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As the following information and texts quated below come from many different sorces, from diverse cultures and traditions, various moments in the Human history, they are likely to contain incomplete, imprecise or, sometimes, even respectively contradictory messages. Our compillation intends to be not a systematization attempt but an inspiration for the readers to an individual deeper search for more comrehensive information and timeless savvy and knowledge. Enjoy reading and discovering, thinking and feeling, and if your wish to share other sorces of interesting information to enlarge this compillation, we will be very grateful if you e-mail some reference to us to include in the selection presented below... Thank you. Nigma |
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The Pentagram and the Pentacle: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The pentagram is a symbol represented by a five-point star which encloses the secret of The Five 5 Elements: The 5 Senses that have 5 Dimentions in the Universe. The pentacle is a pentagram drawn inside a circle, in which way it is enriched by the message that everything is a cicle. In this way, it senses and invokes the Duality, unifying all the aspects of The Profane with The Devine, mind and body, the earthly with the spiritual. |
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The Pentacle of the Secret and The Mystery |
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The origin and the meaning
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As The Pentagram
or The Pentacle is one of the most ancient known symbols on Earth in the human history and it was found and used since at least 4000 BC, not in one, but in many cultures and geographical extensions, its precise origin is unknown. In all the cultures that handled it, it was used
-since remote times- as a talisman, an amulet of protection in the interaction of the spirit with the other Four Elements and a symbol of the Cult to the divine order of Nature. As the Ancient people understood the World consisting of 2 halves: masculine
and feminine, they believed their Godds and Goddesses worked to maintain "The Balance Of Power": Yin and Yang, indispensible
to keep a harmony and peace in the World. When balance was not reached, chaos would reign. The Pentacle represents
the feminine half of all things, called: "the Sacred Feminine", "Goddess Divine". In its most strict meaning, The Pentacle symbolizes "the power of Creation
and trasmission of Life ", Venus, the Goddess of
sexual love and feminine beauty. The Goddess Venus was one and the same as the planet Venus and had its place in the sky
known as Venus, the Eastern Star, or the Dawn Star, Morning and Evening Star, Ishtar or Astarte, all of them being expressions
of powerful feminine concepts originated from the Nature
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The Cabalistic Pentacle 1 |
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Its graphic representation originates from a very singular and amazing fact which had always fascinated the Human Kind since the Prehistoric times. The Planet Venus draws a perfect
form of a pentagram moving through the sky every 8 years
and that is why the Pentacle turned into the symbol of perfection, beauty, and cyclic qualities or sexual love. For this reason, paying tribute to the magic of Venus,
the Greek used its cycle of 8 years to establish
the dates of the Olympic Games, custom mantained until today, with the small difference of having been devided by half to increase its frequency: every 4 years.
The Pentacle was about to bacome
official symbol of the Olympiads, but the five points of the pentacle were finally substituted by 5
rings or circles of different colours to make reference to the diversity of the Human races. |
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The Cabalistic Pentacle 2 |
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The five points of the Pentacle or Pentagram have a specific meanings and make reference to the Five Elements: The upper left point represents Earth,
the mother, maintenance, growth, what Mother Earth gives to us. The lower left point represents Fire, passion, emotion, what abolishes intelligence and reason. The lower right point represents Water, water symbolizes the cicle of Life, it is the Element that extinguishes fire and combines emotion with reason. |
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The Pentacle of The 5 Elements |
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The Four Elements are Earth, Air, Fire and Water and they are invoked for protection. In our logo this very aspect is reinforced and repeated by the inscription
of the "Hand of Fatima" which, in Arab and Islamic culture, specially in Maghreb, carries the same message. |
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Fatima's Hand |
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Air: East, Spring, yellow colour. As a talisman it is used to communicate or protect what we wish to communicate. It is ruled by all the Elemental Creatures inhabiting the trees, flowers, the wind and the mountains (e.g.: fairies, gnomes,
sylphs, zephyrs, etc.). They can be summoned by means of oil and incense, using a magic wand and
creative visualizations. The elements it represents in the air
are clouds, breeze, wind, sky, breath, vibrations,
herbs, plants and flowers. They are best convoked at dawn, about daybreak to obtain knowledge, savvy, psychich abilities, inspiration,
intelect, ideas, movement, travel and freedom. They will be helpful with harmony tasks, acquiring knowledge of herbs and plants, revelation of the truth,
finding lost objects, setting events in motion, developing and intensifying psychich abilities. |
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Fire: South, Summer, red colour. As a talisman it is used for the force, strength and passion. It is ruled by las salamanders,
dragons and flames. They can be summoned by candles or oil lamps, incense, bonfires, fire, etc., and by means of candlesticks, incense pot or holders, wishes written on paper and burnt in flames or a dagger, also called
Athame/Athamé (a ceremonial double-blade dagger used in Wicca; usually, with a black handle, never used for cutting, symbolizes the masculine principle associated to The Air and Fire Elements, utilized to canalize the wizard's or the witch's energy and invoke The Four Elements during the drawing of the ritual circle, or as a salutation while held overhead). The
symbols of this Element are volcanos, thunderbolts, the Sun and the fire.
The ritual activities are better carried out at noon (as at midday the Sun is in its highest point in the sky) to work on liberation, changes,
perception learning, love, passion, sexuality,
purification. |
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Water: West, Autumn, blue colour.
As an amulet it is used for fertility and psychic powers. It is ruled by the Elemental Creatures inhabiting all water forms, such as
nymphs, ondines, mermaids, fairies, etc. These creature are attracted, and thus are summoned, by actions and rituals involving water, water solutions, lotions, Eau de Cologne, perfumes,
aromatic oils, used in los pots, cups, goblets, chalices, mirrors and waters. Its symbols are the ocean, the sea, lakes, rivers, streams, cataracts, waterfalls, fountains, wells, ponds, rain, mist, mildew and fog. It can be used in rituals of healing,
emotions, purification, love, pleasure, marriage, friendship,
fertility, happiness, slumbers, dreams, deep sleep, psyche, that should be executed at sunset. |
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Earth: North, Winter, green or black colour. It is the Goddess Mother, as an amulet it is used for generating life and oportunities. It is ruled by gnomes, goblins, house elfs,
dwarves and all the Elemental Creatures inhabiting inside the Earth. These creature are attracted, and thus are summoned, by salts, powders, stones, gemes, trees, the magic using knots and with the Pentagram. Thus, the symbols of Earth are rocks, stones, precious stones, mountains,
plains, fields, grounds, caves and mines. The rituals concerning this element and its creatures should be carried out at night (best at midnight), to influence wealth, money, empathy,
business, incorporations, prosperity, employment, stability, success and
fertility. |
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The Pentacle in a rosette; example in architecture |
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The Pentacle in the Oriental Philosophy
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The Pentacle of the Yin & Yang |
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Traditional
Chinese Medicine uses the symbol of The Pentagram to define the energy movements in the body in relation to The Elements
the earth and human body. The Chinese adjudicate to the Pantacle two types of
movement of generation / creation and destruction, as birth and death processes, having nothing to do -as you can see- with the occidental symbolics. However, this application reaches much more backwards in the ancient history than occidental meanings of the esoteric Pentagram. |
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The Pentacle of The Cícles |
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