man was in Paradise, the angel Rasiel brought him a book from heaven, which contained the

doctrines of heavenly wisdom, and that, when Adam received this book, angels came down
to him to learn its contents, but that he effused to admit them to the kn owledge oof sacred
things entrusted to him alone; that, after the Fall, this book was taken beck into heaven;
that, after many praoyers and tears, God restored it to Adam, from whom it passed to Seth.
In the degenerate age before the flood this book was lost, and the mysteries it contained
almost forgotten; but they were restored by special revelation to Abraham, who committed
them to writing in the book Jezirah. Vide Enfield, vol. ii. p. 2019 The Hebrew word Cabala,
says Dom Calmet, signifies tradition, and the Rabbins, who are named Cabalists, apply
themselves principally to the combination of certain words, numbers, and letters, by the
means of which they boasted they could reveal the future, and penetrate the sense of the
most difficult passage of Scripture. This science does not appear to have any fixed
principles, but depends upon certain ancient traditions, whence its name Cabala. The
Cabalists have a great number of names which they style sacred, by means of which they
raise spirits, and affect to obtain supernatural intelligence. See Calmet, Art. Cabal. We
spake before, says Lightfoot, of the commonness of Magick among them, one singular
means whereby they kept their own in delusion, and whereby they afforded ours. The
general expectation of the nation of Messias coming when he did had this double and
contrary effect, that it forwarded those that belonged to god to believe and receive the
Gospel; and those that did not, it gave encouragement to some to take upon them they
were Christ or some great prophet, and to others it gave some persuasion to be deluded by
them. These deceivers dealt most of them with Magick, and that cheat ended not when
Jerusalem ended, though one would have thought that had been a fair term of not further
expecting Messias; but since the people were willing to be deceived by such expectation,
there rose up deluders still that were willing to deceive them. Lightfoot, vol. ii. p. 371. For
many curious details of the Cabalistic Magic, Vide Basnage, vol. v. p. 384, 34. Read the
stars no longer. The modern Jews, says Basnage, have a great idea of the influence of the
stars. Vol. iv. p. 454. But astrology was most prevalent among the Babylonian Rabbins, of
whom Jabaster was one. Living in the ancient land of the Chaldeans, these sacred sages
imbibed a taste for the mystic lore of their predecessors. The stats moved, and formed
letters and lines, when consulted by any of the highly-initiated of the Cabalists. This they
styled the Celestial Alphabet The Daughter of the Voice. Both the Talmudick and the latter
Rabbins, says Lightfoot, make frequent mention of Bath Kol, or Filia Vocis, or an echoing
voice which served under the Second Temple for their utmost refuge of revelation. For when
Urim and Thummim, the oracle, was ceased, and prophecy was decayed and gone, they
had, as they say, certain strange and extraordinary voices upon certain extraordinary
occasions, which were their warnings and advertisements in some special matters. Infinite
instances of this might be adduced, if they might be believed. Now here it may be
questioned why they called it Bath Kol, the daughter of a voice, and not a voice itself? If the
strictness of the Hebrew word Bath be to be stood upon, which always it is not, it may be
answered, that it is called The Daughter of a Voice in relation to the oracles of Urim and
Thummim. For whereas that was a voice given from off the mercy-seat, within the vail, and
this, upon the decay of that oracle, came as it were in its place, it might not unfitly or
improperly be called a daughter, or successor of that voice. Lightfoot, vol. i. pp. 485, 486.
Consult also the learned Doctor, Vol. ii. pp. 128, 129: It was used for a testimony from
heaven, but was indeed performed by magic art.44. The walls and turrets of an extensive
city. In Persia, and the countries of the Tigris and Euphrates, the traveler sometimes arrives
at deserted cities of great magnificence and antiquity. Such, for instance, is the city of
Anneh. I suppose Alroy to have entered one of the deserted