OK ALL THIS JUST IN >>>> (from a customer) IN SALEM ALL INVERTED PENTAGRAM WEARING WICCANS ARE EVIL AND/OR BLACK WICCANS >>>> WHAT?.... English 2nd Degree Ware the inverted Pentagram ... WILL YOU WICCANS OF SALEM PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS MISINFORMATION ..... DONALD MICHAEL KRAIG ON JUNE 4, 2010 | COMMENTS .The recent Memorial Day weekend got me thinking about the pentagram. Why? Well, read on… For as long as I can remember, my teachers (and innumerable books) have claimed that the “upright” pentagram is a positive and spiritual image. It’s upright. What could be more positive than upright? It’s used as a symbol for Wicca, Witchcraft, and Paganism. It’s used for protection as in the famous Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram as well as in other rituals. It is said that the five points of the pentagram represent the five elements: Fire at the lower right, Earth at the lower left, Water at the upper right, Air at the upper left, and Spirit at the top. What a great symbol this can be! It’s not only popular among occultists, but among very patriotic American citizens. It’s on the U.S. flag in 50 places……………………. It’s part of the symbol for the U.S. Air Force. Here is an older version of the USAF symbol: And here is a new USAF symbol: In some of the earliest forms of Wicca, the Pentagram was taken as a symbol for the first or most basic degree of the Craft. The symbol for the third or most advanced degree included the inverted pentagram: However, as Wicca spread to the U.S., it was discovered that Americans tended to despise this symbol. It was said to represent evil or Satanism. The two upright points implied the horns of the Satanic goat. Sometimes, this goat was even drawn into the image: But is it truly a Satanic or evil symbol? It is certainly true that some Satanists have adopted it. But does a symbol become evil simply because some group uses it? The association of a symbol with an evil group, leading to the assumption that the symbol is inherently evil is nothing new. Perhaps the most famous example of a symbol becoming evil is that of the universal symbol of good fortune, the Swastika. The Swastika has been found among native cultures all over the world, It’s most “pre-evil” use was in India where it was usually drawn with a flat side: Hitler himself chose the symbol to represent the Nazi party, but tilted it on one point. Today, in India, it is still a popular symbol and appears everywhere, including on spiritual items. This surprises many Westerners who today only know the symbol for its Nazi associations. The truth is that a graphic symbol, such as a pentagram, is nothing more than lines. It’s what we put into it that matters. If you adopt it to represent evil, then for you—and for those who agree with you—it’s evil. If you think it’s positive and put positive values into a symbol, then it’s positive. Although the U.S. is a secular country, we do have certain places and objects that are so honored they have acquired a quality that can only be called “sacred.” From the Statue of Liberty (the goddess Liberty Enlightening the World) and the Washington Monument (a representation of masculine energy) to the sublime meaningfulness of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, we have our sacred symbols. In the U.S., perhaps no symbol is more sacred and more honored than the (Congressional) Medal of Honor. Although there are three basic versions of the medal, they are all similar in design: Do you still think the inverted pentagram is necessarily Satanic or evil? POSTED UNDER: MAGICK TAGS: DEGREES, DONALD MICHAEL KRAIG, ELEMENTS, EVIL, HITLER, INVERTED PENTAGRAM, MEMORIAL DAY, NAZI, PAGANISM, PENTAGRAM, SATANIC, SATANISM, SWASTIKA, WICCA, WITCHCRAFT Reader Comments avatar #1 WRITTEN BY BLACKBIRD BB ON JUNE 5TH, 2010 @ 5:09 PM Honestly this is why for myself I have always favored a Labris as a personal symbol; it honors some of the very oldest visions of Goddess, and at the same time does not provoke the anger and misunderstanding of frankly ignorant people; but people who have spent literally centuries pouring their misguided energies into the thought form, and that cannot be without magickal import, no? Perhaps the case of the Swastika is not again important here, in India, you are not in a thought field where-in the symbol is drenched with feelings of hatred; and so the traditional meaning applies, no? In the US the Pentagram is a symbol, many Pagans embrace, but many Christians imbue with terribly negative associations, and if reality is interactive, can we really just shut that out and say, no, I create my own reality. I’m not so sure myself. More questions raised than anwsers, but perhaps thats good I look forward to your thoughts.
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