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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIAhS.
houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds and
their generation. We have harmonies (read the '
Harmony
of the World ') which you have not, of quarter and lesser
kindes of sounds divers instruments of musick to you un-
known, some sweeter than any you have, together with
bells and rings that are dainty and sweet. (See my book
of 'Geomancy and Telesmes.') We represent small sounds
as great and deep, great sounds as extenuate and sharpe ;
we make divers tremblings and warblings of sounds which
in their originall are entire. We represent and imitate all
articulate sounds and letters (read my l
Cabbala, or Art, by
and the
which Moses shewed so many signs in ^Egypt '),
voices and notes of many beasts and birds. We have cer-
tain helps which, set to the ear, do further the hearing
greatly. We have strange and artificiall ecchos, reflecting
the voice many times, and, as it were, to sing it, some that
give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, some
deeper, some rendring the voice differing in the letters, or
articular sound, from that they receive. We have also
means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange
lines and distances.
"We have also perfume houses, wherewith we joyne all
practices of taste. We multiply smells which may seem
strange. We imitate smells, making them breathe out other
mixtures than those that give them. We make divers imi-
tations of taste, so that they will deceive any man's tastes ;
and in this Temple of the Eosie Crosse we contain also
a confiture-house, where we make all sweet-meats, dry and
moist, and pleasant wines, milks, broaths, and sallets, in
farr greater variety than you have.
" We have also engine-houses, where are prepared engines
and instruments for all sorts of motions. There we imitate