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BIBLIA CABALISTICA
OR
THE CABALISTIC
BIBLE
\v
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
OR
BY THK
REV.
WALTER BEGLEY
EDITOR OF
"NOVA
SOLYMA,"
ETC,
LONDON
MPCCCCIH
AXP AYLE6BVKY.
PREFACE
is
little
this
book, for
THERE
of the
are
a
chiefly
class
contents.
here, that
following
pages
intended
readers
lovers
are,
I
and
collectors
of literary
the
increase
curiosities,
of
who
believe,
on
nowadays.
"
tastes
for the
books
which,"
told,
no gentleman
curious,
in
library
should
be
without,"
as
for
books
not
that
are
paradoxical,
out
of
their
the
common
run,
and
before
met with
well
the
course
their
of
reading.
This
1
book
only
should
therefore
it
meet
requirements.
And
can
hope that
the
will also
curiosity of a few,
bibliophiles
whose ranks
enlistment.
joined
have
never
regretted
my
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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PAGE
27
APOCRYPHA
...
CURIOS,
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67
SCRIPTURAL,
PATRISTIC,
Ir 5
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
AM
rather afraid that the
title
will
of the contents of this book, for there is an old cabala and a new cabala, and these two are different. The first is mainly very Hebrew, and occasionally Greek the second is almost entirely Latin, and of much later invention, not being heard of till about A .D. 1530. The old cabala per gematriam, as it was technically spoken is well known to of, Biblical scholars The new cabala everywhere. is scarcely mentioned in any books of reference, and the works con taining specimens of it are rare in the highest degree this latter fact accounting for the general want of knowledge on the subject. What I mean by saying that the title may convey a wrong idea is that ninetynine persons out of a hundred would think of the old Hebrew and Greek cabala and the Jewish fancies therein displayed, whereas our Cabalistlca has mainly to do with the record of Christian fancy on Bibha^ Christian themes while here the Latin tongue is the one chiefly used. It matches my Biblia Anagrammatica, and runs on exactly parallel lines with it, being a collection of Bible texts treated in this case
idea
as
they are in that case anagrammatically, and therefore choose any other title.
this
cabalistically,
could hardly
at the
However, I have not failed to notice in an appendix book some of the strongest and most
I
older cabala, so
altogether disappointed.
the
subject
the whole.
Moreover, some general remarks on this more ancient part of are needed now, to as an introduction to begin with,
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
MYSTICAL
AND
CABALISTIC NUMBERS
IN
THE
ANCIENT
SCRIPTURES OF
and This curious branch of theological science has been investigated and quite recently two discussed by many writers, ancient and modern, Mr. J. H. Weldon, have gone deeply into writers, Dr. Bullinger and not before noticed. the matter and added many curious coincidences no means of equal value, and The instances given by them are by But their cabalistic deductions from some are not very convincing. and 153, are so the numbers of the Bible, notably 8, 13,
some of
best of them in my remarkable and novel that I have included the To readers not numbers in the appendix. survey of the cabalistic taken in connection conversant with gematria they will be a surprise, and, sufficient to show that with other instances adduced, will, I think, be than mere random fancy in there may very possibly be something more Writ are used by the the way many special numbers and names of Holy from my inferences than I claim no more
original
this,
writers.
Personally,
professed students go the following statement is unobjectionable Anyhow, of numbers in Holy Scripture deserves more study symbolical meaning This is a remark and attention than it has received in recent times." who of Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, a learned and judicious scholar, man. It was made was the very reverse in every way of an extreme made such some years ago, and since then the science of theology has that nowadays one well as in other directions, rapid progress, in this as Bible deserves venture boldly to say that even the cabala of the can has been dismissed almost It than it has received.
although
many
much
farther.
more
universally as the
and most unproductive of literary follies. in agreement All educated men of evenly balanced minds were virtually be any magic power or in their view that there was not and could not and all in gematria or the counting of a name or text, significance interest in such puerile fancies were either stupidly people who took in their conceptions of what true or
vainest
superstitious
study
grossly
ignorant
knowledge was.
As
judgments
other so often happens in the matter of literary judgments, and both right as well, these cultivated and judicious men were
INTRODUCTION
and wrong. They were right according to the lights and knowledge of their age, and their judgment was sane according to the evidence before But there was a great deal of evidence not before them, which them. has since come to light and made their opinion, which was once relatively right, become now relatively wrong. In days gone by, no one thought of looking upon a Primitive
Christian in the light of an initiate with mysterious knowledge carefully To all Churchmen, High or Low, Primitive conveyed and concealed.
became wise unto salvation by about the same or some what similar means as Primitive Methodists become converted men This was the current idea true enough in a certain sense, nowadays. of course, but withal very misleading, for how much of importance was
"
Christians
"
overlooked or
unknown
various complicated ways in which the earliest Christianity was into connection with the Greek, Mithraic, and other mysteries, brought is almost a study of the last half-century, and has a by no means unimportant connection with mystic names and numbers. And the same be said of the Essenes, the Neo-Pythagoreans, and all the
The
in Gnosticism, which were, like microbes, the air," naturally infecting more or less every religious growth within their sphere of influence, according as the nidus was suitable or not. The disputants of past generations were unaware of most of these things. And yet the Primitive Christian was an initiate plainly enough, and But the Christian had a disciplina arcani even as other initiates. had this advantage over other mysteries there was with them mysteries
"
That
is
and on for behold, the door was opened in heaven to say, Christianity was an initiation of a more universal
"
"
mysteries or any of the various other mystic rites which multiplied to an unusual extent just In Christ Jesus there was no bar before and after the Christian era. Whosoever will, let of birth, nationality, or even of moral conduct. him come ; Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
character than was allowed in the Eleusinian
"
"
"
Sinners, slaves, uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free." and outcasts were invited to come freely. Women, too, debarred from the great mysteries of Paganism, were accepted here on equal terms. In Christ Jesus there was neither male nor female.
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I
believe that
this
widow
and
final
acceptance of the woman virgin, wife, and to the rites and ceremonies and religious
religion, had more to do with the rapid progress of early Christianity than is generally supposed. The triumph great reason is not sufficiently dwelt upon by the critics and historians of the Rise and Progress of our Faith. Women comprise half, or more than half, of the human race, and their susceptibilities to a religion of faith and hope are much stronger and more persistent than those of the sterner sex. Even allowing that with women these feelings are less sceptical and critical than with men, we must not forget that religions rise and advance not by the dry critical faculty so much as by the Besides, would not imaginative enthusiasm of the anima naturaliter pia. a religion of love and peace appeal more to the impulsive woman than
privileges of the
new
to the fierce warrior or the subtle logician ? Many of the early Christians had, no doubt, been initiates, and when converted to the new method of salvation that Soteria so many were seeking in those days of religious revival they would readily understand the mystic or cryptic allusions in the writings of the New Testament, especially when written by converted initiates, as the writers of the Epistle to the Colossians and the Apocalypse most probably were. The mystic numbers of Daniel and the Apocalypse would be no new ground to initiates and deep religious inquirers. The philosophy of the ancients was greatly geometrical. It is a reported dictum of Plato that God Himself and it was the mark of the wise to under yea^erpet, stand hierophantic and other mysteries, and to deliver them in turn It was esoteric (IlapaSocris). knowledge not meant for those that were without, and therefore there was a certain concealment to preserve such matters from profane eyes ; but it was the duty and privilege of the "wise" within the fold, of those who had to "count "understanding," the number and possess the secret. Besides the cryptic signs known by tradition to the initiates, there was cryptic astrology as well. Many of the mystic numbers in the Bible are connected with the
"
astronomy, motions of the heavenly bodies, the yearly motion of the sun (as was then thought) through the constellations, etc.
it
signs in the Apocalypse are manifestly taken from the heavenly and indeed we learn from the first chapter of Genesis that one bodies,
The
INTRODUCTION
"
of the purposes for which these heavenly luminaries were created was and this purpose was put first in the sacred text. to be for signs," Therefore we should not be too ready to say, as many do, that these remarkable cabalistic coincidences were not originally intended by the
but have been extracted from the text by the ingenious fancy and device of men who found what they looked for. We may admit that ingenious manipulation of words and numbers but has sometimes brought out what was never intended, nay, often too clear, too precise, and too startling there is an honest residuum, of the to be anything but positively indicative of the cryptic cabalism the composers of the sacred books of the Biblical writers. Many of and especially the Revelators. Bible, the compilers, too, of the Gospels, feel bound by the nature of their themes such as Daniel and John, would To take one simple instance to be cryptic and cabalistic and esoteric. and the u And the third a marriage in Cana of Galilee day there was is that this is throughout mother of Jesus was there." My strong opinion more in a cryptic statement of an esoteric character, that there is much and that by the words I have it than appears to the ordinary reader, in the narrative as well, the writer intended to italicised, and farther on some theological or spiritual truth which was wise convey to the And account of a provincial wedding feast. widely different from the with regard to the herd of will hold I think the same remark
writers,
:
"
"
good
the swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea (the deep, choked. abyss ?) and were because we do not know what the cryptic teaching of such It is just make the narratives is, that they seem so strange to us in the Bible, and faith of many grow cold. broke off the engage It was ignorance of these things that nearly famous Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity, and his ment between the at Bishop affianced lady, Miss Joanna Bernard, whom he first met from which latter fact we might infer that she was Stillingfleet s house, severely orthodox. her It seems she was much alarmed one day by some expressions to the measurements of the golden image learned lover used with regard which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. They seemed to her to Whiston has told of the Book of Daniel. cast a doubt on the authority
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
s
us what Bentley
sixty cubits high,
The image
Now,"
is
described as
this
is
and
;
"
six
it
cubits broad.
to
"
said Bentley,
have been ten cubits broad at least." proportion ought we are told, made the good lady weep." It has been supposed This, that this lovers difference was amicably arranged on the basis suggested that the by Whiston sixty cubits included the pedestal. Anyhow, they
all
out of
happy wedded life together for forty years, and considering the Master of Trinity s determined temper and almost lifelong worries, we may well agree with Professor Jebb (Bentley, p. 98) when he says, Perhaps, if all were known, few women ever went through more in trying, like Mrs. Thrale, to be civil for two." But what a regrettable incident if forty happy years of married life had really thus been sacrificed, through both parties being ignorant of the mystical and cabalistic meaning of the number 6 It was the ordinary method in all mysteries for the hierophants or mystagogues to convey hidden truths by means of a more or less obvious fiction. They would thus use a myth, or parable, or significant number,
lived a
14
!
recently, surface is
It
meaning, and, as an anonymous writer has said very to pass that the crude and -childish lie on the ignorantly believed for the whole truth, instead of being
has
come
clue to its inner All theology is meaning. way, and her twofold utterances must be read with a double mind. Thus, when we read in the Scriptures of the Church, or in the saintly legends, a fiction showing more than ordinary exuberance of fancy, we may be sure that our attention is being specially arrested. When miraculous events are related of the gods, or when they are depicted in marvellous shapes, the author gives us to understand that When singular and unearthly something uncommon is being conveyed. beasts are described such as Behemoth and Leviathan, the unicorn or the phoenix, it is intended that we should search deeply into their meaning for such are some of the artifices by which the ancients at once concealed and explained their hidden mysteries.
recognised
as
the
mere
composed
in this
"*
As
that
far as the Old Testament is concerned, it has been supposed some astronomical science of the Hebrews is mystically concealed
*
1897), p.
10.
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under the figures of Noah s Ark, the Tabernacle, the Temple of In the New Testament it Solomon, and the Holy Oblation of Ezekiel. that the Christians added to these the mystical city of the is thought New Jerusalem described in the last two chapters of the Revelation. It seems clear that Daniel s numbers are in some way astronomical, and the same holds with many of the numbers of the Apocalypse dealing with the consummation of the age, while gematria was evidently a part of the esoteric teaching in the early New Testament days, as appears from the number of the Beast, and from what we read in the Epistle
of Barnabas (chap, ix.) concerning the number of Abraham s servants, Abraham circumcised 318 "For which was 318 scripture says that But what was the mystery that was made known house. men of his For the numerical unto him ? Mark first the 18, and next the 300. And these denote IH(^OTS). And and 18 are IH. letters of 10 he because the Cross was that by which we were to find grace, therefore Wherefore note of which is T (the figure of his cross). the adds
:
and by the third his cross. He knows No one the engrafted gift of his doctrine within us. this who has put word from me than this, but I know that ye has learned a more genuine
signified Jesus,
are
worthy of This is ingenious, but the later rabbis have, in a midrash, I think For they, finding that the name of Eliezer, Abraham s surpassed it. from this that Eliezer himself steward, was by gematria 318, inferred armed men of Abraham s household, and that stood for the 318 Abraham got the victory mentioned in the Bible with Eliezer alone, who was equal to all of them, and that he left the rest of them at home.
it."
The Abraham
Prudentius refers to this number of early Christian poet in his Psychomachia, and adds that we, too, may be s servants rich in servants, and successful in our conflicts if we only comprehend the mystica figura of the number 318. The passage has been rather a crux with commentators, who in three their expositions have found, as did Mr. Gladstone so often, to them courses open i. With Rupertus, Pererius, and Antonius Nebrissensis, they might conclude that the Council of Nicaea and its 318 bishops there assembled
:
was the reference intended, and that the Nicene Creed was the mystica
io
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
figura which should so greatly avail us ; being that whereby the great opponent Arius was routed by the 3 1 8 bishops, and whereby we should prevail also if we held it fast to the end. 2. The explanation of Barnabas as recorded above. was the 3. The explanation that VnICa CrVCIs
figure
too early for any chronogrammatic device such as No. 3, which therefore out of court. As for the apocalyptical number 666, the amount of time and discussion that has been wasted on it is
is
much
flgVra mystic meant by Prudentius, which, according to the value of its Latin numerals was exactly 318 viz., three C s, three V s, and three Fs. I think No. 2 seems the most The date of Prudentius is likely.
Christianity one, and herein is the explanation of the persecution of the Christians by the Caesars, good and bad alike, Marcus Aurelius as well as Nero. The wily politicians in high places saw the democratic and socialistic danger ; and the peaceloving, brotherly community of watchful, expectant Christians saw their
David Thorn, a Liverpool minister, composed a large octavo of more than four hundred pages on this number, and discusses many of the solutions very learnedly. Strange to say, he dismissed the most likely number of the numerous list without a remark. We shall see in the appendix how ingeniously our concealed Lutheran cabalist stamped it indelibly on one of the Popes Leo X. The Popes have always had this bestial mark given them by Protestants, if it could possibly be fixed upon them in one way or another. But now, surely, we know how wrong and foolish all this defaming and branding of ecclesiastical What had the Apocalypse dignities is. to do with the The Apocalypse spoke Popes ? The idea seems absurd. to the initiates who had Its concern was understanding." mainly with current political events and the wondrous soon to happen on the things earth. Consequently we must not look for the solution of 666 in an ecclesiastical direction. The Popes and the Apocalypse are very far Caesar and his apart. Babylon," and the privileges of Roman citizen ship (possibly the mark of the Beast in the hand), were the burning questions of that book and age. There seems a great that was a socialistic
"
amazing.
"
movement
probability
as well
as a
religious
and
moral
real
INTRODUCTION
It
1 1
was Rome, the second Babylon, the mother of wealth, idolatry, tyranny, and all the abominations of the earth. If the peaceable kingdom of Christ was to be set up, then the cry must first resound through the The Sibylline books, both Jewish and earth, Babylon is fallen." Doubtless there were many com Christian, point in this direction. munistic socialists and initiates among the readers of the Seer of Patmos. To them Christ was Lord, not Caesar, and that was the ultimate test Such as that brought so many of them to the lions and the flames. they would not be very long in guessing or counting out by gematria that Beast which has puzzled so many generations since. But my Elblia Cabalistica only touches upon the mystic numbers
"
is to of the Bible incidentally. Its primary object, as already hinted, to the curious reader a collection of texts from the Bible and present Apocrypha, which have been treated cabalistically by ingenious authors, and which are for the most part unknown even to bookworms of It runs strictly parallel in its method to my considerable research. Biblia Anagrammatica, and both deal only with Bible texts throughout, the one great exception being the early Lutheran exposition of 2300, 1290, 1335, and 666, which are numbers rather than texts, and this has been added on account of its rarity and singular ingenuity, and thrown into an appendix with some other singularities connected with the numerical cabala of the Bible. Now, when did this science or pseudo-science first make its ap How old is this gematria^ this exposition of words by their pearance ? numerical value, in which the Talmudic Jews, and other people before them and after them, so much delighted ? I do not suppose any precise date can be given at this distance of time, and when the records of Eastern nations which might throw light on the subject are lost, or rather not yet available. For who, after our Babylonian and Egyptian can dare to say we may not yet find further accounts of the rise finds, and influence of this branch of esoteric philosophy ? However, in any case, I believe the cabala was used much earlier must go behind the Jews farther back than most people think. into the ages to people more civilised than they were, if we wish to meet What the Eastern with the prima stamina of these curious devices. wisdom dealt largely with numbers nations understood by the term
We
"
12
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"
Without going too far back into the dim past as the time when Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," we may safely say that the Jews, during their captivity in would learn the "wisdom Babylon, of the Chaldeans, and this was most distinctly numerical and astrological, connected with recurring cycles of stellar motion and times and seasons marked out by the stars and the sun s passage through them. And later on, when through the liberal treatment of the Greek Ptolemies they
"
lived in free intercourse with the philosophers of all schools at Alexandria, the Pythagorean doctrine that number is the active principle and root of the visible world would doubtless be to their notice.
brought
Indeed,
find that very idea was current among them in some of those Biblical writings we call the which really hailed Apocrypha, not from Jerusalem, but from the Alexandrian Judaic school. good instance is Wisdom xi. 20, where we read But Thou hast ordered all
fact,
as a matter
of
we
"
things in measure, and number, and weight." The numerical cabala of the old kind was at favour and influence during the period
i.e.,
its
greatest height of
introduction of Christianity and ending B.C. 100 A.D. 300, which period would include the later Persian, Chaldean, and Alexandrian precursors of the Gnostics, and the Gnostics themselves, who were, some of them, great cabalists, and more addicted to the art than the contemporary Jew or the Christian mystic who remained orthodox.
authorities, whether Imperial or Pontifical, never curious art with favourable To the Emperors eyes. it seemed allied to the art of the mathematici," a class of men they hated and feared, although they consulted them. To the ecclesiastical
However,
the
looked upon
this
"
savoured of heresy, Gnosticism, and Judaism. So it out of favour, but it remained with the Talmudic gradually Jew who wisdom," and it burst forth with a new sought after light when the Zohar was found, or rather concocted, in the thirteenth century. The mediaeval Jews, too, we are told on good authority, continued to practise with great glee these old devices of their forefathers. Another class of Jewish (mediaeval) pastimes was of a more intellectual nature. Arithmetical tricks known as gematria were old favourites instances of them are not unknown in the Old Testament perhaps
authorities^
it
fell
"
INTRODUCTION
(cf
13
very events, they Zeitschrifa 1896, p. 122). of great in the Middle Ages, and formed the recreation much fancied The Talmud, for instance, humorously says that rabbinical scholars.
Stade
s all
At
were
good Jew must drink wine at Purim until he can no longer distinguish The point between Blessed be Mordecai and Cursed be Haman. of the of the remark was derived from the numerical identity = 502)." words forming the two phrases (each
have J the beginning of the eighteenth century, in honour of a found an instance of a Jew using the Biblical cabala As this broad-minded Jew made use of the first three Christian prince. in its place in the present book verses of Psalm xxi., the attempt appears Simon Woll and the pamphlet figures in the bibliography (s.v. 1701, But in these later times of the sixteenth and seventeenth Brandes) the converted Christian ex-rabbis who made the greatest
And
later on, at
centuries,
it
was
their in every case with a view to convert public use of the cabala, who are told of a cabalist (presumably a Christian) brethren out of the dimensions of obtained the name of Jesus (Jod, Schin, Vau) And the Jewish rabbi, the Ark, and again out of Solomon s Temple. afterwards called Ludovicus Carret (he became _a Theodorus Genuensis, to Christianity by the wonderful cabalistic physician), was converted could be drawn from the tnhteral name JbV mysteries he had noticed the three-headed letter (Scnm) always declared that (in Hebrew). W. Schickard, in in the middle referred to the mystery of the Trinity. is my his work, Bechinath Happeruschin, Tubingen, 1624, pp. 65-102
We
He
authority, Fisionibus
and
Dei.
refers
to
I I
entitled
DC
Faulhaber, Weissarunren, Augsburg, famous prophetical numbers stag are taken, with the result that the hoofs and 666 1260, 1335, and 2300 all come out from the horns, a wonderful fish back of the portentous animal. And again, he takes on it, and from found on the coast of Denmark with strange characters more the Apocalyptic once a cunning manipulation of these he brings out marked These marvels have always been received with numbers.
* Israel Abrahams, the Middle Ages (London, 1896-8), p. 381. Jewish Life in
This which
have not met with, but there have seen, entitled Vernunfftigen Creaturen of a wonderful 1632, where the measurements
is
book by
H
We
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with
attention by the uneducated vulgar, which I suppose accounts for their recurrence. must remember, too, that neither the Jews nor Greeks in ancient times used special and distinct numerals as we do ; for with them the letters of the alphabet were their numerals, and therefore the number of a word was much more open to observation and calculation than
us.
The
:lmchmg
great
their
known
itan
many of the Talmudic rabbis had for arguments by means of the numerical cabala is well
liking
that
to Oriental students.
For instance
brother of Rav Salla the Holy, said has no permission to accuse any one on the Day of Atonement low do we know this ? Ramma bar Chamma Satan by ematna equals 364, therefore on that number ofreplied days only has he permission to accuse ; but on the Day of Atonement (i.e., the ?6cth day) he cannot accuse." (Yoma, fol. 20.) (2) There are 903 sorts of death in the world, for the expression occurs (Psalm Ixviii. The numerical value of 20), "Issues of death." is The hardest of all deaths is 903. by quinsy, and the the Divine kiss-of which by
(1)
"
Rav Yehudah,
the
"
(Berachoth,
(3)
It
fol.
8.)
of the aphorism.*
was said by one of old Blessed is he who submits to time, and is silent, for a hundred evils reproach Now depart from him Hebrew letters equals 100, which explains the particular form
"
in high estimation bookish Jew, almost until theJast or two, and I have century there are learned cabalists among the conservative Talmudists oland and Galicia even now.
The
cabala
had
two
distinct
The former
itious
dealt with
and good, by names and charms, and such-like folly of the superimagination. It was naturally most in favour with the lower-class Jew and the uneducated vulgar, and this part of the cabala does not enter
the
spirits
The
latter,
the study of
<*"
Talkie Miscellany.
INTRODUCTION
rabbis
i$
and
literati,
odium during the period of the Early Renaissance, when alien and heretical literature were, for the first time, beginning to be freely examined by daring spirits, in spite of the ban of the ecclesiastical
power.
That Admirable Crichton of his age, the famous Johannes Picus, Comes de Mirandola, went into these matters at considerable length in some of his treatises, and incurred, in consequence, much abuse from his adversaries in monkish and obscurantist coteries. They displayed their a conver sometimes in a rather amusing manner profound ignorance of these dunderheads is thus reported by our learned sation between two What is this cabala that they talk about, nowadays ? says Count one to his fellow. Oh, don t you know?" says the other. "This he cabala is a certain diabolically perfidious man, and that is his name and so his followers are called has written many things against Christ,
;
"
"
"
Catalist*"*
later,
What
is
this cabala
that
"
She
is
an
enchantments."
thoroughly practised in poisonings and In this case it was clearly the practical cabala that the
old
witch
respondent was thinking of. But all this would be vile and ignorant to the good Talmudic Jew. His precious cabala was part of His account was a very different one. on Mount Sinai, during the night the oral law of God given to Moses when there was no light and no stars J (on account of the cloud, I much to be done otherwise. suppose), and therefore nothing As for the origin of the modern Latin cabala, we are able to fix it much more definitely. It appears to have come into use first in Germany about the time of the Reformation (1530-50), and afterwards it took of Piacenza, in the year a start in chiefly in the neighbourhood
Italy,
quendam hominum
Quid Cabala esset ? respondit fuisse perfidum diabolicum qui dicebatur CABALA, et hunc multa contra Christum scripsisse unde sequaces ejus dictos esse Cabalistas. Picus in Apolog., 116. t Thorn. Garzoni, // Teatro (1549-89). Cf. Z. % In monte Sinai noctu, cum lux deficeret ob candelarum absentiam. quidam
interrogaretur
:
Cum
et
duo
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of each other, and,
that
is,
These two origins were quite independent the systems of counting were not the same. indeed, In Germany they began with triangular numbers
1621.
the letters
were numbered according to arithmetical progression, i, 3, 6, 10, 15, etc., which when represented by dots are all triangles increasing regularly
in
size,
e.g.
etc.
it came about that this particular kind of gematria was chosen Our first worthy cabalist, who is It happened thus rather singular. for the remarkable treatment of the Apocalyptic numbers of responsible
How
is
St. John at the end of the present book, was an ardent and was possessed by the fixed idea that the Beast with the Lutheran, seven heads \vas one of the Popes, and, for preference, Leo X. Whoever it might be, this much was clear his number must be 666. So he began = 2, c 3, etc., but could to reckon by the simplest cabala, a i, b
Daniel and
He therefore increased his alphabet value by get nothing appropriate. each letter equal to the sum of all its preceding letters, and making
found, to his surprise and delight, that many remarkable results came out at once. still remember well," he says in his cabalistical book, "how this final anathema of the Pope s Bulls sounded in my ears horribly
"I
:
Dei omnipotent is, etc.^ contrary to the tenor of this Bull shall know the What blasphemy, thought I, that a dying wrath falling upon him). miserable man (ellender} should dare to assert that his wrath was the wrath of Almighty God. Here, said I, is one of the heads of the Beast
(Whoever
shall act
721
721
surely.
cabala,
And
in
wrote
Indignatio Dei
by
I
my
have
and so
proceeded
my
The
held
its
cabala trigonalis thus singularly brought into vogue in Germany ground there almost to the exclusion of the simpler cabala for
some
in
INTRODUCTION
his steps,
17
his
height of excellence.
The
early
arithmeticians, especially Boethius, had a great deal more to say about than we have, and it was probably triangular and polygonal numbers from these sources that our cabalist obtained his singular notation.
we hear nothing of any Latin cabala till nearly a century and then, in 1621, a circle of literary ecclesiastics started the later, fashion on the occasion of the left arm of Blessed Conrad, a famous hermit in his time, being brought from Netina to Piacenza. A full account is given in the book Anathemata B. Conrado (Placentia, first Latin cabala that was made viz., 1621), and we are even told of the
In Italy
13 12 16
4 19 17
19 17
10 9
The
dedication
relative
probably a
may
this
by
book.
The
i
ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTUXYZ
2
?
10
12
13
14
15
16 17
18
19
20
21
22
or what
i
is
ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRST
3
7
10 20
30
U X Y Z
find
;
numbers
no instance of their use of the triangular or polygonal that was left to the Germans, and was called by them
this
in
cabala paragrammatica.
branch of the subject, Johann Henning wrote an several 1683, entitled Cabbalologia, and gives interesting work himself and others in triangular, square, penta examples composed by and decagonal numbers. gonal, heptagonal, octagonal, enneagonal,
Concerning
There are no examples founded on Biblical texts, and therefore no But as examples extracts appear in the body of the present collection. of this most difficult kind of cabala, I will give one example from the square numbers and one from the pentagonal.
2
!8
1.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
An
epitaph for
5531
*
PER CAB.
Gaude
!
D
553
1
sic
The
A B C D
2.
16
all
484
squares up
to
X Y Z
5 29
576
Written when
:
friend
of
Johann Henning
43 5 8
lost
his
son,
Frederick Christian
Fridrich Christianus.
PER CAB.
Q
4358
7
J
12
22
B C
all
pentagonal
to
X Y Z
7 82
85 2
paragrammata
Besides Henning, there was no German paragrammatist till about when Johann Friederich Riederer, of Augsburg, thirty years later, of what he had done in this branch^ His list published a rough numbers, and in the cabalistica were all in
vernacular mainly. They were the German courts and upper as court gazettes publications of 1050 specimens of
subjects
illustrate cabalistically,
* I
and originally appeared in such and similar journals. His list gave the his art and the Bible texts he chose to
classes,
As
a rule,
would
:
call
who was
attention to the excellence of this and the following example Two of the best and most widely-known literal in pace.
anagrams are
But the difficulty of composing a literal anagram is very much less than is the case Since the result with cabala, especially with quadrangular and pentagonal ones. above is equally as neat and appropriate as the best anagrams can give, we may esteem the above cabala to be very remarkable ones.
INTRODUCTION
I
19
should say they were not published, but sent privately to friends and interested. some few found their way into the gazettes However, patrons as above mentioned, and I have collected these from several out-of-theway sources. Their chief art consists in the happy selection of a Biblical
passage to illustrate the subject chosen, and the ingenuity displayed in with as little alteration of the making the cabalistic a count up
correctly
text as possible.
His magnum opus, which, as he tells us, cost him the labour of three whole days, was the paragrammata he constructed from Gen. xxxix. 2-33. He took the German pretty well as it came verse by verse, and absolutely made fourteen successive cabalistica out of it, each counting up 11,500, which was the number of a short account of Joseph which he took for his programma.
Riederer s preface is interesting for its simple-minded rambling account of his hobby, and how he defended it. He tells us that in 1714 he wished to send a little literary congratulation to a well-known
a
professor at Altdorf, and at that time had not so much as heard what However, while turning over the leaves of that paragramma was.
collection of literary trifles, Das A.E.C. cum not is variorum, he came across a wedding congratulation to a certain Matthew 1703-8, Walther and his bride, wherein their names were cleverly paragrammatised from the first two verses of Psalm xx. The Lord hear thee in the of trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee ; send day thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion." This he thought most apropos. he remembered his own Possibly day of and how he longed to be at the altar and the trouble," strengthened
amusing
<c
"
"
"
wedding work on
and through the honeymoon. Anyhow, it set him to and in a few hours he produced an attempt which he considered very satisfactory. By practice he soon became a quicker and sometimes, so he tells us, he made ten, twelve, or even workman,
festivals
his Bible,
fifteen
cabalistic a in
critics
a day.
his
it
The
man
in
work, and even the of he could afford to despise their scorn, and he gives the
as a puerile waste
i.
If a
man
own which
does no harm
2o
BIBL1A CABALISTICA
for to any one, and pleasantly occupies his own time, why need he care ? the sneers of the unsympathetic "2. Besides this, the great majority of these carping critics could not do the thing half so well or so easily as he could, for his commercial
So he education and practice had made him unusually quick at figures. the old fable of the Fox and the Grapes They call retorts upon them sour because they cannot reach unto them. the grapes green and But is this so, really ? Let it is a waste of time. 3. They say and despisers ask themselves what they will, some of my fellow-citizens to answer without equivocation in that day when the perforce, have How hast thou put thy talent to use ? searching question is put, Lord I have spent much time in that day, Will not many have to say and often by excess I have been as it were in drinking and carousing, Lord I have spent whole nights over cards and a fool and a madman. Lord I have wasted my time in lewd company, talking and gambling. until the break of day. smoking, and even worse than that, often
"
whatever else I may have says our Augsburg merchant, to confess before the great Searcher of Hearts, I can freely and gladly Lord many are the wakeful nights I have passed, and confess this
"But,"
:
!
when
sleep
came
not,
then did
arise
and make
my
!
cabala.
Lord
have so learned Thy Bible by the searching out of fitting texts, that my for Thy lovingLord soul hath oft been quickened therewith. kindness and Thy mercy s sake, count these my greatest sins. There is a direct simplicity and genuineness here which must needs make us like the man. Moreover, he spoke well of our countrywomen,
for in his catalogued paragrammata he takes the text Job what he has to say cabalistically about the English fair ones,
"
xlii.
15 for
is
:
and that
And
in
all
lands
were no
women found
so
fair."
With such
foundation we should like to be able to see the edifice he raised to their honour, but unfortunately his catalogue of 1050 faragrammata only contains the suitable texts he chose and the subject, but not the resulting instead of cabala, except in two instances, where he uses metrical hymns
Bible texts.
Our
Augsburg
citizen
was
and evidently very conscientious He does not tell us so, but it comes out with fair and frail ones, as Lais and
INTRODUCTION
others.
21
allow to such, and then only in words of shame and reproach e.g., for Lais he chose Sirach xxiii. 26 She shall leave her memory to be cursed, and her reproach shall not And even Madame de Maintenon had to take be blotted out" (6237). a And from the a back seat with i Esdras iv. 30, 3 1 taking the crown her own head, she also struck the king king s head and setting it upon And yet for all this the king gaped and gazed upon with her left hand. but her with open mouth ; if she laughed upon him he laughed also the king was fain to flatter, that she if she took any displeasure at him, This is a clever selection, (16,924). might be reconciled to him again did can compare for difficulty and no doubt, but nothing that Riederer of the Capucin, Josephus ingenuity with the Latin cabalistic soliloquies the Italian school and adhered to Mazza de Castanea, who followed the ordinary numerical gematria in use in his day. The number of authors who have dealt with this Biblical cabala is
is
The Apocrypha
all
he
will
"
"
It must short bibliography appended. very small, as will appear by the names complete the list of cabalists. not, however, be supposed that these There are several exponents of this curious art who do not appear in my book at all, because they have never dealt specially with any Biblical text, and therefore have no claim to be included in the collection. For instance, there is Joannes Ignatius Summa de Wlatislaw, who between 1684 and 1699 wrote six Latin works, some almost entirely were metrical as well. good cabalistical, and what is more, they in any case, but when it has to be confined cabala is not easy to compose in the bonds of metre as well, it becomes doubly difficult. Then there is a cabalistic life of Christ, written throughout in Latin leonine hexameters, each one counting up exactly 1706, which was the year It extends to 176 lines, and takes in all it was written and published. It was written Saviour s life in due order. the principal events of our had been a university professor, and is, by a Belgian village pastor who laborious and difficult work of the kind ever I should say, the most of one copy, and have sought in vain for many I written. only know for my collection. However, I made a years to procure another came across the book. when I first
transcript
Then
general
there
is
assembly
Benedictus Rocca, who in 1631, when there was a and high dignitaries at Padua of all the abbots
22
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
connected with the famous Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, conceived the curious fancy that he would try to turn the name of every member of the assembly into an appropriate metrical cabala. He had only three days left before the event when the idea struck him, and so, as he tells us, he had to work very hard, or in his own rhetorical
Multiplici numerorum catena constricto per asperiora Pindi language cacumina triduo mihi fuit incedendum. However, the task was completed in time and and the sixty-four members of the council had published, an hexameter in every case, and each and all their laudatory cabala neat and appropriate e.g. generally very
:
:
Pater
Domnus Angelus
439
CAB. SIMPLEX.
praescia
morum.
439
Domnus Leander
a Placentia
Abbas Casinensis.
382
CAB. SIMPLEX.
Purior Aoniis natat
iste
Leander
in undis.
c
382
outsiders," but some very Flemish and German broadsheets. good Among the Jesuits, Caspar Pfliger, of the Bohemian Province, and among the Hungarian Piarists, Benedictus ab Annunciatione B.V.M., respectively distinguished themselves; and as late as the year 1767 an anonymous poet belonging to the abbey of Seligenstadt published a folio pamphlet (penes me) in honour of the Archbishop of Mentz, where eight chrono-cabalistica and 146 cabalistica^ all metrical (hexameters), arc employed to ring the changes in the peals of praise therein offered each hexameter counting 1763, the year of the Archbishop s anniversary. we must remember one great distinction between the old Finally, esoteric cabala and the new Latin cabalistica of the seventeenth and These latter were written by ingenious religious eighteenth centuries. men to fill up their spare time, or to devote it to the Virgin, as did San Juan y Bernedo ; and with one exception there is no thought or
These
cabalistica
often
occur
on
INTRODUCTION
23
claim for inspiration or esoteric teaching, or even "wisdom." They The one exception was our friend the were tours de force simply. Lutheran expositor mentioned before, and who has a place of honour
in
the appendix.
Surely
all
cabalists,
and, indeed,
all
persons
who
take even
the
interest in the subject, must admit that here in this Lutheran slightest The tour de force is a most remarkable specimen of the mystic art. caballstlca are all without a single exception most clear, significant, and
appropriate, and
we must remember
had no predecessors
was the first who in this particular cabala with triangular numbers. used this particular arithmetical progression for cabalistic purposes, and of the earliest printers, be said that he raised it, as did I think it
He
may
at one bound. highest perfection could get anywhere near him in the admirable simplicity, continuity, and aptness of his cabalistic exposition of the Biblical number. It is of this particular device in all evidently the most remarkable specimen and the longest. His treatment of Daniel s numbers, 1290 literature,
to
its
No
many
is
also very
good second.
This book
is
rare,
and
is
Bodleian, or any English library Museum, The author s name I have for the present withheld that I know of. readers a little trial of cabalistic skill advisedly, as I wished to give my I found out, quite by a chance trial, that the for their leisure moments. correct name and title of the author is contained in the three words 1
not in
the British
or
have put in capitals in the fourth line from the end of his 2300 exposition, one who should rise up as God s viz., Michael films del, who was the Our author makes no reference witness and revelator in the last days. whatever to himself in connection with the above, but I fully believe
that
he knew that he was thus cabalistically numbered and marked out as Michael films del, and believed that God would reveal, and was secrets through His humble and devoted servant revealing, His last
and
spiritual son.
i.
2,
3.
and darkness was the earth was without form, and void And the Spirit of God moved upon the face the face of the deep. upon And God said, Let there be light and there was light." of the waters. Per gematriam, all the Hebrew letters in the above count up to and there was light," Let there be light 3963 if the last sentence, Now Elchanon Paulus, the converted Jew, makes a great be omitted.
AND
"
Christian cabalistic proof out of this in the following manner The Jewish mystical expounders took the verse to mean that in the period before the Mosaic dispensation all was without form and when Israel was under void, and that even during the next period, the Spirit of God was with them, the Law, there was darkness, though
:
should till the third period or dispensation that there should be light. times of the Messiah come viz., the So the cabalistic number 3963 shows, says Paulus, how long the world should wait for the coming of the Messiah. But what does the last sentence teach us ? What says the cabala ?
and that
it
would not be
and there was light," in Hebrew Let there be light which is the very number of the Hebrew sentence, counts up to 470,
Now,
"
Son, the Messiah, shall be born." And so the Scripture seems to indicate clearly by this cabala that about the year of the world 3963, God would send His Son, the World. Messiah, to be born as the Light of the a neat piece of work, and this method of This is undeniably
My
27
28
hoisting
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
the Jews with their own petard was an ingenious, happy and proved effective in converting several Rabbis and learned thought, Jews when the ordinary Christian propagandist arguments would have been of no avail. The conversion of a Jew, especially a learned one, was thought much more of in those days than at present, and this was the case in England as well as abroad. There would be a public baptism, a great concourse to hear the sermon, and there would be very often a goodly sized pamphlet describing the antecedents and conversion of the baptised Jew. Several such have come down to us, and are preserved in the British Museum and elsewhere. My copy of Klchanon Paulus originally belonged to the Jesuits of Vienna, and has been carefully annotated. The Jesuits and the learned world generally were always ready to help and befriend a learned Jew who had accepted Christ. Indeed, Polanco, the literary manager and editor of Ignatius Loyola s writings, was a Neo-Christian Jew, and a great friend of the Basque saint.
GEN.
xxviii. 3,
4.*
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Die aller Holdseeligste Kayserliche Gemahlin Frau Frau Elizabeth
Christina eine gebohrne Printzessin von Braunschweig Wolffenbttttel.
9
J
Aber der allmachtige Gott seegne dich und mache dich fruchtbar und mehre dich dass du werdest ein Hauffen Voelcker und gebe dir den Seegen Abraham dir und deinem Saamen mit dir. 9 77
r
77
* This German Scriptural cabala trigonalis obtained considerable credit and applause at Vienna when it was first circulated in 1714, and many copies were afterwards printed. There was a great desire among all the subjects of Charles VI. that the Emperor should have male progeny to maintain the succession to the throne ; and when shortly afterwards the Empress Elizabeth bore a son to the Emperor, this prophetical cabala was still more admired, as well as the one from Luc. i. 15 on the Emperor, which is quoted farther on in its This prophecy had the merit place. of fulfilment, which was more than a very good and famous anagram by a Jesuit succeeded in obtaining. The anagram was Carolus Sextus Imperator = Uxor pariet tres masculos," which was certainly neat and deserved success, though it was unable to command it. The author of our Biblical cabala was J. F. Riederer, a merchantpoet of Nuremberg, who was a very prolific cabalist, as appears in the Bibliography.
"
29
xxviii. 17.
est
Domus
Dei
Porta
Pura
et
937
GEN.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Die
aller
Der Herr gedacht aber an Rahel und erhoret Sie und machte Sie Da ward Sie schwahger fruchtbar. und gebar einen Sohn und sprach Gott hat meine Schmach von mir genommen und hiess Ihn Joseph und sprach Der Herr wolle mir noch einen Sohn darzu geben.
:
:
durchlauchtigste Furstin
Majestat
Herrn
Herrn
15,103
15,103
GEN. xxxv.
16,
17,
18.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Sophia f von Braun gebohrne KronLuneburg des schweig von Petrowizii Alexii Prinzen scheme Gemahlin starb Russland in Kindel-Bett den xxxi Octobris,
Prinzessin
Charlotta
Christina
Da
Ihr
Ihr
aber
so
sauer
dich
ward
in
der
Wehmutter zu
denn nicht du auch haben,
Fiirchte
diesen
Sohn
wirst
da Ihr aber die Seel ausgieng dass Sie sterben muste, hiess Sie Ihn Benoni. 15,670
1715.
15,670
GEN.
xlix.
10.
The
from Sceptre shall not depart nor a lawgiver from between Judah, his feet, until Shiloh come.
* This followed in due course the cabala on Luc. i. 36, 37, as soon as the Empress was convalescent. t This was the young wife of that ill-fated son of Peter the Great, whose con demnation and untimely death are so well known.
30
XT
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
NUM.
vi.
24.
PER CAB. ORD. SED LEONINAM A/r ET METRICAM. Dux pie Florescas per mutua
!
lustra sencscas
Patrius iste
SUMMA, 1734.*
NUM.
There
of
shall
xxiv.
a
17.
come
Star
out of out
ELCHANON
NUM.
xxiv.
17.
En
837
SAN JUAN.
NUM.
xxiv.
23.
doeth
Who
shall
live
when God
417
DEUT. Der
Herr
xxviii.
8.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Fredrich Augustus Konig in Pohlen und Churfurst zu Sachsen. 5047
wird dem gebieten dass er mit dir sey in allem Seegen das du vorniinest. 547
D. ZIPFEL,
in
Europaische Fama.
1734 was the year when the Franciscans of Diisseldorf issued a congratulatory address to Charles Philip, Elector of Bavaria, containing many chronograms of 1734, and the above Scriptural and metrical cabalisticon.
*
REG.
1st
vii.
9.
PARAGRAMMA TRIGONALE.*
gutter
2 934
Dieser
Tag
ein
Tag
Der
Zwolffte
Tag
des
Monats
2 934
Bottschafft.
p.
161.
REG.
ix.
:
17,
18.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
einen
Da
und
sprach
sprich
reit
: :
Joram
Ists
Nimb
Friede
?
(On the Peace Convention at Rastatt.*) Die zwei anjetzt in Rastatt sich
befindliche
Der
:
grosse
Friedens pleni-
Reuter
Ists
hin
und sprach
Ihnen
Villars,
Seits.
Wende
1
^2
PER. CAB. ORD.
13,823
REG.
x.
18.
Thronus Salomonis.
948
Augustissima Maria.
948
CHRON.
xii.
3.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Georg Ludewig Konig von GrossBritanien, Franckreich und Irrland, Beschiitzer dess Glaubens und dess Heyl. Romischen Reiches Churfttrst Hertzog zu Braunschweig und Luneburg. 12,650 F. RIEDERER. I.
;
kamen zum Hebron und David Konig gen machet einen Bund mit ihnen zu Hebron vor dem Herrn, und sie salbeten David zum Konig u ber Israel nach dem Wort dess Herrn
durch Samuel.
12,650
* This was made in celebration of the return of Frederick Augustus, King of Poland, to Saxony. At p. 245 of the above-mentioned periodical some apologies and corrections are made: i. The author was not the famed jurist D. Zipfel, of Leipzig, but Herr a "t"too much, and "Zwolffte "an Joh. Heinr. Zipfel, of Plauen. 2. "Gutter" has The editor then presents a new cabala by Zipfel (see Ps. xci. n, 12). too much.
"
"f
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
JOB
xv.
33.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.
Ludovicus der Vierzehende Konig
Franckreich biss genahmet der Grosse.
in
Er wird
unzeitige
stock.
Trauben
vom Wein5161
daher
bey-
5161
JOB
xix.
25.
For
know
that
my
My
Redeemer
at
liveth,
and
He
shall
stand
earth.
upon the
939
Jesus
Christ,
Son
of
God,
my
Redeemer
liveth.
ELCHANON
939 PAULUS.
PSALMORUM
PSALM
Erit
i.
LIBER.
3.
CABALA SIMPLEX.
48
Illustriss. et
165
i
H5
95 161
J
Reverendissimus
Franciscus
Sancte
Romane
tempore suo
33 158 34 152
Ecclesia?
Presbyter
Cardinalis Sacratus
Ferrariensis
174 129
1026
1026
91
D. Dns
Franciscus
Sanctae
8?
9
37 103
1 1
Romanae
omnia
46
Ecclesiae
Quascunque
Faciet
H3
42 68 182
Presbiter
Cardinalis
58 102 82
Semper
Prosperabuntur
Sacratus
Ferrariensis
92 129
7J9 B. SPADIUS. J.
719
33
3.
CABALA SIMPLEX.
Ludovicus Quartusdecimus Borbonicus Dei Gratia Francorum et Navarreorum Rex Christianissimus 1026 et plus. B. SPADIUS. J.
tatum
quod
suum
dabit
in
tempore suo.
1026
PSALM
The
ii.
2.
and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his
anointed.
464 464
PSALM
40
61
iii.
6.
53
17
Non
circumdantis me.
PSALM
Gloria
et
viii.
5.
honore
honore
coronasti
eum
1572
Deus.
Gloria
et
coronasti
eum
1411
Sancte Ildephonse
Maria? Vir-
Domine.
1411
SAN JUAN.
PSALM
At
thy
xvi.
1.
That
is
856
856
ELCHANON PAULUS.
PSALM
45
97
xviii.
38.
49
47
34
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
PSALM
xix. 10.
En
vivit
1444
1444
SAN JUAN.
PSALM
xx.
i,
2.
CABALA TRIGONALIS.*
Herr
Sibylla
der Noth, Nahme des Gottes Jacob der Er sende dir dich. schutze
in
Matthaus
Walther
Herr
die
Hulffe
Jungfrau Euphrosina Brautigam. als Tiinzelin gebohrne 9026 Jungfrau Braut. Das A. B.C.
PSALM
xxi.
i,
2,
3.
and in thy Lord joy in thy strength, greatly shall he rejoice 2. Thou hast given him his heart s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. thou thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness 3. For
king
shall
;
! :
settest a
in
1701
by
a licensed or protected
Jew
to
congratulation addressing (Schutz-Jude) Frederick of Prussia, when he changed his title of Elector for that of King. From the first verse he takes the Hebrew word for king (Meleck). He then shows that the Jewish word for This counts up as 90. or Elector, also equals 90, and so gets a double application Churftlrst,
curious
cabalistical
of the verse.
* It was this wedding cabala that
art (see Introduction).
first
induced Riederer to
try his
hand
in the
35
heart
also,
s desire.
73
of Brandenburg (Hebrew).
1731
From
verse 3
Crown
Konigsberg
679 679
Hebrew
From
and
in
finishes
these calculations he brings out many flattering predictions, by obtaining from the first word of the title of the Psalm
;
from the first and second words, Hebrew, Johann Sigismund Georg Wilhelm and from the first three words, Wilhelm der Grosse.
;
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, the court preacher, wrote a pamphlet depreciating this cabalistic attempt, and compared it unfavourably with FrIDerlCh I. Von chronograms, quoting one of the latter
PreVssen WIrDt gesaLbet Den XVIIL knVarll Court preachers in Prussia never seem to like Jews.
Konlg
as
much
better.
PSALM
xxi.
i.
in
thy strength,
Lord
and
in thy salvation
The king shall joy. The King, Messiah. In thy Salvation how
!
448 448
greatly shall
ELCHANON PAULUS.
PSALM
xxii
i.
My
God,
my
forsaken me ?
words of Jesus.
HACKSPAN,
De
Cabala,
p.
286.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
PSALM
151
xxii.
17
16.
4
7
1
57
41
120
Circumdederunt
me
canes
multi.
PSALM
They
feet.
xxii.
16.
pierced
my
hands and
my
499
That
is
Jesus,
Son of David.
499
PSALM
xxii.
18.
And
lots.
on
my
Jesus,
Son
829
ELCHANON PAULUS.
CAB. PER NUM. MIN.
PSALM
et
xxiv.
5,
6.
Accipiet benedictionem
Domino
salutari
misericordiam
ha:c
est
Deo
suo,
enim
generatio
qua^rentium Dominum.
932
93 2 B. SPADIUS.
PSALM
Lex Dei
ejus
xxxvii.
in
31.
B.
corde ipsius.
Magnce
1296
1296
Ecclesias Toletana:.
SAN JUAN.
PSALM
93 Afflictus
50
xxxviii.
8.
24
et 61
127
94
29
109 123
^50
sum
humiliatus
sum
nimis.
37
Innocens
manibus,
et
mundo
1288
1288
corde.
SAN JUAN.
PSALM
ever
:
xlv.
is
6.
for ever
That
PSALM
Sicut
lii.
8.
Oliva
fructifera
in
Domo
1373
1
Ildephonsus
infatigabilis
Evangelii
T
Dei.
Sicut Oliva fructifera.
Pr ? co
373
72
172
1 1
1172
Oliva fructifera.
Oliva
fructifera
770
in
Coelum splendidum.
Maria
prasservata a
770
macula
originis.
Domo
Dei
plantata.
1294
Dei plantata.
fructifera
in
1294
In
Domo
524
En
Divina Mater.
524
Sicut
Oliva
Domini.
Domo H97
PSALM
SAN JUAN.
Ixiii.
3.
te in vita
mea.
Macula remota
1137
IT
37
PSALM
Ixviii.
16.
Mons
Deo.
in
quo
beneplacitum
est
En
Caelum
animatum
sed
Celo
1308
capacius.
1308
38
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
PSALM
Ixxi.
8,
;
etc.
(a cento).
Repleatur
os
meum
vivet
in
laude
tua
nomen tuum
omnis
aeternum
immaculate Conceptionis eximie Cultor B. Prassul Ildephonsus Toletanus Gloria decusque Pontificum lubar Stellaque Doctorum
5936
5936
SAN JUAN.
PSALM
Ixxii.
17.
CABALA SIMPLEX.*
Benedicentur
in
eo
}
I
Dnus Maphasus
Sancts
128
57 59 58 82
(2)
Sanctissimus
150
8
Romanas
Ecclesiae
D.D. Urbanus
Octavus
Pontifex
86
90
97
101 88
Cardinalis
Barberinus Florentinus
99 137
Optimus
Maximus
620
J.
620
SPADJUS, Trimphus ab Urbano VIII.
B.
PSALM
Misericordia et veritas obviaverunt
sibi
;
Ixxxv.
10.
justitia
et
pax
osculatae sunt.
Aurora
fulgida,
pur-
3841
*
3841
Cabala
(i) as
39
PSALM
Est
xxv.
17.
PSALM
40
88 61
xcii.
12,
Homo,
Timet
qui
Et ut Palma
Florebit
et
60
37 79 23 66
Dominum
Anima
Ejus
In bonis
Demorabitur
79 34 50 74 114
Sicut
Cedrus
Libani
Multiplicabitur
64 43 168
540
540
PSALM
Coram
Illo
Ixxii.
PSALM
44
42 94
85 85
5
Ixxii.
1 1
Et adorabunt
Eum
Omnes
Reges
Terras
99 35
58
5
Procident
j^Ethiopes Et inimici
61
Ejus
Omnes
Gentes
Servient
ei
58
Terram
Lingent
67 73
64
"5
540
54
CABALA SIMPLEX.
D. Dominus
Franciscus
Sanctae
Romanae
Ecclesiae
Cardinalis
89 103 57 59 58 82
Sacratus
92
540
J.
B. SPADIUS,
De
40
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
These cabalistic devices came into fashion in Italy about 1620. The name given to them was ^p^crfj-ol icroifjrjffroi. The above is a most ingenious one in its selection of Biblical texts all counting up the same number, and that number (540) the number of a man, the very cardinal to whose honour the work containing this cabala was dedicated and composed, and must have cost its author much
tout
time and trouble, but as to tours de force^ J. B. Spadius was capable de he made anagrams of several hexameter lines in length, all pure
;
PSALM
Der Herr
auf
hat
xci.
11,
12.
PARAGRAMMA TRIGONALE.
be-
semen Engeln
sie
Des
dich behiiten
alien deinen Wegen dass sie dich auf den Handen tragen und
und Koniglich- Polnischen Chur-Printzens von Sachsen Hoheit befinden sich jetziger Zeit auf der Reise nach auslandischen Hoffen
du deinen Fuss
stossest.
und Provincen.
J.
9818
of Flatten.
9818
H. ZIPFEL,
PSALM
Justus ut
xcii.
12. 257
CABALISTIC QUERY.
190
82
Palma
florebit.
Ecquis ut
Palma
232 florebit?
761
CABALA ORD.
194
108
459
Justus.
Quidam homo
Compare
the
761
ANON.
Anagrammatic Query
Quis
est
virtute praeditus
ANAGR.
Vir qui tutus et pars Dei
est.
PSALM
Justus
xcii.
12.
;
ALONSO DE ALCALA.
41
13.
Domo
Dei
plantata.
En Divina
Mater.
524
SAN JUAN.
8097
8097
PSALM
The Lord
thou at
said
ex.
i.
unto
my Lord,
I
Sit
Unto my Lord.
That
Sit
is
my
make
95 95
thou
my
right hand.
452 452
PSALM
The Lord
ex.
4.
hath sworn, and will not Thou art a priest for ever repent, after the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus,
Son of David.
481
ELCHANON PAULUS.
is
* The above Cab. Trig. Benjamin Schmolck was a famous hymn-writer. from the Introduction to his Sarten-Spiel des Hertzens^ Breslau, 1720, and is
(sic).
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
PSALM
I
cxviii.
:
21.
will
praise
thee
PSALM
cxxviii.
5,
and xx.
2.
dich
und
starcke
George
Churfurste
zu
2899
2899
Das
A. E.G.
PSALM
There David
will
I
cxxxii.
17.
make
the horn
to bud.
839
cxlviii.
i.
i
PSALM
En non
deturpata macula.
981
PSALM
cxlviii.
2.
angeli.
En
fadicissima Virgo.
664
PSALM
Laudate earn Sol
earn
cxlviii.
3.
;
et
Luna
Sponsa
vocaris
Spiritus
Sancti,
legitime
omnes
stelle et
lumen.
2105
munda.
2105
PROV.
i.
5,
6.
Wer
Weise
sich,
ist,
und wer verstandig der lasset ihm rathen dass er ist, vernehme die Sprtlche und ihre Deutung, die Lehre die Weisen und ihre Beyspiel. 12,698
bessert
gebohren anno
43
7,
8.
Veritatemmeditabiturgutturmeum,
justi sunt
941
B. SPADIUS.
PROV.
In
viis
viii.
20,
21.
ac
in
justitias
ambulabo,
medio semitarum
diligentes
me
Navarreorum Rex
J.
Christianissimus.
repleam.
931
931
B. SPADIUS.
PROV.
viii.
35.
life.
Whoso findeth me
findeth
Ze Maschiach (That is
Christ).
370
ELCHANON PAULUS.
PROV.
Illi
viii.
36.
qui in
me
;
peccaverint lasdent
animam
suam
omnes
qui
me
741
Rex
Christianissimus.
J.
741
B. SPADIUS.
PROV.
ix.
i.
Domum.
1103
103
SAN JUAN.
CAB. PER NUM. MIN.
PROV.
Benedictio
x.
6,
7,
and 31.
caput
laudi-
Ludovicus Quartusdecimus Borbonius Dei Gratia Francorum ac Navarras Rex Christianissimus. 863
J.
in the singular
863
*
B. SPADIUS.
The
Biblical text
is
number.
44
PROV.
xx.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
28.
thronus ipsius
*.
793
SPADIUS.
PROV.
xxi.
i.
74^
Rex
PROV. xxx.
4.
Who
hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? Who hath gathered Who hath the wind in his fists ?
bound
the waters
in
a
all is
garment
his
Who
canst
the ends
and what
tell ?
name, thou
321
464
168
234
.
Manum
105
suam
136
Et panem
Christina
312
Borbonia
397
S3 2
de
m
Francia
142
2126
ANGELO MARIA
CANT.
ii.
2126 SERVATORIBUS. DE
2.
Immunis
Pura
Integra
Deum
parit.
Vulg., ejus.
Lectulus Salomonis.
Mater
et
pietatis
et clementiae.
Nubes
luce refulgens.
1018 1018
CANT.
Macula non
Favus
lac
iv.
7.
est in te.
iv.
734
CANT.
n.
mel
et
paniarum.
2274
CANT. CANT.
Fons
signatus.
iv.
12.
Hortus conclusus.
iv.
1179
12.
723
M79
723 723 723
Charles
CANT.
v.
13,
15.
trieffen
PARAGRAMMA
Der
:
CAB. TRIGONALE.
Printz
-
Durchlanchtigste
Leopoldus
Oesterreich
Asturien,
Ertz
Hertzog
Printz
zu
guldene Leib Ringe rein Elffenbein mit Sapist wie seine Beine geschmuckt
Tiirkissen
:
und
Ihre
sein
phieren
sind wie
Marmel-Seulen gegrundet auf guldenen Fussen, seine Gestalt wie Libanon auserwehlt wie ist
Cedern.
* This
!
des Majestat Caroh Sexti Romischen Kaysers Elizabetha der und Kayserin Sohn, Christina erstgebohrner anno den April 13 gebohren
^
Christi 1716.
J"
I9>544
9,544
F R^DERER.
"
and ivory skin rosy lips much-looked-for little Prince with his and prognostications, anagrammatic, dead by November, and the praises was, alas No Royal infant ever all fell to the ground cabalistic, and chronogrammatic, round of applause from all the workers in literary received such a remarkable I have enough material in my li as did this unfortunate Prince.
"
"
46
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
CANT.
vi.
4.
Ecce
terribilis
ut .castrorum
Domus
Charitas.
panis
quern
Diva
coxit
J
ordinata.
747
747
CANT.
Terribilis
vi.
4.
ut
castrorum
acies
T
ordinata.
73
Tu C hti
73
CANT.
vi.
4.
Ut castrorum
acies ordinata.
SAN JUAN.
CANT.
Castrorum
vi.
4.
acies ordinata.
Speculum
bonitatis Dei.
1027
CANT.
vi.
10.
mundum
illuminans.
H59
velox auscultatrix.
ac
Virgo prius
CANT.
viii.
5.
?
1
1199
ISA.
vii.
14.
Behold
shall conceive,
the
922
47
And
she
shall
call
name
1250
Immanuel.
1250
ISA.
ix.
6.
is
For unto us
us a son
is
a child
given.
is
812
His name
Wonderful.
Counsellor,
457
457
529
Wonderful, God.
Mighty
529
ELCHANON PAULUS.
ISA.
ix.
6.
Admirabile
est
SAN JUAN
ISA.
xi.
i.
And
out
come forth a rod of the stem of Jesse, and a ^Branch shall grow out of his roots.
there shall
The
Virgin
shall
Mary
Miream). Branch
grow out of
roots.
497
ISA.
xi.
2.
Requievit
Sapientiae.
super
eum
Ecce
2I 3^
SAN JUAN.
48
ISA. x.
.
.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
10.
.
And
root
in
that
there shall be
shall
There
stand
for an
it
536 536
Elchanon Paulus here also makes use of Notaricon, the cabala of initials of the fifteen Hebrew initials and finals. Taking the consecutive words which are contained in Isa. xi. 10, he gets; Ke ba Jeschua hagoel^ the Redeemer of the Nations. am, which he renders "Then comes Jesus,
Taking the
finals,
he gets
Im
s
i.e.,
"That
is
the
shall
the
Hebrew
his
in all
I believe that throughout his book 1 gematria quote. licence or counting up is accurate, but he occasionally indulges in the of changing a vowel or reduplicating a letter.
ISA.
xiii.
n.
99
73
327.
82
.
98
32
43
Quiescere
faciam
.
superbiam
Joannes
Subieskius
Poloniae
Rex.
infidelium.
318.
in
97
86
84
45
l8 9
Carolus
Dux
ISA. xxxii.
i.
Behold
king
shall
Jesus,
Son of God.
469
righteousness.
ISA.
Sihe,
xli.
469
ii.
sie sollen zu Spott und zu Schanden werden Alle, die dirgram sind, sie sollen werden als nichts, und die Leut so mit dir hadern
sollen
umkommen.
10,287
und
Consistorial-
10,287
49
i.
Behold
hold
;
my
mine
servant,
elect.
whom
up-
That
is
840
840
ELCHANON PAULUS.
ISA.
lii.
13.
PER GEMATRIAM
shall
HfiBR.
Behold^
my
he
servant
shall
deal
prudently^
extolled,
be exalted
and
my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted. 772 That is Jesus Christ. 772
Behold,
ISA.
Ixi.
i.
He
me
to
He
That
398 398
ISA.
Ixii.
2.
Du
sollst
mit einem
neuen
Namen
150
genennet werden
e
510 990
611
I.
Tages
die
an
in
welchen
Engelland
viz. 12
erste
Proclamation
Aug.
geschehen
224
5049
J.
F.
5049 RlEDERER.
BIBL1A CABALISTICA
ISA.
Ixii.
PER
3.
TRIG.
Du
wirst sein
220
1343
59 37
Georg Ludewig
Churfurst
eine schone
Crone
in der
zu
Braunschweig
Hand
des
Herrn
und em
Koniglicher Hut in der Hand deines Gottes
Hanover
wird auf den Thron
394
92 3
452 1046
von Engelland
erhaben
789
6660
J.
F.
6660 RlEDERER.
J E R. xxiii.
PER GEMATR.AM
5-
H EB
R.
Unto David
Jesus.
a righteous Branch
3
Lord, that
a
David
and a King
ELCHANON PAULUS.
PER CAB. ORD.
Enmuliercircumdansvirum. 1338
En
Maria preservata
macula
33
ogims.
En
And my
PER GEMATR.AM
shall
E BR.
be
Jesus, the
their prince.
544
ELCHANON PAULUS.
606 606
esca.
730
DAN.
ii.
34.
730 730 Agna vera mira munda. 730 Nitida et pura Maria. 730 SAN JUAN. PER CAB. ORD. Maria Virginea et munda. 852
Pura mortali
Immunis
labe originis.
DAN.
I
vii.
13.
and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven.
SAN JUAN. PER GEMATRIAM HfiBR. One like the Son of man came. 995 That is Jesus Christ, Son of God (Ze
hu Jeschua Maschiach bar
El).
995
DAN.
die
vii.
25, 26.
lastern,
Heiligen und wird sich unterstehen sie Zeit und Gesetze zu andern
;
des Hochsten
werden aber in seine Hand gegeben werden eine Zeit und etliche Zeit
darnach wird das Gericht gehalten werden ; da wird dann seine Gewalt weggenomeine halbe Zeit
;
doch
durch
das
und
Hauss
men werden,
vertilget
Maho23.403
MICAH
Domus Domini
Mons
f
iv.
i.
in vertice
1326
in vertice
montium.
salus in te sperantium.
in
1120
This
cabalistical
Anton Fabri
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
MlCAH
But
thou,
V.
2,
3.
Beth-lehem Ephratah, thou be little among the though thousands of Judah, yet out of thee that is shall he come forth unto me
to
to be ruler in Israel.
919
Jesus Christ,
ruler in Israel
trauntil the time that she which forth. 1248 vaileth hath brought
That
is
at
ivill
that
he give she
Jesus shall
ELCNANON PAULUS.
MlCAH
And
V.
4.
And
MICAH
125
v.
9.
64
82
71
138
1
Exaltabitur
i5\
__ 62
hostes tuos.
Januensis.*
457
HABAC.
iii.
3.
1
.
Id a
2.
3.
1177
Filius primogenitus Caroli. T~ /^* _ O^.rJ-l !/-* /T *Y\ Caroli Sexti hie dimicat.^ 4. Filius e Domo Austriaca. Ille
1
1
I
5 6.
Ab
Leopoldus ea donatus
in
Die
Deci-
matertia Aprilis.
This
him, Baruch
in. 5.
is
The
cabala
-t>
53
Scriptural cabalistica
:
had
their origin
historical event
April I3th, 1716, there was born to the Emperor Charles VI. Consort, Elisabeth Christina, a long-desired son, who was as Leopoldus Joannes baptised Josephus Antonius Franciscus de Paula
On
his
and
Balthasar.
The
birth
of this
all
acclamations from
Imperial Throne brought forth and the number of anagrams, chrono quarters, made in honour of the happy event is remarkably
heir
to the
And
several hundred pages, published at the laudatory contributions of the Jesuits Prague 1716, containing of the Province of Bohemia alone. Here there are 593 chronograms of the year of birth and various cabalistica and anagrams besides. (1716),
a large folio
in
have
volume of
good
there are several other similar productions. But in spite of all the omens and hopes, the infant died on November 4th in the same
it
hoCCe anno
Infans obllt
\ -
1716
in
Mense
Aprilis et ad Pascha.
1716
here quoted are from a MS. (penes me) Mysterium Magnum in auspicatissimo Natali Serenissimi Austrias Archiducis Asturiasque Principis Leopoldi revelatum. Oratio
Scriptural
c
The
:
cabala
entitled
Pythagorica."
HAB.
iii.
13.
Thou
tion
wentest forth for the salvaof thy people, even for salvat ion with thine anointed,
ELCHANON PAULUS.
54
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
ZECH.
xii.
8.
P ER GEMATRIAM HEBR.
shall
And
as
the house
of David
be
That
is
Jesus, the
God.
548
ELCHANON PAULUS.
ZECH.
iv.
7.
P ER GEMATRIAM HEBR.
The Headstone.
That
is
Who
Jesus,
come
forth
ELCHANON PAULUS.
shoutings,
crying,
Grace,
grace
unto
it.
ZECH.
Rejoice
;
ix.
9.
daughter of of Zion shout, daughter behold, thy King cometh Jerusalem unto thee : he is just, and having salvation lowly, and riding upon an ass.
greatly,
:
O O
unto thee
he
is
Jesus
and having
salvation.
ELCHANON PAULUS.
PER GEMATRIAM HEBR.
ZECH.
Behold
the
vi.
12.
is
That
is
The
BRANCH.
Also another
855
cabalistical identity
Zemach).
138
The Son
him).
of
Elo-
138
ELCHANON PAULUS.
APOCRYPHA
55
APOCRYPHA
i
ESDRAS
iv.
3,
4,
7,
8.
Aber der Konig bezwinget sie als der fiber sie herrschet und
alles
was er ihnen gebietet das thun sie. Sie erwurgen und werden erwtirget, und des Koniges Worte gehen sie nit vorbei, heist er toden so toden
sie,
Serenissimus et Potentissimus Dominus Tzarus Petrus Alexiovicius Magnus Dux totius magnae,
parvas, et
albae
Russiae autocrator,
Moscoviae,
ac totius
Cyovias,
Volodomiriae,
heist
es
ers nachlassen
so lassen
Orae
sie
heist
sie.
er
schlagen
so zuschlagen 19,964
Dominator,
19,964
F.
RlEDERER.
ESDRAS
78
^
xi.
37.
9
CABALA SIMPLEX.
59
112
42
16
30
96
108
Vidi
ecce
119
sicuti
Leo
de Silva
95
89
ocem ad aquilam.
666
Maximus D. A.
666
ALBRICIUS, NICOLAS.*
* See Bibliography.
57
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
JUDITH
iii.
1-6.
Da
aus,
schickten
die
sie
ihre Bottschafften
ihm und wende deinen Zorn von sprachen, uns denn es 1st besser dass wir dem grossen Konig deinen und dir gehorsam seyn und lebendig bleiben, denn dass wir umbkommen und
kamen
zu
gewennen gleichwohl
nichts,
alle
Aecker, Ochsen, Schaafe, Ziegen, Rosse und Cameel und was wir darzu auch unser nun haben Gesind ist alles dein, schaffe damit was du wilt, ja auch wir samt unsern Kindern sind deine Knechte, kom zu uns und sey unser gnadiger Herr und branche unsers Diensts wie dirs gefallet. 37>457
;
olmferne dem San Fluss Turckischen aus der gelegen, Hunde Handen gerissen und per accord den achtzehenden Augusti anno ein Tausend siebenhundert und siebenzehen an die Kayserliche WafFen siegreiche ilbergangen unter glucklichen Commando des durchlauchtigsten Generalissimi Printzen
Donau
Eugenii
zu
Rittern des
gilldenen
Praesi-
Vlieses
Majestat denten.
37,457
F.
RlEDERER.
SAP.
v.
18, 19.
Ludovicus Quartusdecimus Borbonicus, Dei Gratia Francorum et Navarrensium Rex Christianissimus. 953 J. B. SPADIUS.
CAB. PER NUM. MIN.
Tertiusdecimus BorLudovicus Dei Gratia Francorum et bonicus, Navarrensium Rex Christianissi-
SAP.
x.
10.
IVSTVM
Dei
et
;
deduxit
APOCRYPHA
SAP.
xii.
59
15-19.
gerecht
bist
Weil
du
denn
und
gehat.
Augustus
erwehlter
Konig
in
nicht
verdienet
ist
Denn
schaft
deine Starcke
cine
Herrweil
ver-
und
so
Smolenskien,
;
Severien
Denn du
an
und
Schernicovien
deine
Starcke
beweiset,
denen so nicht glaubeten dass du so gar machtig warest, und hast dich erzeiget an denen die sich keck wusten. Aber du gewaltiger Herrscher richtest mit Lindigkeit und regierest mit viel verschonen denn du vermagst alles was du wilt. Dein Volck aber lehrest du durch
solche
in Landgraf zu Meissen Thuringen, Marckgraf auch Ober und Nieder Lausitz, Burggraf zu Magdeburg, Gefursteter Graf zu Henneberg, Graf zu der Marck Ravensberg und
Werck
seyn
dass
solle.
man
fromm
41,332
Barby, Herr
zum
J.
Ravenstein.*
und
giltig
F.
RlEDERER.
The prolonged accumulation of titles is not uncommon in either literal numerical anagrams, but we seldom meet such an enormous specimen as the above. However, in 1705, G. Gothofredus produced a pure literal anagram of I quote it in text (although nonsomewhat similar length on the same king.
or
Which of the two would take the longer Biblical) for the purpose of comparison. time to compose, I can hardly say ; I think the literal anagram, but both are unique of their kind. I only Prose anagrams of such a length as 567 letters are very seldom met with. know four that surpass the above in length and ingenuity. One of the best, though not quite the longest, is the prose anagram of 1072 letters made out of Psalm xc., and addressed to the Emperor Leopold in 1684. This, being a Biblical anagram, will But the greatest anagrammatic curios are the appear in my Biblia Anagrammatica. I am acquainted with fifteen of metrical ones, which are very difficult to compose.
6o
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
PROGRAMMA.
Dominus
Magnus
Russiae
ac
Dux
Lithuanian,
turn
turn
quin et Sacri Romani Imperil ArchiMarschallus atque Elector, LandMarchio gravius insuperThuringiae,
Misnias, ut et tarn superioris
infer! oris
Prussian,
Masoviasqs,
Vollhiniae
quam
turn
Lusatiae,
Burggravius
Podlachiae,
et
turn
adhasc
et
Dux
Cliviae,
Saxoniae
et
Juliaci
simul
et
Montium,
:
Barby,
Dominus
ANAGRAMMA
Ecce
hie
!
PURISSIMUM.
suo
fid us
?
est
Rex
Sarmatias
vere
Bene omni
Sarmatias,
legitimus
ni,
CARDINALIS
autem
Mortuus.
Rex
noster
vivat,
Mavortius, qui armatas hostium phalangas animo aggreditur Vivat ejus amicus, ac intrepido
hie
!
Heros
qui ab execranda ac iniquiori lassas Majestatis crimine aggravata perduellione abhorrens, acclamat, pieque apprecatur. Vivat bene vireat hie Imo vere, hicce legitime unctus
!
!
omnes
hunc verum
applausu
!
armorum
PETRVS
fiet
FIAT
[567
SMIEGIELSKYO,
qui
Regi
letters.]
more that six hundred letters. Some are written in musical monkish metres of nearly forty lines, and one (facile princeps) runs to the extraordinary length of It is Casimir s hymn, 132 hexameter and pentameter lines, and contains 4419 letters. Omni die, die Marice, finely turned into classic elegiacs. It is by a Jesuit of Prague, and was written c. 1672. There is a copy of the book containing it to be seen at the Prague University Library, but nowhere else, as far as I know. I transcribed it when at Prague some years ago, and shall place it in an anagrammatic Breviary if I get the
these, all having
have.
APOCRYPHA
ECCLI. xxiv.
In medio
Ecclesia^
2,
etc.
61
63
58 68 80
1 1 1 I
Aperiet
Os
ejus,
10
Stolaque gloriae
Induct
eum
1074
J.
1074
B. SPADIUS.
ECCLI. xxiv.
9.
Dominus tecum ab
secula.
initio
Regina cui o
se
ccelum et terra
1
I55
subjicit.
5S 1
SAN JUAN.
ECCLI. xxiv.
Si cut
13.
1
cedrus exaltata.
Lilium
in
ECCLI. xxiv.
13.
ascenditur.
48
SAN JUAN.
ECCLI. xxiv.
14.
1 1
62
SAN JUAN.
1060
quasi
Palma
exaltata.
Munda
ex macula originali.
SAN JUAN.
62
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
ECCLI. xxiv.
15.
Ich bin aufgewachsen wie AhOrnen, gab einen lieblichen Geruch von mir wie Cynnamet und k6stich
liche
Wurze und
wie die
besten
Myrrhen wie
rauch in
Anno
April.
Christi
MDCLXXIX den
i
xviii
dem Tempel.
].
F.
REIDERER.
ECCLI. xxx.
4.
Mortuus
non
est
est
reliquit
sibi
872
B. SPADIUS.
ECCLI. xxx.
Pater
ejus
6.
mirum Domus
et amicis
defensorem
reddentem gratiam.
832
Ludovicus Quartusdecimus BorDei Gratia Gallias et bonicus, Rex Christianissimus. 832 Navarre
J.
B. SPADIUS.
ECCLI.
Induit
xlv.
7.
eum Dominus
stolam gloria?.
SAN JUAN.
ECCLI.
Dedit
illi
xlvii.
6.
Dominus coronam
1130
APOCRYPHA
BARUCH
80
64
23 tui in
iii.
63
5.
Memento manus
48
44 24 tue et nominis 60 87
isto.
151
62.
^39
Hyppolytus Centurionus,
Tu
tempore
MACHAB.
iv.
58.1
79
230^
105
Et
i
in
440
1754
MACHAB.
sehr
viii.
14.
Und warden
zum Konig
machte.
6043
* See Micah
v. 9, for
another.
was exhibited at the election scripturistico-cabalisticon, in 1754, among other literary devices of the Jesuits
MY
MATT.
SOL
118
I
ii.
13.
I
L O QJJ
FUGE
5
39
IN
47o
^GYPTUM.
J
572
729
Hinc exulandum
95
,
75 est
34
Filj
;
729
TI 4
;
2 53
T0
128
nisi
39
in
Et effugium non
104
i
fuga
729
169
159
291
Modo
729
68
95
4.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
20
ibi
140
Et
Bethlem
122
39 in
60
275
Meroem immutanda.
99
!
729
729
181
5.
327
Quam
181
6.
Quam
89
TIT
Si
729
729
7.
89
8.
92
sic
Si
impij
33 i
185
Numen,
103
729
729
729
83
194
9.
Tantum
195
abs Dei
Numine
defecere,
10.
Jamque
190 104
94
eis
338^
11.
Ut modo
5
ab
aufugiens,
729
729
55
12.
Ad
3
2 45
13.
Jam
195
95
14.
Jamque
38
&
97
287
praeferas
32
Cham.
97
agis,
729
204
30
263
15.
agis,
immerito
291
729
132
6.
47 85 es neci,
729
729
136
95
271
recipient,
17.
At Chamitac Te
20
136 alent
429
TOO
fies,
8.
Hie depulsus
20
164
eris,
I 279 a Tuis,
729
19.
Ibi
729
50
41
illic
TOO
199
20.
Hinc
14 fient.
729
69
48
16
105
21.
Et ab inde amodo
5
1
729
06
29
34
Filj
150
25
22.
Ad
190
hasc lasta
202
mi
42^
322
729
729
52
172
23.
Ut
190
266
24.
Ut
190
audij
179^
mandatum
205
27 Coeli
114
de fuga,
729
729
155
25.
26.
Ut
200
Quo jam
161
raptim eundum,
174
iter
I 7
729 729
27.
28.
Qua
125
in
54
habendum,
85
258
207
arida,
3 4
J
aspera,
729
729
401
29.
30.
Sed
38
16 95 et hasc,
212
729
TOO
12
31.
Nec non
48
172
ceca,
729
250
89
170
32.
(Inde
105
diris
729
729
148
220
362
:
33.
260
qualis
97
efferas
36
34
Filj
25
113
adijt
34.
Heu
181
alme
48
me
angor
:
729
729 729 729
81
illico
322
35.
Quam
200
inde
169
angustias
248
H2
:
36.
Quo
180
39
122
210
178
!
37.
yo
46
38.
142 cito
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
164
210
167
:
Mihi
400
729 729
39.
Summus
200
item moeror.
399
32
defeci,
98
40.
Vita
95
75
propemodum
176
concidi,
729
729
41. 42.
43. 44.
Kt
4
283
100
408
217
Ac
89
i
729
729
729
729
Ad
TOO
21
242
126
230
293
45.
Non
38
moerorem efFregissem,
122
102 alta
ll1
.
462
46.
Nee ad
237
gaudia prosilijssem,
.3
729
1
35
52
26 4
47.
Attamen
164
ubi
ilia
eadem ego
431
recogito,
729 729
34
ille
ioo
48.
Dolor
88^
plene resurgit,
258
205
178
49.
729
173
50.
43^
63
345
dilanior
65
729
151
249
30
51.
Ac
20
189
729
159
213
305
;
52.
53.
Ac
729
729
190
38
ioo
123
275
54.
Ut
729
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
38
92
sic
5
71
247
347
55.
Nee
66
ad jucunda convert!,
191
144
191
137
;
56.
Hodie
139
Soli
729
;
200
112
173
57.
amodo sum
46
57
addicta dolori
i75 est
I
729
IJ 3
14
324
20 ^
58.
Ei mihi delude
4
2 59
tradendum Cor;
^1
729
99
59.
729
729
128
alligat
51
32
25
270
340
60.
Ad
5
hoc ea mala
5
1
me
J
cogunt praesentia,
3
95
131
44
25
i2
0>
61.
Ad
95
hoc et
128
Amor
ipse
160
jam me
97
adigit,
729
729
249
62.
64
29
34
Fili
63.
Id enim mi
48 amabile,
204
206
131
MATT.
JEdificavit
vii.
24.
domum suam
supra
3 22
little before This and the cabala of Matt. xxvi. 20 date from a Biblical anagramma and are the earliest specimens of the 1 60 i of numericum I have met with. They are taken from a collection in honour of the left arm anagrams and other literary devices composed relic to his native of the above saint, when it was brought as a
of Placentia (Piacenza) in 1620. Another numerical literary device, circumstances and exact date thus
:
called
supfutatio,
gives
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
De
Brachium
Sinistrum
Sancti
98 65
Conradi
Confalonerii Anachorita,
1
42 73
7i
Ex Netina
Urbe
104 38
9
1
Ad
Gives
82
Placentinos Transferetur
1620
These supputationes soon fell out of fashion, and hardly went beyond the circle of the literary dilettanti round about Piacenza, which included J. B. Spadius, Hieronymus Spadius, and Josephus Folianus, of Modena by birth, but a citizen of Piacenza. H. Spadius edited the collection, and J. Folianus gave a good synopsis of the cabalistic artifices and how they came into vogue.
MATT.
xvi.
18.
P ER
hanc
Franciscus
CAB. ORD.
Carol.
loan.
Tu
es
Petra,
et
hie
super
Gottf.
1743
by The above was the only Scriptural one, and the anagrammatic proof. text was This and* the slightly changed to include the year 1743. following example are the only two I have met with on this famous text. One would have expected more.
In the year 1743 there was a vacancy in the Archiepiscopal See of Mentz, and a curious was issued, entitled Vox interrogans, pamphlet in which the claims of the Count of Ostein were defended elaborate
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
MATT.
xvi.
i
CABALISTICUM
CABALA SIMPLEX.*
73
Tu
et
es Petrus,
148
1 1
Joannes
super hanc
Marcus
Rosettus
Petinae
Ecclesiae
Petram
j^Edificabo
65 53
Ecclesiam
64
28
Meam
Antistes
69 67 123 63 57 97
476
A. CARRARIA, Triumphus,
etc.,
476
Milan.
MATT.
Es wird
ilber
tlber
xxiv.
7.
(4769).
"
sich
ein
and Tories
/)
Factionen
in
RlEDERER,
MATT.
Fidelis servus
xxiv. 45,
CABALA SIMPLEX,
153 I 10 182
85
7
1 1
Illustrissimus et
221
181
1 1 1
Reverendissimus
D.D. Franciscus
Sanctas
Dominus
Super Familiam suam
Romanas
Ecclesie
06
Ut
det
illis
In tempore
Tritici
119 103
Presbyter
Cardinalis
57 59 57 114 82 92 129
1
Sacratus
Ferrariensis
Mensuram
1103
103
J.
B.
SPADIUS,
De
*
On
74
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
MATT.
xxv. 20.
talenta tradidisti
Domine, quinque
mihi.
355
Anathemata B. Conrado.
6 755
6 755
MATT,
Data
terra.
est ei
xxviii.
18.
potestas in Coelo et in
veri gaudii.
1359
359
MARC.
xii.
n.
1045
En
tane.
Pra:sul
Magne
Ecclesie
ToleIO 45
MARC.
Est mirabile
xii.
11.
CABALA EX
1186
Ps. Ixxxv.
est.
n.
1
in oculis nostris.
186
MARC.
Viam Dei
xii.
14.
in veritate docens.
Magne
Ecclesie Toletane.
Nature miraculum.
999 999
75
Aber der
Engel sprach zu ihm
Farchte dich
nicht
350
702 669 728
561
dann
dein Gebet
1st
erhort
wird dir
einen Sohn
gebaren
73 6 5
Luc.
tecum.
i.
28.
;
Dominus
1412
Triadis.
1412
SAN JuAN.f
* This was fulfilled by the Empress Elizabeth Christina in 1715, and the Europaische Fama, No. 177, compliments Riederer on his vaticination and (see Gen. xxviii. 3, 4) quotes another he had made. t What I am going to remark upon this most excellent specimen of the cabalistic art will, I think, on the first reading of it, appear absolutely incredible and impossible. For Ave Templum Sanctissimce Triadis is certainly such an ex in tremely ingenious and appropriate cabalistic interpretation of the words of the Angel Luke i. 28, that those readers who have come so far as this in my book, and have
realised the difficulties that have to
cabalisticon
or
even
on
column of
be met in composing a really good and suitable no doubt agree that here we have one hard to beat, on the right hand or cabalistical it stands alone would seem an additional reason for supposing it had no
What
rarities
will be thought when I assert that I could easily from my own shelves of and produce nine or ten thousand other examples, most of them equally good,
some
in the
certainly better, and all accurately counting up the required same true cabalistical way i.e., per cabalam ordinariam, as the
number
of the text
in
example
my
76
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
651
Purior angelis.
En
spes nostra.
cedit
est
651 651
jam Imago,
Imago Deo
vere simillima,
hasc amabilior
:
Et ideo Deo
380
In, sed
ab
ilia fit
caro,
;
380
Flamine plena.
!
Oh Oh Oh
text.
is
rara prodigia
alta
!
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
Nay, I could bring nearly five hundred examples in Italian as well and this the only text in the whole Bible to which such remarks are applicable. The explanation of all this is simple enough when we hear it. These first six words of the Angelical Salutation have always been special favourites with \he anagram makers, ever since Joannes Baptista Agnensis, the blind dependent of Cardinal Julius Rospigliosus, sent forth his first hundred in i66r, which were so much admired. Before he died, he made over a thousand, all pure and appropriate and more marvellous still, a Pole, in 1702, sent forth a folio containing three thousand anagrams, all in the elegiac metre, and with other men s attempts my shelves contain nearly ten thousand specimens, all different
; ;
!
the composition of an anagram is worked out in a way very different from the arithmetical process necessary for a good example of cabalistic art, still, when the anagram is completed, and the full number of letters appropriately used, if we count up the letters by any cabalistical progression we like to use, we get the same numerical result as would be obtained by counting up by the same
cabalistical progression previously used the letters of the
Now, although
all
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
Dominus tecum.
761
CABALISTICUM
77
Ora pro populo Maria Insignis Virgo SAN JUAN. Celum terris unis.
Benedicta in mulieribus.
913
Templum
Illumina
Hierusalem.
me
luce tua.
En
Benedicta in mulieribus.
in mulieribus.
908
863
Tu
gloria Jerusalem.
inviolata
Benedicta
Gaude Mater
Ne
derelinquas
me
in via.
SAN JUAN.
Luc.
i.
36, 37.
ist
PROGNOSTICON CABALISTICUM.*
auch
Und
sihe
Elisabeth
und schwanger mit einem Sohn die geht jetzt im sechsten Mond, Sie unim Geschrey ist, dass
Dann bey Gott ist fruchtbar sey. kein Ding unmoghlich. 11,402
Romischen
F.
RlEDERER.
are in the present instance of Luc. i. 28, they original programing and consequently But not one of the not made with that intention. cabalistica of that text, although which brought forth the arithmetical
process ten thousand anagrams was made by without being an anagram, Ave Templum Sanctissimce Triadis, for that is a cabalisticon It was as they stand could ever make it an anagram and no variation of the letters and stands alone (as far as I know) produced by the arithmetical-cabalistic process, found have been evolved out of this one text. I have against the myriad host which above. a few on portions of the Salutation, as * On the accouchement of the Empress of Charles VI. Appropriately (?) sent to in the sixth month the Court periodical, Europaische Fama, in December, 1715,
Her Majesty
conception.
78
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Luc.
497
ioi
i.
39.
39 212
in
IN
292
MONTANA
175 est
:
27
Cceli,
221
960
169
1.
Ignem
9
2
309
74
3
2.
De summis
Vique jam
58
45
81
^
212 380 30 hie ortus, fugit ima, 100 112 225 219
pollens, otiari 228 200
I0 9
960
060
3.
non amat
348
o6 o
4.
Ideo eo
95
illico tendit,
quo propendit,
o6 o
o6 o
4 01
355
5.
Et quantum
493
20
6.
Testimonium de
MARIA
294
_
239
;
~ l6
8.
I4
,
-
Ecce
39 In
35
9.
ipsa 212
,,70
52
5
9 6o
74 Filio
30
96
210
128
jam
plena
115
960*
960
42
192
197
109
10.
11.
ut a Gabriele didicit concepisse Cognatam, 225 292 9 58 169 39 164 Ac, mirante Natura, de Coelo foecundam in senio,
4
En
305
960
960
12.
93 231 342 24 6 Inde celer pergit, currit, advolat. 1 66 4 3985 42 38 114 Ac in se bene conscia, nee arcani
48^
6
^30
060
113
haud
169 certa
190
ioo 66
255
265
ioi
129
consilij 171
960
960 960 960 960 960 060
Deum
136
i
fert.
116
32
95
14.
Fert sane,
22 3
&
49
178 86
172
190
186
4o
ioo
15.
1
96
186
266
6.
17.
i
8.
Nam
plane Verbi verbis fere magis admiranda 61 40 93 190 423 In electa almi Filioli Anima prodigia conglobarunt. 51 384 296 213 16^
39
Imo
H4
ecce spretis
f
Nature
This
line
legibus,
51.
79
218
illius
158
291
i
320
148
Omnique
231
ordine conculcato,
9
150
c
290
225
20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25.
105
fit
Nondum
69
Puer
34
ille
Deo
163
Coeli
mente
179 Vir.
Imo
48 534
354
,
96 236
132
191
179
129
220
39
in
138 186
264
;
Ut
20
Ibi
ibi
Deum Hominem
299
Matre dignoscat
J
96
95
45
2I
26.
95
326
120
20
ibi
50
355
162
122
205
rediligat
27.
28.
96
Ut
95
valde
20
ibi
concitus aestu,
29.
30.
Et
95
57
Et deinde
4
20
16
361
3T4
1
m
ioo
31.
32. 33.
Ac
35
ibi illico
96
ioo
21
317
7%
En hsc omnia
89
5
35
210
105
Sed en
26
alia praeclara
supersunt
168
48
l6 4
65
406
202
:
34.
35.
Ad
48
earn
MARI^
96
169
960
247
453
49 6
l82
.
36.
37.
38.
Gratiae,
Et
9 bc
,
190 95
274
401
Ut
et Paraclito repleatur,
8o
314
39.
159 150
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
190
175
306
^
40.
41.
Nulli subinde
380
34
Agiocosmus postea
496
34
^
certo
39
in
fiat
277
114
42.
43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.
Tantusve
190
4
ille
habeatur
343
281
Juda,
275^
Ut bene
76
122
42^
no^
960
3
Ac
48
Plebi,
^277
179
960
!
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48
ergo
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vere miranda
174 finitima
!
180^
135
960
Oh
48
449 Virtus,
262
42
104
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!
Oh
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48
Charitas in
.
MARIA
42
^
406
mire properosa
286
!
960
89 95
et
344
^
104^
960
30
30
156
!
49.
50.
Oh jam
49
concepti
960
51. 52.
4 142 178 27 42 178 96 149 95 Deo, ac Coeli Gratia plena, hanc, et ilium cito affert 66 210 184 190 119 191 Ut hodie Joanni, Elisabeth, adsit Emmanuel,
960
960 960 960 960 960
53.
54.
55.
128 190 274 184 Nee tamen adsit nisi, ut Jesus, 188 470 302 Idest persolvens, salvans ; 281 14 214 4 251 196 Adde, omnibus ornans, ditans, ac Magnificans. 122 in 20 239 226 118 124
38
146
Dum
257
115
ergo
TOO
talia ibi
sedulo
95
efficis
Virgo,
183 canat, ac efFerat
125
?
90
176
TOI
106 42
251
56. 57.
58.
Te Magnificam
ioo
960
69
illo
228
Vel tuo
51
960
124
efFecit,
Nam
95
no
Tibi
Te
MARIA
189
maxima Deus
960
81
59-
At
ioi
39 in
109
alijs
100
100
75
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128
nisi
218
Tecum
;
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960
60.
85 Facta es
443
60
104
71
38
illi
enim adjutorium
596
96
199
95
et
61.
62.
Quin
223
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105
Tu
131
90
61
223
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26
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176
124
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i.
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tui.
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1970
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tiones.
te
i.
48.
dicunt
omnes genera-
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adora
spina
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Luc.
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i.
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totius
mundi.
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est.
magna
qui potens
1021
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puritatis imago.
1 02 1 1021
SAN JUAN.
Luc.
430
16
i.
59.
SOLILOOUIUM.
3!
345
1076
98
20
30
414
300
;
Filj ecce
1076
82
280
2.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
342
237
IIX
13
158
1
296
;
3.
Neutri attamen,
i99
id vere
secundum
r
4.
Quin
190
434
utnque,
384
154
5
179
sit
15
63
3 l6
5.
Ut amodo
95
Nos acturum
ad necem,
T
ioo
ita
270 218
164
3^
6.
Te,
190
7. 8.
Meque Tecum
113
Heu
35
dolor
n5
9.
En
95
405
Numerus
J 32 46 indicat mala,
10. 11.
226 280 296 140 39 cubatione designat acerbitatem, Et in ipsa 210 106 1 60 213 203 89 95 Sed et afferens nefasta alte, pro gaudijs, 108 66 249 214 175 99
165
12.
Omni
13. 14.
laetitia,
immanes
165
215
135
245
2 ?
295
L
Ut
95
horrore depressa,
7
Mens mea
266
86
dehciat,
15.
1
Et Cor, vel a solo pavore, fere depereat. 164 no 216 113 260 30 183
Tibi autem heu qualis
35
6.
34
T
59
89
79
/-
17. 18.
En
95
Filj, sacer,
33
Te
95
laethali
250
137
250
esses,
,
.
19.
Et
4
quasi
108
344
361
20.
Ac
45
3oo
222
21.
Eo
excipies
u/u
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
95
CABALISTICUM
244
!
83
50
hinc,
48
260
81
39 95
164
22.
23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
Et
5
oh
280
Ad
4
165
quos
92
Tu
^
Te
?
dolor adveniet
1076
1076
241
1076
Ac quantum
320
Cruoris emittes
1076
362 Quas prassens meismet auribus, 220 100 279 242 235 hicernet oculis plene sentiam Meisque
235
1076
;
354 Sentiam, ni prae dolore reddar exanimis, 282 281 246 172 95 effundam, Te Sanguinem effundente. Animamque
154
91
39 125
169
113
188
205
261
97
30.
31.
32.
33.
infcelicem
Mariam
1076
1076 1076 1076
Heu
151
337
175^
282
!
immanis
125
2
f
jo
jam
226
_
.S3
137
.4
effluit
Cruor
242 409 336 Acerbae fluunt ab oculis lacrymae, 400 95 169 362 50
_
1076
1076
Et dolens adeo anxiaris, convelleris, 180 81 190 6 278 69 169 103 Ut ea plaga, dolore cogente, Animam videaris efflare. 228 118 95 140 TOO 95 52 180 63 5
Et ego
334
16
ista
1076
1076 1076 1076
et Ipsa
104
Quique modo
34
ille
46
39.
Ecce
238
40.
Horum
89
30
41.
Si
jam
pariter Animam pertransivit. 400 4 63 83 179 109 acri, ac acerrima vi moreremur Ambo, 118 38 301 302 198 nee Coeleste illis obesset consilium,
meam
1076
1076
84
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
89
42.
43.
44.
45.
38
163
271
39 1
l8 5
Mundi
141
T
89
Si
38 95
nee
59
et
majora
300
1
Nobis appeteret
89
199
Numen.
148
;
80
284
25
[
Magna
150
5
64
165
95
5
Nos enim
et majora, quin 25
18
maxima manent,
107
3 o
89 95
si
216
369
46.
Ad
150
qua?, 217
161
Te, Me,
Sicut
15
380
fortiter
1
"248
32
175 est
161
112
Eja ergo
Nam
169
51
169
80
qui
ista disponit,
Deus
Qui
132 175 244 140 est amans Pater ; ipsa ordinat, 206 210 122 100 128 I SO 130
^
216
nisi
optima
125
eligit,
5
jubet
138
53.
54.
Jam
300 vult
192
95
191
138
Necnon,
150
Me
5
reduci
283
_
summo
221
in
opere copulan
354
203
52
174
95
ioo
1
55.
56.
Vellem equidem
69 66
Te poems non
Te
49
i
pervium,
60
95^ Te
213
suffici.
incolumi, pro
no
57.
58.
Omnesque
89
108
Tibi a
ioo
Deo
125
307
163
Sed
190
Homo
116
Hominem
190
189
reparabilis 96
;
59.
Tu
60.
6
1.
sane, ut Hominem redimas, perimi debes 225 124 191 299 64 173 Certe enim, sine tua cruenta morte, 38
26
I0 7
354
42
424
38
144
10
Ipse
Adx
Redemptor,
85
loo
128
nisi
125
282
62.
Quia
38
Salus
164
non
274
per Sanguinem,
109
1076 1076
128
63.
Nee
eris
JESUS,
95 nisi et
268
coesus.
Came
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
Luc.
ii.
7.
SOLILOOUIUM.
327
RECLINAVIT
1
.
EUM
126
125
IN PR^SEPIO
^
39
309
8co
194 29 278 139 34_ Siccine nasceris Dilecte Jesu mi Filj no 200 126 4 52 95
213
2.
Et frigidam,
ioo
128
nisi
1
Brumam,
800
3.
Non
69
Stabulum habes
48
51
JEdem,
_
60
134
65 _ foenile
i
389
60
4.
Praesepium,
133
_
296
159
5.
Et stramen hoc
209
pro cubili
214
218
42
6.
96
7.
8.
habes
9.
J 20 95 93 314 39 50 89 Sed hie et glacial i nudus in Bruma, 16 45 6 183 51 .94 Ecce hoc rudi obvolueris lineo
:
35
in
238
301
115
10.
1.
tarn despecta reciperis Caula, I 122 300 190 187 tremens a Gelu Ut
En
12.
Neque Pannis
96
13. 14.
Plane
95
Te
algor excruciat,
59
I
2 95
^1
Te
86
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
ioo 230 470 Ita subinde t-ortus 201 205 225
15.
1
8co
169
6.
Summe
106
17.
1
8.
Oh
38
19.
Nee
89
Si
9 231 98 94 tremorem adis ah ? fletum edis, 121 3 1 60 20 64 215 179 ulla ab tillo hie pia; Spes opis. 66 188 138 319
;
320
20.
21.
160
115
800
113
22.
23. 24.
Ac orans haud
89
Si
800
192
151
n6
221
sane repellar.
800
800
310
tuos,
217
amans ad
At Impij Te nolunt
5
97..
3
95
recipere
800 800
94
eis
653
reyectus, 96
5
Hinc ab
30
266
275
403
Jam
97
800
800
His
48
29.
30. 31. 32. 33. 34.
Oh
fallor
etiam posthabendus
34
182
228
^
356
Habeberis
223
Filj ipsis
20
hie, 38
159
Ideoque
89
.3
J
ncdum
I2 5
quanti
290
3
Homo,
128
112
800
800
800
20
En
9
508
35
1
Ah
303
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
168
CABALISTICUM
87
35.
36. 37.
Omnimode
39 6
.
316
i
800 800
I2 4
^279
140
235
!
Oh
89
Si
!
pudor
99
272
heu
79
i
deflebilis pietas
800
306
227
38.
39.
Dicebare olim
80
Hominum
Desiderium,
800 800
40.
95 164 Sed posthac diceris, et eris 290 242 95 173 Odium, Abominatio, et peripsema.
89
TOO
289
126
i
115
156
140
Non
69
rependent, vel
60
Amorem
f
amori,
54
800
391
dilectionibus odia, 81 161 1 60 4 93 32 269 Pro ineffabilibus Bonis mala effera, ac infanda. 200 39 465 96
^
Quo
45
in
amando
profusior,
E6
95
48
356
Et inde
38
i39 ix
162
47.
48. 49.
50. 51.
Nee
16
337 104 34 98 38 151 insana, nee falsa modo Filj praenuncio 1 80 169 276 95 64
et
Dolens.
181
406
184
20
190
Ab
Compar
50
199
52
105
246
39
92
213
Hinc
95
desmes.
r
52.
53. 54.
174
38
60
f
38
218
Hue
88
51
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
55.
Nam
89
107 189 304 149 laethalem profecto ciet dolorem, 46 142 144 274 105
;
800 800
56.
57.
Vult
89
230
800
116
58.
59.
no
Nempe,
218
te
Amor
800
800
190
198
1.
60.
6
1.
Tecum tamen
91
At
13 id
99
169
non abnuo.
100
112
So
170
62.
63.
Propeve
non summe.
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
Luc.
SOL
211
I
ii.
35.
I
L O
QJLJ
TLJAM
40
1.
328
8l
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506
211
194 40 34^
Filj
;
156
253
380
!
2.
Alme
95
Jesu, 6 36 34_
Filj,
1337 1337
169
qui
me
3. 4.
124 249 Et hie sine requie aliqua doloribus cumulari J 16 73 J 75 2 4 184 93 27 ^242 Quid est quod Simeon hasc efTera adjungat Coeli
:
20
4 ^125- 253^ 71 300 197 diro, ac jugi doloris Gladio cernis cofossam, 181 313 355
123
1337
223
prassagia, 23
?
1337
313
5.
6.
7.
futura nobis, admoneat clade i 240 508 159 49 Te, in signum contradictions, Terrae dandum a Deo, 388 223 25 97 355 249 Acutisve affirmans, me doloribus effere sauciandam ?
Voceque
95
39
.
J23 fatidica
150
367
161
191
Nos de
1337
1337
1337
2 46
89
100
92
65
102
420
164
165
496
11.7
58
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138 ioo
^38 didici,
1337
263
99
4 8
?
9.
1337
;
205
194
204
339
10.
An non
218
1337
1337
?
11. 12.
316 253 Corve admiranda patitur doloris vulnera ? 12 20 2l6 285 124 242 285 98 ^5 hie deperijt, sine hac linea dolorosa Quaenam dies
410
quxso
1337
13.
14.
15.
1
6.
379 5, J5 Quando vel tux peracerbas Passionis adeo oblita, 180 410 50 83 95 22o_ 115 184 Vel veri erga Te adeo vere expers amoris, 166 no 425 258 150 190 38 Ut nee mente, Tibi decretas, revolverem pcenas, 200 102 420 294^ 39 34 38 ilke easdem revolutae amplam darent mceroris Nee
235
TI 5
T
95
2ii
210
messem
1337
29
36
81
illico
34
Filj,
89
si
144
89
si
231
17.
i
Mi Alme
180
8.
Vere
pedes, 394
manus
304
^139
videam,
19.
281
20.
21.
22. 23.
24.
26 383 264 440 39 in Mortuum earn recogito insaevientem ; Ibique 266 T 42 244 58 148 125 5 311 38 Nee unquam ad, ipsi etiam Coelo, adorabile caput respicio, ioo 243 81 250 321 143 199 Quin iHico Alapas, sputa, spinas plene commemorem. 122 365 50 39 358 89 314
^
Si
Dorsum contemplor,
39
in
in
97
229
95
391
189
His
164
154
121
221
394
2C.
26.
Cingens
124
Te no
319
120 124
MO
Bum
95
defies,
353
27.
Et Morientis
dum
vagis.
90
125
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
124
26
14
28.
481
258
comniemoro
400
1337 1337
133-7
T
29.
30. 31.
32.
Ipsa
144
mea omnia
398
46
Ipse Lectulus mihi diram obycit Crucem. 190 376 191 134 446 Lit pauperrima tua Cuna, Sepulchrum, 5 573 336 2oo_ 89 _S 9 Illani pannis si cingo, syndonis reminiscor. 210 211 210 39 230 245 192 In tuo Somno tuam Mortem moerens
_
337
1337
;
aspicio
:
337
115
J
231
389
173
162
440
Mortuum
245
1337
?
231
237
49
Cur
30
229
Jam
48
i
plura, cur singula Deo sigillatim depromo ioo 279 169 217 300 242 omnia tuis omnino aperta sunt oculis,
17
1337
1337
46
279
197
n6
37.
38. 39.
Inde mentem
520
meam
481
tuis cernis
plenam Passionibus,
1337 1337
138 113 276 290 Doloribusque idcirco Cor jugiter occupari. 286 211 46 30 179 504
81
Quocirca
96
^
meam
39
in
Gladius
122
^30
jam dure
113
65
40.
Plane
420
meo
^
1337
vulnus.
1337
1337
41.
42. 43.
44.
39 170 320 103 Vulnus igitur in solo vulnere cadet, 51 38 200 39 25 210 38 324 233 179 nee alius in me novo illi vulneri, locus aderit. ioo 300 173 265 51 264 184
285
Nam
1337 1337
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278
sibi
^
333
113
J
148
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95
138
388
?
1337
:
59
3
360
219
20
45.
46.
t,t
l6 3
39
Nunc
395
337
239
106
ilia
mala
i59
47.
34o
1337
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
104
CABALISTICUM
131
91
48.
49.
50. 51.
52.
Modo
210
no 18 140 253 214 35 ne doloris semen, nepe Dei timet, ioo 164 96 125 277
ita deperdito,
233
186
Amor, interim
179
99 abeat,
1337
Eoque
58
omms
2 98
abscedat,
39 191
in
295
13 id
460
65
Ideo
163
169
3n
173
J
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211
196
n6
435
10
Qui
95
habet,
46
400
205
ci
Et gradatim
89 13
summus
evadet.
178 39
54.
55.
24 150 296 269 107 39 dele Si id cadit in prim urn Naturae, temne, 386 105 ioo 233 344 38
ordme
131
33 in dolendo.
suppleat
87
;
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449
MO
Amori
34 39 ille in
"3
45 6
75
1
c6
7
c8.
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Virtus
204
342
95
HS
ioo
I0
37
"
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i 73 I7x
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non
253
i -
159
execror
, ,
^^ 46
268
i
189 *-**y
169
-r? _49
3oo
<->
363
136
ro
60.
Quid namque
181
mihi miserae a
a
Deo contmgat
18
detenus,
124 sine
20
230
Quam
48
9i
ut
immunis
l6 3
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61.
384
373
25
230
tollere,
155
fr
62.
63.
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me
Ac mec^/o
molimina
Luc.
ii.
48.
SOLILOQJJIUM.
FILJ
200
i.
SIC?
662
66o
29
Quo
92
200
2.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
III
30
321
recepisti,
?
Teve
73
ubi
236
jam
662
3.
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cSi
253 deseris
662
4.
46
662
?
5.
662 662
29
6.
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9
me
126
certe vel
^95
summo
7.
8.
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95
230
223
163 130
173
173
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i
Te
o
>3
amisso, quid
agam
115
662 662
Te
me jam
194
^
25^
248
9.
662
662
245
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89
124 sine
189
1
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115
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57
39
in
46
258
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91
662 662
181
210
velles
!
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190
me
30
662
179
!
106
92
Meque meo
jam
reddi denuo
113 163
662
662
no
6.
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38
52
662
109
64
86
48
116
17.
1
39
in
no
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:
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191
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662 662
326
4
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.
90
5
8.
infelicior,
J
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19.
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!
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vel
T
4 vivas 26
132
44
:
denegas Faciem
140
662 662
662
35
5
l6
20. 21.
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89 89
202
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si
93
Hem
42
33
151
20
ibi
173
65
220
;
86 245 ab inclinatione invalet poena Bene ibi 88 131 284 95 39 25 In me dire sasvit et Amor 266
:
nulla 20 3
,,
89
131
113
l6
l6 9
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334
125
.
ullo minor, 99
.
229
66
^
364
190
190
2I
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51
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HO
212
major omnibus
T04
:im, collect!
662
136
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modo
ardens amore,
Tanta
113
95 5 95 et hinc acta
cupidme,
TOO
2^1
3
34
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C*7
/
89
si
24
facie
216
!
31. 32.
Amata,
T-7C-
35
2IQ
X
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15
deinde
146
omnium maxima
294
106
alte
,
662
116
91
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662
^
34
35.
36.
Et me Matrem
263
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206 ^206
huic addicis
24 5
44
120 i2o_
jio^
f
-
no
662 662
139
cogis.
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64
106
104
ss
37. 38.
ioo 205
25
234
I0 4
34
Pilj
;
56 2
l6 4
non ex merito,
146
30
l8 4
;
39.
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me tamen modo
144
i
timeo culpam
66 2
284
I0
40
41
Juste Ipse
250
omma
X 34 faciens
662
662
;
Solum
60
94
332
BIBLIA CABALIST1CA
228
102
Cum
89
i
98
ijs
170
esse,
no
116
45
delicia^
;
Tibi adhuc
:
662
66 2
124
253
215
deseris, 202
:
Nunc
ergo
95 i et a
dum
25
662 662
662
Dum
Num
2
124
me
aufuga fugis
228
150
284
47.
culposa videor,
3
75
163
194
48.
49.
50.
Tibique jam
66
46
J46
JESU
242
Hem
122
33
39
in
113
280
;
tamen
249
26
Delicta quis
190
104
mea
ioo
268
jgr
Tu
91
49
79
At
#,
bilj
siquid
Deo
odibile
4
gessi,
662
i
ad
57
?i
95
165
l6s
94
le veniam, ac
42
^
vemam
95
poscam,
662
190
88
Tu
190,
Te
52
Matri,
142
662
;
206
Infelicemque
2 54
Matrem blande
5
1
recipe
662 662
44
i
192
86
164
662 662
113
109
;
126
220
60.
290
662
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
30
TOO
122
CABALISTICUM
95
38
177
224
la^tior
61.
Jam
46
51
plene Coelitibus
662
;
88
88
95
62. 63.
Mihi ergo
100
ita
Te
46 mihi,
^
662 662
Nam
mihi bis
JESUS
fies.
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
Luc.
xi.
4.
Virgo
fidelis.
399 399
Luc.
xi.
27.
tua.
Coelum animatum.
997
CHRONOGRAMMA
(Luther
s
I7
7-
Jubilee.)
7
1
109
7
l
zV
EIssLeben
44
443 RlEDERER.
443
J. F.
JOHN
xiv.
6.
CAB ORD
-
:6 9 6
Tu
et vita.
1696
ingle sheet folio,
Rom*, 1696
96
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
HER.
xii.
22.
Jerusalem
celestis.
762
SAN JUAN.
222
158
213
428
1021
2.
285
95
66
34
193
255
58
?
Filj
videre debebo
1021
1021 1021
105
deflere
occisum
!
3.
Oh
4
4.
Oh
Ac
219
omnium
414 obscurior
!
1021
1021
281
88
IT 5
441
2 37
5.
6.
Hem
95
35
33
59
322
etenim Solem
150
omnem
30
181
485
7.
8.
1021
1021
1021
Et en oh
290
^58
95 quali, et
180
298
saevitiae,
quam immani
157
?
516
129
y.
1021
264
:
39
in
Nedum
235
150
280
Deum
IIO
tandem
212
ausit impietas
1021
Factorem nempe
329
1021
1021
1021 1021
204 47 125 241 75 Auctorem Vitae Neci etiam infami adjudicans, 69 417 291 244
13.
perdens,
:
14.
15.
Sed ut
2
modo
.
8
9.
(Sasvitias
1021
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
16
CABALISTICUM
1
97
179
16.
Ecce plagens
100
159 nulli
282
385
240
1718.
Non
35
ullum
276
^
02
Membrum
307 174
_
102
En
308
50
undique Sanguis
IO2I
_
123
389
19.
Quern plene
48
125
eduxere.
109
alijs,
O2
20.
21. 22. 2324
.
IO2I
I
83
TOO
136
122
323 219
^158
O2 O2
Non
89
51
95
Sei solus
&
298
horror,
418 24 89 sed Facie spectrum,
321 incutis
^
IO2
I
339
Nam
129
non
O2
25
Delicijs 30 15
spectabilis, 20 69 159
1021 1021
1021
1
26.
27
Te
i
videntes horrescunt,
loo 340 149 i73_ 258 demum a deformitate, non Radijs, Depulsi 222 228 235 1 60 146 30
28.
29
02
118
illis
C^terum
98
ecce
96
96
major
92
J02I
1
210
355
"8
340
185
33
1
-
Homicide
38
3o
Summttm Numen,
.
02
TOO
83
57
Nee non
1021
366
238
261 95 1 e praehabent
32-
Jam
95
1021
333435-
Et deinde
297 Carnifices Iniquis X 74 108 106 201 43 2 latronibus pejor, Ceu late fores 297 4 244 361 115 Vel latronum Caput, ac Pnnceps,
1021
1
02
1021
98
33 39 in
125
2 35
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
78
Hem
.30
6 6
constitueris
Hem
139
33
284
256 283
470
36
pre
acerbissime tortus.
340
465^
20
_
250
potaris,
ioo
^
Cachinnis, convicijs
269
ita vexaris,
149
220
40.
41. 42.
pudore hie
330
27
_
demum
62
depereas.
169 ioo
1021
1021 1021
92
sic
Ac Te
89
Si
perempto
_
non
142 fleant
36
male
382 corruit
^514
Universum
503
555.
163
90
3
265
43. 44.
45.
Nunc
5
1021 1021
1021 1021
Adeo
^295
46.
47.
48.
242 505 130^144 Sol ipse condolens obtenebratur, 221 140 243 292 125 Ipsa etiam tota languet Natura, 66 190 90 675 hodie pene mceret. Empyreumve ioo 186 180 131 52 193
1021
179
:
Sola ego
113
1021
1021 1021
46
160 126
109
efficere,
49.
50. 51.
Heu
124
Dum jam
310
95
228^
le viduor, nonnisi
287
1
^95
Te
habens
339
:
Unus
95
Unicove privor
16
1021
64
210 250
IIO
25
249
38
249
52.
53. 54.
55.
Kt mcerens adhuc
enim morior
269
:
1021 1021
20
Da, da
181
me
hie
defunctam
96
169
Te
254^
358
;
sequi defunctum
ioo
311
1021 1021
164
Quam
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
56.
CABALISTICUM
:
99
Demurn
340
i49 s
261 213 275 !23. Clavi, Cruces perdire perimant 282 90 309
^
1021
1021
57. 58.
59.
effudisti,
340
242
95 et
186
Mater
^
1021
;
Fiam nunc
443
Adjutorium
60.
Fiam
^36
61. 62.
63.
vel merito Corredemptrix ; 283 234 89 129 15 257 14^ Eja adde si vivificam vim Cruor induat, 260 36 176 9 27 298 215 admirabilis Coeli Pellicanus de Columba fiam, no 200 262 205 65 179
_
Mox
Vita Tibi.
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
JOHN
258
50
xix.
34.
SOLILOQUIUM.
281
UNUS
168
1.
MILI
!
EJUS APERUIT.
?
194
325
141 141
122
440
Proh nefas
4
adhuc
Mortuum
2.
3.
4.
372 347 204 93 i? 4 Ac quod inter large horrendiora crudelitas redigit, ioo 356 255 408 204 95 Quod et Atrociores plene solent horrescere, 543 358 115 129 104 39 95 .30 Modo in Te Deum vel Defunctum jam exercetur
204
141
5.
Dum
58
124
6.
Ideo
200
7
8.
Vita
190
50 562 84 270 exanime Pectus dira transngitur Lancea. 206 533 271 225 125 etiam arcaniora Cordis penetralia terebrantur. 163 276 3J5 5 194 191 29 cunctis habetur odibihs, tua, mi JESU, adeo 280 234 43 385 3o 97.. 159
328
I4 1
Ut nedum jam
Nece penmere,
ioo
89
9.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Sed
49
95 115 113 et vel Cor,
204
661
42
272
204
284
1418
266
10.
1418
34^
170
11.
Oh
48
200^
311
205
Immanitas visa
115 372 crudelitas, vel
nullibi,
neque
Filj
unquam
3i5
!
audita
1418
55
323
90
12.
Oh
20
Ibi
64
13.
enim
46
:
tamen
20 14.
Hie Tu,
250
50
modo Lancea
1418
1418
389
saevirent,
15. 16.
128
133
30
445
50
511
Vel
179
nisi illud
jam emortuum
95
ea
Lancea vulnerarent
248
169
1418 1418
17.
Novi,
39
167 95 et probe,
163
302
transfigi
Te mine
81
absque dolore,
133 illud
270
146
420
8.
In Matris tamen
Animam
126
vulnus
136
36
1418
19.
Hem
in Ubi
95
33
30
ilia
230
222
192
260
411
Amore summo
165
^
conglutinata,
1418
1418
144
420
169
!
Et hinc oh
181
1418
1418
570
64
50
148
50
319^
!
Quam
6
Ea enim
38
Nee
substinuit graviores ; 347 5 5 378 85 93 315 190. Saevities se impie, ad insueta, ad horrendiora redegit 136 95 104 170 290 233 96 65 Plane Animas merores, angores, esse modo debent, et
97 his
1418
unquam
H
229
1410
summi.
1418
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
CABALISTICUM
101
102
41
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
259
49 100
59
150 49
160
281
191
419
Illic
Ipsum
329
aut pessumdari,
249
:
1418
89
Sed videbimus
69^
3 195 _203^ Imo inibi a Reprobis, invite licet, timeri, ab Electis adorari. 122 61 ioo 173 386 4 45 173^30 304 Cur ergo cunctaris hie Anima ? ac eo cur jam non convolas 88 122 38 300 285 3 355 51 176 Nee tantis dire sauciata doloribus ab hoc Corde recedis ?
.59.
omnibus Dominantem
117
1418
1418
?
243^-
202
1418
1418
1418
102
227 225
125
16
320
211
Amas
4
65
forsan Unigenito
meo
99
Ac
1418 1418
1418
l6 5
130
89
si
309
66
52. 53.
54.
227
Ad
9
306
respicis,
89
si
218
89
haec cuncta
181
hodie
173
Ah
199
122
190
113
55.
56.
Quin
Ergo
190
349 24 major duratione, fide permaneat, crescat gradu. 106 9 106 190 160 95 34 392 95 109 Te ; fiat, ah Filj, fiat ut diutius Te,
tendis, si 122 38 i 164 127 nee a Corde dolor deficiat, vivat, 182 272 252
313 ordinaris
300
1418
1418
angar pro
1418 1418
1418
131
57. 58.
Ut Amor plene
15
100^
^33
164
25
190 191
360
me
i
340
181
9
211
88
Ad summum
240
245
toilet
470
decoris
Dei apicem
6 9
haec
me
Assumptio
267
1418
411
295
Plus
4
62.
Maternitate, ea de Passione glorificabor, 2 J 33 ? 19 4I3 ? -S A j \ Ac dolens id adyciam, at citius resurgas 622 48 260 i 164 4 48 147 25 20 79 Oh inclytus Dolor, ac oh Passio a me hie unice diligenda
69
3
,
:
quam de
1418 1418
!
1418 1418
220 63,
105
Vos amodo,
220^ tanti
52
166
233
pretij,
125
ego conscia
pre
27 Coeli
210
60
Gaudijs diligam.
JOSEPHUS MAZZA.
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
CABALISTICUM
103
ACTS
sprache
dafttr ihr
25.
Herr
er
Ich
bin
nicht
der,
mich
haltet.
io 4
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
ACTS
xviii.
24, 25.
Ein beredter Mann, und machtig in der Schrifft, dieser war unterweisen den Weg des Herrn, und redet mit brilnstigem Geist, und lehret mit Fleiss von dem Herrn.
10,586
Conrector der
Geist,
Schule
zum
heiligen
in
im
neuen
ACT S
Derm
die
er
XVlll.
Uberwande
Juden
ervveisete
1
bestandiglich
und
offentlich
590
durch
die SchrifFt
seye
ACTS
Es
mich dass
xxvi.
28,
29.
ein
Herr
Er
aber sprach
es fehlet
Gott
die
an
Hamburg
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
ROM.
Gotuhat
ihnen gegeben
einen
erbitterten
Geist.
xi.
CABALISTICUM
PER CAB. TRIG.
105
Wolverdienter Rector
des loblichen
449
345
681
644
735 1411 525
Augen
dass
sie
Gymnasii zu Franckfurt
nicht sehn
am Mayn
und Ohren
dass
sie
711 681
nicht horen
biss auff
7702
i
7702
COR
xv.
22.
amabilis.
Non Mater
Dei
dulcissima
et
997 997
997 997
labe
munda,
immunis
Omnes
in
Adam
peccaverunt.
997
997
Adami, dona
et
nobis
pacem.
En Rosa
Insignis
997 munda. 997 virginea Maria, ignorat maculam 997 997 997 997
Evae.
Omnia mea
tua sunt.
munda malo
997
SAN JUAN.
io6
i
BIBLIA CABAL1STICA
COR.
iv.
ii.
Biss
Hunger und Durst und und werden geschlagen und haben keine gewisse Statte. 8029
COL.
i.
PER CAB. TRIG. Die Zigauner ein verkappt nichtsliederlich.es wQrdiges Lumpen Volck von denen Frantzosen
Egyptiens genannt.
8029
28.
ver-
PER CAB. TRIG. Der Ehrwiirdig, Vorachtbar und Herr Christian Wohlgelahrte Hirsch verordneter Seelsorger und
Archi-Diaconus
in
auf
wir
darstellen
einen
in
dem Nurnberg11,103
Christo Jesu.
11,103
F.
RlEDERER.
APOC.
Mulier amicta
xii.
sole.
APOC. xii. i. Luna sub pedibus ejus (Apoc. xii. i). Non dabit lumen suum (MATT.
xxiv. 29).
2288
APOC.
In
capite
xii.
i.
ejus
corona
1606
terra
duodecim.
Sol et
1606
ejus.
1491
cui
se
celum
et
1491
SAN JUAN.
APOC. xii. Ecce Draco Magnus,
capita septem.
3.
rufus, habens
Haereticus,
re-
376
bellis Cassari.
Vienna plausus.
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
APOC.
xiv.
6.
CABALISTICUM
CABALA 819 SIMPLEX.
Doctor
107
Ich sahe einen Engel fliegen mitten durch den Himmel der hatte ein
Martin
Luther,
Schrifft
in
der
heiligen Eissleben,
gebohren
zu
getauffet
J.
am
Tage
Martini.
F.
RIEDERER.
Vita
qua:
contra
mortem
se
1613
nobis dedit.
1613
SAN JUAN.
APOC.
xviii. 7.
:
Denn
Ich
Her
(sic}
Sacred
and
Royal
Majesty
God Almigty
7806
of Great Britain, France and Irland (sic), Scotland, Defender of the Faith.
Queen
J.
F.
RIEDERER.
short Riederer generally adds some explanatory In this instance it may be worth reproduction, cabala. was a keen observer of the political world, clearly
I
poem
to his
Was kommt
was hort man nun von Annen die Seyten spannen Sie will dem Kayser jetzt zu hoch ihren Sinn zu Windsor auf dem Schloss Sie andert
aus Engelland
?
Britten Gedult Er wird gewiss euch unbestand gen schutten; Die Langen auf den Kopff zu euren Schaden er euch em, Nun gehts noch alles an, nun schlaffert Due d Aumont muste mehr als ein Verschwender seyn. Lust erfinden Der Konig machts subtil, und kunt mit ohne messer schinden. Das Kunst-stuck, wie man euch konn
Dem Weh
merckst die Bnllen mcht denck, O Anna, nach, du und Glauben bricht diesem blinden Volck, das Treu
:
io8
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
APPENDIX CABALISTICA.
DE APOSTOLIS
Sanctus Paulus.
Sanctus Lucas. Sanctus Andreas.
ET SANCTIS.
1095
838 745 928 803
De
1095
Est Pictor Medicus.
In cruce gentes edoceas. Rugiens, pacem enunciat.
Ouia
vidit, credit.
Ego
933 743 1115 746
Fidei Prothomartyr.
Omnes
Coslestis
Hierusalem.
821 821
702
702
Sancta Maria.
356
Ego electa Sol. Ego facta sine labe Adas. Ego innocens Dei Filia. Ea illibata a crimine Adas.
PENTAMETRUM
Ecce ea
Dei.
Filia
ET CABALISTICUM.
Adas,
Mater
arnica
356
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
The
CABALISTICUM
109
formed wholly following elegiacs are highly ingenious, being of the names of our Saviour viz., JESUS from the cabalistica CHRISTUS = 974, and JHESUS CHRISTUS == 982, of which a further series is given lower down.
DISTICHA.
HEX. ET PEN.
Filius hie Mariae
Deus
est
|
Sanctus Benedictus.
982
ille
974
Solus
Dux
974
hie
|
cor abstulit
974
meum.
es.
Nature
Dominus
|
Orbis sum
cadi
Rex
|
ego
sum
quia sum.
982
Sancta Maria.
Jesu.
Miserere.
34
Meum
402 402
Jhesus
Maria.
ac
Ac meum
cor
anima mea.
21
Maria. Jesus et
Sol est, ac
Luna.
620 620
Maria.
Giesu. Benedetto.
Anima mea.
anime.
3
1 1
121 121
Amante
dell
mia
gioia.
JESUS CHRISTUS.
Iste Filius
Dei
vivi.
una
et vera bonitas.
io
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Cibus viatorum. Panis Angelicus
iste est.
Adjutor
fortis est.
Jucundissimus.
Impollutus
est.
HEXAMETRUM AND
974
982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 982 082
saecula.
una
salus.
Ex
Patre natus
Hie et ubique praesens. Rex s empiternae gloriae. Is Deo Patri coeternus. Unicum Solatium.
Liberator et unus.
Restaurator
est.
Tu Aqua
viva.
unus Medicus.
est dulcis
Hie
amor
cordis mei.
NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
JESUS.
CABALISTICUM
in
40 402 402 402 402 402
Do
Vitam.
JHESUS.
Salvas.
Hie bonus.
O O
Dei
Filius.
Victima.
Cordi
Amor
es.
and
all
All above in this appendix are by Joannes Evangelista a Panormo,* by ordinary cabala
:
12 \BCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRS
*
10 20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
T U X Y Z
is
:
64
Maria Virgo.
43 41 Sola sine labe.
18
102 102
SIGISMUNDO A
S.
SYLVERIO,
Pr^lusiones Poetics.
OF JESUS
HEBREW, JESCHUA).
PER GEMATRIAM
386.
JESUS.
He He
is is
sent
from God.
The
He He He
will
is
make
free.
1
God,
386 O A fl 386 *
is
Man
and God.
* See Bibliography.
ii2
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
on high. of God. He is the Light of the World. King of the whole earth. Before the world existed, He was. He is the Son of Almighty God. Jehovah is His Father s Name.
shall reign
He
The wisdom
And He
He
is Man from Mary. His name is the Redeemer. With His Blood hath He redeemed. He is the Redeemer from the power of the wicked enemy.
is
386 386 386 386 386 386 386 386 386 386 386 386
ELCHANON PAULUS,
Pragensis.
APPENDIX
CABALISTIC CURIOS,
SCRIPTURAL, PATRISTIC,
AND LUTHERAN
APPENDIX
CABALISTIC CURIOS,
SCRIPTURAL, PATRISTIC,
AND LUTHERAN
153
THE
FISHES
DRAWN
TO
LAND
BY SIMON PETER.
both theologically and was somewhat settled by the theological question great authority of St. Augustine and other Fathers long ago. They saw in 153 a proof of the fact that the number of the elect
has been
much
discussed
and pre-ordained. large indefinite number small certain and particular one.
is
fixed
No
is
cabalistical solution of this has been often attempted, and many and obviously absurd solutions have been offered. Lately, however, more reasonable views seem coming to the front, and some progress is being made in a more likely direction. People who are open to reason and conviction will not be so ready now to pronounce unreservedly that the Biblical cabala is utter nonsense, or on a par with
The
fantastic
Donnelly
cryptogram.
is that 153 is cabalistically the number of the Sons of God. This expression, Sons of God (Beni ha-Elohim), occurs several times in Scripture, and per gematriam it counts up 153. In Greek the
" "
The assumption
1,6
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
in another form the same phenomena, the gematria expression exhibits x 153. being 3213 or 3 x 7 with Satan is this remarkable cabala, Bern ha-Elohim, In Job ii. i counts up altogether 1989, and the two factors of among them, which the mark of the and this are 13 x 153, 13 being
153
13,
1989-
adversary. In Rom.
1071 crvvKkripovopoi (joint heirs) creation of God) = 1224 = 8 x 153 x 153 ; also JCTIO-IS 0eov (the 7 In the records of the miracle itself there are some remarkable
:
viii.
17
we have
cabalistic coincidences.
The word
rightly
for fishes
is
x (Wes
for 1224 = 8 x 153, and the words = 1224 = 8 x 153, both by gematria
"
numbers of perfection and regeneration, for the net is unbroken, and carries the precious freight from the right side of the ship safely not one is lost." Moreover, this word J^Mcs (fishes) to the shore, and same 1224 in the name of Abram, to whose is exactly value for the the promise was made that they seed, through Ephraim and Manasses, should increase as fishes do increase.
" "
Thus
there
is
consider the seed of the patriarch and God s chosen people, whether we them metaphorically as fishes or as the actual people whom^God through house of Israel." His prophet addresses as people, the cc Thus shall they know that I the read in Ezekiel xxxiv. 30, Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, And the Greek words house of are my people, saith the Lord God." see the Ten Tribes == 10 x = 153, where we Israel, 1530 people"
"
We
My
"
My
;
marked
7 x
"
out.
"Mary
Also
and
Jesus,"
that
is,
the
153
and
"the
seed of
Jacob"
And when
Feed
my
to land Jesus strictly enjoined Peter to s a term used throughout the Bible to designate God
drawn
There is another way in which this peculiar number 153 has been worth considering here. regarded, and is perhaps and Seed," of the year into 7 months for the The division of the Resurrection, both as found as months for the
c
"
Fish,"
types
APPENDIX
in the
117
in the history of Noah and the Flood, is distinctly the Divine system of number. 153 is the number of the xxi. n, and 207 is the number of days that formed the The sum of these two numbers Jewish ritual, the jft/-ripemng period. The division of the number 360 at the the number of the is
Gospels and
year. 1 50 days for the fish true, slightly different ; for there is 210 for the period when the sun is triumphant. period, leaving for the one period and 7 for But in either case there are 5
Flood
is, it
is
signs
the other.
is
to
division into
the signs and 5, but to bring out that 3 day-and-nights, nychthemera, at^ Vernal Equinox, occupy a peculiar position, being the period that links of the ecliptic Seed Fish the period, the cross period on to the and equator occurring at the I4th to I7th Nisan, when the Ark, ceasing
"
"
"
"
to float, rested.*
reckons the indicated according 17, where Solomon on unpro They had toiled all night strangers in Israel at 153,600. to rise and ductive toil in Israel, and now the Light of Day shall begin o er all the earth, and the Gentiles shall walk in it.
to
2
Hengstenberg found
in this
number the
ii.
fulness
of the Gentiles
Chron.
spread in I Dr. Egli (TheoL Jahr., 1854, p. 135) finds the number Peter s name, i.e., Shimeon Jonah = 153. = in many ways. 153 153 is a remarkable number 2 = 17 x 3 also 153 = the sum of its separate cubes 153 + 17, the sum of the first 17 numbers. 3 + 4 Now 17 is the seventh of the series of prime numbers, i, 3, 5, 7, same series. Hence, while n, 13, 17, etc., and 13 is the sixth of the is admitted on is connected with 6. Now_ 7 17 is connected with 7, 13 of spiritual perfection, and 6 all hands to be
; ;
. .
Biblically significant
oppositi number Biblically significant of imperfection, labour, of oppositi how remarkably 13 is indicated as the number as we know in the Bible, we may take it that 17 represents spiritual P*f^"J
>n,
and
a combination of moreover, the fact of its being of spiritual perfection, helps our assumption.
* The 8vo), at Computation of 666 (London, 1891, the Seed of Corn. see chap, vi., "The Fish and
"
10, the
p. 244-
n8
Petrus Bungus,
BIBLIA CABAL1STICA
who wrote
a
in the sixteenth century a ponderous few good remarks on 153. He endeavours, as his it, to show a wondrous and unceasing agreement title-page expresses between the old Pythagorean principle of mystic numbers and the of numeration used frequently in the Holy Scriptures. principle Necessarily there is much that is pure fancy in so elaborate a work, but he had carefully gone to all the original sources open to him at the time, and so his book is not without a certain value still. He says that the 153 fishes signify the whole multitude of the elect who shall be on the right hand of the Throne on the Day of Judgment. It was shortly after our Lord s Resurrection that the wonderful of fishes is related, and therein was a reference to the resurrection draught to a new and eternal life for all who were out of the safely brought into the ship or ark of the Church which floats at deep peace on the troubled and rising waters. The net was cast on the right side of the therefore there were no reprobate sinners taken in the net, for all ship these were on the left side. The net was not broken heresy and schism had not yet done damage. As for 153, it is the trigonal number of 17, and 17 represents the man complete in Christ, who has been
"
"
purified like silver seven times his denarius, i.e., his 10 and his
from
7.
you wish to know yet further," he adds, "why the whole is denoted by 17 ? Then take this reason as well. What is the peculiar number of the Law of Moses ? How many are the Commandments ? Are they not 10? But the Law, if it be not helped by Grace, leaves men in their trespasses and sins, and is the
And do
number of
the saints
Letter only.
And
The
Letter killeth,
but the
we must add the Spirit to the Letter, and perform the precepts of the Law in and through the Grace of our Saviour. This is adding 7 to 10 cabalistically, and the number of the perfect Christian (17) comes out, and, rising per cab, trigonalem i + 2 + ... 17 to 153, represents the whole Church of the Elect 3 and Perfect, which is the Body of Christ.*
*
Petri
(Editio
Lut. Paris.,
1617,
PP- 593-5-)
APPENDIX
6 AND 666
6
maybe
considered cabalistically a 7
i-
i.e.,
man
coming short
MAN, as examination of many instances of its It is the human number, the number use seem convincingly to show. of Man, destitute of God. Man was created on the 6th day 6 days were appointed for him to labour, and the seventh day for spiritual rest with God. on much that has to do with Curiously enough, 6 seems stamped human labour it is stamped on his measures, so to speak
;
i
i
foot
yard
=
day
year
hour
= = =
24
12
60
= =
months, 10 x 6 minutes
4x6 2x6
hours,
100 x 6 x 6 seconds.
we may well expect If 6 cabalistically represents Man without God, still more essentially the that 666 or the threefold 6, should represent aliens from same idea, and so we find it. The Edomites were essentially and the Biblical word for them is and enemies of Israel,
God
HADVMIM,
To me?a
and
this
word sums up
the great
esti"
into 666.
therion"
beast
The words
antltheos
is
he
is
Again, -wealth the ill-gott which occurs only once-viz., evperia meaning and it numbers 666, and when* Demetrius the shrine-maker, gains of New I estament against riches remember the many denunciations in the And what is still more remarkabl this seems a remarkable coincidence. nouns which the New Testament contains, s thafof theTi2C different too In the Old 666. is the only one which counts up Jestan^t;
there
one word
in the
New
Testament (Acts
xix.
25)
120
Indeed, wherever
sense
is
B1BLIA CABALISTICA
in
number appears
alone, the
disciples
is
For
(Matt.
exactly
viii.
25),
Lord, save us
we perish (aTroXXu/xetfa)," and this word ; the only verb in the New Testament which
also
the number.
Then the slave or concubine offspring of Leah and Rachel make up each 666, per gematriam Hebraicam, thus
:
Leah
Zilpah
36 122
7
Bilhah
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
42 54 570
501
666
666
The apostate Ham, if reckoned with his father Noah, becomes 666, Noah and his two other sons, Shem and Japhet (omitting Ham), become 888, the number of the name of Jesus. Again, Shechem Ben Hamor, who in his seduction of Dinah is said
while
to prefigure the seduction of Israel by the Antichrist, counts up 666 in the most characteristic way, for Shechem gives 360, and Ben Hamor 306, the same division as in Nero Caesar.
Again, there are three men who stand out in Scripture as avowed enemies of God and His people. Each is branded with this number 6. 1. Goliath, whose height was 6 cubits, and he had 6 pieces of armour, and his spear s head weighed 600 shekels of iron. 2. Nebuchadnezzar, whose "image," which he set up, was 60 cubits high, and 6 cubits broad (Dan. iii. i), and which was worshipped when the music was heard from 6 specified instruments. Moreover, the words in Dan. iii. i equal by gematria 4662, which has the significant
factors 7 x 666.
3.
There
is
666.
peculiarities in
first
its
three sixes, i + 2 + 3
is
the
sum of
the
36
:
(i.e.,
6x6)
numbers
viz.,
up to 36, and
also the
as thus
sum of
appears
APPENDIX
1.
12
D =
2.
^ = C
COO)
,-
yooo
100)
i x :
I:
$
"
fo
6
666
later by M. burden my pages with the names of those many persons of both great and small reputations who have been marked by curious
number of the Apocalypse. Personally, I am inclined to accept the very strong evidence that points to Nero Caesar, but there are other remarkably good conjectures which cannot be Different minds see evidence of this summarily put out of court. and as I have already remarked, the peculiar sort in very different lights, to the author * who has devoted the most time and the biggest book unnoticed that hidden name passes by almost investigation of the me the most solution which historically and cabalistically seems to and present two So I leave this vexed question ingenious and probable. one from our early rare and curious cabalistical exercises on 666 other f Lutheran friend, whom I have mentioned elsewhere, and the a mystical French writer of much more recent date.
calculators with the bestial
Hxc
Ac
Ac
habet Capita
ibi
Cornua
Regis
Dei
De eadem Babylon
* David Thorn, Ph.D.,
(London, 1848.)
122
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Ea
fit
latina
fit
Ecce ea
Romae
De De
Illi
ilia
Leones
666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666
666 666 666 666 666 666 666
666 666 666 666 666 666 666
Abnegat Roma Fidem ac acta filii del Hie cecidit fides Et Ecclesia fidei
Sed Sodoma
Ac
Dilectionem
Consilia fidei
Et fidem
Haec
filii
dei
fides cito
Efficit alieno
Alieno labore
Ope
verbi
Amen
Bcsti*
V*
666
APPENDIX
This
<v
1:3
marking out of Pope Leo Decimus but our author goes further yet, and uses the mystic numbers of Daniel and St. John in such a way as to leave no doubt, for, as he says, no other Pope that ever lived could be so clearly marked:
is
as the
Beast,"
666 gives Id Bestia Leo. Kt idem Leo, Leo Decimus. 1260 ,, Iste idem Leo Decimus. 1290 ,, ^; ,, Leo, Leo P.ipa, Leo Deeimus. 666 and i:0o taken together ^ive Papa Leo Decimus. Papa Leo Decimus. cfive Kt idem Papa Leo Decimus, Antichristus. 1290 and
i
>;
and
clear
This certainly reads well, and seems without a rlaw Rut he has more behind. enough, anyhow.
In
Apoc."
straightforward
xvii.
we
read
lw
of the
woman
sitting
on the
scarlet-
name
written
l,uin-
Babylon Magna,
Nomen
Papatus
in tronte
.eo
Decimus.
But according to our author s theory, Leo X. was only one head the Beast, for ^Apoc. \vii. ic^ there are seven heads and to St. John again, and takes 666 + 666 H Popes. So he ^ocs which ivc b/thc same c\//w/.; used throughout
:
Kit
Clemens Septimus ^the next two Popes); Papa Adrianus Scxtus, Papa
then 000
if
IVrtius ^the next two PojvsX Papa Paulus Tertius, Papa Julius and so it began to look as the last being alive when our author wrote, But we have much more ot the end were near.
1290
days"
the cabalistic
number 2625.
24
B1BLIA CABALISTICA
A FRENCH
By
J.
CABALISTICON.
"
666,"
L Alphabet
i
Numerique.
10
ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRS
5
7
23
20
30
40
50
60
70
80 90
TOO
110 120
T U V
Le i9 me
siecle hissera
240
130
X Y Z
140 150
de Forage
Son mondain
En
Et
deracinera le
me
666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666 666
arrondissement
Le
paganisme,
Oui doit
rafter
Albion
Ce
siecle echauffera
1
Afrique
Tisonnera DifFamera
Et
*
Soubira,
de Cahors,
versificateur qui a pris successivement les titres de poe te d Israel, d emigre frangais en Querard (La France Litteraire, s.v.) gives titles of 1791, et de delegue du Messie. They appear all to be small pamphlets of four, eight, many of his works (48).
sixteen,
"
666
"
in the
list.
APPENDIX
Ce siecle retapera le N. Monde, Et va regenerer Panama
Afin de regenter son onde Et demettre son lama
!
125
666 666
Ce I9 Et rotir
me
666
Geudas
!
Dobrowsky J
Adroit au charivari
En
Verra
palir
son egide.
8 AND
8 cabalistically considered
with 1 which is 7. Hence 8 is specially associated completeness, new era or order. the beginning of a rection and Regeneration, and who was found in ii. iJ-Noah was ^eighth person (2 Peter 5 in a new a new order of things the a7k to commence with
1
was 7
somethmg added
to sp.ritual
SO
day, a sign Grcumc isbn otl the dead on the^first day ChrTrose from
S
,
* t
Gog = le Magog =
christianisme.
tepynisme(Ez^xx
10 aoAt, 1824, Soubira.)
126
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The
Feast of Tabernacles lasted 8 days, and is connected by 14 with the Incarnation, for it is written: The Word was made and dwelt among us," and dwelt is in the original Greek
"
John
i.
Mesh
co-Krjvoio-evi.e., "tabernacled" among us. It may well be called (as it has the
occurs
been)
it
888, and
it
comes
in a
1480=8 800 = 8 Our Lord = 1768 = 8 ? = 1408 = 8 Saviour Emmanuel =25,600 = 8 v^A, Messias = Messiah = 8 656
KV/HOS,
X/HCTTO S, Christ
Lord
X 185.
x 100. x 221. x 22. x ro
.
rjfjL(ov y
2
3
82*.
the first cubic number, and there seems to be something of ^is perfection indicated something the length and breadth and height of which are equal. The Holy of Holies, both in the Tabernacle and in in the Tabernacle a cube of 10 emple, were cubes cubits ; in the I emple of 20 cubits. In Rev. xxi. the New Jerusalem is to be a cube of 12,000 furlongs. In the Bible the names of the Lord s are marked 8 and
8
people by multiples of 8 in a most remarkable way, while the enemies of God and s people are similarly marked by the number 13 and its multiples.*
Daniel
95
Hananiah
Misael Azariah
120
381 292
thiS>
SCC
Bullinger
Number
full
details
in Scri tl P
"
PP. 205-234,
APPENDIX
(
127
In Ps. xxii. 31, David says of Christ, They shall come, and shall The declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born." The Hebrew here sums up a total of 888. Jesus is also spoken of as salvation of Israel," and the words of the Septuagint (e soteria Israel} are x 888 exactly. equal to 2 know from Gen. xlix. that Shiloh is the name of Messias when
"
We
I am that I am he comes, and if we add which equals 888, the number of Jesus.
"
"
to Shiloh,
I
we
get 345
I
+ am
543,
the
x.
"
7)
Verily, verily,
The sum
8x8x8.
of this quotation
in
5120, which
is
an
And
again,
that
well-known text
"
Isaiah,
His name
shall
be
called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, These six words as they run in the Hebrew, the Prince of Peace."
six letters
in the
name
Jesus, also
sum up
888.
I give here a In accordance with the promise of the Introduction, and prophetic of the mystic selection from the remarkable treatment in which an early Lutheran cabahst indulg numbers of Daniel, I have referred to him at p. 23. his o-enius. number 2300 (Dan. vni. 14). his greatest success was with the I think as we shall see in the This number is of itself rather a remarkable one,
It is a perfect pyramidal number it. succeeding exposition of Latin alphabet when the sum of all the letters of the trigonalisfznd is the triangular progn numbered according to they have been
i,
inumerus
3,
6,
10
...
276,
i.e.
etc.
save the plodding intellectual quality of mind German could have accoma and unconquerable perseverance of genuine the for we now have in succession dished such a feat as the following, which are, every Latin lines
I
St^ord
128
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
difficult
known
triangular kind,
as cabala trigonalis.
Each Latin
its
letters,
if
gression, will
amount
to
is
2300
exactly.
What makes
these
316
lines
the
more remarkable
neatness of their
2300.
Atque
Ecce
est
Numerus
Danielis
summa sacra totius Alphabet! Summa audita a Daniele Danielis octavo Et est summa sacra de ccelo signata
Ecce Numerus Triangulorum Triangulis complet Alphabetum
Et ecce fit pyramis triangulata. Ecce hie Numerus est hoc Alphabetum Ecce hoc viginti tribus literis Et ex hoc numero computatio
Ac computatio
Solis
literis solis
Ecce Alphabetum latinum et certum Alphabetum latinum in numeris Haec ipsa puncta duo millia trecenta
Perficiunt dies Antiochi Epiphanis Dies Antiochi ac puncta Alphabet! latini Ea indicant istam progressionem dei
Progressio Computationum.
famous number 2300 is made to describe itself as the the letters of the Latin alphabet, twenty-three in number, from to Z, reckoned up according to the numeration known as Trigonalis, or triangular, viz.
far this
So
sum of
all
APPENDIX
A, B, C, D,
the
129
etc.,
number
The mystic 2300 is only a prefatory indicator of the other mystic pairs of numbers in Daniel and John This is viz., 1290 and 1335 in Daniel, and 666 and 1260 in John.
shown by doubling 2300, and we get
Ecce 1290, 1335
:
666, 1260,
and no other two words but ecce and ac will suit, so, as our old author there. says, he did not put them there, but found them This certainly is an extraordinary cabalistical coincidence, however else we may regard it. So, having found this, he proceeds to develop further these prophetical numbers out of his basic number 2300, by a
further cabalistic examination of
it.
Iste
Numerus
Danielis est a
Deo
Et
est
Est
prasfatio
clausa et sigillata
latina e latino
Et
prasfatio
Alphabeto
2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300
De
latina Ecclesia,
tfec Haec
films,
dixit
Dominus omnipotens.
3o
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
Haec verba domini dei non sunt amissa
Apocalypsi Dei
Ecce duo 666 ac 1260 In istis duobus numeris dei Erant, sed non fuerant seripta.
2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300
Deo
computet Tempus Ecclesiae dei Computetque nomen ac acta Bestiae Nomen signatum Bestiae 666 Et Numerum 1260
Numerum
Ecce dies Antiochi clara figura Papatus Et dies malorum Antiochi Epiphanis
Figura malorum Vicarii Christi Antiochus Epiphanes figura finis Est figura Antichrist! Leonis Ecce revelabitur prope finem mundi
Papatus Papae, Papas Antichristi. Inicium calculati Papatus, est Johannes Octavus 852 Et ab eisdem Tempus Antichristi
Antichristi regnantis incipit Anni Papatus et religio Ecclesiae Papae
Ecce
APPENDIX
Ecce Antichristus, Ecce Leo, Leo decimus iste Papa Urbis revelatur Et fit hoc anno sexto Leonis decimi Eo anno domini 1518
131
Ecce
2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2 3OO 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300
s
Evangelium Apostolicum domini Et lux fidei usque ad annum 228 Et ecce ab eo sumpserunt inicium
Operationes erroris aperte Coepti ergo anni et dies ablati sacrificii Et omnia tempora haec sunt finita
dei
Aperte anno 1518. Est tune finita dispersio magna Et facta est Ecclesia una et fidelissima
Ab
Angelo volante per medium coeli, habente Evangelium sternum gloriosi dei, Habente claritatem magnam verborum Ecce enim a gloria claritatis ipsius
Illuminata est terra Ubique.
So
cabalistical
two
sigillata
Hi numeri
Sunt verba
et
Evangelium
Filii dei
sua.
sigillata
32
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De
Christo sancto sanctorum Audivit mysteria Paparum At hasc sunt verba latina sigillata Ideo vir del Daniel ilia non intellexit
Et ecce dum Daniel quaereret Quid erit post ilia tempora dei ? Quid erit quod modo dixisti ?
et diceret
In fine dierum apparebis Dicebat Angelus. Vade jam mi Daniel ac esto jam quietus
Eadem enim
Ecce sermones
modo
sunt clausi
Eadem
mysteria sunt sigillata Ipsa mysteria de filio dei patris De Antichristo Papa et de abominatione Signata per numeros sunt
Mysterium
revelationis
Et pertransibunt tempora Tempora et signata mysteria Eos Numeros praeteribunt Et praeteribunt verba signata.
Numeri
Mysteria
dei sunt
Tempora
signata
Sunt sigilla verborum ac liber Liber domini ineffabiliter copiosus In eo sunt verba ultima Ecclesiae Dei Ecce iste liber nunc est tuus.
Hunc
Habet verba
APPENDIX
Et librum
Sermones
et
illi
133
Et de
Ihesu Christo Ipsa erit de filio dei ilia Antithesi Christi et Papae
illis
2300
sacris
numeris dei
dei.
sermonum domini
Hsec omnia omnes impii non intelligent Proficient in pejus donee pereant In termino mundi pessime deficient
Verba aperta de
filio
dei
non videbunt
Bestiae
Nee Nee
intelligent mysteria
mysteria
Gog
et
Magog
sub Leone
Et
qui
Deo
Hoc numero
Sermones
inveniet sermones
istius
Latinos
sancto
Numero
hoc
Sermones
istos in fine
dierum.
next proceeds to find the Christian Mysteries remarkable cabalistica same great number in the following
:-
2300.
filius Ihesus, Ihesus est
Dei
Et
filius
ejus unigenitus
dei
Patns
134
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Ejusdem patris omnipotentia Ecce ille patri consubstantialis Ecce enim vere genitus non factus Ecce est filius genitus ab aeterno.
2300 2300 2300 2300
Nunc
Est.
homo
factus
Et idem incarnatus de virgine Et ille nunc est filius hominis Et ipse nunc filius virginis
Atque filius sine viri semine Semen Abrahae Davidis Mariae a spiritu Et idem semen mulieris a Deo benedictum.
Ecce
Christus
ipse vir a spiritu sancto est, ac Deus et
Homo
Nunc
Unctus a patre ac a spiritu Unctus Rex gloriae a Deo patre Ecce unctus est Spiritu dei
Spiritu a
quo conceptus.
patris est victima
Verbum
Est
tulit
peccata
redemptor
Deus
salutis tulit peccata Tulit peccata filius dei sacerdos Hie sacerdos morte tulit peccata.
Filius virginis Mariae placat iram Irani dei placat morte sua ac salvat
APPENDIX
Agnus
occisus est Victor
i35
En
Victor mortis diaboli ac inferni Iste idem Victor peccati et mundi Moriens fit Victor in morte Morte ac vita sua justificat.
Nunc
ille
A dextris dei Rex est ac sacerdos Vere Jhesus est Rex regum Ecce Rex et Dominus Dominantium Hie Rex Ihesus unigenitus dei
salvat Protegit nos ac pios
Impios quoque
lesus
ille
justificat.
natus ex virgine
Agnus
Nunc
princeps
ille
magnus
Ecclesiae dei
Ac
orbem
Ipse propter semetipsum Sola fide Evangelii sui justificat Et ecce justificat filius hommis
Justificat Ac sola fide justificat
136
Passio Christi.
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Oblatio in cruce
dei,
filii
Et Passio
filii
Ac
sanguis fusus
filii
filii
hominis
justificat.
2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300
filius dei
Pro nobis natus passus Idem passus ac idem sepultus Hie descendit ad inferna, Hie ascendit
in ccelum
Hie tertia die a morte resurgens Idem resurgens ascendit in ccelum Idem sedet a dextris dei patris. Amen.
filled up the mysteries of Christ from the great he proceeds to show the mysteries of Antichrist from it as well. number, He acts on this principle with the other numbers of Daniel and John He seems to assume that they contain an antithesis of throughout.
Having thus
2300.
Ecce Evangelium
a spiritu sancto
In scripturis manifestum
Evangelium
filio
sanguine sanctorum
dei.
Papatus fidem
justificationis in
regno
filii
In regno filii dei in montibus Israel Fidem istam damnat haec meretrix Roma
Et
fit
filii
dei.
APPENDIX
Ecce haec est ilia "abominatio in loco sancto Ecce Ecclesia ac Antichrist! statuta
137
Et
Et
ecce Ecclesia ac
regnum
impii papatus
Et
jam
diu
homo
peccati.
Ecce
Homo
Ecce
Is
perditionis Templo peccati sedens in Templo Ecclesiae del Rex est Romas triplici corona
est Antichristus Antichristus Papa
in
filius
Rex
ille
Et
Est
Romae
homo
Et
Hie enim
Doctor
tempore suo Revelabat Evangelium dei totum Evangelium fidei, Evangelium Christi Ecce stabit et docebit verba dei manifeste Fidem et Evangelium filii hominis docebit Hoc opere dei factus est doctor a Deo.
Revelatur
Bulla vanitatis
Damnat Leges
2300 2300
Ex
spiritu
oris Christi
2300
3s
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Abominatio Romana visa Est signum Christi, id apparet Et est signum Danielis certum
in
Templo
dei
Papa
in coelo
desolationis.
2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300 2300
Signum
Manifestum
filii
erit patebit
Hoc
erit in
Et de
ccelis
ille
Sponsus dominus venit Excite obviam sponso repente Et vide, Diem et horam finis nemo
sciet.
Ac
Et ecce extrema persecutio Ecclesiae ultima patientia sanctorum Deinde dies et hora finis. En ilia nemo sciet Ecce mox consurget MICHAEL FILIUS DEI
verbo resurgent mortui Canente simul tuba novissima Veni domine Jesu Christe. Ac
Ac
cito.
Amen.
number 2300 taken from Dan. viii. 14, our cabalist goes to the last three verses of this Book of Daniel, and takes from them the two mystical, prophetic, and comforting numbers in 1290 and 1335, and proceeds to examine them cabalistically each manner exactly ninety-nine different Latin clauses in the following
the
1290.
Patebit liber Danielis
Ac apparebunt
Numeri
in Daniele
beati Danielis
numeri dei
Ac
APPENDIX
Ecce obsignata
Signata Numeris
sigillata
39
Et his numeris dei Sunt verba Angeli Ad finem loquentis Ecce sunt a Deo clausa
Et
Tempora amborum
Numerorum
de
fine
Ambo
De
Et
fine
Et Meretrix
latina
Fidem
Haec Babylon
Templo.
1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290
1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 I2 9Q 1290
Et
Babylone anterior
Ac
operum
Et
A A
Ipsa confusio
magna
Jhesu
Tempore
fidei
40
B1BLIA CABALISTICA
Ecce finem habent Tempora Sumpta ab anno 228
Ac
finita fidei
confusio
In
Templo
del vivi
Et Leo, ille homo peccati Leo est, Est Romae Et Leo, Leo rugiens
Ecce rugit
hie
decimus
Bulla vanitatis.
Et ideo apparebit fides Fides a deo, misericordia del Fides haec sanctissima Ecce hanc docebit Propheta
Ipse Martinus
Et homo ille Antipapa Docebit hie Evangelium dei. Ecce liber clausus a deo
Docet haec mysteria Ecce vir ille Jhesus
Sanctitate
munda
est
Conceptus
Nemo
ita sine
filius
Nisi hie
peccato Marias.
1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290 1290
Illeque
Deus
ac
homo
Ac homo de
Inde
filius
spiritu
hominis
APPENDIX
Ecce semen sanctum
Seipso benedictum
a
141
deo
Ex
hoc justitia
del
Agnus.
ille
Crucifixus
Vere
salvator
sacerdos
29 29
Nos morte
sua.
Sed hie resurgens In coelos procedens Regnat Rex gloria Ac a dextris dei defend! t En hie salvat nos fide
I2 9
1290
I
29
I2 9
I2 9
l
Ac
Et
ea sola justificat
gratia adjuvat Amen. miseros.
-9
I2 9
Nos
I2 9
Blessed is he that Next comes the number of which it is said to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty waiteth and cometh
"
days"
(Dan.
xii.
12).
1335Ista
summa admiranda
1335
Aperit
clara et vera
Et magna testimonia
in Evangelii Dicebat vero Angelus Daniel claude sermones
fine
dierum
Et
335
142
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Et summa numeri
Revelat
literis
Fidem
justificantem
Quam
aperte negant
Papas mancipia iterum Fides sola sine opere Fides est. Haec salvat.
335 1335 J 335 1335 1335 1335 1335 335 335 J 335 1335 1335 J 335 T 335
T
Ac
Hunc
Dixit,
impiae
summa
fidelis.
Ac
Salus sola
1335 1335 1335 1335 1335 T 335 J 335 1335 335 J 335 133^ 1335 1335 1335
J
Homo
Ac
est,
ac filius
et
vere
Deus
Dei homo.
Hie homo
justificat
Homo
Nos
Agnus
omnipotens
Deus
ipse.
APPENDIX
Ille fuit in
143
J
morte
Et mortem
evicit
legem nobis vicit Sensit tamen iram Et idem iram dei abolevit.
Sic
Vicit redemptor
Moriens
in
morte
Et
iste
victor
Vita revixit Hie ascendens descenderat Nam ecce in inferno fuit Ecce ibi vicet infernum.
Ac
in
1335
J
335
Ecce
hc
verba fidelissima.
Amen.
1335
Next
the antithesis
THE MYSTERIES
OF THE ANTICHRIST.
Mysteria agni
et
Papas
J
335
44
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
Et
haec est calculatio
Eadem Antichristum
Secreta Antithesi.
indicat
1335 : 335 X 335 1335 J 335 1335 1335 1335 1335 1335 1335 1335 1335 1335
Ac
Id
ilia
est odiosa
Roma
nomen
Sigillatum
Leo Papa
signatus
Istud sigillum
Nomen
Et
Bestiae.
Cornua, Os Leonis
Ac
in ea vires draconis
sigillata
Et ecce
decem diademata.
Next, the two great numbers of Daniel, 1290 and 1335, are taken Our author remarks that if Daniel s greatest number, 2300, be together. is the taken, and duo added to it per Cab. Trig., we get 2625, which and 1335. sum of the two (duo) numbers 1290
APPENDIX
1290
4-
145
1335.
Hi numeri
Ipsi
duo numeri
Sunt verba latina signata et clausa Et sunt verba numeris sigillata Et ecce duo numeri sunt sermones Sermones clausi visionis Danielis Et ista sermones dei sunt latini.
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625
stabis
finis
De
Quos praeteribunt plurimi Donee veniat consummatio regni mundi Et donee numeris fiat revelatio finis Et ecce in fine dierum intelligent plurimi.
Dictum
est ab angelo, In fine
dierum
Daniel claude sermones ac verba domini signata Hos tales sermones claude numeris Absconde verba, claude librum pluribus
2625 2625
Librum
Eum
in fine tantum manifestandum totum absconde sub numeris in numeris Evangelium enim filii dei est
dei.
The
is
Ecce unitas
In
personae dei
Deus
Ac persona
Haec
ilia
personarum
Trinitas Deus.
10
146
BIBLIA CABALISTIC A
Pater est aeternitas, aeterna deltas
cum sancto spiritu Et eadem deltas unitas et Trinitas del Et Ecce a patre filius essentia aeternus Hie idem filius non factus sed genitus
films del
Ideo ille filius genitus est ab aeterno Genitus veraciter ante omnia saecula.
Essentia patris omnipotentis
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625
Et
filii
del,
Et eadem
filii
essentia Spiritus
Et
spiritus
del, ab
utroque
Non
factus, nee genitus, at procedens est procedens ex patre et filio, Ipse amborum. Ipse idem vere Spiritus
Jhesus
filius dei,
Verbum
patris
Hie
filius dei
Filius
et factus est
homo
Filius Mariae, ex
Idem
filius est
Conceptus
Ihesus
Hie Jhesus
Ecce conceptus
est
homo
sine viri
semine
ex virgine sancta Solus est conceptus de virgine Nemo sine peccato nisi Jhesus agnus dei Jhesus Deus, Jhesus homo factus Jhesus Christus Abraham, Davidis, Mariae Semen mulieris Abrahae a deo promissum.
est
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625
Et
hominis
Hie Jesus
APPENDIX
Ille
147
Ille
homo
Hie ascendens
Iste
unigenitus
patre
Ac
Et
Ecce factus
justificat
nos
filius
hominis
Jesus Christus
Rex
sacerdos
Et dominus
Deus
salvator.
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625
Vere salvator solus Jesus Vere salvator ac vere Deus et homo Victor est et idem Victor regnat
En
victor legis, Diaboli, mortis ac inferni Victor peccati, peccati Victor ac mundi Ille victima pro peccatis nostris Et victima sanctus sanctorum Et occisus est agnus dei verus
Et dominus Jesus
crucifixus.
Jhesus Christus est Agnus verus sacerdos unicus Et salvator de Spiritu sancto
salus
Hie
Jesus venit.
Et veniet
in gloria dei
2625
48
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
In fine saeculorum,
cum
apparuerit
ei
Cum
Et
apparuerit
similes
erimus
Amen.
Next comes
En Papa
revelandus, et
nomen
Papae Leonis
Fit, Leonis, Adriani, dementis, Pauli, Julii Sedebunt illi successive. Vae, Vae, Vae, Vae tibi Papa Romae, Vae tibi Caesar, Vae Bestiae Vae, Vae, Vae, Ceciderunt Capita quinque.
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625
Primo apparebit Leo. Secundo Adrianus Deinde Clemens, Paulus, Julius. Ac alii in fine
Haec
est revelatio
filii filii
iniquitatis
Revelatio
Hominis Et clare apparuerunt decem diademata Bestiae Id est: Decem Leones Bestiae, certa calculatione. Ecce dominus interficit Papatum Romae
Eum
Destruet Episcopos Papatus Ecce destruet hunc Antichristum dei Ac idem destruet eum adventu suo
Peribit Spiritu oris Christi Et nunc ille sine manu conteretur.
Interficiet hunc Evangelium a Christo Ecce Evangelium Lutheri confirmatum a Deo Et ecce confirmatum in Scripturis Libri Veteris ac Novi Testamenti dei Est enim fides revelata patris et filii
Fides revelata a spiritu in papatu Sola fides Lutheri sal vat credentes.
APPENDIX
Fides justificationis sola salvat
Ille articulus
149
justificationis
filio
Est a spiritu sancto del patris Est Evangelium gratias dei patris de Est scientia dei de filio suo crucifixo Haec fides justificationis justificat
Et
Fides
filii
hominis
justificat
ac salvat
Ac
ecce haec sola justificat ac sola salvat Haec fides Lutheri justificat credentes
Ac
Et
mysterium Papas
Ac
Ecce revelatur signata Meretrix Babylon magna Meretrix in Apocalypsi Ecclesia Papistica Meretrix Babylon magna Mysterium in fronte, Babylon magna
decreta
manu
meretricis.
2625
Mundabitur Ecclesia domini sub Leone decimo Sub Leone, anno sexto Papas Leonis decimi Mundabitur scientia in spiritu In spiritu sancto mundabitur
Ecclesia.
per
medium
coeli
Tempora
post Lutheri
Tempera
5o
BIBL1A CABALISTICA
Sunt ultima tempora nostra
Et
Ilia
ilia
intelligent.
2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 2625 -625 2625 2625 2625
securitas
Et manifestabitur signum coeleste Signum filii hominis firmatum in coelo Id erit signum adventus Christi
Tune
Et
En
ipse films hominis apparebit ecce apparebit canente tuba novissima de die illo et hora nemo mortalium sciet.
Et clamor
Tune
obviam sponso sponsas Sponsus venit, Exite, Ecce jam finis Finis mundi hujus, Veni domine Jesu
Domine Jhesu
Ecce ego venio
Christe, et festinanter
cito,
Fit.
Amen.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1582.
und grimdtlich beweisz Ein new herzlich Cabala dasz aigentlich der Name und nach der He breer Herrn IESV CHRISTI Gottes Son in den furnembsten Propheceyungt bedeutent ist. von Messia, verdeckt in denn Hebraischen Biichstaben zuvor durch Elchanon Paulum von Prag, welcher
MYSTERIUM novum.
Gestellet
und geher Tuden ist ein fur nehmer, hochgelerter Rabi gewesen, Chnsti Rabi Elchanon, sich aber in dem Namen Jesu Tauffer|^ Polen in der Statt Chelhm..\ Sampt in im waren Christlichen Glauber, Authons an alle Juden. einer ernstlichen Vermanung des
|
|
Kay. Mt. etc. Gnad und Privilegien. Gedruckt zu Wienn in Osterreich, bey
|
Michael Apffel
zum
gr
ANNO
in
MDLXXXII.
and
A H
4 to
88 pp.
1621.
ANATHEMATA
B.
| |
CONRADO.
dicata.
|
Placentino Anchoritae
Et de Anagrammatis
MDCXXI.
|
54
1621.
(1)
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
JOANNES BAPTISTA SPADIUS.
S.R.E. Cardinali Anagrammaton Conserta flosculis aliisque numericis Virgilianis
Sacrato
|
|
De
|
| |
Francisco
|
Numericorum Corona ex
lemniscata.
F.
Jo.
Baptista
Spadius
|
Florentiola
Lector
|
Theol.
ordinis
Praedicatorum
faciebat.
(Ad finem T
Inslgnls, atqV
e
Lantonum
anno
24 pp.
in 4to.
1623.
ab
a
|
Urbano VIII.
P.O.M.
a
|
F. Jo. Baptista
Spadio
actus| Florentiola
|
Theologo
ord. Praed.
|
|
D.D.D.
Placentias,
(Ad finem
73 PP-
libri.)
Ex Typ.
J.
Ardizzoni, 1623.
1645.
(3)
De
Ludovico XIV.
|
Francorum
Spadii
Rege.
|
Anagrammata
Placentiae
J. Baptistae
Placentini.
Apud
Jo.
,the only
one
know.
1654.
ALCALA
HERRERA, ALONSO
DE.
&
Jardim anagrammatico de Divinas Flores Lusitanas, Hespanholas e Latinas contem seiscentos e oitenta & tres Anagrammas em prosa & verso
Hymnos Chronologicos dividese em seis opusculos nastres linguas Ao supremo conselho da Sancta General Inquisic^ao destes consagrase.
seis
Reynes & Senhorios de Portugal. Autor Alonso de Alcala y Herrera natural da Inclyta Cidade Lisboa.
Lisboa, 1654, 4.
13
ff.
prel.
274
pp.
and
2 pp.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1671.
155
Anagrammata
lusus
pii
admodum
Jo.
|
Evangelistas
|
Musarum Panormo
|
j
mandatum
accessere.
sed auctum
modo
cui
Panormi, Ticini Regii & iterum Mutinae ex Cassiani anno 1671. Superiorum Permissu. -f i err. in 8vo. ff. 4 prel. 178 pp.
Typographia A.
1684.
Vienna Plausus.
Vienna pro
Miscellometrici
|
Othomanico obsidio
|
Plausus.
|
Genuae MDCLXXXIV.
In Platea Cicala.
|
Superiorum Permisi
103 pp.
bl. p. in folio.
DE.
celebratur V. Deiparae Mariae Virginis numeraha millia continentibus tria Anagrammata acrostichidibus ex Antiphona Save ex ejus Litania, deducta ex oratione Angelica, Et aliqua ex Alphabeti litens. et ex hymno Ave Maris Stella, Regina, facilius videat utrum ut sunt ad examen redacta,
Immaculata
Ana|grammata
pura
le|ctor
sint necne.
Hispano Francisco de Sancto Joanne Bernedp, Presbytero ubi colitur S.S. B Ma Paulina, Cappellano celeberrimae Capped Libenana S. Ma S. Luca depicta in S.S. Basilica a Virginis Imago
&
Majoris Romae.
8.
of which 1505 This book really contains 1801 numerical anagrams, St. Theresia. are on the Virgin, and 274 on
156
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
1701.
Another
author
s
It occupies pp. (Romas, 1701, fol., vols.). of Vol. II., and contains 3799 numerical anagrams on the 597-654 Virgin Mary, and 1599 in honour of St. Ildephonsus, being a grand total of 5398 cabalistical anagrams. They are generally short and neat. I have selected the Both editions are very rare. Scriptural ones only.
much
enlarged,
was placed
2
at
1687.
I
ALBRICIUS, NICOLAUS.
Esdrae Lea de Silva|ad cujus concitationem rugitum et verba|vidit incendi totum corpus aquiloe Imperii Turcici. Opusculum consurgit ex D. Scripturis, paucis exceptis, et Esdrae 4, continens multa notabilia et
|
| |
curiosa
|
politicis,
militantibus
|
omnibusque utriusque
|
Ordinis apprime
jucundum.
|
Auctore Nicolao Albricio Nob. Berg. Phil, et Med. D. Ven. Variorum passim cum suis dilucidationibus Hieroglyphicorum ex probatissimis Auctoribus accessere Icones, aptius in presens quam elapsa
|
| |
tempora collimantium.
Venetiis
12
ff.
MDCLXXXVII.
and 333 pp.
prel.
in
This curious book belongs to the same class as the Vaticinia sive Prophetic Abbatis Joachimi, which had a large circulation in Italy towards the end of the sixteenth century, as the many editions tend to show. It is, however, much more bulky and learned than were either the of Joachim or the numerous Prophetic and Hieroglyphic Prophecies There wheels which were published about the same period in Italy. is some likeness between these latter and the Zadkiel and Old Moore s Almanacs of the present day, and though originally in Latin, they were made popular by an appended Italian translation and explanation and the hieroglyphics, as with Zadkiel and the rest, were a great attraction. But though there are hieroglyphical figures throughout the work of Albricius, his is a very different style of culture from Old Moore and his followers. He was a patrician, a philosopher, and a man of medical which makes it all the more strange that he should write such science,
;
BIBLIOGRAPHY
rubbish as
is
157
Its object is to contained in the 350 pages of his book. was the Leo de Silva which should show that the Emperor Leopold and he does this by Biblical utterly destroy the Ottoman power, an occasional cabala, and similar prophecies, by anagrams, chronograms, I have heard English lectures on things that are literary artifices. come to pass," illustrated (on the walls) by hieroglyphics shortly to from the Apocalypse and Daniel, but they were indeed puny attempts us in his remarkable book. to what Albricius
"
compared
gives
1701.
Die geheime Offenbarung des Konigl. Propheten welcher in seinem 21 Psalm die Preussische Krohnung verkiindiget, entdecket von Simon Wolff Brandes Schutz-Juden in Berlin.
Berlin, 1701-8.
1710.
|
MAZZA
|
DE CASTANEA, JOSEPH.
j
|
Mazza: de Castanea nuncupati ex Cappuccinorum F. Josephi Familia Minorite sacra et arithmetico-|anagrammatica opuscula. MDCCX per Joannem Rosellium, typographum hujus
j
|
Neapoli
fideliss. Civitatis.
Superiorum
(ad fin.}.
licentia.
218 pp.
8 pp.
each This remarkable book, unique of its kind, contains three parts, with an engraved frontispiece Fastorum Immaculatae Puerperae elogialis heptas. 1 2. Columbs Gemitus, Heptas Dolorosa. rituale Jubilaeum per septem Heptades. 3. Fastorum of 2093 cabala, of it contains the enormous quantity Altogether hexameters or pentameters, which 371 were metrical, either on Bible texts only, and, as it happened, selection was confined to cabala so the extreme ingenuity c not one of these was a metrical one,
:
cabalistic expositions
is
not here
in
evidence.
As
f<
this book in the cabalistic department of literature, know of no copies in England beside my own,
find
it
Germany
158
BIBLIA CABALISTICA
Italy.
and
The book
is
full
classical,
tells
vow
of learned allusions, both theological and us he wished to add explanatory notes and of poverty as a Capucin prevented him.
Durch
aus geistlichen TLgalisirung Biblischer Texte, oder Strophen die sich auf ihre Personen, Conduite Eigenschafften, Vorhaben, Gesangen einer Profession, Kunst und Gewerbe schicken, ersonnen und nebst
der Einrichtung der Paragrammatum, mit nach ohngefehrer Ordnung hiemit nur dem angehangten ^/>^r/-Register Nahmen und dem Stande nach publicirt werden von Johann Friederich
ausfiihrlichen
Vorrede von
Riederer.
Norimb.
1.
S. a. et
8vo.
6
Sign.
A H =
124 pp.
date
1719."
is
and
place,
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&
Viney, Ld.,
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