BIBLIA CABALISTICA
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Ave, Maria, gratia plena.
Purior angelis.
651
En
651 651
spes nostra.
Maria Deo soli Hasc enim Dei
Imago Deo
cedit est
jam Imago,
vere simillima,
Plane mira infinita
Et ideo Deo
hasc amabilior
Ea ei Pulchrior Ac amore hinc ardens (Oh mirabile dictu) :
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Ave, gratia plena.
In, sed
380
ab
ilia fit
380
caro,
lam illic ea caro Deus Mater Dei Puella
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Adde concepit illibata Ea non a carnali semine, :
A
Coelesti
Oh Oh Oh
Flamine plena.
rara prodigia alta
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Dignitas Gaudia plane Diva !
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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 text.
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Now, although
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
anagramma was derived. Thus in the way of numeration
all
programing from which the
these anagrams are the cabalistica of the