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Toy quiconque verras ceste morte peinture, Asseure toy de veoir vn chef, qui a compris L’vn des plus genereux et sublimes espris, Que Dieu nostre temps ait mis en la nature...458
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André Thevet, Les Vrais Portraits et vies…,p. 590v.
On the title page of the favtevwufa (1547) which Postel published under the name of Elias Pandochaeus, Postel sounds the warning - “Tubas enultimae stridor.” Georges Weill, op. cit.,pp. 44–46.
Oa Jean Bodin also writes of the exorcism in his De La Demonomanie (Paris, 1580), pp. 157–165. Bodin does not emphasize the “miracle” as does Postel, however. François Secret, “G. Postel and Jean Bodin,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 21 (1959) pp. 465–467, also notes s.
Postel expresses this idea in numerous texts. However, note the following which is especially revealing: “Nam in Deo immobili impossibile est vllum personam seorsim ab alia moueri. Passivae itaque huic filli consubstantialis personae, totius mundi Intelligentia primo ab Aetherno sensim emanata adest tanquam odor ab odorato corpore, [et] demum Creata Formata et Facta, ut sit Dux Formae Dux Materiae Dux Compositi, in coelesti, in Aethereo et in Elementari mundo sicut in nobis in Cerebro in Pectore et in Ventre agit Animalem vitalem Naturalem vim movendo sic omnia propter hominem Adamum et Aedom ut procurans et procreans, medianteque Aethereo corpore viuicans in humano temperamento ipse Testamentum, non tantum Nouum, sed Aethernum ex cabala Petri Restituens et constituens, et assiduo desiderio passus patiensque confirmat Noach Gallicas promissiones. Nam quia basis est Regni Vinarii, vnde Ianus a vino potius Ogys aut Ogiges a pare Latine dictus est, Deus Pacti Testamentive Aetherni cum eo meminit, ut opus sit, esse ibi Aethernum Regnum Imperialeve, vbi constat Noachum, cui promissum est, elegisse se-dem maxime pro Iapeti, qui testibus 72 interpretibus est Primogenitus…. (sicut omnia Dei beneficia Naturalia per ascendens coelum, et item per descendens coelum in vnius Hemispherii mundi calice semper datur)…. Et ea de re sacra nobis exponuntur sub Noacho Panificii et Vinificii Authore mysteria, quae demum a Semo offeruntur, pro Abrahami benedictione, vbi superior et inuisibilis Christi pars decimat et subijcit decimando Abrahamum, suam ipsius inferiorem partem.” The British Library Sloane ms. 1411, fols. 337–337v. Also see above, note 460b.
“… vnde opus est nunc, ad hoc ut Cabala Petri de Aetherno et non tantum nouo testamento demonstretur ab aetherno etiam per Angelos tradita in manu mediatoris quoniam legem dedit toti mundo, et non solum in Moseos Manum solam Mosaicam, opus inquam est, ut hoc 5566. Creationis anno qui est 1566 Redemptionis ponatur in Haberi pro toto mundo, ut cognoscat totum genus humanum: quomodo vbi abundauit delictum, necessario corpori, ad Gloriae Potentiaeque Dei demonstrationem, impactum… The British Library, Sloane ms. 1411, fol. 338.
/bid.,fol. 338v. In a similar context he calls himself Rorispergius Anusius or Petrus. Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402, fol. 64v.
Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402, fol. 62.
See Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3677, fols. 34, 34v. On Postel as Comprehensor note, The British Library, Sloane ms. 1411, fols. 362, 362v:… in tali me gradu Intelligentiae constitui [Christus] voluit, ut Comprehensor in via et non tantum viator videar et sic cuilibet poscenti demonstrari valeam.“
On Postel as Congregator,note especially the following statements written in his own hand: “Restitutio enim omnium colligere debet vniuersos in vnam solam Ecclesiam et Politicam congregationem, quod quidem a solo Christo fit et fieri potest debetque, sed cum velamine et tegumento illo quo iam bis Elias fuit tectus, in se solor et in Johanne baptista, ut tune quum venerit nunc postremo vna cum omnibus sanctis Christum concomitantibus ut veniens INTRA NOS paratam sibi in nobis faciat mansionem, sed duce Eliae spiritu et virtute restituat omnia. Et hic est Asellus ex congreatione omnium Asinarum mundi consurgens natusque.…
n the salutary effects of manna (dew) as a sign of God’s care for His children, see article ’1Nanne,“ by Henri Leclercq, Dictionnaire d’Archéologie Chrétienne et de Liturgie (Paris, 1931: Librairie Letouzey et Ané) Vol. X, première partie, pp. 1416–1423. A vase full of manna was preserved at the Lateran Palace, according to Jean Diacre (see p. 1419). Note also, p. 1422, that a Jesuit, Father Gilles Boucher, in 1653 claimed to have some portions of this ”heavenly food“.
The British Library, Sloane ms. 1411, fol. 337v.
/bid.,fol. 338. See above, pp. 145–146, and note 463.
In an unpublished text entitled La Prognostication… extraicte des secrets de la saincte Magie et vraye astrologie… Postel signs his name as the “souereign astrologue”. The date of this manuscript is 1568. See B$1~jiothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402, fol. 37.
See François Secret, Bibliographie des manuscrits,p. 22.476The British Library, Sloane ms. 1411, fols. 331–338v.
He speaks of this in a manuscript written the year before his death. Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3401 passim. Also see in addition to titles already cited, Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402, fols. 53–73.
See François Secret, L’Esoterisme de Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie (Genèva, 1969: Librairie Droz) pp. 17–18); also “Guillaume Postel et le miracle de Laon,” Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 21 (1959) pp. 453–457. Albert-Marie Schmidt, “Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie Chrétien, Poète et Kabbaliste,” Cahiers du Sud sur Israel (Paris, 1950) pp. 169–182.
The British Library, Sloane ms. 1411, fols. 346–352. The hand that is attributed to Jehan Boulaese resembles the handwriting of Jean Bodin. The handwriting of Bodin is documented in two letters to Castelnau-Mauvissière, Bibliothèque nationale, Cinq-Cents de Colbert, Vol. CDLXXII, pp. 157 and 261. See Roger Chauviré, introduction to his abridged edition of Le Colloque de Jean Bodin des secrets cachez des choses sublimes (Paris, 1914) p. 5. Almost identical with the handwriting attributed to Jean Bodin is the writing found in a copy of the De morte de G. Postelli, Fonds. Dupuy 630, fol. 125. A hand quite similar to Bodin’s is found on what appears to be a letter pasted inside the bindings, back and front, of the copy of Postel’s La Loy salique which is in the Folger Renaisance Library, Washington, D.C. The handwriting attributed to Boulaese which strongly resembles the handwriting of Bodin appears often in Postel’s mss. after 1566.
See for example, Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3224, fols 139, 145, 283, 285, 293. Postel relates “thisness” (hoc) to “thereness” (ibi). See Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402, fols. 59–63. “Thisness” (hoc) is the divine dew (fol. 63).
About the mockery of the Lutherans concerning Ian le Blanc Postel writes:… serunda stabit semper veritas, totum genus humanum liberatura ab erroris tenebris, et etiam illud nomen quod sui summi hostes Germanica impietate infecti doctore satana imposuere ipsi Deum et Christum eius irridendo vocandoque Ian le Blanc, quasi simus artolatrae panis ve ob suam Adoratores….“ Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 3402 fol. 65.
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Kuntz, M.L. (1981). Congregator (1562 – 1581). In: Guillaume Postel. International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees, vol 98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1724-3_3
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