feet on which you are mounted even in the place where you now are Immediately the King was obliged to put back his Horse from the place where he was seeing the water springing up under his Feet by the permission of God As soon as he was got to another place behold his Messengers returning to him tell him that the water was very much risen and augmented which forc'd him to a sudden departure to return with all speed to his Castle that he might take his Servants and his Children and dispose them into the Fortresses which he had prepared on the tops of the Mountains and where he had put in provisions as much as he imagin'd would be necessary But presently the Earth began to open and the Feet of the Horses to enter into it so that they could not get them out which obliged them to get off and to leave them there In like manner the doors of Heaven were opened and let fall a great Rain as if water had been poured out of great Earthen Pots so that the waters overtook them ere they could recover the Mountains and hindered their getting up to them They justled and thrust one another and knew not which side to turn by reason of the violence of the Thunder and Lightning and the greatness of the evil which was come upon them The Women carried their Children at their backs then when the water was come up to their mouths they cast them under their feet and endeavoured to save themselves Had God been disposed to have compassion on the Unbelievers he would have been merciful to the Mother and the Child One of Noah's Sons was with the King the Son of Darmasel when he came to fire the Ship His Father cried out to him O my dear Son Embarque thy self with us I will retire said he into a Mountain which shall secure me from the water Noah answered him according to what God had taught him I 〈…〉 onely the mercy of God which c 〈…〉 this day preserve any body from 〈◊〉 chastisements He was destined misery and destruction and he w 〈…〉 one of those who were drowned T 〈…〉 water rose above the Earth 40 C 〈…〉 bits and above the Mountains 〈◊〉 Cubits All that was upon the 〈◊〉 face of the Earth perished the Math 〈…〉 and Signs therefore were defaced 〈◊〉 the permission of God there remain 〈…〉 only the Ark and those within 〈◊〉 Those who adore the Stars affi 〈…〉 nevertheless that there rema 〈…〉 ed some places upon the Ea 〈…〉 which the waters of the Delu 〈…〉 reached not but the Mussulmans de 〈…〉 it The Persians whom God curs 〈…〉 say the History of the Deluge is n 〈…〉 true and make no mention of th 〈…〉 Prophecy of Noah in regard they a 〈…〉 Magi by Religion and adore the Fir 〈…〉 The Indians affirm in like manner that there happened nothing of it i 〈…〉 their Countrey and so also the Inhabitants of the Maritime Countries and of most of the Indian Islands They say the Ark continued on the water six Moneths that it Sail'd by all the Countries of the Earth in the East and in the West and that one week it compass'd about the place of the square Temple They had with them a large Sea-Pearl put on a Thread by means whereof they in the Ship distinguished between Day and Night and the hours of Prayer They had also their Cock which Crew to call up the People to Divine Service It is written in the Law of Moses that God swore by himself that he would not punish any Nation by the Deluge after the Nation of Noah I found says the Author of this Book Murtadi the Son of Gaphiphus on whom God have mercy in a Book the greatest part whereof was torn out the History of Noah with considerable Additions and Augmentations which I will fully set down here to the end this Book may want no advantage which may raise its value with those who shall read it or hear it read with the direction and assistance of God These Augmentations then relate that the Patriarch the Father of Noah Gods peace be with him dreamt that he saw issuing out of his Mouth a fire which burnt the whole Terrestrial World He thereupon awaked much astonished Some days after he dreamt again that he was upon a Tree in the midst of a great Sea without Shores which also astonish'd him very much After that there being born to him a Son the Prophet of God Noah the good tidings of it spread over the whole Earth and the Priest Galoumas related it immediately to Mechavel the Son of Darmasel assuring him further that the Terrestrial world should perish in his time that is in the time of Noah whose life was to be very long The Priests knew also by their Sciences that there would happen a Deluge which should drown the Earth and its Inhabitants but they always hoped to secure themselves from what should happen with King Darmasel The King therefore commanded that there should be strong Castles built on the tops of the Mountains that they might retire thither and be safe as they imagined They built seven Castles of that kind according to the number of their Idols whereof they gave them the names and graved thereon their Sciences After that Noah being grown up God grant him peace and mercy God sent him to them for an Apostle and there happen'd to him what God himself relates in his Book Noah was of delicate complexion his Head was somewhat long his Arms very large as also his Leggs his Thighs very fleshy his Beard long and broad he was large and thick He was the first Prophet that came after Edrisus and he is numbered among the famous Envoys for their constancy and resolution He liv'd 1250 years The Philosophers will not have him live so long as differing among themselves about long lives His law prescribed the profession of the Unity of God and the Sacred Combat against those who opposed the establishment of his Religion commanding the good and forbidding the evil ordered the following of things permitted and the avoiding of things forbidden and the observance of purity and cleanliness Almighty God had commanded him to induce his Nation to the proefession of his Unity to mind them of the good things they had received of him and to raise in them a fear of his indignation The History relates that Noah was born in the Reign of Mechavel the Son of Darmasel and that being two hundred years of age Mechavel died and had for Successor his son Darmasel who was much addicted to the worship of the Idols exalting them as much as lay in his power and commanding the People to serve them well In the mean time Noah began to Preach the Religion of Almighty God going through the Market-places the Assemblies the Temples the Inns and calling the people to God They kept his Preaching secret and discovered nothing of it to King Darmasel till such
Gods mercy on him One of the Grandees of Egypt God shew him mercy related to me that heretofore in the Lampe-street in Masre on the Festival day after the great Feast of the Moneth Ramadan they set Kettles full of Flesh and Baskets full of Bread and that they called with a loud voice such as had need thereof as they call people to Water on the High-ways and that it happened sometimes the greatest part remained there all Night upon the place so few would take of it The remainder was carried to the Prisoners and they answered we have enough to live upon thanks be to God The Land of Egypt was then the most plentiful of any in the world the most Populous and the best cultivated and where there was more convenience of Habitation and Subsistance The Masich relates in his Annals and others affirm also that the Egyptians when they saw the Nile at the highest gave Almes released Slaves cloath'd Orphans relieved Widows and such as were destitute of Succour out of their thankfulness to God for the kindness he did them in raising the course of the Nile to its height They relate that Pharaoh after he grew Proud and Insolent and Impious commanded a Castle to be built on the descent of Mount Mactam and that his Visier Haman according to this order got workmen together from all parts of Egypt so that there were a hundred and fifty thousand Architects with what Trades-men Handy-craftsmen and Labourers were requisite He caused Brick and Mortar to be made Timber to be felled and Nails to be made then they began their Building and raised it so high that never any had done the like before for the Masons were no longer able to stand on their Feet to work But the All-mighty and All-good God about Sun-set sent Gabriel Gods peace be with him who smote the Castle with his Wing and cleft it into three pieces one whereof fell on Pharaoh's Army where it kill'd a thousand Men another fell into the Sea and appeared there like a high Mountain and the third fell into the Western Land There was not so much as one of the Coptites who wrought within it saved they all peperish'd They relate that thereupon Pharaoh was so proud as to cast an Arrow at Heaven God willing to try him returned his Arrow to him all bloody Whereupon he cry'd out I have killed Moses's God God is infinitely above what impious men can do he does what he pleases with his Servants God therefore at that very time sent Gabriel who did to the Castle as we have related One of those who were impious and proud and arrogant in the Land of Egypt was Caron the Cup-bearer He was an Israelite Cousin-german to Moses Gods peace be with him for Caron was the son of Jashar the son of Caheb and Moses was the son of Gamran the son of Caheb Others say Moses was Caron's Sisters son he was called Caron the Bright by reason of the beauty of his Face He was the most diligent of the Children of Israel in the reading of Moses's Law but he became a Hypocrite as the Samerian was and said Since the Prophecy belonged to Moses and the Sacrifice and the Oblation and the knowledge of the Law to Aaron what remains there for me They relate that Moses having brought the Chil-of Israel through the Sea gave Caron a Commission to interpret the Law and to collect the Offerings and made him one of the Chiefs The Offerings belonged then to Moses but he bestowed them on his Brother whereat Caron was troubled and envy'd them both and spoke thus to them Behold now the command is come absolutly into your hands and I have nothing to do with the affairs of the Children of Israel How long shall I suffer this It is God reply'd Moses who thus disposes of things I will not believe it reply'd Caron if you do not confirm it to me by a Miracle Then Moses commanded the Children of Israel to come all to him every one with his Rod then he ty'd all those Rods together and cast them into the Tent where God ordinarily revealed his Will to him They kept a Guard about the Rods all night and the next morning they found Aaron's Rod shaking with the Wind covered all over with green Leaves That Rod was made of a Branch of Almond-trees This is no more miraculous said Caron then what the Magicians daily perform He became thence forward more impious then before more wicked more envious and more malicious against Moses and Aaron as God affirms in his Book when he saith Caron was of the People of Moses but he was unjust towards them Injustice here signifies a persecution without any cause and a malicious and irrational Dispute Others affirm that Pharao appointed Caron to govern the Children of Israel and that he treated them injuriously and tyrannically Tyranny they say proceeds from greatness that is from the eminence and advantage which any one hath over others The advantage he had over them was grounded on his great Wealth and the multitude of his children He made say they his Garments larger by a span then theirs His Keys say they that is the Keys of his Store-houses were carried by sixty Mules Evere Store-house had its Key and every Key was but a Finger long they were of Leather Some affirm expounding that passage of the Book of the All-mighty and All-good God where it is said of him I have not received it but according to the knowledge which is within me that he was the best skilled of his time in the Law of Moses On the contrary others affirm he was skilled in Chemistry Saguid the son of Musib says that Moses had the Science of Chemistry and that he taught a third purt of it to Josuah the son of Nun a third to Caleb the son of Jethnas and a third to Caron but that Caron served the other two so well that he learnt the whole Science from them both and that afterwards he took Lead and Copper and changed it into pure Gold Others affirm that Moses taught his Sister Chemistry inasmuch as his Devotion made him despise Gold and that his Sister taught it Caron who was her Husband They relate that Moses said it was a provision for the life of this World and that he had no need thereof because it was a perishable thing and far distant from the truth which is All-mighty God and that he quitted what was perishable which his Devotion permitted him not to desire and satisfy'd himself with what was neer All-mighty God They say that Caron went abroad one day on a white Mule he had covered with a Foot-cloth of Purple and a Golden Saddle accompany'd by four thousand young Men and three hundred beautiful young Maids clad in Silk and set out with Jewels and Ornaments of great value and divers colours so that he had marching on his right hand three hundred young men and on his left
which they take their stories and all that is to happen till the end of the World In these Books of the Coptites there is mention made among other Princes of the Priestess Borsa who administered justice to the people sitting in a Throne of Fire so that when any one came for justice if his cause were just and he spoke the truth the Fire returned to her if on the contrary he were a lyar and deceiver and came near the Fire he was presently burnt thereby This Princess appear'd to men in divers forms as she pleased her self She afterwards caused a Castle to be built on the side of the Roman Sea to which she retir'd and kept out of the sight of men In the Walls of this Castle she caused to be put Pipes of Brass the ends whereof came out and were hollow having each written on them a representation of the several differences which ordinarily happen between men and upon which they were went to desire Justice of her When therefore any one was at difference with another he came along with his Adversary to the Pipe on which was written the species of their difference and spoke to it concerning his business very low alledging all he could then putting his Ear thereto he receiv'd an answer which would be fully to all he desired This custom continued constantly among them till Nabuchodonozor over-ran Egypt This Princess caused also to be made a Ram of a hard red Stone and to be placed on a Pedestal of the same Then she caused to be put on the Pedestal an Iron Pivot and the upper stone to be pierced on which was placed the Figure of the Ram so that the Pivot appeared above and she caused to be set on the top of the Pivot a Brazen Boat the fore part whereof was made like the head of a Cock and the hinderpart like the tail of the same Bird. This Mill-stone as it were turned with the Ram by regular and just motions She caused this to be set on the descent of the Mountain on which was afterwards built the great Mosquey of the Son of Toulon to whom God shew mercy whence it is still called the Mountain of the Ram and it will ever be called so When therefore any enemy came to assault Egypt this Ram turned as the Mill-stone and stopp'd towards that side that the Enemy was coming and at the same time that Cock crew She also caused to be built in the midst of the City a House of Adamant wherein she put the Figures of all the Kings of the Earth which surround Egppt. She caused the Gates of that House to be Fortified and set Guards at them which were relieved in their turns yet did not any but they enter into it or come near it When therefore the Ram stopped of any side and that they were assured that the King of that Countrey was in the Field they opened the Gate of that House and went to look for the Figure of that King which immediately fell a shaking whence they inferred that he had a design to attaque Egypt Then those Guards took the Halberds they had with them and Swords made by Magick and kept in that House and fell a pricking that Figure with those Halberds and to cut it with those Swords and thereupon the Army of that King which came to spoil the Land of Egypt fell into such disorder that the Souldiers killed one another so that not one remained and the King was forced to return without doing any thing For that reason did the Kings respect and fear the Land of Egpyt for not any did attempt the attaquing of it but he came off with loss and disorder Thus they were governed till the King of the Greeks Nabuchodonozor ingaged in a War against Egypt for the Reasons which we shall mention hereafter if Almighty God give us the grace to do it Dissention arose among his Souldiery so that they all destroy'd one another and he was forc'd to return from Egypt without doing any thing He afterwards continued many years using all manner of Artifices and making great expences till he put a stop to those motions after which he returned into the Land of Egypt destroy'd the Inhabitants of it and so ruined it that the marks of it will continue to the end of the world Gariac the Son of King Gancam made himself also a Priest after his Father and did many wonderful things and among others he made a Brazen Tree which had branches of Iron with sharp Hooks at the ends of them which Tree when any unjust or lying person approached those Hooks immediately flew at him and fastened on his body and could not by any means be gotten thence till such time as he said the truth of his own accord confess'd his injustice and ceas'd injuring his Adversary He also made an Idol of an hard black stone which he named Gabdopharouis that is Servant of Saturn Men came to declare their differences to that Idol and demand justice of it whereupon he who was in the wrong was staid in the place where he was and could not get thence till he had done justice of himself which if he did not he would die in the place When any one had some business or affair of great importance he went to the Idol and burnt about it certain Perfumes which they knew then he lifted up his eyes to the Stars and named King Gariac intreating and crying out and immediately the Doemons did the business for him Sometimes Gariac was carried in the air by great Birds and pass'd before his Subjects who saw him with their eyes When he was incens'd against any Nation which gave him any trouble in his Kingdom he secretly sent among them some people who cast into the water they drank certain things which made it as bitter as the water of the Salt Sea so that they could not taste of it Sometimes by his Magick he gave the Beasts of the earth power over them as Lions and Reptiles which tore them to pieces Philemon also was one of the most considerable Priests of Egypt whose story we shall relate in its proper place with that of Noah if Almighty God give us the grace to do it Among the Priests of Egypt there was also the Priest Saiouph who was he to whom they kindled the dreadful Fire which he came near and spoke over it then there came forth a great and terrible Figure which acquainted them with whatever was necessary for them This Priest Saiouph liv'd till the time of King Pharaaâ— in whose Reign the Deluge happened He made his aboad in the Maritime Pyramid which Pyramid was a Temple of the Stars where there was a Figure of the Sun and one of the Moon both which spoke The foremost or Meridional Pyramid was the Sepulchre of the Bodies of the Kings to which Saurid was translated There were within it several other admirable things Statues
So speaks of them Armelius Author of the Book of Illustrious Men. Abumasar the Astrologer in his Book of Thousans says that the reason of building the Pyramids was the Dream which Saurid the Son of Sahaloc saw He confirms it in his Book of Miraculous Dreams where he adds that he sent for the Priests and Southsayers of his time and the Astrologers and related to them what he had seen of the descent of the Moon upon Earth in the form of a Woman of the overturning of the Earth with its Inhabitants and of the total Eclipse of the Sun and the dream he had after that and that the Priests declared to him the coming of the Deluge whereof mention is made in the Book of the Annals which the Egyptians attribute to two Brothers Coptites saying that those two Brothers interpreted an ancient Book which had been found in some one of their Sepulchres on the breast of a man They say these two Brothers were the Children of a certain man of the Race of the ancient Egyptians to wit those who escaped the Deluge and were embarqued with the Prophet of God Noah We shall with the help of God say somewhat hereafter of the History of these two Brothers It was found therefore in the Book they Translated that Saurid the Son of Sahaloc King of Egypt after he had seen his dreams and related them to the Priests and that Aclimon had also related his to him commanded the Priests to see what remarkable events the influences of the Stars portended to the World and that the Priests having exactly erected a Celestial Figure for the hour of his question found that it signified a great mischief which was to descend from Heaven and issue out of the Earth which they declared unto him whereupon he caused Pyramids and great Structures to be built to serve for refuges to him and his Domesticks and Sepulchres for the conservation of their Bodies as also that they might engrave and mark on their Roofs their Walls and their Pillars all the obscure and difficult Sciences whereof the Egyptians made profession learning them and treasuring them up as Illustrious Inheritances from those who were grown famous in all Nations and that they should also represent on them the Figures of the Stars in their Signs with their effects and significations and the secrets of Nature and the productions of Arts and the great Laws and the beneficial Drugs and the Talismans and Medicine and Geometry and all the other things that might be advantageous to men as well for the publick as for private persons clearly and intelligibly to those who were acquainted with their Books their Language and their Writings King Saurid knew certainly that the calamity was to be general to all Countries in the World or come very near it Then he said to them When shall this great evil happen wherewith we are threatned Whereto they replyed thus When the heart of the Lion shall come to the first Minute of Cancer's head and the Plantes shall be in their Houses in those places of the Sphere the Sun and Moon in the first minute of Aries Pharouis who is Saturn in the first degree Raouis which is Jupiter in Pisces at 27 degrees 3 minutes Mars in Libra and Venus in Leo at 5 degrees and some minutes Then he said to them See whether after this great evil there will happen any other accident in Egypt They consider'd and saw that the Stars portended another great misfortune which was to descend from Heaven contrary to the former that is a Fire that should consume the Universe Whereupon he said to them When is that to happen They reply'd we have made our Observation and found that it is to happe when the heart of the Lion shall be at the end of the fifteenth degree of Leo and that the Sun shall be with him in one minute joyning that of Saturn Jupiter is direct in the Lion and with him Mars changing the minute and the Moon in Aquarius near the Dragons Tail at twelve parts There will be at that time an Eclipse of the greatest congruence Venus shall be at the greatest distance from the Sun and Mercury the like Then Saurid said unto them Is there yet any other great accident that you can fore-see besides those two remarkable evils They look'd and found that when the heart of the Lion shall have compleated two thirds of his circle there would not remain any Animal moving on the Earth which should not be destroy'd and that when he should compleat his revolution the knots of the Sphere would be dissolved The King was very much astonished at that and commanded the great Pillars to be cut down and that the great Pavement should be melted he caused Tin to be brought out of the Western parts then he made them take black stones which he caused to be laid for the foundations of the Pyramids about Syene They were brought from the Nile upon Engines and they had certain particular impressions and marks and upon them painted Billets which the Sages had set there so that when they had smitten the stone it advanc'd of it self the space of a Flight-shot These stones were set in the foundations of the Pyramids to wit of the first which is the Eastern and of the Western and of the Coloured They put in the midst of every piece an Iron Bar like a Pivot standing up then they set on that another piece after they had made a hole through the middle of it that the Iron Pivot might enter into it and fasten it to that which was under after which they melted Lead and it was poured all about the piece after they had adjusted the Writing which was above He caused Gates to be made under ground at four Cubits depth according to their measure which Gates had Sallies into vaulted Casemates built of stone and fortify'd with much Artifice and whereof the Situation was conceal'd every Vault being fifty Cubits in length The Gate of the Eastern Pyramid was on the South-side a hundred Cubits distant from the midst of the Western wall on the Western side They measur d also from the Western wall that is from the midst of it a hundred Cubits and they digg'd till they got down to the door of the vaulted Casemate through which they entred into it As to the Colour'd Pyramid made of stones of two colours the Gate of it was on the Maritime or North-side and they measur'd also from the midst of the Maritime wall a hundred Cubits which made five hundred according to the Mussulman measure He built it perpendicularly into the ground to the depth of forty Cubits then he raised it as much though what is above ground of the Pyramids do not exceed the third part so that this last is the highest built after the manner of the raised Floors and high Rooms of our present time They built them in the time of their good fortune while all their
Pharao caused Paper and Ink to be brought and caused to be written thereon the Condemnation of a Servant rebellious to his Master who loves his enemies and persecutes his friends who disobeys and ill-treats him who is ungrateful and acknowledges not the kindnesses he hath received of him making as if he knew him not saying he knows not who he is and order'd that he should be drown'd in the Red Sea Great King said Gabriel be pleased to sign this Decree Pharao sign'd and seal'd it with his own Seal and put it into his hands Gabriel took it and kept it as long as God commanded him When the day of Submersion was come Pharao being just upon the point of drowning God having delivered Moses and his people from the waves and having opened them a passage through the Sea Gabriel came to Pharao with that Decree What is this says Pharao Open it says Gabriel and read what it contains Pharao opened it and read it and remembered it You are said Gabriel to him the Servant whom this Decree mentions and see here what you have decreed against your self God is merciful and meek he is not hasty and is not afraid not to do a thing soon enough Let him be praised and exalted to the regret of those who attribute his Divinity to others As to the Qualities attributed to the Land of Egypt they say It is the Relief of Men and the Nursery of Nations that those who live in it love it and that those who have left it are troubled and bemoan themselves to return into it that its Inhabitants are subtile and intelligent and crafty and deceitful that they lie to such as live at a great distance from them persecute such as are near and are envious at the prosperity of others Some one of them in one of the ancient Books saith that in Egypt is the streight of Mountains and the Separation described and the reiterated Sea and accustomed good that it is the place of the destruction of the White and Flaxen-hair'd people when they shall commit great devastations and set up the Crosses and make war against the Merciful and persecute the Observers of the Alcoran and the Nation of the Children of Mercy when they shall come against it in the last times and that every one of them shall receive the reward of his actions and not one of them return into his Countrey One of the Ancients of Egypt made me a relation of his father God shew him mercy that in a Voyage he had made he had been taken by French Pirats in one of the Islands of the Sea and sold by them to an Armourer who made Arms for the King of that Island with whom he had no rest night nor day being continually imployed in blowing beating on the Anvil and carrying things of Iron wherewith his Master loaded him beyond his strength He continued there a long time so that he became old and weak Then said he as I slept one night wearied with hard working and overwhelmed with grief after I had said the last prayer appointed for the evening and implored the assistance of God and put all the hope of my deliverance in him I dreamt that I saw a man coming to me who said Friend rejoyce at the good news I bring thee thou shalt ere long be delivered out of thy afflictions Be not troubled at the hardship thou art in and the work thou doest for the Arms thou makest and those who shall bear them shall with Gods help be the prey of thy Brethren the Mussulmans The Romans have a design to engage in a war against the Mussulman Countries they will carry thee along with them whither they go and God will deliver thee out of their hands I awaked thereupon very joyful and gave thanks to God with great confidence The labour and affliction became more light and supportable to me then before for I was satisfied it was a true Vision from God The first night after the same person who ha already called me presented himself again before me in my Dream and said to me Pray to God in these terms O Great God who hast compassion on Sinners and keep st those who have stumbl d from falling quiâ—e down be merciful to thy Servant who hath highly offended thee and to all the Mussâ—lmans in general For All-mighty God will deliver thee and bring thee out of the trouble wherein thou art I immediately did so said he and the next year being come the French God prevent their evil designs prepared for the War against the Mussulman Countries putting their Horses and Arms and all their Baggage in great Vessels and taking the Sea They caused me also to Embarque among the other Captives whom they took along with them for their service and to execute their Commands We were a Moneth at Sea and made little Progress the Wind being not favourable That Moneth past there came a Wind which pleased them and by means whereof they thought to compleat their voyage whereupon they weighed Anchor and took their course towards the Coast of Egypt We advanced with that wind seven Days and seven Nights till they came in sight of the Land of Egypt They were very jocund among themselves exalting their Crosses ringing their Bells and setting their Gospel in sight They thus pass'd away some part of the night well satisfy'd in a certain road of the Sea But about Midnight God sent a violent wind upon them with a black Dust and Thunder and Lightning the Air was darkned and the Sky grew black and the Sea was so rough that the Waves rose up like high Mountains Finding themselves ready to perish and to see their Vessels split to pieces they resolved to get out of that Road fearing their Ships should fall foul one upon another in the Sea and saying Let us rather make for any Coast whereto the Sea shall cast us though it were into the most remote parts of the world and let us not stay here They therefore weighed Anchor and hoised the Sails and began to go as the wind drove them so that there remained not one with another The Ship wherein I was was forced by the wind upon the coast of Alexandria so that we ran aground on the right side of the City near the Phaâ—os Immediately the Mussulman vessels came to us and seized our Ship and all that was in it and made a great booty of Gold and Silver Arms and Baggage For my part I was delivered by the mercy of God with five other Slaves who were with me in the Ship I returned to my Countrey and related my dream to the Mussulmans who rejoyced thereat and thanked God for the kindness he had shewn me May he be praised for ever at the beginning and at the end of all things he who is the first and the last This is one of the most miraculous kindnesses and favours which God hath done to the Inhabitants of Egypt which God
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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 and Silver which he made use of yet were they not increased or diminished In the middest of the Castle there was a Cistern of Water congeal'd into Ice whereof the motion might be perceived through that part which was frozen as one sees through a Glass what is contained in it Having considered all this he was astonished thereat and immediately returned into Egypt where he left for his Lieutenant and Successour his Son Gariac recommending his Subjects to him and the Government of the Kingdom and then he return'd to the Castle and continued there till he died He is thought to be Author of the Books of the Coptites out of