OF THE ORIGIN' OF CHEMISTRY. ? 



an came to be diftinguifhcd by the name ***. 

 By rmgcls or demons, and Egrcgori, as the/ 

 are called by fome, many underftand, with Bor- 

 richius, the poftcrity of Seth and Tubalcain, 

 (the children of God) the wicked offspring of 

 righteous parents, who being initiated by their 

 fathers in the fecret myflevics of nature, pro- 

 fancd the majelly of their truft, by an- ill-timed 

 loquacity with the daughters of Cain, with 

 wliofe charms they were captivated. By this 

 and other crimes they drew upon themfclves the 

 anger of the Deity f. Who could believe that 

 morofe philofophers.fliut up, for the great eft part 

 of their lives ami Jit the coal- and furnaces of their 

 laboratories would lerioully leek the origin of their 

 fciencc in the tender paflion ? But they did not 

 flop here. Almoil every where in their writ- 

 ings they allude to love fports ; one while to thf^ 

 nuptials of a philofophit king, then to the not 

 of Vulcan, and many other llcrics r/f a iimilar 

 nature ; which, as they fay, are all to receive a 

 myftic interpretation. Wherever Homer itu- 



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