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.

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