Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 1 of 8 (15–17 Aug. 1584)

MYSTERIORUM PRAGENSIUM Liber Primus, Caesareusque, Anno 1584. Stylo Novo.

Augusti 15. incoeptus ad Omnipotentis Dei Laudem, Honorem, & Gloriam. Amen.

Δ. FIeri potest, quod anni 1588, & aliorum supputatio, initium suum habent ab ipsa die Passionis Christi vel Ascensionis in Caelum. Atque hac […], 33, vel 34. anni plures considerari debent: quia tot annorum Christus erat tempore suae passionis, vel ascensionis: Addas igitur annis 1588, 34. & inde emergunt anni 1622. acqueiste numerus propius accedit ad tempus annorum diluvii & Arcae, cujus simisitudinem fore circa secundum Christi adventum Scripturae docent:

Vel, cum post creatum Adamum, Anno Mund. 1655, Diluvium Aquae, omnia deleverit viventia: Post Christi, (nostri Adami spiritualis) restitutionem in Caelum, Anno 1655 (qui erit anno 1688.) expectamus Diluvium ignis, quo omnia sunt Immutanda: vel Charitatis & ardoris Christiani magnum futurum specimen.

Non faciet Dominus DEVS verbum, nisi revelaverit Secretum suum ad servos suos, prophetas. Leo rugiet, quis non timebit? Dominus Deus loquucus est: Quis non prophetabit?

Amos, Cap. 3. B.

Nihil mali invenimus in homine isto: Quid si spiritus locutus est ei, aut Angelus? Act. Apost. Cap. 23. C.

Dico enim vobis, quod multi Prophetae, & Reges voluerunt videre, quae vos videtis, & non viderunt: & audire quae auditis, & non audierunt. Lucae 10. E. Matthaei 13. B.

Charissimi, nolite omni Spiritui credere: Sed probate Spiritus si ex Deo sint: quoniam multi pseudoprophetae, exierunt in mundum. In hoc cognoscitur Spiritus Dei. Omnis Spiritus qui confitetur Jesum Christum in carne venisse, ex Deo est, &c. Johannes Epistola 1. Cap. 4. A.

Quisquis confessus fuerit, quoniam Jesus est filius Dei, Deus in eo manet, & ipse in Deo, &c. Cap. eodem C.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epistola, 1 Cap. 1. b.

Gratias ago Deo meo semper pro vobis, in gratia Dei, quae data est vobis in Christo Jesu, quod in omnibus divites facti estis in illo, in omni verbo & omni scientia (sicut testimonium Christi confirmatum est in vobis) ita ut nihil vobis desit in ulla gracia, Expectantibus revelationem Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui & confirmabit vos usque in finem sine crimine, in die Adventus domini nostri Jesu Christi. Fidelis Deus per quem vocati estis in Societatem Filii ejus Jesu Christi Domini nostri, &c.

Δ. Noto Revelationem & adventum Christi secundum: deinde confirmationem quae respicit alium adhuc finem temporis: unde de Regno Christi hic in terris, secundum Joannis Apocalypsim, videri possit hic locus aliquem praebere gustum, &c.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epist. 1 cap. 1. D.

Quae stulta sunt mundi, elegit Deus, ut confundat sapientes: & infirma mundi elegit Deus, nt confundat fortia: & ignobilia mundi, & contemptibilia elegit Deus, & ea quae non sunt ut ea quae sunt destrueret, ut non glorietur omnis caro in conspectu ejus. Ex ipso autem vos estis in Christo Jesu, qui factus est nobis sapientia à Deo, & Justicia, & Sanctificatio & Redemptio. Ut, quemadmodum scriptum est. Qui gloriatur, in Domino glorietur.

Paulus ad Corinthios, Epist. 1. cap. 2. C.

Nobis autem revelat Dens per Spiritum suum: Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur, etiam profunda Dei, &c. Vide praecedentia & sequentia in eodem capite.

Pragae. Prima Actio, Anno 1584. Wedensday, Augusti 15. Mane horam circiter 9.

Δ. We thanked God for his safe bringing us hither, to the place appointed by him: We desired him to direct us, as the rest of our Action requireth: And thirdly, for the Book with silver leaves, to be prepared, we required instruction, as we were promised.

Anon after E. K. his looking into the Shew-stone, he said, I see a Garland of white Rosebuds about the border of the Stone: They be well opened, but not full out.

Δ. The great mercies of God be upon us: and we beseech him to increase our faith in him, according to his well liking.

E. K. Amen.

E. K. But while I consider these buds better, they seem rather to be white Lillies.

Δ. The eternal God of his infinite mercies, wipe away our blacknesse and sins, and make us pure, and whiter than Snow.

E. K. They are 72 in number: seeming with their heads (alternatim) one to bend or hang toward me, and another toward you. They seem also to move circularly toward the East: but very slowly. In the middest of this Circle, appeareth a little fire, of the colour of yern, hot; ready to melt: from which fire to every one of the said lillies, is a fiery beam extended; which beam toward the end, is, of more whitish fiery colour, than it is near the center.

A voice. -... E. K. A voice cometh shouting out from the Lillies, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy: and all the lillies are become on fire; and seem to tumble into that fire. And now they appear again distinctly, as before: And the fire remained in the center still: and the emanation of beams, came from it, still to the foresaid lilly buds.

E. K. I hear a sound, as though it were of many waters, poured or streaming down in the clifts of great Rocks and Mountains: The noise is marvellous great, which I hear coming through the Stone: as it were of a thousand water-mills going together.

A voice...... Est.

Another voice...... Seemeth to pray over, & quo modo est.

A voice...... Male & in summo: & mensuratum est.

E. K. I hear a great roaring, as if it were out of a Cloud, over ones head: most perfectly like a thunder.

Another voice...... The Seal is broken.

Another..... Poure out the sixth Violl that the earth may know her self [Viola Sexta.]

Δ. Vide Apocalypseos, cap. 16. sed videtur quod non sequenter ordine, veluti quis ex textu judicaret; Ast non asseritur hic effusam esse etiamsi saepe & olim vindicatum requirebant illi qui sub altari sunt: nondum illis erat concessum, &c. Sic hic dici potest.

These are the dayes of wo, that are spoken of.

E. K. Now I see beyond like a Furnacemouth, as big as 4 or 5 Gates of a City. It seemeth to be a quarter of a mile off: out of the Furnace-mouth seemeth a marvellous smoke or smother to come. By it seemeth to be a great Lake of pitch: and it playeth or simpreth, as water doth, when it beginneth to seethe. There standeth by the pit, a white man, in a white garment tucked up: his face is marvellous fair; he saith very loud.

A white spiritual Creature...... Ascend.

E. K. Now there cometh out of the Lake, a thing like a Lion in the hinder parts, and his fore part hath many heads, of divers fashions: and all upon one trunk of a neck. He hath like feathers on his neek. He hath 7 heads: Three on one side, and three on another, and one in the middle: which branch from the neck is longer than the other, and lieth backward to his taile-ward. The white man giveth him a bloody Sword: and he taketh it in his forefoot.

The white man tyeth this Monster his 4 legs with a chain, that he cannot go, but as one shackled, or fettred. Now he giveth the Monster a great hammer, with a seal at that end where the hammer striketh, and the other is fashioned like a hatchet.

The white man said...... A horrible and terrible beast.....

E. K. This the white man said with a loud cry.

A voice out of the little fire...... Seal him, for two years of the Seven: For, so long is his power.

The Stars, with the Earth, even to the third part, are given unto thee: The fourth part thou shalt leave untouched.

E. K. The white man taketh the hammer, and striketh him in the forehead of that head which is in the middle, and lieth down backward toward his taile.

E. K. Now all this vision is vanished away. The Stone is clear.

E. K. Now Madimi appeareth, and she seemeth to be bigger than she was.

Madimi...... The blessing of God the Father, the Son, and (in the Father and the Son) of the Holy Ghost, in power and comfort rest upon you, take hold of you, and dwell with you, that you may be apt to receive the comfort of my childishnesse? and the reward of such Innocents, as my voice beareth witnesse of. You both, the Spirit of God, salute you: which alwayes comforteth the Just, and is the strength and stay of such as are Elected: of whom it is said, Mittam illis Angelum, in Adjutorium.

Δ. Are you Madimi (in the name of Jesus) that I may so note of you?

Mad...... I am Madimi, and of that order, wherein the wonders of God are wrought with power, with you, as my words are: with my self, as my creation is.

Lo, as I have often promised you, so in the time of your necessity and grief, I visit you.

Δ. Thanks be to the Highest.

Mad...... Not as the friends of the world do, but as a comforting spirit: exalting the servants of God, and cherishing them with celestial food: But my mother is at hand, which openeth unto thee, the will of God. Believe me, many are the woes of the world, and great are the sorrows that are to come: For the Lord prepareth his Rain-bow, and the witnesses of his account: and will appear in the heavens to finish all things: and the time is not long.

Blessed are those that believe; for faith shall flee from the Earth, and her dwelling places shall be in caves, and unknown mountains, and in parts of the Earth which the Lord hath kept secret for such as shall triumph and rejoyce in the Judgement to come.

1. Wo be to women great with child, for they shall bring forth Monsters.

2. Wo be unto the Kings of the Earth, for they shall be beaten in a Mortar.

3. Wo be unto such as paint themselves, and are like unto the Prince of pride; for they shall drink the blood of their neighbours, and of their own children.

4. Wo be unto the false preachers, yea seven woes be unto them; for they are the teeth of the Beast.

He that hath ears, let him hear.

5. Wo be unto the Virgins of the Earth, for they shall disdain their virginity, and they shall become Concubius for Satan, and despise the God of Righteousnesse.

6. […] unto the Merchants of the earth, for they are become abominable: […], they are […] the earth, and the […] meat of Kings. But they are foolish: […], they shall fall into the […] that they have digged for others.

7. […] be vnto the books os the earth, for they are corrupted; and are become a wrasting stock, and firebrand to the conscience.

Stay a season, for my mother cometh.

Δ. We read over the premisses, and so conferred of the verity and weight of them. And all […] while Madimi stood still in E. K. his sight (as E K. told me:) But because we were […] to stay, I moved no question: but […] to have some understanding, how my wife and children (at Craecovia) did. Hereupon Madimi said as followeth.

Mad...... Hear what I say unto thee [Δ.] The King of darknesse whetteth his teeth against thee, and […] with great rage to overwhelm the world upon thee: And he seeketh the destruction of thy […], and thirdly thy overthrow: The life of thy Children; yea, he tempteth thy wise with […], and to be […] into her self.

Δ. Why with despair?]

..... But his lips are sealed, and his claws made dull: that when he would bite he cannot: And where he […] the bloud follow to not.

But hear what thy friend sayeth unto thee: Both in her self, and by him that moveth her to speak; As thou art the servant of the God of victory, so shalt thou […] in the God of stretchforth and Conquer. Δ. Madzilodarp. Thy wife, thy children, thy servants, and more then that, such as favour thee, […] the […] of thy house; are under the protection and defence of such as are of power: against whom, neither the rage of such as raign, neither the fury of Authority (though it hath the help of Satan) can prevail. For why? God hath care over thee: But thy faith is sowewhat lower. Take heed of Satan, he will […] himself unto thee. But beware of him. For, sin, keepeth back the power of God, which is oftentimes deferred for another season: Yea, even for the wickednesse of one Soul.

Lasky, I look for, but I see not: […], I […] my eyes after him, and cannot finde him. […] he hath […] himself behinde some Mountain, or is creft into a Cave: for he appeareth not.

Δ. I beseech you, what is the cause thereof? Is he not gone from Cracovia?

Mad...... Sin is the greatest Mountain, and he rejoyceth when he pleaseth himself: and in the […] of his flesh Crecpeth into a Cave from us.

Lo, I look for him, and cannot see him, yet see all the world over, It is a sign that God is not with him.

Δ. I beseech you, is he not gone from Cracovia yet?

Mad...... I tell thee, I see him not; I can say nothing of him.

Δ. Lord, our coming hither was to come with him.

Mad...... Therefore brought I thee hither, that thou shouldst not tarry with him. Knowest thou not that God is marvellous in his works? Hast thou not heard of his secret judgements? If thou hast, Think he hath care over thee.

For also, thy wife and children, and the rest of thy houshold must be moved hither.

My wife, children, and houshold must be moved to Grage.

Δ. When, I beseech you?

Mad...... Let that be my charge to answer thee.

E. K. Now here appeareth a little fire like the same, which appeared before: but it hath no beams from it, as it had before.

Mad...... Hic & haec, est Mater mea.

[E. K. Pointing to the fire.]

E. K. She falleth down on her face prostrate: Now she riseth again. This fire entreth into her mouth, she is waxen of higher stature then she was, she hath now three faces.

Δ. Now it is the vertue of the Trinity in her so represented.

Mad...... I. And I have a few things to say, and I say.

E. K. I hear a marvellous noise, as of many Mountains falling.

Mad...... Arise, and believe. The time is come, that of the foolish I will make the wise. And of such as are sinfull men, my anointed: if they encline their ear unto my voyce.

E. K. The noyse is marvellous: And which of the mouths doth speak, I cannot discern.

Mad...... First, thou shalt write unto Rodulphus, as I shall enspire thee. Then shalt thou go unto him, saying, That the Angel of the Lord hath appeared unto thee. —

[E. K. A great noyse still.]

And rebuketh him for his sins. [I never heard any such noyse: it is as if half the world were rushing down an hill.]

Mad...... If he hear thee: Then say unto him, He shall triumph, Fear thee not.

Δ. Either E K V 1. 263. speake not this, or […] omitted to write it at the first.

If he hear thee not: Say, that, The Lord, the God that made heaven and earth, (under […] he […], and hath his spirit) putteth his soot against his breast.

[E. K. A great noyse still.]

And […] him […] from his seat.

Lo, this (I swear unto thee) I will do. If he forskae his wickednesse, and turn unto me: His seat shall be the greatest that ever was, and the Devil shall become his prisoner.

E. K. There came great flashes of fire out of her, and so out of the stone: and suddenly she was in her former shape again.

Δ. In the name of Jesus.

Mad...... Where this voyce entreth, no man hath to say: For it is the beginning, so it is likewise the end.

Therefore enquire not any more now, but cease: For this is the marvellous beginning of this last time.

Δ. All thanks, Laud, Honor, Glory, and Empire be to the Eternal, Omnipotent, and our onely God of Heaven and Earth.

Amen.

Thursday, Augusti 16. 1584. Mane, circiter horam 8⅔. † Prage.

Δ. […] finitis, I propounded, as concerning the book to be prepared for the Angelical writing, &c. And because Mapsama had dealt about that point: Therefore I required at God his hands, the Ministery of Mapsama herein: if it were his will.

E. K. Here is Madami.

Δ. Blessed be the God of Heaven and Earth, who regardeth the sincere intent of his silly ones.

Mad...... When seed time is past, who soweth his Corn? Or what is he amongst men that calleth back the Sun a minute? So may it be said of you, which were […] in sowing, and therefore have let passe the benefit of time, wherein your seed might have multiplied. Behold, your labours are in vain, in respect of that you might have received.

..... For August is past with you the first day: And Mapsama wanteth, not by himself, but through your negligence: whose fingers wrought, and made an end of anothers work, which was tied to time.

Nalvage was beaten back from you: But you consider not his conflict, neither thank God for that he hath finished for you: with whom [Nalvage] now, you have no power. For the Receiver and Giver for that time, were of time.

But to the entent that the Heavens may agree, (because they are the light of him, which is the light of his father) I say unto thee that thou must prepare, of fair, and decent paper, a book. To the entent, that the paper it self may bear witnesse against you: and receive that, which should have been printed in Gold.

Δ. God he knoweth, and the Heavens, that I did the best I could, to have had the book silvered.

Mad...... It is so: I will bear witnesse with thee. But where the watch-men sleep, and do not their duety: Theft taketh place, and the enemies make havock.

The sins of Lasky are not a few; yea, they are such as have brought in the Prince of Thieves, which had prevailed: But God was watch-man at the inner doors. For, he doubted of thy faith, and laughed God to skorn. But hear the voice of him that sitteth: Leapers and desited people use not to carve at a Kings Table: for when his Carvers become Leapers, they are not: because they are expelled.

Even so into my Chambers, and secret judgements entreth not the Incredulous, Proud, and Skornfull sinners. But because he became worse then a Leaper, I banished him out of my Chambers, for I am more then a King.

Notwith sanding, because I have sworn unto thee for him, I will suffer him to be exalted: But in the midst of his Triumph he shall fall, as a proud Tree doth, whose roots are uncertain.

And because thou hast believed me, and hast not murmured against me, I will be just with thee, And with this Emperour shall be thy aboad. And through thy mouth shall spring a Cedar-Tree, whose top shall touch the Moon, and branches cover the beasts of the field, the birds of the Aire; yea, and a part of the Seas. Because thou hast taken pains for me, I will deal justly with thee, and reward thee.

Misericurdia Dei super Δ. Cum Imperore Rod. Prophetia de Δ.

The sons of wickednesse are proud, because of their promotion; are stout, because of their Kingdoms and Tominions: But they must fall, because their building doth stand on sand.

Do my Commandment, be not afraid.

For I have new lessons to teach thee, and new books to open, such as have been sealed in the wildernesse.

E. K. She is gone.

Δ. As concerning the Letter to be written unto Rodolphus, O Lord, I would gladly know the Argument, and when I should send it.

A voyce...... Incipienti, dabitur.

Δ. I understand this thus: That, when I begin to write it shall be inspired from God, as was said before.

A voyce...... Cease.

Δ. Deo Nostro Immortali, Invisibili, & Omnipotenti, sit omnis honor, Laus & Gloria: Nunc & semper.

Amen.

Friday, Augusti 17. Mane. † Pragae.

Δ. Because I would make no delay, for the Letter writing to the Emperour Rodolphus, I framed my self to write, beseeching God that I might so write, as might be sufficient for the purpose, &c. And thus I wrote as followeth.

Omnipotentis Nostri Creatoris (hristianorum omnium Imperatorum faelicissime, O Rudolphe) tam est hominibus incognita illa, quae cuncta disponit perficitque PROVIDENTIA, rataque ipsa rerum series & coordinatio (à primo ad ultimum) quòd à plerisque, temerè, […], vel casu, hoc illove evenire modo, existimentur omnia, quae extra praeterve suorum Consilior m […], fieri conspiciant. […] quibus est mens […] veritatis lumine collustrara, & ad multiplices longisque intervallis distinctas rerum consecutiones considerandas, attention, evidentissimè deprehenden illi quidem, Quae, quibus praecurrisse, tanquam causas, […] necessarias, also priori, & interdum longe diversissimo, tempore, oportuerat. Atque ut varietatem nunc omittam exemplorum, (quae, ex aliorum hominum inter se collatis vitis, conditionibus, factisque adferre possim,) Exemplum satis conspicuum hoc unicum fieri possit: Nimirum illa, (incredibilis ferè) quae inter sacram Caesaream Majestatem vestram, & humillimum (in Deo) Mancipium me vestrum (ex multiplicibus utrinque praecurrentibus occasionibus) jam quasi instare videtur, In unum (idemque admirandum quid) Combinatio, Divinaque conspiratio. Ambiverunt me (Juvenem) Illustrissimi Imperatores duo: Victoriosissimus ille Carolus Quintus, & ejusdem Frater Ferdinandus, vestrae Caesareae Majestatis Magnificentissimus Avus. Hic, Posonii, Hungariae: ille verò, Bruxellae, Brabantiae. Hic, An. 1563. Ille autem, Anno 1549. Ast clementissimum Imperatorem Maximilianum, Caesareae vestrae Majestatis Patrem (Immortali glora dignum) jam […] Hungariae coronatum Regem, (invitissimo quidem ipso Tyranno Turcico) eodem in Posonio, eodemque, Anno 63. in deliciis habere coepi: […] sque rarissimas virtutes, cum fideliter colere, tum posteritati easdem reddere commendatissimas, opere quodam conabar Hieroglyphico. Quo etiam in labore exantlando, animus mihi […], Austriacae familiae; alium fore aliquando aliq em, in quo maxima mea spes, & […] Christianorum […], Res, confirmaretur, (vel […] poterit,) Optima, Maximaque. Vestrae igitur Caesareae Majesti, In peratorum Romanorum (ex Austriacorum Principum nobilissima familia) mea aetate florentium, QUARTO: Adsum, & ego, Triplicis Alphabeti, litera Quarta. Atque ita […], ut me ipsum ad pedes Caesareae Majestis vestrae demissè osculandos offeram: plurimùm gavisurus, si qua in re, Christianae Reipublicae Imperatori tanto, talique, gratus, utilisve esse potero.

No dicas coram Angels non est Providentia. […], siastes, cap 5.

Libelli Monadis Hieroglyphicae Theoremate 20. jam ante 20 annos editi.

Vestrae sacrae Caesareae Majestati, soli, si haec aliquandi u constare patiemini (neminique detegere velitis) rem facietis valde necessariam.

Superscriptio erat haec.

Screnissimo ac potentissimo Principi ac Domino Domino Rudolpho, Dei Gratia Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto, ac Germaniae, Hungariae, Bohemiae, &c. Regi, Archiduci Austriae, Duci Burgundiae Stiriae Carinthiae, &c. Comiti Tyrolis, &c. Domino meo clementissimo.

Pragae, An. 1584. Augusti 17. Caesareae Majestis Vestrae Humillimus & fidelissimus Clientulus

Joannes Dee.