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A70613	The Count of Gabalis, or, The extravagant mysteries of the Cabalists exposed in five pleasant discourses on the secret sciences / done into English by P.A. Gent., with short animadversions.; Comte de Gabalis. English	Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673.; Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.	1680 (1680)	Wing M2494; ESTC R14099	55,502	206

have a greater Secret to teach you Know my Son that many a one thinks himself the Son of a Man who is the Son of a Sylphe Another thinks that he is in Bed with his Wife and without ever knowing it he Immortalized a Sylphe This Woman supposes that she is Embracing her Husband and she is Hugging betwixt her Arms a Salamander And that Girle durst swear when she awakes that she is a Virgin that has had in her Sleep an Honour that she little dreamt on So the Devil and the Ignorants are equally abused Well said I But could not the Devil awaken that sleeping Maid to hinder this Salamander from becoming Immortal He could do it replyed the Count if the Sages did not take an order for that But we teach all these People the way to bind the Devils and to make Opposition to their subtil Endeavours Did I not tell you the other day That the Sylphes and the other Lords of the Elements were very Happy when we shewed them the Cabal Were it not for us the Devil their great Enemy would sorely disquiet them and they would be hard put to it to Immortalize themselves without the Maids knowing it I cannot replyed I sufficiently admire the profound Ignorance we live in We always believed that the Powers of the Air do often assist Lovers in attaining what they desired And it seems the thing is clearly otherwise For the Powers of the Air have need of the Assistance of Men to serve them in their Amours 'T is just as you say my Son pursued the Count The Sages give Succour to these poor People without them Alas too unhappy and too feeble to resist the Devil For when a Sylphe has learnt of us to pronounce Cabalistickly the powerful Name of NEHMAHMIHAH and to joyne in form with the most delicious Name ELIAEL all the Powers of Darkness take their Flight and the Sylphe enjoyes peacably that which he Loves So was that ingenious Sylphe immortalized who took upon him the shape of the Lover of a Lady of Sevil The History is well enough known The Young Spanish Lady was faire but as Cruel as Fair. A Castillian Gentleman who loved her to no purpose took a Resolution one morning to leave her without speaking to her and to Travel till such time as he should be cured of his unprofitable passion A Sylphe finding this Faire one to his likeing thought it his best course to lay hold on this opportunity and Arming himself with all that which one of our Sages had taught him to defend himself with against the Stratagems which the Devil envious of his good fortune might contrive for the disappointing him He goes to see the Gentlewoman taking the shape of her absent Lover He complaines sighs and is repulsed He presses he Sollicites he perseveres After many Months he works upon her makes himself beloved he perswades and in short is happy There was born from their Loves a Son whose Birth was kept secret and the Addresse of this Aeryal Lover managed privately from the knowledge of her Parents The Love continues and she is blessed with a second Great Belly In the mean time the Gentleman cured by Absence comes back to Sevil and impatient to see his inhumane Mistresse again makes all the hast he could to tell her That at last he is in a condition of Displeasing her no more and that he is come to declare to her that he had done Loving her Imagine if you please the Astonishment of this young Woman Her Tears her Reproaches and their Surprizing Dialogue She affirmes that she has made him happy Which he denys And would have reminded him that their Child was in such a place that he is the Father of it and that she is bigg of another which he is also Father of He is obstinate to disown all She Throws her self against the ground and Teares her Haires The Parents come running in at her Crys the desperate Lover continues her Complaints and Invectives The Gentleman produces Testimony that he had been absent the space of two years The first Child is sought for and found and the second was born in the right Term. And what part plaid the Airy-Lover interrupted I all this while I see well enough answered the Count that you are displeased that he should forsake his Mistresse leaving her to the Rigour of her Parents and to the Fury of the Inquisitors But he had reason to complain of her She was not devout enough for when these Gentlemen immortalize themselves they work seriously and live very holily That they loose not the Right which they came to acquire of Soveraign good So they would have the person to whom they are allied live with exemplary innocence as may be seen in that Famous Adventure of A Young Lord of Bavaria He was not to be comforted for the Death of his Wife whom he loved passionatly A Sylphide was advised by one of our Sages to take upon her the shape of this Woman She was perswaded to it and presents her self to the afflicted young Man saying That God had raised her from the dead again to comfort him in his extream Affliction They live together many years and had many Lovely Children together But the young Man was not so honest as he should be to retain his discreet Sylphide He swore and spoke lewd uncivil Words She reproved him sometimes But seeing that her Cautions were unprofitable she vanished one day from him and left him nothing but her Gloaths and the Repentance of his not having followed her Holy Councels Thus you see my Son that the Sylphes have sometimes reason to vanish away And you see that the Devil cannot hinder any more than your Capricious Doctors the People of the Elements that they should not labour with success to their immortality when they are assisted by some of our Sages But in good earnest Sir said I Are you perswaded that the Devil is so great an Enemy to these Suborners of Pretty Matdens A mortal Enemy said the Count especially to Sylphes Nymphs and Salamanders But as for the Gnomes or Pharyes he does not hate them so much because they as I believe you have heard say affrighted by the Terrible distraction which the Devil 's make in the Center of the Earth choose rather to live Mortals than run the Risque of being so Tormented if they should acquire Immortality Hence it comes to pass that the Gnomes and the Devil 's their Neighbours have a very great Commerce They perswade these Gnomes who are naturally great Friends of Man that it is to do him great service and to deliver him from great perril in obliging him to renounce this Immortality By this they ingage them to furnish him whom they can perswade to this Renunciation with all the mony which he shall demand To prevent the dangers which might threaten his life during a certain time or some such other Condition as shall best please the Man or Woman with whom they

People repleat with strength and wisdome God would have us conjecture the difference which there was between that Innocent and this Culpable World which we see By permitting us from time to time to see Children Born after that manner which he had projected Then has there Sir interrupted I been now and then seen of these Children of the Elements If so a Licenciate of Sorbonne who quoted to me the other day St. Augustin St. Jerom and Gregory of Nazianzen is mistaken believing that there could not be any fruit produced of these amours with Spirits for our Wives or by the commerce that men might have with certain Devils which he called Hyphialtes Lactantius has discoursed it better replyed the Count and the solid Thomas Aquinas has wisely resolved it that the commerces would not only be Fruitful but that the Children which are Born from them are of a more generous and more heroick nature You shall read at large when you please the great Atchievements of the puissant and famous men which Moses writes of born after this manner we have the Histories by us In the Book of the Wars of the Lord mentioned in the three and twentyeth Chapter of Numbers In the mean time Judge what the World would be if all its Inhabitants were for example like Zoroaster Zoroaster said I who by report was the Author of Necromancy The very same said the Count of whom the Ignorants write this Calumny He had the Honour to be son of the Salamander Oromasis and Vesta the Wife of Noah He lived twelve Hundred Years the most Sage Monarch of the World and then was carried up by his Father Oromasis into the Region of the Salamanders I do not doubt said I to him but that Zoroaster is with the Salamander Oromasis in the Region of Fire But I would not do to Noah that injury which you do him The injury is not so great as you may believe answered the Count all these Patriarches esteemed it a great honour to be the supposed Fathers which the Children of God had by their Wives But still this is out of your Element Let us come to Oromasis he was beloved by Vesta the Wife of Noah This Vesta being Dead was the Tutelar Genius of Rome and the sacred Fire which she ordained that the Virgins should preserve with so much Care was in honour of the Salamander her Gallant Besides Zoroaster there was born from their Loines a Daughter of rare Beauty and of an excellent Wisdom It was the divine Egeria from whom Numa Pauphilius received all his Laws She obliged Numa who loved her to erect a Temple to her mother Vesta where that sacred Fire was kept in honour of her Father Oromasis Behold the verity of the Fable which the Roman Poets and Historians have conceived of the Nymph Egeria Gulielmus Postellus one of the least ignorant of all those who have studied the Cabal in his ordinary Books has observ'd that Vesta was the Daughter of Noah But he was ignorant that Egeria was Daughter of that Vesta and having read the secret Books of the ancient Cabal of which the Prince of Miranda bought a Copy at so dear a rate He has confounded things believing only that Egeria was the good Genius of Noah's Wife But we learn in these Books that Egeria was Conceived upon the Waters at that time when as Noah was tossed to and fro on those revenging Waves which drown'd the Universe The women then were reduced to that small number who were sav'd in the Cabalisque Ark which this second Father of the world had built This great man lamented to see the dreadful punishment with which the Lord chastised the Crime caused by the Love which Adam had had for his Eve Seeing that Adam had destroyed his Posterity by preferring Eve before the Daughters of the Elements and by taking her from the Salamanders or Sylphs which knew how to make themselves beloved by her Noah I say became Wise by the sad example of Adam consented that Vesta his Wife should be given to the Salamander Oroma-Oromasis Prince of the Ignean Substances and perswaded his three Children also to give their three Wives to the Princes of the three other Elements The Universe in a little time was repeopled with Heroick Men so Wise so Beautiful and so Admirable that their Posterity admiring their Vertue have adored them as Deities One of the Children of Noah Rebelled against the Counsel of his Father not being able to resist the attractions of his Wife no more than Adam could the Charms of his Eve But as the sin of Adam had left a Tincture upon the Souls of all his Descendants so this want of complacency which Cham had for the Sylphs marked all his Posterity Black Hence comes say our Cabalistes that Horrible Blackness of the Aethiopians and all those hideous People who are commanded to dwell under the Torrid Zone as a punishent for the profane Appetite of their Father These are very particular Relations Sir said I admiring the Extravagancy of this man and it seemes that your Cabal is of marvellous use for the giving Light to Antiquity So marvellous reply'd he Gravely that without it Scripture History Fable and Nature are obscure and unintelligible You believe for Example that the injury which Cham did to his Father was such as it seemes to be by the Letter Truly it is clear another thing Noah came out of the Ark and seeing that Vesta his Wife did nothing but trick up her self for the Commerce which she had with her Gallant Oromasis becomes passionately in love with her again C ham fearing that his Father would stock the Earth with another Race of people as black as his Aethiopians took his opportunity one day when the good old Man was overcome with Wine and Gelt him without Mercy Do you Laugh I laugh at the indiscreet Zeal of Cham. Said I to him You should rather admire replied the Count the goodness of the Salamander Oromasis whose jealousy did not hinder him from pitying the disgrace of his Rival He taught his Son Zoraster otherwise called Japhet the Name of the Almighty God which expresses his Eternal Faecundity Japhet pronounced six times altervatively with his Brother Sem going backward towards the Patriarch the powerful name JABAMIAH and so they restored the old Man whole again This History ill understood by the Greeks made them say that the Ancientest of the Gods had been Gelded by one of his Children But here you see the truth of the business Where you may observe how much in their morality the people of the Fire are more Humane than ours and indeed exceeding that of the people of the Air or of the Water For the Jealousy of these is cruel as the Divine Paracelsus has shewn us in an Adventure which he relates and which was seen by all the People of the City of Stauffemberg A Phylosopher with whom a Nymph was entred into a Commerce of Immortality was so dishonest a Man as

to fall in Love with a Woman But as he Dined with his new Mistress and certain of his Friends there was seen in the Air the Loveliest Creature of the World which was the Invisible Lover that had a mind to let her self be seen by the Friends of her unfaithful Gallant that they might Judg how little reason he could have to prefer a Woman before her After which the enraged Nymph struck him dead immediately Ha! Sir cryed I that might give me sufficient Disgust against these so Jealous Lovers I confess pursued he that their Jealousy is a little violent But if amongst our Women we have seen enraged Lovers kill their perjured Gallants we should not wonder that these Lovers so fair and so faithful are transported when they are dealt falsly with So much the more in regard that they require Men but to abstain from Women whose Defects they cannot abide and that they permit us to Love amongst them as many as we please They prefer the Interest and Immortality of their Fellows before their own particular Satisfaction And they are glad that the Sages give to their Republick so many Immortal Children as they are able to give But pray Sir demanded I How comes it to pass that there are so few Examples of all this which you tell me There are a great number my Child answered he But Men make not a true Reflection where they adjoyn not their Faith where I say they explain it ill for want of a true Knowlede of our Principles They attribute to the Devils all that which should be attributed to the People of the Elements A little Gnome got into the Affections of the Famous Magdalen of the Cross Abbess of a Monastery at Cordova in Spain she made him Happy when she was but twelve Years old and they continued their Commerce for the space of thirty Years until an Ignorant Director perswaded Magdalen that her Lover was a Fiend and forced her to demand Absolution of Pope Paul the Third Yet it is impossible that this could be a Daemon For all Europe knew and Cassidorus Renius has made known to all Posterity the great Miracles which dayly were wrought in favor of this Holy Woman which certainly had never come to pass if her Commerce with the Gnome had been so Diabolick as the Venerable Director imagined The same Doctor would have affirmed very positively if I am not mistaken That the Sylphe who Immortalized himself with Gertrude the young Religious Nun at the Monastery of Nazareth in the Dioecess of Cologne was some Devil Truly said I to him so do I too Ah! my Son pursued the Count smiling if that were true the Devil would not be very miserable could he have the Power to entertain a Commerce of Gallantry with a pritty Wench of Thirteen Years old and write her Amorous Letters which were found in her Cabinet No no my Child Believe that the Devil in his Region of Death has Employment more sad and more conformable to the Shame which the God of Purity has ordain'd for him But so it is that Men voluntarily shut their Eyes We find for example in Titus Livius that Romulus was the Son of Mars Your great Wits say 'T is a Fable Your Divines That he was the Son of an Incubus The merry Wags That Mistriss Sylvia had lost her Gloves and for an Excuse to hide her Shame gave out a Report that the God had stoln them We who know Nature and whom God has called from Darkness to this admirable Light we know that this pretended Mars was a Salamander who enamoured with the Young Silvia made her the Mother of Romulus This Heroe who after he had founded his Magnificient City was carryed away by his Father in a Flaming Chariot as Zoroaster was by Oramasis Another Salamander was the Father of Servius Tullius Titus Livius sayes That it was the God of Fire being deceived by the Resemblance and the Ignorants have followed the same Opinion of it as of the Father of Romulus The Famous Hercules the Invincible Alexander were Sons of some of the great Sylphs The Historians not knowing this have said that Jupiter was their Father They said true For as you have learnt These Sylphs Nymphs and Salamanders being made Deities The Historians who believed them so call all those who were born of them Children of the Gods Such was the Divine Plato the more Divine Apollonius Thianeus Theseus Achilles Sarpedon the Pious Aeneas and the Famous Melchisedeck For Do you know who was the Father of Melchisedeck No truly said I to him for St. Paul knew it not Then say that he would not tell it continued the Count and that he was not permitted to reveal the Cabalistick Mysteries He knew well enough that the Father of Milchisedeck was a Sylphe and that the King of Salem was Conceived in the Ark by the Wife of Sem. The manner of this Priests sacrifizing was the same which his Cousin Egeria taught King Numa as also the Adoration of a Sovereign Divinity without Image and without Statue For which reason the Romans becoming Idolaters sometime after burnt the Holy Books of Numa which Egeria had dictated The first God of the Romans was the True God Their Sacrifices were true They offered Bread and Wine to the Soveraign Master of the World But all this was afterwards perverted Nevertheless God was pleased in reward of this first Worship to give to this City which had acknowledged his Soveraignty the Empire of the Universe The same Sacrifice which Melchisedeck I beseech you Sir interrupted I let us leave off this of Melchisedeck the Sylphe that begot him his Cousin Egeria and the Sacrifice of Bread and Wine These Examples are fetcht a far off you would oblige me would you produce some Examples of a fresher Date For I have heard a Doctor say being asked what was become of all the Companions of that Satyre which appeared to Saint Anthony and which you call a Sylphe That all those kind of People now are Dead So all the Elementary People may possibly be perished since you affirm them to be Mortal and that we hear no more News of them Would to God! said the Count in a Fury Would to God that I knew nothing that so I might keep this Ignorant still in his Ignorance who maintains so sottishly what he understands not May God confound him and all such as he is Where has he learnt that the Elements are voyd and that these marvellous People are reduced to their Nothing Would he but give himself the trouble to read a few Histories and not attribute to the Devil what is done by Nature as the good Old Wives do all that which passes their Chymerick Theory There would at all times and in all places be found Proofs enough of what I am telling you What would your Doctor say to this Authentick History which happened not long since in Spain A Beauteous Sylphide made her self be beloved by a Spaniard lived three