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them, that they, may not hurt the Souls of the Dead. 
As they acknowledge the Being of a mighty Cod, 
ft) they hold that he created the World, and every 
thing therein. They believe that there are almoft in- 
finite number of Worlds, and that God has oftentimes 
Annihilated and Re- Created the fame. But how he 
came firft to Create the World and Mankind, they re- 
late to have been thus — Once on a time (fay they) as 
he was fet in Eternity, it came into his mind to make 
fomething , and immediately no fooner had he 
thought the fame , but that the fame minute was 
a peried beautiful Woman prefent immediately before 
him,which he called J^/e^ Suktee^that is,the firftWoman : 
Then this figure put into his mind the figure of a Man ^ 
which he had no fooner conceived in his mind, but 
that he alfo ftarted up, and reprefented himfelf before 
him 5 this he called Ma^mpuife^ that is, the firft Man 5 
tlien upon a refleftion of thefe things, he refolv'd fur- 
ther to create feveral places for them to abide in, and 
accordingly afTuming a fubtil body, he breathed in a 
minute the whole Univerfe, and every thing therein, 
from the leaft to rhe greateft. 
They conftantly believe that the Univerfe cannot 
poffibly laft longer than 71 Joogs, which is a meafure 
of time with them, and is ... . years. Which when 
It is come, God does not only annihilate the whole 
Univerfe, but even every thing elfe, as v^ell Angels, 
Souls, and Spirits, as Inferiour Creatures 5 and then he 
remains in the fame ftate that he was in before the 
Creation ^ But fay, that after he has a while refpired 
thus, he breathes again, and every thing is Created a- 
frefb^ as well Angels and Souls, as all other things ^ 
bu t as for the Spirits, they are no more thought'^of , 
Yet for all this, after 71 more all is Annihilated 
again. How many Joogs are paft fince the World was 
laft Created they cannot certainly tell 5 only ns ob- 
fervable 
