Preface.

answered, that he desired nothing from all these, except those devils who seduced 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. When, however, the riper years of their reason approach, they are shown all the riches and monastic delights that they can enjoy for their whole lives, if only they will fall down in sworn obedience and worship this Earth-GOD, and as spiritual children placed in the flesh, never live as fathers of other children without flesh. But in this point lies the main objective; when these devils, who deceive men, are with such—

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