Part I.

CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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CHAP V.
OF THE POWER AND VIRTUE OF THE DIVINE NAMES.
GOD himfelf, though he be one only efience, yet hath divers names, which expound not his divers efiences or deities ; but certain properties flow- ing from him ; by which names he pours down upon us, and all his creatures, many benefits ; ten of thofe names we have above defcribed. The Cabalifts, from a certain text of Exodus, derive feventy-two names, both of the angels and of God, which they call the name of feventy-two letters and Schemham- phores, that is, the expository. From thefe therefore, befides thofe which we have reckoned up before, is the name of the divine efience, Eheia , rrnK, which Plato tranflates the Being. Hu, xin, is another name revealed to Efay, fignifying the abyfs of the godhead, which the Greeks tranflate tuvtw, the Latins, himfelf the fame. Efch, itw, is another name received from Mofes, which foundeth fire, and is the name of God }.Na, nj, is to be invocated in perturbations and troubles. There is alfo the name Ja, rv, and the name Elion, jvty, and the name Macom, tapia, the name Caphu , nos, the name Innon , pv, and the name Emeth, ton, which is interpreted truth, and is the feal of God ; and there are two other names, Zur, mv, and Aben , pN, both of thefe fignify a folid work, and one of them exprefleth the Father with the Son ; and many names we have placed in the fcale of numbers ; and many names of God and the angels, are extracted out of the Holy Scriptures by our Ca- bala, and the Notarian and Gimetrian arts, where many words retrained by certain of their letters, make up one name ; or one name difperfed by each of its letters, fignifies or renders more. Sometimes they are gathered from the heads of words, as the the name Agla, n*?jn, from this verfe of the Holy Scripture, viz. oiND^yV naunnx, that is, the Mighty God for ever. In like manner the name Iaia, n>n’, from this verfe, viz. -irmniiT wn^Nmrr, that is* God our God is one God in like manner the name Java, wn', from
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THE CABALA i OR,