Judith Dillon has a degree in Near Eastern languages and anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Familiar with many traditions, she has studied the relationships between early alphabets and Mystery Traditions for more than 40 years.

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Alphabet as a Spell of Resurrection

PART ONE
Origins of Our First Alphabet and Later Traditions

1. Alphabets as Rosaries of Letters
2. Astronomy and Calendars
3. Anatolian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Early Semitic Scripts including Phoenician
4. The Egyptian Twenty-Four-Hieroglyph Alphabet
5. Spread of the Phoenician Script
6. Traditions from Hebrew and the Kabbalah
7. Various Western Traditions
8. Celtic Ogham
9. Germanic Runes
10. India’s Brahmi, Sanskrit, and Chakras
11. China’s I Ching and Tao Te Ching

PART TWO
The Three Groups of Alphabet Letters Letters of the Earth, Letters of the Underworld, and Letters of the Heavens

First Family: Letters of the Earth
FIRST LETTER
A Guide at the Gateway

SECOND LETTER
Adolescence and the Purification of the Virgin Spring

THIRD LETTER
Impregnation and the Bonds of Time

FOURTH LETTER
Deliverance from Knots and Bonds

FIFTH LETTER
Teachings, Pupils, and a Gift of Tongues

SIXTH LETTER Marriage of Heaven and Earth and the Throne of God

SEVENTH LETTER Floods, Apocalypses, and Pregnant Pauses

EIGHTH LETTER
Happy Gate of Heaven Second Family: Letters of the Underworld

NINTH LETTER
Entering the Labyrinth

TENTH LETTER Judgments of Fate

ELEVENTH LETTER
Visionaries and Payment of Debts

TWELFTH LETTER
Upside-Down Teacher and L’s Name of God

THIRTEENTH LETTER
Breaking Waters and the Deluge

FOURTEENTH LETTER
Return of a Messiah and Allotment of Fortune

FIFTEENTH LETTER
Devas, Devils, and Protection

SIXTEENTH LETTER
Opening Eye of the Sun Third Family: Letters of the Heavens

SEVENTEENTH LETTER
Pi’s Control of the Circle

EIGHTEENTH LETTER
Tsadiks, Moons, and Midwives

AM NINETEENTH LETTER
The Number of the Sun

TWENTIETH LETTER
New Year after Sun/Moon/Mercury Nineteen-Year Cycles

TWENTY-FIRST LETTER
A Triangular Number of a Sinuous Moon God

TWENTY-SECOND LETTER
Escape from Death and the Promise of a Good Return

A Review

APPENDIX 1
Astronomical Calendar Cycles

APPENDIX 2 Table of Alphabet Patterns Compared

Notes

Bibliography

Index