From tyagi@bjt.net Fri Nov 15 02:10:49 1996 Return-Path: tyagi@bjt.net Received: from kudonet.com (kudonet.com [165.227.52.1]) by bitsy.hollyfeld.org (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA09621 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:10:36 -0500 Received: from kudo20.kudonet.com by kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA12331; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 22:03:55 -0800 Received: by kudo20.kudonet.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA18814; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:56:29 -0800 From: tyagi@bjt.net (Tyagi Nagasiva) Message-Id: <199611150556.VAA18814@kudo20.kudonet.com> Subject: 9611.uni-hex.bvs To: tyagi@hollyfeld.org Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:56:28 -0800 (PST) Orientation: House of Kaos, St. Joseph, Kali Fornika, US -- Kali Yuga X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: O >From thelema93-l-owner@hollyfeld.org Wed Nov 13 15:24:10 1996 X-Authentication-Warning: bitsy.hollyfeld.org: majordom set sender to owner-thelema93-l using -f Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 07:38:28 +1100 (EST) From: Barrington Vincent Sherman To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org cc: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Subject: Re: First Appearance of the Unicursal Hexagram? In-Reply-To: <961113114609_1283754146@emout14.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org Precedence: bulk reply-to: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org content-length: 1696 On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 LilWing623@AOL.COM wrote: > hi friends~ > > Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. > > I was thinking the other day about Crowley's mention (in BoT ? ) of > the first appearance of the unicursal hexagram and how for so long it was > said to be an "impossible" figure to draw... does anyone know of an earlier > appearance of the uni hexa? Yes, I have a book called "Russian Icons", publshers; Phaidon ISBN 0 7148 1792 9. It has a Icon called "The Transfiguration of Christ", ascribed to the late 14th cen. In this Icon Christ is standing in the middle of a unicursal hexagram with Peter, John & James shuddering before his glory & the two Old Testament prophets standing on either side, a la the Transfiguration story in the New Testament. A common Frazerian ascription of Christ's Transfiguration is the Summer Solstice. I have noticed that the Freemasonic symbol of > the compass and the right angle is easily modified into the Uni hexa with a > simple angle alteration and a shortening of the points of the compass... I'm > not suggesting there's any connection between the two figures, just using it > as an example of why, IMO, it seems doubtful that the unicursal hexagram is a > "modern" figure; and not all that difficult to draw... it's far more > difficult for me personally to sketch a Heptagram. There are many pre-Crowley examples of unicursal hexigrams just like there are many pre-Christian examples of cross, pre-Nazi examples of swastikas &c &c &c. Medievial Cathederals are paticulary fertile ground, esp. masons "marks". Love is, was & shall be the Lore, Love under Will. -Pernonidides Grande Prieure d'Antipodes ----- End of forwarded message from Barrington Vincent Sherman -----