The Magus, Book I: The Celestial Intelligencer: Chapter XVII: Of The Notes Of The Hebrews And Chaldeans, And Other Notes Of Magicians

THE Hebrew characters have marks of numbers attributed to them far more excellent than any other language, since the greatest mysteries lie in the Hebrew letters, as is handled concerning these in that part of Cabala which we call Notariacon. Now the principal Hebrew letters are in number twenty-two, whereof five have various other certain figures in the end of a word, which, therefore, they call the five ending letters, which, being added to them aforesaid, make twenty-seven; which being then divided into three degrees, signify units, which are in the first degree--tens, which are in the second--and hundreds, which are in the third degree. Now every one, if they are marked with a great character, signifies so many thousands, as here--

The classes of the Hebrew numbers are these which follow:--

Sometimes the final letters are not used, but we write thus:

And by those simple figures, and by the joining them together, they describe all other compound numbers: as eleven, twelve, an hundred and ten, an