מלאכים
or
מלכים
, that is, of angels or kings (angelorum sive regum); and the third the writing of the crossing of the flood."[[50]] There
are extant also, drawings of these letters preserved by Hern. Corn. Agrippa, in his work "De Occult. Phil. lib. iii. c. 30," the copying of which would be merely matter of curiosity to no end.
But Breithaupt goes much further, and refers to a book, "In Œnigmatibus Judæorum Religiosissimis. Helmst. 1708, editio, p. 49," wherein he says,[[51]] that Herm. Vonder Hardt, the most celebrated philologist of our age, remembers two singular alphabets used by the Jews in preparing their amulets. The first is
when the next succeeding is substituted for the preceding letter in every instance, as to wit:
ב
for
א