The diverting history of the Count de Gabalis : containing, I. An account of the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits, viz. sylphs, salamanders, gnomes, and dœmons; shewing their various Influence upon Human Bodies. II. The Nature and Advantages of Studying the Occult Sciences. III. The Carnal Knowledge of Women to be renounc'd. IV. Adam's Fall not occasion'd by eating the Apple, but by his carnal Knowledge of Eve. V. The Rise, Progress, and Decay of Oracles. VI. A Parallel between Ancient and Modern Priestcraft. To which is prefix'd, Monsieur Bayle's account of this work, and of the Sect of the Rosicrucians.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Villars, abbé de (Nicolas-Pierre-Henri), 1635-1673.

Standardized Title:

Comte de Gabalis. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demonology.

Rosicrucians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([10],88,[2]p. )

Edition:

The second edition.

Other Title:

Diverting history of the Count de Gabalis

Place of Publication:

London : printed for B. Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, and E. Curll, at the Dial and Bible, in Fleet-Street, 1714.

Notes:

Anonymous. By Nicolas de Montfaucon de Villars.

With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N3035.

OCLC:

642188571