second Pyramid which is the Colour'd is an ancient Nubian having a Basket on his head and in his hands a Censer like those used in Churches wherewith he incenses about it at all the Obelisks As to the Birba of Achemima its Spirit is a Young Man Beardless and Naked sufficiently known among the Inhabitants of the place The Spirit of the Birba of Semir is a black swarthy Old Man of high Stature and having a short Beard The Spirit of the Birba of of Phacat appears in the form of a black young Woman having in her arm a little black Infant deformed shewing his Dogs teeth and having his eyes all white The Spirit of the Birba of Ridousa appears in the form of a Man having the head of a Lion with two long Horns The Spirit of the Birba of Busira appears in the form of an old white Monk carrying a Book The Spirit of the Birba of Gaphi appears in the form of a Shepherd clad in a black Robe with a Staff in his hand As to the Pyramids of Dehasoura their Spirits are seen in the form of two black old Men. The Spirit of the Birba of Samnos appears in the form of a Monk who comes out of the Sea and views himself in it as in a Looking-glass All these Spirits are manifestly seen by such as come near them and the places of their retirement and frequent there abouts along time There are for all of them certain particular Offerings by means whereof it is possible the Treasures of the Birbas and the Pyramids may appear and that there may be a friendship and familiarity between Men and Spirits according to what the Sages have establish'd Saurid the Son of Sahaloc says the Author continued King of Egypt a hundred and seven years His Astrologers told him the time he should die whereupon he made his last Will to his Son Hargib told him whatever was necessary for him and ordered him to have him carried into the Pyramid and to have him disposed into the Tomb which he himself had caused to be made that he should cover the bottom of it with Camphire and Santal-wood and that he should enbalm his body with the drugs which prevent corruption and that he should leave by him the richest of his Armour and the most precious of his Housholdstuff His Son performed all this after his death and then Hargib Reigned after his Father in the Land of Egppt and follow'd his footsteps being careful as he had been to administer Justice to the People to have the Countrey cultivated and inhabited and to procure the wellfare of his Subjects which obliged them to have a great affection for him He afterwards caused to be built the first of the Pyramids of Dehasoura and to be brought thither abundance of Wealth and precious Stones of great value Hargib was particularly addicted to Chemistry to get Metals out of the Mines and to gather money he afterwards enterred every year a great quantity thereof and minded not the putting of Statue and speaking Idols into his Pyramid He a long time continued that exercise during which he had a Daughter who being grown up suffer'd herself to be debauched by one of hi◠people which obliged him to sent her away into the West where he had a City built for her in the Countrey of Barca This City being built they gave it the name of that Princess which was as they say Domeria For he caused a Pilory t◠be built in the midst of the City and her name to be grav'd on it then he sent to live there with her all the old Women of his House He continued King ninety nine years then dyed and was interred in the Pyramids His Son Menaos Reigned after him in Egypt and was a proud and hauty Prince who spilt much blood ill treated his Subjects Ravished many Women and squandered away a great part of the Treasures of his Ancestors For he built Palaces of Gold and Silver into which he brought Chanels of the Nile the bottom whereof he caused to be covered with Jacinths and other precious stones instead of Sand. He tormented Men and took away their goods and Cattel by force This got him the hatred of the People and at last the Beast he rid on threw him and broke his neck Gods curse go with him So God delivered the Egyptians of him As to the History of the Deluge and the adventures of Noah to whom God grant peace and mercy take in few words what is said thereof They relate that Adam Gods peace be with him after God had descended from Paradice and been merciful to him after his Sin was by God himself appointed King of the Earth and Mankind descended of his Race He was the first that Prayed to God Fasted and knew how to Read and Write He was Beardless and Hairless comely and well made There was afterwards sent him one and twenty pages of Writings then he dyed aged nine hundred and fifty years His li 〈…〉 should have been a thousand years but he bestowed fifty of them on hi◠Son David His Successor and L 〈…〉 gatee was his Son Seth to whom a 〈…〉 to whose Children continued the Prophecy with the true Religion and the Superintendency of Divine Laws God afterwards sent Seth twenty nine sheets He liv'd on the Mountain and Cabel built in the bottom of the Valley Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years and had for Successor his Son Enos who lived nine hundred and fifty years and appointed for hi◠Successor after his death his Son Cainan in whose favour he made his last Will and afterwards distributed the Earth among the Sons of his Sons Cainan died aged nine hundred and twenty years and made his last Testament in favour of his Son Mahalel In his time the square Temple was built He died aged nine hundred seventy five years and appointed for Successor his Son Jared whom he taught all the Sciences and told all that was to happen in the World He considered the Stars and read the Book of the secrets of the Kingdom which was sent from Heaven to Adam then he had to his son Enoch who is Edrisus Gods peace be with him There was then King in the World Mechavel the son of Cabel The Devil Gods curse with him went to him seduced him by his deceits and made him fall into errour then he told him that there was born to Jared the son of Mahalel a son who should be an enemy to theie Gods and come to great reputation Whereto Jared answered Canst not thou destroy him I 'le endeavour to do it said the Devil Whereupon God gave Edrisus Gods peace be with him Angels to guard him from the Devil and from his Progeny and Artifices When he was grown up to adolescency his Father made him Guardian of the Temple and taught him the sheets of Seth and Adam Gods peace be with them He was
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of God Gracious and Merciful God bless Mahumet and his Family From Gabdol Omar the son of Chettabus Commander of the Faithful to the Nile of Egypt After that If thou hast flow'd hitherto onely by thy own virtue flow no more but if it hath been the Only and Almighty God that hath caused thee to flow we pray the Only Great and All-mighty God to make thee flow again Gods peace and mercy be with Mahumet the Idiot-Prophet and his Family Gamrou took the Note and came to the Nile one day before they celebrated the Feast of the Cross the Egyptians and others being ready to leave the Countrey for they could not carry on their affairs nor subsist therein but by the annual overflowing of the Nile but the next morning they found that God had caused the Waters to rise sixteen Cubits in one night So God delivered the Mussulmans out of that affliction praise and thanksgiving be to him for it Gabdol the son of Gamrou the son of Gasus Gods peace be with them both speaks thus of the Nile The Nile of Egypt is the Lord of Rivers God obliges all the Rivers from the the East to the West to wait on it at the time of its overflowing he turns them all into its Chanel and increases its course with their waters When God would have the Nile of Egypt to overflow for the convenience of the Inhabitants the other Rivers lend it their waters and God causes new Springs to rise out of the Earth When its course is risen to the height that God would he orders the waters to return to their Sources God All-mighty speaks thus of it And we have made them to issue out of the Gardens and the Fountains and out of the manured lands and out of the precious places The Gardens saith he were the two sides of the Nile from its beginning to its end upon both the Banks between Syene and Rasid Egypt had then sixteen Cubits of water accounting from the lowest part of the flat Countrey They empty'd and filled the Chanels and Rivulets of it every year What was yet more noble were the Places appointed for Orations which were a thousand in number upon which they called upon God for Pharao and they pray'd him to grant him a long life and to make him liberal and of easie access Aburaham the Semaguian in his Comment upon these words of Pharao Is not the Kingdom of Egypt mine and the rest of the Verse peaks thus There was then no greater King upon Earth then the King of Egypt for all the other Kings stood in need of Egypt All the Currents were made with the hands of Men and the Aqueducts and the Fountains and the Bridges all according to Measure and Geometrical proportion They drew them out of the Nile and brought them into all their Houses and into all their Castles and made them flow under the places of their Habitations detaining them when they pleased and dismissing them in like manner Mechacol the Son of Tabicus speaks of it in these terms I have read a hundred Books upon the Law of Moses and have found in one of them that there are seven Climats in the world which pray to God every year weeping and crying and say O Lord send plenty into Egypt and make its Nile flow For when Egypt is water'd we have Meat and Drink enough Withall there is on our surface of Wild Beasts and Reptiles and Tame and Rational Creatures Gabdol the son of Gamrou said By the true God I know not any year wherein the Inhabitants of Egypt went out of their Countrey to seek a subsistence elsewhere We shall never go out of it says one of them if some enemy do not force us thereto Not so reply'd he but your Nile shall be swallowed under ground so that there shall not be a drop of it left It shall be full of Sand-banks and the wild Beasts of the Earth shall devour its Fishes Jezidus the son of Chebibus speaks thus of it The Nile of Egypt in the time of Pharao and the Precedent Kings had People appointed to make its Chanels to repair its Bridges and Banks and to clear its Rivulets and Trenches of Oziers Ordures Paper-plants and what ever might obstruct the course of the Water when there was occasion to the number of six score thousand Work-men always ready to work Winter and Summer receiving their pay Monethly out of the publick Treasury as the Soldiery as well by Sea as Land receiv'd theirs out of the Kings Money The son of Lahigus saith that he heard it of one of Alexandria that the Nile one day discover'd a Rock on which there was somewhat written in the Roman Language which was read and signify'd as followeth I do what is good and he seems to forget it but when I do what is evil he remembers it well He who is such will not be long ere he meet with a long repose An Abbridgement of what is said of Pharao and how God destroy'd him by the Decree of his Divine Will Gali the son of Abutalchus speaks thus of him Pharao King of Egpyt was a Dwarf or little Man but seven spans in height Others say he was three Cubits high and that his Beard was two Cubits long so that when he sate he drew one Cubit of it on the ground before him He twisted up his Mustachoes and put them above his two ears When the water of the Nile was turned into Blood in the time of Moses Pharao drunk the juice of Orange-leaves with fine Sugar put into it Some affirm he was of low Stature mark'd with white spots and that he trod on his Beard it was so long Abubeker the Truth-teller Gods peace be with him said that Pharao had lost all his Teeth Others affirm he was of the Race of the Amalekites Others say he had a large fleshy face Others say they call'd him Abumarus that is Married Others say he was a Weaver of Ciprus an Inhabitant of Ispahan and that Haman was his Associate that both of them became poor and lost all they had so that necessity having forc'd them to quit the Countrey and run away they came together into Egypt and prevail'd so much by their sleights and artifices that they became Masters of it and that there happened to them what God revealed to Mahumet Gods peace and merey be with him as it is related by the son of Gubasus Others say that Pharao was a Coptite of a City named Damra the most Western of any in Egypt and that his name was Dolmes Mahumet the son of Gali the son of Gabdol the Teminian says thus A Barbarian Egyptian of the Inhabitants of Copta skill'd in the History of Egypt and what concerns the nature and properties of the Countrey told me that he found it written in one of their ancient Books that the Nile of Egypt hath its rising out of a Lake in the most remote Countries of the West on both
course and obliges it to do its duty who commands it to encrease and it obeys and who causes it to fall after it hath acquitted it self of what people needed from it What is there more admirable then these prodigies For my part I am a poor man who have lost my fight and whose curiosity can reach only those miracles and rarities which may be learnt by the ear But who comes it that those who see well who have leasure and live near these miracles have not the curiosity to divert themselves in the contemplation thereof He thereupon took me by the hand and recited these verses to me Pray unto him who hath liv'd upon the Mount to dictate unto thee the History of himself and cause him not to weep unless it be with my tears I cannot see remote countries with my eyes but it may be I shall see them by the means of my ears Whereupon he fell a weeping so that he made me weep also and said to me O Brother know that the sighs of the poor blind man will never end in this world and that they will not cease till he hath casted death and that God hath promis'd him that if he patiently endure the affliction of his blindness and loss of his sight and shall have taken it as coming from God and chearfully accepted it he will justifie him and bring him into Paradise For the blind man is dead among the living The Law of God commands a man to salute him it is an act of faith to eat with him it is an Oblation to God to sit down with him 't is a merit of reward to discourse with him 't is a thing of obligation to give him an almes he who takes him by the hand in his necessity obtains the remission of his sins Then he said further to me Know that what oblig'd me to take the pains to come to this place was somewhat told me by a certain Scholar while we were together in the Colledge 'T was of his father that he spoke to me and he was of that Country of Gize My father said he told me that while he was a young man he went and came many times night and day by these Pyramids his affairs obliging him thereto and that he and some other young men about his age went up on the top of them and sometimes into them without any other design then to divert themselves One day among others said this father to his son according to what he added about noon being mounted on a beast which I had as I kept along my direct way passing near these Pyramids I saw a company of Cavaliers mounted some on Horses and others on Camels and some people a foot marching along with them as it were in a Procession about the Pyramids Whereupon thought I to to my self Who are those that make a Procession about the Pyramids now at noon Is it not for some accident newly happen'd in the City I thereupon made towards them so that I came pretty near them and look'd upon them very earnestly But I found as I view'd them at a nearer distance that they had neither the stature nor meen of ordinary men and I made the same judgement of their Horses and their Camels Which oblig'd me to recommend my self to God after which I saluted them and they return'd my salutation and spoke thus to me Be of good courage thou shalt have no harm We are a company of Mussulmans of the number of the Doemons who believe in God and in his Prophet When the Doemons return a mans salutation he may believe himself safe enough as to them When therefore thou shalt meet with creatures which thou thinkest not to be men salute them for if they salute thee again they will be faithful if they do not return thy salutation they will not be faithful it will therefore concern thee to recommend thy self to God that he may preserve thee from them for by that means it will not be in their power to hurt thee After that I saw among them a Demon whom they honoured much and whom they acknowledg'd as it were for their Protector and Superiour to whom one of them spoke thus See you the beauty and the excellency and the workmanship of that Structure and of that Architecture the solidity of those buildings and the goodness of their situation This reply'd he is an effect of their wisdom who inhabited the land before us who were mightier then we and fignaliz'd themselves by more noble marks then we can do upon the earth I had heard what the ancients said of these Pyramids and was desirous to see and consider them my self before my death should we now at the time we live in attempt the making of such works as these we should not compass them even though men joyn'd with us to carry on the work Nay though we should content our selves with the building of but one Pyramid we should not be able to do it what pain therefore would it be to make as many as there are here After that they departed as it were in order to their return and one of them bid me Adieu and spoke thus to me O man endeavour to forbear walking abroad at noon rather sleep at mid-day for the Devils do not sleep at that time Now this is it that obliged me to come to these Pyramids which are such Miracles of Workmanship that the Doemons themselves cannot make the like Why shall I not feel them at least with my hand Besides here is a Youth who represents things so well to me that I comprehend them as if I saw them my self I thank God who guides my Imagination so well We find in the Book of the Lives of great and illustrious persons who have flourished in several times that Masre God preserve it was anciently called Babelain and that that name had been given it in regard that Babel being heretofore the seat of the Empire of Gueraca and Syria when the Kingdom of Masre came to be great and famous in the world the Coptites called it Babelain pretending by that name to raise the lustre of its State and to exalt the glory and dignity of its Empire as if they would say the ancient Babel was but one Babel and that Masre was Babelain that is to say two Babels Whence it came that after the Romans got to be Masters of Syria they said the Land of Egypt is Babylon and made great account of that Province by reason of the conveniences they had thence by Sea and by Land so that that name continued to it Then upon its being taken by the Mussulmans under the Reign of Omar Gods peace be with him by the conduct of Gamrou the son of Gasus Gods mercy on him an Arabian Poet made Verses wherein he acknowledged the favour God had done them in that conquest and the abundance and variety of good things and wealth which they had acquired by that victory
affirm on their behalf that in their Divinations they were inclin'd to Astrology that they invented the occult Sciences and knew hidden Secrets that they made famous Talismans and noble Laws that they were the Authors of speaking Works and moving Figures that they raised high Structures and grav'd their Sciences on the hardest stones which were then soft like Earth water'd or Paste that they particularly excell'd in the Structure of Pyramids exactly built on which they made exquisite Talismans by means whereof they kept their Enemies from entering into their Cities and Provinces by that means giving a clear demonstration of the Prodigies of their Science and discovering the effects of their Wisdom Egypt was then they say divided into fourscore and five Provinces whereof there were forty five in the lower part and forty in the upper And in every Province there was a Governour taken from among the Princes of the Priests who are they of whom God speaks in the History of Pharaoh when he says Send Heralds through the cities to bring unto thee all the learned Magicians he means those Governours They say that the Cities of the Princes of the Magicians were built by Busiris The Priest who served the Stars was seven years in that Imployment and when he was come to that degree they called him Cater as much as to say Master of the Influences and then he sate in the same Seat with the King and the King led his Beasts to the Watering-place and brought them back that is did all his business according to his counsel When he saw him coming he rose up to receive him went to meet him and made him sit down Then the Priests approched and with them the Masters of the Arts who stood beneath the Cater Every Priest served one particular Star and was not permitted to serve any other and he was called the Servant of such a Star as the Arabians served every one his own God and were called Gabdosamse Gabdiagoth Gabdolgasi that is Servant of Samse or the Sun Servant of Jagoth Servant of Gasi The Cater said to the Priest Where is now the Star which thou servest The Priest replied It is in such a Sign such a Degree such a Minute Then he put the same question to another and when all had answered and that he knew the Position of all the Stars he addressed himself to the King and said thus to him It is requisite that you do such a thing to day that you send an Army to such a place that you clothe your self after such a manner that you speak at such a time and so of all he thought fit to be done in all the Kings Affairs and in all the Government of the Kingdom The King writ down all the Cater said and whatever he disapprov'd Then he turn'd to the Artists and said thus to them Grave thou such a Figure on such a Stone and Plant thou such a Tree and to another Make thou a Geometrical Draught of such a Work and so to all from the first to the last Immediately they all went every one to his Shop and beset themselves to do the works enjoyned them exactly following the design propos'd to them by the Cater They set down that day in a Register the Works performed therein and the Register was folded up and kept in the Kings Treasury Their Affairs were dispatch'd according to this order then the King when he had any Affair assembled the Priests without the City Memphis and the People met together in the Streets of the said City Then they made their entrance one after another in order the Drum beating before them to bring the people together and every one made some miraculous discovery of his Magick and Wisdom One had to their thinking who look'd on him his Face surrounded with a light like that of the Sun so that none could look earnestly upon him Another seem'd clad with a Robe beset with Precious stones of divers colours green red or yellow or wrought with gold Another came mounted on a Lion compass'd with Serpents like Girdles Another came in cover'd with a Canopy or Pavilion of light Another appear'd surrounded with Fire turning about him so as that no body durst come near him Another was seen with dreadful Birds perching about his Head and shaking their wings like black Eagles and Vultures Another made appear before him in the air dreadful and terrible persons and winged Serpents In fine every one did what was taught him by the Star he served yet all was but Apparition and Illusion without any reality insomuch that when they came up to the King they spake thus to him You imagin'd that it was so or so but the truth is that it was such or such a thing There was heretofore in ancient Masre which is Emsos a King-Priest named Gancam of the race of Gariac the Son of Aram of whom the ancient Egyptians tell several stories part whereof are beyond all likelihood He liv'd before the Deluge which he by his Science foresaw whereupon he commanded the Doemons who accompanied him to build him a Palace beyond the Equinoctial Line which the ruines of this Universe could not reach They built the Castle seated on the descent of the mountain of the Moon which is the Castle of Brass where are the Brazen Statues in number LXXXV out of the Throats whereof issues the Water of the Nile which falls into a Fen full of Gravel whence the water of the Nile flows into Egypt and other Climats distributed and proportionably compass'd for were it not for that it would spread over the greatest part of the Earth The Spirits having built him that Castle he had the curiosity to see it and make his abode therein To that end he sate in a Pavilion made purposely with much artifice and the Spirits carried him on their shoulders to the Castle where having consider'd the excellency of the Structure and beauty of its Walls with the Sculptures and the Paintings that were about it and the Figures of the Celestial Bodies and divers other wonderful things for in the greatest obscurity of the night people saw clearly without Torches There were Tables set and spread with all sorts of Meat yet none perceiv'd to set them there so all sorts of Drinks in vessels of Marble Gold 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