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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

enough replied the Talapoin the stress of the Disputation rests upon the great labours and the death his enemies made him suffer whilst he was a Monkey Let us now return to the fabulous Story of Thevathat Being a person of much wit and address Thevathat makes a Schism and declares himself against his Brother he found the way to make a new Sect wherein he engaged several Kings and much People who embraced his Doctrine and imitated his examples That was the Original of a Schism which divided the world into two parts and gave a beginning to two Religions whereas before that all Mankind had but one Some of whom they reckon us for the Reasons we shall presently alledge became the Disciples of Thevathat and the rest of Sammonokhodom Thevathat tho he was but the younger finding himself supported by so many Princes who espoused his quarrel employed open Force and Treason to Ruin his elder Brother He invented the most heinous Calumnies to blacken his Reputation but these Designs succeeded not Nay he was oftner than once overcome when to confirm his followers in the Faith which he had taught them he had the boldness to contend with his Brother who should work the greatest Miracles Thevathat conspiring to to be God is with his Followers deprived of many knowledges Ambition made him desire to be God but not being really so he was ignorant of a great many things which his Brother perfectly knew and because his haughtiness would not suffer him to listen to Sommonokhodom he did not learn of him what was done in Hell and Paradise nor the Doctrine of the Transmigration of Souls nor yet the changes that had been and were to be in all ages from whence they conclude that it is not to be wondred at if we who are his Disciples find nothing of all those things in the Books he hath left us if our Scriptures be full of obscurities and doubts and that if being wholly ignorant of Divinity we have so great a mind to reason and dispute with them For since Thevathat our Master knew nothing of that himself he could not instruct us therein Hence is it also that we are ignorant of the secret of curing Men of preserving them from all evils of making Gold and Silver and of discovering those precious Metals in the places where they are hid For they believe that there are vast Treasures in certain unknown places but that I know not what supernatural Virtue hinders us from perceiving them or if we do see them it makes them appear to us under a shape and figure which imposes upon our sight They also object to us that we cannot work many prodigies which they pretend they can do and are the Essence of Magick because Thevathat having as little skill that way as in all the rest he could not teach us But tho Thevathat was not God and that by consequence he had neither the agility nor subtilty of Body nor the other perfections of Divinity yet he excelled in several Sciences especially in the Mathematicks and Geometry Now as it is of him if we 'll take their word for it that we have received these knowledges it is no wonder if we be good Geometricians and be perfectly well skilled in other arts In the new Doctrine which he published he foisted in a great many things The Talapoins perswade the Siamese that the Christian Religion is taken out of the Law which Sommonokhodom taught them which he had taken out of his Brothers Religion and that hath rendred both Laws so like one another in several points They differ however in that Thevathats Law is far less severe than that of Sommonokhodom for it allows Men a great liberty of killing and eating Animals tho' the use of them be unlawful and criminal From the Doctrine of Thevathat as out of a source of Schism seven other Sects are sprung which have a great deal of affinity one with another and that Tradition they apply to the Heresies of the Dutch English and other people separated from the Church of Rome for they look upon them as so many shoots sprung from our Religion and that confirms them the more in their Opinions After all the outrages that Thevathat had done to his Brother without any respect to Nature or even to Divinity Thevathat is punished in Hell for having persecuted his Brother It was but just he should be punished And so the Siamese Scriptures make mention of his punishment and Sommonokhodom himself relates that after he became God he saw that wicked Brother of his in the deepest place of Hell. He was in the eight Habitation that is to say in the place where the greatest Offenders are tormented and there by a terrible punishment he expiated all the sins that he had committed and especially the injuries he had done to me Explaining afterwards the pains which Thevathat was made to suffer he says that he was fastened to a Cross with great nails which piercing his hands and feet put him to extreme pain that on his head he had a Crown of Thorns that his Body was full of wounds and to compleat his Misery the Infernal place burnt him without consuming of him So sad a spectacle moved him to compassion he forgot all the wrongs his Brother had done him and could not see him in that condition without taking a resolution to help him He proposed to him then these three words to be adored Ppu thang Thamang Sangkhang sacred and mysterious words for which the Siamese have a profound veneration and whereof the first signifies God the second the word of God and the third the imitator of God promising him that if he would accept so easie and reasonable a condition to deliver him from all the pains to which he was condemned Thevathat consented to adore the first two words but he never would adore the third because it signified Priest or Imitator of God protesting that Priests were sinful Men that deserved no respect To punish him for that Pride he still suffers and will suffer for a great many years to come The Talapoins take the Siamese off from turning Christians by perswading them that Jesus Christ is Thevathat the Brother of their God. Tho there be many things that keep the Siamese at a distance from the Christian Law yet one may say nothing makes them more averse from it than this thought The similitude that is to be found in some points betwixt their Religion and ours making them believe that Jesus Christ is the very same with that Thevathat mentioned in their Scriptures they are perswaded that seeing we are the Disciples of the one we are also the followers of the other and the fear they have of falling into Hell with Thevathat if they follow his Doctrine suffers them not to hearken to the propositions that are made to them of embracing Christianity That which most confirms them in their prejudice is that we adore the Image of