Long Livers:

LONG LIVERS :

A . Curious History of such persons of both sexes who have liv'd several ages , and grown young again ; with the rare secret of Eejuvenescency of Arnoldus de Villa Nova , and a great many approv'd and invaluable rules to prolong life ;

as also , How to Prepare the Universal Medicine . Most humbly dedicated to the Grand Master , Masters , Wardens and Brethren of the most Antient and most Honourable Fraternity of the Freemasons of Great Britain and Ireland .

By EUGENIUS PHILALETHES , F . R . S ., author of the "Treatise of the Plague . " Viri , Fratres , audita me , —Act xv . 13 . Diligite Fraternitatem , timete Deum , honorate Begem—1 Pet . ii . 17 . London : Printed for J . Holland , at the Bible

and Ball in St . Paul ' s Church-yard , and L . Stokoe at Charing-Cross . 1722 .

THE DEDICATION . To the Grand Master , Masters , Wardens and Brethren of the Most Antient and Most Honourable Fraternity of the Free Masons of Great Britain and Ireland , Brother Eugenius Philalethes sendeth greeting .

MEN , BRETHREN , I address myself to you after this manner , because it is the true language of the Brotherhood , and which the Primitive Christian Brethren , as well as those who were from the Beginning , made use of , as

we learn from the holy Scriptures , and kn uninterrupted Tradition . I present you with the following Sheets , as belonging more properly to you than any else . By what I here say , those of you who are not far illuminated , who stand

hi the outward Place , and are not worth y to look behind the Veil , may find no disagreeable or unprofitable Entertainment : and those who are so happy as to nave greater Light , will discover under these Shadows somewhat trulgreat and

y n ° ble , and worthy the serious Attention of a Genius the most elevated and sublime : -the Spiritual Celestial Cube , the only ^ ws , solid and immoveable Basis and foundation of all knowledge Peace and happiness .

I therefore , my dearest Brethren , greet yon most heartily , and am glad of this opportunity to rejoice with you , inasmuch as it hath pleased the Almighty , One , Eternal , Unalterable God , to send out his Light , and his Truth , and his vivifying

Spirit , whereby the Brotherhood begins to revive again in this our Isle , and Princes seek to he of this sacred Society , which hath been from the Beginning , and always shall he ; the Gates ¦ of Hell shall never prevail against it , hut it shall continue

while the Sun and Moon endures , and till the general Consummation of all Things ; for since God , my dearest Brethren , is for us , who can be against us ? This heing so , I shall speak to you a ew Words on this important Subject ;

and perhaps I am the first that ever spoke to you after this Manner . I shall as briefly as I can , present you with a true and faithful Mirror , a Mirror which will not , which cannot flatter ( Flattery he eternally hanish'd the Brotherhood ) wherein you may see , or rather be remembered , what you are : and then you need not be

told very much how you ought to act . And in this I shall use that Liberty and Freedom , which is our essential Difference , richly distinguishes us from all other ? , and is indeed the very Soul and Sp irit of the Brotherhood .

, ^' . 'he Style I shall make use of is most dtholiek , primitive , and Christian ; it is what is extracted from the sacred Scriptures . Remember that you are the Salt of the Earth , the Light of the World , and the Eire of the Universe . Ye are living

Stones , built up a spiritual House , who believe and rely on the chief Lapis Angu-Iwris , which the refractory and disobedient Builders disallowed , you are called from Darkness to Light , you are a chosen Generation , a royal Priesthood .

This makes you , my dearest Brethren , fit Companions for the greatest Kings ; and no wonder , since the King of Kings hath condescended to make you so to himself , compared to whom the mightiest and most haughty Princes of the Earth are but as Worms , and that not so much as we are all Sons of the same one Eternal

Father , hy whom all things were made ; but inasmuch as we do the Will of his and onr Father which is in Heaven . You see , now your high Dignity ; you n