RE: Labels
-JKP- > 09-08-2018, 08:00 PM
Thank you, nablator, that was my point, that the labels may not be full words (that they might be abbreviated or shorthanded in a number of ways). The context would be enough to recognize the reference if you created the manuscript, but would be hard to discern by an "outsider".
As for ways they might be abbreviated, the pic above shows one way. Another way would be text that stretches across labels (in other words, in some instances, the labels may be broken up). A third would be a sort of rhyming mnemonic as was used to help remember oral history or grammatical conjugations.
The same concepts apply in a visual sense to Lullian diagrams. To most people the diagrams look mysteriously unreadable, but if you already know the information behind them, then they provide a way to remember scriptural passages and other information in a very succinct format.