Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 4 of 9

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Sir, My hearty commendations unto you desiring your health as my own, my Lord was exceeding glad of your Letters, and said now I see he loveth me, and truly as far as I perceive he loveth us heartily. This Sunday in the Name of the Blessed Trinity I begin my Journey, wherein I commend me unto your prayers, desiring the Almighty to send his fortitude with me. I commend me unto Mrs. Dee a thousand times, and unto your little babes: wishing my self rather amongst you, then elsewhere, I will by Gods grace about twenty dayes hence return, in the […] season all comfort and joy be amongst you;

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• Prage.
• 1587.
• 25 Januarii.
• Thomas Kelly. went with him.
• Francis Garland. went with him.
• Ferdinando Hernyk. went with him.

Your assured and immoveable friend. E. Kelly.

To the Right Worshipful, and his assured friend Mr. John Dee Esquire, give these.

Magnifico Domino, Domino Dee.

Received of Lodovick in the High-way by Platz, in the middle way between New-house and Trebon, as I was comming from New-house, whither I went to have met my Lord as he came from […]: But Arch-duke Ernest was occasion (as was thought) that they should go to Prage by […], being the more even, although not the next way: I received them on Friday the 6 of February, and they were delivered him at Prage on Sunday was a seven-night before, being the 25 of January, novo stilo.

Swethart I […] me unto you, hoping in God that you are in good health, as I and my children, with all my Houshold am here, I praise God for it; I have none other matter to write unto you at this time.

I being at New-house from Trebone, (to go to understand which way my Lord Rosenberg would go from […] to Prage and when,) and this Letter being in the same day brought from Prage, my […] sent Lodovick with it, toward me, and so without Platz Town in the High-way he gave it me.

✚ Trebone in Bohemia. Visitationis Secundae, Actio instituta.

Δ Preces ad Diem fudi, and declared that we here and now presented our selves, as in obedience, according to the time prescribed of six Moneths end, since the last good Friday: I craved pardon of all our errors and misdeeds, since the last time of his visiting us, and now requested his aid and direction hence-forward to walk prosperously, according to the well pleasing of his divine Majestie: and that he would grant unto William Rosenberg, E. K. and me his graces, so abundantly, that in us his honour might be increased, and glory advanced mightily and triumphantly, &c.

Anno 1586. Die 19 Septembris. Die Veneris sexti mensis fine a die Veneris ante Pascha à meridie hora 3.

E. K. Here is a round fire like a Sunne.

Vox..... Frigida praeparatio.

Frigida oratio.

Frigidam hoc exigunt responsuns.

[…] tamen Gulielmo, mediatorem & agnum, respondere paratum, consulite.

E. K. He is gone now.

Δ Tu justus es Domine, & nos impii: tu sanctus es Domine, & viae tuae immaculatae: nos nec orare, neque nos praeparare sine tuo auxilio & gratia unquam possimus: Tuam igitur […] concedas gratiam, & de tanto errore nostro dignam agere poenitentam, ut agnum, & mediatorem nostrum omni tempore nobis inveniamus propitium ex tua clementia, illius meritis, & lpiritus tui Sancti afflatu consolatorio: Amen.

Cui, Trino & uni, Deo vero, & Omnipotenti, sit sempiternus honor, laus perennis, & gloria perpetua.

Amen.

✚ Trebone, Actio Secunda ex septem.

Anno 1586.

Octob. 14. Tuesday. Mane post solis ortum.

Circa 7. Precibus fusis, gratiisque actis pro misericordiis Dei infinitis erga nos tam in pradst inatione quàm in executione, in patria, in […], & in hac peregrinatione, & pro liberatione nostra ex manibus hostium in Pragensi exilio, & pro sua continua tutela, & pro redactione nostra cum honore & gloria in illo, ad quietem & securitatem cum Willielmo Rosenbergio, jam lebamus quid ipse potissimum nobis proponere velit ex suis mvsteriis, & quid de […] esset statuendum, quid de & operibus Philosophicis juxta […] propositum, & quid de errore in practica nuper facta sit statuendum, & quid praetere a nobis jam & praecipue sit faciendum, & ad […] vocandum paratos, nos esse juxta Dei beneplacitum, &c.

Δ I had set up Mensam foederis, with the appurtenances, and had set the Angelical Stone in the frame of Gold on the […], onely E. K. and I being in the goodly little Chappel next my Chamber, appointed to our uses.

A voice..... Let him come, that is to come.

Δ I went for the Lord Rosenberg, whom I found in his Oratory of the Church hearing of Masse: And he came with me and sat in his […].

E. K. I see a great plain like unto a field, as though it were a Mile over, in the end of it there is a great high rotten Tree, all the grasse is as though it were withered and burned, there commeth a beam as of fire from Heaven, and lighteth upon the Tree, now there commeth water out of the root of the Tree, as though it were a Sea, and spreadeth all the plain over: And the Tree openeth and there commeth a Man out of it, his hair hangeth down unto his girdle stead, his garment covereth him down from his shoulders, and hangeth behind him down upon the water.

The earth hath now drunk up all the water, and the Man standeth upon the dry ground.

All the place is full of green grasse about a cubit high.

Now the Man is out of sight.

It seemed to be as beyond and without the Stone.

The Vision is clean dis-appeared.

Δ I expounded this Vision in Latin to the Lord Rosenberg.

E. K. In the middest of the Stone seemeth to stand a little round thing like a spark of fire, and it increaseth, and seemeth to be as bigge as a Globe of 20 inches Diameter, or thereabout.

Vox..... Wo be unto the World, wo be unto the World, and Worldlings: Wo be unto you Sonnes of men, for you are withered, and […] the field of the Lord bringeth you not forth: you are defiled, and being defiled, you defile also the beauty of your Seat: And behold, behold, behold, (I say) you that are the King and Princes of the Earth tyed and knit together upon one stemme, you are all rotten and barren, behold, you bring forth no fruit: but even as the grasse that withereth, he is a dis-glory to the place, even so, are you that is grasse, of your situation and dwelling, for behold, you have no leaves, much lesse fruit: Wo, wo, wo, unto such a generation, which lacketh moisture, and the fire of comfort: The […] that carrieth you is the Seat and holy place, which also is contaminated. And lo, behold, (as it wer) withered; if holinesse be hidden whereupon you stand, how wicked are those that are governed by you, how wicked are you, and how abominable: how full of corruption are you that stand without all beauty, moisture, or comfort: The time shall come that the power and might of God which here speaketh amongst you, in the fire and spirit or his holy truth shall come down from above, from Heaven, from the Seat of comfort, from the everlasting Throne, and shall fall down, not into you, nor amongst you (for you shall be rooted out) but into the stemme and into the root which is the holy place, and the house of comfort: And behold, the power of God, (of him that speaket) shall be mighty, strong, and of infinite power: So that like a Woman with Child, she shall bring forth in the Church of God, a man, clothed with a white garment: which is JUSTICE unspotted, which may walk with infinite power (and in the […] of […] and beauty) upon the abundance of graces, and the waters of comfort, which shall slow out of the holy Seat.

And behold, ô you Sonnes of men, you shall be full of understanding, and of the spirit of Wisdome, and the grace of God, (of him that speaketh with yo) shall be plentiful and strong amongst you: So that you shall spring, and beautifie the Earth and the House of Christ: And behold, the higher boughes, and mighty branches shall lose their vertue, and be cast down, because they have placed themselves upon the outward rotten Stock, to the dishonour of him that hath called them: and there shall no more strength or vertue be amongst you: but you shall be subject to verity, and be […] with an iron rod, by him that came out, and walked on the waters: Then shall be peace and rest: […] shall […] descend.

E. K. Now is all dis-appeared away out of sight.

Δ I read the former […] in Laune to the Lord Rosenberg.

A Pause.

Δ Tu justus es Domine, & Judicia tua vera, tu omnipotens ô Deus noster, & brachio tuo nullus […] nos […] & Justitia.

E. K. Now he is returned again in the form he went away in. A red crosse commeth over it, pure red, so yellowish.

A Pause.

So that […] Name of the God of Righteousnesse, and of his Sonne Christ shall be magnified in […]: § And […], behold, by my self, I swear that after a few Moneths the time expired; I will […], and […] he holy place, so that there shall be no abomination in it.

§ And behold, the ends of the World shall be opened, and all people shall rejoyce in the Crosse and Name of the Lamb.

§ But first […] terrour to all Nations. § Wo, wo, therefore be unto you, ô you Kings and Princes of the Earth! he that hath eares let him hear.

..... And lo, behold, this day I am descended, and my promise is upon him that heareth […] you.

Let him […] therefore the fragility of humane reason, and give me a dwelling place by […]: for I will […] make a Covenant with him, so that my Name and Spirit shall not depart from his House.

And what I have promised him I am, and I will bring to passe: what is he, or who is he that […] to […], that (if he repent no) receiveth not […] reward?

And moreover, I will appear to him hereafter, and he shall be partaker of the coelestial mystery, if my Name be exalted in him.

And be […], he shall often fall, but he shall rise again, and shall persevere unto the end.

E. K. It is dis-appeared.

Δ Legi […] hanc […] Latine ipsi Principi Rosenbergio.

A Pause.

E. K. In lapide stetit scriptum. After an hour.

Δ We removed not, out fat still and discoursed partly upon the premisses, and partly of Englands […] to come.

K. K. There appeareth a little white cloud, like the end of […] cloud, with a dark image of a face of three in one: sometimes appearing three, sometimes one.

The end of the white cloud doth wave up and down before the face.

[…] ex latere lapidis..... These four Moneths, let William (for asmuch as in him lyeth) abstain from Prage, for he shall deceive those that are deceivers.

Two winds shall arise from the Earth within these next yeares in this Kingdom: In the first let him sit still: In the second let him arm himself; and resist with Victory.

E. K. There appeareth a Wood, a great Wood on the left hand by a River: There be two like Hawks, whereof one is white, and the other is black: The one is on a bough in the water, that is the black, the other on a withered bough on the land.

A great Bear commeth out of the Wood.

Now he runneth toward them, he catcheth the black one in the water, and swalloweth him, and standeth up upon his hinder legs. Now he goeth to the other, and shaketh him in his mouth, and standeth up on his hinder legs: and hath pulled off both his Wings, he returneth into the Wood again, the body of the white lyeth on the ground. Now he turneth his feet up.

Now he standeth on his legs again.

He followeth the Bear the same way he went, he would lift up himself as if he would fly, but he cannot.

All this Wood, Bear, and two Fowles are vanished.

E. K. Below standeth a great Castle, at the foot of the Hill on which that Wood did stand, down in a valley from the Hill goeth a great high Bridge of Stone long (in sight) about ten English miles long.

Beside the entrance, on the right hand of that Castle, is like a Dial, with motions coelestial in it, of Sunne and Moon.

Now commeth a Bear, (black as the other) a very great monstrous Bear. The Bridge quaketh under him as he passeth it toward the Castle he roareth, lookingtoward the Castle. He steppeth up to the Dial, and taketh the Moon out of it, and teareth it all in pieces with his teeth. The Castle falleth, and the bridge where he standeth is broken. The Castle is all in ruine.

The Bear standeth upon the edge of the bridg, and beholdeth the ruine of the Castle down into a pit as it were.

Now he goeth back and the bridg falleth down after him.

Now the Wood appeareth again, and he goeth into the Wood.

Now that Vision is all vanished away.

Vox..... You […] shortly see, against what stone Pucci hath spurned.

My Peace and blessing be upon you.

E. K. Now all is gone away.

Δ Gloria, […], honor, Benedictio & Jubilatio sit Deo Patri, Deo filio, & Deo Spititui sancto: sicut erat in principio, & nunc, & in sempiterna saeculorum saecula. Amen.

Spiritu […] confirma nos Deus, Deus noster confirmet nos Deus, Omnipotens, Sempiterne vive & vere. Amen, Amen,

Amen.

MEMORANDUM.

Anno 1586. Octobris Die 17, à meridie, post novas cum Fr. Puccio turbas & rixas, propter pecunias quas cupiebat à nobis habere, ex liberalitate, & in nomine Dei, & tanquam a servis Dei, & non ab Edwardo Kelleo tanquam ab Edwardo Kelleo, nos [Δ & E. K] conclusimus (ad scandala multa evitanda […] contra nos sparserat & excogitaverat, propter pecunias ejus 800 Florenorum, Deo oblat as & reddit as per illum, & prius recusatas quando nos illi solvere parati eramus, & 630 Ducatos illi exhibuimus coram Deo, ut inde acciperet quod suum esse judicabat) Conclusimus inquam, (cam bonae spe, quod non offenderemus Deum) ante illum, coram testibus, exponere numerum 800 Florenorum: & si sibi deberi assereret, quod recipere posset, si vellet; sin vero negaret 800 Florenorum, aut aliquam sibi à nobis deberi pecuniam, Tunc & id etiam coram testibus pronuntiatum volebamus, testimonio, & chirographo conscripto notum facere temporibus & locis opportunis.

Ex Arco Ivimus igitur ad Primatis Domum, & convocatis aliquot Civibus primariis, Sacerdote sediere, & aliquot scribis Illustris summi Principis (Domini Rosenbergii) duos magnos saccos pecuniarum expostuimus, & ex (ubi duo millia ducatorum, & preaterca plures quàm 400 Doleri numerabantur supra mensam, 800 Floreni: Et Dilemmate illi proposito (quod superius annotavi) […] accipere contentus erat, sed ille voluit subscribere, se accepisse in nomine Dei, & à nobis tanquam à servis Dei. Nos vero protestabamur nos nullo modo recipere in nos, ut a Deo hoc nobis esset […] diceremus, ut illi illas proponeremus pecunias, vel accipiendas, vel recusandas ab illo: Sed tantum ad evitanda magna & multa scandala contra nos, ill illius ibidem libero committere arbitrio, ut ill & dicat, quod illi videretur melius, & illi esset gr Accepit ergo pecunias, numeravit, & inde est conscriptum Chirogrpahum manu scribe summi Principis (Pauli Wolfg, praesentis cum diversis testibus, qui sua nomina […], ut in […] appare potest.

Deo gratias agamus. Speramus enim, meliori nos jam […]: & magis fore liberos ab ejus lingua venenata & inquieta Deus illum […]: & illi sit propitius, at que dixit nobis se velle nu nc ministrum faciat, […] divinae […] in

✚ Trebone. Anno 1587.

[…] Januarii 21. mane hor. 9.

Δ Tempus […], est tempus opportunum.

Necessitas non habet Legem.

Δ In nomine pat is & F & SS, &c. Pater noster, &c. Omnipotens […] vere & une Deus in adjutorium W. C. E. K. & […] Joannes […], intend, &c.

Δ Not by or upon presumption (O Lord) […] with fear and love toward thee we are ready to hear thy will, as concerning the Shew and Commandement, now at Prage in this moneths beginning made to E. K. We […] and hope it is of thee, and that thou […] not tempt us, or suffer us to be […] in so […] a […], And […] not […] informed in those two ounces of powder. E. K. […] not how to do, seeing at his return […] he misseth an half ounce thereof […] make up that […] or […]? we will or dare propound to make any compleat action: but therein referre all to our Parliament dayes, or principal ordinary actions assigned.

Mora interposita, parte hora ¼.

E. K. Here appear Letters if I could read them, thus they are.

Δ.

..... […].

E. K. They seem white Letters — of greenish yellow coloured figures, in every figure one of the four words, in all being 12 letters.

E. K. Now they be gone.

Δ I understand that the first part of that my Proposition is touched in answer of mihi, that is, to God, the service required is to be done: and ita & a […], so is the message or commandment from the same our God.

Δ Mora […] horae parte ¼.

E K. Now is here other writing, thus, Claudite, clausae sunt.

Δ I understand not this well, if it mean no more to be taken out of the Powder, or what else.

Now appear over the former words, other words, as thus, Cessate

E. K. Over Claudite, is Cessate, the other words I cannot read yet.

E. K. Over clausa sunt appeareth divinum propositum sibi ad […] non constat.

Δ Quae igitur […] sunt, & à te, […] sunt acceptissima.: & perte, & propter te, ut nobis injuncta faciamus tuum, ô Deus, nobis […] praebeas auxilium!

Tibi Creaton Redemptori, & Sanctificatori nostro, sit omnis Laus; Honor, & Gloria, nunc & semper, Amen.

Ad Omnipotentis Trinitatis Laudem, Honorem, & Gloriam.

Mysteriorum Divinorum memorabilia cni dies quartus Aprilis, Anno 1587, dicata suit.

1587. ACTIO TERTIA.

Trebonae Generalis.

Δ. POst preces ad Deum, & recitatum Catalogum illum, petitionum nostrarum ad eundem, quievimus divina expectantes consilia, monita, & oracula.

Magna pausa.

Δ...... Tandem accepi literas utras q; illustrissimi Domini Rosenbergii, & recitavi coram Deo, ut ejus obedientia, humilitas, & desiderium, coram Deo & Angelis ejusdem contestata essent. Alia adhuc pausa, sive Mora facta, sed non longa.

E. K. There seemeth a black Curtain of Velvet, to be drawn from one side of the Stone to the other. The Curtain is full of plights.

There seemed also one to have descended from above, (a good way behinde the Curtain) and so to go behinde the same Curtain.

Alia pausa.

Vox...... Happy is he, whose minde thirsteth after the knowledge of such things as are spiritual, and celestial, of such things as are in the everlasting place and glory of him that is, and was, and shall be for ever: for unto him belongeth rest in the harvest of the Highest, and comfort in the midst of many worldly sorrows. For unto him, thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Rest, Thou hast rendred my blood again, with comfort unto me, and hast made a blood of eternal rest unto thy self for ever. Ascend therefore and dwell with me, and receive eternal comfort: for unto such bel ngeth the Kingdom of my Father; for I am Zebaoth unto all such as trust in me. But behold, the earth bringeth not forth my mighty praise, because of the wickedness that aboundeth in all mankinde: Neither have I many such children amongst the sons of men as I have spoken of before; for why? The Giants of this world are a stumbling block unto the poor people, and unto their subjects: for lo, behold, behold! (I say) vile and base things (for that they are misused) are become gods within their houses: so that, Gold and Silver, precious Stones, and soft Apparel, which were wont to be brought out of their houses to garnish mine withall, are become their gods, and the Idols of their destruction: for, who is he that exalteth not himself in his riches, and despiseth me that was the Author of them? Where is he that loveth not his wife and children, pomp and […] ldly glory, more than the setting in order of my little flock, or the preferment of my glory? Who (I say) is he, that maketh not more of himself than of me? Woe be unto you that so do: and woe be unto the generations that shall follow you.

Δ. Be merciful unto us, O God of Mercies.

..... O wretched and miserable mankind, look, look in and upon thy self. Hast thou made thy self? or when thou art afflicted, canst thou remove thine own affliction? Hast thou any thing of thy own, which my Father hath not given thee, through me, in one provident and eternal will? Canst thou hide thy self where I cannot see thee? or canst thou do that which lieth hid from me? Look again upon thy self, and consider what parents, and root thou hadst thy beginning in Nature: behold, they and their fathers are become the dust of the earth; even so shalt thou do. And even as of them is a straight account of life required, even so shall it be of thee: for, I that made thee, and gave thee breath, made thee partaker and user of my creatures, led thee in and out, gave thee the Sun to shine upon thee, and the Moon as the mother of your radical moisture. I that lifted thee up, either to the honour of a King, or Magistrate, and made thee a governour over thy brethren, will at last take a straight account of thee, how thou hast used thy self towards me, and where thou hast advanced my Name in such things as I have lent thee: And be right sure, that thou shalt pay, even the uttermost farthing. Woe be unto thee, if thou make not a just account; miserable shalt thou be for ever, if thy deserts condemn thee. Therefore while thou hast time and space, look, look up unto me; for I am the Well of comfort, and the God of peace; the true reward of righteousness to all such as faithfully love and trust me.

Pausa.

Δ. I read this over..... Oh how comfortable are these lessons! Give us and confirm unto us thy graces and blessings, O God, to do thy blessed will herein, and in all our duty toward thee whatsoever.

E. K. Now the voice seemeth to come from him who standeth behinde the Curtain.