XYZ - SIGILS

Dictionary of Occult - Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils

XOBLAH

Sigil for spirit given by HEYDON 1664 to represent the letter X in the secret writing called the letter X in the secret writing called the Alphabet of Angels and Genii.

YANG See YIN AND YANG

YEAR

WORLIDGE 1651

FRANCKLIN 1627

SHELTON 17C

DIDEROT 1763

GESSMANN 1906

LUEDY 1928

ALBERTUS 1974

But see ANNUS PHILOSOPHICUS

YEIALEL

Génie 58

YEYALEL vocale: yéyalel

évocation du 15° au 19°59' du capricorne,

domine les 27° taureau / 9° lion / 21° balance / 3° capricorne / 15° poissons

chaque jour durant 20', 19h aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 6 au 10 janvier.

YEIAZEL

Génie 40 YEIAZEL vocale: yéïazael

évocation du 15° au 19°59' de la balance,

domine les 9° taureau / 21° cancer / 3° balance / 15° sagittaire / 27° verseau

chaque jour durant 20', 13h aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 9 au 13 octobre.

YEHUYAH

Génie 33

vocale : yéhouÿah

évocation du 10° au 14°59′ de la vierge,

domine les 2° taureau / 14° cancer / 26° vierge / 8° sagittaire / 20° verseau

chaque jour durant 20′, 10h40′ aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 3 au 7 septembre.

YEIAYEL

Génie 22

vocale : yeïaïel

évocation du 15° au 19°59′ du cancer,

domine les 21° bélier / 3° cancer / 15° vierge / 27° scorpion / 9° verseau

chaque jour durant 20′, 7h aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 8 au 12 juillet.

22-yeiayel

YELALIAH

Génie 44

YELAHIAH vocale: yélahÿah

évocation do 5° au 9°59' du scorpion,

domine les 13° taureau / 25° cancer / 7° balance / 19° sagittaire / 1° poisson

chaque jour durant 20', 14h20' aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 29 octobre au 2 novembre.

YELIEL

Génie 02

vocale Yèlèÿel

évocation du 5° à 9°59′ du Bélier,

domine les 1° bélier / 13° gémeaux / 25° lion / 7° scorpion / 19° capricorne

chaque jour durant 20′, 20′ aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 26 au 30 mars.

YELLOW

LUEDY 1928 records the sigils for yellow ochre.

BERTHELOT 1885 records a sigil from the Greek alchemical tradition

CORSLAND 1962 records a Greek abbreviation

YELLOW AMBER

GESSMANN 1906 gives a short-form, deriwed from the Latin succinium citrinum.

YELLOW ARSENIC

GESSMANN 1906

YELLOW COAGULATE

BERTHELOT 1885 records a sigil from the Greek alchemical tradition

YELLOW ORPIMENT

GESSMANN 1906

YELLOW WAX

SOMMERHOFF 1701

GESSMANN 1906

SCHNEIDER 1962

YERATHEL

Génie 27

vocale : yérathel

évocation du 10° au 14°59′ du lion,

domine les 26° bélier / 8° cancer / 20° vierge / 2° sagittaire / 14° verseau

chaque jour durant 20′, 8h40′ aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 3 au 7 aout.

27-yerathel

YEZALEL

Génie 13

vocale : Yezalael

évocation du 0° au 4°59′ des gémeaux,

domine les 12° bélier / 24° gémeaux / 6° vierge / 18° scorpion / 0° verseau

chaque jour durant 20′, 4h aprés le lever du soleil.

Il règne sur le physique et les actes de ceux qui sont né du 21 au 26 mai.

YIN AND YANG

BLAVATSKY 1888 gives the sigils for yin and yang

as verticals, but it is more usual for them to be expressed as horizontals, even in Chinese texts, and in the translationn of the I CHING by WILHELM 1951 :

In an ancient sigil called in Chinese t'ai chi, the yin and yang are united in a circle, as areas of 'dark' and 'light' respectively, each containing within itself a seedling element of the other, in the form of a small dot :

The doctrine underlying these important popular opposites is extremely complex, but in simple terms, the yin is feminine, dark, lunar, hidden, passive and receptive, the yang is masculine, light, solar, external, active and penetrating. It is the interaction of these polarities which are figured in the series of eight TRIGRAMS which underlie the philosophy of the Hexagrammic sequence of the Chinese I Ching.

YOLK OF EGG

GESSMANN 1906 records several sigils, three of which are constructed around the capital letter V, from the latin vitellus

YSCHIEL

Sigil for spirit (perhaps Yaschiel) given by KEYDON 1664 to represent the letter Y in the secret writing called the Alphabet of Angels and Genii.

ZABLAH

Demon - ZABLAH "of hell's electorate: "lawyer"

ZACHARIEL

Mediaeval sigils recorded by TRITHEMIUS 1503 for the planetary angel of Jupiter

BARRET 1801 uses similar sigils for SACHIEL.

ZAGAM

Demon - ZAGAM "lord of forgery"

ZAIN

The 7th letter of the Hebrew alphabet (see HEBRAIC SCRPT) for wich many derivative forms are given within tradition of secret alphabets, notably those collected by BARTOLOZZI 1675 :

WIRTH 1927 associates zain with CHARIOT card of the Tarot pack, and links the origin of the graphic etymology he traces for the letter

with the idea of 'waepon'. In fact the pictorial value of Egyptian hieroglyphic from which the letter was derived appeara to have been 'decorated staff'.

ZAZEL

Sgil given by HEYDON 1664 for the geomantic spirit, ruler of Tristitia and Carcer :

A variant sigil is given by AGRIPPA 1531 for the ruling spirit of Saturn :

HEYDON 1664 also gives :

ZELAB

Sigil for a spirit, given by HEYDON 1664 to represent the letter Z in the secret writing called the 'Alphabet of Angels and Genii' :

ZEPAR

Demon - ZEPAR "deforms the unborn"

ZINC

ALCHEMICAL 17C

BERGMANN 1785

GEOFFROY 1718

DIDEROT 1763

DALTON 1808

GESSMANN 1906

For zinc oxide see TUTIA

ZODIAC

PERSONAL 1980

ZURIEL

Demon - ZURIEL "the stone master"

BRAHE 1582 gives two mediaeval sigils for this 'Angel of Libra' :

AGRIPPA 1531 gives another sigil

from which HEYDON 1664 derived his own sigil for the genius of the geomantic Puella ;

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