He then told me, That he would acquaint the Court with my disaster; adding, that so soon as he had heard the news that went of me, he came to see me, and was satisfied that I was a man of the World of which I said I was; because he had Travelled there formerly, and sojourned in _Greece_, where he was called the _Demon of Socrates_: That after the Death of that Philosopher, he had governed and taught _Epaminondas_ at _Thebes_: After which being gone over to the _Romans_, Justice had obliged him to espouse the party of the Younger _Cato_: That after his Death, he had addicted himself to Brutus: That all these great Men having left in that World no more but the shadow of their Virtues, he with his Companions had retreated to Temples and Solitudes. "In a word," added he, "the People of your World became so dull and stupid, that my Companions and I lost all the Pleasure that formerly we had had in instructing them: Not but that you have heard Men talk of us; for they called us _Oracles, Nymphs, Geniuses, Fairies, Houshold-Gods, Lemmes_,[3] _Larves_[4] _Lamiers_,[5] _Hobgoblins, Nayades, Incubusses, Shades, Manes, Visions_ and _Apparitions_: We abandoned your World, in the Reign of _Augustus_, not long after I had appeared to _Drusus_ the Son of _Livia_, who waged War in _Germany_, whom I forbid to proceed any farther. It is not long since I came from thence a second time; within these Hundred Years I had a Commission to Travel thither: I roamed a great deal in _Europe_, and conversed with some, whom possibly you may have known. One Day, amongst others, I appeared to _Cardan_,[6] as he was at his Study; I taught him a great many things, and he in acknowledgment promised me to inform Posterity of whom he had those Wonders, which he intended to leave in writing.[7] There I saw _Agrippa_[8] the Abbot _Trithemius_[9] Doctor _Faustus_, _La Brosse_, _Cæsar_,[10] and a certain Cabal of Young Men, who are commonly called _Rosacrucians_[11] or _Knights of the Red Cross_, whom I taught a great many Knacks and Secrets of Nature, which without doubt have made them pass for great Magicians: I knew _Campanella_[12] also; it was I that advised him, whilst he was in the Inquisition at _Rome_, to put his Face and Body into the usual Postures of those whose inside he needed to know, that by the same frame of Body he might excite in himself the thoughts which the same scituation had raised in his Adversaries; because by so doing, he might better manage their Soul, when he came to know it; and at my desire he began a Book, which we Entituled, _De Sensu Rerum_.[13]