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DISCOURSE II.

The Count was pleas'd to allow me the whole Night, to be spent in Prayer; and the next Morning, by Break of Day, he gave me to understand, by a Billet, that he would wait on me about Eight of the Clock; and that, if I approv'd of it, we would go take a Turn together Abroad. I waited for him; He came; and, Compliments pass'd, Let's go (says he) to some Place where we may be free, and our Conversation uninterrupted. I told him, I thought Ruel an agreable Place, and solitary enough. Come along then, cry'd he. We went into his Coach; and all the Way I made Observations upon my new Master. I never, in my Life, met with any Person who had so great a Self-Satisfaction, as he seem'd to have, in all he said and did.

Being now as retir'd as he could wish; Blessed, (cries he, lifting up his Hands and Eyes to Heaven) Blessed be the eternal Wisdom, for inspiring me to reveal to you his ineffable Truths! How happy will you be, my Son, if He is pleased to put into your Soul the Dispositions which those high Mysteries require! You are going to learn how to command over Nature's Self: You'll have God alone to your Teacher, and the Sages alone to your Equals: The supreme Intelligences will be proud to obey you; the Daemons will not dare to be present where you are; your Yoke will make them tremble in the Well-Hole of the bottomless Pit, and all the invisible Nations, who inhabit the four Elements, will esteem themselves happy in being the Ministers of your Pleasure. I adore Thee...