Pentagram a geometric symbol of harmony health and Mystic powers.

A pentagram is a five pointed star. Traditionally, the five points of the star represent the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) and Spirit.

 

Pentacle or pentagram. A geometric symbol of harmony health and Mystic powers. A five-pointed star with lines that cross to each point. When used in magical rituals design is usually called the pentacle.

 

The pentagram seems to have originate it in Mesopotamia approximately 4000 years ago probably as an astronomical plot of the movements of the planet Venus. It became a Sumerian and Egyptian stellar symbol is start to have been the figure used on the seal of King Solomon of Israel.

 

In Greece the Pythagoreans adopted it as an emblem of health and Mystic harmony the marriage of heaven and earth combining the number 2 terrestrial and feminine, and three heavenly and masculine.

 The resulting #5 symbol lives the microcosm of human body and mind. From this point on the pentagram steadily acquired Mystic meaning.

 

The pentagon is endless  sharing the symbolism of perfection and power of the circle. Five is a circular number as it produces itself in its last digit when raised to its own power.

 Gnostics and alchemist associated with the five elements, Christians with the 5 wounds of Christ. Medieval sorcerers with Solomon’s reputed powers over nature and the spiritual world.

Magicians sometimes wore pentacle caps of buying linen to conjure up supernatural help. In casting spells special powers were credited to pentacles drawn on Virgin caps can but they were also protectively inscribed in wood on rocks and on amulets or rings.

In Wicca and various forms of “white magic,” the encircled, upright pentagram is considered a symbol that provides protection of some kind. Pagan and neo-pagan groups use the pentagram in all manner of rituals and ornamentation because it symbolizes infinity, the binding of the five elements, and protection of the self.

With one point upward and two down the pentacle was the sign of white magic the druids foot. Representing the triumph of spirit over matter.

In Christian symbolism, the basic pentagram (without a circle) was originally used to represent the five wounds of Jesus Christ. It was soon supplanted by the symbol of the cross, but the pentagram was still recognizable as a Christian symbol for a few hundred years after Jesus’ resurrection. Some say that the continuous line was also considered symbolic of the Alpha and Omega.

 

 With one point down and two up It represented the goatsfoot and horns of the devil a characteristic symbolic inversion. inverted pentagram represents the descent of spirit into matter.

 

 Latin or kabbalistic Hebrew letters often appear on talismanic pentacles drawn within protective circles. The Pensacola was also a Masonic aspirational symbol known as the flaming star.

 

The pentagram was used in ancient Chinese and Japanese religions to symbolize the five elements of life. In Japanese culture the symbol was also considered magical. Ancient Babylonian culture was also using the pentagram to represent various gods and religious beliefs of their own.

 

 

Historical associations of the pentagram include the five senses, the five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, and astrological representation of the five planets: Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, and Venus.