Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos'd, or an Universal History of Apparitions Sacred and Prophane, Under All Denominations e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I have, I believe, as true a Notion of the Power of Imagination as I ought to have, and you {hall hear farther from me upon that Head; I believe we form as many Apparitions in our F ameies, as we fee really with our Eyes, and a great many more; nay, our Imaginations fometimes are Very diligent to embark the Eyes (and the Ears too) in the Delufion, and perfuade us to believe we fee Speetres and Ap pearances, and hear Noifes and Voices, when ln deed, neither the Devil or any other Spirit, good or bad, has troubledxtlremfelves about us: BU T it does not follow from thence that there fore there are no fuch Things in Nature; that there is no Intercourfe or Communication between the World of Spirits, and the World we live in, that the Inhabitants of the invifible Spaces, he thofi: where yoaplea/e, haveno Converfe with us, and that they never takethe Liberty to (top down Upon this Globe, or to vifit their Friends here;\and in fluort, that they have nothing to do with or fay to us, or we with or to them. The Enquiry is not, as I take it, whether they do really come hither or no, but 'who they are that do come?