The Hexagram’s Utilization in Religion

The hexagram is a basic geometric shape that has taken on different implications in various religions and conviction frameworks. The restricting and covering triangles used to make it frequently represent to two powers that are both contradicting and interconnected.

The Hexagram

The hexagram is a one of a kind shapes in geometry. To acquire equidistant focuses, those that are an equivalent good way from each other, it can’t be attracted a unicursal way. That is, you can’t draw it without lifting and repositioning the pen. Rather, two individual and covering triangles structure the hexagram. A unicursal hexagram is conceivable. You can make a six-pointed shape without lifting the pen and, as we’ll see, this has been embraced by some occult experts.

The Star of David

The most widely recognized portrayal of the hexagram is the Star of David, otherwise called the Magen David. This is the symbol on the flag of Israel, which Jews have regularly utilized as an image of their confidence for the most recent few centuries. This is likewise the image that different European people group have generally constrained Jews to wear as distinguishing proof, most outstandingly by Nazi Germany in the twentieth century.

The advancement of the Star of David is hazy. In the Medieval times, the hexagram was frequently alluded to as the Seal of Solomon, referencing a Biblical king of Israel and son of king David.

The hexagram additionally came to have Kabbalistic and occult importance. In the nineteenth century, the Zionist development received the symbol. As a result of these numerous affiliations, a few Jews, especially some Orthodox Jews, don’t utilize the Star of David as a symbol of confidence.

The Seal of Solomon

The Seal of Solomon starts in medieval stories of a supernatural/ magical seal ring controlled by king Solomon. In these, it is said to have the ability to tie and control heavenly animals. Frequently, the seal is portrayed as a hexagram, however a few sources depict it as a pentagram.

Duality of the Two Triangles

In Eastern, Kabbalistic, and occult circles, the hexagram’s importance is usually intently attached to the way that it is made out of two triangles pointing in inverse ways. This identifies with the Union of Opposites, for example, male and female. It additionally usually references the Union of the spiritual and the physical, with spiritual reality coming to down and physical reality extending upward.

This entwining of worlds can likewise be viewed as a portrayal of the Hermetic rule “As above, so below.” It references how changes in a single world reflect changes in the other.

At long last, triangles are generally utilized in Alchemy to assign the four distinct components. The more rarified components; fire and air; have point-down triangles, while the more physical components; earth and water; have point-up triangles.

Modern and Modern Occult Thought  

The triangle is such a focal symbol in Christian iconography as a speak to the Trinity and along these lines’ spiritual reality. Because of this, the utilization of the hexagram in Christian occult idea is genuinely normal.

In the seventeenth century, Robert Fludd created a delineation of the world. In it, God was an upstanding triangle and the physical world was his appearance and therefore descending pointing. The triangles just marginally cover, along these lines not making a hexagram of equidistant focuses, yet the structure is as yet present.

In like manner, in the nineteenth century Eliphas Levi created his Incredible symbol of Solomon, “The Twofold Triangle of Solomon, represented by the two People of yore of the Kabbalah; the Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus; the Divine force of Light and the Lord of Reflections; of benevolence and retribution; the white Jehovah and the dark Jehovah.”

“Hexagram” in Non-Geometric Contexts

The Chinese I-Ching (Yi Jing) is based off 64 unique courses of action of broken and whole lines, with every game plan having six lines. Every game plan is alluded to as a Hexagram.

Unicursal Hexagram

The unicursal hexagram is a six-pointed star that can be attracted one consistent development. Its focuses are equidistant; however, the lines are not of equivalent length (in contrast to a standard hexagram). It can, in any case, fit inside a hover with each of the six focuses contacting the circle.

The significance of the unicursal hexagram is generally indistinguishable from that of a standard hexagram: The Union of Opposites. The unicursal hexagram, notwithstanding, more firmly accentuations the entwining and extreme solidarity of the two parts, as opposed to two separate parts meeting up.

Occult practices regularly include the following of images during a custom, and a unicursal configuration better fits this training.

The unicursal hexagram is ordinarily delineated with a five-petaled bloom in the inside. This is a variety made by Aleister Crowley and is most firmly connected with the religion of Thelema. Another variety is the arrangement of a little pentagram in the hexagram’s middle.

Ouroboros

The ouroboros is a snake or Dragon/ mythical beast (regularly depicted as a “serpent”) eating its own tail. It is available in a wide range of societies, returning similar to the old Egyptians. The word itself is Greek, signifying “tail-eater.” Today, it is most connected with Gnosticism, alchemy and Hermeticism. Meanings: There are a wide assortment of understandings of the ouroboros. It is ordinarily connected with recovery, rebirth, and eternality, just as with the patterns of time and life by and large. All things considered; the snake is being made through its own pulverization.

The ouroboros regularly normally represents to totality and fruition. It is a finished framework all by itself, without the need of any outer power.

At long last, it might likewise represents the aftereffect of the crash of alternate extremes, of two restricting parts making a unified entirety. This thought may be fortified with the utilization of two snakes rather than one or in shading the snake both highly contrasting.

Ouroboros from the Papyrus of Dama Heroub

The papyrus of Dama Heroub contains probably the most established portrayal of an ouroboros – a snake eating its own tail. It dates from the 21st administration in Egypt, making it over 3000 years of age.

Here it might represent to the zodiac, the ceaseless pattern of heavenly bodies during that time sky.

It ought to be noted, in any case, that the symbol of the sun in Egypt are commonly made out of a red-orange circle encompassed by the body of the snake with a uraeus, an upstanding cobra’s head, at the base. It speaks to the god Mehen securing the sun god through its risky daily excursion. The uraeus, be that as it may, doesn’t chomp its own tail.

Egyptian culture likewise contains what might be the world’s most established reference to an ouroboros. Inside the pyramid of Unas, it is expressed: “A snake is laced by a snake… the male snake is nibbled by the female snake, the female snake is chomped by the male snake, Paradise is charmed, earth is captivated, the male behind humankind is captivated.” There is, in any case, no representation to oblige this content.

Greco-Egyptian Ouroboros Picture

This specific portrayal of the ouroboros originates from the Chrysopoeia (“Gold-Production”) of Cleopatra, a catalytic book from around 2000 years prior. Beginning in Egypt and written in Greek, the record is obviously Greek, so the picture is in some cases alluded to as the Greco-Egyptian ouroboros or the Alexandrian ouroboros. (Egypt fell under Greek social impact after an attack by Alexander the Incomparable.) The utilization of the name “Cleopatra” here doesn’t allude to the well-known female pharaoh of a similar name.

The words inside the ouroboros are by and large deciphered as “all is one,” or once in a while as “One is the all.” Both ‘expressions are commonly interpreted as meaning something very similar.

Not at all like numerous an ouroboros, this specific snake is made out of two hues. Its top part is dark while the base half is white. This is regularly likened to the Gnostic idea of duality, and to the idea of contradicting powers meeting up to make a total entirety. This position is like that represented by the Taoist yin-yang symbol.

Eliphas Levi’s Incredible Image of Solomon

This outline originates from Eliphas Levi’s nineteenth century distribution Supernatural Enchantment. In it, he depicts it as: “The incomparable symbol of Solomon. The Twofold Triangle of Solomon, spoke to by the two People of old of the Kabalah; the Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus; the Divine force of Light and the Lord of Reflections; of kindness and retribution; the white Jehovah and the dark Jehovah.”

There’s a great deal of symbolism pressed into that clarification. The Macroprosopus and Microprosopus mean “creator of the world” and “maker of the little world.” This, thus, can allude to various things also, for example, the profound world and the physical world, or the universe and the person, known as the cosmos and the microcosm. Levi himself expresses that the Microprosopus is simply the entertainer as he shapes his own world.

As Above, Below.

The symbolism is likewise regularly likened to the Hermetic saying “As above, so below.” In other words, things that occur in the spiritual domain, in the microcosm, reflect all through the physical domain and the microcosm. Here that thought is stressed by the strict portrayal of reflection: the dark Jehovah is an impression of the light Jehovah.

Hexagram – Interlocking Triangles

This can likewise be contrasted with Robert Fludd’s representation of the universe as two triangles with the made universe being an impression of the spiritual trinity. Fludd utilizes triangles explicitly as a kind of perspective to the trinity, however the hexagram – two interlocking triangles, as utilized here – well originates before Christianity.

Extremity

Levi’s own depiction underlines the nineteenth century occult view focusing on the connection of alternate extremes known to man. Other than the duality of the spiritual and physical worlds, there is additionally the possibility of there being different sides to Jehovah himself: the kind and the wrathful, the light and the dark. This isn’t equivalent to acceptable and evil, yet the truth of the matter is if Jehovah is the maker of the whole world, is ubiquitous and supreme, at that point it makes sense he answerable for both great and awful results. Great harvests and seismic tremors were both made by a similar god.

Theodoros Pelecanos’ Ouroboros

This picture shows up in a book named Uraltes Chymisches Werck von Abraham Eleazar, or the Deep-rooted Compound Work of Abraham Eleazar. It is otherwise called the Book of Abraham the Jew. It was distributed in the eighteenth century yet professed to be a copy of a lot more established report. The genuine writer of the book is obscure.

The Two Creatures

This picture delineates an ouroboros shaped from two animals as opposed to the more notable image of a solitary animal eating its own tail, the top creature is winged and wears a crown, the lower creature is a lot less difficult. This presumable speaks to restricting powers meeting up to make an assembled entirety. The two powers here might be higher, otherworldly and scholarly powers versus lower, increasingly base and physical powers.

The Corner symbols.

Each side of the outline is devoted to one of the four physical components (demonstrated by different triangles) and different affiliations.

• Upper left “Aqua,” which means water, and the catalytic images of water and mercury. It likewise says “spirit.”
• Upper right – Symbols of air and sulfur, in addition to “Soul.”
• Base left – Symbols for fire and salt, in addition to “Lieb,” which means body or gut.
• Base right – Symbols for earth demonstrated twice, in addition to “Corpus,” which means body.

Meaning of the Symbols

Water, air, fire, and earth are the four non-romantic components of the antiquated world. Mercury, sulfur, and salt are the three essential catalytic components. In the three-domain perspective on the universe, the microcosm can be separated into soul, soul, and body.

Image of Single Ouroboros by Abraham Eleazar

The figure in the middle is an ouroboros.

As indicated by Adam McLean, “the fixed fire” is in the upper left, “the Heavenly Earth” at the base left and “First Heaven” at the base right. He doesn’t remark on the notes in the upper right.

Double Ouroboros Image with Background.

This image shows up in a book named Uraltes Chymisches Werck von Abraham Eleazar, or the Well-established Synthetic Work of Abraham Eleazar. It is otherwise called the Book of Abraham the Jew. It was distributed in the eighteenth century yet professed to be a duplicate of a lot more seasoned report. The genuine writer of the book is obscure.

This Image is fundamentally the same as another ouroboros image in a similar volume. The top creature is indistinguishable, while the lower creatures are comparable.

This image additionally gives a foundation commanded by a fruitless tree yet in addition highlighting a blossom in sprout.