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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.

 —Max Demian1

Stones with the word Abraxas engraved on them, and used as talismans. Theywere cut into symbolic forms combining a fowl's head, a serpent's body, andhuman limbs. 2

 

Symbolic device AEIOU, or A.E.I.O.U. of the Habsburg emperors3

Wikipedia commons, the first device had been dated 1437

1 Hermann Hesse's 1919 novel,  Demian2 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable3 AEIOU, or A.E.I.O.U. was a symbolic device utilised by the Habsburg emperors. Emperor  Frederick III (1415–93),

who had a fondness for mythical formulae, habitually signed buildings and objects with the acronym.

 Fig. 1: Symbolic red & blue device AEIOU introduced by

 Frederick III (1437)

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Introduction

Of course mankind didn't start from Tohu wa bohu, but from a brilliant concept. It must have been perfect to last for centuries. Now how did the Master's Device lead history?

Did the Master utter a Word, and if He did, has it been saved?

At first I listed all relevant details in a chronologically ordered manuscript4 without really checkingthe chaining triggers which passed the keywords and tokens from one generation to another.

Passing tokens is done in a relay race, which requires a perfect form of the baton and a winners'team, which has prepared itself to optimize the exchange of the baton.

Considering history as a relay race I checked some historical records to find traces for a baton,which at least in exchanging phases should become visible between the lines.

Yes, there seems to be a baton and a bird.

The message had been made of vowels, varying from time to time, but invariable in their symbolism.

An overlord and his device

The course of history has been governed by many a tacking maneuver. A ship that is beating willsail as close to the wind as possible.

Some of the emperors came very close to the optimal course and did win. Their offspring however may have failed, lost or used their lucky chances in gambling. None of the imperial genes were

 perfect and even lost battles sometimes gave the losers a lucky second chance.

I knew these chaotic records of the past, but I decided there must have been some thread leading

from an initial perfect design up to today's Tohu wa bohu.The initial perfect design would have been able to provide us with the winning baton, which might

 be revealed as the leading and inspiring token.

Of course the token had to be handled by imperial leaders. No servants or lower class people would be allowed to control the baton for the historical course. The token had to be an upper class tokensuch as a heraldic sign, a banner, or some device.

One of the most important pan-European overlords is the Habsburg Charles V (1500-58), whosemystical foundation had been prepared by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. The Habsburg

 pan-European overlords had a tremendous impact on European history. The dynasty's motto, “Bellagenant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube” may be interpreted as:

"Leave the waging of wars to others! But you, happy Austria, marry; for the realms whichMars awards to others, Venus transfers to you.", indicates the knack of the Habsburgs tohave members intermarry into other royal houses in order to build alliances and inheritterritory.

Did the Habsburg dynasty introduce and apply a religious device, designed by concatenating vowelsor did they even reuse the existing Abrasax-design?

This manuscript starts by analyzing the ancient gems with vowel-sequences.

4 The Hermetic Codex II - Bipolar Monotheism

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Gems with IAΩ and Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω - inscriptions

A vast amount of tokens has been transported in gems for which around 1860-1870 C.W. King published some remarkable reproductions and corresponding explanations5.

The manuscripts clearly prove the abundance of vowel sequences IAΩ and various permutations of 

the vowels Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω, which represented the planets. To be absorbed by the Godhead the soulhat to pass the seven planets' regions including the divine Adonai (sun), Iao (moon) and Eloi(Jupiter). Examples for these gems have been listed in the Appendix I to this manuscript.

Sevenfold symbolism

The old system seems to have been based on 3- and 7-poled planets- and vowel-structures.

“Abraxas: “He who has His seat within the Seven Poles - ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ,” in the MagicalPapyri.” 6

“Gnosticism recognized that Seven is God's favorite number, recurring on all levels of 

 being. Writing on "Theosophical Symbology," and alluding to one of the engraved gems of the" Abraxas" type, G. R. S. Mead says: "The Gnostic Dragon has seven 'vowels' above itscrest. These vowels typify the seven planes of Cosmos, the seven principles in man, and allthe septenates in nature." The euphonious sounding of seven vowels is thus a way of reflecting the wholeness of this creative vibration that has formed the cosmos and the

 planets, as it has informed our own souls7.”

The A.E.I.O.U - device of Frederick III

Experiencing the accolade during a pilgrimage (14368) to Jerusalem the knight Frederick IIIamongst a number of notes wrote a secret device A.E.I.O.U. into his notebook.

His device has been analyzed by many scientists, who never found the solution to the 5 vowelsA.E.I.O.U. on the first page of Frederick's notebook , which had been lost (probably stolen after 1456?) and found back later. A Wikipedia-website for the first page provides us with the transcriptsof the texts beside the AEIOU-entries:

1437a e i o u

omnia tempora tempusabent | suspiro nescio

quo9

a e i o uWer da bei das im geling

Der sech selb zu seinem ding. proch tolor 10

Von gocz gnaden Fridreichder Junger etc. 11

5 The Gnostics and their Remains - Astrum Obscurum (C.W. King, 1887) andAntique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev C.W. King (published 1866)6 Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery of the Seven Vowels (1991)7 Joscelyn Godwin - Mystery of the Seven Vowels (1991)

8 Der Ritterorden vom Heiligen Grab - Ein Almanach - Scribd9 “There is a right time for everything, sighing - I don't know why” (Test-version: this translation needs to be checked)10 “And who succeeds, may say to himself - such a pain” (Test-version: this translation needs to be checked...)11 transcription of this page (in German)

 Fig. 2: AEIOU-entry

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At the first page of his 61-paged notebook Frederick III, the later Holy Roman Emperor starts withthe first known occurrence of his A.E.I.O.U.-device.

The manuscripts starts at the 27th of April 1437, leaving a great number of pages empty. It is mostlywritten with Frederick's hand, but some notes including a directly neighboring explication of aeiou

 belong to other authors12

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 Acronyms for AEIOU 

More than 300 explanations have been given for the five-letter device. Most explanations result inan acronym. Officially in dictionaries such as A dictionary of English phrases the phrase A.E.LO.U.is simply explained as no more than:

Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo ; Austria Erit In Orbe Ultima ; A lies Erdreich 1stOesterreich Unterthan ; Austria's Empire Is Over all Universal. Adopted by the Emperor Frederick III, Archduke of Austria (1415-93)13

But why should Frederick have refused to write down a full explanation like “Austria Erit In OrbeUltima” in his private notebook?

In contrast one of Frederick's trophy cups14 has been documented to inscribed "A E I O U"; "aquilaeius iuste omnia vincet" - “In justice this eagle will always be victorious”.

Additionally the duchess Hedwig von Mecklenburg. abbess of the cloister Ribnitz, 1423, † 1467,and the duchess Elisabeth von Meklenburg, daughter of Heinrich III. of Mecklenburg=Schwerin(abbess 1467 † 1503) used a similar AEIOU-device for their  signature stamps15. The stampsincluded the image of a bull's head. The stamps have been used for at least 2 documents, dated 1469respectively 1482. This however is a strange signature stamp for two abbesses!

In fact Frederick III probably wanted to keep the device's symbolism as a secret, but wished toexpress the five-letter word at any object he created in his empire. Strange!

Frederick seems to have considered this device as a world formula for his own: an imperial device.

Perhaps this served some religious significance – there was a strong belief that one’s name, ren, wasa sacred thing to be protected. Probably Frederick also wanted his device to be protected.

From Greek Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω - to Latin A.E.I.O.U - inscriptions

The first reference may have been a link between Frederick III and Abrasax (Appendix II). If Frederick during his pilgrimage (1436) had been contacting one of the traders, who offered one of the medieval Abrasax-gems he might have identified the sevenfold Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω - inscriptions.

Instead of the Greek alphabet Frederick III now may have transposed the mystic vowel system for the Abrasax-codings to the Roman alphabet, which provides us with 5 vowels: AEIOU. This may beidentified in the medieval Roman alphabets.

12 Roderich Schmidt AEIOV. Das 'Vokalspiel`Friedrichs III. von Österreich. Ursprung und Sinn einer Herrscherdevise- Herausgegeben Von Fritz Wagner 55. Band 1973 Heft 2 - Mgh

13 Full text of "A dictionary of  English phrases; phraseological allusions14 the “Prunkpokal Kaiser Friedrichs III”, owned by Kaiser Friedrich III. (IV.) Sohn des Ernst von Habsburg  (1415 -

1493), labeled Burgundic-Dutch - exhibited in the Art-museum in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien,Kunstkammer) Inv.-Nr. KK_65

15 Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch :Siegel der Herzogin Hedwig von Meklenburg, Aebtissin des Klosters Ribnitz, 1423, + 1467, und der HerzoginElisabeth, Hedwigs Nachfolgerin In: Jahrbücher des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Band 21 (1856), S. 314-315

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The medieval Alphabet 

The archaic Roman alphabet used 21 letters including 5 vowels AEIOU:

A B C D E F Z H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X.

Spurius Carvilius (230 BC) may have skipped the Z and in the end the classical Roman alphabetconsisted of 20 letters (without the G):

A B C D E F (G) H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X.

later to be updated to the medieval form of 23 letters:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z16.

These must have been the letters for medieval authors.

The fihmf-monogram

In one of his monograms Frederick III also notes another set of 5 letters: fihmf  or in another sequence: fihmf .

The fihmf-monogram is preceded by a distich, in which the first verse uses the initials of the vowelAEIOU-sequence:

'En, amor electis, iniustis ordinor ultor;Sic Fridericus ego mea iura rego'.

For easy identification the acronym may be highlighted:

En, amor ellectis, iniustis ordinor ultor,Sic Fridericus ego rengna mea rego17.

which (rather freely) may be translated to:

'See, I am loved by the elect, I am feared by the unjust;hence I, Frederick, rule legitimately.”

Lhotsky resolves this fihmf-acronym as: Fridericus iunior Hierosolyme miles factus", which had been performed at the accolade in Jerusalem18. The fivefold Jerusalem cross should be considered asthe basic foundation for both devices aeiou and fihmf .

16 The modern alphabet with 26 letters has been in use since the Renaissance:A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K , L, M,  N, O, P, Q, R , S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. 

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z.17 translation: I am feared by the unjust; hence I, Frederick, rule legitimately 18 Roderich Schmidt AEIOV. Das 'Vokalspiel`Friedrichs III. von Österreich. Ursprung und Sinn einer Herrscherdevise

- Herausgegeben Von Fritz Wagner 55. Band 1973 Heft 2 - Mgh

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Retrospect 

Frederick III had an obsessive belief in the inevitable destiny of Habsburg glory and grandeur andinvented the mystic initials AEIOU. However he designed his device in his youth. Then he orderedthe device to be inscribed in all his books and engraved on all public buildings.

Frederick even used his device as a signature “resolved aeiov” to sign a note accompanying theconfirmation for an earlier document dated from 1410. The aeiov-signature is also identifiable at hisgrave. To him it must have been important for a lifetime.

In fact Frederick may not have invented, but reinvented the vowel-sequences such as AEIOU. If he borrowed the idea from ancient gnostic wisdom he was wise enough to keep his device sacred andto keep the message encrypted. Abraxas has been depicted as a bird, encoded in a triad Α,Ι,Ω and/or the seven Greek vowels Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω, which in Latin would be reduced to the fivefoldAEIOU, in which it must be noted that AEIOU is exactly located between the triad Α,Ι,Ω and thesevenfold Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω, from which merely the H and Ω must be skipped.

Therefore in Roman alphabets the baton is a five-letter word AEIOU.

 Fig. 3: This picture shows

the coat of arms of counts of 

 Habsburg until Rudolph the

 first (1218 † 1291).

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Appendix I - Gems

Gems seem to have been the main carriers for combined graphical and textual symbolism and acloser look will reveal which symbolism has been playing a mayor role.

The most frequently encountered Abraxas figure is a human form with a fowl's head and the

extremities of a serpent, carrying in the one hand a shield and in the other a whip.“If we examine the figure of Abraxas, we shall find it to be made up of portions of animalsconsidered, in the ancient religion, as attributes of the sun. Thus he has the head of a cock and serpent legs, emblems of the sun in the Egyptian mythology, and he bears in his hand awhip, the symbol of the god of day19.”

 Abraxas with IA Ω-inscription

Abraxas, Green Jasper. Of unusually good and finished work, and belonging to the very dawn of 

Gnosticism ; certainly not later than Hadrian's reign (117-138AD) - (page 34220)

“The numerical value of the letters in Abrasax is also equivalent to those in Meithras, therepresentative of Christ; hence the figure of this god is a combination of various attributes,expressive of the union of many ideas under the same form.

He is, therefore, depicted with the head of the cock, sacred to the Sun ; or of a Lion, the typeof Mithras, with a human body clad in a cuirass, whilst his legs are serpent's, emblems of thegood genius; in his hands he wields the scourge the Egyptian badge of sovereignty; and ashield, to denote his office of guardian to the faithful.

19 Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev C.W. King (published 1866)20 Copied from Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev C.W. King (published 1866)

 Fig. 4: Abraxas with the inscription I A

ω (Jehovah)

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On one side of him, or in the exergue, is the word I A ω, the Jehovah of the Hebrews, amalignant spirit, whose influence Abraxas was thus entreated to avert at least this is  Matter's

explanation of this type.

It was the Gnostic doctrine that the soul when released from the body, and on its way to be

absorbed into the Infinite of the Godhead (the object aimed at in all oriental religions), wasobliged to pass through the regions of the planets, each of which was ruled by its own

 presiding genius, and only obtained permission to do this by means of a formula of prayer addressed to each genius, and preserved in Origen (184/185 – 253/254AD).21 

These spirits were,

1. Adonai, of the Sun ;

2. Iao, of the Moon ;

3. Eloi, of Jupiter ;

4. Sabao, of Mars ;5. Orai, of Venus ;

6. Astaphai, of Mercury ; and7. Ildabaoth, of Saturn.

All these titles occur on gems surrounding the figure of Abraxas, whose potent aid givesvictory to the believer over the power of them all. The names of the Jewish angels Michael,Gabriel, Suriel, Raphael, Tauthabaoth, and Erataoth, occur as the titles of the genii of thefixed stars the Bear, Serpent, Eagle, Lion, Dog, and Bull.

These notions were all of Magian origin, and had been adopted by the Jews during their captivity. But in the Gnostic mythology they were all degraded from their high estate, andreduced to the rank of secondary spirits of a mixed nature, but opposed to Abraxas, the Lordand Creator of all.”22

21 According to Zoroaster the seven Dews, chief-ministers of Ahriman, are chained each to a distinct planet.22 Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev CW King (published 1866)

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Trinities

The Sun, The Moon and Jupiter

The first three of the seven spirits (as named by Origin) are Adonai (sun), Iao (moon) and Eloi

(Jupiter), which have been depicted in the following gem.23

Jupiter seems to be depicted male andLuna female. The first letters for Adonai, Eloi, Iao are vowels A, E, I.

23 Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev CW King (published 1866)

 Fig. 5: Adonai (sun), Iao (moon) and Eloi (Jupiter) page 376 

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Triune Deity with Copitic Legend

A most singular amulet of this date, in the Horz (collection, was a heart-shaped piece of basalt,engraved on tlui one side with seated figures of Ammon and Ka (Jupiter and the Sun), betweenthem the mystic Asp, and on the reverse this legend :

"Athor and Bait, one power, with Achor one,Hail Father of the world, hail triple God.”

The unity of three deities, or rather the expression of the same deity in three persons, was a veryfavorite Egyptian type.

This amulet was probably made about the time of Hadrian, both the execution of the figures and of the letters being neat and careful, and such as characterized that epoch.

 Fig. 6: Triune Deity with Copitic Legend 

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Triple Mask 

“Thus a triple mask stood for the Trinity, with the legend added Triple Mask : Iloman. Jacinth.around the stone, "Haec est Trinitatis Imago" and a similar intaglio I have seen, a Jacinth, set in amassy gold ring, with "Noel," the corruption of Emmanuel, repeated on each side of the setting,evidently in a similar sense24”

24 copied from Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev CW King (published 1866), page 301 - Note: now in Lord Braybrooke's Collection

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 Anubis, surrounded by the seven vowels Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω

Anubis, surrounded by the seven vowels (p. 345), standing on a serpent. Green Jasper.The stone is broken at each extremity, but the head is evidently that of a jackal,

not a hawk's as it appears in the cut.The work of the intaglio is extraordinarily tine,

rendering this gem quite unique in its class (page 34225)

25 Copied from Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev CW King (published 1866)

 Fig. 7: Anubis, surrounded by the seven vowels

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Chneph

Chneph : Alexandrian. Sard.The legend, if written in the usual letter, is Χνουβις Ανοχ Σεμες Ειλαμ,

followed by the trifid emblem so common in these formulae (page 34426)

26 Copied from Antique Gems Their Origins Etc. as Intepretors of Ancient History by Rev CW King (published 1866)

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The Gnostics and their Remains - Astrum Obscurum

In The Gnostics and their Remains - Astrum Obscurum (1887) the author C.W. King provides uswith excellent documented samples of gem inscriptions. The drawings were, for the most part,made from gems in the Praun Cabinet, now transferred to the British Museum, some few are fromC.W. King's collection, now in the Museum of Art, New York. In the book all designs are drawn todouble the actual size. In this document however the size has been enlarged.

Plate A1 - Abraxas - IAω (YHWH)

Abraxas brandishing a whip, to scare away malignant influences, his shield emblazoned with someword of power. Reverse, the usual Greek transliteration of the Hebrew name of God.

 Fig. 8: Abraxas - IAω

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Plate C1 - Justinus’ Æon with the seven vowels AEHIOUΩ

Permutation of the seven vowels AEHIOUΩ-vowels allowed the sacred name to be pronounced.

PLATE C.1. Terminal figure, perhaps allusive by its form to Justinus’ Æon, “The Cross.” Theinterminable legend surrounding it yields no intelligible words, but the title below theHermes, ΝΙΧΑΡΟΠΛΗC occurs also on a talisman in the French Cabinet.

The reverse gives the Seven Vowels (or “Voices”) that shroud the Ineffable Name,which has never been uttered aloud since the day of the destruction of the Temple,

 but is communicated only in half-whispers to every Rabbi upon his ordination. It is aremarkable fact that a Talmudist, who remembered the Second Temple, observes thatthis Holy Name was “warbled rather than pronounced” in the course of the serive;hence we may suspect the possibility of imitating its sound by the permutation of 

vowels that form so important an element in the construction of our talismas27.

27 The Gnostics and their Remains - Astrum Obscurum (C.W. King, 1887)

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Plate D3 - Chnuphis - with seven vowels A,I,H,I,O,Y,ω

The first letter “I” in A,I,H,I,O,Y,ω seems to be a mistake or a planned deviation from the divine

ideal and should be an E to complete the Greek 7-fold vowel set A,E,H,I,O,Y,ω.

PLATE D.

3. This Chnuphis, of exceptionally fine work and yet finer material, has each of theseven rays of the crown tipped by one of the seven vowels that make up the Ineffable

 Name. The reverse exhibits the serpent entwined wand, (badge of the Egyptian priesthood) which generally goes with this sigil, and doubtless added to its power.Moses’s rod and Aesculapius’s club hence took their origin.

 Fig. 9: Chnuphis - with seven vowels AIHIOY ω

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Plate J1 - Chnuphis - with invocation “Iao Sabaoth, Abraxas”

PLATE J. - Subjects connected with the Mithraic Mysteries.

1. This pretty design may be tersely described in a line of Manilius:— “Quadrijugiset Phoebus equis et Delia bigis.” Sol and Luna in their appropriate equipages: aheathenish device enough, but the same hand has backed their influence by the

invocation, “Iao Sabaoth, Abraxas;”He, i.e. the living God, protect  Aparasthathe, the bearer of this talisman. Similar formulæ, always attached to women’s names, very frequently occur.

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Plate K4 - Mithraic.

Plate K 4.

This talisman displays a prostrate man under the Lion’s feet. Nothing definite can be

made out of the disjointed inscription. The reverse merely bears the Great Name“Iao, Sabaoth,” and the Seven Vowels.

The potency of such words is still an article of faith with all true Jews. In the year 1835-6, the Rabbi of Neutra, in Hungary, actually stood his trial for murder on thecharge of having curse, by the “Ineffable Name” an enlightened lady whom he hadordered to leave the synagogue on the Sabbath-day, because she had ventured tomake her appearance there with her hair in sight, and who had died suddenly on thevery same day.

The Rabbi only escaped conviction by publicly and solemnly disclaiming the possession of any such power, to the inexpressible disgust of his whole congregation,

who looked upon him as a wretch that had denied his God in order to save his life!

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Appendix II: Abrasax

In Wikipedia Abrasax28 or Abraxas has been documented as follows:

Abrasax or Abraxas was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides,the “Great Archon”, the princeps of the 365 spheres. In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters

spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus,Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of  isopsephy is derived by mathematical calculation:

1+2+100+1+200+1+60 = 365 (in which Α = 1, Β = 2, Ρ = 100, Α = 1, Σ = 200, Α = 1, Ξ = 60)

The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the  Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit , and alsoappears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on thataccount Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms.

As the initial spelling on stones was 'Abrasax' (Αβρασαξ), the spelling of 'Abraxas' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin

transliteration. The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist.Assigning the seven planets to the seven vowels might also result in another set of seven vowels:ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ.

“He who has His seat within the Seven Poles—ΑΕΗΙΟΥΩ,” in the Magical Papyri. Mead,G.R.S. (1906). "XI. Concerning the Æon-Doctrine". Thrice-Greatest Hermes. 1. London andBenares: The Theosophical Publishing Society. p. 402.

28 Abraxas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Contents

An overlord and his device...................................................................................................................2Gems with IAΩ and Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω - inscriptions...............................................................................3

Sevenfold symbolism..................................................................................................................3The A.E.I.O.U - device of Frederick III...............................................................................................3

Acronyms for AEIOU......................................................................................................................4From Greek Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω - to Latin A.E.I.O.U - inscriptions......................................................4The medieval Alphabet....................................................................................................................5The fihmf-monogram.......................................................................................................................5Retrospect........................................................................................................................................5

Appendix I - Gems...............................................................................................................................7Abraxas with IAΩ-inscription.........................................................................................................7Trinities............................................................................................................................................9

The Sun, The Moon and Jupiter..................................................................................................9

Triune Deity with Copitic Legend............................................................................................10Triple Mask...............................................................................................................................11Anubis, surrounded by the seven vowels Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω..............................................................12Chneph...........................................................................................................................................13The Gnostics and their Remains - Astrum Obscurum...................................................................14

Plate A1 - Abraxas - IAω (YHWH)..........................................................................................14Plate C1 - Justinus’ Æon with the seven vowels AEHIOUΩ...................................................15Plate D3 - Chnuphis - with seven vowels A,I,H,I,O,Y,ω..........................................................16Plate J1 - Chnuphis - with invocation “Iao Sabaoth, Abraxas”.................................................17Plate K4 - Mithraic....................................................................................................................18

Appendix II: Abrasax ........................................................................................................................19