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THE TREE OF LIFE
forms of Nature and which has always manifested to elementary
and other spirits a power superior to their own, naturally strikes
them with fear and respect, and enforces their obedience by the
empire of knowledge and will over ignorance and weakness." To
understand the meaning of the geometrical form of the Pentagram,
and to realize why in it is the power to banish all inferior forces
from a given sphere, and why it is the " Word made flesh " a hasty
recapitulation of aspects of the Qabalah is called for. One of the
divine names by which the Jews conceived the universal creative
force was YHVH, which, denominated the Tetragrammaton, came to
be considered as the equivalent of the Four Elements in the Cosmos.
It was also conceived to represent the ordinary unenlightened man
in whom the light of spirit had not yet made its appearance ; the
unregenerate being of earth, air, fire and water, given up to the
things of the unredeemed self. By means of Magic it was considered
that into these four elements on which the flesh is based, the Holy
Spirit amidst fire and glory and flame descended. In Hebrew the
element Spirit is typified by the letter Slzin, with its three darting
prongs of spiritual fire united under the form of one principle.
Bursting asunder the fleshly being, and carrying with it the germs
of enlightenment and inspiration and revelation, the Holy Spirit
forms by its presence in the heart a new species of being, the Adept
or Master YHS~VH. This word, in Hebrew, is the name of Jesus,
the symbol of the God-Man, a new type-species of spiritual being,
greater than Whom there is nothing in all the heavens and planes
of nature. Because of this fact, and the ideology summarized in
the sign of the Pentagram, the symbol of the four elements surmounted
by the crowning and conquering flame of the Holy Ghost,
it owes its incomparable efficiency and power to subdue all astral
opposition and cast out gross substance from the being of the
Magus.
Depending entirely on the direction towards or away from any
of the five points in which this figure is traced by the Magician, so
will the result be. Proceeding from the topmost point and descending
in a straight line to the lower right-hand point, the powers of
Fire will be invoked. On the other hand, if the Magician traces
with his wand the figure from the left-hand corner to the top he
will banish the elements of Earth. It may also be remarked that
it is this latter type of Pentagram which is used in the Pentagram
ritual, it usually sufficing to banish beings of whatsoever class.