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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUC1ANS.
London the same day, which is four dayes journey ; they
taught me excellent predictions of Astrology
quakes ; they slack the Plague in Cities ; they
violent Winds and Tempests; they calm the rage
and Earth-
silence the
of the
Sea and Eivers ; they walk in the Air ; they frustrate the
malicious aspect of Witches ; they cure all Diseases. I de-
sired one of these to tell me whether my Complexion were
capable of the society of my good
Genius ? When I see
you again, said he, I will tell you, which is when he pleases
to come to me, for I know not where to go to him. When
I saw him again, then he said, Ye should pray to God ;
a good and holy man can offer no more acceptable sacrifice
to God than the oblation of himself, his soul. 1
He said also, that the good Genii are as the benigne eyes
of God, running to and fro in the world, with love and pity
beholding the innocent endeavours of harmless and single-
hearted men, ever ready to do them good, and to help
them ;
for
at his going away he bid me beware of my seeming
friends, who would do me all the hurt they could, and cause
the Governours of the Nations to be angry with me, and set
bounds to my liberty : which truly happened to me. Many
things more he told me before we name them here.
parted, but I shall not
This Eosie Crucian Physick or Medecines, I happily and
unexpectedly light upon in Arabia, which will prove a
restauration of health to all that are afflicted with sickness
which we ordinarily call natural, and all other diseases.
These men have no small insight into the body ; Walfoord,
Williams, and others of the Fraternity now living, may
bear up in the same likely equipage with those noble Divine
1 This remark is also pirated from the same treatise by Henry
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