Shaver Alphabet

HOW TO USE THE SHAVER ALPHABET

By THE EDITORS OF AMAZING STORIES

EVER since Amazing Stories first published
Mr. Richard S. Shaver's "mysterious" al-
phabet which he claimed to have received
from the "caves" and which was claimed by him
to be the "key" to all languages, we have received
repeated requests for reprinting of the alphabet
itself, and for more information about it. This
article is an attempt to comply with these re-
quests, and to present more completely and more
accurately the principles involved.

Originally we published only the alphabet, with
the meanings attributed to each letter. We did
not go into "shades" of meaning, but gave the
bare framework — which was sufficient to arouse
a storm of interest, and sufficient to prove to the
veriest tyro that the alphabet is important. We
did not go into the "ancient language," the
"mother" tongue of all languages, at all. We did
not because many basics were not fully under-
stood (nor are they now). However, due to the
work that has been done by Mr. Shaver, by your
editors, by many readers, we are able to give a
more complete picture — and we are able to present
an hypotheses which will certainly prove startling
to the experts, and will even more certainly arouse
a storm of disagreement and criticism. (See Mr.
Shaver's article called "Proof" in this issue.)

Many of our readers will have read Lancelot
Hogben's "The Loom of Language," which is per-
haps the most authoritative book in print today

on the languages of the world and their relation-
ship to one another, and their relationship to the
dead languages of the past. He has traced modern
languages back and ancient languages forward.
He has given the step-by-step evolution of words
up to the present day. It is well accepted today
that English (especially as spoken in America) is
a composite of many languages. There is German,
French, Italian, Latin, Old English, Spanish, etc.,
etc., in it. It is a "potboiler" language. All this
has been done by "comparison," both along gram-
matical and historical paths. It has been done
by piecing together the bits of a "jigsaw puzzle."
Historically there is a record of progressive con-
tinuity which afford some clues that are the basis
of many other clever deductions.

The sum total of all this work has been to ar-
rive at modern English as the resultant.

No one has stopped to consider that all of the
work done on languages would apply equally well
if we "turned about" and looked the other way,
and considered modern English as causative. In
other words, if there is any similarity in basics in
Sanskrit and in English, might it not be because
English is the common denominator, rathe\* than
the reverse, which even Lawrence Hogben »dmit\*
is not true.

Shaver, along with his other "unproved" state-
ments, has maintained steadfastly that the mother
tongue of all mankind (including those super races

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who live in the depths of outer space — the master
race who populated the whole universe is still
literally contained in English; that is, basically,
since modern English is as much a bastard tongue
of the mother tongue as is Sanskrit.

Therefore, when he gives his "alphabet" with
its meanings, he is giving (not wholly accurately
he admits, since there is much that he didnt find
out about those meanings) the basics of the
language of Man (Mantong, he calls it). He is
saying that if one knew this master language,
one could (with patience) decipher the meaning
in any language anywhere; since that language
would be derived from the master tongue.

Right there is where Lancelot Hogben will tear
out his hair and stomp off muttering about those
i lunatics, and where those who have read his
book, and other books on the subject, will do
likewise. But for those of our readers who use
the scientific method too, we will present the
evidence we have for your inspection, testing,
and final discarding (if that is what you do).
The scientific method is that method which con-
siders all the evidence, subjects it to proof before
acceptance. It also does not reject without dis-
proof. Let's be scientific and be complete; let's
apply the disproof test as well as the proof test.

Before we begin, here is the alphabet with its
meanings, so that you can compare and follow as
we go along :

A — animal (used 'an' for short)
B — be— to exist (often command as Ban meant
"stay away to exist." Same as quarantine.)
C — eon — to see

D — de — detrimental or rather disintegrant energy
(the second most important symbol in lan-
guage.)

E — energy — an "all" concept including idea of
motion

F — fecund (used "fe" as in female) — fecund man

G — generate (used "gen")

H — human (some doubt on this one)

I — self — ego (same as our I)

J — same as generate

K — kinetic (force of motion) /

L — Life

M — man

N — child or spore or seed (as ninny)
O — orifice (a source concept)
P — power

Q — quest (as question)

R — ar as horror (a symbol of a dangerous quan-
tity of dis (disintegrating) force in the ob-
ject.)

S — an important symbol meaning sun (sis)
T — te (the most important symbol used; the real
origin of cross symbol—it meant integra-
tion force of growth (all matter is grow-
ing) — the intake is gravity cause — the force
is T ("tic" meant science of growth)— re-
mains as credit word.)
U — you

V — vital (used as "vi") — the stuff Mesmer calls

animal magnetism
W— will.

X — conflict symbol — crossed force lines
Y — why

Z — zero symbol— a quantity of energy of T neu-
tralized by an equal quantity of D

The foregoing is Mr. Shaver's alphabet exactly
as we first published it in January 1944. Your
editor believes (and in some instances Shaver
admits) that the definitions are not exactly correct
or fully complete. We'll try to give our deduc-
tions (and they are pure deduction, not any in-
formation from a telaug ray) concerning what
corrections should be made, and where the defini-
tions lack completeness. We will try to demon-
strate this with a few pointed examples.

FIRST, the letter A, the letter H and the
letter M.

These, we think, are very much related. A
means animal and is expressed (animal, that is)
as either A or AN. The letter H is defined as
human, and here Mr. Shaver confesses he has
some doubt on this one. The letter M means
man. ANIMAL-HUMAN-MAN. There's your
relationship. But what is the relationship? From
a deep study of the Shaver stories, it becomes
quite obvious that there is a relationship, and
that at the same time there is a definite distinc-
tion. How can an animal be a human, and yet
not be a man? That question might sum up
the reason why a definite breakdown is very much
necessary. Here it is, then, and you can use your
own research to verify, if you wish not to accept
this editor's word for it:

**A** means animal. It is expressed AN also
because it means, animal seed (or child, or spore).

It means animal in the sense that evolution
on a planet like earth (and Darwin's theory sup-
ports this assumption) eventually results in an
"animal" which has evolved far enough to become
the "child" or "seed" or "spore" of the human.
It is an animal which is not yet a man — in fact
is not even a human; but it possesses within it
the evolutionary (?) seed of a human being. In
short, it could become a human, if, for instance,
a Titan did some ray surgery on its genes and
chromosomes! (See Shaver I) (See his variforms!)

**H** means human. It means: you are a man
who is a particular kind of man, a human. It
is an animal which has become human, or in
between an animal and a man. (Mutan Mion
was a human, and he became a man [or a Titan]
when Vanue gave him her "growth" treatment —
which involved certain evolutionary processes.)
A human walks the deadly surface of a planet
under a sun! He is an "abandondero". (See
Shaver!) If he could escape from his deadly
world where his sentence is "death" or "poison"
which stops or infinitely retards his growth toward
full manhood, he could become a man rather than
a human! A man lives forever, a human dies!

**M** means man. It means (from human view-

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point — from our viewpoint) a superman, or a
Titan! (See Shaver!) It means MAN, who lives
— and grows — forever out in space, where the
dark worlds swim unseen by human eyes!

Bear these definitions in mind when you analyze
the meanings of words with A, H and M in them !
You will make tremendous discoveries!

Perhaps that mystic word AUM, uttered so
solemnly by the oriental races, is really AHM!
The whole of evolution from beast to god ex-
pressed in one syllable of three basic letters!
Perhaps the word' is not mystic at all, but based
in the God-science of the Titans. (See Shaver!)

WE FIND a similar relationship between F,
**G** and **V**. Fecundity, generation, and animal
magnetism, or sex. The relationship is obvious,
and Mr. Shaver's definitions seem as correct as
any further logic could make them.

**D** and **T** are the basically important letters!
Disintegration — integration ; detrimental — benefi-
cial; evil — good; dero — tero; breaking down —
building up; death — life; weakening — strengthen-
ing; to grow less — to grow more. These two
letters have a positive meaning that is unmistak-
able, and if those definitions are adhered to, the
true significance of a great many words comes
to the fore, no matter what meanings have been
attributed to the words themselves by mistaken
researchers into the past whose only real tool is
their imagination. You can take out the real
meaning with these symbols, which, if they have
been honestly retained in the word, do not bow
to imagination.

Now let's take the remaining letters briefly:

B — meaning to be, or to exist; having reality.

C — to see; con — "see on"; one who 'can see,
who has knowledge, understands.

E — indicating energy (of any type attributed
to motion).

I — the self, the ego; I (as we use it today).

J — also generate, or "junior"; youthful.

K — energy not derived from motion. Kinetic
energy. Kinetics. The science of the in-energy,
the contained energy.

L — life. All life.

N — child, seed, spore. Nee, as we use it today,
also. Or "ninny".

O— a source concept. An orifice; a beginning.
This is where it comes from.

P — power; powerful; the ability to do.

Q — quest; search; question.

R — horror; danger; being "of the sun" or "of
the earth". Not high, but base.

S — the sun. Important because "life" begins
under a sun. Related to anything which derives
its life from the sun. Located near a sun. Sun
controlled.

U—you.

W—will; willpower.

X—conflict. There are opposing forces here.
Y— why. Look for the reason. Why it is so.
The explanation (given, or to be found.)
Z—zero. Cancelled out. Energies which neu-
tralize each other. Futility.

IN ADDITION to the alphabet, a perusal of
Shaver's stories will reveal many basic "words".
For instance, "tic" which means "integration I
see" — and it also means "science". I see how it
goes together! Then there is "in" which means
"I seed" or I add to, make more, grow. Another
word is "ro" which means "horror source". There
are many others which we won't give here; you
can find them for yourself. All these little "basic
words" can be recognized in many words, and
their meanings already being defined in your
dictionary as you make it up, will simplify the
hunting for meanings in bigger words.

There is yet another angle to "language" which
does not have a great deal to do with the Shaver
alphabet, but which is used constantly by Mr-
Shaver in his stories and in his reasoning, but
which can be used in connection with the alpha-
bet to great advantage. That is in a sort of
"punning" with words (but with words that can
be justified in their meanings by the Shaver
alphabet).

For instance, take the term "Sinn Feiners".
The Sinn Feiners were an Irish political party
who pretended to be evil, and in reality did a lot
of good. When a criminal, or a louse, wants to
conceal himself, he hides among the righteous
members of an "uplift society". Similarly when
a pursuer and fighter of "dero" (let's put it that;
way!) wants to stalk his quarry, he "joins" a
cult of evil and "feigns sin". He becomes a
"Sinn Feiner". This, Mr. Shaver says, is an
Elder word. It means "good growing in evil,
or horror". To give it a literal translation, we'd
have "sun-I-seed-fecundity-in-horror". I place
life to grow in a horrible place. I do good in
the guise of evil. The correct tactical approach
to fighting evil is to fight it with evil (sin)
feigning. It is a mask, so that evil will not
suspect your real motive.

When you use the Shaver alphabet, bear in
mind that Time and word experts have mur-
dered the spelling, but have not murdered the
pronunciation near as much. If you can make
no sense out of a word as it is spelled, reduce
it to phonetics and try again. The alphabet works
in all languages a great deal more than it could
just by the law of averages. It works better
than 50% of the time! And by study, by
learning how to use it more deftly, this percent-
age can be greatly expanded. Each new meaning
deciphered, verified, placed in your vocabulary
of the "Elder" language points the way to other
meanings, supplies missing clues.

The Shaver alphabet can open up a new mean-
ing to your life, decipher many mysteries of the
past, give you better understanding of the reality
that exists in life beyond our earthly ken, and has
been ingrained in our spoken words, preserved
beyond all possibility of destruction by either
ignorant or malicious people. The Titans built
the "loom of language" wisely and permanently!