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explaining each word by the arithmetical value of the k'tters 

 whereof it is coinpofed ; whicii is done various ways. The 

 fecond is called notarkon ; and conCids either in taking each 

 letter of a word tor an entire diftion, or in making one en- 

 tire diftion oiii of the initial letters of many. The third 

 kirid, called th:mntnh, q. d. changing, confiils in changing 

 and tranfpcfing the letters of a word ; which is done various 

 virays. 



The generality of Jew* prefer the cabbala to the Sci ip- 

 ture ; comparing the former to tiie fparkling lullre of a pre- 

 cio\is (lone, and the latter to the fainter glimmering of a 

 candle. 



The cabbala only differs from maforah, as the latter de- 

 notes the fcience of reading the Scripture, the former of in- 

 terpreting it. Both are fuppofcd to have been handed down 

 from generation to generation by oral tridition only, till at 

 length the readings were fixed by the vowels and accents, 

 as tlie interpretations were by the tiiaforiih and ^t-mara. 

 Prideaux Conn. p. i. lib. v. p. 506. 



The cabbala hitherto fpoken of may be called fpeculative 

 cabbala ; in oppofition to the following, which may be 

 called praflical cabbala. 



Cabbala is alio applied to the ufe, or rather abnfe, 

 which vifionaries and enthufiafts make of Scripture, for dif- 

 covering futurity, by the lludy and confideration of the 

 combination of certain vvordf, letters, and numbers, in the 

 Sacred Writings. All the words,, terms, magic figures, 

 numbers, letters, charms, &c. ufed in the Jcwilh magic, 

 as alfo in the hermet'cal fcience, are compriled under this 

 fpecies of cabbala, which profertes to teach the art of curing 

 difeafes, and performing other wonders, by means of cer- 

 tain arrangements of facred letttrs and words. But it is 

 only the Chriftians that call it by this name, on account of 

 the refemblance this art bears to the explications of the Jewilh 

 cabbala : for the Jews never ufe the word cabbala in any 

 fuch fenfc, but ever with the utmoft refpeA and venera- 

 tion. It is not, however, the magic of the Jews alone 

 whicli we call cabbala, but the word is alfo ufed for any kind 

 of magic. 



CABBALIC art, 'Ars caballica, is ufed by fome writers 

 for ars palieftrica, or the art of wreftling. 



CALBALISTIC art. See Cabbala, and Cabba- 



LISTS. 



CABBALISTS, a feft among the Jews, who follow 

 and praftife the cabbala, or interpret Scripture according to 

 the rules of the literal cabbala, ahL ve laid down. 



The Jews are divided into two general fefts ; the Cara- 

 ites, who refufe to receive either tradition, or the Talmud, 

 or any thing but the pure text of Scripture : and the Rab- 

 biuifts or Tahnudifts, who, befide this, receive the traditions 

 of the ancients, and follow the Talmud. 



Thefe latter are again divided into two other fefls ; pure 

 Rabbinifts, who explain the Scripture in its natural fenfe, 

 by grammar, hillory, and tradition ; and Cabbalills, who, 

 to difcover hidden myftical fenfes, which they fuppofe God 

 to have couched therein, make ufe of the cabbala, and the 

 myftical rules and methods above mentioned. 



There are vifionaries among the jews, who believe that 

 Jefu3 Chrid wrought his miracles by virtue of the myfteries 

 of the cabbala. Some learned men are of opinion, that 

 Pythagoras and Plato ler.rned the cabbaliftic art of the Jews 

 in Egypt ; and fancy they fee evident footfl^ps thereof in 

 their philofophy : others, 011 the contrary, k.j, it was the 

 philofophy of Pythagoras and Plato that firft furnidied the 

 Jews with their cabbala. Be this as it will, it is certain, 

 that in the firll ages of the church, mod of the heretics 

 gave into the vain notions of the cabbala : particularly the 



Vol. V. 



GnoHics, Valentinians, and Bafilidians. Jieucc arofe the 

 a-ofoi^xi, and the multitude of talifmans, wherewith the ca- 

 binets of the virtuofi were ttocked. 



See a particular account of the cabbalidic art, as pradlifed 

 not only by Jews, but by Heathens and Chriftians, in 

 B.ifnage's Hill, of the Jews, book iii. chap. 10 — 18. 

 CABBIN. See Casin. 



CABBY ijlmu!, in Geosra/>/.<- , lies N. of Holyhead 

 idaiid on the coaft of Wales, about tv.o miles from the north 

 point of tliat ifland. 



CABE, a river of Spain, which uniting with the 

 Velezar, runs into the Miuho, a little to the well of Orenfe 

 in Galicia. 



CABECA, or Cauessf., in Commerce ; the Portuguefe 

 who carry on the trade of filks in tiie Ea(l Indies, diftinguilh 

 tliem by the names of cabcca, and larillo ; tliat is to fay, 

 head and belly. The cobeja filks are tlie fineft ; the larilla 

 being from fifteen to twenlyj^i/- cail. inferior to them. The 

 Indian workmen endeavour to mix them together ; for which 

 reafon the more experienced European mercliants, who carry 

 on that trade, take care to open the bales, and to examine 

 the flcins. The Dutch diftiiiguilli two forts, viz. the ordi- 

 nary cabefle, and the " cabtfie de mora." 



Cabe^a lie Vide, in Geography, a fmall town of Portugal, 

 in the province of Alentejo, with a llrong caftle. N. lat. 

 39°. W. long. 60° 43'. 



CABEgA, La, in Zoology, a fnake of South America in 

 Panama, there called the double-headed fnake, from an 

 imagination that it has a head at each extremity, and that 

 from the bite of each it conveys a poifon equal in aftivity to 

 that of the coral or rattle-fnake. Its ufual length is faid to 

 be about half a yard, refembling in figure an earth-woi'in. 

 Its diameter is about fix or eight lines, and its head different 

 from the heads of other fnakes, being of the fame dimenfions 

 with its body. The creature, however, has only ome head, 

 which, as it refembles a tail, has occafioned the notion that 

 it has two heads. Its motion is very How, and its colour 

 variegated with fpots of a paler tint. 



CABECAS, Las, in Geography, a town of Spain, in 

 the province of Andalufia, containing feveral ruins that 

 indicate its having been formerly a large place ; 4 leagues S. 

 of Seville. 



Cabecas Rulias, a town of Spain, in the country of 

 Seville, on the confines of Portugal ; 40 miles N. W. of 

 Seville. 



Cabecas, a town of the ifland of Cuba; ijo miles S.W. 

 of Havanna. 



CABECON, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon, 

 featcd on a mountain, v.ith a fort on the river Pifuerga ; 

 3 leagues N.N.E. from Valladolid. — Alfo, a town of Spain, 

 in the province of Afturia ^ iS miles W.S.W. of St. 

 Andre. 



CABEGO, a river of Portugal, which runs into the 

 Lima, 7 miles above Ponte de Lima. 



CABEL, or Kabel, Adrian Vander, in Biography, 

 a painter of landfcape, fea-ports, and cattle, was born at 

 Ryfwick, in 16^1, and became a difciple of John Van 

 Goyen, under whofe inftruftion and example he made a 

 rapid progrefs in his profeffi m, and by whom his name 

 was changed from Vander Touw to Vander Cabeh He 

 copied nature and defigned every objeft before he infertcd 

 any in his compofitions. Ilis tafte in dtfigning animals 

 and figures was formed after that of Calliglione ; and 

 in landicape his model was the llyle of Salvator Rofa. His 

 manner is great, and much after the gout of the Italian 

 fchool. The touchings of his trees are excellent ; hij 

 figures and animals are very correft, and marked with fpirit. 

 4 M Althougk 



