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The encyclopaedia of Alchemy Gothic a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Pauper's Grave: In former times, peasants and poor common people would consider themselves very lucky to be able to be buried in a rude wooden casket, as most would go straight into the dust or mud of a shallow grave. Pentagram
(also pentacle and pentangle): One of the oldest and
most powerful images in religious, occult and hermetic symbology.
The five-pointed star, an outstretched figure of a man, represents
the microcosm, mankind as the universe in miniature. Its unbroken,
continuous configuration, represents perfection, and is capable
of binding evil powers. The fife points also represent the alchemical
elements of fire, water, earth, air and spirit, and in Christianity,
they stand for the fife wounds of Christ. Pointing upwards the
pentagram invokes the forces of Heaven, but inverted, it can depict
the Devil's Goat, and a soul resigned to the underworld. Plantagenet: The English royal house from 1154-1399, beginning with Henry II and ending with the abdication of Richard II. The family then became bitterly divided and branched into the houses of Lancaster and York, culminating in the Wars of the Roses, and the death of Richard III at the battle of Bosworth in 1485. The Plantagenets sponsored the development of the great English gothic architectural tradition. Pugin:
Augustus.W.N 1812-1852; English scholar, architect and designer,
largely responsible for the Gothic Revival of the Victorian era.
Pugin, together with Charles Barry, built the Neo-Gothic Houses
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