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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64545	A relation of the voyage to Siam performed by six Jesuits, sent by the French King, to the Indies and China, in the year, 1685 : with their astrological observations, and their remarks of natural philosophy, geography, hydrography, and history / published in the original, by the express orders of His Most Christian Majesty ; and now made English, and illustrated with sculptures.; Voyage de Siam des pères jésuites. English	Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712.	1688 (1688)	Wing T96; ESTC R16161	188,717	400

there they come out and take the first word they hear spoken for the response of the Oracle which they have consulted It sometimes happens that to punish their criminal Curiosity God permits that the event confirms what they have learnt by this way Thus some of the Wives of the first Ambassadors that were sent to France or board the Sun of the East being anxious to know the Destiny of their Husbands whom they feared they should never see again made their Sacrifices in the Cave I mentioned and being afterwards come back again to the Town in the Evening they heard a Woman saying to her Slaves Shut the door they 'le return no more They took these words as a presage of the misfortune that happened in the Sequel and from that time bewailed the loss of their Husbands The respect they have for the King goes as far as adoration The Reveren●e the Siame●e have for their King. The posture wherein they are to be in his presence is a visible mark of it Nay even in the Council which sometimes lasts four hours the Ministers lye all the while prostrate before the King and if any of them chance to faint he dares not rise upon his knees nor sit up upon the ground though the Prince comm●nd him so to do till a Curtain he drawn before ●is Throne When the King goes abroad all must withdraw and no body dares to be in his way but they who have express orders for it unless it be when he had a mind to show himself to his people on certain days of Ceremony Strangers also have Notice given them to keep within doors when the King is to go abro●d No man is suffered to come near the Palace whil'st he is there One day as I was returning from a Pagod with a Mandarin who had carried me thither in his Balon our Water-men going along with the Stream came a little too near the Walls of the Palace But they soon stood off again when they felt a shower of pease flying about their ears which the S●uldiers upon the guard shot at them with Trunks to make them withdraw The King holds Council several times a day The King holds several Councils daily and that 's his greatest exercise None of his Counsellers dares be absent and if any of them chanced to have extraordinary business or to fall sick he ought before the hour of Council ask leave of the King to be absent Without that leave no hurry of business nor sickness will excuse him from incurring grievous punishments if he be able to go for the King never fails to send to know the reasons of his absence and the Officer whom the King sends has Orders to speak to the person himself The Kings Daughter hath her Court and Council The Princess the Kings only Daughter hath her Court and Council consisting of the Wives of the chief Mandarins She is witty and active and in the Government of the Provinces which the King hath given her shows a great deal of wisdom and moderation She is only served by Women and no Man ever saw her neither publicly nor privately When she goes abroad upon an Elephant she is shut up in a kind of Chair that hinders her from being seen The Kingdom of Siam descends not from Father to Son. In the Kingdom of Siam the Kings Brothers are preferred before his Children in the Succession to the Crown but it returns to these after the death of their Uncles The present King has two Brothers who live with him in the Palace he hath also according to the custom of the Orientals an adoptive Son who accompanies him in all places and who has peculiar honours rendered unto him The Religion of the Siamese is very odd and cannot be perfectly understood but by the Books that are written in the Balis Language which is the Learned Language and hardly understood by any except some of their Doctors Nor do these Books neither always agree amongst themselves This following account of their Religion is the most exact that possibly I could attain to The Siamese believe a God but they have not the same notion of him that we have What the Siamese believe of their God. By that word they understand a being perfect after their manner consisting of Spirit and Body whose property it is to assist-men That assistance consists in giving them a Law prescribing them the ways of living well teaching them the true Religion and the Sciences that are necessary unto them The perfections which they attribute unto him are all the moral virtues possessed by him in an eminent degree acquired by many acts and confirmed by a continual exercise in all the Bodies he hath past through He is free from passions and feels no motion that can alter his tranquillity but they affirm that before he arrived at that State he made so prodigious a change in his Body by struggling to overcome his Passions that his blood is become white He hath the Power to appear when he pleases and also to render himself invisible to the eyes of men and he hath such wonderful agility that in a moment he can be in any place of the world he pleases The knowledg of the God of the Siamese He knoweth all without having ever learnt any thing from men whose Doctor and Master he himself is and that universal knowledg is inherent in his state having possessed it from the instant that he was born God it consists not as our doe● in a train of consequences but in a clear simple and intuitive vision which all at once represents to him the Precepts of the Law Vices Virtues and the most hidden secrets of Nature things past present and come Heaven Earth Paradice Hell this Universe which we see and even what is done in the other Worlds which we know not He distinctly remembers all that hath ever befallen him from the first transmigration of his Soul even to the last His body is infinitely more radiant than the Sun it lights that which is most hidden and by the help of the light that it diffuses a man here below upon Earth might that I may make use of their expression see a grain of Mustard seed placed in the Highest Heavens Wherein consists his happiness The happiness of that God is not compleat but when he dies never to be born again for then he appears no● more upon the Earth nor is he any more subject to Misery They compare that death to a torch extinct or to a sleep that renders us insensible of the Evils of Life with this difference that when God dies he is exempted from them for ever whereas a man asleep is but free from them for a certain time This reign of every Deity lasts not eternally it is confined to a certain number of years that 's to say until the number of the elect who are to be sanctified by his Merits be accomplished after which he appears

of Your Government the Magnificence of Your Court the Greatness of Your Dominions and what particularly You were willing that He should know by Your Ambassadors the Esteem You have for Him confirmed by that constant Protection which You give His Subjects especially the Bishops who are by me and who are the Ministers of the true God. He is very sensible of the many Illustrious Effects of the Esteem You have for Him and He resolves Sir to correspond with it to the utmost of His Power In that Design He is ready to treat with Your Majesty to send You of His Subjects to entertain ●nd encrease Commerce to give You all the Testimonies of a sincere Friendship and to begin betwixt the two Crowns an Vnion that may remain as strict to Posterity as Your Territories are separated from His by those vast Seas that disjoyn them But nothing will more confirm Him in that Resolution nor unite You more closely together than to live in the Sentiments of the same Belief And it is that particularly Sir which the King my Master a Prince so Wise and Sharp sighted tbat He hath always given good Counsel to the Kings that are His Allies hath commanded me to represent to You on His Part. He adjures You by the Interest which as being one of Your most sincere Friends he takes in Your real Glory to consider that Sovereign Majesty wherewith You are invested upon Earth cannot be derived from any but the true God that 's to say from an Omnipotent Eternal and Infinite God such as Christians acknowledge him to be who alone makes Kings to Reign and Rules the Fortune of all People To submit Your Grandure to this God who governs Heaven and Earth is much more Rational Sir than to refer them to the other Deities that are worshiped in the East whose Impotence Your Majesty who hath so much Light and Penetration cannot but easily see But it will be made far more palpable to You Sir if You 'l be pleased for some time to give a Hearing to the Bishops and other Missionaries that are here It will be the welcomest News that I can carry to my Master Sir that Your Majesty being convinced of the Truth takes pains to be instructed in the Christian Religion This will raise in Him a greater Esteem and Admiration for Your Majesty and make His Subjects more eager to come into Your Dominions and in a Word Sir will compleat Yoor Glory seeing by that Means Your Majesty having so prosperously Reigned upon Earth makes sure of an Eternal Reign in the Heavens The Bishop told the Lord Constance in Portuguese the Sense of his Excellencies Complement and that Minister explained it to the King in Siamese keeping in the mean while in a very respectful Posture as the other Princes and Lords did who still continued prostrate in the Hall at his Side but a little lower It would be no easie matter to describe the Joy and Gladness which King of Siam expressed on that occasion and during the whole Day It was a Surprise to the Ambassador In what manner the Ambassador presented the Kings Letter to the King of Siam when he entered the Hall to see the King so high above him and he seemed somewhat troubled that he had not been told of it When his Complement was made the next thing he was to do in course was to advance and present the King his Masters Letter to the King of Siam It was agreed upon with the Lord Constance that to shew greater Respect to the Kings Letter the Ambassador should take it from the Abbot de Choisi who for that end should stand by his Side during his Speech and hold the Letter in a golden Cup with a very long Foot. But the Ambassador perceiving the King so high above him that to reach up to him he must have taken the Cup by the lower part of the Foot and raised his Arm very high thought that that Distance suited not with his Dignity and that he ought to present the Letter nearer hand Having a little considered he thought it was his best Course to hold the Cup by the Boul and to stretch his Arm but half out The King perceiving the reason why he acted so rose up smiling and stooping with his Body over the Throne met him half way to receive the Letter He then put it upon his Head which was a Mark of extraordinary Honour and Esteem that he was willing to shew to the great King that sent it After that he made answer to the Ambassador that he was extreamly obliged to his most Christian Majesty for the Honour he did him and that he had no greater desire than to entertain an eternal Peace and Amity with his Majesty He then asked him about that Princes Health whom he always called his good Friend and about the Health of all the Royal Family and expressed his Gladness that his Excellence and all his Retinue were arrived in good Health The Ambassador presents the Abbot of Choisi and the Gentlemen of his Retinue to the King of Siam The Ambassador having thanked his Majesty for all his Favours presented to him the Abbot of Choisi as a Person of Merit and the Gentlemen of his Retinue saying that they were all Officers in the Kings Fleet that most of them had been on several Occasions engaged against the Enemy's of the State and therein signalized their Valour The King listned to him with a great deal of satisfaction and then turned the Discourse upon the Ambassadors whom he had sent into France of whom he had no News He enlarged a pretty while upon the Praises of the King seeming overjoyed to hear what the Ambassador told him of his Greatness Wisdom Conquests and of the Peace which he had given to Europe In fine he bid tell the Ambassador that if he stood in need of any thing in his Kingdom for himself and Followers he should address himself to his Barcalon whom he had expresly charged to satisfie him in all things So the first Audience ended with much satisfaction on both sides The Ambassador sees the white Elephant in his Apartment When the Ambassador came out of the Hall the Lord Constance carried him to see the white Elephant which is so highly esteemed in the Indies and which hath been the cause of so many Wars He is but little and so old that he is wrinkly all over Several Mandarins are appointed to take care of him and he is only served in Gold at least the two Basons that were set before him were of beaten Gold of an extraordinary Size and Thickness His Apartment is stately and the Ceiling of the Pavilion where he stands very neatly gilt It being now late the Ambassador came out of the Royal Palace and in the same Pomp and Order that he came to his Audience went to the House that was prepared for him Sometime after the Bishop was sent for by Orders from the King to translate the

no more in the World but slides into on Eternal repose which was thought to have been a real annihilation because they were not rightly understood Then another God succeeds to him and governs the Universe in his place which is nothing else but to teach men the true Religion Men may become Gods Men may become Gods. but not till after a very considerable time for they must needs have required a consummated Virtue Nor is it enough to have done a great many good Works in their Bodies where their Souls have lodged they must also at every good Action they do have an intention of meriting Divinity they m●●t have intimated that intention by invoking and taking to witness the Angels who preside in the four Parts of the World at the beginning of their good work and they must have poured out water imploring the Succours of the She-tutelary Angel of the Earth called Naang pprathoram for they believe as we shall shew hereafter that there is a diversity of Sex amongst Angels as well as amongst Men. They who desire to be Gods carefully observe that Practice Besides that state of Divinity to which the most perfect aspire there is another not so high The Siames● acknowledge a permanent state of Sanctity which they call the state of Sanctity It it enough for being a Saint that having past through several Bodies one has acquired many Virtues aad that in the Acts which men do they have proposed the acquisition of Sanctity The Properties of Sanctity are the same with those of Divinity The Saints possess them as well as God does but in a far more imperfect degree besides that God has them of himself without receiving them from another whereas the Saints derive them from him by the Instructions he gives them It is he who teaches them all those Secrets whereof he hath a perfect Knowledg And therefore it is that if they be not born whilst he is in the world since they cannot receive his Documents they are not sanctified So that it is their custom in doing good Works to desire the Grace to be born again at the same time their God is What we have said of the Deity that it is not consummated till God dying upon Earth ascends up into Heaven that he may no more appear here below ought in like manner to be understood of Sanctity for it is not perfect till the Saints die not to be born again and till their Souls be carried into Paradice there to enjoy eternal Felicity The Siamese believe a Heaven and a Hell. These and the like are the Sentiments of these People touching the Deity And seeing they have sense enough to know that Vice is to be punished and Virtue rewarded they believe a Paradice where the Just enjoy the pleasure which their good works have merited and a Hell where the wicked receive the chastisement due unto their crimes They place Paradice in the highest Heaven and Hell in the Center of the Earth The Pleasures of Paradice and the Pains of Hell are not eternal they shall be there but for a certain time which is longer or shorter according as they have done more or less good works or committed more or fewer sins What the Siamese believe of Hell. They say that in Hell there are Angels who administer Justice and take care to mark exactly all the bad Actions of Men examine them after their Death and with extream severity punish them for the same They have a ridiculous imagination as to the Judgment that then passes they are perswaded that the first of these Judges whom they call Prayomppaban hath a Book wherein the Life of every particular man is registred that he continually reads it over and that when he comes to the Page which contains the History of that man he never fails to sneeze Therefore it is say they that we sneeze upon Earth and thence proceeds the Custom they have of wishing a happy and long Life to all that sneeze Hell is divided into eight Habitations which are as it were eight degrees of Pain nay they believe also that there is a Fire which burns the damned They fancy to themselves also in Heaven eight degrees of Beatitude What they believe of Heaven They 'l have the same things to happen there as upon Earth and affirm that there are Kings Princes and People there that there they wage War fight Battels and obtain Victories that Marriage it self is not banished from thence that in the first second and third Habitations the Saints may have Children that in the fourth in fine there is no more Concupiscence nor Marriage and so Purity daily encreases till one come to the last Heaven which is properly Paradice called in their Language Niruppan where the Souls of the Saints and Gods live in perfect Purity and sovereign Felicity They maintain that all the Good or Evil that happens to men is the effect of their good or bad Works and that one is never unfortunate and innocent at the same time Thus Wealth Honours Sanctity and Divinity are the Rewards of a virtuous Life and on the contrary Infamy Poverty Diseases Death and Hell are the punishments of Sins which men have committed And whether one be born again under human shape or under the figure of any Animal they attribute the Advantages wherewith one comes into the world as Goodness Gracefulness Wit or Nobility to the Merit of good Works and natural Deserts as Ugliness Mutilation of Members and the like to the Debauches of this or the other Lives which went before it All these things say they are so many certain Marks which discover to us what Lives men have led before they were born in this state and this is the Source of that prodigious diversity which appears in their Conditions their Lives and their Death Being prepossessed with these Errors they slight what you tell them of Original Sin and the Effects thereof and they call the Disobedience and Punishment of our first Father a meer Fiction Upon a Religious account the Siame e respect those who are any ways Eminent by the advantages of body mind or Fortune The Souls of men that are born again in the World come from three different Places from Heaven from Hell or out of the Bodies of Animals They whose Souls come from Heaven are distinguished by some advantageous Signs they have for their share Virtue Beauty Health Wealth and they are born great Men and handsom Princes Upon this Principle these People shew great respect for men of Dignity or of an illustrious Extraction because they look upon them as those who are shortly to be deified or sanctified s●eing they have done good Works enough to merit that high Rank of Honour to which they are raised They whose Souls come out of the Bodies of other Animals are less perfect than the former but far more however than those that come from Hell. They look upon these last as Rogues whose Crimes