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“For the Jews (Book of Formation) from the element of realization, the same that has
primordial water comes fire. "Fire from the animated, since the night of the times,
water "(Esh Mi-Maym), from which God demigods of every religion. The six-pointed
created the Throne of Glory (Merkavà) and star represents the seal of the Davidic
the Angels. succession and the emblem of a sacred
The star of David depicts the intertwining brood, that of Rex Deus, the god-kings,
between the elements of water and fire; In conceived in the sacred ritual of hierogamy to
fact, the water has as a symbol a triangle be instructed in the Secret Initiatic Art,
with the vertex downwards ( ), while the∇ within the Temples. 4
focus is that of a triangle with the upward Jacopo da Varazze himself seems to define Mary Magdalene through three
vertex (Δ). From the Union of the triangle qualities: "Sea Bitter",
with the tip at the top “Fire” with the "illuminator", "enlightened", being able to glimpse in these three definitions,
corresponding turn with the tip at the the phases of the spiritual path: penance, inner contemplation, Heavenly
bottom (water) comes the symbol called the glory.
"Seal of Solomon"
According to the Golden Legend the boat that carried Mary Magdalene and
her followers from Palestine to the coasts of France was devoid of armaments
and sails: By donating with this image the symbolic expression of a spiritual
journey as the proceeding in the path of knowledge requires a superior force,
able to unite the matter (boat) to the Spirit (wind), by some identify as desire
(Eros) and others as "vital breath" or Holy Spirit (Ruach).5
Even in this legendary tale, Mary Magdalene
comes to assume the symbolic value of the
initiatory soul of the world, of the "divine
breath", capable of uniting what is at the
bottom with what is at the top guarding in
itself the Initiatory message, that the enemies
The water element is the feminine way of the
Sephirotic Tree of the Kabbalah, while that of of truth. They wanted to sink it into the
the fire represents the male counterpart,
making the Seal of Solomon assume the Sea of Oblivion.
symbolic essence of the necessary
equilibrium of opposites, in the harmony of In the same account by Jacopo da Varazze it is
the Sacred Union. referred to Mary Magdalene as the betrothed
The triangle with the bottom vertex is also
symbolic image of the uterus, called in the bride of John the Evangelist, when Jesus
Jewish world Kali or Racham, or cup or enticed him away from the wedding6. Some
goblet (V), while the fertilizing male
counterpart has its symbolic reference in the researchers instead identify this figure with
triangle with the top vertex (Δ). A symbol
that, in the form of a goblet and sword, Lazarus, the beloved by Jesus and raised by the
became the emblem of the Knights of the Death
Grail. 7.
The star of David then evokes the hierogamy, These traits of Mary Magdalene completely
the sacred copulation, as an
