Sense, in all compound or mixt Bodies; which Matter and Elements are, through the Power of God, govern'd by different Intelligences, according to their different Natures and Forms.

We now come to the Alphabetical References the Cabalists make to their Elementary World.

XXIII. Tzade, Final, is referr'd to the Four Elements of Matter; namely, Fire, Air, Water, and Earth; which are govern'd, through the Power of God, by certain cœlestial Powers and Angels; as is the Prima Materia, or First Matter, which is the grand Fountain or Origin of all the Elements.

XXIV. Koph is referr'd to inanimate or insensitive Bodies ; as Minerals, &c. whether simple or compound. These Bodies are, through the Power of God, governed by the Coelestial Beings, and their respective Intelligences.

XXV. Resch is referr'd to all the Productions in the Vegetable World; as Trees, Herbs, Roots, &c. and to the Coelestial Influences that are derived upon them. There is not, say the Cabalists, an Herb upon Earth that hath not its Intelligence, or Influence, which saith to it, Encrease and multiply thy self.

XXVI. Schin is referr'd to all the Species of the Animal Nature; as Quadrupeds, Birds, Fish, and Insects, and every Thing, beneath the Rational Nature, that hath Life and Motion. These receive, through the power of God, the Influences of the Cœlestial Bodies, and of their respective Intelligences.

XXVII. Thau is the Symbol of the little World, Man; because as Man, with respect to this World, was the Being created last, so is this Letter the last of the Hebrew-Alphabet. He is govern'd of God, through the Qualities of the First Matter, and according to the Influences of the Stars, and likewise by Guardian-Angels, which attend him, and which, in Hebrew, are call'd Ischim, i. e. Strong Men; who are said to have been the Last of the Angelic Creation, as Man was the Last of This.

Such are the References of the Letters of the Hebrew-Alphabet, towards the Accomplishment of the Mysteries of the Cabala, extracted, not without great Labour, from the Writings of Rabbi Akkiva, who was, it seems, a most profound Cabalist, and who hath been already frequently mention'd in the Course of these Papers. They pass, from God, down to all the Stages of the known Creation; the Letter Aleph, the First in the Hebrew-Alphabet, being referr'd to God, who is the First Cause of all Things, and who, through his unsearchable Power and Judgment, comprehends, directs, and governs all Things; working by, and diffusing his Power upon, Second Causes; and, from them, deriving his Power upon Third Causes, &c. Which Causes are the Sacred Hosts and Principalities; who have their different Degrees of Influence; rising gradually, one Class above another, to different Stages of Power and Perfection.

INDEX.

INDEX.

Abati, family. INF. xxxii. 106. PAR. Ægypt. PURG. ii. 46. PAR. xxv. 55.

Acheron. INF. iii. 78; xiv. 116. Etna or Mongibello. PAR. viii. 67.