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according to their vehicles , a versatile life , turning themselves , Proteuslike , into any shape . " We then haA'e a long account of the traA ' els of "the most godly ancl seraphicall y illuminated Father , ancl our Brother C . R . j a German , " who ivith certain Arabs ( p . 18 ) —
" Could restore , by the same course , every Brother that died , to life again ( p . 14 ) . After five years came into his mind the wished return of the Children of Israel out of Egypt , how God would bring them out of bondage . Than lie went to his cloyster , to which he bare affection , and desired three of his Brethren to goe with him to Moses , the chosen servant of God : Brother G . V ., Brother I . A ., and Brother E . O . These four , waxing young again successively many hundreds of years , made a
magical language and writing , which we yet use daily to God's praise and glory . " We have then a long account of the finding * the " Memory of the Fraternity ; " their memorial-table , cast in brass ; the vault with the epitaph" A . C . "R . C . Hoc universi compendium unius mihi Sepulchram Feri . "
But we must abridge this account for another relation , which , as it was thought worthy of being related by Spence , the author of the learned " Polymetis , " may be worthy the attention of the reader : — Eosicritcians . —Spence ' s " Letter to his Mother : " Turin , Aug . 25 , 1740 ( " Anecdotes" by Singer , p . 403 ) : —¦
" Have you ever heard of the people called Adepts ? They are a sett of philosophers superior to what ever appeared amongst the Greeks and Romans . The three great points they drive at is to be free from poverty , distempers , and death ; and , if you believe them , they havo found out one secret that is capable of freeing them from all three ! There are never more than twelve of these men in the whole world at a time ; and we have the happiness of having one of the twelve at this time at Turin . I am
very well acquainted ivith him , and have often talked with him of their secrets , as far as he is allowed to talk to a common mortal of them . " His name is Audrey , a Frenchman , of a genteel air , but with a certain gravity in his face that I never saw in any Frenchman before . The first time I was in his company , as I found he had been a great traveller , I ask'd him whether he had ever been in England , and how he lik'd the country ? He said that he had , and that he lik'd it more than any
country he had ever been in . ' The last time I was in England , ' added he , ' there were eleven philosophers there . ' I told him , I hop'd there might be more than eleven in England . He smil'd a little , and said , ' Sir , I don't talk of common philosophers , I talk of Adepts ; and of them I saw in England what I never saw anywhere else ; there were eleven at table , —I made the twelfth ; and when we came to compare our ages all togetherthey made upwards of 4000 . ' I wondered to hear a
, , years grave man talk so strangely , and asked him , as seriously as I could , how old he might be himself ? He said he was not quite 200 , but that he was one of the youngest at the table . He said the secret of carrying on their lives as long as they pleased was known , to all of them ; and that some of them perhaps might remove out of this world , but that he did not think any one of them would die ; for if they did not like this globe , they had
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according to their vehicles , a versatile life , turning themselves , Proteuslike , into any shape . " We then haA'e a long account of the traA ' els of "the most godly ancl seraphicall y illuminated Father , ancl our Brother C . R . j a German , " who ivith certain Arabs ( p . 18 ) —
" Could restore , by the same course , every Brother that died , to life again ( p . 14 ) . After five years came into his mind the wished return of the Children of Israel out of Egypt , how God would bring them out of bondage . Than lie went to his cloyster , to which he bare affection , and desired three of his Brethren to goe with him to Moses , the chosen servant of God : Brother G . V ., Brother I . A ., and Brother E . O . These four , waxing young again successively many hundreds of years , made a
magical language and writing , which we yet use daily to God's praise and glory . " We have then a long account of the finding * the " Memory of the Fraternity ; " their memorial-table , cast in brass ; the vault with the epitaph" A . C . "R . C . Hoc universi compendium unius mihi Sepulchram Feri . "
But we must abridge this account for another relation , which , as it was thought worthy of being related by Spence , the author of the learned " Polymetis , " may be worthy the attention of the reader : — Eosicritcians . —Spence ' s " Letter to his Mother : " Turin , Aug . 25 , 1740 ( " Anecdotes" by Singer , p . 403 ) : —¦
" Have you ever heard of the people called Adepts ? They are a sett of philosophers superior to what ever appeared amongst the Greeks and Romans . The three great points they drive at is to be free from poverty , distempers , and death ; and , if you believe them , they havo found out one secret that is capable of freeing them from all three ! There are never more than twelve of these men in the whole world at a time ; and we have the happiness of having one of the twelve at this time at Turin . I am
very well acquainted ivith him , and have often talked with him of their secrets , as far as he is allowed to talk to a common mortal of them . " His name is Audrey , a Frenchman , of a genteel air , but with a certain gravity in his face that I never saw in any Frenchman before . The first time I was in his company , as I found he had been a great traveller , I ask'd him whether he had ever been in England , and how he lik'd the country ? He said that he had , and that he lik'd it more than any
country he had ever been in . ' The last time I was in England , ' added he , ' there were eleven philosophers there . ' I told him , I hop'd there might be more than eleven in England . He smil'd a little , and said , ' Sir , I don't talk of common philosophers , I talk of Adepts ; and of them I saw in England what I never saw anywhere else ; there were eleven at table , —I made the twelfth ; and when we came to compare our ages all togetherthey made upwards of 4000 . ' I wondered to hear a
, , years grave man talk so strangely , and asked him , as seriously as I could , how old he might be himself ? He said he was not quite 200 , but that he was one of the youngest at the table . He said the secret of carrying on their lives as long as they pleased was known , to all of them ; and that some of them perhaps might remove out of this world , but that he did not think any one of them would die ; for if they did not like this globe , they had