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Pantheifticon
FORM Of
O R, T HE
Celebrating the
Socratic - Society,
Divided into Three Parts.
Which Contain,
1
1 deceived.
To which 19 prefix'd
And now,
Mr. JOHN
for* the firft Time,
to LA N D.
faithfully rendered inta
i English. ,, »*
-^ " I .
' I I '
I
'' " ^^^"77^ *
READER.
f l^^^p S one, who hai the Intereft
('^^i of Mankind greatly at
Hearty a7id as a Jlridi
I prefent
eternal
Truth y to you,
(candid Reader) a New Fellowfhip and
ir
A 2 •
New
* Mr. Toland was born the moft Northern
in
Penlnfula of Ireland^ in the Ifthmus of Londonderry,
^:—That Peninfula was originally called, Ints-Eoga>ty
or Inii-Eogain ; but it is now or
called, hujoen,
Jiiis'Owtn. He was chriftcned
Janu: Junius,
whence he calls himfclf Janus Junius Eoganfjiusx
*•*%%% Memoirs of his Life and Writings.
412GIi
To the READER.
New Regulation j by the embracing of
which J you Jhall not only become better
a Lije of Joy,
iind wifery but even live
a Life of Uappinefs and Contentment.
By what Chance, or Care, thefe Things
have been now brought to Light, it net-
iher is my Bufinefs to tell you, nor does
it concern you to know. For to form a
competent judgment of them, our file
View mufi be diredled towards themfelves,
iv£ mujl even confult nothing but them^
Jelves, as no extrinfic EJlimation, much
lefs Authority, can enhance their Value,
i'he Generality of Mankind is averfefrom
Knowledge, and vents InveSiives againft
its Bartizans ; but as Seneca nobly in-
ledge, nat.lib.*.
Cap. 39.
^
Philoibphy (to make fill Vfe o/'Tafc.Dit
\ Tully'i Wordi) contents itfelf with a few P"J;^L'»>-
*' *^' '
Judges i it defignedly fhuns the Mul-
titude, as confcious of its Jealoufy and . ?
FarewelU
To the READER,
Bleft the Man
Who could of Things the fccret Caufes
i trace
And caft all Fears, and Fate's unmoved
Decree,
And roaring Acheron^ beneath his Feet.
Trapp.'
, FarewelU
O F TH E
LEARNED.
AS ALSO
A DISSERT ATI ON upon the Infinite
and Eternal UNIVERSE.
I.
sc*iaii'^a
'°*^» ^^^^ '^^'"y °^^^" ^^^ ^^"^^ Appella-
s, ujiua-' tion but we are not to treat here of
J
II.
III.
Science, iaviiig,
PJNTHEISTICON. 15
Ail Tljuigs are from the IVhokf and
f
the JVhole is from all Tb'mgs,
in- — Air Things are from the All, and chc All it
from all Tbiogi. Stor. Edo^. ?b\f.
i6 PANTHEISriCON.
I could not exprefs thefe Things In
fo concife a manner, with greater Per-
fpicuity, yet for the further Satisfadion
of the Reader, I fliali animadvert upon
them, one after another.
IV.
'':'
V.
To fetftill, in
Manner of the
a clearer Light, thc|
Pantheist's!
Philofophizing, I fay, that the firft Bo-[
dies, or theElements (if I am allowed |
I
many Names for particular Motions,
I
not one fingle Point in Nature being ab-
ifolutcly at reft, but only with regard
to other Things, Reft itfelf being truly
I
VI,
PANtHEISriCOK
VI.
the
* The Spinal Marrow that begins in the Brain,
andram along the Ridge of the Baclc.
f AUiuHx, a thin Membrane which inclofech the
Brain*, whereof there are two, the one thicker, called
Diu-a Mattr^ the other thinner, called ?ia Mattr,
PANT HE I^ luu iv. i ^3
the Ether, I fay, by a wonderful Struc-
ture of the Brain thereunto adjufted,
and by exterior Objedts that ad on the .
'
• —"-wCp ivif
_:
,'
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: sir
It
that
crates, or rather Democritus, in ^
Hal TX XttAct) X«l T<4 x*xa. X*! ct>a9c4 XCtI liiiA Xdlf
e/AtSiXl TX nh KfJiu i'ltUKMivra, retii Tea ffVf^pfiiTi
etjff^avo^swj. :Tii) .fi. T«? nioi'ets" xoc) Tdf" eeVj Jcti* To7<ri
Xftipirci i'lAyircoyKorlic, x*) ej Tcif7rt d.f'lcvx\ rijuiY. Tu
it avTCi Tot/T« xo.) /U*(v3/W£3ra xal '7ra.fx(fp3vii/inr, xxi
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J^i /MeS* H/M4pMr } X*i IJUTTVIX XCtI •JTActlSJ rtXCKpiJt Jttti
ypsvTiJ^ji- ev'x ixvJti/^jitti, xa) iyyomi t Hx^i^tuTcov, x*i
«i;S»n, X*) ei'/rnplif. ^KaJ tccut* 'srajy^ii^vi dirs 7V Ip-xs-
^flwlsy 7r«fc)'Tcc, bray bt©* /<>» nj-jtam J ^m' « ^£p/Mo?£p^
THf 9t)ff|©' ymrxh « *" "'/'poTcpi:^.
» ^jpj-
4''XP°'''*P^»
Ttp©*, n T» rtMo crsTToy^tf 7rc(J&(^ Trapa Tjjf <fwtf, o /loi
iiu^. SeSl. 1 6. The SefHont if acd j^ ihould alfo
be read, or rather the whole Book.
26 PJNTHEISTICON.
to them : By the fame, in their proper ;
mi
PANTHEISTICON. 27
VII.
rp H E Seeds of all Things, begun
Ji from an eternal Time, are com-
pofed out of the firft Bodies, or moft
fimple Principles, the four^ commonly
received Elements being neither fimple
nor fufRcient : For in an Infinity all
.Things are infinite, nay even eternal,
as nothing could be made out of no-
thing, and therefore we may conclude,
that the organic Strudure of Seeds -
D 2 of
PJNTHEISTICON.
of ilmple Bodies of diftindl Species, that
are, as lb many conflituent Parts, ne-
Nourifhment and Increafe
ceflary to the
of that fimple Body. Therefore no
Species of Trees perifhes, in as much as
the Seeds, in which it lives, always re-
main alive, and fliould they be received
in a proper Place, forthwith they imbibe
a more diftind Conformation, Nutrition,
Augmentation, and by Degrees arrive at
a due Perfedion. The fame may be
faid of the other Species of the Univerfe,
not only of Animals and Trees, but
alfo of Stones, Minerals, and Metals,
wliich are not lefs vegetable and organic,
having their own Seeds, formed in their
own Matrix, and encreafing with a pe-
culiar Nutriment, as well as Men, Quad-
ru pedes, Reptiles, Birds, Fifhes, and
Plants.
VIII.
>^T^ I S true, Philofophers, for the
i *•
'. '
IX.
IX.
that
PANTHEISriCON. 35:
'
that there areno real Wanderings of the
Planets, that none of them retrogrades,
none of them ftands, none of them
goes out of its right Road, howfoever
thefe Particulars might appear to the
Eyes of Men. They alfo know exadly
in what Senfe antient Connoifleurs un-
derftood the Mufic of the Spheres:
Thatfo great and fa fweet a Soundy fays - -
Cicero, joined together by unequal Rejls^
c»p. v?^'
though in the exaSleJi Proportion^ is the
Refult of the Impulfe and Motion of the
Orbs themfelves, and mingling Sharps
'with FlatSy conjiantly produces fcverat
harmonious Concerts, The more antient
and wifer Kind of Philofophers
underftood this, not of a flat or fharp
Sound, not of the fevcn-fold Divi-
fion and Agreement of Tones, but of
the wonderful Harmony of thefe Mo-
tions ; whilft Poets departing not from
their Art, indulged their Fancy,
and
whilft the monftrous Forgers of folid
Spheres grew delirious, and as a Punifh-
ment for their Folly, in a Manner heard
the Rapidity of the Sound. How
many,
and what agreeable Problems are cafily
folved by the Pupils of the
Pantbeifls /
As among other Things^ by what Means
E2 the
36 PA NT HE ISHCO N.
the floweft Star can get up to the quick-
eft, which not alledged here, as a
is
X.
ITT^ROM ofExtremes,
this Co-incidence
' rhaviiig
PJ4NTHEISTrC O'N, n
having nothing to do with the Ecliptic. •
•
vations X)f Arijlarchus^ EudoxuSy Hip'
[parchuSy 'Ptohm)\ Copernicus, JRalley^
and other excellent antient and modern
Aflronomcrs ; fo that when the Equi-
noxes come to the Tropic of Capricorn,
there's a Neceffity of their proceeding
farther to theAntartic Pole, and fo after-
wards by turning about to the Artie.
We Britom in reality are more remote
now from the Artie Pole, than in the
Time of Pytheas the Mafilia7i: Al- ,
•
verfities, -Magnitudes, and Oppofitions
of the celeftial Appearances, -defcribed
by antient Aftronomers, feem not fo
much changed to the Senfes, through-
out the Courfe of two thoufand Years
and upwards ; but that we have in ef-
feft come nearer to the Antartic Pole,
not only the Seafons of the Year, by
little and little by the Progrefs
altered
of the Equinoxes, are aTeftimony j but
alfo a milder Temperatenefs of the
fame Seafons, proceeding from hence,
which
38 FANrHEISriCON.
which evidently appears from Hiftory
and the Authority of Obfervations.
This third Motion (which I call Equi-
nodial, to diftinguifli it from the diur-
nal and annual Motion of the Earth)
proceeding gradually from Eaft to Weft,
bringsMatters fo to pafs, that the Sphere,
called the Eighth, or the Region of vi-
iible fixed Stars,though immoveable,*
might feem, neverthelefs, to go from
Weft to Eaft j fo that whether the
eighth Sphere moves over the Poles of
the Ecliptic in Confequcntia, or whether
^^^^"^^ *^ ^ Progrefs of the Equinoxes in
j^rStrl"
efm>me Anteccdentiaf the Appearances will be
'mfiinrn. the fame, and all the fame Things will
afFe<5tour Sight, This Phaenomenon
fliould be explained the fame Way, as
the other Motions of the Earth, former-
ly attributed to the Sun and Planets,
and it muft be refcued from the Ab-
furditics of prating Cavillers, both which
we have fufficlently acquitted ourfelves
of, in the third Book of Efoterics, i *
FANTHEISTICON. 39..
xr.
S a natural Confequcnce of this
equinodlial Motion, every Particle
of our Globe, the fame may be faid of
the other Planets, muft, in the Courfe.
of Ages, undergo all Sorts of Adven-
tures and Viciffitudes. This Inclination
of the Meridian^ fays every Pantbeifii
JJ:ews that the Axis of the Earth does not
always pafs through
\
oppofite Parts;.
Whence it comes to pafs ^ that by little
and little i and infenfibly different and
different Regions, are placed under the
Axis, and the Inhabitants of the Zone^ ,
.
•
.^ „ fets •
XII.
I
I
J. I.
of a Demonftration.
xiir.
BY Ebbing or Declination of
this
the Sea, I fpoke of (which we al-
low to be more eafily proved from the
long Continuance of Time, than from
Obfervation) certain Bodies can be fully
accounted for, efpecially Sea -Bodies,
which are found in every Part of the
Earth, and not only buried deeply, but
alfo very often broken from huge Rocks,
and the hardeft Marble. That thefe are
the real and identical Bones, Spoils;
Remains of Fiflies, and other Animals,
the kavncdWoodward, after the Attempts
of fome others, has copioufly demon-
ftrated, a Man
of great Penetration in
thefe Studies, and deferving well of the
learned World for his curious Obferva-
tions, and fhewing that thefe are
for
not Sports of Nature, nor Stone& of
their own Kind, nor terreftrial Fifhes or
Shells, as many others have idly
dream-
ed. We are to form no other Judge^
men^t
46 P^NrHEISTICON.
ment of the Scraps of Vegetables buried
the fame Way. For all Species of Stones
(as we hinted above) receive their In-
creafe, as well as all other Vegetables,
from a loofe fluid Matter fuitable to
them, which Matter fometimes (huts
up within itfelf the hard and fmall Bo-
dies that perchance fall in its Way, or
running into fuch Bodies, if hollow,
and by Degrees petrifying therein, as in
a Matrix,- finally aflumes their Form.
Thus it is, that we muft likewife ex-
plain the Origin of figured Stones, as
the* EchiteSj '\- ConchiteSy and all of
the like Kind. Efoterics furnifli us with
a ready Explanation j but not the uni-
verfal Deluge, fuch, as there never was,
the Globe of the Earth Aill remaining,
(among others, the famous Stillingjleetj
late Bifliop of Worceller^ proving this
clearly in his Sacred Origins) nor thatv
ever it could in reality be effected by the
Separation of Parts, whatever way any
one (hould take to explain it. I fay this;
with a due Deference to the Learning
- and
• A predoui Stone of a darkiQi green Colour,
and (omcwhat like a Vip sr. ) .
'
,
XIV.
be
ITwewillgo not
along,
amifs to remark, as
that the excellent *
Author, above quoted, upon Diet, •
•
''£){ctr«)"7rpef vrai'7(t» m) •ffUtlei. vfof txasrert rav%»
Lib. I . Sta. I .
G £ XV.
PANTHEISriCON,
XV.
THAT verfal Deluge,
the Abettors of the Uni^
and general Con"
JIagration, ihould not complain, that
notliing is weighing
granted them ;
poflibie. We
are not fo filly as to credit
Dcucalioncan Fables, and iS/wV^/ Dreams,
neither do we allow the fuppofed Qua»
lities of the Peripatetics, which gene--
rating like ones to themfelves, can fome
time or other reduce, or rather change,
all others into themfelves. * Two
Theories are made out of thefe Qualities,
upon the Permutation of the Four Ele-
ment?, which are not Elements, as
mixed, or, if they are fimple, they arc
in no wife fit, as we before remarked,
to expound the Varieties of Things, as
neither is the Matter of Des Cartes's
firft, fecond, and third Elements. Na-
• -
^ ture
. XVL .:- •
_ :
'^
H 2 XVIL
PANTHEISriCON.
XVII.
that
oone fhould make the leaft Scruple upon
any Particular, to pafs by in Silence (as I
confult Brevity) other Interpretations of
fublime Matters made by them. At flated
Times they ruminate on the Law of
Nature, that true and never deceiving
Reafofij (as it is exhibited in the lall Part
of the Form) by the Brightnefs of whofe
Rays they difpell all Darknefs, exempt
themfelves from trifling Cares, reject
all pretended Revelations, (for what Man
THE
THE ^
First Part
'
O F T H E
F O
Of Celedratino
R
tiie
M
SOCRATIG- SOCIETY;
CONTAINING*
TheMoRALs and Axioms of the
SOCIETY.
. ;
The President fpeaks^
May all Happinefs await our Meeting.
The reft anfwer,
We inftitute a Socratic Society,
PRES,
'7
^
;r May Philofophy flourish.
R £ S P,
64 PJNTHEISriCON.
RE s P.
And the politer Arts.
PR E S.
Attend with Silence.
Let this Affembly, and all that is to be
thought, fpoke, and done therein, be
confecrated to Truth, Liberty, Health,
the triple Wifh of the Wife.
•^
REST.
Both now and for evermore.
P R E S.
Let us be called Equals and Brothers.
RES P.
Companions too, and Friends.
PRES.
Let us banlfli Strife, Envy, and Ob-
flinacy.
RE S P.
Let us harbour Sweetnefs, Knowledge,
and Politenefs.
PRES.
Let Jokes and Mirth be our Pleafures.
R E S P.
May the Mufes and Graces be
propitious.
PRES.
We muft not be bigotted to any
one's Opinion.
'*'
. ' . RESP.
PJNl'HEISriCON. '
65
RE S P.
No, not even to that of Socrates hlmfelf
And let us deteft all Priefl-craft,
P RES.
To make Things, notwithftanding,
all
THE^
-^T^\?^
THE
Second Part.
CONTAINING
The Deitv and Philosophy of the
SOCIETY.
PRES.
Keep oft' the prophane People.
RES P.
The Coaft is clear, the Doors are fliut,
all's fafe.
PRES.
All Things in the World are one.
And one is All in all Things.
RE S P
What's All Things Is GOD,
in all
Eternal and Immenfe, .
RE S P.
'
; '
.
* Parent
*
From thence all Things, that receive a
'
Being,
*
Into the fame are anew refolved.
Sometimes tbe following,
* All Things within the Verge of mor- Jt"*'^-
' talLaws Uo.i.^tt,
* Are changed. — All Climates in revol* 515.
*
ving Years
* Know not themfelves j Nations change
* their Faces I
^
Cicero
' Philosophy, thou Guide of Life-'
TttfcDif- * tjiou Searcher out of Virtue! thou, Ex-
put. Lib. •
peiier of Vice ! What, not only would
^•** *
become of but even, what would
us,
* be the Life of Man without thee ?
* Thou haft founded Cities, thou haft
* gathered difperfcd Mankind into a So-
* ciety of Life. Thou haft united them
* to each other, by a Participation
firft
* of the fame Abode, afterwards by
* Wedlock, and finally, by a Commu-
* nion. of Letters and Words. Thou
* haft been the Giver of Laws, and the
* Miftrefs of Manners and Difcipline.
* We have recourfe to thee, we implore
* thy Aid, we devote ourfelves entirely
* to thee. One Day fpent well, and
^ according to thy Diftates^ is to be
pre-
PJNrHEISriCON. 7J;
^
preferred to a prevaricating Immorta-
'
lity. Whofe Riches {hould we rather
'
ufe than thine ? Thou, I fay, that
'
haft granted us ^ /)^r/'^<J? Tranquility
'
of Life t and haft exempted us fropi
'
the Terrors of' Death,'.
RE S P.
Reason is the true and firft Law,
*
The Light and Splendor of Life.
PRES.
^
Think not, (as yc often fee re- Cicero ia
'
counted in Fables) that thofe who
^'^''X*
*
have been guilty of wicked Adions, Ajnerino.
*
are feared and agitated by the flaming cap. 24.
'Torches of Every Man's
Furies.
* own Fraud, every Man's own Terror,
* difturbs him moft ; every Man^s own
* Wickednefs fpurs him on to Madnefs
'
his own bad Thoughts, and the Con-
* fcience of his Mind All him with dif-
* mal Apprehenfions. Thefe arc the
* conftant and dbmeftic Furies of the
* Wicked/
RE S P.
To lead a happy Life Virtue alone is
fufficient,
•
Qu'eft^'ilii.
*
to difcufs what Nature was, (Jivided
i.cap.6, * it into two Things The One efficient :
* of moving and
eJJWng the other Parts,
* that of r<?(:'«'y/«:^, and, as it were, of
* being paj/he^ 1 mean the Water and
* Eartbi
\ :. K 2 :
*
But
* 2. The
Air, Fire, Water, and Eaith. are im-
properly taken for Elements, as we have fticwn in the
prtliminary Dijftrtatim. The Water and Earth are
not faid to be paHIve, as if abfolutely-ever at rcil { but
becaufe Motion in them aifeds not alike thcSenfe(»
as in fire and Air. .>.iu,. . ; . ,t
PJNTHEISriCON.
* But they imagine a certain Matter
*
'
without any Species, and devoid of ail
' that ^ality to be comprifed in all,
* out of which all Things are extracted,
* and by which all Things are effedled,
* capable of receiving all, and imparting
* to them all Kinds of Cha?2geSy under-
* going alfo the fame Dijbiution, not
* jinnihilation^ but rather a ReproduBion
' of Things into their own Parts, which
*
can be cut and divided in infnittwif
' jnafmuch as the minuteft Thing in
* Nature can fuffer a Divifion.'
J What's moved, moves in Spaces
*
^
'
*and
• 3. 'Ihcfirfi Mutter confifts in all the indivifible
Particles of every Species, by whofc Conjunflion and
£)i:juntl>on, all mixed Bodies are made, thefe wich-
out ceafing are refolved into one another, faving tho*
rilways (he conflitucnt Patts^ which neitl^cr can be
divided nor annihilated.
X 4- The Spaces of Determinations, or Boundaries,
(though all Things are in a perpetual Motion, not
one point in the Univerfe being abfoluiely at reft,)
aire the Caufe that no Species of Motion is infinite,
althoujih all Motions taken together can be properly
denominated an vjiniu AOim,
PANtHEISriCON. 4i
* and thus conjointly
' efFcdt the Things
*
that are called ^alia : Out of which,
*
in every coherent and continued Nature^
*
with all its Parts, the P^orld was made;
*
externally to which there's no Part of
*
Matter, nor no Body cxifting.'
* * All the Things that are in the
* World are Parts of the World, and
*
comprifed an intelligent Nature, en-
in
* dowed with perfect Reafon, and the ,
*
fame Eternal-, for there's nothing
* ftroriger to bring it to DeftrmStion :
"•''.. .',.'
....
:
^ Hence
, "
/
--
1 \
y^irg, Qcorg. 1. 4^ y. 22q. Trapp.
(\'r .
,1,
\i-V- ( .1 PRES.
^
64 PANTHEISnCON.,
PRES. '
;
RESP. .r :
Selomo ,
The r»cred
Memory 0/
!
j^JN'fHEISTICON, SI
R E S P.
Let the praife-Worthy be praifed and
honoured.
PRES.
Let us toaft the Muses.
RES P.
Come, we'll drink it moderately^
THE
THE,
Third Part:
CONTAINING
The Libert V of the' S'6c1EtV ;
A K O
PRE S. I
J
:' PRES. & R]ESP.
The Man in confcious Virtue bold, Hor. lib.
PRES.
Among the Wife
Mirth is more eftcemed than Gain.'
RES P.
Mirth is 'the CharadlerifticofaFreemani
Sadnefs that of a Slave.
PRES. •
—
*Tis better to rule over none, . than to
/v o ; ) be any Man's Slaije.
L 2 RESP*
PJNTHEISriCON.
REs p.
One may live honourably without a Ser^
*uanf ;
PR E S.
Right Reafon is the only true Law, Clc. de
•."ii
•
RESP. .
'
PJNTHElSriCOK
RES P. '
-^
The iuperftitious Man, afleep or awakcy
enjoys no Repofe : .
... RES P.
.. As he who weeps.
That he has. not lived to a thqufand
'''' ^
,\''-
- '
. Years.
PRES. •
'- '
RESP.
They are therefore to be defpifed by us j
But not to be negle^ed.
'
. PRES.
£et*s toaft fome Health,
IRESP,
, Come,
PRES.
My humble Service to the SociETV.
RESP.
It (hall go round in full Bumpers.
/I' PRES.
Let the new Prefident give Orders for
all other Particulars.
^
^.^ - U RESP.
90 PANrnEisricoN.
RE S p.
It fhall be done.
» ^ « J.
"The
PANT HE IS TIC on: .91
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viferted in the lafl Tart of the Form,
:,are mt^ always chanted^ other Odes of
the fame Poet are alfo fung entirely,
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bid.Od.2. Anguftum, Amici, Pauperlem pati
:biiOd.»3. Coslo fupinas fi tuleris Manus
[bid.Od.24. Intadis opulentior
Lib,4.0d7. DifFugere nives, redeunt jam gramma
campis
ibid.Od.u. mare temperant,'-
Jam veris comites, qua;
Epod. 2. Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,
Ibid. I a.
Horrida tempeftas coelum contraxit &
imbres. '
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Of a Two-fold
PHILOSOPHY '
' - ; O F TH E
PANTHEISTS.
That fhould be followed.
I.
X Ammian. Marcellin.
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lib. 15. cap. p.
96 PANTHElSriCON.
felves fo illuftrious, both inftituted So-
cieties, yet the Panfheijls allow not all
their Words and Deeds ; for where
they depart from Truth, there we alfo
depart from them, praifing voluntarily
what we approve of, and giving Thanks
to thofe, by whofe Labour we have in
any Shape benefited ourfelves.
II.
UT
perhaps it may be imputed as
) a Fault to the Pantheists for
embracing two Do<!trines, the one Ex^
Exoterica. ternal or popular, adjufted in fome Mea-
fure to the Prejudices of the People, or
to Dodrines publickly authorifed for
-Efotfrica. true } the other Internal or philofophi-
cal, altogether conformable to the Na^
ture of Things, and therefore to Truth
itfelf : And moreover for propofing this
fecret Philofophy,naked and entire, un-
masked, and without any tedious Cir-
cumftance of Words, in the RecefTes of
a private Chamber, to Men only of con-
.fummate Probity and Prudence.. But .
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ration, behave towards frantic, foolifli,'
•
the.
FANTHElSriCON. 99
the Nails of this word and mofl per-
nicious of Monfters, he will not fuffer it
at its Pleafure to hurt on every Side. It
is to Men in Power, and Politicians adu-
vi.
ido PJNTHEISriCOM. »
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III.
i^a
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IV.
*
TT E that knows himfelf, (fays Knowlege
*
Jrl ^"//y; , will iirft fuppofc that '^l^l''^'*
* he has fomething Divine, and he will
* think in himfelf, that bis Genius is
* cohfecrated like any Image of Wor-
*
{hip ; and he will always adt and think
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Wifdonty inafmuch as, at firft, he im-
« bibed in his Mind, an imperfea: Nori,n..
* Knowledge of all Things, adorned by
5 For
* o* pJNTHEISnCON. '
*
As by a Kind of Rampire, he'll L<>^»ck.
* fortify all thefe Particulars with flaunch
V.
UT who Is it, that would not t)C
willing to be more wife and bet-^
ter ? Who is it that could not ? And
where's the End of any DifcipHne, but
to make Men wife and good ? If it is
VI.
TOERHAPS, one more curious, than
J confiderate, fliould ask, whether
in Effedl fuch a Society exifts ? Whether
the Form we exhibited is there recited ?
F I N 2 S.