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A True Interpretation of the Witch of Endor

Chapter 21: Another Epistle of John Reeve's to the same Person.
By Lodowick Muggleton
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The author presents a theological and exegetical argument that the manifestations attributed to witches and familiar spirits arise from human imagination — the seed of Reason — rather than disembodied entities, and contends that spirits cannot exist or walk apart from their bodies. He reads a famous biblical episode about a woman who appears to summon a deceased prophet as evidence to refute popular claims of spirits operating independently, explains how imagination produces visions and voices, contrasts the seed of Reason with the seed of Faith which yields true revelation, and offers interpretations of related scriptural passages to satisfy skeptics and persuade readers.

Another Epistle of John Reeve's to the same Person.

For his Loving Friend Christopher Hill, Heel-maker in Stone-street in Maidstone, in Kent. These

Brother Hill,

I Have received your Letter and your kind Token, for which I acknowledge your Kindness to Truth.

As for my Neglect in Writing to you, my great Troubles of Sickness and Mortality hath hindred it, I hope whilst I am able to write, for time to come, you shall not charge me with any such Neglect; in the mean Season, I do not desire your Charity unless you can spare it. Remember my kind Love to your Mother Wyles, to Tho. Martin, and Goodman Young, and I rejoyce in the Lord for you, that the Truth abides in you. As for the Money, I am glad of your Care for the Truths sake, because it was lent to me upon that Account.

No more at present, but desiring my God abundantly to establish you in all spiritual Excellencies, unto whose infinite Grace I commend you in all Righteousness,

London, June the last, 1656.

John Reeve.