KABALA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1916, Page 6

KABALA.

I To the Editor, Sir,—Your correspondent, who signs herself "One of the Weaker Sex," in Wednesday's issue, is advocating tolerance, and. at the same time is in a most intolerant manner attacking Mr. Ellis, whom she accuses of vulgar abuse, because he so easily disproved Mr. Kelland's sensational utterance about the Kaiser and Kabala. One would expect that a lady who deprecates abuse and pleads for tolerance and respect for each and all would be careful not to make erroneous statements and attribute to Mr. Ellis things he did not do, and tilings lie did not say. Mr. Ellis' did not .say that the Hebrew letter H in a circle stood for ir>, but ''that when it was the central one of nine circles within a greater, that the sum of the units expressed 15 in the outer circle, which embraced them all." Neither did he say that "H for 5" and "ST for 10"I made 15, because HY does not spell Yah (God), but he did say YH not only spelled the Hebrew name of the Deity, but also stood for 15, and this can easily be proved. Tito first ten letters of the Hebrew alphabet are A B G D H V 7, Oh T Y, and if you want to write down o you take the fifth lettei of the alphabet, viz., H, and if you want to write 10 you use the tenth, viz., Y. But if you want to wirite 15 in everyday use, or in commercial pursuits and the common things of life you use the.ninth, viz., T, and the sixth, V, because you must not take the nafiie of God in vain; but the fact remains that YH is the correct way to express 15, for in all the other numbers from 11 to 1!) the Y is used in conjunction with one of the other letters. So Mr. Ellis was I quite right when he said that in Hebrew counting 15 represented God, and when Mr. Kelland said, as your correspondent asserts, that the result must be either 105 or 510, he only displays his ignorance, and proves how unreliable all his statements are. Your correspondent says that Mr. Kelland does not claim that his system is ancient Kabaln, but is based upon it. That may be true. Perhaps he should have said that in his system 15 stood for the devil, but he said kthat in Ancient Kabala 15 stood for t'.ie devil, which is obviously untrue. If Mr. Kelland knows so much about the Ancient Kabala that he can base upon it and adapt for the use of modern western nations a system of his own, he would surely know that the membei. of that school could not alter the Heorew alphabet, inasmuch as they were devout Jewish Rabbis, and their mission was to strengthen Judaism, and they would not, if they could,-apply the number that, stood for God to the devil. That would be topsy-turveyism that only Mr. Kelland could be guilty -of. It is quite apparent to one who knows that the system of Kabala was instituted to prove in some secret fashion that Judaism was, and always will be the only true religion; and that there is only one true and living God; and, consequently, the system is a greater antichrist than the beast that John (whom Mr. Kelland claimed to be * Kabalist) saw, or even the Kaiser.—l am, etc., , HEBRAIST.