Saturday, March 03, 2007

President Garfield

President Garfield Postage Stamp hexagramFive-cent President Garfield Postage Stamp was issued in 1882. The words "Five" and "Cents" are divided by a large six-pointed star, outlined with white.

The Kabalistic Heart

Mordecai Shia wrote in Tarot Forum:
The downward pointing triangle [and] the upward pointing triangle... form the relationship of the circulation of the "heart" in the sephiroth (the six emotions of the heart), which in turn leads to "speech". Heart here does not mean Tiferet, but rather the circulation through the paths. There are 32 paths on the tree of life, and the number 32 (lamed vet) spells out Lev which is the Hebrew word for Heart. The "six emotions" refer to six sephiroth of Chessed, Gevurah, Tiferet, Netzach, Hod, Yesod. Speech is strongly related to the energy of manifestation and malkuth, as in the kabalistic viewpoint the divine created everything through "speech". These are all concepts that relate the two triangles (and triangles themselves) as important with regards to evocation and invocation.

Sumerian Cylinder Seal

Sumerian Cylinder Seal HexagramZecharia Sitchin found a cylinder seal VA/243 in the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. This seal is dated to c.2500 B.C.
This seal is decorated with
celestial symbols maybe the Sun
surrounded by the planets.
© Z. Sitchin 2001
Reproduced by permission.



Friday, March 02, 2007

Tramping Upon the Israeli Flag

Mohib Published on July 29th, 2006 in Picture Of The Day
under the title Picture Of The Day - Stupid Protest
How many people tramping upon the Israeli flag and consequently on the Star of David would know that it is a symbol revered not only by the Jews but by the Muslims as well? Both King Solomon and King David have been given the status of Prophets in Islam from whom this symbol derives its origin. See this and this. In any case this is a pretty ridiculous form of protest but then what else is Ahmed Bukhari known for?
Note: Ahmed Bukhari is the Muslim cleric of New Delhi's main mosque.

Isfahan, Iran

Solomon’s seal IranBuj brings on his blog an Islamic Solomon’s seal, from the main mosque of Isfahan, Iran and says
I've also seen Yemeni Korans at 300+ years old that have the same six-pointed star to separate the verses.

The Magic Door


Above the Magic Door of the Villa Palombara in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, Rome, [belonged to Massimiliano Palombara who was a member of the Rosicrucians] …Built in the 17th century there's a  six-pointed star encircled by the motto… "three are the wonders: God and man, mother and virgin, the one and three". 
CC picture from
it.wikipedia
Porta magica dettaglio




The same hexagram on the cover of an alchemical book 
Aureum Saeculum Redivivum
by  Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) Published 
under the pen name Henricus Madathanus
around 1625



Thursday, March 01, 2007

Meditaion

The inverted triangle is visualized at the lower end of the spine, or more accurately, at the perineum, the base of the torso. While controlling and directing one's breathing, and visualizing specific colors (corresponding with specific mental and bodily functions, musical tones, etc.) one's center of attention gradually shifts upward, being imagined in successively higher locations until it reaches the crown of the head where it joins the other triangle that has its apex pointed upward. This overlapping of triangles forms the emblem of the mysterium conjunctionis, or Seal of Solomon, visualized as settling down into the center of the chest, that part of our physical anatomy we conven-tionally associate with the "heart": in an ancient sense, the "soul."
From: Oscar Ichazo, The Human Process for Enlightenment and Freedom, Arica Institute, New York (1976), p. 78 f., and p. 92. ]
The Arica School was founded in 1968 by Bolivian-born Oscar Ichazo.