Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

sacrificial knives is well known. In ‘the House of Eagles’ or Warriors’ Temple, the Sun was depicted as a butterfly. “Symbol of daylight and the solar fire—and hence of the warrior’s SOUL—the butterfly for the Mexicans was also a symbol of the ‘Black Sun’ which passed through the Underworlds during its nightly journey. It was thus a symbol of hidden chthonian fire and associated with ideas of sacrifice, death and resurrection. In Aztec carving, the butterfly became an alternative for the hand as the emblem of the figure FIVE, the number of the centre of the Earth.... “Similarly contemporary psychoanalysis sees the butterfly as a symbol of rebirth. “In Classical antiquity it was a common belief that the soul left the body in the shape of a butterfly. Psyche is depicted as a little girl with butterfly-wings....” [Emphasis in the original]

Sherry Hansen Steiger, a New Ager who has an interest in UFOs, evidently knew the meaning associated with the butterfly. She named her organization the Butterfly Center for Transformation. The phoenix is also making a comeback in today’s society. The printer who produced What Witches Do was called Phoenix Publishing Company. A television serial was called “Phoenix” which gave “us an extraterrestrial shaman