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CHARTS 1-3.

HERALDIC AND FIGURATIVE CHART, ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST HERALDIC SYSTEMS
(No. 1)

 

(Musical Notes also)

 

REGION ELEMENTARY

 

Y.

1--Violet (Red and Blue)--Most Refrangible Ray
Sanguine. Sardonyx
Dragon's Tail

Matter qualified by Light

3--Cherubim 

W.

2--Indigo (Opaque Blue)
Purpure. Amethyst (?). Mercury(☿).

Matter 'coagulate' (as the sea)

 

U.

3--Blue (Azure)
Sapphire. Jupiter (♃).

Pure elemental matter (as the 'sky')

 

O.

4--Green (Yellow and Blue)
Vert. Emerald. Venus (♀).

Living forms in matter (disclosed in light).
Fixed and stationary natural forms, and their spirits

 

 

 

SECOND ÆTHERÆUM

 

I.

5--Yellow
Or. Topaz. Gold. Sol (☉).

Red inflamed, or Light
Fire in its flower, or glory

2--Seraphim 

E.

6--Orange (Red and Yellow)
Tawny. Tenne. Jacynth
Dragon's head

Fire inflaming, or 'flowering' (in stage of flowering)
Blooming fire (as a being)

 

A.

7--Red--Least Refrangible Ray
Gules. Ruby. Mars (♂).

Elementum Ignis
First affection, or results
(πῦρ) Pyr-Fri-ga. ’Phrodite

 

Vowels

 

 

 

 

 

FIRST.--EMPYRÆUM

1--Teraphim 

'JACOB'S LADDER', whereon he saw 'Angels', ascending and descending: 'And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the ANGELS of GOD ascending and descending on it' (Genesis xxviii. 12)
Also the Chromatic Scale of seven Musical Notes

'Linea viridis seu Benedicta Viriditas': the celebrated 'Seal of Solomon' (or 'Sword of Solomon') or 'Gladius of Saint Michael the Archangel.' (With the celebrated 'Seal of Solomon', he--Solomon--mastered the Genii). It is 'the most potent Cabalistic, or Talismanic, sign.

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HERALDIC AND FIGURATIVE CHART, ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST HERALDIC SYSTEMS
(No. 2)

 

Prismatic Colours

 

 

 

1.--Blue
      Ark.
      Arc
      (Patient)

Sigma
Sigma

Blue.--Material World, or 'Great Deep', or 'Ark', or world made manifest, or sea, or 'C', or 'Patient', or Isis, or Venus, or 'Regina Cœli', or 'Heva or Eve'
      ‏חַדָּה‎
  or Th(‏ת‎)oth, etc., etc., etc.

   

VALOIS

Therefore the 'Lis', or creature-forms in the 'deep', or 'blue'

2.--White
       Produced
       (Neuter)

White. Synthesis of the colours, or Light. (Green, when living, inorganic forms--such as the 'herb of the field', or trees, etc. Colour of the 'fairy races'. Smaragdine). Or White in perfect light. 'Saint John'. Mystic Illumination. 'Saint-Esprit.'

 

BOURBON

Therefore 'White' with the 'Lilies' or creature-forms, in 'white' or the 'light'. Or Green (Charlemagne, Emperor, or Cæsar, or Kaisar of the West), with the golden 'scarabs' or bees, in lieu of the 'Lisses' or 'Lilies'. Napoleon the First and Third. Scarabæus of Egypt. 'Lucifera'. 'Morning Star.'

3. Red
       Producer.
       (Agent.)

Obeliscus: Mystic Figure
Obeliscus: Mystic Figure

Red. Baal. Bel. Osiris. Phœbus-Apollo (in manifestation). Aphrodite (sexless in this sense). The Producing Power (Agent)

 

GAULOIS

Red. Therefore the 'Oriflamme' (or 'Fire of Gold') is red. And from this original, the red of the Gauls and the red of England is derived. Red is the national colour of the Welsh--as witness the 'Red Dragon' (Rouge Dragon) of Wales, etc.

Also Triad of the Diatonic Scale
Musical Harmony
'Music of the Spheres'
(Jacob's metaphorical 'LADDER')

 

 

 

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HERALDIC AND FIGURATIVE CHART, ACCORDING TO THE OLDEST HERALDIC SYSTEMS
(No. 3)

Rationale of the 'Tricolor', or the three united, national, successive Colours of France.

1--Red. Fire. Gaulois. Represented by vertical lines, as indicative of the aspiring rays of this noblest and most active element. Salique, or Salic, from the Salii, or Priests of Mars.

Teraphim

In Heraldry, there are only two chief colours: Red (Gules), or the 'Princedom' of this world; and Blue (Azure), or the 'Queendom' of this world.'

2--White. Illumination. Light: synthesis of colours. It is magic, or sacred, because it stands for the 'Third Person' of the 'Triune'. It is the colour of the Bourbons. It also supplies the field, or ground-colour, to the emblazonment of the order of the 'Saint-Esprit', or of the H. G. It also refers mystically to 'Revelation' and to Saint John.

Seraphim

Also, in regard to the heraldic metals, Sol is the sun, the procreative or producing power (Gold); and Luna, the moon, Astarte ('receptive, or female power'), is the metal argent (or silver). 1

3--Blue. It stands for the 'great deep' or for 'matter' in the abstract': It is represented heraldically by horizontal lines which stand for fluid-levels, whether of the sea or of the air. This colour is assigned to the 'Blessed Lady', or 'Notre Dame de Paris'. In heathen representations of the Ruling Feminine Principle, it stands for the 'Virgin of the Sea'.

Cherubim

The colour azure, or blue, mystically signifies the 'deep' or the world usurped, or won, out of chaos (Chronos, Saturn, or Time); and it is represented by the Planet Jupiter (Zeus), as 'Lord of the Worlds'.

 

Footnotes

186:1 These are the two chief metals of the Alchemists, and the two chief mystic symbols of the Rosicrucians. Red is blazoned by the old priestly heralds, or augurs, by the name of the Planet Mars. Vert (or Verd), and Argent, or silver (Hermes, or Thoth, or Taut, or Luna, or Astarte, indifferently), are represented by the Planet Venus and by the Moon.

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