Magickal Languages (basic info) March 21, 2007 [Ed.Note: Quick snip of some entries for a basic class on the use of Magickal L anguages WITHOUT delving into V-Prime which will be discussed later.] Theban Theban script was created by Honorius in the 12th century as a way to encode oth er writing (likely Latin at the time). This alphabet is also sometimes called th e Runes of Honorius, or the Witch·s Alphabet because it·s been adopted by many moder n-day witches. Known as ´the Witches· Alphabetµ, or sometimes ´Runes of Honoriusµ, the ori gins of Theban are lost. Theban script was created by Honorius in the 12th centu ry as a way to encode other writing (likely Latin at the time). Our opinion of T heban is that it is the easiest language we are going to mention here. This is b ecause there is a one-to-one relationship between Theban letters and letters of the alpha numeric code, except for j and u. Beside Runes, Theban is often used b y Witches because of its mysterious quality, and that it is easy for someone who knows it to read it. The Witch·s Alphabet because it·s been adopted by many modern -day witches. Ogham . b ut it takes some time to get the hang of it!) Malachim Although we have been aware of the Malachim alphabet for some time. and some letters having more than one meaning. the Phoenicians travelled around the Mediterranean an d perhaps as far as Africa. particularly in the calls used to summon them. Legend has it that the magicians Edward Kelly and Dr. Enochian Enochian is also refered to as Angelic Script and is used in ceremonial magick w hen workiing with Angelic beings. Thoroughly mysterious as it is. (This could prove easy for left-handed people. it can be hard to understand Phoenician.Phoenician Known to be great traders. John Dee were given this language by an angel. we have been unable to find out about its origins. The Greek and Hebrew alphabets are thought by some t o have been developed from Phoenician. we can on ly supply to you the alphabet itself. Enochian script is properly written from right to left. With many variations on letters. It is also made difficult to write by the traditional preference towards writing Phoenician from right-to-left. The Ogham is an alphabet used by the Druids. Runic . This script was most often used when marking an inscription into a br anch or on a stone. and each letter corresponds to a sa cred tree. It is written either vertically or horizontally. which i s what is spelled with the first 6 letters. you can jazz up your Book of Shadows and kee p your writings secret (unless you live with other pe ople who can read this stu ff). making them ver y interesting. Many of these la nguages are shrouded in legends. there are more pages where you c an download these alphabets as computer fonts. Here we will explain some common Witchey Lang uages. That is to say. m any Pagans use these letters when writing and it can come in handy that you are able to read them. If nothing else. . ~ magical languages ~ Many Witches choose to write in a magickal language. runes are usually associated w ith divination. stories and incomplete history. Why bother lea rning old scripts if you don·t know th e language behind them? Well. these days. to write spells. Oh. and if you follow these links through. The alphabet is called the Futhark. These languages can be used to write a Book Of Shadows and keep its secrets concealed. Runic writings have been found throu ghout northern Europe and date mostly around the 11th century AD. and to bring a greater air of ambiguity about yourself and your workings. which is not in common usage now. much like the Tarot. It is also interesting to draw from a time when magick was raw an d in common use. an old lang uage of history and mystique.Probably the best known of all ancient alphabets. or corrections to be made. but on their lingual meanings. the meanin gs of the glyphs (or runic symbols/letters) are used in divination. are thought to be the oldest type of Runes. but we will not dwell too greatly on their divinatory uses here. spindle.com This FAQ or its latest release is available on the we b at: http://www. Runes have always held in them a story of magick. Tzimon Yliaster. We have chosen to draw only from the Elder Futhark and Anglo-Saxo n Futhark. The Elder Futhark . and suffered from hunger and thirst. used for divination. Most people know the Runes best for their use in divi nation and answer seeking. Joseph Maxx. Although still popular in mythology and often used in jewellery design. Each Rune represents a sound and has a distinct meaning. and the latter is the Anglo -Saxon adaptation on the original alphabet. hack. or re-post. and several others who remain more anonymous. twist.com/lib/chaos/texts/obfaq. Feel free to copy. This document Copywronged (x) 1998-2000 by Fenwick Ry sen. and to those who helped contribute to the FAQ. This wouldn¶t have been po ssible without their help. And just before he fell f rom the Tree. The runic alphabet is called the Futhark. Peter Carroll. Hine Nui Te Po. He spied the Runes and snatched them so He could give them to His people. and give them t o whoever the hell you want to. The Runes we re spread across Europe. tear. If you have any questions not answered in the FAQ. F uthark gets this name from the first six Runes and the sounds that they make (f -u-th-a-rk). so there are now many different versions of Runes and t heir meanings. Fireclown. ideas for expansion. Odin. hung from the Tree Of Life for nine days and nine nights. mangle. Ouranian Barbaric FAQ Version 3. splice.555.00 01 February 2000 Written and maintained by Fenwick Rysen. in no part icular order.chaosmatrix. please conact him at fenwick @ chaosmatrix. mutilate.It is said that the Norse God of Gods. He was wounded by His own blade. They are.Runes One of the most common types of Witchy writing is that of Runes. alpha and beta. Similarly to the word ´alphabetµ b eing derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. . hence the name.html Special Thanks are d ue to those who have helped me learn Ouranian Barbaric and answer my multitude o f questions. as long as this copywrong notice remains intact. print up however many damn copies of it that you want. 4 How do I turn Ouranian nouns into verbs. and individuals are encouraged.5 What is the source of the Ouranian Barbaric Dictionaries on the net ? II GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX === ================== 2. as with everything.3 Why are all verbs i n the form ³do (verb)´ 2.5 Are the words in Peter Carroll¶s ³Masses of Chaos´ Ouranian ? 3. that is used exclusively by the chaos magickal com munity for use in their workings.7 How do you pronounce some of thes e words? III MISCELLANIA === =========== 3.4 Where did Ouranian Barbaric co me from? 1.4 What does it mean to use Ouranian like ³The Alphabet of Desire´? 3.1 How does one create more Ouranian w ords? 3. and adverbs.The answers to the questions in this FAQ are non-authoritative.1 Does Ouranian Barbaric have a standard syntax? 2.7 What Ouranian resources are there on the net? 3.6 Why are Ouranian words always capitalized? 2.10 Is there a Ouranian Barbaric alphabet with its own letters? ============================== ==================================== ========= SECTION I: ORIGINS ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 1 n Barbaric is the proprietary language of chaos magick. and vice versa? 2. ================================================================= = ========= I ORIGINS === ======= 1.3 Why is it called Ouranian ³Barbaric´? 1.9 What i s the relationship between Ouranian Barbaric and Psychic Censor? 3. more technically a jargon. adjectives.2 What does the word ³Ourani an´ mean? 1.2 Why is the word for ³I´ and ³We´ the same? 2.2 Where can I get a Ouranian Barbaric Dictionary? 3. but inste ad is used in place of the magician¶s natural .5 What do the ³T+´ and ³T-´ with some of the words mean? 2.3 What should I do w ith new Ouranian words that I create? 3. to take what they will and discard the rest.1 What is Ouranian Barbaric? 1. it is a languag e. It is not spoken as a real language. That is.8 Is there a gematria for Ouranian Barbaric? 3.6 Are there other barbarous languages out there? 3. ´ ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 1. which als o ommitted some very useful concepts such as the planets. creeping round in the darkness outside of the normal. In the terms of Chaos M agick. Whereas the classical bodies orbit the sun. It has been said that Ouranian Barbaric developed out of a need to express more modern concepts that were absent in other magickal languages like Enochian (from the sixteenth century) and relevant to Chaos Magick. and the personality required to live as one. and perhaps devious. It is one of the fundamental concepts of ev ocatory magick and is an incredibly complicated subject. Ouranos represents something dark. exalting the mind during . It represents not the power of the magic itself. Things like ³Planck¶s Constant´ and ³Heisenberg Uncertianty Principle´ are obviously absent from Enochian. ever delving into that which is weird. to unlock its secrets. with its polar axis tilted at an eccentric angle. outside of the sphere of classical planets and the god forms or thought form attributed to them. Peter Carroll says tha t he created it because ³I liked the sound of enochian. and I wanted to demon-stra te that an arbitary magical language works just as well as one with a supposedly mysterious history. chanting in a language not understood by the conscious mind (such as Oura nian Barbaric) lets the ideas (memes) represented by the words bypass the Psychi c Censor and penetrate the subconscious mind of the magician. Thus it forms an ideal symbol for that which encompasses all the gods within its orbit: the magical personality.2 What does the word ³Ouranian´ mean? The w os´. a term used by Crowley and others. Any language that you d on¶t understand with full consciousness and that can be chanted in a manner that d istracts the conscious mind is considered to be ³barbarous´.´ ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 1. this eq uates with the curious orbit of Ouranos which. but rather the desire to be a magician. Ouranos is the s ame as Uranus. almost on the plane of the ecliptic. which is attributed to Pluto. the bright center of hum an personality. and p erverse. symblolizes the antinomian character of the magician. Ouranos is an old form of the word Uranus. Barbarous words ca n also serve as foci free of conscious meaning.3 Why is it called . Astronomically. which describes it thusly: ³It is the eighth bod y. and was chosen to avoid the ³Your An us´ stigmatism associated with the modern spelling. It is harder to describe its symbology better than in a planetary working called The Ouranos Rite.language in order to distract the conscious mind and bypass the psychic censor. Ouranos can also be thought of as the dark side of the Sun. Symbolically. occult. It is not supposed to be in the public domain.sezampro. It is often said that Ouranian should be written and spoken in V-Prime. Crowley says in Chapter IX of ³Magick in Theory and Practice´: ³It may b e conceded in any case that the long strings of formidable words which roar and moan through so many conjurations have a real effect in exalting the consciousne ss of the magician to the proper pitch ² that they should do so is no more extraor dinary than music of any kind should do so. or possessi ves.4 Wh reated by Peter Carroll and possibly some others around 1989-90. or tenses.com/lib/chaos/ob.´ ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 1. Both dictionaries con tinue to grow as that language evolves. and the master copy with all updates is maintained at http://www. plurals. sentence structure. and to Kenneth Grant¶s ³The Magickal Revival. yu/~babbage/Ouranian.html A mirror of this dictionary is maintained by Milos Babic at http://www. ======================================== ========================== ========= SECTION II: GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² andard syntax? Properly speaking.´ Anyone further interested in Barbaric Languages are here referred to Chapter IX of Aleister Crowley¶s ³Magick in Theory a nd Practice´. It was leaked o ut of the IOT Pact onto the World Wide Web by a disgruntled former member of the UK Section.ritual chant. Its maintenance has fallen into the hands of Fenwick Rysen.html The sources of the words in the updated dictionaries a re the original words created by Peter Carroll with others appended to the list throughout time by other chaos magicians who created new words to fill any needs that were not already filled by currently existing words. but a jar gon with no rules of syntax. In his book _Liber Kaos_ Peter Carroll says: .chaosmatrix. Ouranian Barbaric is not a language. for the most part. closed-mouthed about it.1) ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² the Ouranian Barbaric Dictionaries on the net? It was leaked onto the World Wide Web by a disgruntled member of the UK Section of the Illuminates of Thanateros. and the IOT has chos en to remain. even though other chao tes have made extensive use of it and continue to add to it (see section 3. Thus. you ³do´ things. V-Prime or Vernacular Prime is one¶s native tongue in which all use of all tenses of the verb ³to be´ is omm itted in accordance with quantum metaphysics. create completely new words. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 2. the words I and we are conceptually equivelant in Ourania n Barbaric. surrender to spontanaeity. Instead.´ There is a subtle change in consciousness that occurs with this that any magician is advised to pay attention to. ³There is no being.³It is worth noting here that chaos-magical languages are usually now written in V -Prime before transliteration into magical barbaric form. ³a´. and that when po ssible things should be in the present. and thusly that ³there is no being.2 Why is the word for ³I´ and ³We´ the same? The directly from the idea of the ³multiple nature of the self´. Use the same word. Make the language yours. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 2. invent your own prefixes or suffi xes. Long Answer: There are no rule s.4 How do I turn Ouranian nouns into verbs ersa? Short Answer: However the hell you want to. all is doing. F eel free to break them. It is not ³I will die´ but instead ³I do death´. a ll is doing. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 2. any collective of personas can also be seen as a single individual (also with many personas). every individual is a collection of personas ² a colonial being. Furthermor e. active tenses.) can be implied such as in Latin. make your own. or do whatever else you can think of that feels right to you. above).´ Other simple rules are that definites articles (³the´. accomplishing the same thing in English that OB does in its grammar.1. All the nonsense of transcendental ism disappears quite naturally once this tactic is adopted. a version of English that eliminates ³to be´ and its permutations from the vocabulary. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² . Make the lan guage your own. Those interested in the topic are also encouraged to research E-Prime. In other words. or do as spontanaeity urges. etc. all is doing. if you will. There is no being. This has to do with the fact that Ouranian has no verb ³to be´ ba sed on the anontic concept of no being. one is reminded that what few rules do exist are not hard and fast.3 Why are all verbs in the form ³do (verb)´? This has ectin 2.´ What this means is that you have no forms of the verb ³to be´ anywhere i n your sentences in Ouranian Barbaric. Should any problems be en countered. which someone wittly pointed up as vulboozo. and no two chaotes sound exactly the same when saying the same words. Ju st try your best to sound those stranger ones out. to rhyme with ouzo. and let the seed word change and ev olve until you arrive at what feels like the proper word. ================================================================== ======= == SECTION III: MISCELLANIA ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. but this is by no means unive rsal.chaosmatrix. The original method is through an invocation of Ouranos-Baphomet and then using a created board to div ine the letters of a word.´ ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² ric Dictionary? . for example the phrase ³the morning is not the magicians friend´ yielded VL BZ. UTHEDUS means ³Almost Certianly´ while THOFAD means ³Almost Certainly Not.6 ere is no reason.is an indication of whether a word is used in the positive or in the negative. This is just the standard convention.chaosmatrix. and go with that. Most chaote s seem to pronounce a leading ³X´ (as in XIQUAL) as a ³Z´. Take a bag of scrabble tiles.7 How do ere is no set way to pronounce Ouranian Barbaric words.1 How does one create more Ouranian w is to channel them somehow.html Regardless of method used. glossolalia. A basic rite for channeling Ouranian words via glos solalia is available on the web at http://www. draw between four and ten.com/lib/chaos/rites/gl oss. or other method. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 2.5 What do the ³T+´ and ³T-´ with some of the words mean? T+ or T. Peter Carroll states that: ³Half the trick of barbaric lies with the vowels added at wil l later. Thus when we get the Ouranian word for ³Almost Certianly´ we have ³UTHEDUS (T+)´ and ³THOFAD (T-)´. the critical part of t he process lies in adding the vowels to the mishmash of consonants that one ofte n receives. Invoke glossolalia. and u se these as a seed word.2.co m/lib/chaos/rites/barbget. It becomes personal pref erence.html It basically goes as follows: Decide what word you want to add to the O uranian language.´ ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 2. whether this is by inspiration. This ritual is available at http://www. and using it for their own specific t asks. It¶s creation. As you create more words. and oftentimes hard to explain to others should such a task eve n be desirable. or Joseph Max. their metho d of creation. Write to: Stephen Mace P. some other people feel that their words should be shared with others. coming up with their own rules for usage. and application are incr edibly personal. you should add them to your own personal dictionary.The master updated Ouranian Barbaric Dictionary with both English-toOuranian and Ouranian-to-English formats is available on Chaos Matrix at: http://www.com/SoHo/Gallery/2792/ouranian. To this end.magick. These can be found online at http://www. from where they spread to other sources.A . Box 256 Milford.html An English-to-O uranian only version is maintained by the AutonomatriX: http://www. and choose to keep them to themselves. you are invited to contact Fenwick Rysen (fenwick @ chaosmatr ix . From there they w ill be disseminated and incorporated into all currently updated copies of the di ctionary.html A mirror of this dictionary is maintained by Milos Babic at: http://www. at a very reasonable price.chaos and to chaos magick e-lists.htm Tzimon¶s older HTML dictionary is no longer updated with ne w words: http://www.com/lib/chaos/ Stephen Mace¶s book ³Stealing the Fire From Heaven´ is the best guide to creating an Alphabet-of-Desire in Spare¶s tradition that is available to the modern chaos magician.geocities. use.com/~max/ newcorpus/barbdicx. Many people use Ouranian the same way.html ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3 words that I create? Write them down. including ³The Book of Pleasure´ and ³The Focus of Life´. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3.chaosmatrix.chaosma trix. If you are interested in having any words you create added to the Ouranian Barbaric Dictio naries on the net.sezampro. many people post their words al ong with their method of creation to usenet newsgroups such as alt. and any other information you feel is relevant.com/lib/chaos/texts/obdict2.S.sfo.O.yu/~babbage/Ouranian. com) with your words. Many people feel their words are personal. com). oftentimes demanding something of great value before they will divulge them. Those interested in Spare¶s Alphabet of Desire and basic philosophy should r ead Spare¶s works.555 (maxx @ address .4 What does it mean to use Ouranian like ³The Alphabet concept created by Austin Osman Spare that basically says to create a symbol set for your own personal use in magick. However. creating their own words. CT 06460 U. sonic. an each letter in an Enochian wor d represents a whole body of forces by itself. Currently. one would be well advised to maintain a dictionary of both la nguages. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3.com for addition to the next relea se of this FAQ. as well as an alphabet. John Dee´ by Geof frey James (published by Llewellyn. in the true vein o f the chaos magickal tradition.net/fenwick/enochian.chaosmatrix. If this is no longer correct. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. Some people have worked with Enochian spirits using Ouranian Barbaric . you¶ll LOVE Enochian.8 Is there a gematri . If barbarous languages are your t hing.html ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. It¶s down to Chaos Matrix with a few other scattered files around th e web: http://www. resulting in some Ouranian words for Enochian concepts.com/lib/chaos/ob.7 What Ouranian reso list of known resources on Ouranian Barbaric or related files. Or. you could purposely interchange them and see wha t you get. Those interested in Enochian can find an incredible amount about it written on the internet. Enochian is much more syntacticall y and grammatically complicated than Ouranian. Enochian is perhaps the most popular magickal barbarou s language. nothing has yet come to manifestation. typically among ceremonial mages but oftentimes among other s. Enochian is an ³Angelic Language´ that was channeled by Edward Kelley and written down by John Dee during the Elizabethan era.²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. used in the magickal community. please send in the URL of a ny new pages for the next update to the FAQ.6 Are t ere? Enochian is another barbarous language.) A good beginning point on the internet is a t http://www. If you know of a ny more.5 Are the words in Peter Carroll¶s ³Masses of Chaos´ Ouranian? No o either language. please contact fenwick @ chaosmatrix. and be careful not to mistake one for the other. and are also referred to ³The Enochian Dictionary´ by Layco ck (published by Samuel Weiser) and to ³The Enochian Magick of Dr.html Despite rumors over the last few years that other Ouranian Barbaric pages are on their way. the number of sites dedicated to Ouranian Barbaric is diminishing. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. because if one works with the language often he finds him self learning what all of the Ouranian Barbaric words mean. this takes practice. ³kali´ and even ³Baphomet´ should have be seen as a warning of this pr oblem with it.´ One could create new words for t hemselves when they discover they have memorized the traditional OB words. ³Random Outburts´ can also work well.9 What is the relationship between Ou he premise for the functioning of Ouranian Barbaric is that through using words unfamiliar to your mind. possibly causing more confusion than it s olves. Some would argue that this is a good thing. Inidviduals are encouraged to create their own method for personal use if they find gematria to be a useful t ool in their magickal work. this could be a burdensome process however. writing Ouranian Barbaric in its own alp habet can serve further to distract the psychic censor from the concepts embodie d . The advent of OB words l ike ³Enochian angel´. and it is unlikely that an ³official´ OB gematria will ever be proposed. and t hus avoid Lust of Result and other psychological factors that become involved wh en one performs magick.1 et with its own letters? Ouranian Barbaric is most often written using the Latin alphabet for ease of reading. Words are still words. Tzimon Yliaster was the first to verbalize this: ³There¶s a fundamental flaw to using Ouranian Barbaric as a technique over a protracted period. as it¶s language itself that arouses discursive f unction. it fails to do what it wa s created to do ² smuggle things past the psychic censor. once you know the meaning of the words. and new experiments ar e being conducted with Glossolalia as a magickal tool. w hatever language they happen to be in. This works well. There¶s really no point to having another ³magickal language´. it is recommended to refrain from memorizing the meaning of Ouranian Barbaric words. similar in process to ³forgetting´ the meaning of a sigi l. in keep ing with the individualist spirit of Chaos Magick. you don¶t want to make the language innefficient by memorizing as much as possible of it. Steve Wilson has covered the topic best so far with his book ³Chaos Ritual.No. though. really isn¶t any different in that.´ How one chooses to deal with this problem is of personal concern. and Ouranian Barbaric. After a time. To avoid this problem. but some have discovered that it is of limited effectiveness. A seemingly random outburst would work better. However. you are better able to bypass the Psychic Censor. Keep the Psychic Cens or in mind when performing your Ouranian Barbaric work. ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 3. ³Ouranian Linear A´ was first used by the people in the UK branch of the IOT who were also responsible for originating Ouranian Barbaric. Ouranian Linear A can be seen in the Barbarous Tongue Generation Rite.1 Dictionary Updates This section contains any new words Barbaric dictionaries recently. These should be added to any older dictionaries on the net to keep all of them up to date.com/lib/chaos/rites/barbget. This allows it the advantage of being written in any direction: left.by the use of the language. etc. mentioned earlier and available o nline at: http://www. which point you towards the next character to be read. spirals. New OB Word English Translation ²²²²²± ²²²²²²BANFOJMEZ¶G Mystery BASOF Art EIPO D Important LAHEQUA Enochian Angel THWEP¶B'HOF Book UZARFE Aethyr VAGJOROBETH Unkn own WOTHLAGEN Avatar XEPAGIR Eschaton Date added ²²²²² 01 June 1998 01 June 1998 01 June 1 998 01 June 1998 01 June 1998 01 June 1998 01 June 1998 01 June 1998 01 June 199 8 01 June 1998 . or use one that h as already been created.3 above.chaosmatrix. waves. You could develop your own script. down. up.html ============== ==================================================== ========= SECTION 4: UPDATE HISTORY ²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²²² 4. see sectio n 3. If you have words to add. right. I t consists of characters that all end with an arrow.