Preface.

than that he desired nothing from all these things, except those devils that seduce men. Through which the impulse of nature in the human being was completely revealed.

The supposed monarch in the spiritual realm has countless sons, whom he strives to withdraw from both nature and the world, and he takes them in as children, and even puts them into closed monasteries for a trial. But when the riper years of their reason arrive, all the riches and monastic delights are shown to them, which they can enjoy for the duration of their lives, if only they will fall down and worship this Earth-GOD in sworn obedience, and, as spiritual children placed in the flesh, desire to live as fathers of other children without flesh meaning: without the physical reality of family life. But in this point lies the main objective: when these devils, who deceive men, are among such—

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