The life and times of Dr John Dee

Marty 15. Thursday. Hora 1¼ a meridie.

Δ ⸺ After ET his calling into the stone , appeared a tall man, with a sceptre (very great) of gold , glittring . His body all red : and out of his hed, did ſhote out beames of light , like the sonne beames .

Δ ⸺ I being deſirous, to know who he was , and his name, I requeſted him [erneſtly?] thereto . but he anſwered, as followeth .

⸻ Invocate nomen Domini, et agnoſcetis eum

Δ ⸺ Then I prayed the psalme , Deus misereatur {.}r͠i , et benedicat nobis &c after that, he ſayd

⸺ I am mighty .

Δ ⸺ Bycauſe he delayed to declare his name , ET the skryer did require him, in the name of God the father, Jesus Christ his sonne, and of the holy ghoſt, to expreſs his name : and he answered in speche

⸺ So I will by and by

Δ ⸺ Then he ſeamed to take from his hed little bright sparcks , like little candells endes : and to ſtick them abowt the chayre : and he went rownd abowt the chayre : and than he spake, as followeth .

⸺ I am mighty, and working wonders : I am SALAMIAN . I rule in the hevens , and beare sway vppon erth in his name , Who be blessed for euer. Thow dooſt dowt at me . I am the servant of God , in his light : I serve him . I say, I serve him , with ‹reverence and› feare. and reverence. My name is SALAMIAN : Mighty in the sonne , worker of wordly actions , as well internall , as externall : known vnto God : Whose name I know , and bless for euer.

Δ ⸺ Then appeared a big flame of fyre by him in the ayre

Sal ⸺ Thow knoweſt not , or thow wilt not know , that Mamon , with his servants, are present abowt the : whoſe preſence doth hinder the preſence of the vertues Adonay our comming . Blessed be God , in the highest Amen .

Δ ⸺ He toke the forsaide flame of fyre, and flung it vp vnto the heven ward

Sal ⸺ Mamon is a king whome God hateth : whoſe ſect, contynually tempt , provoke and stir vp wickednes , against the Lord, and againſt his annoynted . But he dyeth : blessed be God for euer . Driue him away

Δ ⸺ It is incomparably more easy for you to do . And as for my parte , I fele neyther in body, nor sowle , any token of his presence or working . Therevppon he cauſed the whole chamber ( which ‸we were in ) to appere very playnley in the stone : and so there shewed a great cumpany of wycked spirits to be in the chamber : and among them , one, moſt horrible and gr{iſe}ly? thretting, and approaching to our heds : and skorning, and gnaſhing at vs.

Sala ⸺ God determines his mysteries , by Arte and Vertue

Δ ⸺ Then he willed me very egerly , to drive them away . And I prayed fervently . And there seamed One to com͠e into the stone , which had very long armes : and he draue away courra{g}iouſly : And so they were driuen away .

After that preſently, cam one into the stone, all white Salamian reached this white one a Cup. The white man held vp the cup: and sayd , as followeth,

⸺ Lo, this is my name. God shall bless you . Fear not . your faithfullness provoketh me to tell my name , and this it is :(putting furth the Cup again ) for, I am called Medicina Dei . I will shew the , and I will shew you , the Angel of your Direction , which is called OCH

Δ ⸺ This name he spake : he shewed it allſo on the Table (before him) written.

Raph ⸺ He is mighty in the sonne beams . He ſhall profit the hereafter.

Δ ⸺ Then cam in an other , and sat down in the chayre : and he ſayde, as followeth .

⸺ The strength of God liveth : and God raigneth for euer I am Fortitudo Dei .

Δ ⸺ Why, then, you are Gabriel : and I toke you hitherto to be Michaël ┌Michael┐ How ſhall I then amend my boke , in respect of your name, allwayes, ┌wa{ie}s┐ before, written Michaël ?

For. Dei ⸺ What thow hast written , that hast thow writen: and it is true. ┌‸{..} {....} .┐ Write down this name POLIPOS . Doſt thow vnderſtand it ?

Δ ⸺ No , God knoweth.

For. Dei ⸺ When that day cometh, I will speak with the : yf thow obſerve that which I haue* commanded the . As truely , as I was with SALOMON , so truely will I be with the

Δ ⸺ ┌‸{....}.┐ Then cam in an other : whom we toke to be Vriel . for he went ┌went┐ allſo, as he was wont . and leaned at the Table .

For. Dei ⸺ search for wisdome and lerning , and the Lord will delieuer it vnto you .

Δ ⸺ I wold to god, I knew your name truely , or what peculier letter I might set for you , to Note your words and Actions by .

For. Dei ⸺ Name I haue none, but by my office . SALAMIAN cam not hither, but by me He is a mighty Prince, governing the hevens , vnder my powre. This is ſufficient for thy Inſtruction . I was with Salomon, in all his works and wonders : and ſo was thi s, whome God had appointed vnto him . The Dieuines know his name : and he is not hidden from the face ┌face┐ of the erth : His name is written in the boke wich lyeth in ┌in┐ the wyndow .

Δ ⸺ Do you mean Agrippa his boke ? And is it there expreſsed by the name SALAMIAN ?

For. Dei ⸺ I haue ſayde .

Δ ⸺ What order will you appoint vnto vs two , in respect of our two beings to gither ? My frende here, may haue other intents and purposes of his a[ff?]ayres , then will serve for me, for ┌for┐ his ayde hauing in theſe Actions .

For. Dei ⸺ Ioyne in prayers . For God hath blessed you . Dowt not . Consider theſe Mysteries .

Δ ⸺ Then they in the stone vſed talk to gither : but not well to be be diſcerned of the eare of E.T
At length F.D talked very much, and spedily to E.T and diſcloſed vnto him ( which he expressed not to me, at the stone, but afterward ) all the manner of the practiſe , and circumſtance abowt the Action intended , with the Gold [lamin?],  the ring , the Seales &c And after I had spoken somwhat, in requeſting him , to shew me the manner, How I ſhold artificially prepare euery thing spoken of{t} , he sayd

Blessed be God, who revealeth all Myſteries . &c ‸
I am strength in nede. And Lo, here is Medicine for the sore
We bless the Lord : We gouern the erth , by the societie of Gabriel : Whose powre, is with vs : but he not here. &c Vse Patience

Vr ⸺ I lieued with Esdras : I liued in him , in the Lord, who liueth for euer.

Raph. ⸺ I leued with Tobie : Tobie the yonger.

Δ ⸺ This was the white creature, that spake this .

F.D ⸺ We liue in the Lorde : who be prayſed for euer.

Δ ⸺ I stode silent a good while .

F.D ⸺ what wilt thow ?

Δ ⸺ I did attend, what you wold ſay .

F.D ⸺ I haue sayd .

Δ ⸺ I haue byn long at this tyme , in my dealing with you . I truſt, I do not offend you therewith . But, for my parte , I cold finde in my hart to contynue whole dayes and nights in this manner of doing : euen tyll my body ſhold be ready to ſynk down for wearines , before I wold giue ouer. But I feare, I haue cauſed wearines to my frende here.

F.D ⸺ In vertue is no wearines .

Δ ⸺ Now they he ſtode vp, out of his chayr : and he, and they all, io{nictly} blessed vs , ſtretching theyr hands toward vs, Cr{o}ssingly . And so they went away. The Table and the chayre remayned. and the glyttring sparckles, or drops of ſteaming little lightes were of the chayre immedi{ate}ly .

Δ ⸺ Glorie, thanks, and honor
be vnto the Almighty Trinitie.
Amen