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Crooked footed men had one, the Cyclops another, Giants another, the Mechili
another. So had they that dwell on the earth, in the air, in the water, and in the fire.
Things also that grow had every one its own proper mystery in the Great Mystery,
whence came out many kinds of creatures. So many trees, so many men, so many
mysteries too. But the eternal only doth bear rule in man, and in his whole mystery,
and no more in one than in another. In the Great Mystery there was not any kind but
might infinity be formed and digested, one different from another. All which must
perish. What more might have been made from thence we forbear to mention. But that
there should be a new Great Mystery is impossible; unless that could be made more
miraculous, which by reason of its wonderful nature we cannot sufficiently search out.

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