The Rape of the Lock

What did Pope write about the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits?

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Pope wrote that all the cantos or sections of the poem were a fantasy from the vision at the beginning and the transformation at the end. The poem was based on the true incident in which Mrs. Fermor lost a lock of her hair. The human characters were as fictitious as the spirits.