Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatorum Liber; Mysteria Stephanica (Cracow), part 1 of 4 (20 Mar. – 12 Apr. 1585)

Mysteriorum PRAGENSIUM Confirmatorum Liber. PRAGAE, Anno 1585, Martii 20.

Mysteriorum CRACOVIENSIUM Stephanicorum, Initia Aprilis 12. 1585. Mysteria Stephanica.

TAke common Audcal, purge and work it by Rlodnr of four divers digestions, continuing the last digestion for fourteen dayes, in one and a swift proportion, untill it be Dlasod fixed a most red and luminous body, the Image of Resurrection.

Take also Lulo of red Roxtan, and work him through the four fiery degrees, until thou have his Audcal, and there gather him.

Then double every degree of your Rlodnr, and by the law of Coition and mixture work and continue them diligently together. Notwithstanding backward, through every degree, multiplying the lower and last Rlodnr his due office finished by one degree more then the highest.

So doth it become Darr, the thing you seek for: a holy, most glorious, red, and dignified Dlasod.

But watch well, and gather him, so, at the highest: For in one hour, he descendeth, or ascendeth from the purpose.

Take hold.

Vide hujus Diei actione praecedente. De Necessitate divina & electione, &c. ✚ Pragae.

Anno 1585.

Martii 20.

Wednesday, à meridie circa 3½. Δ As we sat together in my Study, and talked of our affairs, and of the Philosophers stone, E. K. felt a thing heavy upon his head, and heard a voice, saying, I will teach thee. Hereupon I set the stone in place.

E. K. Here is Levanael, covered as he was wont.

Levan...... Why are you not pure, that you may learn?

E. K. So we will receive at Easter, as the time of the year doth require.

Δ Lord, thou hast said, we should at length be of one minde, through thy mercies, Lord help us herein.

E. K. He seemeth to have had his lips sewed: for the vail is so thin, that it permitteth his face in manner to be perfectly discerned.

Levan...... See that you take the season, and gather while it is time; if you let this Harvest passe, you shall be desirous to gather, and you cannot.

Thrice I must come unto you, if I finde you not.

Lo, I have done, for I come no more.

E. K. I pray you to deal with another: here is John, a boy in the house, you may use him.

Levan...... Thy talk is humane folly: But before I go, I will not be hidden from you.

Read your Lesson, it is now a stale lesson.

Δ I read, Take Common Audcal, &c. Take hold.

Levan...... You are best to do so.

E. K. Now he hath heaved up his vail, his face is bare, it was not his lips that had those stitches as it were, but it was in his vail, his face is a very fair beautiful face.

Δ We beseech you for God his sake, his glory and honour, to give light, and to make plain this Lesson or Conclusion.

Levan...... This Conclusion wherein man is exalted being the last and the first, is as necessary for you, and for the avoiding of temptations that are to come, as your garments are to cover your nakednesse, or the houses to keep off the storms.

Δ Give us therefore this help, this hand, this staff, this counsel, O Lord.

Levan...... How much the more you neglect it, and the time wherein it is to be gathered, so much the more shall you be tedious unto your selves and the businesse which you must fulfill in the will of God, if you have this; it will first cause you to forsake; secondly, it will plant you there, where without it your seet cannot enter, and from whence when you are planted, you shall not easily be moved.

I speak not this, for that you should murmur, saying, Cannot God plant us without this? But to make it evident unto you: That God useth his Creatures visible to introduce or lead in (yea, supernatural) force and wisdome.

These things will demonstrate the will and power of God grafted in you, that it is found perfect, and from above.

The divers commodities of the Philosophers stone known. Table-talk of poverty objected to us.

For if you say, lo these things hath God taught me, and these things hath God opened unto me: Whilest they wonder at the one, they shall be forced to believe the other.

Moreover, they shall leave their Table-talks, which object poverty unto you, and they shall be forced to say, (even in despight of their teet) what need had he of us? he sought us not of the world, for lo, he leadeth her as his slave.

These things, if you consider not, I put you in remembrance, that you may know you lose time, yea, that you lose a benefit, desired of many, and so forth.

Lo, I come again.

Δ I read over the premisses.

E. K. Here he is again.

Levan...... Read.

Δ I read.

Levan...... What is Audcal?

Δ God knoweth, I know not.

Levan...... It is Gold.

Δ Purge and work it. How your purging is, I know not.

Levan...... Read and go forward.

Levan...... Dlasod is Sulphur.

Go on let me teach you generally.

Δ Take also Lulo of red Roxtan.

Levan...... Roxtan, is pure and simple Wine in her self.

Lulo is her mother.

Δ There may be in these words great abiguitie.

Levan...... Lulo is Tartar, simply of red wine.

[…] is his Mercury.

Darr, (in the angelical tongue) is the true Name of the Stone.

I come again.

E. K. Here he is again.

I have no more to say to you, this is the first time.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ We know that Lapis Philosophicus sit ex metallis, cum metallis, & super metalla, &c.

E. K. Here he is again. — All is there.

Levan...... How many letters are in Audcal. — Δ — Six.

So many wayes is this a working.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ Divina nobis semper adsit gratia, & nobiscum co-operatur, ad Dei Honorem & Gloriam.

Amen.

✚ Pragae.

Martii. 21.

Thursday, à meridie circa 5 horam.

Note, my wife being in great perplexitie for want of money, requested E. K. and me that the effect of the unnexed petition might be propounded to God and his good Angels, to give answer or counsel in the cause? Hereupon I prayed a little to the same purpose, and read the petition, &c.

We desire God of his great and infinite mercies, to grant us the help of these heavenly mysteries, that we may by them be directed how or by whom to be aided and relieved, in this necessity that we are in, of sufficient and needful provision, for meat and drink for us and our Family, wherewith we stand at this instant much oppressed: and the rather because that might be hurtful to us, and the credit of the actions wherein we are vowed and linked unto his heavenly Majestie, (by the ministry and comfort of his holy Angels) to lay such things as are the ornaments of our House, and the coverings of our bodies, in pawn either unto such as are Rebels against his divine Majestie, the Jews, or the people of this City, which are malicious and full of wicked slanders: I Jane Dee humbly request this thing of God, acknowledging my self his servant and handmaiden, to whom I commit my body and soul.

E. K. Here is one with a leather coat and a spade, with a white Coronet on his head round, hath a bag on one side of him, and on the other side a bottle, it seemeth like an husbandman, but a young fair man he is.

Jane Dee.

Give ear unto me thou Woman, is it not written, that Women come not into the […], much lesse ought they to come before the testimony of the will of God to be fulfilled mightily, and to come against the World and against the pomp for money and iniquity, but because thou hast humbled thy self, and hast refused to tarry […], as it becommeth thee: I will answer to thy infirmities, and will talk with thee.

He that hath his House inhemmed with a Ditch, which is deep and swelled with water must needs make a Bridge over, that he may be at liberty, else is he a Prisoner unto the waters, but if he want Wood, and have no shift to enter into the fields, is it not Wisdome to break his Dining Tables, and to set himself free; why cryest thou unto me; Bebold, let thy House yeeld, and the covering of thy body give place to the necessity of hunger, Behold, God suffereth his Elect & chosen vessels oftentimes to be without Mansion or apparel: But, lo, he feedeth the Sparrows, but I will not reprehend thee, because thy soul is frail, but be faithful and obedient, and that truly, as thou art yoked: Behold, I have blessed thy Children, and of thy seed and bones will I build a new, and they shall have Houses, and shall be served of such as the people salute, saying, hail Master. Be thou patient and full of repentance, and do that thou hast to do, and not that thou hast done, For, lo, mercy is with thee, and well shall come unto thee.

Behold, the Scourge is with you, and of necessity you must be tempted, that your Faith may worthily be glorified, and that you may be praised in me.

Behold thou seekest Counsel of me, I will counsel thee, Behold, I would dig for thee, but I should do contrary to my selfe, because I have given power, and he that possesseth the earth is against me; But such as I have, I will give thee, and it shall be sufficient, more then thy vessels can hold, or thy dayes can thank me for.

Consider that to morrow commeth not before he be brought in: Neither canst thou have until thy power come; But cast up thy eyes, and hope for better things; Lo, since I cannot give thee that thou desirest, really, yet I bow my head, and so I counsel thee, let thy husband arise and gird himself together, and let him take his eyes with him, and let him hast out of this place: For my thinks they dissemble; Lo, let him stand before Steven, and let him visit Lasky, peradventure he find him not living: But if he live he is dead, there shall you see that I will relieve thee and do good unto him, and will bind up the Jawes of the persecutor, that he may go on.

Thou art a Woman, and thy infirmities follow thee, I counsel not without a cause, neither did I stirre thee up to speak: But for thy faith I will reward thee: But one storme is to come, take it patiently, thou shalt be the more whiter, and more neerer: Behold, I go before and he that followeth me doth well unto himself, for I do well unto those that follow me; Cast away your murmurring, and sweep your Houses, take heed of Spiders, and of the whore Rats This is the first time that I have answered to this kind in the latter […] Lo, I go

Δ Lord, it was said unto us as a Watch-word, when Stevens Messengers should come for us, that then we should go. Now his Messengers are not yet come, &c.

..... If the Bridegroom invite thee himself, what needest thou his servant.

Δ Now is the difficulty for money greater, for if we had tarried together, lesse money would have served then now it will do, &c.

..... Thou hast asked counsel, I have counselled thee, if it please thee hear me, it shall be well with thee if thou tarry, but much better if thou go; I have numbred thee, but be not proud, but because I have numbred, diminish not thy self, least when I find not the number, I find not thee also, if thou wilt any thing else, there are, and they can say unto thee, but who speaketh with thee thou knowest not.

E. K. He is gone.

Δ Seeing here is matter unlooked for, we are stirred to ask questions not thought of before: Therefore, O Lord, send whom it please thee to us.

A voice..... Sunt aliae horae.

Deo nostro Omnipotenti sit omnis Laus, Honor, Gloria, & Jubilatio.

Amen.

✚ Pragae.

Wednesday.

27 Martii Manè circa horam 9.

E. K. came to me and asked me the Circle or Copy thereof which was shewed to him at Oxford, and he had written out, or described by the light that was shewed to him by the spiritual Creature, he intended as he said to shew it to a Jesuit, and to ask his counsel of it, &c. having a great misliking of our spiritual friends, saying, that they were the great Devils; and so the lesser that he dealt withal before, gave place unto them, &c. Hereupon I told him I would ask our friends counsel, before I delivered any thing of theirs to their enemie, &c. He would presently have it, and with great threats most terrible and dangerous to me, he willed me to deliver it strait wayes I being occupied with writing a letter to the Queens Majestie, said assoon as I had leasure I would give it him, he said he would tarry my leasure: I told him that would scarce be this seven night, I had so many letters to write, he thereupon grew in such a rage that he said I should not passe one foot beyond him before I did deliver it him at […] he rose to shut the Door of the study upon me, I arose and went after him and took him by the shoulders to keep him from the Door, and withal called aloud to my folks; Come here (how) here is violence offered unto me, whereupon they came in all, and my wife, and so afterward by degrees his fury asswaged, and my folks, my Wife and his went away: and after he had sitten two or three hours with me, he saw on my head as I sat writing Michael stand with a sword, and willed him to speak, which he did forbear to do, above a quarter of an hour, as E. K. said: At length he spake as followeth —

E. K. Here appeareth Michael on your head, and hath bid me divers times to speak to you.

Δ I disposed my […] to write, and Michael […] bring the Stone.

E. K. Here appear 12 with him, 4 behind him, and 4 on each sides of him 4, and all with swords of fire, and he the hindermost of them had a Barrel of Glasse on his back full of fire, the 12 were all in red Coats.

Michael..... The Prophet.

Nunc ergo Notum faecimus Domine Rex quoniam si civitas haec aedificata fuerit, & ipsius mutilati fuerint, descensus tibi non erit […], neque in Phoenicem.

E. K. Now they all kneel down about him.

They look pitifully with their faces upward, as though they were praying, they be all in blood red Garments, and Michael his sword is as the sword I once did see him have; whose edge did open.

E. K. Now answer me to the purpose: whether I shall have the Circle of Letters which I did desire?

Michael...... Is there any like unto thee, O Jehovah in Heaven and in Earth, or can thy enemies rise up [saying] against thee, and shall they stand, O thou whose look is more terrible unto thy Angels, then all the fires which thou hast created, either in the bottomlesse pit or in the life of all Elemental Creatures, or above in the heavens if they were gathered together in one can be terrible to man.

Hast thou not made Heaven and Earth, and hast put thy head no where, and thy feet somewhere; because without thee there is not, and without thee there cannot be?

O thou that hast numbred the Starres, and art Dominus Dominantium above those that govern them, and more in knowledg then their Government. Thou, Thou, Wilt thou suffer thy Name to be trodden under foot? Thou, Thou, Wilt thou correct the Heavens, and the whole seed of man? Wilt thou drown the World with waters, and root the wicked from the face of the Earth? Wilt thou cast down the lothsome and wicked Cities, that they may grow in the terrour of thy judgment? Wilt thou send so many Plagues into Egypt?

Wilt thou suffer all these things to be done and many more memorable, which are all in thee: And thou permit one Man, one Soul to be thus carried away with Satan to the dishonouring and treading under foot of thee, and thy light of thee, and thy truth.

If the King exalted him which magnified Truth before the strength and Policy of Women: extolled him before his Princes, and caused for his sake the building of this Temple to go forward: Wilt thou not punish him that despiseth truth, that preferreth the wantonnesse and […] of the World (that errant strumpe) before thy word, and before the strength of a heavenly Authority: Art thou so become a little one, that thou art lesse then a King? hast thou turned thy face so far aside that thou […] not this Rebellion? Can one man be dearer unto thee then the whole World was? or shall the Heavens be thrown head-long down, and shall he go uncorrected? Hast thou Mountaines and Stones untrodden on, out of the which thou caust shew thy Praise and Honour? Are there not yet Infants which may be sanctified to speak with the Heavens, that thou so hidest thy selfe away from Justice; What, What, if those that often cry for grace receive it not, yet dost thou give it unto him that commeth from it.

Sane stupor Coelis, & stupor terris.

What, are not so many Fires as wait upon me sufficient to arm Satan with vengeance against this Δ wicked one? O thou Beast, O thou roaring Lion, O thou Monster, O thou Whirlpool, O thou terrible Murtherer.

E. K.

Hast thou plac't headlong many thousands into Hell, and dost thou linger to rage upon this imp, whom thou hast so long sought for?

Is it not written, least peradventure he find them sleeping, and so overcome them.

But, behold, whom thou findest sleeping, is ready for thee, willing to go with thee, what sparest thou? art thou so bold, to give authority unto thy Ministers to confound, nay, to so blind that thou canst not see so great an Hill?

Behold, thy Ministers cry out unto thee, and send thee word, calling thee Master, King.

Take heed the City be not built, take heed the walls of it be not lifted up, and as they that were the Messengers of the King made evident before his face that it was against his commodity, to have the Temple of the Lord built up, to have the City new shapen, to have the Walls made strong, because it should hinder his […] into Coelosyria, and the rest.

E. K. Now the 12 (he excepted) fall down.

Mich...... And thy Ministers have they not said unto thee, if this work of the Lord go forward, if the City sent down from the Heavens may receive a place to set her selfe in, if the Walls and Rampters of this that was built above shall be placed on any place of the World on earth, Behold, Behold, will it not hinder thy cause, will it not subvert thy Kingdome, will it not turn thee out of Doors: will it not bring thee to aterrible day before the Lord?

Is it not written, that that day shall be terrible to Satan, and his Angels?

And wilt thou suffer a Door to be opened, wherein it may enter, it behoveth thee Satan here to bend thy bow, it behoveth thee now to draw up thy arrowes.

And if thou intend to plant on earth, that it may grow, time is, yet, now to weed out this Message from above.

`Do thy Messengers give thee warning of these things, dost thou hold back thy force: when the Porters will betray the City, would deliver it into thy hands, would break down the walls before thee, what I say art thou like to enter, thou that loseth no opportunity, art thou so negligent: Behold, the Doors stand open before thee, why entrest thou not.

Dost thou want fire, lo, he that […] it hath fire for thee, […], rumor.

Behold, he offereth himself a companion, what wouldest thou more, unto these things thou hearest the sayings of thy servants, which say unto thee O Satan, if this City be built, and the walls erected; Thou canst not go into the Holy Land: And lo, hearest thou not them, neither dost regard this opportunity, whence art thou so forgetful, O God? great is thy mercies, and far art thou above the sinnes of man: O thou not only shuttest up the eyes of the wicked, that they cannot see truth before their face, but the profound [the] malice and sight of Satan, that where he should most enter he misseth that place, and when time serveth him, that he letteth it passe.

But so, so, God, thou givest to whom, and where thou wilt, and even as thou art terrible in Justice, so likewise art thou wonderful in mercy; Therefore of thee is no end, neither can be added any end.

This thy great mercy is the cause that this blasphemous Rebellion is yet unpunished; This is the cause that Satan misseth his mark, and is become weak.

If any man make a […], an earthen vessel, worketh he not, tempereth he not, to the end to make a pot? But lo, when he hath made it, and applieth it to his intent, if even he againe destroy it, is he not vain? Do not those that stand by him wonder at him? More mervail is it, that when Satan shouteth and hitteth the mark, that he should be blind, yea, so blind, that he knoweth not where to gather up his arrow?

But lo, the Temple was built, and the City stood, although the work was left off for a while, and he that […] truth went with glad tidings, neither desiring rich apparel, neither to sit next the King, but that the City of the Lord might be built, and that the Name of God might be magnified, so shall it be of this City which the Lord hath sent down with his finger, his unsearchable and wonderful truth: the Revelation and Law of […] to come, it shall be built, it shall flourish, it shall stand, it shall endure, it shall be magnified, it shall be spoken of through all the World, and it shall not cease.

Behold, the King of Kings hath allowed it and the love of truth, is great with him, what hath he to do with Kings? or wherein needeth he the beauty of the Earth? Dominiest terra, & plenitudo ejus.

Whosoever therefore sticketh unto truth, shall be exalted with God, which is the King of Kings shall be magnified before his Counsellors, not Counsellors fore-warning, but Counsellors pertaking of holy Will: not called Counsellors, in respect of counselling him, but in that they are made privie of the Counsel of God: Before these also shall he be magnified.

E. K. For what end saith he all this.

O ye Infidels, and of little faith, which tast of the meat that was hidden from the Prophets, which are over-shadowed with the light of heaven, which have alwayes associated with the holy Ministers of God, wherefore are you so stiff-necked, pleasant is the yoke wherein you are linked, and honourable is the earth that you draw the plow upon, for the Lord followeth, and his Angels drive, and the seed that is sown shall be the beginning of glory.

O yee stiff-necked people, why for sake you your visitation, or runne astray from your faith that you are driven in, do you make much of the Lords of the earth? Do you delight in her drosse that harlot money? Do you give reverence to the King, and stand you in fear to break his Lawes? have you a greater Lord then the Lord of Heaven and Earth, have you any money or jewels to be compared to his Grace? have you any honour on Earth, that can stand up against the Crown of Heaven? where […] God crowneth those that are Victors? Have you any Law sweeter then the […] illuminations, and sweet dew like comforts, the voices and presence of the holy angels?