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upon wliat account or grounds it is that fome Tra- 
vellers have ftil'd thefe people Polytheifts, or Acheifts, 
I cannot tell 5 or whether there be any fuch people at 
all in the World, except fome of thebafe common fort 
in all Nations, I much queftion. It is very obfervable 
here, that their Pricfts, or Bramines^ and Holy men, 
whom they call Jagees, when they have occafion to 
write any thing they always put a figure of one in the 
firft place^to fhew,as they fay,that they acknowledge but 
one God, whom they fay is Burme, that is, ImmateriaL 
When they preach to the people, and inftruft them, 
whicliJs-^c^monly every Feaft-day, full Moon, or the 
time of an Eclipfe of either Luminary, they tell the 
common people much of God, Heaven and Hell, but 
very Imperfedly, Obfcurely and Myftically. They fay 
that when God thought of making the World, he 
made it in a minute. 
They account this World the Body of God, for 
all that they fay he s Immaterial ^ and fay that the 
Higheft Heavens are his Head, the Fire his Mouth, the 
Air his. Breath and Breaft, the Water his Seed, and the 
Earth and the foundations thereof his Legs and Feet* 
But aflert in general that God is the life of every^ thing, 
yet is the thtng neither greater nor lefs for him» 
They hold that God dwelt in a Vacuity before that 
he created the World, and that as he dwelt in that Va- 
cuity he created feveralBeings out of himfelf,the firft were 
Angels,the fecond Souls, the third Spirits,all differing ia 
degrees of Purity, the firft being more pure than the fe- 
cond,and the fecond than the third* The Angels, they 
&y, neither aft Good nor Evil, the Souls either Good 
or Evil, but the Spirits, or Dewtasy as they call them, 
adfcarce any thing but Evih 
They have a good Opinion of the Angels, and think 
their ftate mighty happy, hoping that wdien they dye 
they (hall be made partakers of the fame blifs. and plea- 
lure. They 
