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A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

Daemon cannot approach May thou and I live always Skreen'd behind our Selves for in that Dark Recess from Visible Things the Eternal loves to manifest his otherwise Invisible Light Adieu Paris the 17th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1670. LETTER XII To Cara Hali Physician to the Grand Signior AFter all my Scepticisms I at this Hour believe there 's Something of us remains Immortal and Incorruptible when our grosser Bodies are dissolv'd Call it what you will an Astral Body a Ghost a Spirit or any Thing else I 'm sensible some Part of us will never die What signifies the vain Dispute of Words the dark Resolves of Plato's Cave Let it be Substance or Accident Matter or Form or a Result of all There 's still a certain Portion of our Nature against which the Stroak of Death and of Ten Hundred Thousand Deaths can ne'er prevail We may be chang'd indeed and masquerade it up and down perhaps through Infinite Worlds in so many different Disguises But we can never be annihilated or made Nothing We cannot be excluded from the Eternal List of Atomes The Loss or Absence of the least Particle from the Vniverse would either cause the Loudest never-ending Thunders and Lightnings or an Everlasting Silence Sullenness and Darkness This mighty Aggregate and Stupendous Heap of Beings would fall to Ruine if there were the least Vacuum or the smallest Mite missing Steal but the most Indivisible Atom from the rest and down comes all the Fabrick For one supports another by an Inseparable Adhesion Reciprocal Congruity and Mathematical Fitness They are so cunningly hitch'd and knit together so closely fasten'd and indented each with other by the Original Art or Chance which form'd the World that all the Motions of this Grand Machine would at an instant stop in such a Case as does a Watch when the least Tooth is missing from any one of the contiguous Wheels Every Thing in Nature is full and pregnant Neither can there be any other Emptiness save what we think we see in Bottles or other Hollow Vessels which when they are void of Water Wine or other Liquors it is but to be cramm'd brim-full of Air which Element insinuates and crowds it self into each Diminutive Crany Chink and Pore of grosser Substances So if the Airy Atomes have any Hollownesses in 'em the smallest Vacancy possible is still supply'd with its full Measure of the purer Aether and that again with some Matter more refin'd if any such there be or else it drinks full Draughts of Immaterial Essences and by such a Sub-ordinate Gradation Humane Souls though in themselves perhaps pure Incorporeal Spirits are yet fasten'd and cemented to our Bodies Thus is one Being successively and Eternally either a Syringe or a Sponge to another The Elements inebriate one another by Turns an Universal Epicurism and Drunkenness Reigns So the Hot Stomach of the Earth parch'd with Inward Mineral Fires greedily guzzles down the very salt unpalatable Lees of the Sea rather than be adry With a Thousand Thousand gaping Throats it gulps the Beverage which Neptune's Deep and Mighty Cellar runs withal It pants and sucks eternally the thick ropy Settlements of the Ocean's Bottom These are distill'd again in hidden Limbecks Cylinders and other Chymical Vessels below that so the gaping Channels on the Superficies may be constantly supply'd with more refin'd Liquor through the Springs and Fountains And yet the Globe not having quench'd its Thirst with this perpetual Draught continually sups up the Rain a Liquor more sublime and pure than all the rest But this is only on certain Holy-days of Fate when the Celestial Powers the Planets Stars and Constellations order a Dunalma for the Vegetable Race Below to refresh the Herbs the Corn and Trees with Banquets from the Clouds Then the Big-belly'd Tuns above are rowl'd out of their hidden Store-houses and broach'd the Conduits of the Vpper Region spout and run with plentiful Showers and Cataracts of Nature's Seminal Juice the Radical All-chearing Nectar of Heaven The greedy Soil imbibes the sacred strong Cascade each joyful Turf is frolicksome and swallows down large Bumpers of the Elemosynary Wine Whilst the least dry and crumbling Lump of the late fainting Glebe has Drops and Supernaculum's enough to revel on till party-colour'd Iris the Major-Domo in these Yearly Festivals perceiving the tender Seeds and Roots are well nigh fuddl'd with what at Second Hand they have exhausted from the over-laden Ground makes her Appearance in the Clouds inviting all the Guests to a splendid Collation of warm Beams and Rays with which the Sun is minded to regale them A grateful soft and chearful Noise was heard throughout the Room before The Earth and Air were in a merry Humour Well pleas'd with the Debauch they would have sat till Morning at it being loth to leave their Liquor behind 'em or change it for dry Meat But at the sight of Iris every one chang'd Countenance an universal Murmur ran throughout the Hall they were sorry thus to be baulk'd i' th' midst of all their Mirth Till courtly Zephyrs come with their soft Compliments and tell 'em It is necessary for their Ease and Health Then are the Tuns and Bottles remov'd with all the drunken Tackle The Table soon is spread and cover'd with a Rich Course of glittering Chargers sent from Phoebus That Sponging Planet only lives by Bantering and Wheedles The Illustrious Figure he makes i' th' World is always borrow'd He never wore a Fashionable Dress in 's Life but what he took up by Tally from the First Source of Lights For which he 's bound to pay so vast an Interest that he would necessarily become a Bankrupt did he not repair his broken Fortune by playing Tricks upon the Earth Thus whilst he mocks this Sublunary World with his pretended Treats he makes it pay for all with costly Exhalations He plunders the Elements picks the Pockets of the Earth and robs the Treasuries of the Sea Nor can he forbear filching something from the Air and when he has stollen enough he slinks away i' th' Dark and flies to th' other side of the Globe there to commence New Shams and Cheats upon the Antipodes And all the while the Stars are full as bad as he For like a Brave Highway-man that Luminary frequents the Publick Road of Heaven by Day he robs in open sight of all the World and leaves a generous Viaticum where-ever he borrows any Thing But the Stars those little Bullies of the Sky are perfect Night-Pads Shop-lifts and Sharpers they skulk about i' th' Dark through all the private Alleys of the Firmament and commit a Thousand Murders Rapes and other Violences Some of their Aspects are as venomous as the Fatal Eyes of Basilisks they carry divers Kinds of Mortal Poysons in their Looks which they disperse at Random in this lower World They strew the Earth with Hemlocks Aconites and other baneful Weeds They also scatter up and down the more contagious Seeds of Envy

and suppress'd by thy self have yet made a forcible Eruption and fill'd the Mussulman Kingdoms with the fragrant Odour of thy Incomparable Piety and Vertue Even these Remote and Infidel Regions of the West are edify'd by thy sacred Rules and Institutions of a Spiritual Life The Nazarene Priests and Doctors begin to harbour Emulations of thy Sanctity since they have seen no fairer Draught of true Acceptable Religion than what the Chaplains to the French Embassadors at the Port have copied from thy Principles and recommended to their Friends among the Clergy of France Insomuch as Francis Malevella a Blind Ecclesiastick but an Argus in the Sciences has publickly espous'd thy Theorems and Practices having in Print now lately undertaken the Patronage of a Contemplative Life so much insisted on by thee to which the College of Sorbonne have also given their Approbation That Excellent Man tho' he has lost the Use of his Corporeal Eyes yet has a Soul transform'd all over into Light by which he clearly can survey the vast Mysterious Horizon of the Invisible World and penetrate the most recluse and hidden Secrets of Eternity The Age is ravish'd with the Book he publish'd He has Ten thousand Proselytes among the Roman Priests and Derviches None but the Jesuits and Dominicans oppose him The former of these Orders is grown odious throughout Christendom for the Impious Doctrines they maintain and the Enormous Crimes they have committed being notorious Boutefeu's Traytors Hypocrites and Secret Libertines Their Colleges are esteem'd the Shops and Forges of Sedition Faction Publick Animosities Broils and Wars with all the Mischief that is done in Europe The Latter are not lov'd in France because they are generally chosen Officers of the Inquisition Which inhumane Judicature was first projected by St. Dominick their Founder in order to exterminate the Moors from Spain There is a Natural and Irreconcilable Antipathy between the French and Spaniards They mutually abhorr each others Customs Laws and Humours But above all the French can ne'er be reconcil'd to that Infernal Court which tyrannizes o'er the Souls of Men and punishes them for Thoughts It is an equal Crime to speak or to be silent to pray or not to go to Church or stay at Home provided you are Rich. 'T is Wealth the Inquisitors aim at not the pretended Safety and Deliverance of the Church from Enemies and Rebels Therefore the Dominicans and Jesuits being look'd upon as Favourers and Patrons of the Inquisition and for that Reason hated by the French in vain they argu'd against Malevella's New reform'd Model of Interiour Religion which is but a Translation of the Original Dogmata laid down by thee Thy refin'd Sentiments are Prolifick as the Solar Beams which by Ineffable Encreases propagate themselves without diminishing the Illustrious Fountain Each bright and fertile Atom by a miraculous Emanation begets another they multiply by an Admirable Progressive Issue and Expansion from every Point of the Refulgent Center till every splendid Particle becomes a Ray of equal Length and all together produce an entire Orb of Light Thus thy serene Idea's of Religion dilate themselves through this dark Side o' th' VVorld as fast as they illuminate the Moselman Hemisphere The Honester Sort of Western Franks are already by a Demi-Metamorphosis grown half Mahometans capitulating with their Pre-possessions Prejudices and the Force of Education for the rest They go to Church but not to babble o'er a Thousand vain Tautologies which are taught 'em by their Priests and to ensure their Memory are printed in their Pocket-Manuals or Books of Prayer Nor do they number a long Series of the same repeated Oraisons on Beads or use any other Exteriour Form of blind and lame Devotion But with inward Recollection Silence Purity and fervent Application of the Spirit they address themselves to God or rather by a certain gradual Passiveness Oblivion of Outward Things and dying to themselves they prepare and fit their Souls for the Divine Approaches Thus having barricado'd up their Senses and made Retrenchments round the Center of the Mind to secure it from the last Invasion and Assault of Mundane Objects thither they retire desiring Death rather than to take Quarter by a faint Cowardise or timorous Apostacy and surrender to the VVorld These People undergoe at certain Times strange Drynesses Desertions and Sterilities of Spirit which are the Torments that compose the most severe and painful Martyrdoms A common Death or any violent Dissolution of the Body is but the Recreation Sport or Play of Nature when compar'd with these Tremendous Tragical and Dark Annihilations of the Soul A Man at such a Season seems to be reduc'd to an Eternal Catastrophe His Spirit descends and is engulph'd in the Abyss of Hell or Hell comes up to him and yawning with its horrid Dragons-Jaws Murders the Soul with Baneful and Infernal Breath Yet this they find to be the only near directest VVay to Heaven This is the Mystick Fence the Ditch Bastion and Counterscarp of Paradise He that would scale the VValls or enter by the Gates of Eden must first pass through these terrible Out-works This is the streight and narrow Bridge o'er which each Soul must pass that would attain Immortal Life Moses Jesus Mahomet and all the Messengers of God have pointed at this as the only VVay to our supreme Felicity Neither was it unknown to the Ancient Poets and Philosophers among the Gentiles Orpheus and Hesiod recommended it in their Mysterious Verse Empedocles Theophrastus Plato Plotinus Porphyry Jamblichus with many others improv'd the Sacred Revelation adding new Lights unto the Blest Discovery And if we take the History in a right Sence unless I am deceiv'd Socrates died a Martyr to this Important Truth Many of the Learned Hebrew Rabbi's have asserted it The Persian and Arabian Doctors before and since the Holy Flight have been its Advocates And let not Envy refuse to give some of the Christian Priests their due Acknowledgment who preach'd this Doctrine in the Primitive Assemblies taught it in the Publick Schools and ensur'd it to Posterity in Learned Manuscripts Such were Origen and Ammonius Clemens of Alexandria Simplicius Chrysostom Tertullian Augustine and in more modern Times Thomas of Aquin Marsilius Ficinus Bonadventure with many others And 't is esteem'd the Height of Indian Religion to this Day the Bramins delivering it as an Hereditary Article of Faith and Point of Practice from Immemorable Ages Since therefore all Religions in the World agree in this notwithstanding their other Ceremonial and Speculative Differences Doubtless it is the Voice and Will of God not the Contrivance or Innovation of Man Reverend Effendi It is a common Proverb among the Christians That wheresoever God has a Temple the Devil has a Chappel That cunning Spirit like a Serpent winds himself into outward Forms and Ceremonies of Devotion But he that builds a Mosque in the Center of his Soul may bid Defiance to Tagot For that 's the Throne of God near which the