Reason, certainly, if it is but permitted to employ the powers with which it is capacitated, not only instructs us that man lives after death, but also that he lives more; that is, that he then comes into the essence and spirit of his life, before imprisoned.

Nam si aspexerit Mars ad Saturno opposito aut quarto tunc convertetur mundus in bellorum capium. Thus writes Avenaris, which, Englished, is, that when Mars beholds Saturn by opposition, or quartile, the world will be involved in wars and bloodshed; and this configuration between sullen Chronus and angry Vulcan we see made this month (viz. August, 1792.) Opposite appearances also of an exceeding mild and amicable nature present themselves to our view; there being no less than three friendly Trines, and three Sextiles also of a pleasing nature, as well as four Conjunctions, bearing good will to mortals below.

In a prophecy written six or seven hundred years since, taken out of the library of St. Victor, at Paris, which is to this effect—“Woe to thee, thou seven-hilled city (Rome) when liberty spreads in France; for then the fall and destruction of thy mighty men is at hand. Woe to thee, thou city of blood; the voice of the scourge, and of warlike horses and chariots, shall not depart from thee; thy gold is darkened; rust hath consumed it, and spoiled it; that is, the gold of God’s word is obscured, and religion is corrupted, &c.

“The Pope’s power will receive a very great shock, civil and religious, before the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred, or near that time.”

See winged Time as swift as lightning flies:
Redeem each moment, and be timely wise.