The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis, or New Discourses on the Secret Sciences

On the Secret Sciences.

...and of your friendship. I give them to you, he told me, placing his hand in mine. You even seem to me a suitable subject for the great designs that I have formed since my youth. Your Morality original: "Morale" is good, since you suffer insults without being moved, and your Philosophy may become so, since you are not infatuated with Aristotle. Ah! Aristotle, what harm you have done to good morals, and how well the Councils Likely referring to the 13th-century condemnations at the University of Paris which temporarily banned the teaching of Aristotle's natural philosophy. that formerly forbade reading you were inspired by Heaven! Are you not of this opinion, Sir? Is Aristotle not pernicious to Morality? Pernicious, I replied, Sir, most pernicious. And do you not find the age, he continued, horribly corrupt? Horribly, I repeated. And would you not willingly become, he pursued, the Disciple and the Assistant original: "Coadjuteur," a term often implying a high-level assistant or successor in ecclesiastical or secret societies. of a man extraordinarily raised up by the Holy Spirit for the general reformation of morals? Provided that it were neither Luther, nor Calvin, I replied, nor some other man of the same sort, I have enough of an inclination to correct. It is, he said, the most laudable inclination that a Christian can have: one must think only of—