Arab stamp with Solomon’s seal pattern

Arab stamp with Solomon’s seal pattern 

Sent to me by Dobush from Kfar Aza

Copyright: Dobush 

Big Smoke

Artist Sabina Saad spent many years in Italy before she came to Israel.  In Italian the comics “balloons” are called FUMETTO, which means small smoke, but Jews in the holocaust went to Heaven in a Big Smoke. There are no words in these “balloons” since Jewish victims’ voices were not heard at that time, and since many Jewish survivors stopped believing in God.

Dialog with a Yellow Badge Series

Ink and color pencil on paper

14.3X14.3 cm.

Copyright: Sabina Saad 2008

Moroccan local stamp from 1895

Philatelist Dr Claude Wainstain from France sent me this 1895 Magen David on a postal stamp (and other stamps from the same period) and wrote the following:

The Moroccan local stamp that is shown o your blog (April 6 2008, "rare stamp from Tetouan') was on use by one of the 20 local postage services, of which 19 where created by Jews. This one was created in March 1896 by Josue Benchimol, from Tetuan to

Chaouen (70 km). There are two major symbols on this stamp, the six-points star and the moon crescent with a star, and it's difficult not to imagine that they symbolize both religions.

Another local post was created in 1895 by Aaron Cohen from Tanger to

Arcila (50 km), with a Magen David.

Denmark 1904 heaxagram stamp

This is the world's first Christmas Seal (Julemaerke)  issued by Denmark in 1904

It has no postal value, it can only be added to a postage stamp. Picture is courtesy of Gideon from Israeli collectors' forum "Collect".

Israeli Caricaturists Logo

Magen David as part of Israeli Caricaturists (Funcom) Logo

Photographer: Hayim Shtayer

Copyright: Hayim Shtayer 2008

Another Hexagram

A hexagram appears on David Edwards’ Mystical Cube

 Copyright: David Edwards, who wrote to me:

The photo is of a carving I made when I was involved with the Order of the Cubic Stone, a teaching esoteric group I helped found in the 1960s. Each side portrays 1 of the elements with the hexagram on top representing in this instance spirit. We used a full size altar in a similar style to this, but on a base. The actual cube in the photo has each size approximately 2" long.

Tags: Order of the cubic stone, Altar, Cubic Stone, Magic, Enochian, John Dee, Dare to Make Magic, Seal of Solomon , Hexagram. See: www.davidfedwards.co.uk

The name hexagram seems unsuccessful because it can be applied not only to the six-pointed star but also to the cube, which is also a drawing (“gram” in Greek) of six (“hex” in Greek).

Fiery Water

From Wikipedia entry “Fire (classical element)” uploaded by Bryan Derksen

 In alchemy the triangle that points up is the symbol of fire while the triangle that points down is the symbol of water 

From Wikipedia entry “water (classical element)” uploaded by Bryan Derksen

Fire and water (needless to say) are opposites. In the hexagram they interpenetrate and together they represent the unity of the opposites or (in alchemy)- the fiery water -that’s why hexagrams were drawn on the signs above shops that sold brandy until about hundred years ago. 

Plinius explained the word "pyramid" as coming from the Greek root PYR (Fire). Pyramid is comprised from triangles pointing up to the sun.