A Discourse on Anagrams as a Part of the Cabala

...the crime committed by such fraud was defended by such audacity. What is the remedy? Either not to write at all, or to hide what must be written with Signs and Letters. We are dealing here with Letters—not with Exchanging them original: "Commutandis", which is the method of Ciphers original: "Synthematica"; a system of substituted symbols or codes or "synthematics"; but with Rearranging them original: "Transponendis", which is properly called Anagram-making original: "Anagrammatismus". Truly, what origin and what use it has may be learned from this TREATISE original: "Diatriba": to learn, I say, how many times any name—especially a Proper Name—can be turned, and In what way: by what Numerical shortcut, and by what order the Art and Method are established. There are many things of this kind, and not common ones; yet all are contained within Anagram-making; certainly worthy, as far as the Learned & Friends judge, not only to be written and published, but to be inscribed to your Name. Many things for one man, friendly to my Patron; expressed, and yet hidden. But all things shall receive light from your triple light: from your Lineage, Virtue, and Dignity. Your Lineage original: "Stemma" is most ancient and illustrious; your Virtue, in place of Lineage, is most noble; your Dignity, in place of Virtue, is most grand under more than one title; whether concerning this City of ours and the University, or