Symbols Sigils and SpellsBy Lolita Perdurabo

The Beginnings

● Nerja Caves in Spain

● Seals, possibly 43.000 years old.

● It might be an example of Neanderthal Cave Art.

● 13.000 years older than Chauvet Cave Paintings, France, thought to be the oldest Palaeolithic cave art.

Cave Art in Crimea

Central Oregon Cave Art

Namaroto spirits and the Rainbow Serpent, Burlung, Australia

Aboriginal rock art Spectacle Island, Hawkesbury River

El Castillo at least 40.000 years old

symbolic forms preceding formulation of ,orfirst forms of written language, (possibly 70 000 years old)

Spells, Symbols and Language

Casting a spell focuses on use of words either verbally or in a written form. The written form uses symbols to communicate the message.

Spell as a noun in old English means

'story, speech' and from Proto-Germanic spellan

'to tell'. In Proto-Indo-European language the verb spel means

"to say aloud, recite." As we know the modern verb to spell also means to

say the letters of a word.

Sigils

Sigils are a type of symbols constructed from letters of a word or a sentence (a spell) that are then used to cast this spell in an abstract form so it appeals to the unconscious mind.

● Henry Cornellius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

● Grimoires● Austin Osman Spare

Henry Cornellius Agrippa

15 September 1486 – 18 February 1535

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Sigils and Seals of Goetia

Name sigil can be used in relation to a sign or a seal of a spirit that can be contacted and or controlled through this sigil.

Grimoires and Magic Squares

● Khajuraho Temples, India 950- 1150

● Book of wonders 14 century

Austin Osman Spare

● Alphabet of Desire● Sigil creation based on

Agrippa

Symbols across the world

● Cosmology● Mythology● Religion● Art● Culture

Daoist Qingyanggong Chengdu

Aum or Om Hindu and Buddhist divine symbol

Kołomir- Slavic symbol of life cycles and time and neo-pagan wheel of the year.

Eye of Horus

Voudon

● Veve Damballah

Gods and Goddesses

● Hermes, Eros and Aphrodite

● Gods represent

universal principles.● Archetypal Figures

Religious Icons

● Erzulie Dantor ● Black Madonna of

Częstochowa● Cross cultural

influences

Divination Symbols as Spells

● Qabalah● Tarot ● Runes● I Ching

● Automatic Drawing.● Scrying.● Dream interpretation.● Ouija Board.

Tree of Lifeand Qabalah

Tarot and Qabalah

Tarot and Alchemy

Emblemata Nova

Runes

Sowilo

The sun, success

shield of the clouds

and shining ray

and destroyer of ice.

I Ching

● THE JUDGMENT

MODESTY creates success.

The superior man carries things through.

● THE IMAGE

Within the earth, a mountain:

The image of MODESTY.

Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much,

And augments that which is too little.

He weighs things and makes them equal.

Tables of Correspondences

Automatic Drawing

● Mediumship

● Surreal Automatism

● Practiced by Picasso,

Dali, Breton and Spare

BALLETre by J. Coleman Miller,

Scrying and Cleromancy

● Scrying

● Cleromancy

● Augury

● Omens

● Haruspex

● Tasseography

John Dee's Aztec Scrying Mirror in British Museum

Dream Interpretation

● Messages from Gods● Alternative Reality● Temptations of Devils● Psychology:

Sigmunt Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams

Jung and Hall

Dream Work

Dr. Emad Kayyam Dream Work

Ouija Board

Magical Languages and cyphers● Runes ● Ogham- Druidic tree

alphabet

Enochian Angelic Language

Theban or Honorian alphabet

Gematria

New Aeon English Qabala

Origins of Symbols

● Divine Reality

➢ Shamanic visions➢ Collective subconscious➢ Dreams

● Everyday life

➢ Nature ➢ Culture➢ Politics

Politics of Symbolism

● Fascism

● Swastika

Sexism

● Great Rite and Leroi-Gourhan's cave art interpretation:

male/horse/arrow

and

female/bison/wound

sword and cup

Workshop Plan

● How to cast a spell

● True Will

● Creating personal symbolic language

● Cleromancy using seeds.

● Creating magickal name using cypher.

● Using automatic drawing to obtain a vision of the name.

● Finding meanings of the name in NAEQ and gematria.

● Creating a sigil for the magickal name.

● Creating a sigil using magick squares.

● Creating a mojo -group or individual.

Symbols Sigils and Spells"a symbol, like everything else, shows a double aspect. We must distinguish,

therefore between the 'sense' and the 'meaning' of the symbol.

It seems to me perfectly clear that all the great and little symbolical systems of the past functioned simultaneously on three levels: the corporeal of waking

consciousness, the spiritual of dream, and the ineffable of the absolutely unknowable.

The term 'meaning' can refer only to the first two but these, today, are in the charge of science – which is the province as we have said, not of symbols but of

signs. The ineffable, the absolutely unknowable, can be only sensed.

It is the province of art which is not 'expression' merely, or even primarily, but a quest for, and formulation of, experience evoking, energy-waking images:

yielding what Sir Herbert Read has aptly termed a 'sensuous apprehension of being”.

Joseph Campbell in The Symbol without Meaning

The End.

Useful Links and Resources:Dictionary of symbols: <[:isPlaceholder:]>

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Geometric Signs - A New Understanding by Genevieve von Petzinger:<[:isPlaceholder:]>

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