Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 5 of 6

✚ Pragae.

Februaris 18.

Monday Mane horam circitèr 9.

Δ Orationibus ad Deum fusis, & aliquantulum de E. K. quantum ad mysteriorum participationem presentem: ut misericorditèr nobiscum agat, & illius [E. K.] intentionem, & fidem Catholicam respicit, & ut sua divina bonitas nobiscum procederet in mysterio perficiendo; viz. de lapide Philosophorum, propter honorem & gloriam sui nominis, &c.

E. K. I see an endlesse thing like a red Sea. A head cut off from a body doth appear: the Hair hath bin pulled off it: that Head appeareth to come out up of that bloudy Sea, tumbling sometime one part, and sometime another upward, and sometime under the water clean.

E. K. Now I see a Tree upon an old Hill full of mosse in a desolate place, besides the former water.

The Tree is sprung of a graft, which hath been grafted in The Tree hath a few green leaves on, and many old leaves: The state of the Tree is as if it were Autumn. There lyeth by it the top of a Tree cut off, and dead withered.

The Tree hath a eleven Shots or branches issuing out of it.

There tumbleth down from heaven a white thing, and out of it issueth an arm with a broad axe in his hand, such as they hew pamnel board with, it seemeth to be about a yard long

That hand with his nail maketh a race down along the body of the Tree, and then spreadeth the bark open from that place of the race made.

Quod erit, & futurum est, est & non est.

E. K. That voice seemeth to come out of the top of the Shew Stone.

E. K. On the place of the Tree where it was made bare appeared two figures of 8, one in manner under another. Now the bark is put together again, and the Tree seemeth whole, and as it were not cut.

Quod erit & futurum est, jam est.

A voice out of the white. 10 branches cut off of the grafted tree.

E. K. At this word he strook off ten of the Tree branches, and the stem or branch that standeth, seemeth to be now between me and the Sun risen about an hour high; And that stem or branch hath five lesser branches out of it.

Every.

E. K. Now there standeth one like Michael,, with a tanckard in his hand of silver and stooped, he saith;

Mich...... Iterum Lavabo te.

E. K. He washeth with water, and his hands the old branch cut off. Now he taketh that old branch up in his hand, and holdeth it up. The ax is torned from the tree.

..... Plantavi te, & neglexisti mandata & statuta legis meae, & in superbia tua defalcavi te: Sedjam memor sum verborum & […] mei apud patres, & occupabis locum solitum, & ipse rorabo te […] coeli. Jam ponam timorem in cor tuum, & visitabo te legibus meis, & introducam pedes reductos in Sanctuarium: Neque cades, sicut patres tui ceciderunt; Induxi […] malam & […], & benedixi ei, (sed proh dolor) taedet me. Igitur dejeci, & praecipitavi illos à me: Ne forte triumphantes posuissent nullum Deum.

Michael..... Magnus es tu Ben Elohim, magna est gloria tua, magnitudo tua superat coelos, & jam […] in […].

E. K. Now Michael putteth on the dead bough on the former tree: Now he with the ax with his thumb, closeth the barks together.

Now out of heaven commeth drops of a rain, and that stem which was so put to, had 12 branches; and both that and the rest springeth together very freshly.

Michael...... Qui habet occulos videat, & cui sunt aures audiat.

Deo

E. K. Now appeareth one like Δ under the tree.

E. K. or Safeguard.

And also I see my self (said E. K.) comming there, and my Gown is all white, but […]: and Δ seemeth to have a white Gown, or rather like a womans safeguard full of pleats, and full of mens eyes.

There appear seven more, six men and one boy. One is a Blackmore.

They have all white garments also.

The tree at the first seemed to bring forth and shew horns, and after that there appeared men issuing out or growing plentifully on that tree, and those men to have those horns.

Then he with the Ax pulled one of those men off, and pulled one of his horns, skull and all, and thereof gave to eat to Δ, E. K. and the other seven; and they did eat: and so all the Vision did vanish away, nothing appearing in the stone.

..... Ista ad rem; Vos autem post modicum admonebo.

— Δ After half an hour, wherein we talked de Conversione Judaeorum.

E. K. Here is now Levanael, as before time.

Levan...... O thou which art of the seed of the earth, attend my voice, and open thy heart, that thy bowels may be filled with gladnesse, and that within thy head may wisdome enter, since God hath not onely called thee, but also hath made a choice in thee, If thou hear his voice, and obey it.

Be not stiff-necked, neither suffer sensual imaginations to obscure or defile thy inward understanding. The first nourisheth thee to the […] of thy flesh, that thy flesh perishing may also carry thy soul with it. The second teacheth thee to understand thy self, and thereby to acknowledg the Creator: that thereby thy soul purified may also purifie thy body: that thereby in the end […] mayest rise a purified and perfect Creature.

Behold, there are which rise; and have lost their bodies: and there are also which rise, and they rise in body.

Qui appetit se propter se, not intelligit Deum, sed qui intelligit Deum, appetit seipsum; sed appetitus ejus non est à se, sed ab alio.

Since therefore, to seek God [not] for your own sakes, is to glorifie God, lift up your selves, and behold the heavens, and look into the earth, and muse at her wonders: And let not the lesser part carry away thegreater.

E. K. I pray you speak higher, I can scarce hear you.

Those that have their Sanctification through promise, and fulfilling of the Will of God, have alwayes forsaken themselves: But yet, for themselves, followed his Commandements; Therefore I say for sake your selves, and do the will of God, that for the comforts of your selves, and your eternal salvation, you may seek God.

But he that seeketh God, seeketh him through patience, through afflictions, through temptations.

Therefore despise this Monster that tempteth you, and neglect her in the middest of her pride, for she is poor, miserable, and prepared as a fire-brand for destruction; if you seek riches of her, she hath none, if you seek wisdom at her, she knoweth it not, if you desire […], and the joyes of rest, she cryeth out against you, Watch, Watch, and […] up your selves.

And if you seek eternal life, or study to please God, and to glorifie him, whereunto you are created, seperate your selves from the Harlot.

Swear your selves her enemy, and hate all those that take part with her; For, behold, she is become an enemy of him that created you, a Blasphemer of him whom you seek to glorifie, the daughter of him, which set himself against the Highest.

Therefore for your Creations sake, ought you to despise her.

For your Redemptions sake to neglect her, and for the Glory that you seek to attain unto, utterly to despise or contemn her.

But here, peradventure, you will say unto me, as he said unto Christ the Sonne of the living God.

E. K. He maketh cursy, and kisseth the ground.

What shall I do to enherit everlasting life?

I say unto you follow the Commandements.

Behold, it is written, I give you a new Commandemnt; Love one another.

How love you one another without Charity?

But what is Charity? is it not the gift of the Holy Ghost? you know it is so, you know also, that the Holy Ghost is called a Comforter.

But consider with your selves, why he is called a Comforter; Not because he comforteth himself, for he is all comfort; But because he is the comfort of such as he hath spoken to, saying, I have given you a new Commandement, Love one another; But, who are they? Even they that eat the flesh, and drink the […] of the Sonne of man Jesus Christ, the Sonne of God, true God and man, which unlesse you do, you are not of that Company unto whom Christ said I give you a new Commandment.

For in so doing you are […] in Christ, are subject to the Commandment, tyed unto Charity, wherein you are refreshed by the Holy Ghost the Continual Comforter, and giver of wisdom to such as dwell in Christ.

See therefore that none is of Christ, that hath not Charity, neither hath any Charity, that is not of the Company of such as feed of the flesh and bloud of Jesus Christ, without the which there is no Salvation, therefore art thou E. K. a lyar when thou sayest I fear God, I love God, I intend to live well and in obedience, for thou followest not his Commandements, thou fliest from him; Therefore thou art not with him.

But I hear thee saying, I confesse my self to Christ before the Throne of God.

Δ E. K. did confesse that he thought so at this instant. Penance. The Church. Ad Ecclesiam Catholicam confugiendam.

But thou hast not offered thy selfunto the Priest, neither hast laid down thy Sacrifice.

I say unto thee, Thou confessest not thy self, neither thy sinnes, before God, because thou commest not where he is.

Not that God seeth thee not, but that he is said not to hear sinners, unlesse they be penitent, but penance is limited by the Church, and sorrowfulnesse is not judged by thy self, it […] thee therefore, if thou wilt flie unto Christ, to enter into the Company of such as professe him, where he is, and with whom he dwelleth.

There, at what time thou repentest thee of thy sinnes, and shalt confesse them with sorrowfulnesse, before him which is in office at the mystery; there also by the mystery (which is Chris) shalt thou receive forgivenesse of thy sinnes.

For if he that ministreth, is heard in the power of his Administration, and Sacramental vow, much more hath he power to forgive Sinnes; For lo, that he doth, is not of himself, but his dignity is of that, whereof he is called a Priest.

Now therefore I say unto thee E. K. until thou make thy self clean, thou shalt continue filthy, & immundis & impuris, non revelat Deus Sacramenta.

But even as thou, not clean, seest, and yet seest nothing: so being cleansed, not seeing thou shalt see, and see all things.

I have done.

Δ Gloria Patri & Filio & Spiritus sancto, sicut erat in principio, & nunc & semper, & in secula seculorum.

Amen.

✚ Pragae.

1585.

Februarii 23.

Saturday A meridie horam circiter 2.

Orationibus ad Deum fusis, pro luce & veritate divina, &c.

Δ The occasion of this comming to the Shew-Stone, was that as we sat together in the Stove, there was a pat or stroke or two (not natural) given on the Bench and Wall: and withal I felt on my head a heavy moving thing, and also after that E. K. felt on his back, as if one had written letters distinctly: whereupon we went to understand the will of God, as being thereto half warned and stirred by these tokens.

E. K. Madimi is here.

Δ Benedicti sunt pedes evangelizantium pacem & favorem altissimi.

Madimi..... What should I speak unto you, since you have no faith?

Why should I teach you that despise my documents?

I knock in vain, for you hear me not.

Vnus unam alius aliam quaerit: dispares est is.

Δ Deus potest […] & […] satisfacere, bona semper petentibus.

Madimi..... Shall I speak, or no?

Δ Speak in the Name of God, who would not hear the words of the wise and of the mighty, of the good and true?

Madimi..... Shall I close my mouth, because of your wickednesse? or shall I open my mouth, because my Mother hath commanded me?

I will go back, and will desire that my mouth may be sewed up with a double threed: for assure your self I will not come again willingly: But if she say again, Go, I will come.

Hui, wherefore doth God give bread to Dogs: or suffereth his sonne to shine to the bottomlesse Caves? I know a cause, but yet I am torn in spirit.

O Mother, Mother, if thou shouldest speak unto this people, out of and from above the Clouds, they would melt before thee, yea, they would fall.

But lo thou speakest unto them by thy daughter that they may stand and hear, but they hear not: But I swear unto thee, they despise thee.

What shall therefore become of them? I go, I will see if I can absent my self from them.

Δ She went away as if she had been angry, in the mean space we argued after our former manner; E. K. as he was wont, and I still in my constant hope of Gods mercies.

E. K. Now she is here again.

E. K. She putteth off her peticoat, and putteth on an other Garment full of pleats of a golden colour, and after that an other Garment, upon that Garment with many Crowns bordered on it, with hands out of every of them, and a great part of the Arm, they are right hands, the first Garment (which she put off) and flingeth it into a fire.

Madimi..... I speak unto you, though I say nothing.

Madimi..... The counsels from above, are perfect, because they descend.

But the wrappings of mans wit, are unperfect knots, hard to put together, and harder to unlose: Therefore they are not.

But these are of God, and they are true. Envious minds, and false hearts, do hunt after thee, and they have said and have conspired; But I have said unto them, be it unto them, as they have measured unto others: And that which they have nonrished in corners, let it be fire, and consume their dwelling […]; Let it seek out their brothers: Let their throats be burst in pieces: Let it range […] their Kingdomes, and let it burn down the gate of their borders, that the way may be wide: for a narrow way serveth not where I bring in mischief, I will bring her to the borders, and will place her in the Gates, and will say unto her.

Accipe tibi vim.

And I will give her a two edged sword, but I will not enter in with her: because I will not hear their Lamentations, neither be moved with their groanings.

These are the hard and heavy knots, that the evil spirit and mans wit hath wrought togther; But because they are humane, they shall perish.

Truly it seemeth good to my Mother and me: and our consent thinketh good also, (and the rather because she hath prepared the way by her own wisdome, which part of the North you must alwayes (look unto,) and be directed by.

For why, that Constellation is true, and doth teach those that erre; Those also that are right, it comforteth them.

But I will go unto my Mother, and ask her once more, whether I may hide these things from you.

E. K. She is gone.

Δ We read over the premisses, and gathered, that some treachery was devised against me: And therefore, I beseech God, to give us his counsels, and advises, to be my guide and protector, my light and comfort.

E. K. Here she is again.

Madimi..... That you both, or (if you will be distracte) one of you, go secretly hence, and speedily unto Lasky: So shall it come to passe, that he whom they intended to imprison, (saying, we will compel him to perform his word, least he peradventure triumph elsewhere against us;) [&] may at last, open the Prison Doores for them, and salute a strange King, even in the self same place, where they shall eat to morrows Dinner. But when they perceive that you are gone; Then will they understand that you knew, and that the spirit of God was amongst you.

I come again.

E. K. She is here againe.

Madimi..... If these words be true, bear witnesse of the truth: if you think them to be false, you need not follow them.

Δ How soon would you advise me to be going hence? you see how bare I am of money.

Madimi..... Do so as in an eminent danger. I have spoke the last word. Sed adhuc tria; Omnia […] voto.

Δ Deo nostro Omnipotenti, sapienti, & misericordi, sit omnis gratiarum actio, Laus, Honor, & Gloria, nunc & semper, Amen.

Monday

Februarii 25. à meridie, circiter 1½.

E. K. Fell on his back as one had written as he sat at the Table; Hereupon we resorted to the Shew-Stone, &c.

Precibus ad Deum finitis, citò apparuit Angelus Dei.

E. K. Here is Madimi.

Madimi..... You have vowed to your selves, and to the Lord, perform your vowes. That which God commandeth, that do.

Excuse your selves with men, and gird up your Garments to the travaile; Not in Waggon, but on Horse-back.

E. K. I pray you to give us some instructions of my Lord Lasky his being.

Travaile hence directly, and unto Wratislania, and there I will meet you.

E. K. I pray you to deal openly with us, according to our frail state, and to declare unto us of my Lord Lasky his estate.

Madimi..... You depend not upon Lasky, but Lasky dependeth upon you; if he do evil, his punishment is ready: if he do well, he doth it for himself.

I am greater then you, and my eye stretcheth farther then yours; yea, though you went to morrow, you have […] some dayes.

Δ I must carry my Books with me, we must be at the least three horse.

Madimi..... Not so, but thou shalt hide them.

Δ Am I to […] hither again, before my wife come from hence?

Madimi..... I am not flesh, neither do I move, or am moved with flesh; But if you fulfill the first, the rest followeth.

Δ Secretly and speedily.

Do this, as though you committed theft, for if the […] be diminished, the purpose shall also want successe.

Ductus es, sequere si vis.

The hand is open, and ready to take hold on you, what therefore shall I say more to you?

Δ What hand I pray you?

Madimi..... Manus amplectens non rapiens.

Δ Lord I understand not that neither.

E. K. She is gone.

Δ In manus, tuas Domine, Commendamus nostra corpora, animas nostras & spiritus nostros.

Amen.

Wednesday.

February 27. Δ I and E. K. and Thomas Kelly as servant, rode to Limburg, (otherwise named Nimburge,) six miles from Prage, in the way toward Bressel: otherwise, named […].

[…] 28. Manè circa 6 horam. At Limberg.

Thursday. Note, I had caused from 4 of the clock in the morning the Horses to be looked unto, so as, by five, or assoon as it was break of day, we might be riding.

In the mean space while E. K. yet lay in his bed awake, and I was in the next Chamber by, in ordering my things of my male. E K. heard a voice (like mine) say D.

Whereat he asked me, what say you? I answered, that I spake nothing. Then he doubted what creature did use that voice. Afterward he rose: and when he had been ready a while, and sate in the Chamber where my male lay, he said, that he felt somewhat crawling, or as one writing on his back, and at length to ascend into his head. And so I left him, and went out into another place, and kneeled to pray, and prayed, and upon the comming in of Thomas Kelly into that room where I kneeled (in the Door of a little open Gallery over the street) I rose up, and went in again to E. K. and he told me that he slumbred by reason of the heavinesse of his head, and that he seemed to see me praying, and Michael to stand by me. I answered, that truth it was I had been somewhat bent to prayer, but that I could not pray as I would, &c. Hereupon, Immediately he saw Michael over my Head with a pen in his hand: Thereupon I was resolved that I was to write somewhat of importance: And I made speed to take pen, ink and paper, and to settle my self to writing, because we made hast to […], as intending to ride 8 or 9 miles that day, and company tarrying for us: one of them being a Jew, whose sister is wife to Doctor Salomon of Prague the Jew, &c. And going about to attend for something to write, a voice said, as followeth.

Cur non includis te ad audiendum vocem meam?

Δ Hereupon, I did shut all the Doors, and uttermost Doors.

A voice..... In receptaculo, ut magis approbetur veritas.

Δ Hereupon speedily I took out the Shew-stone, and […] it on the Table before E. K.

E. K. Here appeareth a white Circle round about the border of the Stone, and a ball or Globe of flaming fire in the midst; The white Circle hath great brightnesse of light in it.

E. K. Now here is Madimi, she standeth in the white Circle: and looketh into the fire, she kneeleth.

On the outside of her, standeth Michael with a sword.

E. K. Madimi is gone away, and Michael is come to the lower part of the Circle.

A voice..... Speak, for who controlleth me?

E. K. Michael boweth himself toward his feet, as though he kissed the place where he stood: as if it were the Circle that he kissed.

Michael..... These are the words of the Lord, and of me his Angel, and Minister of truth: and they follow.

Behold, I have led you forth diverse times: and you have obeyed me. Therefore I say unto you, Be now Stewards of more.

Δ O merciful God.

E. K. He spreadeth his Arms abroad, and stoopeth down.

Michael..... He that committeth his Treasure unto man, findeth favour, and at his return hath his own. But he that committeth himself unto me, and he areth my voice, I will write his Name in the Book of Life. Behold, Behold, Behold, I swear and it is.

That in thee, Dee, I delight. And lo, because thou hast obeyed me, and not of force of […] perswasions, I shew unto thee what is to come, and what I would have thee to do: and wherefore thou commest hither.

Δ Fiat voluntas Dei.

E. K.

Michael..... Cover me for a while, lest peradventure thou see I am beyond the ability of thy capacity, and so return not easily.

E. K. He becommeth very bright.

Δ I understood not well this saying, neither E. K.

Michael I say unto thee cover the receptacle.

Δ We covered the stone a while, and read the premisses.

E. K. He is brighter then he was, the Circle of light shineth still.

Δ We uncovered the Stone, and then he spake again.

Michael..... Before twelve moneths of your account be finished, with the Sunne: I will keep my promise with thee, as concerning the destruction of Rodulph: lest peradventure, he triumph, as he often doth. For, thy lines are many times perused by him; Saying, This man doted, where is become his God, or his good Angels?

And behold, I will sweep him off the face of the earth: And he shall perish miserably: that he may understand, that thou dealt not for thy self, but didst fulfil the work of thy master.

Moreover I will bring in, even in the second moneth, (the twelve ended) Steven.

And for a truth, (as I am) will place him in the seat Imperial; He shall possesse an Empire most great: and shall shew what it is to govern, when God placeth.

In his time will I fullfil many things that I have promised thee, and I will be mercifull unto thee; because thou hast not broken my Covenant.

My minde abhorreth from Lasky, for he is neither faithful to me, nor to thee: neither he careth for his own soul.

Δ Chamo & fraeno maxillas illius constringe (ò Deus) ut approximet ad te.

Michael..... The speedy return of Curtius was to deliberate with Rodolph how they might, (under the colour of Justic) entangle thee.

And lo, whom thou fostredst and fedst at thy Table, is he, that hath wet his hand in the dish with thee, and hath delivered thee.

Moreover, he hath betrayed his Master: And the cause of his adversity, hath had chief root in him. From the third year he hath done unjustly: and hath made naked his Lords secrets.

But he shall have his reward: and shall perish with his own hand. Before thou […] out of thy own Doores, to take thy Journey, Rodolph knew of thy going.

And for a truth, his letters are before thee.

Therefore, it behoveth me, to give thee warning, and to teach and instruct thee, as one exercised in my businesse.

Cover me, I am become cleerer.

Δ We covered the Receptacle.

After a while we uncovered it.

Michael..... This therefore shalt thou do.

The same way thou camest, the same way thou shalt also return: Not to flie from their malice or tyranny: But to stand in the face of them as my servant.

Hereby, indirectly, shall the Traitour understand you know him.

And Rodolphus hard heart, I will stir up with indignation against him. For he shall […] construed a Lyar.

And they shall begin to fear thee, and also to love thee: and thou shalt be in favour amongst them.

Annuate their doings, and hear their sayings. And those things they shall offer thee, refuse not. I will sendone out to pay them their wages.

Moreover, I command thee Kelly, (But in my own person, I counsel and advertise the) that thou take part with the Lord Jesus: And go forward with the businesse thou hast in hand.

Δ Belike he was studying in Dunstons book & Tables whereof he made me not privy. Yet if. Donum Dei. Together.

For why? They shall be shortly made open and plain; lest thy (Δ) word (to the Emperour he meanet) receive foil in the hearts of men.

But I bind it not to that place. For, the fruit that springeth of it, shall do my service with Steven; And yet, if he will, with that unjust Lasky. And it shall be a Garden for you: wherein you shall not borrow of the World, but of the Gift of God.

And hitherto I will deal with thee, that the least thing which thou hast bestowed in obedience toward me, shall not be forgotten.

Live you together, as brethren: and wonder together, at my works, and in me, for there shall not a hair of your head perish; So that you listen, and be obedient unto my voice.

When therefore thou commest home, hide not thy self; But see, that the Infant be regenerated. Δ As concerning the Godfathers: shall I request and use such as I intended?

Michael..... Do, that thou hast done.

But put all these things up amongst […] secrets of your hearts, as though not seeing, yet seeing all things.

Let these for this time suffice.

E. K. The fire is gone, he and all.

Δ Creatori nostro Omnipotenti, Protectori nostro misericordissimo & consolatori nostro abundantissimo in tempore necessitatis nostrae sit perennis Laus, Honor, Gloria, & gratiarum […].

Amen.

Δ Hereupon we had great comfor, and so brake our fast, and returned to Prague again, before 4 of the clok in the afternoon.