Sacred Alphabet

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Stephaine Zitzow

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The definition of an alphabet is very specific. It is a form of written communication whose symbols are abstractions that represent specific vocal sounds. The letters group to form sounds. The sounds form into words. An alphabet is different from other forms of writing because its symbols are not a pictorial-based system such as hieroglyphics.

Historically it is established that the alphabet was created by the Phoenicians between 1700 and 1500 BCE in the Sinai. ALL alphabets including the Hebrew and Latin alphabets germinated from this one parent. The history of how the shapes of Roman letters came to be is well documented. The alphabet slowly adapted from the Phoenician letterform into our modern letters through interactions of commerce and war.

Luca Pacioli and Leonardo da Vinci presented their manuscript, Divina Proportione, in 1498 to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico II Sforza . It is about mathematical proportions, mysticism and geometric systems. In 1509, the first printed edition of Divina Proportione was published in Venice. Within this publication Pacioli first included a geometric construction of the Roman alphabet. Twenty three pages of the book are dedicated to this topic. One page per letter.

Henry Cornelius Agrippa held lectures at the University of Dole on the work of Pico and Reuchlin. Agrippa faced growing hostility from Catholic orthodoxy at a time when anti Jewish sentiment was reaching a crisis with The Burning of the Vanities where Jewish books were being gathered up and destroyed. That same year Agrippa began drafts for his work Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Excerpts from this book clearly speak to his knowledge of The Sefer Yetzirah and its alphabet based creationist story. I have not yet found the reasons for his statement that all alphabets (not just the Hebrew alphabet) were designed by God. However, the divinity of the Roman alphabet was a definite humanist interest.

The omnipotent God hath made by his providence divided the speech of men into divers languages; which languages have according to their diversity received divers, and proper characters of writing, consisting in their certain order, number, and figure, not so disposed, and formed by hap, or chance, nor by the weak judgment of man, but from above, whereby they agree with the celestial, and divine bodies, and virtues. . . .

Logically there was motivation to examine the Roman letters and unlock their divine geometric puzzle. However all attempts by Renaissance artists to draw such a theological alphabet failed. Brutal trials of heresy had to influence the presentation of these alphabets. The exploration of letterform, for the most part, was covertly categorized as instructional templates for the trades to properly draw letters for architectural adornment.

The ancient story, The Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Creation, is one of the oldest Jewish texts with a manuscript dating from circa the fourth century AD. Its story is also found in the Zohar, a written account of the oral traditions of the Kabbalah. As with many sacred texts, it has been studied and interpreted by great scholars. I will give you my simplistic understanding of the text along with some rather peculiar observations.

The commandment; Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, is of particular interest to me. Although this commandment is meant to forbid idol worship it also serves as the very definition of an alphabet. An alphabet is a standardized set of abstract symbols called letters that represent the sounds of a spoken language. These letter symbols are abstract shapes not meant to represent or define any given idea through its form. A letter shall not be the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath.

I can only imagine the importance the alphabet held to men like Tory, Drer, Da Vinci, Pacioli, Galileo and the others who sought to understand the influences of the antique on Catholicism. I wish I could discuss with them this phenomenal alphabet. I would demonstrate to them my discovery in which every nuance of every letter is based on the divine proportion. This paradoxical alphabet, now finally resolved, is truly art in heaven.

My contribution to their work at this time is the discovery that a systematized Roman alphabet constructed from the Golden Ratio does exist. The rest of this article is technical and focuses in on the drawing of the letter O. As you will see, every aspect of the letter O is spun from the Golden ratio. All 26 letters of our modern alphabet is based on this ratio in ways so simple yet so creative it boggles my mind.

It may be, though, that alphabets are even more important than language because alphabets create written languages. The organized systems of symbols on a page that we call words and phrases turn our oral transmissions into writings, which societies use to create civilizations.

This is fundamentally what the two brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, did in Central Europe in the mid-800s AD. (For our regular readers, that was just after the Book of Kells was created.) The brothers gave the Slavs not a language, which the people already had, but an alphabet to write it down in and so hand their culture and faith on to succeeding generations.

Even though they were Greeks, Cyril and Methodius are considered the fathers of Slavic culture, such an integral part of European identity that in 1980 Pope John Paul II named them co-Patrons of Europe together with St. Bridget of Sweden, St. Benedict, St. Catherine of Siena, and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

The language abilities and missionary output of these brothers were unbelievable. While living their monastic life, they also took up missionary work. They learned the Khazar language (a Turkish dialect!) in order to evangelize the Saracens who lived in that region near the Black Sea.

During their first four years in Moravia they made no attempt to impose their superior Greek culture or language on the people but rather learned the local Slavic language and created an alphabet so the people could learn to read.

They proceeded to translate the entire Bible as well as the liturgy into that language so the people could worship and have the word of God proclaimed to them in their own tongue. Those who accuse the Catholic Church of being anti-biblical simply do not know history.

He encountered fierce resistance from Latin Rite churchmen who resented his successful new approach to evangelization. Unbelievably, he was physically attacked and even imprisoned (by fellow clerics) for almost three years in gratitude for all the good he had done for the Church!

About eighty years later, the Old Slavonic liturgy so impressed representatives of the Russian Prince Vladimir (not Putin) that they returned to Russia claiming Christianity to be the greatest religion known to man.

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Rabbi Chananya spake, and said: "Before creation began, the alphabetical letters were in reversed order; thus, the two first words in the Book of Genesis, berashith, bara, begin with B; the next two, Alhim, ath, with A. Why did it not commence with A, the first letter? The reason of this inversion is as follows: For two thousand years before the creation of the world the letters were concealed and hidden, being objects of divine pleasure and delight.

"When the Divine Being, however, willed to create the world, all the letters appeared before his presence in their reverse order. Th first ascended and. said: 'Lord of the Universe! let it please thee to create the world by me, as I am the final letter of the word Emeth (truth), which is graven on thy signet ring. Thou thyself art called Emeth, and therefore it will become thee, the great King, to begin and create the world by me.' Said the Holy One (blessed be He): 'Thou, oh, Teth, are indeed worthy, but I cannot create the world by thee; for thou art destined to be not only the characteristic emblem borne by faithful students of the law, from beginning to end, but also the associate of Maveth (death), of which thou art the final letter. Therefore the creation of the world cannot, must not, be through thee.'