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True & Faithful Relation: Liber Sextus excerpts

Liber Sexti Misteriorum

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D. While I was writing of Letters to Mr. Adrian Gilbert, into Devonshire, Madini appeared by me in the study, before E.K. sitting in the Chair, first on the ground, then up higher in the aire; and I said, How is the mind of Mr. Secretary toward me, me thinketh it is alienated marvelously. Mad...... Those that love the world are hated of God. The Lord Treasurer and he are joyned together, and they hate thee. I heard them when they both said, thou wouldst go mad shortly: Whatsoever they can do against thee, assure thy self so. They will shortly lay a bait for thee; but eschew them. D. Lord have mercy upon me: what bait, (I beseech you) and by whom? Mad...... They have determined to search thy house: But they stay untill the Duke be gone. D. What would they search it for? Mad...... They hate the Duke, (both) unto the death. D. And why? Mad...... Take heed that you deal uprightly...... [She spake to E.K.] E.K. God the Creator be my witnesse of my upright dealing, with, and toward him, (meaning D.) ever since my last coming to him. Mad...... It is good to prevent diseases. E.K. By this book (taking the Bible in his hand) I swear that I do carry as faithfull a minde to him, as any man can, ever since my last coming. Mad...... Look unto the kinde of people about the Duke: and the manner of their diligence. D. What mean you by that? his own people mean you? or who? Mad...... The espies. D. Which be those? Mad....... All, there is not one true. D. You mean the English men. Mad...... You are very grosse, if you understand not my sayings. D. Lord, what is thy counsel to prevent all? Mad...... The speech is general, The wicked shall not prevail. D. But will they enter to search my house, or no? Mad...... Immediately after the Duke his going they will. D. To what intent? what do they hope to finde? Mad...... They suspect the Duke is inwardly a Traytor. D. They can by no means charge me, no not so much as of a Trayterous thought. Mad...... Though thy thoughts be good, they cannot comprehend the doings of the wicked. In summe, they hate thee. Trust them not: they shall go about shortly to offer thee friendship: But be thou a worm in a heap of straw. D. I pray you, expound that parable. Mad...... A heap of straw being never so great, is no waight upon a worm, notwithstanding every straw hindreth the worms passages. See them, and be not seen of them, dost thou understand it? D. I pray you make more plain your counsel. Mad...... My counsel is plain enough. D. When, I pray you, is the Duke likely to go away? Mad...... In the middle of August. D. If in the midst of August he will go, and then our practises be yet in hand, what shall be done with such our furniture is prepared, and standing in the Chamber of practise. Mad...... Thou hast no faith. His going standeth upon the determinated purpose of God. He[39] is your friend greatly, and intendeth to do much for you. He is prepared to do thee good, and thou art prepared to do him service. Many men purpose, but one setteth in order. D. As concerning Adrian Gilbert, what pleaseth you to say of him, and his intended voyage. Mad...... He is not in the true faith. D. How hath it been said, then, That he should be the setter forth of God, his faith and religion among the infidels. Mad...... That is a mystery. D. Whether shall it be good, that the Duke resort hither oft, or tarry for the most part at his house at London. Mad...... Humane policie cannot prevail. As many as are not faithfull in these causes, shall die a most miserable death: and shall drink of sleep everlasting. As in one root there are many divisions, so in the stem and branches are many separations. D. Give some more light (I beseech you) to the particular understanding. Mad...... The fire that kindleth all these, and wherein thy live is One, forming them according to (whatsoever) the substance whereupon they are grounded, So by the lesse you may prove the greater: That is in particular, so likewise generally, All emanations are from one. In the first workmanship lieth secret in one unknown: And is sealed, and therefore it hath an end. The son through the Circles and Massie body, The heart in the body, The intelligence in the inward man, The son from his own Centre spreadeth out the beams of his limited virtue, The Hart life to two; and yet putteth on a fiery shape. It followeth therefore, that everything (what substance soever) hath a Centre: From the which the Circumfluent beam of his proper power do proceed. When these are perfectly known: Then are things seen in their true kinde. I speak this to prove, that the good Angel of man, which is the external Centre of the Soul, doth carry with him the internal Character of that thing whereof he seeketh to be a Dignifier, within the which doth lie secret, the Conjunction and Separation of the proportion of their times, betwixt the soul and body of man. O happy (therefore) is that Soul, which beholdeth the glory of his dignification, and is partaker with him that is his keeper. This known unto men, the thicknesse of the earth doth not hinder their speeches; neither can the darknesse of the lowest aire obscure, or make dark the sharpnesse of their eyes. This Character, (at his next coming hither) shall be made manifest unto him. E.K. He sheweth a bloudy hand, holding a bloudy Crosse with letters on it, like our holy letters. D. I beseech you, how shall his provision of money from home serve his turn, or how shall he here have help for his charges bearing? Mad...... Your words make me a Childe: Those that fish for Dolphine do not stand upon the ground. Those that sit in Counsel call not in the harvest people, nor account not their works. He that standeth above the Moon, seeth greater things then the earth: Is it not said, The Lord will provide? I stand above the Moon, for that I dispose his life from above the disposition of the Moon. To ask what Jacob his servants did, was a folly; because their master was blessed: A greater question to ask how blessed he was, then to ask how many sheep he had. D. I am desirous to know what you meant by saying, That my words made you a Childe. Mad...... Because you ask me Childish questions. His good Angel shall reveal his Character unto him, and thou shalt see it, [pointing to E.K.] But take heed thou say truely; And use great reverence, or else the feet that love thee shall carry thy Carkas out of the doors. If he carry it upon him, it shall be a token of the Covenant between him and God. D. The image, or similitude thereof (mean you) made in pure Gold.[40] Mad...... I..... So those that shall see his Standards with that signe in them shall perish utterly. D. You mean, if the same be painted, or otherwisew wrought in his Banners and Penons, &c. Mad...... Let him use it as a Covenant, between God and him. D. How shall he frame it in Gold, solid-wise, or Lamine-wise? Madd...... His own Angel shall reveal it. D. Because it hath been said, that in the beginning of our Country troubles we should be packing hence into his Country; What token shall we have of that time approaching, or at hand? Mad...... Your watchword is told you before: When it is said unto you, Venite, &c. D. But (I beseech you) to be ready against that watchword, hearing what is to be done, as concerning our wives and children into his Country. Mad...... Miraculous is thy care (O God) upon those that are thy chosen, and wonderful are the wayes that thou hast prepared for them. Thou shalt take them from the fields, and harbour them at home. Thou art merciful unto thy faithful and hard to the heavy-hearted. Thou shalt cover their legs with Bootes, and brambles shall not prick them: Their hands shall be covered with the skins of Beasts that they may break their way through the hedges. Thy Bell shall go before them as a watch and sure Direction: The Moon shall be clear that they may go on boldly. Peace be amongst you. E.K. He is now gone away in a fire. Æterno Deo nostro, sit Laus Honor, & Gloria in seculorum sæcula. Amen.