While I am not overlooking our traditional pagan significance in this symbol... for instance, it has been used to symbolize the four elements of earth, air, fire, water, and the fifth, spirit; sometimes in Asian tradition this varies slightly and the fifth element is represented by metal. This also deserves defense, for it has been relegated to the category of superstitious and outdated... even while scientists concern themselves with similar states of matter, such as the now-familiar solid-state electronics that is part of our everyday lives in so many ways.
Whatever the reasons for this prejudice, it is exceedingly common for these beautiful, poetic concepts of the fundamental ingreedients of existance to be cynically disputed and disregarded. If this is innocent, the misunderstanding may in part lie with the way the ancients described the role of these elements in nature, namely that substances were made of these elements, which is one of the most common grounds for declaring error.
However, it should be perhaps kept in mind that the ancients often employed a view of reality which was exceeding modern in its nature, superbly non-linear, expemplified by the thoughts of such luminaries as Heraclitus and Anaxagaros. Heraclitus is sometimes mentioned of late as having come to the same conclusions about the nature of things as Quantum mechanics, only thousands of years before Quantum mechanics.
In holographic reasoning, the part contains the whole. Wroking with 3-dimensional laser photography, for example, this is established fact. In the context of this philosophy, such statements as that objects contain fundamental elements as opposed to existing in a state are not only correct, but easily quite astute. That our modern approach has states containing matter instead is likely in no way intrinsically "more" correct, and at best it may be a matter of pure semantics... hardly grounds to hold a derroguetory view of the ancients.
In looking at Ancient Magick, at Materialization, for example... in the places you’d expect Materialization to have been accomplished, places where the text of the folklore and legends again and again agree...
You’ll see that the number Three, as opposed to the Five stars, is found even more often... the poles of the witches’ tripod, the legs of a magic pot or Cauldron...
Like ancient and tradional designs for Magick Mirrors, where the magickal names are configured so that there are certain patterns of odd and even numbers of letters or characters, which we can take as a variation on the Countermagnetic Amplifier which a scientific expression for the same thing, a magnetic configuration that can amplify ancient echoes or tap the memory of atomic or subatomic particles, process their lingering vibrations from events, or what have you...
The very same principles can be applied to materialization, and again the designs for magnetic spacecraft by Howard Wachpress can be applied to understand why odd and even numbers of magnetic poles are significant.
In most instances, the sense that the three legs of a cauldron are magnetized and recieve an assignment of a magnetic pole, either north or south... and are pitted against an even number of poles, namely the two poles of the earth’s magnetic feild, is strongly apparent.
While the notion causes controversy, for the standard arguement is a formidable one, that the perpetual and universal use of three legs as opposed to four or more is due to the way in which three legs sit firmly in spite of unevenness on the ground; still this somehow leaves something to be desired, and of course it is perfectly typical of the ancients to seize such serendipity as the "perfectly logical" rationale being only part of a rich and complex set of rationale normally employed of old for any occasion; to do something for only one reason may prove highly unlike the persons in question.
Further arguments about this may be based on more possible creative alternatives, or in detailed discussion about exactly what the containers are supposed to be stable against; instability because of uneven surfaces may be one thing, the risk of injury to children or pets from boiling material and the necessary configurations to help prevent this may be another matter. Some ancient artifacts show that the achievement of stability could be achieved by making the bottoms of container much larger than the tops was obvious to the ancients, such as the Artemis of Katal Hayuk.
Likewise, not only are numerous items found which possess no legs (therefore one large singular leg, an alternative odd number to pit against an even number of magnetic poles to three), where there seems to be not concern about stability or uneven surfaces whatsoever, but such symmetry features are often found in decoration and other places where the matter is of no concern whatsoever aside from these possible occult science properies.
So it is that a Pentagram or Pentacle, when activated correctly by ritual means, may come to be magnetic, and demonstrate the Wachpress effect through various expressions. There is a fine line between the uses of divination and subtle magick, and materialization.
Much has been said, often, by the classical Occultists that “magnetism” is at work in their magick; while it is used euphemistically by them for something other than “ordinary” magnetism, the context of the term itself is forced by a comfortable but low plateau of limited common understanding of the properties, behaviors, and capabilities of magnetism... even while they are using this figuratively, they call for magick wand to be “magnet-tipped” in the most literal manner possible; so too has science correctly and effectively attributed dowsing to magnetism.
Further into the genera, the association of a Goat with Satan, and these with the Pentagram, can be seen as the horns of the goat being a visual metaphor for two magnetic vortices, or these being the two poles rather than the earth’s whenever this may prove necessary.
Likewise, these horns can be construed to be horns of the mythical goat Amalthaea, in other words, the legendary Horn of Plenty, or Cornucopia- and note, in amazing consistency with the premises of materialization, or apportioning as it would also be called, since like the Grail and The Cauldron and numerous resonant cavity sorts of objects, it has myths attributed that it is a magickal and inexhaustable supply of food and drink. Likewise are the traditional magickal cauldrons that supply wealth such as that owned by Plutus and other mythical characters.
The four points of the Cross can also be magnetized, or represent the poles of a magnet (in practice and experimentation, it is difficult to avoid the question whether four may be the true minimum number of poles of a natural magnet) there are many nuances of this in ancient literature and art, or the applications of crosses in many cultures... in Divinity pitted against Darkness, or by visual metaphors, the Cross against the Pentagram, there is a possible literal magnetic dynamic, literally a kind of dynamo, that the two tools might indeed be used together in magick that tends towards manifestations and materializations.
In this way, it is marginally true that the Pentagram “has power”, or that “Satan gives power to his followers”, or that “he” “gives material wealth to his devotees”, but these are powers that have more rational sources by the reckonings of modern man, are used by even the pious, with equal success, in as much as pinning notes to the refrigerator with colorful plastic faced magnets... even if this is far less purposeful in its scope than these echoes of ancient traditions. Are there any who would insist that such an act of pinning family photographs to a kitchen appliance is “Satannic”?
A similar but marginal truth may be found in the idea of "The Power of Lies". It may not be unknown for magicians to rely on the principles of lie detectors... literally, telling a lie in order to create an electric surge that would cause a lie detector needle to jump, but rather directing through such electromagentic processing tools as the classical magnet-tipped magick wand or woods with certain electromagnetic properties well known in the form of such uses as dowsing rods or charms against lightning.
Still, such power may have been commonly used not by evildoers, but by preists... the most plausible reason the Bible instructs mildewed laundry to be handled by preiests is that using wands or staffs as surface or "skin effect" conductors, they would direct static electricity from such sources as the rather electrophoretic--- that is, static electricity generating-- temples of rams hide flapping in highly ioned desert winds and ionizing sunlight... in otherwords, utilizing the power that makes clothes cling to one another in the dryer, to electrocute the tiny germs and microbes which can scarcely withstand the voltages as human beings can... the same principle which causes germicidal ultraviolet lights to work.
I welcome those who would be to differ with these notions... and yet, if you will put a question before a question, and say that this is wrong, asking how it would be possible for this knowledge and these notions to have been lost, you will have to cross the line which is rightly drawn... “how is it possible that today, no one speaks Babylonian?- I would ask you, “How was This lost?”; so too “how is it possible that island peoples are able to on occasion, to worship cargo and cargo planes, or their “magickal” providence such as cigarette lighters?”... in other words, to be brief, these things can happen...
Thus, these designs are here because they represent to my reckoning, precision scientific intruments, interfermeters and magnetic arrays, which are as appropriate for viewing by any age as a microscope or test tube, as well as beautiful descriptions of the properties of matter, uniquely uniting art and science into a whole, harmonious, intelligent, creative and aesthetic celebration of creation... standing for those who excercise the freedom to think freely (rather than idly institutionalize the ideal) in gratitude and thanksgiving for the joy of existing.
Peace & Brightest Blessings,
Chronos Apollonios
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