The Book of Akbar 15: CHAPTER II.

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God be praised ! Hail ! celestial name and sublime talisman which came down from highest heaven and the realms of light and glory, whose splendour and whose rays have taken possession of the Orient and the Occident.
Among the excellencies of the name—which is full of wonders—there is one which my honoured elder brother, an encyclopaedia of inward and outward perfections, the poet-laureate, Abu-l-faiz Faizi has brought out in various admirable writings, namely, that by the mysterious connections of letters which are lofty vocables and which,—whether separately or in combination,—display their influences, it appears that the indicatory letters (baiyinat-i-huruf) of the word aftab (Sun) make the number 223 and thus correspond to the numerical value of the letters of the word Akbar.
Verse. That very light which is yielded by the world-adorning Sun, Is produced from the brows of the sublime Shahanshah, That Akbar is allied to Aftab (the Sun), Is proved by the evidence (baiyināt) of the names.
Another of the delightful things about this glorious name is that those who are acquainted with the secrets of cabalistic lore and who know the influences and combinations of letters, who are cognisant of the hidden stations of the divine essence and of revelations,