The Sacred Alphabets

This category holds the letters of the sacred alphabets (Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, runic, ogham, Enochian and others), as they are used in esoteric practice, where each letter carries not only a sound but a name, a numerical value and a set of correspondences. Alphabetic numerology such as Hebrew gematria and Greek isopsephy depends on these values, reading the number of a word as a key to its meaning.

In several traditions the letters are held to be more than signs: the Sefer Yetzirah treats the twenty-two Hebrew letters as the elements from which God formed the world, and the letters of many scripts carry mystical and magical weight.