![]() ![]() Cornelius Agrippa speaks of the number five generally representing the union of male and female as the sum of two and three, with two representing the Mother and three representing the Father. ![]() For example, Wiccans sometimes see the pentagram as representing the Triple Goddess (as three of the points) and the Horned God (with the remaining two points representing either his two horns or his dual light and dark natures). The pentagram sometimes represents the union of opposites, generally expressed as male and female, in order to generate a greater whole. By placing it in such a manner that two of its points are in the ascendant and one is below, we may see the horns, ears and beard of the hierarchic Goat of Mendes, when it becomes the sign of infernal evocations. The Pentagram with two points in the ascendant represents Satan as the goat of the Sabbath when one point is in the ascendant, it is the sign of the Saviour. It is Mary or Lilith, victory or death, day or night. It is initiation or profanation it is Lucifer or Vesper, the star of morning or evening. It is largely this interpretation that led the religion of Wicca to adopt the point-up pentagram and Satanism the point-down version as their representative symbols. ![]() Nineteenth-century occult groups such as the Golden Dawn held that the point-up pentagram represented the rulership of Spirit over the physical elements, while a point-down pentagram represented the descent of Spirit into matter or matter subsuming Spirit. ![]()
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