BROKEN PENTAGRAM

The broken pentagram is used by black magicians to conjure up demons in order to control them for their selfish desires….

It is the simplest form of star shape that can be drawn unicursally – with a single line – hence it is sometimes called the Endless Knot. Other names are the Goblin’s Cross, the Pentalpha, the Witch’s Foot, the Devil’s Star and the Seal of Solomon (more correctly attributed to the hexagram).

Even a SLANTED star is represented as a PENTAGRAM!

It can also represent VENUS!

The old folk-song : “Green Grow the Rushes,O!” refers to the use of the pentagram above doors and windows in the line: “Five is the symbol at your door.” The potency and associations of the pentagram have evolved throughout history. Green is Lucifer’s color!

I’ll sing you twelve, Ho
Green grow the rushes, Ho!
What are your twelve, Ho?
Twelve for the twelve Apostles
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven,
Ten for the ten commandments,
Nine for the nine bright shiners,
Eight for the April Rainers,
Seven for the seven stars in the sky,
Six for the six proud walkers,
Five for the symbols at your door,
Four for the Gospel makers,
Three, three, the rivals,
Two, two, the lily-white boys,
Clothèd all in green, Ho
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.

* The earliest known use of the pentagram dates back to around 3500BC at Ur of the Chaldees in Ancient Mesopotamia where it was symbolic of imperial power.

* Amongst the Hebrews, the symbol was ascribed to Truth and to the five books of the Pentateuch. It is sometimes, incorrectly, called the Seal of Solomon (Hexagram).

* In Ancient Greece, it was called the Pentalpha, being geometrically composed of five A’s. Unlike earlier civilizations, the Greeks did not generally attribute other symbolic meanings to the letters of their alphabet, but certain symbols became connected with Greek letter shapes or positions (eg Gammadion, Alpha-Omega).

* To the Gnostics, the pentagram was the ‘Blazing Star’. * For the Druids, it was a symbol of Godhead.

* In Egypt, it was a symbol of the ‘underground womb’.

* The Pagan Celts ascribed the pentagram to the underground goddess Morrigan.

* Medieval Christians attributed the pentagram to the Five Wounds of Christ.

* The Christian Emperor Constantine I used the pentagram, together with the chi-rho symbol in his seal and amulet.

* In the legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the pentagram was Sir Gawain’s glyph, inscribed in gold on his shield, symbolizing the five knightly virtues.

* In Medieval times, the ‘Endless Knot’ was a symbol of Truth and was a protection against demons. It was used as personal protection and to guard windows and doors.

* The pentagram with one point upwards symbolized summer; with two points upwards, it was a sign for winter.

+ During the long period of the Inquisition, the pentagram was seen to symbolize a Goat’s Head. In the purge on witches, the horned god Pan became equated with the Devil (a Christian concept) and the pentagram, for the first time in history became a symbol of ‘evil’ and was called the Witch’s Foot.

* In the emergence of Hermeticism, graphical symbolism became very important. The concept of the microcosmic world of Man as analogous to the macrocosm, the greater universe of spirit and elemental matter is a part of traditional occult teaching in both western and eastern philosophies. “As above, so below.” The pentagram, the ‘Star of the Microcosm’, symbolized Man within the microcosm, representing in analogy the Macrocosmic universe.

The upright pentagram bears some resemblance to the shape of man with his legs and arms outstretched; indeed an illustration attributed to Agrippa or to Tycho Brae (1582) illustrates the similarity of proportion in this image, showing the five planets and the moon at the center point – the genitalia. There are other illustrations of the period by Robert Fludd and Leonardo da Vinci showing geometrical relationships of man to the universe.

+ Later, the pentagram came to be symbolic of the relationship of the head to the four limbs and hence of the pure concentrated essence of anything (or the spirit) to the four traditional elements of matter. – [Quintessence]

* In Freemasonry, Man as Microprosopus was associated with the five-pointed Seal of Solomon. The symbol was used, interlaced and upright for the sitting Master of the Lodge. The geometric properties and structure of the Endless Knot were appreciated and symbolically incorporated into the 72 degree angle of the compasses.

* The women’s branch of freemasonry uses the five pointed ‘Eastern Star’ as its emblem. Each point commemorates a heroine of biblical lore.

+Eliphas Levi illustrates the upright pentagram of microcosmic man beside an inverted pentagram with the goat’s head of Baphomet. In ritual magick the sign has long been used as a ritual flourish of the athame to symbolize invoking or banishing in respect to elemental associations.

* In the 1940’s Gerald Gardner adopted the pentagram with two points upward as the sigil of second degree initiation in the newly emergent, neo-pagan rituals of witchcraft, later to become known as Wicca. The one-point upward pentagram together with the upright triangle symbolized third degree initiation.

* The pentagram was also inscribed on the altar pentacle, it’s points symbolizing the three aspects of the Goddess plus the two aspects of the God.

* It was not until the late 1960’s that the pentagram again became an amuletic symbol to be worn and has since then become firmly established as a common neo-pagan and Wiccan symbol, acquiring many aspects of mystique and associations that are today often considered to be ancient folk-lore!

– The earliest recorded use of the pentagram as a mystical symbol was by the Gnostics, who called it the Blazing Star. It was also considered by Christians during the middle ages to be a symbol of the Five Wounds of Christ, and used as a protective glyph, generally as a variation on the Seal of Solomon (a Star of David within a circle). – The association of the pentagram with non-Christian belief, and its modern “elemental” analysis, were evidently introduced during the revival of occultism in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Masons and similar groups such as the OTO took it up–for example, A.E. Waite is the person who introduced the symbol into the Tarot deck, replacing the traditional suit of Coins. – The use of the “inverted” pentagram to denote evil is a quite recent usage, and first appears in the works of Eliphas Levi. He is also the source of the “goat’s head” glyph. Before this, neither orientation had evil connotations per se. – The modern pagan movement picked up the pentagram as part of a general borrowing from earlier “occult” usage, and Wicca in particular has taken it up as an explicit denotational symbol, similar to the cross, the Thor’s hammer, and so on.

In the Jewish kabbalistic tradition, which borrows many Pythagorean ideas, the pentagram represents the five upper sephiroth on the Tree of Life- five numbers, being indivisible by any but themselves, which represent pure archetypal forces: justice, mercy, wisdom, understanding, and transcendent splendor.

Masonic writer Manly P. Hall writes, in connection with the broken pentagram that, in black magic, the pentagram may be broken at one point by not permitting the converging lines to touch:
“The pentagram is used extensively in black magic, but when so used its form always differs in one of three ways: The star may be broken at one point by not permitting the converging lines to touch; it may be inverted by having one point down and two up; or it may be distorted by having the points of varying lengths. When used in black magic, the pentagram is called the “sign of the cloven hoof,” or the footprint of the Devil. The star with two points upward is also called the “Goat of Mendes,” because the inverted star is the same shape as a goat’s head. When the upright star turns and the upper point falls to the bottom, it signifies the fall of the Morning Star.” (The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p.104, Chapter: Ceremonial Magic and Sorcery)

WASHINGTON:

Pentagon-symbol of a Pentagram

Notice the CHURCHES logo that have these unfinished pentagrams…

John Knox Presbyterian

Morning Star, REALLY??

Now Notice how TURNER BROADCASTING NETWORK uses their logo:

Notice the similarities…

Now lets look at others as well…

American Idol-Broken Pentagram

YES! Even a Baseball Home Plate is a Broken Pentagram!!

FOX 66

Millions  more where these came from!!!