Dictionary of Occult - Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils

FAEX VINI

Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701

See DREGS

FALL OF MAN

Occ. Sigil given by BLAVATSKY 1888 in the sequence of sigils outlined in MANIFESTATION, to symbolise the disappearance of the spiritual circle from the sigil for ORIGIN

which denotes the complete descent of Mankind into matter :

FEMALE

Occ. The most common sigil is that adopted from the mediaeval traditional forms for VENUS :

and this has been taken into the modern canon; however , GEHEIME 1785 gives :

FERMENTATION

Alc. LUEDY 1928

The sigil given by BERTHELOT 1385 is for a verbal use, 'to ferment'.

MICHAELSPACHER 1616 gives the sigil

next to the sign or constellation Capricorn, perhaps to symbolise the alchemical process of fermentation.

FERMENTUM ALBUM See SILVER

FERUGO See RUST

FERUC

Demon - FERUG "the rusting one"

FILTER

Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701 records for filter the sigil

and for the process of filtration the forms

WORLIDGE 1651

LUEDY 1928

SCHNEIDER 1962

ALBERTUS 1974

FINIS AQUARII See HAURIENS PRIMUS

FINIS ARIETIS See COR TAURI

FINIS CANCRI See FRONS

FINIS GEMINORUM See BRACHIUM

FINIS LEONIS See CAUDA LEONIS

FINIS LIBRI See CORONA

FINIS SC0RPIONIS See CAUDA SCORPIONIS

FINIS TAURI See CAPUT CANIS

FIRE

Occ. The majority of the following sigils wore originally intended to denote the 'principal and spiritual’ of the four elements, sometimes called the 'heavenly’, rather than to refer to the incandescent gases which wo nowadays call 'fire’ ,

For example, SOMMERROFF 1701 notes that fire is ‘the efficient cause, adcoque influens in effectum’ and provides the following sigils :

FRANCKLYN 1627

ALCHEMY 1650

KIRCHER 1655

ALCHEMICAL 17C

SHELTON 17C

SIGNA 17C

DIDEROT 1763

GEHEIME 1785

GESSMANN 1906

CARBONELLI 1925

LUEDY 1928

KOCH 1930

SCHNEIDER 1962

BERTHELOT 1885 records the sigil

for fire from the ancient Greek alchemical tradition, but this sigil applies equally to the ‘fire’planet MARS.

DEE 1564 gives the sigil

for alchemical fire though it is evident from the text that he has in mind that the sigil also represents the

elemental fire (see MONAD) which sigil he calls the 'the mystical sigil of Aries’ his disciple GABELLA 1615 appears to have linked it in a variant form with the elemental fire :

WELLING 1735 gives a sigil linked with the ancient form derived from the SEAL OF SOLOMON

which he says is the 'Spiritual and Invisible Fire’ , that occult Fire which existed before die descent of Lucifer. OLIVER 1826 gives

as an 'ancient Egyptian’ sigil for elemental Fire. On a more material plane, SIGNA 17C records the sigil

for carbon fire, which relates to GRADES OF FIRE.

See also DULL FIRE, FIRE TRIPLICITY and OCCULT FIRE

FIRE BAPTISM See THREE BAPTISMS

FIRE HAND

Pal. in modern chirognomy , a sigil used to denote the male Fire hand type, sometimes called the Intuitive hand form, given by SETTINGS 1965

The female hand type is given the related sigil

FIRE PROOF

Alc. Sigil recorded by GESSMANN 1906 :

FIRE TRIPLICITIES

Ast. A aigil recorded by AGRIPPA 1510, but rarely used afterwards, is an uncomfortable union of common sigils for the fire signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius :

FIRST

Occ. CHASSANT 1884 records two mediaeval abbrevianions for the Latin prima :

FIRST HOUSE See ASCENDANT

FIVE See ARCHETYPES

FIX

Alc. The sigils are used in the alchemical sense of fixating.

FRANCKLYN 1627

ALCHEMY 1650

SHELTON 17C

SOMMERHOFF 1701

DIDEROT 1763

POISSON 1891

SCHNEIDER 1962

FIXATION

Alc. MICHAELSPACHER 1616 gives the sigil

next, to the sign or constellation Gemini, perhaps to symbolise the alchemical process of fixation, though the sigil is a variant for ORPIMENT.

SCHNEIDER 1962 gives the sigils for fixatio :

FIXED

Alc. For the alchemical application, GEOFFROY 1718 :

For the astrological application, see FIXITY

FIXED CROSS

Ast. A sigil introduced by BAILEY 1934 as diagram to express the combination of the four fixed signs of the zodiac (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius) :

FIXED SAL ALKALI

Alc. GEOFFROY 1718

DIDEROT 1763

FIXED STAR

Ast. From early mediaeval times the fixed star has been symbolised by means of a cross or by a circle (for example, see the manuscript MANSIONES 14C) , though KIRCHER 1655 gives the sigil

and SYSTEMES 18C gives :

When such a sigil is confined to the horoscope figure, the star is generally intended to indicate the influence of a particular fixed star, which is usually named within the horoscope (for example, see IBN EZRA 1485) .

A common variant is

often used to distinguish the sigil from that used for the SEXTTLE aspect, which also is found in horoscope charts. In an example from PEARCE 1893, in the horoscope for King George V, the Sigil precedes the name Aldebaran - however. In a manuscript copy of this figure, the star sigil is changed to a small square

which symbolises the star. This form is however very rare, and appears to be restricted to the USA. The following fixed stars have been accorded individual aigils In the astrological tradition : ALDEBARAN, Algol (CAPUT ALGOL), Algorab (ALA CORVI , ALPHECCA, Antares (COR SCORPIONIS), Arcturus (ALTAMECU) , CAPELLA, Deneb Algebi (CAUDA CAPRICORNI), PLEIADES, Polaris (CAUDA URSAE),

Procyon (CANIS MIN0R) , REGULUS (see also COR LEONTS) , Sirius (CANTS MAJO), SPICA, Vega (VULTUR CADENS). In his study of Rosicrucian symbols, GABELLA 1615 gives the sigil

whilst dealing with stars, but the form itself is ambiguous within the text.

FIXED SULPHUR

Alc. SIGNA 17C

FIXITY

Ast. Modern sigil for the fixed quality, given by DE VORE 1947 :

But see also FIXED CROSS

FLAVOUR

Alc. DIDEROT 1763 :

FLORES

Alc. The sigils given under flores virides aeris by SCHNEIDER 1962 refer to VERDIGRIS :

See FLOWERS, FLOWERS OF ANTIMONY, FLOWERS OF BRASS , FLOWERS OF LEAD, FOWERS OF STEEL, FLOWERS OF SULPHUR and FLOWERS OF VITRIOL.

FLOUR

Alc. The two sigils given below nay be applied to any ‘fine POWDER’

SIGNA 17C

SCHNEIDER 1962

FLOW

Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701

GESSMANN 1906

FLOWERS

Alc. The chemical, rather than the botanical, is intended in the short-form sigil recorded by GESSMANN 1906 :

FLOWERS OF ANTIMONY

Alc. SOMHERHOFF 1701

DIDEROT 1763

FLOWERS OF BRASS

Alc. ONOMASTICUM 1574

DIDEROT 1763

The following siglls are given by GESSMANN 1906 for flores virides aeris :

FLOWERS OF LEAD

Alc. DIDEROT 1763

FLOWERS OF STEEL

Alc. DIDEROT 1763

FLOWERS OF SULPHUR

Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701

POISSON 1891

GESSMANN 1906

FLOWERS OF VITRIOL

Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701

FLUX

Alc. SIGNA 17C

FOG

Alc. BERTHELOT 1885 gives the sigil

derived from the Greek Nephele meaning 'condensed vapour'.

FOCALOR

Demon - FOCALOR "the demon that drowns men"

FOOL ARCANUM

Occ. WIRTH 1927 relates this last card (technically given the zero, or unnumbered, but generally held to be the 22nd and final card in the series) of the Tarot pack to the Hebrew TAU, and accords it the sigil

which alchenically is related to ALUM, and of course recalls the zero of our own numeration : the implication within this choice of sigil is that the 'fool' should be seeking to make the zero into a SUN sigil :

FORCAS

Demon - FORCAS "theach logics and the secrets of plants and gems"

FORM

Ast. LEO 1914 gives the sigil

whiph represents 'all definiteness of form or limitation, such as birth, life periods of varying-lengths, death or change of form and the moulding of forms that are coming into manifestation’. It is very likely that LEO 1914 was regarding the sigil as a representation of the basic horoscope figure LEO 1914 also qives the ordinary sigil for this MOON

to symbolise ‘the most subtle form of matter’.

FORMIC ACID

Alc. SCHEFFERS 1775

FORTNIGHT See WEEK

FORTUNA MAJOR

Geo. Sigil for one of the sixteen geomantic figures

Fortuna (as it is often called) is linked by AGRIPPA 1531 with the element Earth, the 'planet’ Sun, and the zodiacal sign Aquarius A multitude of variants (star, dots, floral devices, etc.) are used to denote the same four-fold structure. The following sigils are derived from the late mediaeval tradition, and are sometimes used to denote the Sun, as for example in TRITHEHIUS 1503.

AGRIPPA 1531 :

FORTUNA MINOR

Geo. Sigil for one of the sixteen geomantic figures

A multitude of variants (stars, dots, floral devices, etc.) is used to denote the same four-fold arrangement. Fortuna Minor is linked by AGRIPPA 1531 with the element of Fire, the 'planet’ Sun, and the zodiacal sign Taurus. The following sigils are derived from the late mediaeval tradition, and are sometimes used to denote the Sun, as for example in TRITHEMIUS 1503.

AGRIPPA 1531

HEYDON 1664

FORTUNE

Ast. NEUGEBAUER 1959 records a Graeco-Byzantine sigil for the equivalent of the Arabian PARS (fortuna), the nodal point occupied by the Moon when the Sun is regarded as being placed on the horcscopos (Ascendant degree) in a chart :

FOUNTAIN WATER

Alc. SIGNA 17C

FOUR ELEMENTS

Occ. In the graphic system of WELLING 1735 the sigil relating to the so-called SEAL OF SOLOMON is used to denote the four elements, and explained as a form containing the golden ball of the Schamayin :

DEE 1564 gives the simple cross

and the exploded cross

to symbolise the four elements.

OLIVER 1826 gives

as an 'ancient Egyptian' symbol.

FOUR EVANGELISTS

Rel . The Evangelists are most frequently symbolised individually in terms of astrological associations.

SAINT MATTHEW is linked with the winged human of AQUARIUS :

SAINT MARK is linked with the lion of LEO :

SAINT LUKE is linked with the bull of TAURUS :

SAINT JOHN is linked with the eagle (redeemed sign) of SCORPIO :

In theory any of the sigils listed for these four fixed zodiacal signs may be used to symbolise the Evangelists - see GETTINGS 1978. As AGRIPPA 1531 listed wrongly (though without sigils) the relationships between the elements and the signs, the correspondencies have been wrongly copied ever since - for example, WIRTE 1931 associates Luke with TAURUS and EARTH, Mark with LEO and FIRE, but John with SCORPIO and AIR, though zodiacal Scorpio is actually a Water sign. In turn, WIRTH 1931 also associates Matthew witH AQUARIUS and with WATER, though the latter sign is actually an Air sign, in spite of its name.

KOCH 1930 adapts two Christian sigils specifically for the four Evangelists :

FOURFOLD MAN

Occ. Sigil given by STEINER 1906 as representative of the fourfold nature of man, symbolising the physical, etheric, astral and Ego 'bodies' :

FOURTH RACE See EARTH

FRACTURE

Alc . GESSMANN 1906

FREEMASON Alphabeth

Alphabet maçonnique français

FRONS

Ast. Tenth of the mediaeval lunar mansions (in full, frons Leonis), called Al Jabhah in the Arabic astrological tradition a sigil for which is given by MANSIONES 14C

A series of sigils, intended for amuletic use, and called finis Cancri, is associated with this mansion, and recorded by ABANO 1303 :

FROTH OF NITRE

Alc . DIDEROT 1763

FRUIT BRANDY

Alc. GESSMANN 1906

FULL HOOK

Ast. Three ancient forms are recorded by OMONT 1894

and NEUGEBAUER 1959

It is clear thai in the horoscopes the last two sigils (at least) are intended to denote the most recent full moon to the hirthtime recorded in the figure.

SMITH 16C gives a related sigil, which appears to apply tc the most recent conjunction as veil as the opposition noted above :