The first one comes across a pentagram called the “flaming star” “five wounds” “five gates of hell” - its two points directed upward are the devil’s formula (since 2 is the number of the great goat; 2 points - 2 goat horns). Symbolizes the act of spiritual anti-resuscitation. And if the pentagram “five wounds” (“flaming star”) means dominance over the four elements, over the demons of air, spirits of fire, phantoms of water and ghosts of the earth, then the reverse, invisive, pentagram marks the exact opposite. The loss of a direct pentagram means that a person seems to “open the eyes of the soul” and angels begin to serve him; The loss of an invisible pentagram suggests that a person is dominated by demons. Direct pentagram is a sign of intellectual omnipotence. In this regard, some types of magic require familiarization with themselves. Faustian magic. In this case, the forces transmitted to the performer in submission are of a lower order than the spiritual essence of the performer himself. The nature of the magical action is determined solely by the performer himself, his will, intentions and understanding. The performer acts as a craftsman magician, in complete solitude and on his own responsibility, at his own peril and risk. Collective magic. It uses the borrowed forces of many magicians, their “chain”. This “chain” gives the magician much greater power, it gives him “loan” certain forces, which are then used for magical actions. In this case, the magician attracts forces equal to him. Power and effect depend on the number of people involved in the “chain”. Sacred magic. Although it looks like collective magic, there are significant differences. In this case, the magician is used as obedient as an intermediary; There is also a “chain” - but already a “chain” is vertical instead of a “chain” of horizontal and quantitative (as in collective magic). The magician is in conscious contact with the beings of higher hierarchies, that is, he has mystical and Gnostic experience. In the case of sacred magic, the acting forces are higher than the forces of the magician. Faustian and collective magic use a method whose symbol is the pentagram of the five currents of the personal and collective will of the “five gates of hell”). This method is based on the principle when the strong commands the weak; It is a force of coercion. Sacred magic “works” with the pentagram “Burning Star”, or “Five Wounds”. In sacred magic, this is not about willpower, but rather about its purity. But the will is never absolutely pure, for it bears the stamp of original sin. Therefore, in the case of the use of sacred magic, it is necessary that the five dark currents of the will - the desire for greatness, capture, appropriation, promotion and retention - are paralyzed. Then five wounds turn into five holes, voids, and these voids are filled with a will from above, that is, an absolutely pure will. What is a wound? Simplifying, these are physical feelings when they are “depressed”; Then feelings are organs of perception and the outside world enters into them regardless of our will. Such is the esoteric concept of five wounds, and it can become a spiritual, mental reality, and finally physical (the gift of stigmata belongs to the latter). Considered in the projection of the human body, five wounds correspond to five dark currents on the grounds that these five currents are associated with five limbs, including the head. The desire to take and hold is connected with the right hand, the desire to appropriate - with the left, the desire to move forward, holding the conquered positions at the expense of others, is associated with the right and left legs, respectively. But the desire for greatness correlates only with the head. There is no fifth wound on the head, firstly, because it carries a crown of thorns that crowns everyone capable of objective thinking. (“Thorns” are likened to “nails” of objectivity, giving reason food for thought). Thus, the desire to exalt oneself is allowed not by thinking, but by a will that captures consciousness and all its thoughts, reducing them to the role of a tool. This is the second reason why the fifth wound - a wound of humility, replacing a thirst for greatness - is wounded not by the head, but by the heart. A thirst for greatness arises in her heart, from here she takes possession of her head. Five wounds, as we already know, are found through the fulfillment of three vows - poverty, chastity, obedience. The “five wounds” pentagram symbolizes the transition from the earthly state of human suffering to the divine state of bliss, the movement of the soul from Limba and Purgatory to Paradise. It also means supernatural and natural healing of ailments, enlightenment of consciousness, spiritual life. The “Five Gates of Hell” - the desire for greatness, the desire to take and hold, the intention to advance and hold on at the expense of others - in fact, should never receive the formula of the five wounds of the Lord, because these wounds are the keys to the kingdom of heaven. But on Earth there are other, negative forces of power. In the mystical tradition, Lucifer and Ahriman embody two principles of evil, subjective and objective. In the teachings of the Gnostics, God is considered unknowable and hidden. He is invisible by neither the first nor the second vision (“third eye”), and therefore, according to the Gnostics, most people generally worship the invisible God, whose image they created themselves. But this is just a derivative of the true God, the father of not the world, but the lies of this world, that is, the devil, although for the Gnostics the devil was not Ahriman, the father of evil, but just a loser, a victim of his own errors. The imperfection of the demiurge was also explained by its androgenism, that is, the undifferentiation of yin and yang, the masculine and feminine, good and evil. Androgen was depicted with a goat's head: her horns, beard and ears are folded into an overturned pentagram.
