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English: Text: A pantheistic and magical figure of the Absolute. The torch placed between the two horns represents the equilibrating intelligence of the triad. The goat's head, which is synthetic, and unites some characteristics of the dog, bull, and ass, represents the exclusive responsibility of matter and the expiation of bodily sins in the body. The hands are human, to exhibit the sanctity of labour ; they make the sign of esotericism above and below, to impress mystery on initiates, and they point at two lunar crescents, the upper being white and the lower black, to explain the correspondences of good and evil, mercy and justice. The lower part of the body is veiled, portraying the mysteries of universal generation, which is expressed solely by the symbol of the caduceus. The belly of the goat is scaled, and should be coloured green ; the semi-circle above should be blue ; the plumage, reaching to the breast, should be of various hues. The goat has female breasts, and thus its only human characteristics are those of maternity and toil, otherwise the signs of redemption. On its forehead, between the horns and beneath the torch, is the sign of the microcosm, or the pentagram with one beam in the ascendant, symbol of human intelligence, which, placed thus below the torch, makes the flame of the latter an image of divine revelation. This Pantheos should be seated on a cube, and its footstool should be a single ball, or a ball and a triangular stool. In our design we have given the former only to avoid complicating the figure.


From the book "Transcendental Magic, its doctrine and ritual" - 1896 by Eliphas Lévi Zahed (1810-1875), a pseudonym for Alphonse Louis Constant, translated by Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942)

https://archive.org/details/transcendentalma00leviuoft/page/n25/mode/2up

also available at https://archive.org/details/transcendentalma00levi_0/page/n23/mode/2up 1910,

https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.24063/page/n33/mode/2up
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Author Eliphas Lévi [1810-1875]


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