Malachim Explained

Type:	Alphabet
Malachim
Sample:	Three Books of Occult Philosophy-Book III-Page 440.jpg
Alt:	A page of a book showing a catalog of characters formed by dots and lines connecting them.
Caption:	The Malachim Script, from Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy English 1651 edition
Date:	1510
Ipa-Note:	none

Malachim was an alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.^[1] Other alphabets with a similar origin are the Celestial Alphabet^[2] and Transitus Fluvii.^[3]

"Malachim" is a plural form from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach) and means "angels" or "messengers", see Angels in Judaism.

History

The Malachim alphabet is derived from the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. It was created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.^{[4] [5]} It is still used by high degree Freemasons to a limited extent.^[4]

Alphabet

This version of the alphabet is from Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy, 1651 edition.

Notes and References

1. van der Poel, Marc. Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1997:
2. Web site: Omniglot: Angelic Alphabet . Omniglot . 3 May 2019.
3. Gettings, Fred. "Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils." London; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. |
4. Web site: Malachim alphabet. www.omniglot.com. 2017-08-25.
5. De occulta philosophia (version première en 1510, 1re éd. 1531 en 2 livres, 2e éd. 1533 en 3 livres). Trad. fr. A. Levasseur 1727, revue par F. Gaboriau 1910. Trad. fr. Jean Servier : Les trois livres de la philosophie occulte ou magie, Paris, Berg International, 1981–1982.