Enochian: Encyclopedia II - Enochian - Enochian Tradition

Enochian - Enochian Tradition

The library holdings and common languages of those who claimed to discover angelic language must be taken into account in order to best interpret the origins of their languages, and to understand the differences as they evolved. These men were voracious book collectors, all, and without doubt had collected at least script samples from most languages.

Enochian - Trithemius's Angelic Script

The beginning of the angelic script tradition begins with the first iteration of the script from Trithemius's Steganographia. His is not a language as specifically as the others in the tradition are, but it is significant as it is a way in which to communicate with angels. Trithemius was intentional with his intermixing of cryptography and angelology, but his interest in angels was sincere, and not only a disguise for the ciphers within. What is notable about Trithemius's symbol-system is the complete divergence from Greek, Hebrew and Latin letterforms, and resulting in what seems to be a fusion of both Arabic and Ethiopic. While the thickness of the script is indicative of the Ethiopic, as well as some of the pausal notation, the curve and form of the decenders/ascenders and the placement of the diacritic marks also are similar to Arabic. Trithemius's symbol for Aseliel is very similar to the Arabic isolated da:d letter. The Trithemius symbol for Pamersiel could also be attributed to similarities in the Hebrew Dalet or the Ethiopian G.

When making these comparisons, it is easy to see influences across the Proto-Cannanite family, which is the family from which the entirety of influence is based. It is unlikely that Sinitic or Aegean alphabets influenced the angelic alphabets, primarily out of lack of exposure and availability. The shape, punctuation, and diacritical marks of Ge'ez had an influence upon Trithemius's angelic symbol-system, and the idea of the Book of Enoch had an influential role in inspiration.

Enochian - Agrippa's Angelic Alphabets

Trithemius was a mentor to a few dynamic and industrious disciples, one of them being Paracelsus, another being Agrippa. Three angelic alphabets are to his credit and one, Theban, is attributed to Trithemius and perhaps de Abano, although no connection to either has been positively established. The Theban alphabet is very similar to astrological signs such as Scorpio, Saturn, Jupiter, and Capricorn. This alphabet is based upon the Latin alphabet, unlike the others, which are based upon the Hebraic system.

Agrippa's three alphabets, Coelestis, Malachim, and transsitus fluuiia are all similar in terms of shape and style. All feature unusual serifs in the shape of circles, with thin script, and strong borrowing from Greek and Hebrew characters. Many of these characters are similar to those used in the angelic signs and sigils, and are displayed in the Hebraic system of sound and letter name, as well as usage of writing from right to left. Even the symbols are roughly similar to Hebrew, for example, in Coelestis, the Aleph is a very simplified version of the Hebrew Aleph. The chet letter is roughly similar to the Hebrew Shin. Greek is also equally represented. The Coelestis yod is a simple triangle, similar to the Greek Delta. However, nothing more than a superficial analysis can be made between these alphabets, as influences can arise from almost all alphabets to lay claim to some aspect of Agrippa's letter forms. It is most important to understand Agrippa as part of a lineage of angelic alphabets, each improving or modifying the one before in order to better communicate with the angels.

Enochian - Pantheus's Enoch

Pantheus provides three alphabets in Voarchadumia: The conventional Hebrew, a conglomeration of all three of Agrippa's alphabets, misleadingly labelled "tranfitu fluuij," and his original Enoch. Pantheus's Enochian alphabet seems to be similar to both the contrived magical languages of the established tradition as well as the more common languages of Greek and Hebrew. The sounds, numbers of letters, and the traditional Semitic way of writing right to left are equal to Hebrew. Pantheus's language has the distinction of being very thick of stroke and with a stylised block serif that makes it uniquely identifiable. However, based on the presentation of his Enochian script next to Hebrew within the pages of Voarchadumia the evolution from one to the other is clear.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Enochian Tradition", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki