«Transitus Fluvii»: the secret language of witches.

Transitus Fluvii literally means “crossing the river.” A name by no means inappropriate for a hidden alphabet.

The creator of the Transitus Fluvii was none other than the occultist Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), who had already designed two cryptic alphabets of an esoteric order, the Celestial Alphabet and the Malachim. The Transitus Fluvii was designed around 1510, and included in his best-known work: De Occulta Philosophia, published in 1533.

This enigmatic language seems to derive from the Hebrew alphabet, perhaps in honor of the Jewish community’s crossing of the Euphrates and their subsequent settlement in Babylon to rebuild the temple. The truth is that outside the occult sphere, “cult”, so to speak; The Transitus Fluvii gained enormous popularity among witches.

There are many scholars who mention it, among them, the Peculium Abrae, the Grammatica hebraea una cum latino; by Abraham de Balmis and in several libels by Geoffroy Tory, among others; but his true explosion occurred at the hands of the witches, who used the alphabet of Transitus Fluvii to record their wonders.

Some conjectures suggest that in certain regions of Europe witches used Transitus Fluvii as a kind of language of their own, a lingua franca, if you will, to communicate freely among themselves. Only the highest grades obtained the knowledge necessary to handle the intricate possibilities of the alphabet, while the lowest-ranking initiates had to make do with morphological crumbs.

In this way the Transitus Fluvii came to be called the “witches’ language”, or “the language of the witches”; a secret code that served to record not only their supernatural activities, but also matters specific to their social organization.

The symbols of the Transitus Fluvii have a strong cabalistic component. It is written from right to left, and sometimes its signs can be adorned with figures that vaguely represent human physiognomy. Whoever knows the secrets of Transitus Fluvii is capable of interpreting the secret languages ​​of nature, among them, the language of stones or the language of birds.

Combined in the correct way the symbols of Transitus Fluvii grant immeasurable power; and above all a noble and absolute understanding of things. For example, it is enough to arrange the symbols and form certain phrases for them to be fulfilled in real terms. If an initiate wrote: “You are mine” with the signs of the Transitus Fluvii, it was common for that imperative to be fulfilled with complete rigor.

Perhaps that is why within witchcraft communities those who transgressed the rule of using the Transitus Fluvii for personal purposes, such as the love of a man or the death of an enemy, were severely punished. In these cases, the approval of a kind of “court” made up of elderly women, that is, free from the desires of the flesh, was necessary.

No one really knows the language of witches, except for the witches themselves. If the Transitus Fluvii really works we can attribute its influence to numerous seemingly coincidental events. For example, it is said that to join the court of initiates, witches had to test their knowledge of the Transitus Fluvii by operating for a period of one year on the life of a given subject; “Managing it” through the signs of it.

Every day the witch sat down and wrote in that secret language a series of thirteen things that the subject had to do throughout the day, for example, kneeling in the middle of the street or jumping fifty-eight times around the family table. . When someone displayed any type of anomalous behavior, it was normally believed that its origin was in the tablet of some witch, who in the darkness of her bedroom had fun designing erratic words and gestures in strange, illegible symbols.

One last curious fact to contribute. The Transitus Fluvii clearly appears in the film The Blair Witch Project. Some dry-eyed specialists point out that there is a phrase that is repeated insistently throughout the film: “don’t stop looking.”

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