ABSTRACT
This chapter shows what Margaret Cavendish understood by the notion of 'the Jews' Cabbala' and from what sources she might have drawn to give it meaning. In Cavendish's story, the fire-stone and the star-stone, resting on pillars, cast their lights in the chapels where they had been placed. Cavendish's creation of 'non-linear, elliptical and enigmatic narratives', as Nicole Pohl expressed it, is exemplified by the debate Cavendish has with herself regarding the state of her opinions as she sets them out in the 'Argumentative Discourse' that precedes the main text of Observations. Sarah Hutton aptly points out that the empress in The Blazing World subjects Henry More to a caustic critique of two of his dearest-held principles: the 'Spirit of Nature' and his firm belief in the existence of immaterial spirits. In Blazing World, Cavendish also asserts that Dr. Dee and Edward Kelley are like the biblical pair Moses and Aaron.
