Transitus Fluvii

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Transitus Fluvii
Type	Alphabet
Spoken languages	Derived from Hebrew
Created by	Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Time period	16th Century
Parent systems	Hebrew Transitus Fluvii
Sister systems	Celestial, Malachim

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Passing of the River script, described by Agrippa in 'Of Occult Philosophy', English edition

Transitus Fluvii ("passing through the river" in Latin), or Passage Du Fleuve (in French), is an occult alphabet consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy (1513). It is derived from the Hebrew alphabet^[1], and is similar to the Celestial and Malachim alphabets. The name may refer to crossing of the Euphrates by the Jews on their return from Babylon to rebuild the Temple.^[2] This alphabet can also be found in Giovanni Agostino Panteo's Voarchadumia contra alchimiam, published in Venice in 1530, thus preceding the full publication of Agrippa's De occulta philosophia by three years. There Pantheus claims that while the Hebrew alphabet was entrusted to Moses and Enochian to Enoch, the Transitus Fluvii was entrusted to Abraham.

[edit] Appearances in popular culture

The alphabet is depicted in the movie The Blair Witch Project.

[edit] References

^ Gettings, Fred. "Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils." London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. | ISBN 0-7100-0095-2
^ Haywood, H. L.; Mackey, Albert Gallatin. "Encyclopedia of Freemasonry Part 1 (1909)." Kessinger Publishing, 2003 | ISBN 0766147193

Joannes Pantheus, "Voarchadumia contra alchimiam, ars distincta ab archimia et sophia, cum additionibus, proportinonibus numeris et figuris opportuni." n.d. [1] Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France. 1550.