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FIRST CONVERSATION.

I am * predestined to see an extraordinary man every year. The narrator uses "predestined" to imply that his life is guided by a higher, perhaps astrological, fate—a common theme in 17th and 18th-century esoteric writing. Blessed be the Star that has given me this year Monsieur Doctor Jean le Brun A pseudonym or character name representing an expert in the occult sciences.; and blessed be whichever of my friends or my enemies, who for

* This work appears thirty years after the death of its author.