Share via Share via... Twitter Facebook Pinterest WhatsAppRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × The Center for Enochian Studies, Volume I, number 10 Conclusion of Liber Mysteriorum Primus --- first part lost in MS? ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...1 i. ... Blessed be God, Who revealest all Mysteries + etc. ... I am strength,2 in need.3 ... And Lo, here is Medicine4 for the sore.5 ... We bless the Lord. We govern the earth,6 by the society of Gabriel:7 ... Whose power is with us, but not here.8 ... Use Patience. ... Uriel:9 I lived with Esdras:10 I lived in him; in the Lord,11 who liveth forever. Raphael: I lived with Tobias,12 Tobias the younger. - This was the white creature that spake this.13 Fortitudo Dei:14 We Live in the Lord, who be praised forever. - I stood silent a good while. Fortitudo Dei: What wilt thou? : I did attend, what you would say. Fortitudo Dei: I have said. : I have been long at this time, in my dealing with you.15 I trust, I do not offend you therewith. But, for my part, I could find in my heart to continue whole days and nights in this manner of doing; even till my body should be ready to sink down for weariness, before I would give over. But I fear, I have caused weariness to my friend here. Fortitudo Dei: In virtue is no weariness. - Now he stood up out of his chair; and he, and they all jointly blessed us, stretching their hands toward us, Crossingly. And so they went away. The Table and the chair remained, and the glittering sparkles, or drops of streaming little lights were off the chair immediately. - Glory,thanks, and honor be to the Almighty Trinity Amen. .oOo. ---------------------------------------------------------------- John Dee's marginalia i. + ...venged upon Saul; for he hath abused his names in his Creatures ...nd against kind his punishment is great; and so I end.16 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Postscript Of Elias Ashmole Mysteriorum Liber Primus, book ending here (as I conceive) ii. after which follows Mysteriorum +Liber Secundus, but the beginning thereof is utterly perished.17 ii. + So it appears to be by diverse Quotations in the following Books.18 1. This fragment of text is probably the continuation of Dee's Action dated March 15 MDLXXXII anno domini; being the conclusion to his Liber Mysteriorvm Primvs, internal evidence indicates the close relationship between this leaf and the previously given action. Approximately 30% of the top of this page was lost to damage (cf. Thelema Lodge O.T.O. (Berkeley CA: Feb.1988 e.v.); the placement of 'Sequential periods i.e. ...' indicates where damage either abuts or intrudes into written text. 2. Fortitudo Dei aut Michaelem? op.cit. Mar. 1988 ev. 3. Est id 'Misericors' ? ibid. 4. Medicina Dei sive Raphaelem: ibid. 5. Afflicta: ibid. 6. Angeli illis estis toti Mundo praedominantes: ibid. 7. Angeli cvm Gabrieli sunt: Prevalescentia sive praepotentia, sive fortitudo et praevalescens Dei. Ibid. 8. In Caeli. Ibid. 9. 3d Ezra: L. Vulg. Vriel. Citations in antiq. of the non extant Gk. version give [: 400 + 200 + 10 + 30 = 640], reconstruction from Aramaic fragments and various Gk. transliterated Gk. commentaries would give the Heb. as [: 70 + 5 + 200 + 10 + 1 + 30 = 316] 10. Serious study should be given II Esdras: III - XIV, if possible in the arch. versions, of this most strange scripture (cf. infra 3d Ezra). Special note and meditation should be devoted, by those with wit to under- stand, to those passages which provide practical instruction in the sciences of Thaumaturgy, and Theurgy: Compare also III: 1-14. with references given to Uriel and Adam in the conclusion of Abramelin's Sacred Magick. 11. The Apocryphal book of II Esdras is a strange compound book from a number of original texts with similar origins, but somewhat varying chronology, and make up the different books of Ezra (& pts of Neh.), Esdras (I & II), 3d Ezra, as well as Visions, Testaments, and Apocalypses of Ezra/Esdras etc. The original core was apparently Hebrew; and contained primary material now completely lost; preceding what is in modern ref. 3d Ezra or trad. II Esdras cap. iii. The book was then translated into Greek, but both the Gk. and Heb. versions are now lost; though Quotations from both, in original tongues, do exist from antiquity. Some time in the Early Christian Era a new beginning and end in Gk. were added for theological reasons of the Ante-Nicene church. The text then translated into Latin; was included by Jerome in the Vulgate. This is the source for most modern translations, though many exist in strange tongues that were obviously drawn directly from the earlier Gk. or Heb. 12. Raphael gives a strange Magical formula: whereby a fish is used to manufacture what in hermetic terms would be referred as the svmmvm bonvm. A startlingly similar formula is given in libers: CDXV, Opvs Lvtetianvm, and C, Agape Azoth. 13. Undetermined personage? cf. II Esdras ii:39-40; I Enoch lxxi:1; Rev. iii:5, vii:13. 14. Vide # 2; L. Fortitudo Dei = Eng. The Strength of God. Est hic Michael? 15. This note supports the probability that this fragment is the continuation of the March 15th Action vide op.cit. Thelema Lodge, Nov.1988ev. & # 1. above. 16. This marginal notation, which apparently refers to the difficulties of Saul Barnabas (ibid: Jun-Aug/88ev.), is peculiarly arranged in vertical columns reading from the top of the page; and suffered therefore from significant fragmentation. Reference notation: i.e. +; indicate that this marginalia may refer obliquely to the heading line of surviving text. 17. Mysteriorvm Liber Secvndvs deals with the construction, arrangement, and operation of the Sigilvm Dei AEmeth. The beginning pages; of which, follow this text in SL.MS. 3188. Several are severely damaged and an unknown number of leaves may have been lost irrevocably; yet technical examination shows that nothing essential to the Seal itself is missing. The next dated entry is March 20, 1582 a.d., but it is preceded by a long Action to which the date has been lost. That book will appear in this place beginning in March of next year. 18. This concludes the main text of: Liber Mysteriorvm Primvs or: Dr. John Dee His First Book Of Mystical Exercises. Next month we will present the first of three parts devoted to appending the materials covered in Liber Primvs Mysteriorvm. Previous | Index | Next