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- From: sfoley@uumeme.chi.il.us (Sean M. Foley)
- Subject: Re: Pentagrams
- Organization: UUMEME Public Access Xenix
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 22:55:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.225506.25962@uumeme.chi.il.us>
- References: <1992Dec15.231554.5753@seas.smu.edu> <71824@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec20.034109.12591@wam.umd.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.034109.12591@wam.umd.edu> porta@wam.umd.edu (David Delaney Palmer) writes:
- >In article <71824@cup.portal.com> Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) writes:
- >>I only have one question for those moralists (especially from 'earth-based'
- >>religions) who preach that the 'point-down' or 'inverted' pentagram
- >>(heptagram, nonagram, or even trigram!) is somehow indicative of 'evil'
- >>or 'malevolence':
- >>
- >>
- >>Toward what, precisely, is the point directed?
- Well depending on your height.. Your genitals.. one possible meaning of
- this interpretation of this being the dominion of passions<symbolized by
- Yesod/Sexual Centre/Genitalia/Animal Intelligence "etc">. If we were
- to "lay back" in the tree of life as shown in "The Middle Pillar" and
- formulate a pentegram the traditional manner, we soon see that the point
- of a verted pentegram would touch "Kether(or your favorite alternate
- spelling)".."The Crown" as it were of all being/spiritualness..
- To reverse the pentegram the point would fall squarely in "Yesod(again,
- insert your favorite alternate spelling", which in it's very nature is
- illusion, animal passion/intelligence, etc. In any case; a proper analysis
- dispels any relation to evil, at least in qabalistic sense. However, if
- we jump to another system, Hindu for example.. Then the point of the
- inverted pentegram falls in SWAPNA-The Formative World, and the seat of
- instinctual desire(Swadhisthana Chakkra), still again.. the same rules
- /conditons apply. I could fairly say that the source of all evil is
- basically our own lack of understanding..
-
- >>
- >>
- >>Figure it out, kiddies.
- >>
- >
- >
- > I think you need to figure it son! There is no such thing as
- >a hell or a devil in earth based, Goddess based religions. The next
- >time you post know what the hell you are talking about.
- >
- Relax..
- Someone can be incorrect; It is more appropriate to correct them than
- flame them<and furthering mental detriment of individual(s)>.
-
- -Sean
-
- --
- | sfoley@uumeme.chi.il.us | I only look like I have a clue. |
- - Is it not amazing that so many religions have stolen symbols from other -
- - religions that they despise? It almost makes you think : -
- - "What are they fighting about? They look the same to me!" -
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