| Marty. 14. Wensday. mane circa hora: 91. | ||
 - Being desirous to proceed in this manner by consent, we bent | ||
| ourselves to the Action. And after that Edward Talbot had called | ||
| Uriel and saw him, I came to the desk from my Oratory. | ||
There did continually appear the Chair and the Table2. | ||
I then being afraid that any other should come in to the Stone | ||
| instead of Uriel3, did earnestly require the spiritual creature | ||
| appearing, to shew who he was, and what was his name. At length he | ||
| answered, and said to the hearing of Edward Talbot: | ||
| i. | Uriel is my name, with difference called *Nariel4. | |
Stay. | ||
| - Then he went away for a while; and came again, and said thus: | ||
| Uriel: The strength of God is always with thee. Dost thou know | ||
| what thou writest? | ||
| - In two senses, I may understand it; either that the good Angel | ||
| ii. | Gabriel is always
with me, though invisibly: or else that the | |
| strength, and mighty hand of God, always is my defence. | ||
| Uriel: Fortitudo Dei, tecum5 semper est. | ||
'The strength of God is always with you.' | ||
| - He went away again, and came again, following or waiting upon | ||
| another, and before that other, was a man having his head all | ||
| covered with black. Then he that came so in the middle, did sit | ||
| down in the chair, and spoke this word following: | ||
| Michaël: Note. | ||
| - This was Michaël, with his sword in his right hand. Then came | ||
| Uriel to the man (having his head all hid, as it were in a black | ||
| hood) and took off that black hood; and then lifted up the Table | ||
| cloth. He looked under it, and put it down again; and lifted it up | ||
| again. The Man stood still before Michaël. Then Michaël rose; | ||
| and took off all the man's clothes, and left him as it were, only | ||
| in his shirt. | ||
Then Uriel took a little round Tablet, as it were, of the | ||
| bigness of a six pence, having two letters in it thus: | ||
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| And gave it to Michaël. Uriel lifted up the Table cloth; and | ||
| from thence, seemed to take apparel, and put it on the man, it | ||
| seemed to be silk: and very full of wrinkles or pleats. And the | ||
| man kneeled, and held up his hand. Uriel took like a Laurel bush6 | ||
| and set upon the man's head. And then the man kneeled before | ||
| Michaël. Michaël took the round thing with the Letters; and | ||
| gave it to the man to eat, and he did eat it. | ||
| Uriel: Lo are things covered. | ||
| - Then he covered the Table and plucked the cloth over it, down | ||
| to the ground, on every side. The man rose up: and Michaël | ||
| dubbed him on the head with his sword. Then the man stood up. | ||
| Then the man turned his face towards [Edward Talbot] the Skryer, | ||
| and the man did resemble me (John Dee) in countenance. And then he | ||
| turned to Michaël again. | ||
Michaël wrote upon the Man's back thus: | ||
| iii. | - Then Edward Talbot asked me, if there were such Angels of a | |
| Man's Profession: and I answered yea; as in Agrippa, and others is | ||
| declared. | ||
| Michaël: Leave your folly. Hold thy peace. | ||
Have you not read, that they that cleave unto God; are like | ||
| unto him. | ||
| - Yes forsooth. | ||
| Michaël: Thou camest hither to learn, and not to dispute. | ||
| Laudate Dominum in operibus suis8. | ||
| The Lard is praised in his workings | ||
| - The man kneeled down, and so went out of sight. | ||
| Michaël: He has eaten strength against trouble. | ||
He has eaten nothing, and in eating, he has eaten all things. | ||
| iv. | The + name NA9 be praised in trouble. | |
| - Now Michaël thrust out his right arm; With the Sword, and | ||
| bade the Skryer to look. Then his Sword did cleave in two, and a | ||
| great fire flamed out of it vehemently. Then he took a Ring out of | ||
| the flame of his sword, and gave it to Uriel, and said thus: | ||
| Michaël: The strength of God is unspeakable. Praised be God | ||
| forever and ever. | ||
| - Then Uriel did make curtsy unto him. | ||
| Michaël: After this sort must thy Ring be. Note it. | ||
| - Then he rose and disappeared out of the Chair. And by and by | ||
| came again, and said as follows: | ||
| Michaël: I will reveal this Ring which was never revealed since | ||
| the death of Solomon; with whom I was present, I was present with | ||
| him in strength and mercy. | ||
Lo this is it; This is it where with all Miracles and divine | ||
| works and wonders were wrought by Solomon10: | ||
 | ||
| This is it, which I have revealed unto thee: This is it, which | ||
| philosophy dreamth of. This is it which the Angels scarce know. | ||
| This is it, and blessed be his Name. Yea his name be blessed | ||
| forever. | ||
| - Then he laid the Ring down upon the Table and said: | ||
| Note. | ||
| - It shewed to be a Ring of gold: with a seal engraved in it, and | ||
| had a round thing in the middle of the Seal, and a thing like a V | ||
| through the top of the circle, and an L in the bottom, and a bar | ||
clean through it.  | ||
| v. | And had 4 Letters in it, P.E.L.E.11 | |
After that,he threw the Ring on the board or Table12; and it | ||
| vi. | seemed to fall through the Table, and he said thus: | |
| Michaël: So shall it do, at thy commandment. | ||
Without this thou shalt do nothing. | ||
Blessed be his name that compasseth13 all things. | ||
Wonders are in him, and his Name is WONDERFUL: | ||
His name worketh wonders from generation, to generation. | ||
| - Then he went away, and came in again by and by. | ||
| Michaël: Note. | ||
| - Then he brought in the Seal, which he had shewed the other day: | ||
| and opened his Sword, and bade the Skryer: read: and he read: | ||
| vii. | ||
Then the Sword closed up again, and he said: | ||
| Michaël: This I do open unto thee, because thou marveled at | ||
| SIGILLVM DEI15. This is the Name of the Seal16, which be blessed | ||
| forever. This is the Seal self17. This is Holy. This is pure. This | ||
| is forever. Amen. | ||
| - Then the Seal vanished away. And I said to my friend (the | ||
| Skryer): Indeed, this other day, I considered diverse fashions of | ||
| this Seal; and I found them much differing, one from another; and | ||
| therefore I had need to know which of them I shall imitate, or how | ||
| to make one perfect of them all. | ||
| Michaël: Doubt not the making of it, for God has perfected all | ||
| things. Ask not for the cause of my absence, nor of my apparel: for | ||
| that Mystery is known to God. I have no clothing, as thou thyself | ||
| shalt see. I am a spirit of Truth and Virtue. Yea you shall see | ||
| me in Power, and I will visit you in HOPE. | ||
Bless you the Lord, and follow his ways forever. | ||
| - Then he went away, and Uriel followed him. And then I said to | ||
| my Skryer: it were good, We had ever some watch-word when we should | ||
| not look for anymore matter at their hands, every time of their | ||
| visiting us. | ||
Whereupon, (unlooked for of us) he spake again. | ||
| Michaël: We lead time, Time leadeth not us. | ||
| - Then they lifted up their hands heavenward (which heaven | ||
| appeared also in the stone) and turned towards us and said: | ||
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| - So they departed; and at their going, the chair, and the Table | ||
| in the Stone, did seem to shake. | ||
| -------------------------- Soli Deo omnis honor | ||
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11. By reading the Ring in manner given opposite:
.i. Emeth est sigillum eius.'
), Mem (
) and Shin (
).
), Gimel (
), Dalet (
), Koph (
),
), Resh (
) and Taw (
).
), Vau (
), Zain (
), Chet (
),
), Yod (
), Lamed (
), Nun (
),
), Ayin (
), Tzaddi (
),
).
), Mem (
), Nun (
), Peh (
) and Tzaddi (
) when they