How important do you think the use of Hebrew is in magical practice?

[MAGUSBRAZIL]

The Golden Dawn, ancient grimoires—such as the Almadel, the Shemhamphorash, and the Ars Goetia—, initiation into esoteric orders, the Tarot... have you ever noticed how the Hebrew language is employed throughout these traditions—in protective circles, in the Tarot, and even in the names of daimons? Why is the Hebrew language considered so potent? Is the God of Israel truly the one, authentic God? Why, for instance, did the Golden Dawn not focus on Egyptian, Greek, or Latin instead? Wands, sigils, and earthly pentacles—all inscribed with Hebrew letters; isn't that curious?

 

[Lurking Magician]

Option A: it is a very different obscure alphabet, used by a closed community (unlike latin, greek, cyrillic, or arab, which at different times were all used by merchants and so were widely known)

Option B: it is a Holy alphabet, being the one used in the Holy book (like greek for the New Testament)

Option C: it is an alphanumerical alphabet, which allows easier ciphers and mathematical games (like greek and arab, and unlike latin)

Option D: it is obscure but kinda easy to write

 

[ihateclowns]

Rawn Clarke on his website in an article said only two languages are perfect for magick - Sanskrit and Hebrew. There is an overwhelming evidence for Sanskrit even those born on the other side who don't know a thing about Sanskrit still get benefits from listening to mantras and epithets for gods from Hinduism and Buddhism but for Hebrew only those who believe in the western current of occultism seems to work.

Arabic also works just fine for some magick because the power is in the language. I don't want to go near the only authentic god because there is enough evidence to show that is not the case.

 

[Morell]

Why is the Hebrew language considered so potent? Is the God of Israel truly the one, authentic God? Why, for instance, did the Golden Dawn not focus on Egyptian, Greek, or Latin instead? Wands, sigils, and earthly pentacles—all inscribed with Hebrew letters; isn't that curious?

1. Why is the Hebrew language considered so potent?
No, it's not so potent. People who live within abrahamic worldview, Christians and Jews, (don't know about Muslims) believe in the power of that alphabet because it is part of their religion and of their faith, which makes it more valuable and powerful in their eyes and minds.

2. Is the God of Israel truly the one, authentic God?
No. If there is a god that is the ultimate one, that god is above and beyond any religion or concept people can grasp. No reason to even care.

3. Why, for instance, did the Golden Dawn not focus on Egyptian, Greek, or Latin instead?
Maybe because they lived in Christianity based culture and possibly were Christians?

4. Wands, sigils, and earthly pentacles—all inscribed with Hebrew letters; isn't that curious?
No. What works, works.

 

[frater_pan]

The Golden Dawn did include Egyptian forms from what they thought were Hermetic sources.

Basically the Golden Dawn was a Christian magic group, considered a kind of Rosicrucian group and probably explicitly founded in that direction and had access to what they thought were Jewish magic sources (at least the Abramelin). As such they regarded the Hebraic names of God to possess great power. At least because they thought that it effectively became true (although there was the whole stream of Medieval magic mostly practiced within the Catholic Church to reinforce that - including just the normal rites of the Catholic Church).

Because they had success it became a valid stream of magic or was reinforced as a valid stream of magic.

 

[Angelkesfarl]

Hebrew is the language in which the Holy Scripture, the “Torah,” was revealed, inscribed on stone tablets; it is through this language that the names of the one true God, who came down from heaven, were revealed.
And because Hebrew is a blessed language—for God spoke through it—it is through the names and attributes contained within it that He subjugates the lower creatures.

This is where it gained that power; who can deny that invoking the divine names contained therein is valid? Who would argue against that?
The Psalms and their uses—who would dispute them?

Now the names have been transferred to the Arabic language, for it is the language in which the final holy book was revealed from heaven: the Qur’an.
Arabic is distinguished by its comprehensiveness; the Book contains verses, divine names, and divine attributes—and thus the words and names of divine power.

Every Hebrew letter has a numerical equivalent, and this same concept was adopted by the Arabs, so every Arabic letter has a numerical equivalent.

This is because scholars recognized that letters are bodies, and numbers are like souls.

Thus, they deduced hidden truths that challenge the followers of other systems.
Conversely, in the realm of spirits or incorporeal entities,
you will find that jinn, demons, and angels are all incorporeal entities.
For this reason, some deduced their existence by observing the heavens and analyzing the composition of names based on the distribution of letters across the celestial spheres, while others deduced them through the letter combinations found in the verses.
For this reason, the Shim-Humforash system, for example, combined both aspects in a precise arrangement, bringing together the distribution of letters within the verses and the distribution of those same letters across the 72 celestial decans.

There is a complete and integrated system in the Arabic language that corresponds to this ancient Hebrew system.

You are free to follow whatever you wish, but this freedom does not negate the objective facts: these two languages are indeed the source of power throughout the world.

 

[Nembra]

The Golden Dawn, ancient grimoires—such as the Almadel, the Shemhamphorash, and the Ars Goetia—, initiation into esoteric orders, the Tarot... have you ever noticed how the Hebrew language is employed throughout these traditions—in protective circles, in the Tarot, and even in the names of daimons? Why is the Hebrew language considered so potent? Is the God of Israel truly the one, authentic God?

Yes, in a way he indeed is. That alone, however, doesn't make Hebrew very special. Magic runs on symbolic structure and memetic significance. When using Hebrew you're touching roots of many cultures, a colossal current of symbols and spirits. That's what makes it powerful, or at least helpful in summoning power.