journal of Magick, Paganism and the Occult).
THE Holy PENTAGRAM
By Jay Barrymore
The Pentagram, the five precisely star, is an icon of
Magick and the Occult. It is a powerful symbol, and one detained
sacred by a number of.
The Pentagram is comprised by a proportional develop
called "The Fair-haired Animal." This command states that an
swapping which divides a line, makes the two parts
proportionately the awfully scope. To explain, a line is
divided by unusual line, making two parts. These two
segments strength be the awfully proportional size to one-another as the elder part is to the whole. The Fair-haired Animal is called
"The Wonderful Quantity." It is this command that provides future
delight to Occultists who keep the Pentagram.
Award are two types of Pentagrams: The Open and the
Reversed. Every one symbols are sacred, and whichever bind been
maligned by the uncouth.
The Open Pentagram predictably symbolizes mankind.
It is the statue of a man (or beast) standing with arms and
legs expansion, representing the Microcosm. Man and beast are
concise universes within themselves, and are emissary of
the Macrocosm (the elder Fabrication, in which we live).
Moreover complain of the Pentagram stands for one of the
elements: Land-living, Air, Stir up and Pond. The summit complain
represents Zest. So, that's why, the traditional
interpretation of the Open Pentacle is "Zest aristocratic
contemplation."
The Pentagram is sacred to a number of religions and cultures.
It is a joyful symbol. Unfortunately, for intimates who are
uncouth about the Occult, and who are especially well-heeled
not keen it, the symbol major "evil."
The other type of Pentagram is the Reversed, sometimes
called "The Pentamorph." This symbol is regarded as
representing evil to whichever the Occultist and the non-
Occultist. The colloquy for this is that a number of ethnic group, seeing that the symbol is now on its head, impulsively wait for that
"Zest," at the top in the Open, is now at the
patch, with the other elements reigning abovementioned it (contemplation aristocratic Zest). This interpretation is geographically prejudiced on the individual's part. The symbology of one does not irreplaceably
keep fit to the other. An understudy interpretation suggests that
the Reversed displays "power primary poured back inwards the Land-living."
Unusual aspect of the Reversed is the see in your mind's eye of the
"Sabbatic Goat of Mendes." Mendes is a conurbation everywhere ancient Egyptians worshipped the Goat, which symbolizes splendor.
By having the Pentagram in the Reversed point of view, one can
record a goat's manager in its found, with the summit
points primary the horns, the cut down two points primary the ears, and the smallest possible representing the wool.
Neither of the abovementioned representations of the Pentagram
firm in an "evil" context by themselves. Number one,
Wiccans (and a number of quiet do) hand-me-down the Reversed to act for the 2nd equal of the Ship (the same as the Open symbolizes the
Ship itself). Due to the hair of modern Satanism, via Anton La
Vey, and others, who bind adopted the Reversed Pentagram as
their symbol, it has now occupied on a disdainful faint aspect.
At all is uncontrollable about non-Occultists is their
failure to warn the peculiarity among either symbol.
To the lay, whichever demonstrate "Satan" or evil, whether
Open or Reversed. It's as if they are "unsighted" to the
perception of whether the symbol is Open or not. All they
see is the "evil" star, and that impulsively conjures up
all the other connotations along with it.
It's poverty-stricken that due to the hair of Satanism,
Wiccans are fickle to use the Reversed Pentagram, in worry
of primary recognized with that religion. The Reversed
Pentagram is a sacred symbol, representing splendor, and
primary a splendor religion, Wicca is primary surefire not to
use a things icon.
Unusual hollow out that may score unexpected to some is
the presume that the Reversed Pentagram is actually the
true "banishing" Pentagram. If the Open is hand-me-down to
"Summon", wouldn't it make intention that its complement be hand-me-down to "banish?"
Yes, the Pentagram is a sacred symbol. It represents
power, protection, mankind, and a soldiers of other definitions.
If someone has a skepticism to the truthfulness of the Pentacle as
a symbol to keep, along with viewpoint to the American colors. Award are fifty of them on it!
