Bibliotheca, Acta et Scripta Magica: Gründliche Nachrichten, Vol. I

and view the society of the learned as a republique republic, and think that everyone among them must belong to a certain party just as necessarily as everyone in the latter is a subject of this or that state, wish to assign me a name in advance and in particular consider me perhaps a Thomasian or Bekkerian Referring to the followers of Christian Thomasius and Balthasar Bekker, who were involved in debates regarding witchcraft and demonology., I ask them only to wait until I have reviewed the writings of Dr. Bekker and the Privy Councilor Thomasius in this Bibliothec Library, as I will honestly and truthfully reveal my own opinion of their opinions during such reviews.

Otherwise, in this new printing, the writing and