This cloud is a separation betwixt this, yea, this glorified company and you.

 

Saturday 2. November.

We rode from Bream two mile to a nunnery called Ostarhold.

Sunday 3. November.

We came to Fure or Fureden.

Monday 4. November.

We came to Harburgh.

Tuesday 5. November.

We came to Buxtenbaden, and there by 9 of the clock in the morning we took water in two great skutes or boats, horse-wagon, and our stuff and all ferried down the little water, til we entered the Elb, and so crossed straight over to Blanken Nasen; there dined, and after dinner by coaches we came to Hamburgh, where my lord lay at the English house, and we at another lodging, a widow's house.

Wednesday 6. November.

We rode to Tritiow, four mile from Hamburgh, a little village, having my lord behind, and also missing my children and servants, which were gone before us another way, to my great grief; till by midnight, by sending out messengers to listen and inquire after them, I heard of them. I, my wife, Rowland, nurse and Marcopski, my lord his man. 

Thursday 7. November.

We came to Lubeck, and were there at an inn, at the figure of the Angel, or rather St Michael, at a widow her house, a vey honest hostess. 

Saturday 9. November.

I received letters from the Lord Albert Laski, of the Englishmen's ill-dealing, and consulting with the townsmen of Hamburgh for my stay, and conveying back again into England, &c.

Wednesday 13. November, 1583.
Mane hora 9.30.
At Lubeck.

Per horam fere, per intervalla, varias fecimus petitiones et saepe pravimus.

At length appeared a sword, two-edged, firey or rather bloody, and a bunch of rags hanging from the tip of it. The rags seemed of woollen or linen cloth, like a bundle of rags gathered out of a tailor's shop. The sword stood upright in a manner, but leaning from Kelly his face, though it seemed to smite at Kelly.

A Voice - So be it - O Lord - for thou art mighty. Be it unto them, for they have embraced a harlot, and have forgotten thy jealousy.

Kelly - The sword shakes mightily. Many are the harlots that swarm on the Earth, and innumerable are their children and such as they foster. Their reward is ready.

The sword now shakes mightily. 

A Voice - He that enters the house of the wicked is defiled, but he that consents with a harlot is accursed. He that delights in her secrets shall be stabbed. And leprosy shall dwell in his house forever.

Dee - O Lord, I trust respects none of us, in common sense to be understood. 

A Voice - He that delights in light loves not himself, but desires the love of him that illumines. But thus says God, I will not dally with you, neither shall you handle me, as you have done, for your whoredom is wilful, and your vanities worse. But this I leave amongst you, that you shall know I am righteous; for he that despises me is accursed, and to him that disembles my fashion are miseries without number. So unto them that enter into the house of blasphemy is vengeance ready at hand.

Dee - O Lord, what is this? Man is but earth where the heavens dwell, neither are the works of man acceptable but with righteousness.

Kelly - There appears a man with a Bible about his neck, like a doctor, and he stands miserably in fire. And so likewise appeared divers others with Bibles about their necks, and they in fire likewise. Still come flames from the earth, and increase the flames of these men about them. There appears and endless ( . . . ) me, most terrible with fire and other most hideous shows ( . . . ) 

They be suddenly gone away. And all these men be now no more in sight.

A Voice - Happy are those that see and can remember. Blessed are those that hear and are not forgetful.

Dee - These words and shows, O Jesu, make evident what ( . . . )

Kelly - All is gone, except the sword which stands in a cloud, and there comes a hand and sets a seal upon the sword.

A Voice - I brought you from iniquity, with the intent you might be purified. But the more I cleanse you, the more you are defiled.

( . . . ) I have offered of old, and it shall be told. I have promised, and it shall be performed. 

You have not kept my commandments, and therefore you shall be plagued. He that goes out of the way shall receive the reward of error. For stragglers are spotted people, and none can be blessed but such as dwell in the tabernacle of righteousness. But behold, I will tell it to you, but with greater harshness, and I will make you know me before I visit you in kindness. For thus says Sathan, Lo, they err still. Do justice for thy glory sake; they enter the houses of idols, and laugh with blasphemers. They are silent when thy name is blasphemed. Deal with them as a god, or else thou art not righteous; therefore, be free from Sathan, that he may praise your righteousness, yea, that he may say as he has said, Let me touch them. Til then, I will be just. I will not forget this wickedness, til you be made clean, for behold I have sealed it, and therefore it must be finished. For what is sealed by me, comes to pass.

Dee - 

A Voice - He that dissembles the image of Christ is a liar.

Dee - 

A Voice - Now comes a grave a man, all clothed in white with a mitre on his head.

The God of Peace is a comforting medicine to such as delight in him. The peace of the world is the image of God; God and Man, which is Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, which knit with the Father in the Spirit of Truth - proceeding from them both ( . . . ) everlasting will - opened his mercies to his Apostles, replenishing them fully and mightily with the will of the Father for the comfort of the world. Which, made messengers thereof, have delivered to the Church full and perfect statutes - as the will of him whereunto she is united and married - to be kept inviolable and without transgression. 

This will, covenant or decree - sealed unto the end of the world in the number of the faithful - whosoever breaks or dissembles is accursed or damned. Therefore says the word of God unto you, You have run astray, you have entered into the houses of idols. I have brought you from the fire, but you are entered into flames. And why? Because you defile yourselves with the wickedness of deceivers, whose images you saw affirmatively, though not verily. Continually overwhelmed with daily and inextinquishable flames, continuing even so long as their error is exalted, yea, even in the professors thereof, to their eternal damnation.

For as Christ and his doctrine is light and truth, so seem the impositions of him that saves, whereby he trusts in himself under the colour of meekness into the company of the faithful, devouring their souls with ravening, dissembling and false likelihoods of truth unable to be decided by man. Happy are those that believe them not, for he, even he it is that is a liar, and is oldest in deceit. But as the Father is eternal, so is the Son eternal, which eternity of the Father and the Son is the Holy Ghost eternal, proceeding equally as the finger of God and Spirit of Truth to the general worlmanship of God's determination knit together three persons

Kelly - He makes a great reverent curtsey. 

A Voice - in his omnipotency by spiritual illumination, and through the Holy Ghost delivered unto the Apostles as the pledge of God his mercy and promise is always certainly linked, joined and engraffed into the society of those that fulfill the will of the highest perfectly and without error, whose strength shall continue and glory branch out, even to the end of this world and beginning of comfort.

Therefore, believe, for the Spirit of Truth works wonders, raises the dead and has power to forgive sins through the power of him unto whom it is ma ( . . . ) for as Christ has all power in Heaven and on Earth delivered ( . . . ) so has he delivered all power in Heaven and Earth to his true Church. Therefore, she cannot err, for where power is without measure, error has no number. Believe not, therefore, those that lie, saying the Church of God is infected with errors, for the offences of few are not counted error but unrighteousness, neither can the straggling feet of a few drunken me bring infamy to the whole house.

Dee -

A Voice - It lies not in my power to deliver you, or reconcile you from death and Hell, the tormentry and filthiness of the world and the warth of God. But yet - that cloud set aside, which is between me and you - I speak afar of to you, saying the justice of God is vengeance itself; neither has it any contrary, but even in the midst and centre of itself, which is the drop and liqor of his eternal, great and incomprehensible majesty of himself, his mercy which, even in the midst of justice is found out by sorrow repentance and reconciliation, not in that it is necessary with God, but that it is a medicine applicable and most healthful to the infirmities of that man that covets to be healed, released or recovered from his sores. This is it that must comfort you, for as justice is the reward of sin, so is mercy the reward of repentence; but mercy is the centre of light, and justice to be cast off and shut within darkness. Therefore, be not negligent.

Dee - This whoredom, how is it commited, or of whom?

A Voice - I teach the ( . . . ) where thy habitation was, error rained, God called thee from it, and delivered thee by many but unknown ways, means not to be uttered by man. These places also are shut up from the favour of God, for their obedience is counterfeited and their prayers outcries; therefore has the Lord opened him unto secret judgements of the wicked. Here also you entered and are newly defiled, for the Devil entered in and found him waking, and lo, he entered yet, and he was not asleep. But he was happy, being kindled with desire of God, else had the judgement of his body for this world been fulfilled. Wickedness follows him, and the spirits of evil counsel are at hand. You shall feel the sorrow thereof, and your family shall be discomforted. But pray unto God that it fall not out, that Sathan goes about, neither that it come to pass which he has power to execute. For this token signifies your miseries, and it is a sign of that, which is given to execution.

 I have said.

The peace of God be restored unto you.

Dee - 

Kelly - Here is the man again.

A Voice - Two words and I have done.

Nothing is plainer that that which is spoken, nothing certainer than that which is appointed. Be you penitent, that God may be merciful.

This is all I have to say. Wash yourselves, and I also will make you clean. Resist you Satan diligently, and I will help you mightily.

Dee - O Lord, that seal on the sword and rags break off.

Kelly - Now he is gone.

Dee - 

Kelly - Now he is here again.

A Voice - This cloud is a separation betwixt this, yea, this glorified company and you. Look not for any light, whilst this darkness is present. Behold, my mouth falters and my lips are stayed, but pray you, and you shall not be rejected. For the stronger you be, the mercifuller is God and the weaker is and shall be your adversary. Love together, serve God together, be of one heart together. Always preach God.

I am tired.

Kelly - He is gone.

Dee - Misericordia et Pax Dei sit super nos nunc et semper. 

Amen.