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The Prefent State os PERSIA; 375.
"unfolds the Mystcry to me, whose Sense.I only render forsatisfa- Chap.XIII.
" ction of my Inquirers. , w'—v^-
This being a new Doctrine to the Sussee, he commanded her to
give him some Demonslration of the truth of what ihe had told ;
and therefore put her upon discovering how he might believe the
airy Region to be peopled after this rate ; me consented to convince
him, and ordered all the Nobles attending the Emperor, to retire,
with him into one part of the Room, and leave her to work their
Conviction, which ssic did aster this manner :
Falling into her usual Trance , flie at that inllant wrought their
Fancies to be persuaded of the consused Articulation of Multitudes
met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing
of them all.
Father Rapbiel the Capuchin, who gave me this account, was set
upon by the Emperor to encounter her ; but he prudently enough,
avoided it, lest he might be brought into some Praemunire about
Disputes of their Religion, in which he found the crafty Slut would
involve him; but besides his (ingle Testimony of thii Affair, here are
many Turkiih Merchants in Town who all declare the same as to her
being possessed, having known her many Years ago at Consianti-
nople, srom whence me was expelled by a special Precept of their
Sultan.
Here is a large Field of Controyersy offered, to wit the Possessi-
ons of Cardan, and the Lapland Witches J but these being Foreign
to this intended Account, I purposely omit what might be said on
this Subject, referring it to moreacurate Pens.
But not to let the credit of this Opinion He as if it were of this
"Beldams broaching ; Plato had long ago declared his approbation
of it, that there were Damons wandring about the World: In ^^°m
Epinomede.- Simmos Deos^uhra mundanos amplijsimam rerum provident i-
am habere, sah his in cmlo qtiofdam conspkuos ejse, tertio insimoque loco Dte~
names horum genus, unum ex aithere, alterum ex aere essect netttrum con-
spici totum poteft ;sed quamvis hi Dtsmones props nos sintjtunquam tamen
maniseslb nohis apparent: Etmox; Aliudvero ex aqua, &C. Poft D&-
manes Heroas.
And what Plato promisenoussy calls Dmmons, the Latins distinguish
by their Osfices, as those preiiding over Countries are Penates j those
over Families Lares ; those that are frightful and terrible represen-
tations are Larva or Hob-goblins: But these that are WitnesTes of
the actions of every individual person are termed Genij, and those
the Ancient Greeks called Heroas, the Latins gave the name of
Lerr.ures, Ghosts or Spirits to.
But to return to our Men of Learning, from whence we have been
Will-ith-whisped ; the Longitude and Latitude of the Stars are writ- _ n -t .
ten in an intire Volume, together with eight and forty Signs beassly an°di!atiMde.
pictured ; these compared with our Maps or Globes, differ seven or
eight degrees in Longitude ; only some few Minutes in Latitude.
Dialling and its profound Sections and Projections of the heavenly
Circles in the Plain, by the mediating Ihadow from the World's Dulling.
Axis, is not understood by them ; no more than Conic's, although
Apollonms his Books are often turned over by them.
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"unfolds the Mystcry to me, whose Sense.I only render forsatisfa- Chap.XIII.
" ction of my Inquirers. , w'—v^-
This being a new Doctrine to the Sussee, he commanded her to
give him some Demonslration of the truth of what ihe had told ;
and therefore put her upon discovering how he might believe the
airy Region to be peopled after this rate ; me consented to convince
him, and ordered all the Nobles attending the Emperor, to retire,
with him into one part of the Room, and leave her to work their
Conviction, which ssic did aster this manner :
Falling into her usual Trance , flie at that inllant wrought their
Fancies to be persuaded of the consused Articulation of Multitudes
met as in a Fair, conversing and making a chattering, to the amazing
of them all.
Father Rapbiel the Capuchin, who gave me this account, was set
upon by the Emperor to encounter her ; but he prudently enough,
avoided it, lest he might be brought into some Praemunire about
Disputes of their Religion, in which he found the crafty Slut would
involve him; but besides his (ingle Testimony of thii Affair, here are
many Turkiih Merchants in Town who all declare the same as to her
being possessed, having known her many Years ago at Consianti-
nople, srom whence me was expelled by a special Precept of their
Sultan.
Here is a large Field of Controyersy offered, to wit the Possessi-
ons of Cardan, and the Lapland Witches J but these being Foreign
to this intended Account, I purposely omit what might be said on
this Subject, referring it to moreacurate Pens.
But not to let the credit of this Opinion He as if it were of this
"Beldams broaching ; Plato had long ago declared his approbation
of it, that there were Damons wandring about the World: In ^^°m
Epinomede.- Simmos Deos^uhra mundanos amplijsimam rerum provident i-
am habere, sah his in cmlo qtiofdam conspkuos ejse, tertio insimoque loco Dte~
names horum genus, unum ex aithere, alterum ex aere essect netttrum con-
spici totum poteft ;sed quamvis hi Dtsmones props nos sintjtunquam tamen
maniseslb nohis apparent: Etmox; Aliudvero ex aqua, &C. Poft D&-
manes Heroas.
And what Plato promisenoussy calls Dmmons, the Latins distinguish
by their Osfices, as those preiiding over Countries are Penates j those
over Families Lares ; those that are frightful and terrible represen-
tations are Larva or Hob-goblins: But these that are WitnesTes of
the actions of every individual person are termed Genij, and those
the Ancient Greeks called Heroas, the Latins gave the name of
Lerr.ures, Ghosts or Spirits to.
But to return to our Men of Learning, from whence we have been
Will-ith-whisped ; the Longitude and Latitude of the Stars are writ- _ n -t .
ten in an intire Volume, together with eight and forty Signs beassly an°di!atiMde.
pictured ; these compared with our Maps or Globes, differ seven or
eight degrees in Longitude ; only some few Minutes in Latitude.
Dialling and its profound Sections and Projections of the heavenly
Circles in the Plain, by the mediating Ihadow from the World's Dulling.
Axis, is not understood by them ; no more than Conic's, although
Apollonms his Books are often turned over by them.
In