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Fully Illustrated Guide to the non-Christian Symbols of Western Occultism from prehistoric images to the modern Earth-centered movement. Much of Western occultism is focused on the Judeo-Christian mysticism practised in Medieval and Renaissance Europe with its emphasis on the conjuration of spirits by the magician. From the seventeenth century onwards, the knowledge derived from scientific experimentation eroded the spiritual influence of the church. Sigils are symbol used in magic. A sigil refers to a symbolic representation of the users wished for outcome.

Sigils, seals and pentacles are occult devices used in ceremonial magic as part of the invocation and evocation of angels, demons and other spirits.

They were developed out of ritual magic, a mixture of Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism, Arabic Astrology and Jewish Cabala in the 10th century Medieval Europe. These forms of magic practise were raised to the level of a science and studied as such during the Renaissance. Magicians recorded their designs in magical training books called grimoires, such as The Key of Solomon and many others, Four centuries later, modern interpretations of such designs continue to feature in post-modern grimoires such as the Necronomicon. This collection of occult designs is a fascinating insight into the inner world of the magician and the entities he may call on, for better or worst.

In the mundane, materialistic world, modern man is largely unaware of such a thing as an occult alphabet. In the Western tradition, the letters of the alphabet are the sacred symbols of God and man. ­is complete system of magic and philosophy was used by God to create the Universe through the utterance of Divine language. He taught its secrets to the Angels, who taught them to Adam who passed the knowledge on to the Hebrew Patriarchs, using the letters themselves as memory aids to do so. Although the letter sounds have come to us unchanged, the symbols have changed to suit the Earthly needs of man for recording human speech and business transactions. Th­ey are the foundation and the model for all the occult alphabets, sacred scripts and magic ciphers used by man to record the Word of God and the teachings of His prophets as Scripture in Holy books. Occult Alphabets, Scripts and Ciphers is a journey through history from the dawn of marking and writing, following the continuous evolution of alphabetic script, through to the development of Greek and Jewish cabala, the transmission of religious writings and the invention of magical scripts and alpha-numeric ciphers, formulated to reveal or to hide the occult findings of individual magicians and the esoteric knowledge of secret societies.

Sigils are symbols designed for a specific magical purpose. They are symbolic icons that are condensed representations of more complex ideas or information. The Sigil has been reinvented as a Monogram of Thought, a graphic symbol created with the sole purpose of fulfilling the magicians desired outcome as symbols of intent.They were part of our ancestor's pictorial language in an age of symbolic literacy.