Divine language
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Divine language, the
Abrahamic traditions
In
Some Christians see the languages written on the
Indic traditions
In
, is considered the language of the gods called "Devabani".Later Hindu scholarship, in particular the
Occultism
In 1510, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa published Book I of his De Occulta Philosophia (translated to English in 1651 as Three Books of Occult Philosophy). Chapter 23 "Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us" – he states:
We may doubt whether Angels, or Demons, since they are of pure spirits, use any vocal speech, or tongue amongst themselves, or to us; but that Paul in some place saith, If I speak with the tongue of men, or angels: but what their speech or tongue is, is much doubted by many. For many think that if they use any Idiome, it is
confusion of languagesin Babylon, in which the Law was given by God the Father, and the Gospell was preached by Christ the Son, and so many Oracles were given to the Prophets by the Holy Ghost: and seeing all tongues have, and do undergo various mutations, and corruptions, this alone doth alwaies continue inviolated.
Later, in chapter 27, Agrippa mentions the Divine Language again:
But because the letters of every tongue, as we shewed in the first book, have in their number, order, and figure a Celestiall and Divine originall, I shall easily grant this calculation concerning the names of spirits to be made not only by Hebrew letters, but also by Chaldean, and Arabick, Ægyptian, Greek, Latine, and any other...
In the late 16th century, the Elizabethan mathematician and scholar
George William Russell in The Candle of Vision (1918) argued that (p. 120) "The mind of man is made in the image of Deity, and the elements of speech are related to the powers in his mind and through it to the being of the Oversoul. These true roots of language are few, alphabet and roots being identical."
See also
- Asemic writing
- Confusion of tongues
- Lucian of Samosatain the 2nd century CE
- Enochian
- Glossolalia
- Jindai moji
- Language of the birds
- Lingua ignota
- Medefaidrin
- Sacred language
- Twilight language
- Universal grammar
- Valarin
- Zaum
References
- ISBN 978-0-241-96321-0.
- S2CID 186605055, retrieved 2022-03-11
- ISBN 978-0-88141-295-6.
- OCLC 506071107.
Further reading
- "The Divine Language". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21.