Alphabets · Overview

Alphabets

An alphabet here is a set of letters read three ways: as a script, as numbers, and as the pieces later systems attach meanings to. Each page starts with the letters themselves — shape, name and value — and puts every other part of the study that uses a letter one link away.

The 22 Hebrew letters also serve as numerals, which is what gematria reads. Sefer Yetzirah divides them into 3 Mothers, 7 Doubles and 12 Simples, and later Zoharic, Lurianic and Hermetic systems read that division in different ways.

The alphabets