Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-1-64411-665-4 (ISBN)
Our alphabet hides a Mystery older than its magic of turning sound into shapes. Secrets lie in the choice of objects chosen to represent early alphabet letters and their order, a pattern inherited by numerous traditions, an alchemical spell to return the sun from the dark and guide the soul toward enlightenment.
Revealing the spell hidden in our alphabet, Judith Dillon explores the importance of the placement of each letter in early alphabets and how each letter represented a specific step on the alchemical path of self-transformation. She investigates the alphabet’s spread around the world, beginning in Egypt and then spreading through Hebrew, Greek, and other ancient systems of writing and divination. These include Germanic Runes, Celtic Oghams, Tarot cards, the I Ching, and the wisdom of Mother Goose. Comparing the mythic attributes of many traditions, the author reveals the commonality of a numerical placement of symbols and how the hidden message was adapted by multiple peoples using objects and shapes from their own traditions.
Examining the esoteric wisdom encoded in the alphabet, Dillon divides the numerical sequence of letters into three distinct parts. The first family of letters represents the Earth and describes the cycle of the natural year. The second family represents the Underworld and symbolizes the hero’s journey through judgments and death into the light of day. The third represents the Heavens and its astronomical cycles. Together, our alphabet symbols are a spell of alchemical stages on a path toward the light. Hidden in plain sight, our alphabet represents a transmission of ancient wisdom, the great alchemical Mystery of transforming dark earth into shining gold, of releasing the soul from the bonds of matter into the gold of enlightenment.
Judith Dillon has a degree in Near Eastern languages and anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Familiar with many traditions, she has studied the relationships between early alphabets and Mystery Traditions for more than 40 years.
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Alphabet as a Spell of Resurrection
PART ONE
Origins of Our First Alphabet and Later Traditions
1. Alphabets as Rosaries of Letters
2. Astronomy and Calendars
3. Anatolian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Early Semitic Scripts including Phoenician
4. The Egyptian Twenty-Four-Hieroglyph Alphabet
5. Spread of the Phoenician Script
6. Traditions from Hebrew and the Kabbalah
7. Various Western Traditions
8. Celtic Ogham
9. Germanic Runes
10. India’s Brahmi, Sanskrit, and Chakras
11. China’s I Ching and Tao Te Ching
PART TWO
The Three Groups of Alphabet
Letters Letters of the Earth, Letters of the Underworld, and Letters of the Heavens
First Family: Letters of the Earth
FIRST LETTER
A Guide at the Gateway
SECOND LETTER
Adolescence and the Purification of the Virgin Spring
THIRD LETTER
Impregnation and the Bonds of Time
FOURTH LETTER
Deliverance from Knots and Bonds
FIFTH LETTER
Teachings, Pupils, and a Gift of Tongues
SIXTH LETTER
Marriage of Heaven and Earth and the Throne of God
SEVENTH LETTER
Floods, Apocalypses, and Pregnant Pauses
EIGHTH LETTER
Happy Gate of Heaven Second Family: Letters of the Underworld
NINTH LETTER
Entering the Labyrinth
TENTH LETTER
Judgments of Fate
ELEVENTH LETTER
Visionaries and Payment of Debts
TWELFTH LETTER
Upside-Down Teacher and L’s Name of God
THIRTEENTH LETTER
Breaking Waters and the Deluge
FOURTEENTH LETTER
Return of a Messiah and Allotment of Fortune
FIFTEENTH LETTER
Devas, Devils, and Protection
SIXTEENTH LETTER
Opening Eye of the Sun Third Family: Letters of the Heavens
SEVENTEENTH LETTER
Pi’s Control of the Circle
EIGHTEENTH LETTER
Tsadiks, Moons, and Midwives
AM NINETEENTH LETTER
The Number of the Sun
TWENTIETH LETTER
New Year after Sun/Moon/Mercury Nineteen-Year Cycles
TWENTY-FIRST LETTER
A Triangular Number of a Sinuous Moon God
TWENTY-SECOND LETTER
Escape from Death and the Promise of a Good Return
A Review
APPENDIX 1
Astronomical Calendar Cycles
APPENDIX 2
Table of Alphabet Patterns Compared
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 109 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 392 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64411-665-0 / 1644116650 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64411-665-4 / 9781644116654 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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