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Mysteriorum Libri / Five Books

Liber Mysteriorum Quintus

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Δ: As EK and I wer talking of my boke Soyga, or Aldaraia: and I at length sayd that, (as far, as I did remember) Zadzaczadlin, was Adam1474 by the Alphabet therof, suddenly appeared the spirituall creature, which sayd yesterday that he wold come agayn, this day, uncalled: and at his first comming he sayd: Then, à primo. Δ: Qui primus est et nouissimus, Alpha et Omega, misereatur nostri.1475 Il:-Amen. Glorie be to thee, which art one, and comprehending all. Mervaylous is thy wisdome, in those, of whome, thow willt be comprehended. A short prayer, but appliable to my purpose. Euery prayse, with us, is a prayer. Δ: He taketh-of, his pyed1476 coat, and threw it up on the corner of my desk and then he seemed clothed in an ancient doctorly apparayle: and on his hed he had a wrethe of white sylk of three braydes.1477 Il:-Well I will give you my lesson, and so byd you farewell. First I am to perswade you to put away wavering myndes. Secondly, for your Instruction, in these necessarie occasions, thus it is: The owtsides or skyn must be the Centre.1478 There, is one fowndation. The Flesh must be the owtside. The Centre it self must be disseuered into 4 æquall partes: There is your lesson. Δ: We understand not, this dark lesson. Il:-The hart must be the fowrth part of the body; and yet the body perfect and sownd. The Skynne must occupy the place of the hart and yet without deformitie. God is the begynning of all things: The fardest parte of all things is in the hands of God. The like shalbe fownd amongst the number of his One most holy names:1479 The Erth is a fowndation to euery thing: and differeth but onely in forme. In the forme of his own application whereunto it is applied. God is the begynning of all things, but not after one sorte, nor to euery one alike. But it is three manner of works, with his name: The One, in respect of Dignification: The second, in respect of Conciliation: The third, in respect of an ende and determined Operation. Now syr, to what ende, wold you were your Character? Δ: At our two first dealings to gither, it was answered by a spirituall Creature, (whome we toke to be Uriel,) Sigillum hoc in auro sculpendum, ad defensionem Corporis omni loco, tempore et occasione, et in pectus gestandum.1481 Il: But how do I teache? The Character is an Instrument, appliable onely to Dignification. But there is no Dignification (Syr) but that which doth procede, and hath his perfect Composition, Centrally, in the square number of 3 and 4. The centre whereof shall be equall to the greatest. Δ: We understand not. Il:-Hereby you may gather not onely to what ende, the blessed Character (wherewith thow shalt be dignified) is prepared, but allso the nature of all other characters.1482 To the second. -Δ: Conciliation you meane. Il:-The Table is an Instrument of Conciliation. And so are the other 7 Characters: which you call by the name of Tables, squared out into the forme of Armes: which are propre to euery king and Prince1483 according to theyr order.1484 Now to the last: Δ: As concerning the ende and determined Operation. Il: It onely consisteth in the mercy of God, and the Characters of these bokes.1485 For, Behold, As there is nothing that commeth or springeth from God, but it is as God, and hath secret Maiesticall and inexplicable Operation in it: So euery letter here bringeth furth the Names of God:1486 But, (in dede), they are but one Name; But according to the locall and former being, do comprehend the universall generation corruptible and incorruptible1487 of euery thing. It followeth, then, it must nedes comprehend the ende of all things. Thus much, hitherto. The Character is fals and diuilish.1488 He that dwelleth in thee, hath told thee, so, long ago. The former Diuel, did not onely insinuat him self, but these things. Δ: I do mervayle, that we had no warning hereof ere now, and that I was often tymes called on, to prepare those things, (character and Table): and yet they were fals. Il:-Yf it shold haue byn gon abowt to be made, it shuld not haue byn suffred to pass under the forme of wyckednes.1489 The Truth is to be gathered uppon the first Demonstration (my demonstration and yours1490 are not all one: you will not be offended with me, syr.) I gaue thee a certayn principle, which in it self is a sufficient demonstration: I told thee, the placing of the Centre, the forme of it, with a lineamentall placing and ordring of that which thow lookest1491 for. Δ: But truely I understand not. Il:-I teache. Take cleane paper. It must be made 4 inches square. Pray. Δ: We prayed. Il: These letters, which I shall speak now, thow shalt, afterward, put them in theyr propre characters.1492 Write: Neuer since the begynning of the world was this secret deliuered, nor this holy mysterie set open, before the Weaklings of this world. Write in the uppermost prik 'O', and 'b' on the right hand, and 'g' on the left &c. The two extreme pricks, one on the right hand, 'a' and the other, on the left 'o' &c. There is the whole. Δ: We prayed (unbidden) in respect of the mysterie revealed. EK, was skarse able to abide or endure the voyce of the spirituall Creature, when he spake of these things now: the sownd was so forcible to his hed that it made it ake vehemently. Il:-Set down the kings, and theyr Princis in a Table (as thow knowest them): with theyr letters bakward: excepting theyr Bees, from the right hand, to the left.1493 Let Bobogel be first, and Bornogo is his prince.1494 Δ: Note here the three diuerse manners how the letters ar cumpassed. 1: The middel is called the Hart or centre, 2: those abowt, enclosing the hart, ar called the flesh, and 3: the two owtside pillers (of two letters in a row) is cownted the skyn. Il:-Here, is the skynn turned into the Centre: and the Centre turned into 4 partes of the body. Δ: I see now allso, how, the flesh, is become the owtside: o g e l o r n o &c. Il: I haue done tyll sone. Δ: Deo nostro omnipotenti perennis laus sit et immensa gloria.1495 Amen. NOTE. Δ: After that these things were finished, and EK rose up from the table and went to the west window, to reade a letter which was, euen than, browght him from his wife: which being done, he toke a little prayer1496 boke (in english meter made by one William Hunnis which Mr Adrian Gilbert had here: and it lay on the Table by us all the while of this last action) and with this boke, he went into his bed chamber, intending to pray on it, a certayn prayer, which he liked: and as he opened the boke, his ey espied strange writing in the spare white paper at the bokes ende: and beholding it, iudged it verily to be his own letters, and the thing of his own doing: but being assured that he never saw the like of this Character [for Conciliation], and that other, (notified by the hart or Center, skyn and flesh before this present howre, he becam astonied,1497 and in great wrath; and behold, suddenly, One appered to him and sayd, Lo, this is as good as that other: meaning that, which we had receyued, and is here before sett down on the former page. With this newes cam EK to me, as I was writing down fayre this last Action, and sayd, I haue strange matter to impart unto you: Then sayd I, What is that? And at the fyrst (being yet tossed in his mynde, with this great iniurie of the suttle supplanter of man, ambitiously intruding him self, to rob god of his glory) he sayd, you shall know, and at length shewed me this little paper, here, by, being the one of the white leafes in the ende of the forsayd little prayer boke. And I vewing it, fownd it to be ment to be the counterfeat of ours, but, with all, imperfect diuerse wayes, after the order of our method: yea thowgh the words, out of which it had sprong had bin good, and sufficient: and thereat laughed-at, and derided the Wicked enemy, for his envy, his ass-hedded folish ambition, and in dede mere blyndenes to do any thing well. To conclude, we fownd, that with an incredible spede this Diuilish figure was written down by some Wicked spirit, to bring our perfect doings in dowt with us: thereby eyther to provoke us to utter undue speaches of gods good creatures, or to wavering myndes of the Worthynes and goodnes of the same things receyuing, and so eyther to leaue of, or with fayntharted wavering to procede. But I by gods grace (contrary to such inconveniency) was armed with constancie, and confident good hope, that God wold not suffer me, (putting my trust in his goodnes and mercy, to receyue wisdome from him) to be so uniustly dealt withall or unkindely or unfatherly used at his hands &c: and entended after supper to make my ernest complaint to the diuine Maiestie against this wicked intrusion and temptation of the Illuding diuell and so we went to supper.