga, and Agyos, literis transpositis.1388 Il:-Soyga signifieth not Agyos. Soyga alca miketh. ∆: What signifieth those wordes? The true measure of the Will of God in iudgment which is by Wisdome. ∆: What language is that, I pray you? Il:-A language towght in Paradise.1389 ∆: To whome? Il:-By infusion, to Adam. ∆: To whome did Adam use it? Il:-Unto Chevah.1390 ∆: Did his posteritie use the same? Il:-Yea, untyll the Ayrie Towre1391 was destroyed. ∆: Be there any letters of that language yet extant among us mortall men? Il:.... that there be. ∆: Where are they? Il:-ô, syr, I shall make you in loue with your Masterships boke. ∆: Did Adam write any thing in that language? Il:-That is no question. ∆: Belike than, they were deliuered from one to an other by tradition or els Enoch1392 his boke, or prophesie, doth, or may seme, to be written in the same language: bycause mention is made of it in the new Testament in Jude his Epistle where he hath, Prophetauit autem de his Septimus ab Adam, Enoch, dicens, Ecce venit Dominus in sanctis millibus suis, facere iudicium contra omnes, et arguere omnes impios, de omnibus operibus impietatis eorum, quibus impiè egerunt, et de omnibus duris, quæ locuti sunt contra Deum peccatores impij &c.1393 Il:-I must distinguish with you. Before the flud, the spirit of God was not utterly obscured in man. Theyr memories were greater, theyr understanding more clere, and theyr traditions, most, unsearchable.1394 Nothing remayned of Enoch but (and if it pleas your mastership) mowght haue byn carryed in a cart. I can not bring you the brass, but I can shew you the bokes. Slepe 281395 dayes, and you shall fynde them, under your pillow whan you do rise. ∆: As concerning Esdras bokes,1396 which are missing, what say you? Il: The prophets of the Jues1397 haue them. ∆: But we can hardely trust any thing in the Jues hands, concerning the pure veritie: They are a stiff necked people and dispersed all the world ouer. Il:-I will shew you a trik. ∆: He lifted up his fote, and shewed the sole of his shoo: and there appeared the picture of a man, who seemed to haue a skorf or fowle skynne on his face: which one toke of: and then there appered on his forhed these two figures, 88.1398 I will shew you more then that, to: and will speak to a man shortly, that shall bring Water to wash euery mans face. ∆: What mean you, by euery man? Shall all men, be made cleane? Il:-There is a difference in washing of faces. EK: This creature seemeth to be a Woman1399 by his face: his apparell semeth to be like a Vice1400 in a play. EK: Ar you not a Kinsman to Syngolla? Il: I syr, and so are you a kinsman to Synfulla. ∆: A man may finde corn in chaf. Il:-So may you (perchaunce) finde me an honest man in my ragged clothes. ∆: This other day, whan I was in dowt of the Grecian (the Macedonian) whether he had any good and profownd lerning or no, he was represented spiritually, and abowt his hat in great letters was written this greke word: I pray you what doth it signifie? I axed the grecian and he sayd, Il: Loke in your boke. ∆: I toke the common lexicon: and he sayd: No Not that: Then I axed if I shold take phauorinus his lexicon:1401 and he answered, Nor that. And I axed which then: and he sayd your boke covered with a white parchment: and I axed, that of Munsteris of Latine greke and hebrue? And he sayd, yea: and there you shall finde that Maculosus hath onely that one word longing to it. I loked & so fownd it: which satisfyed me very well. ∆: I pray you what say you of Gariladrah;1402 do you know him? Who long sins1403 did deale with me? Il:-Yf he were lesser then I, I durst speak to him: But bycause he is greater then I, I am not to speak to him. All under, and nothing above me, I deale. Loke in your Tables and there you shall finde an other name of his. ∆: I remember no such thing. Il:-Consider who hath set me here.1404 Yf the Truth thow hast allready, be of a greater then my self, then is it sufficient. ∆: What day was that name given me? Il:-Immediately, sir, after your1405 Worships last coming. ∆: That was Raphaël: And I remember that Gariladrah sayd that he must leave me and his better, (Raphael) shuld be my instructor, and that then the same Raphael was in my hed then. &c. ∆: Sing a song to his prayse, who created us. Il: I will sing a short song. Your doings are of GOD: your calling great: Go down and seke the Threasor,1406 and you shall obteyn it. Take no care: for, this Boke shall be done in 40 dayes.1407 Begyn to practise in August.1408 Serue god before. You shall know all thing, ictu oculi.1409 And so, prayse, glory, and eternall singing with incessant humilitie be unto thee, Creator that hath framed, made and Created all things, for euer and euer, Now say you (yf you will). Amen. ∆: Amen Amen Amen. Il: After the ende of 40 dayes, go down for the Threasor.1410 Whan those 40 dayes are done,1411 than this boke shall be finished. The rest of the time untyll August,1412 is for rest, labor, and prayer. ∆: What labor? Il:-In digging up of those Threasors. ∆: Must we nedes dig for them? Il:-Otherwise, yf thow willt. ∆: How, I pray you? For to dig without lycence1413 of the Prince, is dangerous by reason of the lawes: and to ax licence, is half an odious sute. Il:-Yf thow haue a parcell or part out of euery place of the erth, in any small quantitie, thow mayst work by the Creatures, whose powre it is to work in such causes: which will bring it (neuer trust me) before you can tell twenty.1414 ∆: He meaneth, Neuer trust him, if it be not so, as he hath sayd. Il:-No, neuer trust me, if it be not so: ∆: You mean those ten places, marked in the Table, which, last day, I deciphred.1415 Il:-I mary,1416 now you hit it. Yea sir, and your chest allso,1417 it wold do no hurt. Give me one: and I will make 40: and give you twenty and take twenty to my self: and whan you haue it, I pray you let me haue some little portion for my wife and children. ∆: As concerning that Chest, I pray you how cam the Macedonian, or Mr Sanford to know of it, so particularly, as he did? Il:-Husey told of it, openly, at the bord at braynford1418 in the hearing of diuerse. The Grecian will seke him oute. The Greke in grecia perhaps can finde out Threasor, but not in Anglia.1419 The Greke hath a Threasor in his hed, that will enriche him to be a fole. I was yesterday at London, I met with a blak dyer. He had a cupple of rings, that wold giue better instructions. Your Chymney here will speak agaynst you anon:1420 yet I am no brik layer.1421 I must be gone. ∆: God, for his infinite mercyes be allwayes praysed, glorified, and extolled of all his Creatures. Amen. He advised EK to comunicate to me the boke, and the powder, and so all the rest of the roll,1422 which was there fownd: saying, True frends use not to hide any thing eche from other. ∆: An old proverb it is. Amicorum omnia comunia. Unde, Deo soli omnis exhibeatur Laus honor et gloria.1423 Amen. Note: There followeth Quinti Libri Mysteriorum Appendix.1424 Quinti libri Mysteriorum Appendix