The Pentagram...
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:48 am
The Pentagram
The legend is that Solomon possessed a ring which was used to command the Legions of Heaven and Hell, in creating the Temple of Shekinah, in the formula YHVH. This legend is especially developed by Arabic writers, and it is from their writing that much of the Symbol of the Ring is given its magick Significance. The current story of the Ring is a synthesis of many texts, most of which are commonly available, but little understood. The ring was, according to sources, engraved with "the Most Great Name of God," which was given to Solomon from Heaven. The Ring was partly Brass and partly Iron and solid Gold. With the brass part of the ring Solomon signed his written commands to the good Spirits an elementals, and with the iron part he signed his commands to the evil genii, or devils. The Brass is for Venus, and the Qabalistic World of Fire; Atziluth Ha-Olam. The iron is for the Planetary influence of Mars. The Ring being of solid gold means that he was, in his heart possessed of the integrity to not abuse the power he was given. The Arabic writers declare also that Solomon received four jewels from four different Angels that he set in the ring, so that he could control the four elements. Those Angels are the Four Arch-Angels, Uriel, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. The word for Jewels, however, is a word that could also mean symbol, as in the Twelve Jewels of the Twelve Tribes (which are the Double Letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Beth).
There is also a legend that Asmodeus, Grand Duke of Hell, once obtained possession of the ring and threw it into the sea, and that Solomon was thus deprived of his power until he discovered the ring inside a fish This story also has an Arabic source, but it is most likely that the story of Solomon's ring being thrown in the water and found afterward inside a fish is derived from the story of the ring of Polycrates, Grand Ruler of Samos; a story which is related by Herodotus in The Histories.
Polycrates was a Tyrant on Samos in the 6th century BC. He rose to power with his brothers in 538 BC, but assumed even their power six year later. His Navy was remarkable, and his rule was strong. Polycrates was a very strong ruler, and as all strong rulers had strong enemies. With his fleet, he conquered several cities on the coast of Asia Minor, and islands in the Aegean Sea. On Samos, he had several buildings made, many of them Temples. He gathered learned scholars to his aid, and sought the great Pythagoras, a native to Samos. Pythagoras, who disagreed with his rule, could forsee his demise and left the island of his birth to create his Academy without offering any support to Polycrates.
According to Herodotus, Amasis, king of Egypt, worried about the toll of Success on Polycrates. He begged his friend to throw away his most precious belongings. Polycrates threw the ring he attributed all his success to in the sea. Three days later, a fisherman came to his court to present him with a huge fish, in Ploycrates honor. When the fish was cut open, however, the ring was in its stomach. Amasis abandoned his friend to the fate of his enemies, and the wrath of the gods. Polycrates was soon killed by the Persian governor Oroites, who had his corpse crucified when he conquered Samos.
The legend of a magic ring by means of which the possessor could exorcise demons was current in the first century that one Eleazar exorcised demons in the presence of Vespasian by means of a ring, using incantations composed by Solomon, and also mentions the name samos as being the origin of the Seal of the Monarch of The Temple.
The Arabs afterward gave the name of "Solomon's seal" to the six-pointed star-like figure engraved on the bottom of their drinking-cups, called by Jews the Magen David or Shield of David. Though it is impossible to date the entirety of the Arabian nights, it is likely the seventh voyage is some two-hundred years older than the Mizrahs (Commentaries on the Qabalah) that first see the Hexagram in magickal talismans. There is no evidence whatsoever, that this symbol of the Hexagram originated in the Jewish faith or was even used before the influence of the Templars. The origin of the Hexagram coming from the Drinking cup of the Arabs is presented in the "Arabian Nights" (ch. xx.) that Sindbad, in his seventh voyage, presented Harun al-Rashid a cup on which the "table of Solomon" was represented; this was the figure of Solomon's seal.
Harun A-Rashid (764-789) was the 5th and Greatest of the Caliphate Abbasid leaders. His name means "Aaron the Upright, where Aaron means ‚Shining Light, or Messenger. He bore in his conquest of much of Asia Minor the very same symbol that was, in legend, Presented to him on a cup by Sinbad. That is the symbolism of the Hexagram being the symbol on the cup Sinbad presented him with. In Western Magical Tradition, however, it is the pentacle, or "druid's foot," that represents the seal of Solomon.
The Druids are the most enigmatic peoples of the British islands, and their origins are not as Enigmatic as one might think. A fragmentary Welsh record, called the Welsh Triad, reads as follows: 'First was the race of the Cymry (The Chosen, or Select), who came with Hu Gadarn to Yns Prydain.' Hu came from the 'land of summer' -- a land located somewhere in what later constituted the realm of Constantinople (the capital of the eastern Roman Empire). Hu Gadarn is obviously a Celtic name, so we must look to the ancient tradition of Translating the name to its meaning. Gadarn is a Welsh word. It means 'the mighty.' Hu is a short form of the Old Celtic name Hesus. . Hesus (hee-sus) is the Celtic pronunciation of Jesus, whish is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which means ‚Ya (yod heh) is my Salvation. Hu or Hesus the Mighty was Joshua, called Joshua A-Gibor, Joshua the Mighty, the great general who led Israel into the lands of the Caananites. The Welsh Triad records that in his later years Hu Gadarn also settled Israel peaceably in the British Isle, and with him came the Druids.
The educational system adopted by the Druids is traced to about mid 1300's B.C. when Hu Gadarn Hysicion (Joshua the Mighty Isaacson), led the first colony of Cymri into. In the justly celebrated Welsh Triads, Hu Gadarn is said to have mnemonically systematized the wisdom of the ancients of these people whom he led west from the Summerland. He was regarded as the personification of intellectual culture and is commemorated in Welsh archaeology for having made poetry the vehicle of memory, and to have been the inventor of the Triads. To him is attributed the founding of Stonehenge, and introduction of several arts including glass-making and writing in Ogham characters. On Hu Gadarn's standard is depicted the Ox (the animal of Joshua‚‚s own flag compared to Judah‚‚s flag which bore Aryeh, The Lion).
Hu established, among other regulations, that a Gorsedd or Assembly of 50 Druids and Bards must he held on an open, uncovered grass space, in a conspicuous place, in full view and hearing of all the people every so often so as not to arouse suspicion of the natives. However, he also spoke of their delivery of a speech in a well secluded area, off-limits to all others, called a ‚Nemetron. This word is Jewish, and means ‚Speaking from the Throne. It is clear that the ‚the Throne is a reference to the same throne cited in the name of Metatron, whose name means ‚About the Throne and is the Angel that Enoch was transformed into. ‚Namah means ‚To deliver a word, borrowed from the Sanskrit, and is used in the Mizrahs to refer to the passing of the Oral Tradition called the Qabala. It was likely that the 50 Druids that met in public were the keepers of the 50 gates of Understanding.
Hu Gadarn invented the writing method of Ogham script placed on sticks. Benedictine Monks made sticks with a pseudo Ogham script and spread them throughout the lands they travelled, centuries later, trying to confuse future historians. The history of Europe was edited and the knowledge of Israelites coming to Britain and Ireland was modified and removed as seen fit by the Catholic monks. The identity of Irish and Scottish ethnic origins was lost to any but astute historians and those who has escaped a persecution of families that retained much of the sidom of the Druids, which is pronounced ‚Jrewri in Gaelic.
It was the same Catholics that oversaw the creation of a standard Bible including the New Testament that wrote into history that lie that the British people originated from ‚Magog or refuges from the Caaninites that were fleeing the invading Jews.
The reason for this is the world is scarcely ready for the implications of Joshua being a founding member of the Celtic peoples. What scripture says: " Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses." Joshua 1:3 Never before has there been a historical link which so dramatically sets the British peoples apart from the rest of the world. The presence of Joshua in Ireland and England, makes the Scottish Jews inheritors of the title: 'a chosen people', of the Bible historical account.
The history of the British Isles can now be rewritten to re-establish the national inheritance of the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples with that of the chosen people of the Bible. The fact that Joshua was in Britain, is the missing link between the Identity Movement and the British peoples. Wherever Joshua placed his feet, according to prophecy and Holy Decree , became the soil of the Hebrews, known as Israel. The British Isles are the inherited lands of the Tribe of Ephraim, given freely and welcomed by its natives. I , the author of this paper, know this being a descendant of Scots, who were exiled from this refuge for the Houses of Israel and Judah. Who can deny it? It comes from the mouth of the Almighty God of Israel. And it is supported in the History of Christianity.
The first church set up outside of Judea, was established by Joseph of Aramathea; Yehushua Yehovasha Ben Joseph‚‚s (that is to say Jesus‚‚s) uncle on his mother‚‚s side who lent the tomb for his burial, where his body disappeared. Joseph of Aramathea was the wealthiest (Jewish) man in the Roman Empire, second only to Caesar. He was a friend of Caesar and owned mines in Britain, as documented in the ‚New Testament. Joseph's influence took Christianity to Britain, in the first century A.D., long before Christianity flourished in Gentile Asia Minor, under the Apostle Paul. His visits are accounted, and plentiful, as he often visited his investments. He built the first Church outside of Judea that was ever built, and this before the Church of Catholicism was established. He placed it in Glastonbury, England, about four years after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Apostles followed their Master's directive to first go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel; the Lost Tribes, including Ephraim, the Scottish Jews. Salvation is of the Jews, first. The tribes of Israel are next. That was his teaching. Then, and only then, is the commission to "go ye unto all the world" really fulfilled. The true Christianity is for Israelites, and their descendents.
Following Joseph of Aramathea's lead, a migration of Israel Identity believers took place during the Middle Ages, through Europe to escape the Holocaust of the Jews that followed. The Romas spread rumors to discredit the Jews, including cannibalism and human sacrifice. There was a wholesale slaughter of Sabbath keepers in Europe, including many of the Druids, village by village, in the Alpan regions. Sabbath keepers fled to remote regions, and later to Scotland and flourished in England during the Middle Ages. Millions were killed from the first century into the Middle Ages. Jews burned at the stake throughout the Spanish Inquisition. A migration of Spanish Jews (Sephardim) to Holland and later to England took place. In 1492, the day before Columbus (himself a Jew) boarded his ships with his men to journey to the New World, Jews were expelled from Spain. Columbus took a Hebrew Sage along (not a Catholic priest) because he thought he would meet up with remnants of the ten lost tribes of Israel who were thought to be in the Indies. Both Jews and Sabbath keeping Christians were killed throughout Europe because, they either knew they were Israelites, or they were searching for the ten lost tribes of Israel.
The single most important act for the re-establishment of a Jewish state was the election of a Jewish Prime Minister in Britain. When Disraeli purchased the Suez for a canal (with money borrowed from fellow Jews), he ensured a position of power for them. Disraeli; a sephardic Jew converted to Christianity for political reasons, stopped Napoleon and the French Catholics from controlling Palestine. Ephraim ; the lost tribe that made their Chosen Land Great Britain opened the way for the sons of Judah to occupy the Promised Land once again, as they did in the time of biblical Joshua.
I mention all of this because it is Hu Gadarn's Druids who introduced the Pentagram to Europe shortly before their demise, as they are reunited with the Jews seeking asylum from persecution, which was quickly catching up with them. I know this because my family was composed of Napthali from Israel, and Ephraim who had managed to assimilate themselves into at least five of the forty families of Clan Gunn MhaCuistain (MacQuiston) and at least 1 family each of at least two other clans. This heritage, which has to this day included the possession and revealing of Mysteries is passed on to this day by my family to me as part of a sacred oral tradition. I received this same tradition from my grandfather Ofal Braxton UmIfrinn; whose name reveals ‚reads the entrails of the sacrifice in the land where the sun rises from the burning waters. This was the purpose of the Priest who attended the Altar of Burnt offering in the Courtyard of the Temple of Solomon.
In the magic papyri of antiquity, pentagrams, together with stars and other signs, are frequently found on amulets bearing the Jewish names of God, "Sabaoth," "Adonai," "Eloai" and used to guard against fever and other diseases (Wessely, "Neue Zauberpapyri," pp. 68, 70, and note). Curiously enough, only the pentacle appears, not the hexagram. A pentacle in A verse form, is found on the ancient synagogue at Tell Hum in Israel, which is much older than even the Arabian Nights. It is also says in the Testament of Solomon, a pinnacle of the Solomon Legend,, when Solomon is given the ring:
"Take, O Solomon, king, son of David, the gift which the Lord God has sent thee, the highest Sabaoth. With it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up Jerusalem. [But] thou must wear this seal of God. And this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a Pentalpha."
The page is further described with a Pentagram. This figure, called the "pentangle" of Solomon, was supposed to have the power of driving away demons. In Goethe, Mephistopheles says to Faust that he is prevented from entering the house by the ‚druid's foot ("Drudenfuss"), or pentagram, which guards the threshold. The work entitled "Clavicul Salomonis" (The Key of Solomon, a foundational document of Magick) contains treatises on all kinds of pentacles. The pentagram was also the distinguishing symbol on the hand of the Initiates of the Pythagorans.
The Pentagram: from the Greek, "pente", meaning five and "gramma", a letter; the pentagram is a five pointed figure formed by producing the sides of a pentagon both ways to their point of intersection, so as to form a five pointed star. Pentalpha: The triple triangle, from the Greek words meaning five and, alpha, the letter A. The pentagram (also called pentacle, pentalpha, pentancle, pentagle, or pentangle) is thought by some occultists to trace its esoteric significance to an astronomical observance of the pattern of Venus' conjunctions with the Sun and has had many meanings in many cultures through the ages.
Although common usage often is to refer to depictions of a five pointed star as pentagrams, a distinction can be made. The outline of the pentagram or "endless knot" is a five pointed star, but the five pointed star itself does not necessarily represent the pentagram. While religious fundamentalists rarely make any distinction, some occultists and modern wiccans will make even further distinction and define the pentacle as the pentagram inside a pentagon or circle. Historically, the pentacle referred to any amulet, often incorporating an hexagram. Eliphas Levi claimed, with no justification or historical precedent, that one point upward represents the good principle and one downward, the evil.
It was intended to be a blind for the Averse Pentagram does have its own unique abilities, many of which are dynamic. It should be noted that many subsequent authors have repeated this arbitrary distinction, which has become a common misconception. Ironically, that one statement seems to be the origin of the Symbol of the Pentagram as a symbol for evil or witchcraft, even though it has been in use for at least the last 900 or more years as a symbol of Universal forces. Even more ironically, Alphonse Louis Constant was discovered to be ‚Eliphas Levi and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, where he had served the office of Abbott before his exile.
The legend is that Solomon possessed a ring which was used to command the Legions of Heaven and Hell, in creating the Temple of Shekinah, in the formula YHVH. This legend is especially developed by Arabic writers, and it is from their writing that much of the Symbol of the Ring is given its magick Significance. The current story of the Ring is a synthesis of many texts, most of which are commonly available, but little understood. The ring was, according to sources, engraved with "the Most Great Name of God," which was given to Solomon from Heaven. The Ring was partly Brass and partly Iron and solid Gold. With the brass part of the ring Solomon signed his written commands to the good Spirits an elementals, and with the iron part he signed his commands to the evil genii, or devils. The Brass is for Venus, and the Qabalistic World of Fire; Atziluth Ha-Olam. The iron is for the Planetary influence of Mars. The Ring being of solid gold means that he was, in his heart possessed of the integrity to not abuse the power he was given. The Arabic writers declare also that Solomon received four jewels from four different Angels that he set in the ring, so that he could control the four elements. Those Angels are the Four Arch-Angels, Uriel, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. The word for Jewels, however, is a word that could also mean symbol, as in the Twelve Jewels of the Twelve Tribes (which are the Double Letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Beth).
There is also a legend that Asmodeus, Grand Duke of Hell, once obtained possession of the ring and threw it into the sea, and that Solomon was thus deprived of his power until he discovered the ring inside a fish This story also has an Arabic source, but it is most likely that the story of Solomon's ring being thrown in the water and found afterward inside a fish is derived from the story of the ring of Polycrates, Grand Ruler of Samos; a story which is related by Herodotus in The Histories.
Polycrates was a Tyrant on Samos in the 6th century BC. He rose to power with his brothers in 538 BC, but assumed even their power six year later. His Navy was remarkable, and his rule was strong. Polycrates was a very strong ruler, and as all strong rulers had strong enemies. With his fleet, he conquered several cities on the coast of Asia Minor, and islands in the Aegean Sea. On Samos, he had several buildings made, many of them Temples. He gathered learned scholars to his aid, and sought the great Pythagoras, a native to Samos. Pythagoras, who disagreed with his rule, could forsee his demise and left the island of his birth to create his Academy without offering any support to Polycrates.
According to Herodotus, Amasis, king of Egypt, worried about the toll of Success on Polycrates. He begged his friend to throw away his most precious belongings. Polycrates threw the ring he attributed all his success to in the sea. Three days later, a fisherman came to his court to present him with a huge fish, in Ploycrates honor. When the fish was cut open, however, the ring was in its stomach. Amasis abandoned his friend to the fate of his enemies, and the wrath of the gods. Polycrates was soon killed by the Persian governor Oroites, who had his corpse crucified when he conquered Samos.
The legend of a magic ring by means of which the possessor could exorcise demons was current in the first century that one Eleazar exorcised demons in the presence of Vespasian by means of a ring, using incantations composed by Solomon, and also mentions the name samos as being the origin of the Seal of the Monarch of The Temple.
The Arabs afterward gave the name of "Solomon's seal" to the six-pointed star-like figure engraved on the bottom of their drinking-cups, called by Jews the Magen David or Shield of David. Though it is impossible to date the entirety of the Arabian nights, it is likely the seventh voyage is some two-hundred years older than the Mizrahs (Commentaries on the Qabalah) that first see the Hexagram in magickal talismans. There is no evidence whatsoever, that this symbol of the Hexagram originated in the Jewish faith or was even used before the influence of the Templars. The origin of the Hexagram coming from the Drinking cup of the Arabs is presented in the "Arabian Nights" (ch. xx.) that Sindbad, in his seventh voyage, presented Harun al-Rashid a cup on which the "table of Solomon" was represented; this was the figure of Solomon's seal.
Harun A-Rashid (764-789) was the 5th and Greatest of the Caliphate Abbasid leaders. His name means "Aaron the Upright, where Aaron means ‚Shining Light, or Messenger. He bore in his conquest of much of Asia Minor the very same symbol that was, in legend, Presented to him on a cup by Sinbad. That is the symbolism of the Hexagram being the symbol on the cup Sinbad presented him with. In Western Magical Tradition, however, it is the pentacle, or "druid's foot," that represents the seal of Solomon.
The Druids are the most enigmatic peoples of the British islands, and their origins are not as Enigmatic as one might think. A fragmentary Welsh record, called the Welsh Triad, reads as follows: 'First was the race of the Cymry (The Chosen, or Select), who came with Hu Gadarn to Yns Prydain.' Hu came from the 'land of summer' -- a land located somewhere in what later constituted the realm of Constantinople (the capital of the eastern Roman Empire). Hu Gadarn is obviously a Celtic name, so we must look to the ancient tradition of Translating the name to its meaning. Gadarn is a Welsh word. It means 'the mighty.' Hu is a short form of the Old Celtic name Hesus. . Hesus (hee-sus) is the Celtic pronunciation of Jesus, whish is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua, which means ‚Ya (yod heh) is my Salvation. Hu or Hesus the Mighty was Joshua, called Joshua A-Gibor, Joshua the Mighty, the great general who led Israel into the lands of the Caananites. The Welsh Triad records that in his later years Hu Gadarn also settled Israel peaceably in the British Isle, and with him came the Druids.
The educational system adopted by the Druids is traced to about mid 1300's B.C. when Hu Gadarn Hysicion (Joshua the Mighty Isaacson), led the first colony of Cymri into. In the justly celebrated Welsh Triads, Hu Gadarn is said to have mnemonically systematized the wisdom of the ancients of these people whom he led west from the Summerland. He was regarded as the personification of intellectual culture and is commemorated in Welsh archaeology for having made poetry the vehicle of memory, and to have been the inventor of the Triads. To him is attributed the founding of Stonehenge, and introduction of several arts including glass-making and writing in Ogham characters. On Hu Gadarn's standard is depicted the Ox (the animal of Joshua‚‚s own flag compared to Judah‚‚s flag which bore Aryeh, The Lion).
Hu established, among other regulations, that a Gorsedd or Assembly of 50 Druids and Bards must he held on an open, uncovered grass space, in a conspicuous place, in full view and hearing of all the people every so often so as not to arouse suspicion of the natives. However, he also spoke of their delivery of a speech in a well secluded area, off-limits to all others, called a ‚Nemetron. This word is Jewish, and means ‚Speaking from the Throne. It is clear that the ‚the Throne is a reference to the same throne cited in the name of Metatron, whose name means ‚About the Throne and is the Angel that Enoch was transformed into. ‚Namah means ‚To deliver a word, borrowed from the Sanskrit, and is used in the Mizrahs to refer to the passing of the Oral Tradition called the Qabala. It was likely that the 50 Druids that met in public were the keepers of the 50 gates of Understanding.
Hu Gadarn invented the writing method of Ogham script placed on sticks. Benedictine Monks made sticks with a pseudo Ogham script and spread them throughout the lands they travelled, centuries later, trying to confuse future historians. The history of Europe was edited and the knowledge of Israelites coming to Britain and Ireland was modified and removed as seen fit by the Catholic monks. The identity of Irish and Scottish ethnic origins was lost to any but astute historians and those who has escaped a persecution of families that retained much of the sidom of the Druids, which is pronounced ‚Jrewri in Gaelic.
It was the same Catholics that oversaw the creation of a standard Bible including the New Testament that wrote into history that lie that the British people originated from ‚Magog or refuges from the Caaninites that were fleeing the invading Jews.
The reason for this is the world is scarcely ready for the implications of Joshua being a founding member of the Celtic peoples. What scripture says: " Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses." Joshua 1:3 Never before has there been a historical link which so dramatically sets the British peoples apart from the rest of the world. The presence of Joshua in Ireland and England, makes the Scottish Jews inheritors of the title: 'a chosen people', of the Bible historical account.
The history of the British Isles can now be rewritten to re-establish the national inheritance of the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon peoples with that of the chosen people of the Bible. The fact that Joshua was in Britain, is the missing link between the Identity Movement and the British peoples. Wherever Joshua placed his feet, according to prophecy and Holy Decree , became the soil of the Hebrews, known as Israel. The British Isles are the inherited lands of the Tribe of Ephraim, given freely and welcomed by its natives. I , the author of this paper, know this being a descendant of Scots, who were exiled from this refuge for the Houses of Israel and Judah. Who can deny it? It comes from the mouth of the Almighty God of Israel. And it is supported in the History of Christianity.
The first church set up outside of Judea, was established by Joseph of Aramathea; Yehushua Yehovasha Ben Joseph‚‚s (that is to say Jesus‚‚s) uncle on his mother‚‚s side who lent the tomb for his burial, where his body disappeared. Joseph of Aramathea was the wealthiest (Jewish) man in the Roman Empire, second only to Caesar. He was a friend of Caesar and owned mines in Britain, as documented in the ‚New Testament. Joseph's influence took Christianity to Britain, in the first century A.D., long before Christianity flourished in Gentile Asia Minor, under the Apostle Paul. His visits are accounted, and plentiful, as he often visited his investments. He built the first Church outside of Judea that was ever built, and this before the Church of Catholicism was established. He placed it in Glastonbury, England, about four years after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Apostles followed their Master's directive to first go to the lost sheep of the House of Israel; the Lost Tribes, including Ephraim, the Scottish Jews. Salvation is of the Jews, first. The tribes of Israel are next. That was his teaching. Then, and only then, is the commission to "go ye unto all the world" really fulfilled. The true Christianity is for Israelites, and their descendents.
Following Joseph of Aramathea's lead, a migration of Israel Identity believers took place during the Middle Ages, through Europe to escape the Holocaust of the Jews that followed. The Romas spread rumors to discredit the Jews, including cannibalism and human sacrifice. There was a wholesale slaughter of Sabbath keepers in Europe, including many of the Druids, village by village, in the Alpan regions. Sabbath keepers fled to remote regions, and later to Scotland and flourished in England during the Middle Ages. Millions were killed from the first century into the Middle Ages. Jews burned at the stake throughout the Spanish Inquisition. A migration of Spanish Jews (Sephardim) to Holland and later to England took place. In 1492, the day before Columbus (himself a Jew) boarded his ships with his men to journey to the New World, Jews were expelled from Spain. Columbus took a Hebrew Sage along (not a Catholic priest) because he thought he would meet up with remnants of the ten lost tribes of Israel who were thought to be in the Indies. Both Jews and Sabbath keeping Christians were killed throughout Europe because, they either knew they were Israelites, or they were searching for the ten lost tribes of Israel.
The single most important act for the re-establishment of a Jewish state was the election of a Jewish Prime Minister in Britain. When Disraeli purchased the Suez for a canal (with money borrowed from fellow Jews), he ensured a position of power for them. Disraeli; a sephardic Jew converted to Christianity for political reasons, stopped Napoleon and the French Catholics from controlling Palestine. Ephraim ; the lost tribe that made their Chosen Land Great Britain opened the way for the sons of Judah to occupy the Promised Land once again, as they did in the time of biblical Joshua.
I mention all of this because it is Hu Gadarn's Druids who introduced the Pentagram to Europe shortly before their demise, as they are reunited with the Jews seeking asylum from persecution, which was quickly catching up with them. I know this because my family was composed of Napthali from Israel, and Ephraim who had managed to assimilate themselves into at least five of the forty families of Clan Gunn MhaCuistain (MacQuiston) and at least 1 family each of at least two other clans. This heritage, which has to this day included the possession and revealing of Mysteries is passed on to this day by my family to me as part of a sacred oral tradition. I received this same tradition from my grandfather Ofal Braxton UmIfrinn; whose name reveals ‚reads the entrails of the sacrifice in the land where the sun rises from the burning waters. This was the purpose of the Priest who attended the Altar of Burnt offering in the Courtyard of the Temple of Solomon.
In the magic papyri of antiquity, pentagrams, together with stars and other signs, are frequently found on amulets bearing the Jewish names of God, "Sabaoth," "Adonai," "Eloai" and used to guard against fever and other diseases (Wessely, "Neue Zauberpapyri," pp. 68, 70, and note). Curiously enough, only the pentacle appears, not the hexagram. A pentacle in A verse form, is found on the ancient synagogue at Tell Hum in Israel, which is much older than even the Arabian Nights. It is also says in the Testament of Solomon, a pinnacle of the Solomon Legend,, when Solomon is given the ring:
"Take, O Solomon, king, son of David, the gift which the Lord God has sent thee, the highest Sabaoth. With it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth, male and female; and with their help thou shalt build up Jerusalem. [But] thou must wear this seal of God. And this engraving of the seal of the ring sent thee is a Pentalpha."
The page is further described with a Pentagram. This figure, called the "pentangle" of Solomon, was supposed to have the power of driving away demons. In Goethe, Mephistopheles says to Faust that he is prevented from entering the house by the ‚druid's foot ("Drudenfuss"), or pentagram, which guards the threshold. The work entitled "Clavicul Salomonis" (The Key of Solomon, a foundational document of Magick) contains treatises on all kinds of pentacles. The pentagram was also the distinguishing symbol on the hand of the Initiates of the Pythagorans.
The Pentagram: from the Greek, "pente", meaning five and "gramma", a letter; the pentagram is a five pointed figure formed by producing the sides of a pentagon both ways to their point of intersection, so as to form a five pointed star. Pentalpha: The triple triangle, from the Greek words meaning five and, alpha, the letter A. The pentagram (also called pentacle, pentalpha, pentancle, pentagle, or pentangle) is thought by some occultists to trace its esoteric significance to an astronomical observance of the pattern of Venus' conjunctions with the Sun and has had many meanings in many cultures through the ages.
Although common usage often is to refer to depictions of a five pointed star as pentagrams, a distinction can be made. The outline of the pentagram or "endless knot" is a five pointed star, but the five pointed star itself does not necessarily represent the pentagram. While religious fundamentalists rarely make any distinction, some occultists and modern wiccans will make even further distinction and define the pentacle as the pentagram inside a pentagon or circle. Historically, the pentacle referred to any amulet, often incorporating an hexagram. Eliphas Levi claimed, with no justification or historical precedent, that one point upward represents the good principle and one downward, the evil.
It was intended to be a blind for the Averse Pentagram does have its own unique abilities, many of which are dynamic. It should be noted that many subsequent authors have repeated this arbitrary distinction, which has become a common misconception. Ironically, that one statement seems to be the origin of the Symbol of the Pentagram as a symbol for evil or witchcraft, even though it has been in use for at least the last 900 or more years as a symbol of Universal forces. Even more ironically, Alphonse Louis Constant was discovered to be ‚Eliphas Levi and was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, where he had served the office of Abbott before his exile.