Malachim

{{Short description|Alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century}} {{hatnote|This article is about an alphabet. For another use, see Malachim (Hasidic group). It is not to be confused with Malakh (plural Malakhim).}} {{Infobox writing system | type = Alphabet | mode = | name = Malachim | altname = | native_name = | sample = Three Books of Occult Philosophy-Book III-Page 440.jpg | alt = A page of a book showing a catalog of characters formed by dots and lines connecting them. | caption = The Malachim Script, from Agrippa's ''Of Occult Philosophy'' English 1651 edition | languages = | creator = Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | date = 1510 | time = | family = | direction = | ipa-note = none }}

'''Malachim''' was an alphabet published by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.<ref>van der Poel, Marc. Cornelius Agrippa, the Humanist Theologian and His Declamations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 1997: {{ISBN|90-04-10756-8}}</ref> Other alphabets with a similar origin are the Celestial Alphabet<ref name=Omniglot>{{cite web |title=Omniglot: Angelic Alphabet |url=https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/angelic.htm |publisher=Omniglot |access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> and Transitus Fluvii.<ref>Gettings, Fred. "Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils." London; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. | {{ISBN|0-7100-0095-2}}</ref>

"Malachim" is a plural form from Hebrew (מלאך, mal'ach) and means "angels" or "messengers", see Angels in Judaism.

== History == The Malachim alphabet is derived from the Hebrew and Greek alphabets. It was created by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th century.<ref name="omniglot">{{Cite web|url=http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/malachim.htm|title=Malachim alphabet|website=www.omniglot.com|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref><ref>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.</ref> It is still used by high degree Freemasons to a limited extent.<ref name="omniglot"/>

==Alphabet== This version of the alphabet is from Agrippa's ''Of Occult Philosophy'', 1651 edition. {| class="wikitable" |- align="center" |70px |70px |70px |70px |70px |70px |70px |70px |- align="center" |Aleph |Beth |Gimel |Daleth |He |Vau |Zain |Cheth |- align="center" |70px |40px |50px |60px |70px |60px |70px |70px |- align="center" |Teth ''or'' Theth |Iod ''or'' Yod |Caph ''or'' Kaph |Lamed |Mem |Nun |Tau |Shin, Shim ''or'' Shom |- align="center" |70px |70px |70px |70px |50px |70px |70px |- align="center" |colspan="2"|Samech |Ain ''or'' Ayn |Pe |Tzaddi ''or'' Zade |Kuff, Qoph ''or'' Quph |Res ''or'' Resh |}

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