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Passing the River Letters

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Origin 1533

Named for a phrase in the Book of Isaiah, Passing the River Letters is the third of Agrippa's Hebrew-derived magical alphabets. Like Celestial and Malachim script, it is a Renaissance invention rather than a script with any older transmission behind it.

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Twenty-two characters answering one for one to the twenty-two Hebrew letters; in Latin Transitus Fluvii, the crossing of the river. It ciphers Hebrew and keeps the Hebrew names, values and order intact. 2
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Twenty-two characters 2
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1533 2
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Set out by Agrippa in the third book of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533) as one of three scripts of the angels. 2
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Alphabet Letters 1
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The Passing the River letters

This group gathers the letters of the Passing the River (Transitus Fluvii) alphabet, another of the magical Hebrew-derived scripts recorded by Agrippa in the sixteenth century, used in ceremonial magic. Its name alludes to the crossing of the Euphrates by the Jewish exiles.

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