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Enochian (/ ɪ ˈ n oʊ k i ə n / ə-NOH-kee-ən) is an occult constructed language [3] —said by its originators to have been received from angels—recorded in the private journals of John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in late 16th-century England. [4]
The Enochian Alphabet consists of 21 characters, each associated with specific angelic beings and celestial powers. [8] The Enochian system, including its alphabet, has had a significant impact on Western occultism, particularly in the rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later in the magical practices of Aleister Crowley. The ...
These practices, meticulously recorded in Dee's journals, aimed to harness the energies and wisdom of these entities for transformative and practical purposes. This Renaissance occult tradition involved the interaction between human practitioners and the ethereal realm, characterized by the use of the Enochian language and symbols.
In the Golden Dawn magical system, the four Angelic or Enochian Tablets became the four watchtowers. [2] Each watchtower was attributed to a direction and an element, by the Golden Dawn. At the core of the instructions was the Angelic Table: a grid of 25x27 squares, each square containing a letter.
The Celestial Alphabet, also known as Angelic Script, is a set of characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century. It is not to be confused with John Dee and Edward Kelley 's Enochian alphabet, which is also sometimes called the Celestial alphabet.
The Theban alphabet, also known as the witches' alphabet, is a writing system, specifically a substitution cipher of the Latin script, that was used by early modern occultists and is popular in the Wicca movement.
Passing of the River script, described by Agrippa in Of Occult Philosophy, English edition. Transitus Fluvii ("passing through the river" in Latin) or Passage Du Fleuve (in French) is an occult alphabet consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy (Cologne, 1533, but written around 1510).
The difficulty in deciphering these systems can arise from a lack of known language descendants or from the languages being entirely isolated, from insufficient examples of text having been found and even (such as in the case of Vinča) from the question of whether the symbols actually constitute a writing system at all.