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- From: ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Five sides...
- Message-ID: <1418@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:43:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.015605.8713@netcom.com>, spider@netcom.com (Mark Lovell) writes...
- >
- >Hi, Newbie here.
- >
- >In one tradition I follow this is the pattern:
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- > Ether
- > Earth Air
- > Fire Water
- >
- >Drawn on the body, earth is to the right.
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-
- Hmm, I'd heard that the heavier elements where at the bottom, so if you
- switched earth and fire, you would have the five points as I understand them. I
- never learned which belonged on the left or right though, so I can't help
- there. Any other ideas? Since it comes from ceremonial magick, is there a
- ceremonial magician in the house with very old sources? Probably some
- cabalistic stuff here too. And I've seen it used by Masons too, what does it
- mean to those of you who are Masons and how do you trace the history of it's
- meaning? Where did it pick up it's various connotations in the Masonic
- traditions?
-
- - Ashley
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