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On Symbols And Symbolism,
shrivelled old crone appears and begs lamentably for bread , and gets beaten most unmercifully , and turned out of doors as the old witch or nightmare . " This pentagon ivas , however , not onl y the Druidical but the Pythagorean symbol ( Grimm , " Deutsche Mythol . " p . 400 , note , where it is also Alp-fuss , Alp-kreuz , elf-foot , elf-cross ) , and seems
to have been known to the most ancient nations of antiquity . Mone ( " Geschichte des Nordischen Heidenthums" ) tells us it was found on a figure of Anubis ; and as the Templars are the general recipients of what is strange ancl wonderful in Germany , one of these figures of immense size is placed on a circular compartment of the steeple of the principal church at Hanover , whence even the best historians of the town attribute the
building to the Templars , though the foundations of the church were not laid until thirty or forty years after the cruel and unmerited extinction of that order . This is not the onl y instance in which the curious symbol is brought in contact ivith the Templar order . Nicolai , in his " Essay on the Accusations brought against Templars" ( Berlin 1782 ) , saysin reference to
, , the questions put , on the accusation of the order , to Brother Raimond Rubei ( Dupuy , p . 216 ) concerning the figure of the Baphomet , who answered , " Idem que les autres pour 1 ' adoration cle l'idole : ubi erat depicta figura Baffometi , " at p . 137 . _
" What properly was the sign of the Baffomet , ' figura Baffometi , ' which was depicted on the breast of the bust representing the Creator , cannot be exactly determined . I will give my supposition , which for a supposition I believe extremely probable . I believe it to haA'e been the Pythagorean pentagon ( Fiinfeck ) of health and prosperity : " He adduces a gnostic emblem on which it , in common with tlie five points of fellowship , the square , and many signs and tokens , is found , and then continues : —¦
' It is well known how holy this figure was considered , and that the Gnostics had much in common with the Pythagoreans . From the prayers which the soul shall recite , according to the diagram of the Ophite-worshippers , when they on then- return to God are stopped by the Archons , and their purity has to be examined , it appears that these serpent-worshippers believed they must produce a token that they had been clean on earth . I believe that this token was also the holy pentagon , the sign of their
initiation { rikuac . fiatp-nc fitreor ;) . The soul greets { vide Origenis Opera , cura De la Eue , vol . ' i . p . 54 ) , on its first departure from the world , thc first power , saying , ' I come from thence PT . EE , a portion of the light of the Son and Father . ' To prove this she must show , as also to every Archon she passes , her sign ( avjijioXov ) . To the principal ofthe Archons , Jaldabaoth , she says , ' Greatest and seventh Archon of the Logos , Subarchon of the irit { VOVQ ) I offer to theethe through Father and Son perfected work
sp , , ( of creation ) , in this figure , the sign of life . ' She then addresses the Jao , ' To thee I now offer just the same sign , figured as the VOVQ . ' Sho then goes to the Sabaoth , saying , 'Archon of tbe fifth permission , lord Sabaoth , proclaimer of the law of the creation , perfected by thy kindness , By the power ofthe most mightyfifth number , let me pass . See here the crime-
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On Symbols And Symbolism,
shrivelled old crone appears and begs lamentably for bread , and gets beaten most unmercifully , and turned out of doors as the old witch or nightmare . " This pentagon ivas , however , not onl y the Druidical but the Pythagorean symbol ( Grimm , " Deutsche Mythol . " p . 400 , note , where it is also Alp-fuss , Alp-kreuz , elf-foot , elf-cross ) , and seems
to have been known to the most ancient nations of antiquity . Mone ( " Geschichte des Nordischen Heidenthums" ) tells us it was found on a figure of Anubis ; and as the Templars are the general recipients of what is strange ancl wonderful in Germany , one of these figures of immense size is placed on a circular compartment of the steeple of the principal church at Hanover , whence even the best historians of the town attribute the
building to the Templars , though the foundations of the church were not laid until thirty or forty years after the cruel and unmerited extinction of that order . This is not the onl y instance in which the curious symbol is brought in contact ivith the Templar order . Nicolai , in his " Essay on the Accusations brought against Templars" ( Berlin 1782 ) , saysin reference to
, , the questions put , on the accusation of the order , to Brother Raimond Rubei ( Dupuy , p . 216 ) concerning the figure of the Baphomet , who answered , " Idem que les autres pour 1 ' adoration cle l'idole : ubi erat depicta figura Baffometi , " at p . 137 . _
" What properly was the sign of the Baffomet , ' figura Baffometi , ' which was depicted on the breast of the bust representing the Creator , cannot be exactly determined . I will give my supposition , which for a supposition I believe extremely probable . I believe it to haA'e been the Pythagorean pentagon ( Fiinfeck ) of health and prosperity : " He adduces a gnostic emblem on which it , in common with tlie five points of fellowship , the square , and many signs and tokens , is found , and then continues : —¦
' It is well known how holy this figure was considered , and that the Gnostics had much in common with the Pythagoreans . From the prayers which the soul shall recite , according to the diagram of the Ophite-worshippers , when they on then- return to God are stopped by the Archons , and their purity has to be examined , it appears that these serpent-worshippers believed they must produce a token that they had been clean on earth . I believe that this token was also the holy pentagon , the sign of their
initiation { rikuac . fiatp-nc fitreor ;) . The soul greets { vide Origenis Opera , cura De la Eue , vol . ' i . p . 54 ) , on its first departure from the world , thc first power , saying , ' I come from thence PT . EE , a portion of the light of the Son and Father . ' To prove this she must show , as also to every Archon she passes , her sign ( avjijioXov ) . To the principal ofthe Archons , Jaldabaoth , she says , ' Greatest and seventh Archon of the Logos , Subarchon of the irit { VOVQ ) I offer to theethe through Father and Son perfected work
sp , , ( of creation ) , in this figure , the sign of life . ' She then addresses the Jao , ' To thee I now offer just the same sign , figured as the VOVQ . ' Sho then goes to the Sabaoth , saying , 'Archon of tbe fifth permission , lord Sabaoth , proclaimer of the law of the creation , perfected by thy kindness , By the power ofthe most mightyfifth number , let me pass . See here the crime-