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CHAP. XXIV.
01r TIIE NUMBER NINE, AND THE SCALE.
THERE are nine orders of blefled angels, viz,. Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Powers, Virtues, Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, which Ezekiel figures out by nine Hones, which are the fapphire, emerald, carbuncle, beryl, onyx, chryfolite, jafper, topaz, and fardis. This number hath alfo a great and occult myftery of the crofs ; for the ninth hour our Lord Jefus Chrift breathed out his fpirit. The aflrologers alfo take notice of the number nine in the ages of men, no otherwife than they do of feven, which they call climac- terical years, which are eminent for fome remarkable change. Yet fometimes it fignifies imperfeCtnefs and incompletenefs, becaufe it does not attain to the perfection of the number ten, but is lefs by one, without which it is deficient, as Auftin interprets it of the ten lepers. Neither is the longitude of nine cubits of Og, King of Bafan, who is a type of the devil without a myftery.
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Chap. XXIV,
TALISMANIC MAGIC,
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THE SCALE OF THE NUMBER NINE.
The name of God with nine letters,
Jehovah Sabboath,
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Jehovah Zidkenu,
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Elohim Gibor, '"PD’J D'HlVx
In the
original
world.
Nine quires of angels, Nine angels ruling the heavens,
Sera-
phim,
Merat-
tron,
Che-
rubim,
Opha-
niel,
Thrones,
Zaphkiel,
Domina-
tions,
Zadkiel,
Powers
Camael
Virtues,
Ra-
phael,
Principa-
lities,
Haniel,
Arch-
angels,
Michael,
Angels;
Gabriel;
In the intelligible world.
Nine
moveable
fpheres,
The prim urn mobile,
The
Harry
heaven,
The
fphere of Saturn,
The
fphere of Jupiter,
The
fphere
of
Mars,
The fphere of the Sun,
The
fphere of Venus,
The
fphere of Mercury,
The
fphere of the Moon;
In the celeftial world.
Nine ftones re- prefenting the nine quires of angels,
Saphire
Eme-
rald,
Carbun-
cle,
Beryl,
Onyx,
Chryfb-
lite,
Jafper,
Topaz,
Sardis;
In the ele- mentary world.
Nine
fenfes, in- ward and outward together,
Memo-
ry*
Cogita-
tive,
Imagina-
tive,
Common
fenfe,
Hear-
ing*
Seeing,
Smelling,
Tailing,
T ouch- ing;
In the leffer world.
Nine orders of devils,
Falfe
Spirits,
Spirits
of
lying,
Veffels of iniquity,
Avengers of wicked- nefs,
Jug-
glers,
Airy
Powers
Furies
fowing
mif-
chief,
Sifters or triers,
Tempters,
or
enfnarers;
In the infernal world.
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T ALISMANIC MAGIC.