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[Chi]reck original: "Chirek" (or Hireq); a Hebrew vowel point represented by a single dot below a letter. (from which all the Hebrew Letters and Vowels arise), the final result of Legal Consideration, once the analysis is performed: Yet to us it is not contrary—THE UNITY OF THE POINT OF THE CHIREK REMAINING IMMOVABLE: WHILE WE EMBRACE THE TRINITY OF CONSUBSTANTIAL MONADS, CONSPICUOUS WITHIN THE UNITY OF THE JOD ITSELF original: "Trinitatem Monadvm Consubstantialivm, in Vnitate ipsivs Iod, Conspicvam"; Dee is arguing that the smallest Hebrew letter, the Jod (י), geometrically contains the mystery of the Holy Trinity—three units of the same substance existing in one form.: FORMED FROM ONE STRAIGHT DESCENDING LINE AND TWO DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CIRCUMFERENCE. Dee describes the "Jod" as being composed of a vertical line and two curved strokes from the edge of a circle, illustrating his belief that the alphabet is built from sacred geometry. Whence quite clearly, by the same effort, we discover: that the First Men could not have built such a stupendous structure of Hebrew Letters and Vowels original: "Nekudotht"; the Hebrew system of dots and dashes used to indicate vowel sounds. from such mystical principles without the most present Inspiration of the Divine Will. Even if these are the least of those things which might be weighed by the judgments of common grammarians: nevertheless, while [considering] how they apply themselves to the generation of every Letter and Vowel, and by what a wonderful and...