The count of Gabalis, or the extravagant mysteries of the cabalists

on the borders of Poland. He had promised, in letters to the children of philosophy original: "Children of Phyloſophy"; a term used to describe those initiated into the study of the occult, alchemy, and secret wisdom in Paris, to come and visit them, and then to travel from France into England. I was commissioned to write a reply to this great man. I sent him my birth chart original: "Scheam of my Nativity"; an astrological horoscope calculated from the exact time and place of one's birth to determine their destiny, so that he might judge if I were capable of aspiring to supreme wisdom. My chart and my letter were fortunate enough to persuade him to do me the honor of answering me. He wrote that I should be one of the first people he would see in Paris and that, if Heaven did not oppose it, he would do everything in his power to introduce me into the Society of the Wise.

To make the most of my good fortune, I maintain a regular correspondence with this illustrious German. From time to time, I propose to him great...