Philosophie des hautes sciences

1st. The year and the day of the month they were born;
2nd. The initial letters of their names of faith given or baptismal names;
3rd. The number for which they have an affection;
And 4th. the color they prefer.

The price I have taken, for more than twenty years, without having drawn any reproaches, is twenty-four or forty-eight livres (a), at the choice of the Consul-

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1 is the summit of all things, 2 is the end, 3 the essence, 4 the interior & the exterior, and 5 the sphere or the circle.

I do not quite agree with some Men despite acknowledging them as Learned when they con-

(a) When one is unfortunately poor, since I only give the usufruct the right to use and enjoy of my property, one can, without money and without certificates of poverty, question me; but the sorrows must be real, and without being, relative to these sorrows, stained by some vile passions.

tants. Note that these prices are once for a year, during which time the Au-

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found the microcosm with the macrocosm: the first, I can demonstrate in the most authentic Philosophers, bears the number 2, union; and the second bears the number 4, chain, etc.

My Epistle to the late Mr. de Gébelin gave birth to three different sentiments; the most general led those who were affected by it to label me a Charlatan; the middle sentiment judged nothing; and finally the third, more circumscribed, but at the same time the purest, was that it was possible I was a Magician, that is to say, instructed in some branches of the wise Cabale Kabbalah or secret tradition.

Animated by this sort of justice that was rendered to me, since I give myself out as a Diviner, I formed the project of delivering a Discourse in this School, which was quite sensible, speaking of the intellectual Sciences, in relation to