Angelic Script (Agrippa)
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Agrippas Angelic Alphabets were created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa who was perhaps one of the most famious occultists of his time and still bares a strong influence on the modern occultist. In Agrippa's Libri tres de occulta philosophia appears four different alphabets that this article concerns.
Agrippa's three alphabets are known as Malachim, Celestial_Alphabet, and Passage Du Fleuve 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. Most of the characters are roughly similar to Hebrew, for example, in Cestial, 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 Celestial yod is a simple triangle, similar to the Greek Delta. However, nothing more than a superficial analysis can be made between these alphabets since there is no definitive evidence of where agrippa derived these alphabets.
The Forth Alphebet is known as Theban. Unlike Celestial, Malachim, and Passage du Fleuve Theban has letters for each letter of the latin alphabet and bares similarities to Trithemius' alphabetic system and perhaps even de Abano, although no connection to either has been positively established.
