Part I.

CEREMONIAL MAGIC.
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.liars. There is alfo a writing which they call Malachim , or Melachim , i. e. of angels, or regal ; there is alfo another, which they call the paffing through the river, and the characters and figures of all which you may fee in the fol- lowing Plates.
There is another manner among the Cabalifts, formerly held in great efteem, hut now it is fo common that it is placed among prophane things, viz. the twenty-feven characters of the Hebrews may be divided into three clafies, whereof every one contains nine letters. The firfl, viz. onnmjQN which are the feals or marks of fimple numbers and of intellectual things diftributed into nine orders of angels. The fecond hath the marks of tens and
•celeftial things in the nine orbs of the heavens. The third hath the other four letters, with the five final, viz. ^prjmnp, which are marks of hundreds, and inferior things, viz. four fimple elements, and five kinds of perfect com- pounds- They do now and then cliftribute thefe three clafies into nine cham- bers, the firltis of units, viz. intellectual, celeftial and elemental. The fecond is of two’s, the third of three’s, and fo of the reft ; thefe chambers are frame*a by the interfeClion of four parallel lines interfeCting themfelves into right angles, as is exprefied in the following Plate, fig. A.
Out of which, being difleCted into parts, proceed nine particular figures (fee Plate, fig.B.) which are of the nine chambers, characterizing their letters by that Notariacon, which, if it be of one point, fliews the firft letter of that chamber ; if of two, the fecond ; if of three, the third letter ; as if you would frame the character Michael, ViO'D, that comes forth extended with five figures (for which fee the Plate C.) which are contracted to three figures, which then are contracted into one, yet the points Notariacon are ufually omitted, and then there comes forth fuch a character of Michael. See fig. D.
There is yet another falhion of characters common to almoft all letters and tongues, and very eafy, which is by gathering together of letters ; as if the name of the angel Michael be given, the characters thereof fhall be framed according to the fig. E.