Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

perfect soul, realizing the immortality of life.” We’ll cover the symbols mentioned above (the oroboros, cornucopia, and swastika) in more detail later. One particular group that knows the sexual implications of the yin/yang and intentionally uses it as their official symbol is The Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). This group promotes extensive sex education in schools. SIECUS Position Statements reveal the following: “It is the position of SIECUS that contraceptive services should be available to all—including minors who should enjoy the same rights of free and independent access to...contraceptive care as do others....It is the position of SIECUS that the use of explicit sexual materials (sometimes referred to as pornography) can serve a variety of important needs in the lives of countless individuals....” Another group using the yin/yang (knowingly or unknowing) is the Girl Scouts. “On page 66 of the Girl Scout Badges and Signs book, the yin/yang symbol is used to represent the World in My Community proficiency badge. In the Junior Girl Scout Handbook, yoga exercises are explained. The theme for their 1987 program was ‘The Year of Magic.’” The I Clung (Book of Changes) is another occult practice that incorporates the use of the yin/yang. Geoffrey Parrinder writes: “The yin-yang dualism entered into Confucian orthodoxy by its incorporation into the I Ching —a late compilation from, and rational arrangement of, earlier works on DIVINATION.” William Spear teaches astrology and macrobiotics and has been using the I Ching for 20 years. He states: “Taoism, inseparable from the philosophy of the I Ching, is based on the complimentary yet antagonistic principles of Yin and Yang which mutually create and destroy each other by the ceaseless rearrangements of their relationship. The basic rule they obey is life’s only certainty: change.”