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“English magical sigil, 16th century. Sigils are occult symbols written in geometric and other stylised pictorial forms. They are used by magicians in order to increase their power, either in determining the outcome of a magical practice, or in the naming and control of spiritual entities. The Lesser Key of Solomon is a famous example of a list of sigils associated with the 72 princes of the hierarchy of Hell. Dee’s application of these devices was, however, entirely benign and the mathematically intriguing six-pointed star, the hexagon, was imprinted on his ‘Seal of God’, which is now in the British Museum. This metal sigil dates from the same period and was found in the Devil’s Dyke, Cambridgeshire. It was given to the Ashmolean Museum by Sir Francis Palgrave in the nineteenth century and later transferred to the Museum of the History of Science. (Included here by kind permission of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)”

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The Tree of Alchemy

Alchemy, the secret art of the land of Khem (Kemet, ancient Egypt), is one of the two oldest sciences know to the world. The other is astrology. The beginnings of both extend back into the obscurity of prehistoric times. According to the earliest records extant, alchemy and astrology were considered as divinely revealed to man so that by their aid he might regain his lost estate.

According to old legends preserved by the Rabbins, the angel at the gate of Eden instructed Adam in the mysteries of the Qabbalah and of alchemy, promising that when the human race had thoroughly mastered the secret wisdom revealed within these inspired arts, the curse of the forbidden fruit would be removed and man might again enter into the Garden of the Lord.

As man took upon himself “coats of skins” (physical bodies) at the time of his fall, so these sacred sciences were brought by him into the lower worlds incarnated in dense vehicles, through which their spiritual transcendental natures could no longer manifest themselves. Therefore they were considered dead or lost.

Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of all Ages.

Image from a 1577 manuscript, The Leaves of Hermes’ Tree