Symbols of the Occult: A Directory of over 500 Signs, Symbols and Icons

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The right image contains the Tetragrammaton in tetractys formation, accompanied by the late-Renaissance Pentagrammaton, below.

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Whilst hunting, the male lion roars at its prey to scare it off and steer it towards the female lions. The goat-headed Baphomet image seen here is a 19 th-century drawing made by Eliphas Levi as a metaphorical symbol from Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie.

In November 1783, the Three Globes described the Illuminati as a masonic sect which sought to undermine Christianity and turn Freemasonry into a political system. The Rosicrucians spied on Joseph von Sonnenfels and other suspected Illuminati, and their campaign of denunciation within Freemasonry completely shut down Illuminati recruitment in Tyrol. His new approach would, he claimed, make the Illuminati more attractive to prospective members in the Protestant princedoms of Germany. The three "blue lodge" grades of Apprentice, Companion and Master were separated from the higher "Scottish" grades of Scottish Novice and Scottish Knight.

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This reversal led to a general resentment of the monarch and the church among the educated classes, which provided a perfect recruiting ground for the Illuminati. These in turn would elect Provincial Directorates, who would elect inspectors, who would elect the national director. So he asked to be crucified on an upside-down cross and that is why this symbol is known as Saint Peter’s cross/Petrine cross. In November 1781 the Areopagus advanced Knigge 50 florins to travel to Bavaria, which he did via Swabia and Franconia, meeting and enjoying the hospitality of other Illuminati on his journey. Saint Peter’s cross, also known as the upside-down cross, is originially a Christian symbol that represents Saint Peter’s humility as an exemplary Christian.When you see the synchronicity of lions or solar symbols, this is the message your unconscious is trying to tell you. A serpent or dragon consuming its own tail, it is a symbol of infinity, unity, and the cycle of death and rebirth. Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg with his brother and later successor August, Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg governor of Erfurt, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (already mentioned), his chief assistant in masonic matters, Johann Friedrich von Schwarz and Count Metternich of Koblenz were all enrolled. The book of signs: which contains all manner of symbols used from the earliest times to the Middle Ages by primitive peoples and early Christians. Being a variation of the hexagram, unicursal hexagram symbol has been used in occult practices for a long time.