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6 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
Numerical system applied to the letters
Braille
Manual
Shorthand
The first stemmed from the Pro-Canaanite and Cuneiform Canaanite
script in the second millennium B.C.E., in which many of the names of
the Hebrew letters used today have been identified. This developed into
the Phoenician around 1100 B.C.E.,8 and then into Aramaic in approximately
900 B.C.E. The Hebrew script and alphabet from this point on
developed independently of the Aramaic script. In the second century
B.C.E., a further development of the Aramaic script was to square the letters,
which the Jews adopted. It was around the second century C.E. that
the letters started to appear with thick and thin bars in some type of
polarization. It was not until at least the 6th or 7th century C.E. that the
full Hebrew letters as we understand them today were finalized. The isolation
of the Jews after the destruction of Jerusalem around 70 C.E. also
had a great deal of effect on the different variations of script with each
area, whether it be in Spain or China, having a distinct style of its own. 9
The numerical system applied to the Hebrew letters was no doubt
adapted from Greek origins. The first nine letters were for single units,
while the next nine were for double digits, and the last for units of three
digits. The five final letters were also used as triple digit numbers.
8 s.c.E.-Before Christian Eta.
9 Intexts such as the Bahir and the 20har these differences arc very noticeable when discussing the
philosophical origins oftheHebrew letters through their geometrical shapes.