Five books of mystery

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John Dee's Five Books of Mystery

Blessed be his name, whose Glory is euerlasting fode to the Just, and Sempiternall2998 to the Wicked. H: The 36 t h e name, is the King his name, 300 And his Prince his name.301 is the last [saue one] written in the Heptagonon.302

H: Venite vos qui sub mea estis potestate.303 EK: Then cam bright People 42: And besides these, all the Ayre swarmeth with creatures. Theyr letters are in theyr forheds: these stand in a circle: they take the letters from theyr forheds, and set them in a Circle.304

299

Somwhat was not hard of me, or forgot. Perhaps Terror.

300

A: Bnapsen.

301

A: Brorges.

302

Note A. 1583, Maij. Thus I considered In dede after a sort Brorges may be cownted as last, for the begyning secretly was with Bralges.

303 Bralges sayd his government was of such: super fol. 4.b. -A. Venite . . . potestate: "Come you who are under my power." -Ed. 304

The Circle of letters.


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