With
the Rose
Cross Lamen, the rayed cross is one of the main symbols of the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn, an eighteenth century occult society. The
symbol is a kabbalistic emblem (as well as a reversed seal of Jupiter).
The upper cross represents the inner order of the organization, as well
as the three supernal sefiroth of the Tree
of life; the lower triangle represents the outer order, and the three
central sefiroth. The rising sun within the triangle represents the sefirot
Tiphareth, resurrection and rebirth, shnining in the underworld. The
imagery employed was inspired by renaissance-era symbolism of the blood of
Christ entering Golgotha ("the place of the skull"), representing
the "Harrowing of Hell" and the redemption of the dead.
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