Magical Symbols - History of Sigils Angelic Alphabets and Symbols of Power
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- This video traces the origin and development of magical symbols from late-classical Egypt through their development into Western European Magic. These characters likely began as debased hieroglyphics and would eventually develop into unique symbols of power, the seals and sigils in angelic and demonic mage, and form the basis for angelic script / alphabets. This video is a part of a series on magical and occult symbolism so make to subscribe if that interests you!
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Recommended Readings:
Richard Gordon's article - www.academia.edu/13925134/Cha...
Don Skemer - Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages - 978-0271027234
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The most current scholarship on Solomonic sigils and characters backs this history. We keep discovering that strings of symbols - for example those found on the Knives and Wands - are actually corrupted letters, very often some combination of YHVH, Elohim, and Zabaoth.
Yep, it's basically a 2000 year old game of written telephone.
had long been under the impression that these spirits were just some obscure part of Western Magical practice. I dont recall who it was, perhaps Jake Stratton-Kent, that found that the sigils or seals for the Olympic spirits were actually in use in Ancient Greece and can be seen on some of the statuary there today. I
Sometimes the message on the phone is uncorrupted, but we forget who exactly is on the other line.
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Thank you so much for watching!
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Thanks for the saying so - really just starting out the channel and I'm happy to hear you are finding it helpful!
Hey no dammning please.(joking)
Your intro does an amazing job of capturing your tone, by the way!
Thanks friend - I know that substance matter more than style but a little style can't hurt!
Absolutely loved this presentation, never thought of a correlation between an Ankh and the ringlets on sigils or other sigil like symbols! That totally changed my view of the subject! Amazing job once again!
Glad you enjoyed it - it's an interesting but overlooked history especially given how interested people are in esoteric/occult symbols!
@@TheEsotericaChannel I completely agree, and commend you on how you approach these subject and present them!
First, I LOVE your channel! Great content--and I love your dry wit.
Second, every time I see magical writing with ringlet terminals, I laugh because that's exactly how the sorority girls at my college would write on poster board signs with magic markers. There was even a satirical article in the college newspaper that described a terrible affliction known as Scripto-Sororia, that compelled its victims to write in that manner. So every time I see those symbols, I remember ditzy sorority girls trying to recruit members during pledge week.
(Now I have to wonder if they weren't secretly doing magic ... )
Sororities as a form of modern mystery cult?
@@nevisysbryd7450 That thought has crossed my mind.
Definitely one of the best channels for esoteric and occult info. I love the work you do, sir, keep it up!
This is one of your best lectures so far. Very interesting and plausible hypothesis about the origin of the "sigils of art". And yes, when certain scolars remove what they do not understand, it is an error.
That tiny Sephir Raziel is so COOL! I want one 🤩.
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Wonderful stuff! Thanks for making your videos, I just found your channel and it’s full of great stuff!
I just found your channel a few days ago and I love it! I learn so much with every video. Thank you for your work 🙏 😊
Love your channel. Thanks for your video’s and all the great work you are doing.
Once again, another great video!
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Your channel is brilliant. Thank you!
The way the terminator ends were used reminds me of how my culture, Circassian, has symbols we used called Damighas which helped distinguish things we owned or families we belonged to. My Damigha once had a T shaped top when we worshipped Tha, it became a cross when my ancestors became Christian and then a O circle when they became Muslim!
@Dingo Fury You're welcome. I just love learning more about my culture and the context it may have existed in.
@Dingo Fury I don't, I haven't done an ancestry genetic test but I do know my family comes from Maykop and Nalchik area in the north western Caucasus mountains.
@Dingo Fury No, the Avars were neighbors and allies of my people in the fight against the Russian empire in the Caucasian War that lasted 101 years. They lost so many lives like my own people who refused to give in to the Russians who committed genocide and exiled many of both of our people. They live just south of my people in Dagestan.
In my culture, our mythology surrounds the Narts who are great heroes like that of Sosruquo who stole fire from the giant. We also have the wise and leader of the Narts, the great mother Satanay and not to mention the myth of the golden apple tree.
@Dingo Fury Thank you, brother. What ethnicity do you most identify with?
@Dingo Fury Likewise, I love learning about other people. What quality or trait do you associate most from your roots? For me, it is our cultural dance.
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i accidentally found your channel
while i was looking for info on esoteric of jewish mysticism
i love your way on how you use words and compare mysticism and philosophy
Thank you for the channel.
Welcome!
what great content!
Hello Dr. Sledge, I hope you are well. I recently had my spiritual awakening & yesterday decided to study the Kabbalah. I came directly to your page because your present this & all information you share in an entertaining yet comprehensive manner that a “layman” like myself can understand, unlike with the Bible text (for me).
I want to thank you for the wisdom you’ve share & the knowledge you’ve given me.
💟🕉️☯️ Love•Light•Liberation
I've gotta listen to this again!
Love this channel
Thanks for watching!
I use sigils on my candle magick a lot. They truly make a huge difference at the collective force of the ritual. Vodun and Lukumi (aka Santeria) uses their own sigils as well. They open paths and connections to the spirits to send the SOS message. Rituals and sigils are important to the spirit world. They make sure the intentions are clear. This is also to avoid anything that can get you into trouble. Symbols are important to other realms outside of our own. You also don't want to open portals that should not be opened or bring in spirits that don't belong. This video is fantastic and much needed, especially those of us who practice religions that use sigils as part of our practices. Knowledge is a must!!! It isn't just do it... one must know first to avoid complications. Your videos help me understand my Lukumi, Santeria, religion better. Thank you.
Excellent background and historical information.
Thank you! This was presented very concisely and packed with information. First video I have watched of yours and you have a subscriber! 👍
Glad it was helpful! Check out our other content!
@@TheEsotericaChannel I am going to start at the beginning of the channel and go through them all!
I am currently deep into Manly's Secret Teachings and your content is a great modern update/synthesis.
I would love to hear your analysis of the Epiphany with it coming up. I know it has roots in many ancient traditions and would also be fitting with the recent Grand Conjuction occurring.
Thank you again, I will be sharing this content everywhere
Like the "Sefer Raziel," Johann George Hohman's "Long Lost Friend" (Pennsylvania Dutch braucherei tradition) purports to be a meta-amulet. Are you aware of any other esoteric, magical, or occult texts which are viewed in the same way?
My sense is that many religious texts - The Bible, Qu'ran, Gathas - function this way. Certainly in the Jewish tradition the Zohar has this function. For instance, I have an entire copy of the Zohar on microfilm in a special box such that it functions wholly as an amulet.
@@TheEsotericaChannel That's very interesting. Is that microfilm Zohar amulet something that was manufactured and sold to function that way, or something that you put together?
I thank you sir for sharing your knowledge with me this is such a fascinating subject
Of course, thanks for watching!
Great Chanel Dr Sledge excellent content
Thanks! Hope you stick around!
Greetings from Dubai! Amazing channel. Keep it up!
Thanks!
This is very interesting!
thank you 🙏🏽
The part of the video where you addressed the egyptian roots has got me thinking. It would be interesting to see a video or series on esoteric symbolism in America. Like the washington monument, all seeing eye etc.
I have heard the origin stories of some of these things but it would be very interesting to hear your perspective especially.
This is great.
awh yeah, good stuff as usual.
Thanks, Julia!
Whoaa I am shook. I had no idea. Thank you!!!
I wish I could translate the symbols I wrote.
So cool.
Yep! Glad you find the content interesting!
Excellent ✅
Just FYI, at around 9:36, the text points out the cross terminus being on the far left, when it is on the viewer's right.
I love your videos, but I was wondering if you could throw more dates more often, so I can keep it straight when I’m listening (I’m not brilliant 😂). Much appreciate all the info you present, thank you 🙏
Do you think that the terminators may have been to deactivate the sigil/symbol? The old mages were a superstitious bunch.
Merci beaucoup
Thank you
You've just earned yourself a new subscriber. I find things esoteric to be quite fascinating. May the Light within you shine ever so brightly! Blessings🙏
Please do Trithemius, Steganographia!
I always got the impression that those little rings at the ends and joints in the symbols were stars. Like as a way of connecting them to the Astral Powers. But I guess no one explains it, huh?
I know that at least one tradition gave a methodology for creating sigils based on letters and numbers in an entity's name and similar information for stellar forces. That was a Middle Age/Early Modern one, though, so this stuff is clearly older.
You are a God send
A couple of the symbols were used by Minton for date cyphers for their 19th century production of porcelain, majolica and stoneware.
*EDIT:* way more than a couple.
I wonder if the cross terminator may reflect Varangian influence in the Byzantine context - it does look an awful lot like runic staves.
7:33 Please tell me I'm not the only one that sees a dude with a gnarly shirt skateboarding into the back of an angry cobra that just swallowed his chihuahua
What is the page behind you on the table?
It has the divine name Eyeh, and what looks like a hand with an eye, beneath the letters.
The combination of those things seems interesting.
Curious if you discuss that page anywhere in particular.
And thanks for your great broadcasts!
Wow!
this reminds me of a very important question i had years ago, so as we all know theres a connection between magic practices in this region, ancient egytpian, greek jwish arabic etc one can easily notice similarities between the practices, but how about magic in other parts of the world that are isolated, like for example the americas, how and what was magic like in that region, imagine if there are similarities with the way its practiced even though it was isolated from the rest of the world, i'm extremely curious about this subject, damn it i wish i havent remembered.
Physics and chemistry is the new magic and mathematics (especially geometry and trigonometry) is the language needed to apply the sciences (aka magic)
I'm naming my metal band Ringlet Terminators
I just happened to click on this video and recognized you from your talk with T-jump a few weeks ago
🦜request, can you do an episode on magical hats? ...the golden calendar hats, etc.
Are those pieces for a Go board on your table? Go is one of the best games I have ever played.
Yep!
Nice! I'm sure it wasn't cheap as the bowls look well made. I bet your house is filled with all kinds of amazing stuff.
I have to ask...what does the head-shaped weight at the end of your watch fob represent?
It's the head of Pazuzu - the Mesopotamian storm demon - allegedly he is so fearful that he frightens away other demons, especially his sister Lamashtu: a real anti-demon demon.
Did these practices get norse influence as well? The one on the right at 9:27is rather reminiscent of a rune that is basically a charm for good luck during travels
If you're referring to the vegvisir: despite how often it's used as a norse rune in pop culture, we have no evidence of it from that time, it only appears in a compilation of Icelandic magical texts from the 19th century. So it's more likely that the vegvisir derives from the magic symbols talked about in the video, transferred to Iceland at some point, rather than the other way around.
A meric A is a good example- it can be interpreted as "house of crime"... a hybrid mix of occultism.
Sigils are projections (a circle is a 2d projection of a sphere) of higher-dimensions entities/elements, i.e. things that exist beyond time, maybe like evil, the concept of discovery, brotherhood/alliance, civilization, mathematics.
Very delicate stuff.
Thank you for all your dedication Dr Sledge! Huge fan.
😂
so what are the white and black stones and athame for?
True wisdom
Is it possible that Glagolitic script was inspired or influenced by these magic symbols?
where might I purchase that tiny little book?
I think I put a link in another comment to a website where you can buy one. Check around and see if you see it.
These are really great videos, thank you. I have an off topic question. What is that bowl of white things next to you on the table?
Go stones
@@TheEsotericaChannel 😂 That's funny. Sorry for such a mundane question on a great video. It's just your channel will be one that I have to listen to a few times to really absorb it all. I'm so new here. :) I have the Japanese puzzle box. I also used to play Penté with my siblings when I was a kid. It's similar to Go I think? Or, maybe I'm thinking of Othello. Anyway, I like them. Thanks!
The hourglass (hyperboloid) mark found on a black widow spider? Seventh row down, second of the right, "Seals for planets and days of the week from the Munich Necromancers Manual". Looks like the rune Dagaz of the Elder Futhark, only upright. There must be historical data for this mark? Please, guidance would be sooo appreciated
Found the unicode ⴵ
Many thanks. Do you where a small copy for a more talismanic purpose you can but Sefer raziel?
You can sometimes find them a seforim stores. Here is one for sale: seforimcenter.com/Raziel-HaMalach-Miniature-Size__p-4807.aspx only $1.50 for magical protection - not a bad deal!
ESOTERICA much appreciated
Does the protective amulet from the movie Constantine show up in history or was it made up for the movie?
Hope this makes sense. I like the imagination art and music make, it's a matrix of magical symbolism.
At 11:02 Could someone give me the correct spelling for the word. The transcript has it spelled automata, and phonetically spelling the word yields no search results.
Anomemata. It is one of the words of a full Greek sentence that is palindromic.
how come the ringlets aren't the same when they could be? is that just flair or have other meaning?
👍 _!!_
May I ask what the fountain is called in the beginning of the video?
I've looked into water clocks, pendulums, deer chasers, and over never seen a water timer like this. Thank you
An absinthe auto-verser
@TheEsotericaChannel thank you. I cant believe I did not know this. I kept going the water clock/timer route. Much appreciated.
The proliferation of ringlets on sigils always reminds me of the contemporary Thai script. I'm sure there's no direct link, unless...
Fascinating,as the real usage of hyerogliphs becomes lost,they become magical symbols in a phonetically based society. Possibly, I am just throwing thoughts here.
First time I heard about Transitus Fluvii was in the film white enamel… not sure why it stuck subconsciously.
You play Go?
Greeks Romzns and Jews all predated, from different angles and at different times, the Egypt
And none of the 3 have ever admitted it
wonder if the circles weren't a way of transferring the powers of the heavens, the sun and stars, which are light orbs/circles, to the characters in a sort of power by association, to give the characters the powers of the heavens/gods/planets and stars sort of thing
The headless one drawing with the ankh looks like a character from Adventure Time.
Thinking how a lot of Hebrew letters have "a little yod" in similar positions to the ringlets - you know like shin has a "little yod" at the top of each upright.... I wonder if this could possibly be the origin of the ringlets.
8:45 Some of the symbols on the right look like sheet-music notation symbols.
Dr Sledge, also,with egyptian and greco.roman syncretism, came the union of a phonetic world witb a pictographic world, it would seem a logical derivation the appearance of symbolism borne out of that union. Just a thought. Man am I a fan hahahahhahaha
I Love SIGIL'S AND BIND RUNE'S, and Everything from the ARS GOETIA as well as my Fav, The Pert Em Rhu, or The Book of the Dead (Egyptian, not Tibetan)
@Dingo Fury I Do Not mix any of the Netjer or GOETIC Spirit work Ever
What is religious technology?
So, creating my very own symbols gives it more power then recruiting symbols that have been over changed. But, what drinks do I put more power into my symbols?
hey whats a "terminator" and i can see ringlets...but what are they exactly or how can i find to deine these finer details..a book or something...i try google...i dont talk or ask people about these things...google dont like to share at all these things
whats terminator and purpus of 0lets???
Also
Thank you for your work and SHARING...some of us are real smart..just have bad eyes for looking
Terminators are just where the lines that compose the letters/shapes come to an end. For instance the capital T has three terminators. You can see much finer detail in the text of the Greek magical Papyrus, the letters in Cornleius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and in the the Jewish text of Magic the Sefer Raziel, to name a few. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!
@@TheEsotericaChannel it's interesting in the example you discuss there are terminators similar to τ, φ, ψ and a few more
Hi Justin, what would be a short list of legitimate magic books you could provide us with?
Depends on what you mean by 'legitimate'
@@TheEsotericaChannel Books which are capable of real magic. Be it dark or good magic. For eg; the Devils bible being held in the Vatican's collection might be considered a book of dark magic. How many books in existence would you lay claim to in your professional opinion actually work?
@@Quantum-Omega oh, none then.
@@TheEsotericaChannel As you are very well studied I would not attempt to debate any of your findings. But if I may ask, are you a believer or sceptic of the paranormal?
@@Quantum-Omega I have come to no compelling evidence of anything paranormal or supernatural, from ufos, to ghosts, to gods, to leprechauns. none of it.
The terminating loops refer to a conventional way of drawing star constellations
I used to think that too but we find no evidence of that until much later.
6:26 Now that's art, almost as good as my 3 year old. My son's a prodigy really
Did he also feature koine Greek, transliterated Hebrew and an Egyptian hieroglyph along with (magical?) pseudo-Hieroglyphs all inscribed on a metal surface such as silver or lead?
@@TheEsotericaChannel No, only Atlantean hieroglyph. He said he has no time for that 2nd hand stuff
@@kyleoverman9224 Def a prodigy....or in need of an exorcist :)
@@TheEsotericaChannel My money is on the latter, he scares the hell out of me sometimes, haha. Appreciate you and your work. (:
@@kyleoverman9224 Same with my kiddos! Thanks for watching!
Mini sepher raziel.. Where do i get one?
You can find one here - seforimcenter.com/Raziel-HaMalach-Miniature-Size__p-4807.aspx - only $1.50 for magic powers, can't beat it!
How cool- and affordable!
@@TheEsotericaChannel uh 28 bucks to ship to the UK
Wish I could be your student sir
I do not believe in MAGIC but love listening about it. 🤔😉
Not really esoteric
Daisy Taylor wears an Ankh.
"The Ninth Degree--the Sanctuary of the Gnosis--is synthetic. The prime duty of its members is to study and practise the theurgy and thaumaturgy of the grade; but in addition they must be prepared to act as direct representatives of the Supreme and Most Holy King, radiating his light upon the whole world. Yet, from the nature of their initiation, they must veil their glory in a cloud of darkness. They move unseen and unrecognized among the youngest of us, subtly and loftily leading us into the holy ineffable mysteries of the True Light."
Curious if Jehovah or יהוה are spelled out or mentioned. Is there a symbol for that name in these designs?
Typically in the Greek though not in the Hebrew form.
I would love to sit down and play a game of Go and have a conversation with you
The cryptic alphabet.