Malachim was an

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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 "angels" or "messengers", see

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History

The Malachim alphabet is derived from the

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and Greek alphabets. It was created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.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. It is still used by high degree

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to a limited extent.

Alphabet

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

References

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