Volume 1

The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America ... / Translated from the French [of 'Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères'].

  • Society of Jesus
Date:
1714
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Credit: The travels of several learned missioners of the Society of Jesus, into divers parts of the Archipelago, India, China, and America ... / Translated from the French [of 'Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères']. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    L294 Oracles begin to ceafe in this Country, and that the Devils grow Dumb and lofe their Power, by Degrees; as the faid Country re- ceives the Light of the Gofpel. Some Time — {pent in the Miffion of India is fufficient to convince any Man of the Truth of thefe two Prominin ee If it fhall pleafe the Almighty to reftore me to that dear Miffion, which I left againft my .. Will, and to which] am immediately to return, there to. fpend the Remainder of my Health and Life, I will fend you a more ample Ac- count of fome particular Anfwers, and of Certain Oracles, which cannot have been de- Aiver'd. by any but the Devil. . It fhall fuffice for the prefent to offer. you fome general Proofs, which cannot but be acceptable to you. | To begin, it is a Matter of Fa&, which no Priefts or Man. in India makes any Doubt of, and which others + the Evidence of it does not allow to be call’d? LC in Queftion, that the Devils deliver Oracles, and that thofe Evil Spirits poffefs the Priefts that call upon them, or even. indifferently any of thofe who aré prefent,. and Parta- _kers» in, thofe Spectacles. The Priefts of the Idols have abominable Prayers to addrefs them- _felves to the Devil, when they confult him up- ©, . on any Event ; but Woe be to that Man thes: © . Devil makes choice of as his Organ. He puts _ all his Limbs into an extraordinary Agitation, and makes him turn his Head’ after a maft frightful Manner. Sometimes he makes him fhed Abundance of Tears, and fills him with that Sort of Rage and Enthufiafm, Which was . formerly among the Pagans, as it is ftill among _ the Zrdians, the Token of the Devils Prefence, and the Prelude to his Anfwers. i aa FUN eS URS - &