SEV DE COSMOGR. 13

For they drew their origin from Syria. For the Turks and Tartars are the 10 tribes of the Jews previously enclosed in Arfareth. And Muhammad, the religious parent and bastard of the Ishmaelites, was for a whole decade a Messiah to the Samaritans proscribed from Judea into Arabia, from where he collected the supreme power of the Ishmaelites. Why has providence thus consulted for that region (until Christians shake off their lethargy), so that when the kings of the Persians had established by edict that unless all and every one of those subject to them in the whole world renounced everything and were initiated into Christ, man and god and true restorer and preserver of the Syriac religion, they should be killed; so that as Christians ceased from defending Syria and true piety there, the semi-Christian and semi-Jewish Ishmaelite would oppose the idolaters there, and the temple of Omar replaced the Solomonic one, while the churches and peoples of the Christians were saved? So that, succeeding the bastards of the adulterated, they might punish them, and render the upright through afflictions, and forced upon the cross.

But in truth, Syria is chosen for this, and adorned with so many and such great gifts, so that it might excite from the West the highest and most glorious kingdom of the world, namely from Gaul and the Gomerites, for this purpose: that, having placed the Base of empire at the burial places of Noah and Janus, it might restore all things in Syria itself, and constitute such happiness there under the Melchizedekian magistracy as God had decreed from eternity would be there, when He had sent Christ there so that they might receive Him as their own, or at least after the resurrection acknowledge Him in His first vicars. For here is established the Base of the whole world, the Anchor, and the middle Nail of the whole orb, so that although the middle can be given and placed anywhere in the D. round