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The Pentagram of Pythagoras

To: alt.magick
From: "Tom" 
Subject: Re: The Pentagram of Pythagoras
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:39:10 GMT

"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.

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