Some Symbols

11/14/2018

Below are some symbols familiar to my site as well as some new. I've put them all in the one place so that we can familiarise ourselves with them & thus recognise them for what they really are next time they cross our path, instead of misappropriating their origin, which is the modern day intention with these (for the most part) Alchemical devices (left; Extinction Rebellion Symbols).
The idea is to connect them linearly as we go, however I may wander a wee bit but it doesn't really matter, we'll give it a whirl anyhow. Speaking of which, lets start with the dreaded SWASTIKA…….

Right; From Mackey's Encyclopaedia Of Freemasonry (1873)

'Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom believed that if a physician could establish harmony among the elements of earth, fire, air, & water, & unite them into a stone (the Philosopher's Stone) symbolized by the six-pointed star or two interlaced triangles, he would possess the means of healing all disease.' - Manly Hall 'Secret Teachings Of All Ages' (1928).

Left; Another British & American propaganda film attempting to frame the Germans for a genocide that did not happen. They are in fact flashing an archetypal (Meme) sign, used for 1000's of years in the art of Magick
& Demonology.

'The pentagram & hexagram were both used for protection in ancient Greece (V cent. BCE). In Babylon, five-, six- & seven-rayed stars were all used. The pentagram appears in the earliest writing of Mesopotamia (precuneiform pictographic writing), c. 3000 BCE, as the Sumerian sign UB. Its meaning in the cuneiform period (by 2600 BCE) seems to be a Heavenly Quarter & also the four directions (forward, backward, left, right); the fifth direction was "above." The four directions corresponded to the planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars & Saturn, with Venus the Queen of Heaven (Schekina) above. These are the "Smaller Planets" (omitting Sun & Moon). Ishtar (Venus) was represented by the Eight-rayed Star (Elam).'
- http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/PP/index.html

'Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image' - God

Left; Madame Blavatsky's
Theosophical Society Logo (1875)

Right; 'Mary's Chapel'
Masonic Lodge, Edinburgh,
Scotland (built 1820's)

Germany went Hindu for a while also recently, so the legendary British Justice system has presumably prosecuted this chap & his wife for being pro-Hinju or something.
(Nazi means 'Prince/Rabbi' in Judaism).

'A neo-Nazi couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler & were convicted of being members of a banned terrorist group have been jailed.…..Thomas was jailed for six years & six months, & Patatas for five years.' - BBC News (Dec 2018)

'Of all objects to which the candidate's attention is called as he begins his ascent to the Middle Chamber, none are more conspicuous, or more deserving of the most thorough investigation, than the Two Great Pillars which stand at the entrance.'
- 'Symbolical Masonry' H.L. Haywood (1923)

An X is two 1's crossed, or 11
'My number is eleven' - Aleister Crowley

'& they [French Merovingian Monarchs] all supposedly bore a distinctive birthmark, which distinguished them from all other men, which rendered them immediately identifiable & which attested to their semidivine or sacred blood. This birthmark reputedly took the form of a
red cross, either over the heart a curious anticipation of the Templar blazon or between the shoulder blades.' - Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln 'Holy Blood Holy Grail'

Left; Insignia of the
Order Of The Garter
(Est 1348)
Right & below left; Members of the Order Of The Garter

Left; from Aleister Crowley biography
'Perdurabo' by Richard Kaczynski (2002)

'IN HOC SIGNO VINCES On the Grand Standard of a Commandery of Knights Templar these words are inscribed over "a blood-red Passion Cross," & they constitute in part the motto of the American branch of the Order. Their meaning, "By this sign thou shalt conquer,"
http://www.masonicdictionary.com

'Templar Knights had escaped from France, crossed the border into Switzerland & granted sanctuary, bringing with them their military expertise & Templar treasure… buying their way into this new country. The Templar’s were Europe’s bankers from the 11th – 14th century, now the largest banking & financial institutions of Europe are located in Switzerland.'
- crusaderhistory.wordpress.com

Right; Fatboy at the wheel with his meme T-shirt

'The obvious major symbol of our Society is the
Rose Cross. Indeed it is within the very title of the foundation manifestoes from which we derive our purpose as a Masonic body. Those manifestoes being the Fama Fraternitatis (1610) & the Confessio Fraternitatis (1615) or basically, The Fraternity of the Order of the Rose Cross & The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.'
- Fra. Thomas D. Worrel

Above; from Mackey's Encyclopaedia Of Freemasonry

'Satan is Saturn, Set…...The card itself ['Death'- Trump card of the Tarot] represents the dance of death; the figure is a skeleton bearing a scythe, & both the skeleton & the scythe are importantly Saturnian symbols.'
- Aleister Crowley 'Magick In Theory & Practice' (1929)'

Left & below, Russian & Chinese flags & Kremlin pinnacle
Above & right;
Grand Lodge of England (London)
front door & pinnacle
Below; from;
Mackey's Encyclopaedia Of Freemasonry (1873)

The above are taken from the French Magus Eliphas Levi's 'Transcendental Magic' (1854-6) &
is corroboration for Albert Mackey's claim that the Pentagram is the symbol for both
Lucifer & Satan. The 'Temple' Levi refers to here is the Knights Templar, who brought the symbol of Baphomet back from the Middle East. Much of Levi's book was the basis for the handbook of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Albert Pike's 'Morals & Dogma'.

'WHEEL & -WHOA!
The Great Wheel of Samsara.
The Wheel of the Law. (Dhamma.)
The Wheel of the Taro.
The Wheel of the Heavens.
The Wheel of Life.
All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee consciously. Meditate long & broad & deep, 0 man, upon this Wheel, revolvmg it in thy mind!
Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know'st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may'st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first.
- Aleister Crowley 'The Book Of Thoth' (1943)

Something thats always struck me as bizarre is the Rotary Club sign as one enters my wife's hometown of Alloa in Scotland; 'It is supposed by some scholars that the R.O.T.A. (Rota, a wheel) consulted in the Collegium ad Spirit Sanctum - see the [Rosicrucian] Manifesto "Fama Fraternitatis" of the Brothers of the Rosy Cross - was the Tarot.'
- Aleister Crowley (Book of Thoth)

Left; 8-fold Path (Buddhism)

Above; Crafty Witch

'The earliest rose crosses were a variation of the Christian ankh or crux ansata, & are associated with the Coptic (Egyptian) church, & related Gnostic sects'
- http://symboldictionary.net

'The Tau & the circle together make one form of the Rosy Cross, the uniting of subject & object which is the Great Work, & which is symbolized sometimes as this cross & circle, sometimes as the Lingam-Yoni, sometimes as the Ankh
or Crux Ansata' - Aleister Crowley

'The Hexagram is also called the "Star of David" & the "star of the Macrocosm." It is also a symbol of the perfected human being, & signifies the Hermetic principle of "as above, so below."
- Israel Regarde 'The Tree Of Life' (1932)

'You think when Jesus comes back he wants to see a cross?' - Bill Hicks

'Both the cross & the serpent were sacred to the Druids, who made the former by cutting off all the branches of an oak tree & fastening one of them to the main trunk in the form of the letter T. This oaken cross became symbolic of their superior Deity.'
- Manly Hall
(The Secret Teachings Of All Ages)

'Fist images, in some form, were used in numerous political graphic genres, including the French & Soviet revolutions, the United States Communist Party, & the Black Panther Party for Self-defense.

However, these all followed an iconographic convention. The fist was always part of something - holding a tool or other symbol, part of an arm or human figure, or shown in action (smashing, etc.). But graphic artists from the New Left changed that in 1968, with an entirely new treatment. This "new" fist stood out with its stark simplicity, coupled with a popularly understood meaning of rebellion & militance.'

http://www.docspopuli.org/articles/Fist.html

'The lion is another great sun symbol'
- Manly Hall

'Alexander Wilder, in his Philosophy & Ethics of the Zoroasters, states that Mithras is the Zend title for the sun…..Candidates who successfully passed the Mithraic initiations were called Lions & were marked upon their foreheads with the Egyptian cross. Mithras himself is often pictured with the head of a lion…..According to the mystics, there are three suns in each solar system, analogous to the three centers of life in each individual constitution. These are called three lights: the spiritual sun, the intellectual or soular sun, & the material sun (now symbolized in Freemasonry by three candles).'
- Manly Hall (ibid)

'The Eagle is the universal emblem of the gods of the sky. The cosmic eagle is a symbol of the highest aspirations of the spirit, & its triumph over the carnal nature. This is why the eagle is so often depicted in combat with serpents or bulls, creatures who symbolize earthly desire (bull) or evil (serpents). It is most often a solar symbol….A double-headed eagle represents the union of opposites & is an important emblem of Freemasonry.' - symbol dictionary.net

Below are 1st Cen AD 'Gnostic Gems' depicting the 'Demiurges', who's the ruler of this world according to them. According to the Bible Satan is the ruler of this world. Snake/Arrow image taken from Manly hall's;
'Masonic Orders Of Fraternity' (1950).
Cagliostro was the guy who introduced the Egyptian Rites into Freemasonry just before the French Revolution.

Above; France's national football team jersey with national emblem, Le Coq.
Above left; Gnostic Gems depicting Abraxas; 'Satan is Saturn, Set, Abrasax, Adad, Adonis, Attis, Adam, Adonai, etc……'
- A. Crowley (Magick In Theory & Practice)

& left; the Great Seal of France, looking an awful lot like Lucifer with Le Coq
& Fasces in tow.

Why the ancient Roman symbolism in Washington? Because America is the new Rome. Top Right pictures a drama performed for US Senators starring famous American actor Barack Obama.

Above; 'He who understands the secret of the 7-Rayed God will comprehend the method employed by [Sir Francis] Bacon to accomplish his monumental labor'
- Manly Hall

As you can see, the Triangle plays no small part in Mystery Schools doctrine
(image right taken from Mackey - ibid)
'TRIANGLE There is no symbol more important in its significance, more various in its application, or more generally diffused throughout the whole system of Freemasonry, than the triangle. An examination of it, therefore, cannot fail to be interesting to the Masonic student.
The equilateral triangle appears to have been adopted by nearly all the nations of antiquity as a symbol of the Deity'

Above - Baal or 'Bel' with 'Phrygian Cap'
Get the picture?

Above; Image from;
'The Encyclopaedia of Wicca & Witchcraft' (1998)

'TRIANGLE OF MANIFESTATION is a phrase indicating the principle behind magical manifestation. This basic principle is rooted in the number three. According to metaphysics, in order to manifest something, three components must come together. These components are time, space & energy. Accordingly, if one selects a space, & a time, & then directs energy there, a manifestation occurs.'
- Raven Grimassi Encyclopaedia Of Wicca & Witchcraft (2000).

'Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange & mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, & with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!'
- Albert Pike (Morals & Dogma).

'Horus, the Light bearer' - Manly Hall (Lucifer is Light bearer in Latin).

'The Benben stone is an object found in the mythology of ancient Egypt. It is a stone with a conical shape &, according to some theorists, may be of extraterrestrial origin. The Benben stone is also an architectural term, describing the name given to the tip of an obelisk or the capstone placed on top of a pyramid - www.thevintagenews.com

'The pyramid form may be explained by an examination of the familiar obelisk form. The obelisk, as is commonly known, is a symbol sacred to the Sun-god. So far as I am aware, however, little significance has heretofore been attached to the fact that the especially sacred portion of the obelisk is the pyramidal apex with which it is surmounted. An obelisk is simply a pyramid upon a lofty base which has indeed become the shaft.'
- http://www.masonicdictionary.com/obelisk.html

'…the Egyptian god of Wisdom-Teh, Set, Thoth, Tat, Sat (the later Satan),
or Hermes, who are all one'
- Madame Blavatsky
'The Secret Doctrine'
(1888)

'SUPREME among the wonders of antiquity, unrivaled by the achievements of later architects & builders, the Great Pyramid of Gizeh bears mute witness to an unknown civilization which, having completed its predestined span, passed into oblivion…...Who were the illumined mathematicians who planned its parts & dimensions, the master craftsmen who supervised its construction, the skilled artisans who trued its blocks of stone?'…..
[Manly Hall answers his own question in later lectures, he believes it was the antediluvian race mentioned by Plato in 'The Critias' called the 'ATLANTEAN'S'].......By the Egyptians the Great Pyramid was associated with Hermes, the god of wisdom & letters & the Divine Illuminator worshiped through the planet Mercury. Relating Hermes to the Pyramid emphasizes anew the fact that it was in reality the supreme temple of the Invisible & Supreme Deity.' (Secret Teachings Of All Ages)

'As the legend of CHiram Abiff is based upon the ancient Egyptian Mystery ritual of the murder & resurrection of Osiris, it is natural that the sprig of acacia should be preserved as symbolic of the resurrection of CHiram. The chest containing the body of Osiris was washed ashore near Byblos & lodged in the roots of a tamarisk, or acacia, which, growing into a mighty tree, enclosed within its trunk the body of the murdered god. This is undoubtedly the origin of the story that a sprig of acacia marks the grave of CHiram. The mystery of the evergreen marking the grave of the dead sun god is also perpetuated in the Christmas tree.....the pyramid,

the obelisk, the cone, the candle, the tower, the Celtic monolith, the spire, the campanile, the Maypole, & the Sacred Spear are symbolic of the phallus.'
- Manly Hall 'Secret Teachings Of All Ages'

Below - more stylised pentagrams (skull & bones)

'The phrase alas poor Yorick refers to the brevity of human life. It comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, & the scene in which it appears is one of Shakespeare’s most famous passages. In act 5, scene I of Hamlet, Hamlet is talking to a grave digger. The gravedigger picks up a skull & says it has been there for 23 years. Hamlet asks to whom it belonged, & the gravedigger says it belonged to Yorick, the court jester & childhood friend of Hamlet’s.'
- https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/alas-poor-yorick

'The psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, used the concept of archetype in his theory of the human psyche. He believed that universal, mythic characters—archetypes—reside within the collective unconscious of people the world over. Archetypes represent fundamental human motifs of our experience as we evolved; consequentially, they evoke deep emotions. Although there are many different archetypes, Jung defined twelve primary types that symbolize basic human motivations. Each type has its own set of values, meanings & personality traits. Also, the twelve types are divided into three sets of four, namely Ego, Soul & Self. The types in each set share a common driving source, for example types within the Ego set are driven to fulfill ego-defined agendas…….9. The Jester The Jester is also known as: The fool, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.'
http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/the_12_common_archetypes.html

Above; Anthony Sutton's legendary (1983) expose of the powerful US Order
'Skull & Bones'.
Below Mackey (ibid).

'There are approximately 22 identifiable “fools” in Shakespearean plays, though many are never clearly identified as jesters.'
-https://medievalfactsexaminer.weebly.com/articles/medieval-jester-more-than-just-a-fool

There was a mass shooting at a Synagogue called the 'Tree Of Life' in the US, killing
11 people. 'The FBI is investigating the mass shooting as a hate crime'.
See Rik Clay's work on the 11 - 11 (22) for more on this subject & my
'Hate Crimers' Blog.

'THE ATU OF TAHUTI 1
Or: The 22 Houses of Wisdom, Or: The 22 Trumps of the Tarot. 22 is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It is the number of the Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. These paths are the paths which join the ten numbers on the figure called the Tree of Life. Why are there 22 of them? Because that is the number of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, & one letter goes to each path.
1 Atu: House or Key, in Ancient Egyptian. Tahuti: Egyptian God of Wisdom, magick, Science, also Illusion. In Coptic, Thoth: in Greek, Hermes: in Latin, Mcrcury.'
-Aleister Crowley 'The Book Of Thoth' (1943).

Below; The 22 Tarot Trumps (or 'Keys')

I've come to believe that these Trump Tarot Card consciousness-altering images/archetypes are the most potent device the Mysteries use against us in their Quest for the Holy Grail. Songs/music may be archetypal, & you may have heard how they're sometimes involved as triggers in the build up to gun rampages or in the Manson Family massacre for instance.
To learn what symbols mean & do to our minds is to protect oneself from their influence when used against or upon us, as they are on a daily basis. Shape has property, as in the pentagram or hexagram, to visualise these instruments alters ones thought-process, be it in a positive or negative manner depending on how it's conceived, these are the weapons of the Magi, who's name is incorporated in the term;
'I-MAGI-NATION'.
Does it ring a Bel, so to speak?

The Greek god Kronos or Saturn in Roman is the archetype for our 'Father Time';
'Satan is Saturn, Set, Abrasax [see above], Adad, Adonis, Attis, Adam, Adonai, etc…...The card itself ['Death'- Tump card of the Tarot] represents the dance of death; the figure is a skeleton bearing a scythe, & both the skeleton & the scythe are importantly Saturnian symbols.'
- Aleister Crowley 'Magick In Theory & Practice' (1929)'.

- https://www.wwjohnston.net/wj/thames.htm

Left - Is it Baal? Is it Ganymede? Is it Mithras? Is it the Alchemist? Kind of, it's Saturn with a Phrygian Capp;
'Saturn, the old man who lives at the north pole, & brings with him to the children of men a sprig of evergreen (the Christmas tree), is familiar to the little folks under the name of Santa Claus, for he brings each winter the gift of a new year.'
- Manly Hall 'The Secret Teachings Of All Ages' (1928)

'How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.'
- Isaiah 14

Right; UK Judges

Above Dec 2018 image taken from;
https://www.ugle.org.uk

Left; Manly Halls
1928 Masonic classic

Right ; Monty Pythons Masonic send up

Below; a Freemason

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