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pofed of three letters, viz. Ain, Lam, Ya, forming the word Alt, 

 which is very confpicuous on the front of this medal. 



The Cabaliflical Arabs have written volumes on the charms 

 and powers of this charadler. Take one as an example of the 

 reft : Zahi Abadaal fays, " Whoever beholds and refledls on the 

 *' form of the letter Xi * Ain" (which is commonly written with 



the final Ain thus "f \^ " and fhall read the myftical name of 



" God therein contained, (viz. Alt') fliall be beloved by all who fee 

 " him ; and if he flaall be overtaken by ftorms and tempefts God 

 " will flive him, and caufe fountains of wifdom to flow in his 

 " breaft ; and God will inflrud: him in the hidden myfteries of 

 " fcicnce, and the occult fignifications of them. Moreover, if 

 " any one fliall write the letter Ain in thefe forms f^ or S in 

 " the firft hour of the Sabbath day, the moon being at the extre- 

 " mity of one of her manfions, and fliall bury this letter in any 

 " place whatever, that place will be dcfolated and laid wafte, 

 " and no one will ever after inhabit it." 



The word^//;, in Arabic, flgnifies not only the letter of the 

 alphabet known by that naine, but alfo, the eye, fight, afpe<51:, a 

 fountain, a fpy, a fpeculator, the befl; parr of any thing, a digni- 



* Eft; autem litera A'm iiKkx ilominis feu attributi Diviiii, quod vocatur AU, i. e. 

 excelfus, fublimis : Satis niirari iion poflim, impiorum hominum crecitatem, dum 

 Uteris & figuris nullius energise & efficacia;, tantum tamen poteftiatis inefle fibi per- 

 fuadent, lit coriim fiibfidio nihil illis deneg:itum viJeatur. 



KlRCHER. 



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