Divinity Atlas
One Discipline Sits Behind Thirty Open Questions
Thirty of this atlas's open questions carry a live tie to one discipline, the history of Renaissance occultism, more than any other. Most of them are one recurring case, but not all of them.
Twenty Seven Questions, One Alphabet
Twenty seven of the thirty concern a single script. Twenty six ask where one letterform of the Theban alphabet actually comes from, and the twenty seventh asks whether any named investigation has ever actually attempted to trace the script's provenance before 1518 at all. The earliest source anyone has for Theban is a sixteenth century printer's claim that a monk called Honorius of Thebes invented it, a claim that has already been checked and could not be traced any further back, so all twenty seven questions wait on the same missing manuscript witness.
The Three the Alphabet Does Not Explain
The remaining three have nothing to do with Theban. One asks whether the manuscript known as Sloane 3191 names any personnel of John Dee's angelic Heptarchy beyond its seven Kings and seven Princes. One asks which of the four Enochian Elemental Watchtowers each of the angelic Calls numbered three through eighteen actually addresses. One asks which source assigns the nine Dionysian choirs of angels to the sefirot the way this atlas's own collection does, with the Cherubim placed at Binah. Three different manuscripts, three different systems, and each one still waits on the same kind of answer the Theban questions do: a named source, checked and cited, that nobody has produced yet.