Edward Kelly was, however, permitted to supply this defect, and I might
confidently rely, he said, on the truth of those revelations, which I
was to note down for the benefit of mankind, and the establishing of a
new dispensation upon the earth. None but good angels could enter into
this glass, and they would teach me, as he then foretold, many things,
whereby, gaining great honour and renown, kings and princes should be
reproved of me, who was raised up for their sakes. At this revelation I
was exceeding glad, and more so on finding the day following in my study
this precious gem, which, as I once told the Emperor Rodolph, is of such
value that no earthly kingdom is worthy to be 'compared to the virtue or
dignity thereof. I well remember the time," said Dee, delighting to
dwell on these recollections: "I was at Prague, the emperor having sent
for me; I went up to the castle, where, in the _Ritterstove_, or guard
chamber, I stayed a little; Octavius Spinola, that was the chamberlain,
saluted me very courteously, having understood that I was he whom the
emperor waited for. Returning to the privy-chamber, he came out again,
leading me by the skirt through the dining-chamber and the
privy-chamber, where the emperor sat at a table with a great chest and
standish of silver, and my book and letters before him.
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