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[Alexandr Korol]

a Pentagram is and how it differs from a Pentacle. Additionally, it’s interesting that pentagrams and five-pointed stars appear in many contexts, including ancient Egyptian statues. In ancient Egypt, these symbols were associated with the god Anubis, and the pentagram was known as the star of the head of the dog. The Pentagram also symbolized the goddess Ishtar and the underworld Duat. It’s also interesting that the Pentagram appears on the seals of Alexander the Great. How could it be without it? It is written that “the Pentagram, according to Agrippa, was used by the Pythagoreans as a distinguishing mark of their community. They taught that the world consists of five interrelated elements.” Again, fire, water, air, earth, and ether “to reflect this doctrine around the Pentagram, five letters were depicted.” The letters represent the following: “Water is at the top, symbolizing water, the Pentagram at the star. Earth is the top left, symbolizing earth. The bottom right symbolizes the idea or spirit, according to another version, the temple, while the top right corner symbolizes fire, and the bottom left corner symbolizes air.” What is interesting is that, as you see, the five-pointed star, the Pentacle, or Pentagram, if drawn as a dodecahedron and divided into the correct triangles, which I really like, forms five small triangles. See, there are the four elements that always appear, like the four archangels guarding the four cardinal directions, the four animals, the four elements, the four seasons, and the four cherubim. And there is a fifth – ether. Some kind of fifth element. That is, the spirit that naturally... governs these four elements.

I have noted where else it appears. The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great included the Pentagram in his seal and amulet. Additionally, it was noted that during the time of King Arthur, his nephew used the Pentagram as a personal symbol. This is very interesting. In Goethe’s tragedy “Faust”, which also deals with the devil Mephistopheles, and in general, this work, like “The Master and Margarita”, is also, so to speak, written by a dark spirit, and this is felt throughout. Here is an excerpt I found on Wikipedia, a dialogue:

Mephistopheles:
I must confess that forth I may not wander,
My steps by one slight obstacle controlled, –
The wizard’s-foot, that on your threshold made is.