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( öéøé ), or anagram, is a Cabalistic rule according to which various words are formed through the change of any word into others by the transposition of the component letters. Thus áøàùéú , “in the beginning,” has been anagramatized áøéú àù , “a covenant of fire,” to accord with Deu_33:2, “from his right hand went a fiery law for them.” ‘In a Cabalistic book entitled úé÷åðéí upwards of seventy combinations of this single word are formed by R. Simeon benJochai. The Cabalists say that because the Hebrew letters are spiritual, and simple figures, they can therefore be construed in different ways; but this can be done in any language. Thus Herbert anagramatized the Virgin Mary into Army, as seen in the following two lines:
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