S-SIGILS (2)

octobre 15, 2021

SULPHUR

Alc. Very many sigils exist, of which those given below are merely the most common. CARBONELLI 1925 reproduces four of the most frequently used in post- mediaeval documents :

BERTHELOT 1885 gives a few sigils from the Greek alchemical tradition for ordinary sulphur

unburned sulphur

and natural sulphur :

THESAURUS 14C

ONOMASTICUM 1574

ALCHYMIA 1563

VALENTINE 1671

ALCHEMICAL 17C

ALCHEMY 1650

SHELTON 17C

SOHMERHOFF 1701

DALTON 1808

GESSMANN 1906

SHEPHERD 1971

SOMMERHOFF 1701 gives the sigils

For sulphur verum.

SULPHUR NIGRUM

Alc. CROLLIUS 1612

ALCHEMICAL 17C

SOMMERHOFF 1701

DIDEROT 1763

GESSMANN 1906

SCHNEIDER 1962

SULPHUROUS MATTER

Alc. BERTHELOT 1885 records two sigils from the Greek alchemical tradition :

SULPHUR PHILOSOPHORUM

Occ. CROLLIUS 1612

CROLLIUS 1670

SHELTON 17C

DIDEROT 1763 gives two variants for Sulphur of the Prophets :

SULPHUR TARTARI

Alc. GESSMANN 1906

SULPHUR VIVUM

Alc. VALENTINE 1671

SUMMER

Occ. ALCHEMY 1650

SHELTON 17C

KOCH 1930

GESSMANN 1906

SULUTH

Demon - SULUTH "the great robber"

SUN

Ast. The common sigil used in modern times, the encircled dot

was introduced during the Italian Renaissance (see SOLAR 1978) from the esoteric Christian tradition. Prior to that, in both alchemical and astrological texts the sun was symbolised by means of one or other of the Graeco-Byzantine sigils, most usually the

which is presumably a derivative of the short-form helios.

Graeco-Byzantine : NEUGEBAUER 1959

ALCHYMICAL 14C

CONJURATION 14C

THESAURUS 14C

RAGOR 1474

BERNARD 15C

BONATTI 15C

DOMORUM 15C

LIBELLUS 15C

SIGNIFICATIONES 15C

SCOT 15C

AGRIPPA 1531

FIRMICUS 1510

AGRIPPA 1531

ALCHEMICAL 1555

SCALIGER 15C

ALCHEMICAL 17C

ALCHEMICAL 1579

HOROSCOPE 1614

PLANETS 1617

RANDALL 1694

SHELTON 17C

SIGILLIS 17C

SIBLY 1790

CARBONELLI 1925 (mediaeval)

LUEDY 1928 gives

and also records a sigil from the Syrian astrological tradition :

See also GOLD, a term used synonymously with Sun in many alchemical texts. See also MICHAEL, SORATH and SPIRIT OF THE SUN

SUN ARCANUM

Occ. WIRTH 1927 relates this 19th arcanum of the Tarot pack to the Hebraic KOPH. Since the astrological associations of the card include the Sun and zodiacal Gemini, WIRTH 1927 gives the sigils

the latter of which corresponds more to the iconography of the card than to any zodiacal tradition.

SUPERCELESTIAL SCRIPT

Occ. One of the numerous alphabets from occult sources, given by RIVIERE 1938 alongside a Roman alphabet :

If this alphabet is translated liberally back into its original Hebraic equivalent, then it will be seen to closely resemble the CELESTIAL SCRIPT used by occultists :

See also HEBRAIC SCRIPT and SECRET SCRIPTS

SURGAT

Demon - SURGAT "who opens all locks"

SWASTIKA

Occ. In her study of the ancient symbolic language, BLAVATSKY 1888 says that 'few world symbols are more pregnant with real occult meaning than the Swastika' :

It represents the four cardinal points, the Zenith and the Nadir, and is thus a SENARY, and might reasonably be used as a sigll for the ZODIAC, if not tor the horoscope chart. The Initiated may trace its form according to

BLAVATSKY 1888 'the relation of the Seen and the Unseen'. In the Macrocosmic work it is called the 'Hammer of Creation* and 'refers to the continual motion &nd revolution of the invisible Kosmos of Forces',

It points tc the cycles of Time of the world's axes and their equatorial belts : 'the two lines forming the Swastica meaning Spirit and Matter, the four hooks suggesting the motion in the revolving cycles'. Applied to the Microcosm it depicts man between heaven and earth, the right hand being raised at the end of the horizontal arm,

the left pointing to the Earth. It is, insists BLAVATSKY 1888, 'at one and the same time an Alchemical, Cosntogonical , Anthropological and Magical sign, with seven keys to its inner meaning'.

See also ORIGIN, WHEEL OF FORTUNE and WORLD ARCANUM