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It was in another spirit that he composed a Platonic commentary, the only work of his in Italian which has come down to us, on the "Song of Divine Love" secondo la mente ed opinione dei Platonici "according to the mind and opinion of the Platonists," by his friend Hieronymo Beniveni, in which, with an ambitious array of every sort of learning, and a profusion of imagery borrowed indifferently from the astrologers, the Cabala, and Homer, and Scripture, and Dionysius the Areopagite, he attempts to define the stages by which the soul passes from the earthly to the unseen beauty.

The Cabala, or oral tradition, is, according to the Jews, a perpetual divine revelation, preserved among the Jewish people by secret transmission. It sometimes denotes the doctrines of the prophets, but most commonly the mystical philosophy, which was probably introduced into Palestine from Egypt and Persia.

I am also certain that the Emperor was swayed by the probability of a war breaking out, which would force him to leave France; and that he considered Fouche as the most proper person to maintain the public tranquillity during his absence, and detect any cabala that might be formed in favour of the Bourbons.

Later on the reader will hear more of Possano and Costa. The day before I left for London I supped with Madame du Rumain, who told me that her voice was already beginning to return. She added a sage reflection which pleased me highly. "I should think," she observed, "that the careful living prescribed by the cabala must have a good effect on my health."

I give due credit to the censorial brow, to the broad phylacteries, and to the imposing gravity, of those magisterial rabbins and doctors in the cabala of political science. I admit that "wisdom is as the gray hair to man, and that learning is like honourable old age." But, at a time when liberty is a good deal talked of, perhaps I might be excused, if I caught something of the general indocility.

CABALA, however, is the word;* nor let the secret escape thee even in thy dreams. * This word, whenever used by any of these gentlemen, was agreed to imply an inviolable secret. Nobody doubts that she is to be my wife. Let her pass for such when I give the word.

Am I a master of the cabala, to interpret childish dreams for you?" "This is not a dream; it is something of the sort that wanders in the air, touches, breathes, goes away and comes again, like a haze or the wind. You are grown up, and all say that you are clever. I beg you to explain this I think, too, that, if you wished, you might so arrange matters that all would go better.

Religion was the capital point on which depended all the political transactions of that age; and the queen's conduct in this particular, making allowance for the prevailing prejudices of the times, could scarcely be accused of severity or imprudence. * Camden, p. 459. Walsingham's Letter in Burnet, vol. ii. p. 418. Cabala, p. 406.

John the Baptist was according to the Jews a second Elijah; Jesus was believed by many to be the re-appearance of some other prophet. The Talmud and Cabala teach the same thing. In the Talmud it is said that Abel's soul passed into the body of Seth, and then into that of Moses. Moreover it was almost a necessary corollary of their psychological system.

It was first committed to writing in the second century A.D. The Cabala is divided into the symbolical and the real, of which the former gives a mystical signification to letters. The latter comprehends doctrines, and is divided into the theoretical and practical.