Leland's family had moved to Pennsylvania from New England; the Lelands on his father's side were from Massachusetts,the Godfrey on his mother's from Rhode Island(the other great bastion of unsanctioned beliefs in Colonial North America).Every summer his family returned to Massachusetts,where his mother kept up an old acquaintance with the Transcendentalists at Brook Farm,while young Leland made his first friends among the Native American at Mendon.
Even as a schoolboy,Leland was aromantic and budding mystic,with uncommonly eccentric interests-and the intelligence and luck needed to pursue them.when he was fourteen,his father gave him a share in the free Library of Philadelphia,and this allowed him to use its very rich collection.Languages,whether living or dead,came easily to him even in his youth.He had read Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Occult Philosophy in Lantin before he turned eighteen,as well as the works of Rabelais and Villon in France.
In his eighteen year, young Leland went off to Princeton,where he spent most of his time and energy on subjects outside the college's curriculum.He studied Neo-Platonic philosophy- and theurgy!-and the Hermetic writtings,learned even more languages,and wrote poetry.when he graduated from Princeceton,his father gave him enough money to explore Europe for three years and to pursue advanced studies there.Leland soon betook himself to Heideberg,where the original Rosicruian movement had been launched in the early 1600s,and he enrolled in the ancient university there.At Heidelberg,he leared for the first time how to plat,and also how to fight.by the time he left Heidelberg,he knew how to use the saber the dirk and pistol.By then he had grown uncommonly tall(6 foot 4inches),towering over most other men of his era with a large and powerful frame.
To be continued
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Bloodline inhereditary Traditional Lineage... How nice? When you free to visit my humble abode? 
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