This page groups letters by how each one actually represents sound, whether as a consonant-only abjad character or a full vowel-marking letter. Wikipedia notes that "originally, the alphabet was an abjad consisting only of consonants, but is now considered an impure abjad," since scribes later added vowel points. Browsing by script-type lets a visitor tell a consonant-only letter from a vowel-marked one.
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What Defines This GroupingSourced to the subject's own accountTwenty-one letters received by Edward Kelley and recorded by John Dee. Unlike the ciphers beside it, it is presented by its receivers as the script of a language of its own: the received order is not the Latin order, and the sequence opens at Pa, which answers to the Latin B. 2 Size of the Traditional SetSourced to the subject's own account Origins
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The Enochian letters
This group holds the letters of the Enochian alphabet, the script of the Enochian system of angel magic received by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee and the scryer Edward Kelley in the 1580s, who recorded it as an angelic language revealed in their sessions. It was later taken up by the Golden Dawn and by Aleister Crowley.
The browser will find the individual letters and their meanings. The atlas presents the alphabet as a historical artifact of Dee and Kelley's work and its later magical use, describing each letter within that tradition.
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Mysteriorum Libri Quinque and Liber Loagaeth (British Library Sloane MSS 3188 and 3189)
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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