Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

reproduction. The triangle pointing downward “is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni” and the “upward-pointing triangle is the male, the lingam...." When the two triangles are interlaced, “it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.” In The Gods of India, we find: “The two complementary principles, the linga and the yoni, are graphically represented by the fiery triangle with upward apex and the watery triangle with downward apex. When the triangles penetrate one another to form the hexagon, this is taken to show the state of manifestation. When they part, the universe dissolves.” The linga (or lingam) and the yoni are the male and female sexual parts. A former witch reveals: “When the male triangle penetrates the female triangle it produces the six pointed crest of Solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft.” The hexagram was also used for communication with the dead as E. A. Wallis Budge states: “Those who believed in the physical significance of the Hexagram taught that communication between the living and the dead was possible, and adopted the dogma of REINCARNATION.”

A book entitled Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy, links the hexagram to spiritualism. The Hexagram was also the sign used in the Royal Arch (in Masonry) and “with the Hindoos (sic) of Trimurti the Trinity in Unity, or Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva in one.” J. S. M. Ward adds: