VMs: Re: More shorthand trivia

[Clay Holden <cholden@xxxxxxxx>]

For whatever it may be worth, this discussion compells me to mention that
in one of Dee and Kelly's angelic conferences, one of the spirits (I
believe Galvah, but could be mistaken, and don't have materials at hand
tonight) gives the expression "Feare God" as a single line answer to a
query as to its identity, either capitalized as above or in all caps. This
would either be in Cotton Appendix XLVI (the source of the "True and
Faithful Relation...").

The expression can also be found in Reginald Scot's "Discoverie of
Witchcraft", (an early published source of materials compiled into the
"Lemegeton"), as well as an English translation of Roger Bacon's "Radix
Mundi" in Sloane MS. 1799.

"Feare God" or "Feare of God" was of course a common expression in many
treatises of the time, but it is interesting to see it show up in several
texts that were written by individuals whose works are connected (even if
only conjecturally) with cryptography...

Clay