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IR! Great men decline, mighty men may fall, but an honet Philosopher keeps his Station for ever. To your elf therefore I crave leave to preent, what I know you are able to protect; not with word, but by reaon; & not that only, but what by your acceptance you are able to give a lutre to. I ee it is not in vain that you have compaed Sea and Land, for thereby you have made a Proelyte, not of another, but of your elf, by being converted from vulgar, and irrational incredulities to the rational embracing of the ublime, Hermeticall, and Theomagicall truths. You are skilled in the one as if Hermes had been your Tutor; have inight in the other, as if Agrippa Rh