Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tom" Newsgroups: alt.magick References: <8ef6b598.0309151013.59c1c113@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: The Pentagram of Pythagoras Lines: 32 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:39:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.190.40.21 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net 1063723150 63.190.40.21 (Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:39:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:39:10 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:356707 "CelestialBeing" wrote in message news:8ef6b598.0309151013.59c1c113@posting.google.com... > The pythagoreans utilize the pentagram as their recognition sign: it > means, among other things, HEALTH. It is spelt in greek of five > letters around the points of the pentagram. > > So the question is: how and when can the pentagram be utilized to > obtain HEALTH. The pentagram is particularly connected by the Greeks with one of the gods of health, the goddess Hygeia, daughter of Aesculepius, from whose name we derive the word "hygiene", which may suggest just what aspect of health she presides over. The letters of her name are traditionally inscribed on the arms of the pentagram. For a more complete exposition of the pentagram of Pythagoras, check this link: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PP.html#labels Perhaps the best way to use it in this context would be to charge it with a Greek mythology version of the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram in the Lesser Degree, Here's a good example. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/OLBRP.html As with all scholarship on the subject of magick, caveat emptor.