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....Peregrine.......the destination to "which thou are invited stands high. .The voice of Heaven is gone "forth over all lands......many are "asked......few are chosen.....A revo«lution is at hand.....light is burst "forth ;.....and the children of dark "ness verge on a dreadful eternity.... "The kingdom of the Almighty......

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though hidden from the prophane "and ungodly.........will shortly display its glories around the enligh tened disciples, like the first dawn "of a reviving morning sun, diffusing

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light and vigor over an awakened "creation."

You now see, my new Genius was of that sect' of men, who threatened mankind with a dreadful revolution of things....till,....by working on their ignorance and credulity......they obtained the full power in themselves

to effect the disasters they foretold.... To proceed.......I never had heard any one talk in this way, and although I scarcely comprehended a syllable he uttered...I was not the less astonished and confused....When he had ended his rhapsody.......he looked at me as if his large black eyes would have reached my very soul......I can assure you my hair began to bristle.....I was very much alarmed......I thought I saw the strange things before me of which he had spoken.

We both continued silent for some time....This pause contributed to reassure me......I had just collected presence ef mind to open my lips...meaning to beg an explanation of those mysteries he had so prophetically announced.....when he stopped me,.... proceeding in a less animated tone. and manner.

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Peregrine,....recollect thyself!....

"I have filled thee with wonder....

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By amazing........I have quickened

thy half-expired faculties......Thou "hast been debased;.........but thou "wilt be exalted by thy humility...... "The secret token of the elect is "visible on thy front, and the Hali"carnassian dæmons have lost all power over thee.....Let severe au"sterities purify thy mind from all

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corporeal pollution.....The spiritual "man is born again, and regenerates " in the mortifications......pains....and

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sufferings of the animal man..... " and none other need hope to enter "the kingdom of heaven..........Oh, Peregrine,....light is at hand.....thou "art already in the midst of it....... "and soon shall it be disclosed to thy "eyes......., A messenger.....not unlike "unto the fabled Hermes.......will be "thy conductor....and then wilt thou "be restored to thy primitive inno

"cence........Then wilt thou be my "brother and fellow labourer in the "most glorious of all works;....and "obedient to the law of the Most

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The Stranger now grasped my hand with much warmth, and arose

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Thy heart.....Peregrine....is filled "with admiration.....It is not permit"ted me to say more....I obey a supe"rior voice.....and must quit thee..... "But.....in seven days from the next "moon, we shall meet at Pergamos."

He then embraced me cordially, and, with an adieu full of confidence and affection, left me before I could give utterance to a single syllable, and was soon out of sight.....At first I thought to follow him.....but reflecting that it might displease.....I desisted...

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With a heart.....as he foretold...... very full,....I sat down on the same stone from whence this Genius.....or

immortal Mortal.....had delivered his exordium.....I repeated to myself all he had said....Not a syllable escaped my recollection;....and the surrounding rocks seemed still to retain their whispering echo, and murmur back his gentle accents on my ear.

At length.....approaching darkness forced me to return to Smyrna.......... As soon as I reached home, I made the most scrutinizing enquiries, to discover whether my servant had been instrumental in affording information to the Stranger on the secrets of my life; but it proved the poor old man had never seen him.....or spoken with any one concerning my affairs.....so as to admit a possibility of the Stranger's being informed through such a channel.....besides all the circumstances which happened at Mamilia's.....were alike unknown to my servant, and to all the world.......except the parties concerned.

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