Malachim (reference article)

This is a Wikipedia reference article rather than independent scholarship, and this record holds it at the tier appropriate to a collaboratively edited encyclopedia entry, cited narrowly for checkable specifics: the derivation of the name from the Hebrew malakh, meaning angel or messenger, the letterforms built from dots and connecting lines rather than pictographic shapes, and the alphabet's limited surviving use among high degree Freemasons rather than any wider ceremonial tradition. Use it for these specific points about Malachim's name, form and later transmission; a claim needing deeper manuscript history or an assessment of the script's actual antiquity needs a dedicated scholarly source on Renaissance occult alphabets, which a general encyclopedia entry does not attempt to be.