Magical alphabet

A magical alphabet, or magickal alphabet, is a set of letters used primarily in occult magical practices and other esoteric traditions. These alphabets serve various purposes, including encoding secret messages, conducting rituals, creating amulets or talismans, casting spells, and invoking spiritual entities. Several magical alphabets, including the Celestial Alphabet, Malachim, and Transitus Fluvii, are based on the Hebrew alphabet, which itself has a long history of use in mystical and magical contexts.

As ordered letter-sets, magical alphabets are distinct from the various non-alphabetic, non-sequential "magical/magickal scripts" which contain symbols representing entities, festivals, ritual objects or practices, alchemical/astrological/astronomical objects or events, or other ideas, rather than sounds. Some alphabets, like runes, may serve both purposes, thus acting as both alphabets and logographic/ideographic scripts according to their use at the time.

Examples
The following are examples of alphabets considered magical:
 * Alphabet of Daggers: presented in occultist Aleister Crowley's The Vision and the Voice
 * Alphabet of Desire, or Atavistic Alphabet: created by occultist Austin Osman Spare, influential to chaos magic.
 * Alphabet of the Magi: used by some members and emulators of the Order of the Golden Dawn; strictly speaking, an abjad.
 * Celestial Alphabet, or Angelic Alphabet: used by some pagans; another abjad.
 * Enochian: tied to the language of that name, and used in some ceremonial magic.
 * Malachim: used by high-ranking Freemasons to a limited extent; an abjad.
 * Ogham: especially used by modern Druids and Celtic reconstructionists.
 * Runes: especially used in northern-Europe-oriented religions like Heathenry, but also widely elsewhere.
 * Theban alphabet: especially used by Wiccans, though it predates Wicca by centuries.
 * Transitus Fluvii or Passing the River: shown in the movie The Blair Witch Project; an abjad.

A natural language's alphabet can also be used for spellwork or encryption, so the above list cannot be exclusive.

Using such an alphabet may or may not involve using the language from which it came, e.g. users might transcribe their own language's words between its alphabet and another. Some traditions, but not all, expect members to inscribe their own tools; thus it is possible an item's owner might not be able to read it.