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Transitus Fluvii ("passing through the river" in

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

) or ''Passage Du Fleuve'' (in French) is an

occult The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of esoteric supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving otherworldly agency, such as magic and mysticism a ...

alphabet An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syll ...

consisting of 22 characters described by

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; ; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's ''Three Books of Occult Philosophy'' published in 1533 drew ...

in his '' Third Book of Occult Philosophy'' (

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, 1533, but written around 1510). It is derived from the

Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet ( he, wikt:אלפבית, אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי, ), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew languag ...

and is similar to the

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and

Malachim Malachim was an alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century. Other alphabets with a similar origin are the Celestial Alphabet and Transitus Fluvii. "Malachim" is a plural form from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach) and means "a ...

alphabets. The name may refer to the crossing of the Euphrates by the Jews on their return from Babylon to rebuild the Temple. This alphabet can also be found in Abraham de Balmis ''Peculium Abrae. Grammatica hebraea una cum latino'', Venetiis, 1523, sig. B6v. as well as in

Geoffroy Tory Geoffroy Tory (also Geofroy, Latin "Godofredus Torinus") was born in Bourges around 1480 and died in Paris before 14 October 1533. He was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding accents on letters in French. His life's work ha ...

, ''Champ Fleury'', Paris 1529, f. 76v ubi tamen: "Lettres Chaldaiques", and Giovanni Agostino Panteo's (Pantheus) ''Voarchadumia contra alchimiam'', Venice, 1530, pp. 545–46. Pantheus claims that, while the Hebrew alphabet was entrusted to Moses and Enochian to Enoch, the Transitus Fluvii was entrusted to Abraham.Joannes Pantheus, ''Voarchadumia contra alchimiam, ars distincta ab archimia et sophia, cum additionibus, proportinonibus numeris et figuris opportuni''. n.d. Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1550.

Appearances in popular culture

The alphabet is depicted in the movie ''

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''. It is also referenced in the book ''An Enemy at Green Knowe'', part of the Green Knowe series by British author Lucy Boston.

References

External links

* Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's "De Occulta Philosophia" at Wikisource
Pantheus ''Voarchadumia contra alchimiam'' at Gallica
* ttp://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/balmis006_transitus_fluvii_.jpg ''Peculium Abrae'' at esotericarchives Artificial scripts used in mysticism Language and mysticism Writing systems introduced in the 16th century {{Occult-stub