The Pentagram

[1137]

Rather than using both pentagrams I tend to use a hexagram and a two point up pentagram. The one point up simply has no effect on me.

 

[1137]

Adramelek, do you wear one?

 

[Adramelek]

Adramelek, do you wear one?

Not all the time, but yes, I do sometimes wear either my Second Degree Pentagram of Set medallion or my Pentagram of Azazel.

Xeper.
/Adramelek\

 

[flame93]

I mostly go with representation of spirit over elements http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/the_elements/images/pentacle.jpg I also use the same diagram on inverted pentagram, but now there are elements over matter.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

I don't think it's really fair to equate spirit with a classical element. Imagining the duality of matter and spirit as two sides of a coin, that coin is heavily unbalanced...

 

[1137]

Here's something interesting I've found. String theory says that all matter is made of vibrating "strings", but but the problem is there are 5 different string theories. M-Theory says that there is something more fundamental that ties these theories together, personally something I doubt we'll ever know, some kind of force perhaps. Anyways the pentagram obviously also has 5 points and represents something much deeper. Just an interesting coincidence.

 

[Octavia156]

hi guys

for me it symbolises man. I wear a pengatram ring on my left hand and a thelemic unicursal pentagram on my right.

We are a pentagram - head arms legs. vetruvian man style.

I see it as the coming together of the 5 elements, and symbolises the manifestion of the combination of Body, Mind, Intuition, Will and Consciousness.

Conjoined with the unicursal hexagram it is the symbol of the Great Work accomplished - and the union of man (pentagram-5-microcosm) and the universe (hexagram-6-macrocosm)


In its averse form i see it as the descent of spirit into matter. the "Devil" that is symbolised by the averse pentagram is for me summed up beautifully by Alan Moore:

[FONT=&quot]It all depends on what we mean[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]By this the Devil, card fifteen[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]A pentacle amounts his frown[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]With four points up and one point down[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Four elements of matter rise[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Whilst spirit down-most, trampled lies[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The spirits world we must conceal[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]While matters realm seems all that’s real[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Thus Satan offers Christ unfurled[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The wealth of the material world[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Devil is then by and large[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Materialism’s fierce mirage[/FONT]

 

[blackout]

hi guys

for me it symbolises man. I wear a pengatram ring on my left hand and a thelemic unicursal pentagram on my right.

We are a pentagram - head arms legs. vetruvian man style.

I see it as the coming together of the 5 elements, and symbolises the manifestion of the combination of Body, Mind, Intuition, Will and Consciousness.

Conjoined with the unicursal hexagram it is the symbol of the Great Work accomplished - and the union of man (pentagram-5-microcosm) and the universe (hexagram-6-macrocosm)


In its averse form i see it as the descent of spirit into matter. the "Devil" that is symbolised by the averse pentagram is for me summed up beautifully by Alan Moore:

[FONT=&quot]It all depends on what we mean[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]By this the Devil, card fifteen[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]A pentacle amounts his frown[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]With four points up and one point down[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Four elements of matter rise[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Whilst spirit down-most, trampled lies[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]The spirits world we must conceal[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]While matters realm seems all that’s real[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Thus Satan offers Christ unfurled[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The wealth of the material world[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Devil is then by and large[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Materialism’s fierce mirage[/FONT]

or else it's just man doing cartwheels.