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| Keywords: Pentagrams from La Clef de la Magie Noire.jpg Two pentagrams taken from the 1897 book La Clef de la Magie Noire by Stanislas de Guaita The upper Pentacle is white including the Pentagrammaton at the vertices of the pentagram i e an incorrect attempt to derive a version of the Hebrew name of Jesus by adding the letter shin ש in the middle of the Tetragrammaton divine name yod-he-waw-he יהוה The lower Pentacle is black with the Hebrew letters for Leviathan at the vertices of the pentagram Note that the idea that a pentagram with one point down is bad in contrast to a pentagram with one point up which is good basically originated with mid-19th century French occultist Eliphas Levi Anton LaVey the founder of the Church of Satan based his Sigil of Baphomet on this image a goat face in a five-pointed star one point down with Leviathan written in Hebrew in two concentric circles surrounding the pentagram For an image with the top pentacle only see Image Pentagram with one point up de Guaita jpg or en Image Pentagrammaton jpg ; for an image with the bottom pentacle only see Image Pentagram with one point down de Guaita jpg PD-old-70-1923 Sigil of Baphomet Pentagrammaton Stanislas de Guaita Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
