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

on the Secret Sciences.

[theological] studies, and to substitute for reasoning a science of memory and collections of the Church Fathers The "Church Fathers" (Peres) refers to the influential Christian theologians and writers of the first few centuries of the Church whose works formed the basis of traditional doctrine.. This design was great and good: but, good God, what an undertaking! To openly defy the Pedants, the Universities, and the Monks! May God have mercy on his soul; I told him one day that his project lacked prudence and that it would provoke too many people.

Another made a great stir with his mockeries regarding certain alleged relaxations original: "relâchemens." This refers to the "relaxed morality" or "laxism" that Jansenist critics accused Jesuit confessors of practicing in the 17th century.; but besides the fact that few people believed he was acting in good faith regarding his citations, many found him hardly Christian; and all good people found that this invention did more harm to public morals than it could benefit them, since at the very least it informed the common people of the extent to which the Doctors—who were held in higher veneration by them than this Author—allowed them to relax their conduct.

If all these Gentlemen had been willing to believe me, we would have done better than all that; but everyone follows their own opinion, and that is how the affairs of God are very often delayed. It was necessary to begin by discrediting Aristotle Aristotle's logic and philosophy were the structural foundation of "Scholasticism," the traditional method of teaching in universities and monasteries that the author seeks to undermine., without making it appear that one had the intention of establishing an opposed Philosophy...