The Count of Gabalis

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The author of these pages, which caused a sensation upon their publication and are now a rarity in libraries, is the Abbé de Villars Henri de Montfaucon de Villars (1635–1673) was a French priest and author. His work, The Count of Gabalis, was famously misinterpreted as a serious occult manual despite its satirical tone.. He wrote them at the beginning of the current century While the author suggests the "beginning of the current century" (the 1700s), the book was actually first published in 1670. The writer may be referring to the era of its widespread popularity or a specific French revival. in Paris. The edition upon which this translation is based is no longer one of the first, and was printed in the year 1715 in Amsterdam. From this same year and place of publication comes a certain Sequel to the Count of Gabalis, concerning the new philosophy, a posthumous work original French title: "Suite du Comte de Gabalis, touchant la nouvelle philosophie, Ouvrage posthume", in which, however, an obsessive urge to imitate is noticeable in all its weakness from the very first lines, and which concerns itself merely with attacking the morality of Cartesian physics The natural philosophy of René Descartes, which argued that the universe is a machine governed by mathematical laws, often viewed with suspicion by the religious establishment of the time.. Yet another book under the title: The Assisting Genies original French title: "les Genies assistans"