Transitus Fluvii or Passage Du Fleuve (in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

), is an occult

Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

 alphabet

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...

 consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a German magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist.-Life:Agrippa was born in Cologne in 1486...

 in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy (Köln, 1533, but written around 1510). It is derived from the Hebrew alphabet

Hebrew alphabet

The Hebrew alphabet , known variously by scholars as the Jewish script, square script, block script, or more historically, the Assyrian script, is used in the writing of the Hebrew language, as well as other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic. There have been two...

, and is similar to the Celestial

Celestial Alphabet

The Celestial alphabet was written about by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the 16th Century. Other alphabets with a similar origin are Transitus Fluvii and Malachim.-External links:*...

 and Malachim

Malachim

This article is about the Malachim alphabet. For the quasi-Chasidic dynasty, see Malachim .You might also be looking for Malakh , a type of angel in Judaism....

 alphabets. The name may refer to crossing of the Euphrates by the Jews on their return from Babylon to rebuild the Temple. This alphabet can also be found in Abraham de Balmis Peculium Abrae. Grammatica hebraea una cum latino, Venetiis, 1523, sig. B6v.
Also in Geoffroy Tory

Geoffroy Tory

Geoffroy Tory, born in Bourges around 1480 and died in Paris before 14 October 1533, was a French humanist and an engraver, best known for adding written letters in French. His life's work has heavily influenced French publishing to this day.-Biography:...

, Champ Fleury, Paris 1529, f. 76v ubi tamen: “Lettres Chaldaiques,” and Giovanni Agostino Panteo's Voarchadumia contra alchimiam, Venice, 1530, pp. 545–46. Pantheus claims that, while the Hebrew alphabet was entrusted to Moses and Enochian to Enoch, the Transitus Fluvii was entrusted to Abraham.

Appearances in popular culture

The alphabet is depicted in the movie The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project

The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur footage. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three student filmmakers The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur...

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It is also referenced in the book, "An Enemy at Green Knowe", part of the Green Knowe series by the British author Lucy Boston.

External links

• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's "De Occulta Philosophia" at Wikisource
• Pantheus Voarchadumia contra alchimiam at Gallica
• Passing the River alphabet at Omniglot
• Agrippa, Occult Philosophy Book 3 at esotericarchives
• Peculium Abrae at esotericarchives