humIt is indeed a Stately Piece of Work; how came I by 'em? Scar. 'Twas sent your Reverence from the Virtuoso, or some of the Cabalists.

So 'tis conjectur'd, Sir,some of the Cabalists are of opinion, that last Night there was some Sally from the Moon.

To any of the Cabalists, but none else.

(P. Ayres), as Count Gabalis, or the Extravagant Mysteries of the Cabalists, exposed in five pleasant discourses (1680), and thus included in Vol.

In allusion to the cabalists, Pliny says, "There is another sect of magicians of which Moses and Latopea, Jews, were the first authors."

The Cabalists had a notion, that whoever found out the mystic word for anything attained to absolute mastery over that thing.

But this the Cabalists did: and consequently the Cabalistic theosophy is Pantheistic, and Pantheism, in whatever drapery of pious phrases disguised, is (where it forms the whole of a system) Atheism, and precludes moral responsibility, and the essential difference of right and wrong.

But this the Cabalists evaded by their double meaning of the term, 'nothing', namely as nought = 0, and as no 'thing'; and by their use of the term, as designating God.

God according to the Cabalists is all in each and one in all.

I do not say that there is not a great deal of truth in this; but I say that it is not, as the Cabalists represent it, the whole truth.

We find in it a correlative illustration of that notion not uncommon among primitive poets, and revived by the Cabalists, that whoever knew the Word of a thing was master of the thing itself, and an easy way of accounting for the innate fitness and necessity, the fore ordination, which stamps the phrases of real poets.

His pantheism is distinguished from that of the Cabalists by its rejection of the doctrine of emanation, and from Bruno's, which nevertheless may have influenced him, by its anti-teleological character.

Again: both Johnson's and the Pronouncing Dictionary, give us medallist and metallist with ll, and are sustained by Webster and others; but Walker, in his Rhyming Dictionary, writes them medalist and metalist, with single l, like dialist, formalist, cabalist, herbalist, and twenty other such words.

She is familiar with the views of Jehuda-ha-Levi as with the dreams and longings of the cabalists, and as conversant with the splendid names of our HispanoArabian epoch as with the moral aphorisms of the Talmud and the subtle meaning contained in Jewish legends....

The Cabalists gave a prominent place to light in their system of cosmogony.

To add to this mysticism, the Cabalists, by the change of a single letter, read the passage, "This is my name forever," or, as it is in the original, Zeh shemi l'olam, as if written Zeh shemi l'alam, that is to say, "This is my name to be concealed.

The Cabalists and Talmudists have enveloped it in a host of mystical superstitions, most of which are as absurd as they are incredible, but all of them tending to show the great veneration that has always been paid to it.

Among the Scandinavians, as among the Jewish Cabalists, the Supreme God who was made known in their mysteries had twelve names, of which the principal and most sacred one was Alfader, the Universal Father.

Now, Lanci proceeds to the discovery of this true pronunciation, as follows: In the Cabala, a hidden meaning is often deduced from a word by transposing or reversing its letters, and it was in this way that the Cabalists concealed many of their mysteries.

" The Cabalists have exhausted their ingenuity and imagination in speculations on this sacred name, and some of their fancies are really sufficiently interesting to repay an investigation.

One of the names of the Supreme Being among the Cabalists.

Pythagoras called it the good principle in nature; and the Cabalists taught that eternal light filled all space before the creation, and that after creation it retired to a central spot, and became the instrument of the Divine Mind in creating matter.

The cabalists esteem it because 15 was the numerical power of the letters composing the word JAH, which is one of the names of God.

The Cabalists and Talmudists enveloped it in a host of superstitions.

The Cabalists had a branch of their study called Themuru, changing, which made mystical anagrams of sacred names.]