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Account Of The Cabalistical Philosophy Of The Jews.
Estimative Faculty , or Inferior Judgment . In the third and supreme degree ; 7 . The Superior Judgment . 8 .-Reason . 9 . The Intellect , and , 10 . The Understanding , which performs the same office to the soul , ' as the eye does to the body which it enlightens . Thus , for example , when I hear a cannon discharged , the sound comes to my ears by the medium of the air ; then the Common Sense , receiving this species of the soundtransmits the same to the Imagination and
, ; 'the Estimative Faculty judges thereof , simply , as beasts would do : afterwards the Judgment apprehends the essence of the sound ; Reason searches the causes of it ; and the Intellefc considers them . But , lastly , the Understanding , or Mens , called by the Cabalists Ceter , i . e . a crown ( by way of excellence ) , receiving light from on high , irradiates the Intellect , as this again does all the other faculties . And these are the degrees ofCabalistical knowledge .- In the other carts
of their philosophy they treat of the fifty Gates of Light . Whereof the first is the Divine Essence , the symbol of which is the Tetragrammaton , and ineffable name of God ; the second gate is the Archetypal World : the knowledge of which two gates , they say , was hid , even from Moses : the third is the Earth : fourth , ' Matter : fifth , Vacuumor Privation : sixththe Ab : seventhFire : eihth
, , yss , g , Air : ninth , Water : tenth , Light : eleventh , the Dav : twelfth , Accidents * [ thirteenth , Night : fourteenth , the Evening " : fifteenth ., the Morning . And after many other things , they constitute Man to be the fiftieth gate . To arrive to the knowledge of all these gates , they have ere & ed thirty-two flambeaux , or torches , to guide them into the secrets contained therein ; which they call the Paths of
Wisdom , namely , the Intelligence , miraculous or occult ; Intelligence sanctifying , resplendent , pure , dispositive , eternal , corporeal , & c . The Theological Cabala treats of God and Angels : of God , by expounding the names of twelve , and forty-two letters ; yea , they attribute seven hundred to him ; and particularly the divine attributes , which they term the grand Sephiroth , viz . Infinity , Wisdom , Intelligence , Clemency or Goodness , Severity , Ornament , Triumph ,
Confession of Praise , Foundation , and Royalty , whereby God governs all things by wei ght , number , and measure . —Of Angels , namely of the thirty-two above-mentioned Intelligences , called by them the Paths of Wisdom ( for they make them to be so many Angels ) ; and of seventy-two other Angels ; the names they compose of the 19 th , 20 th , and 21 st verses of the xivth chapter of Exodus ; in each of whichthere being seventy-two lettersthey form the name of the
, , first Angel out of the first three letters of each verse ; the name o £ the second , out of the three second letters of the same verses ; and so of the rest , adding at the end of every word , the names of God , J ah , or El : the former whereof denotes God as he exists ; and the latter signifies mighty or strong God . The Cabala , which treats of words and namesis nothing else but the
-, prac tice , of Grammar , Arithmetic , and Geometry . They divide-it into three kinds : the first of which is called Notraiclion , when of several first ' or last letters of some words is framed a single one ; as in our Acrostics . The second Gematrie , when the letters of one name
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Account Of The Cabalistical Philosophy Of The Jews.
Estimative Faculty , or Inferior Judgment . In the third and supreme degree ; 7 . The Superior Judgment . 8 .-Reason . 9 . The Intellect , and , 10 . The Understanding , which performs the same office to the soul , ' as the eye does to the body which it enlightens . Thus , for example , when I hear a cannon discharged , the sound comes to my ears by the medium of the air ; then the Common Sense , receiving this species of the soundtransmits the same to the Imagination and
, ; 'the Estimative Faculty judges thereof , simply , as beasts would do : afterwards the Judgment apprehends the essence of the sound ; Reason searches the causes of it ; and the Intellefc considers them . But , lastly , the Understanding , or Mens , called by the Cabalists Ceter , i . e . a crown ( by way of excellence ) , receiving light from on high , irradiates the Intellect , as this again does all the other faculties . And these are the degrees ofCabalistical knowledge .- In the other carts
of their philosophy they treat of the fifty Gates of Light . Whereof the first is the Divine Essence , the symbol of which is the Tetragrammaton , and ineffable name of God ; the second gate is the Archetypal World : the knowledge of which two gates , they say , was hid , even from Moses : the third is the Earth : fourth , ' Matter : fifth , Vacuumor Privation : sixththe Ab : seventhFire : eihth
, , yss , g , Air : ninth , Water : tenth , Light : eleventh , the Dav : twelfth , Accidents * [ thirteenth , Night : fourteenth , the Evening " : fifteenth ., the Morning . And after many other things , they constitute Man to be the fiftieth gate . To arrive to the knowledge of all these gates , they have ere & ed thirty-two flambeaux , or torches , to guide them into the secrets contained therein ; which they call the Paths of
Wisdom , namely , the Intelligence , miraculous or occult ; Intelligence sanctifying , resplendent , pure , dispositive , eternal , corporeal , & c . The Theological Cabala treats of God and Angels : of God , by expounding the names of twelve , and forty-two letters ; yea , they attribute seven hundred to him ; and particularly the divine attributes , which they term the grand Sephiroth , viz . Infinity , Wisdom , Intelligence , Clemency or Goodness , Severity , Ornament , Triumph ,
Confession of Praise , Foundation , and Royalty , whereby God governs all things by wei ght , number , and measure . —Of Angels , namely of the thirty-two above-mentioned Intelligences , called by them the Paths of Wisdom ( for they make them to be so many Angels ) ; and of seventy-two other Angels ; the names they compose of the 19 th , 20 th , and 21 st verses of the xivth chapter of Exodus ; in each of whichthere being seventy-two lettersthey form the name of the
, , first Angel out of the first three letters of each verse ; the name o £ the second , out of the three second letters of the same verses ; and so of the rest , adding at the end of every word , the names of God , J ah , or El : the former whereof denotes God as he exists ; and the latter signifies mighty or strong God . The Cabala , which treats of words and namesis nothing else but the
-, prac tice , of Grammar , Arithmetic , and Geometry . They divide-it into three kinds : the first of which is called Notraiclion , when of several first ' or last letters of some words is framed a single one ; as in our Acrostics . The second Gematrie , when the letters of one name