The image that you see above is what
is called the Rose Cross Lamen. As stated in the 
document, Sigils are a very important part of “invocation” in ALL magick.
This particular image was taken from the pages of “The Golden Dawn”. Written
by Israel Regardie, who was basically the secretary, (Which means that
he was privy to all information.) in what is now the “modern incarnation”
of this Rosecrusian order. I might add that while he was the “secretary”,
the prominent Adepts or “heavyweights” of the organization where still
in power, I.e. S.L. MacGregor Mathers and Alister Crowley. Mathers, Crowley
and the other adepts main focus of study was what we now call “Hyper-dimensional
Physics”. Or, “the existence of hyperspatial realities… That, through information
transfer between dimensions, are the literal “foundation substrate” maintaining
the reality of everything in this dimension.” (See
for a more complete description of “Hyper-dimensional Physics”.) These
theories have their basis in ancient history, as in the study of the Merkabbah,
as well as in “recent history”. After Crowley split with Mathers and left
the Golden Dawn, he formed the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis, which is Latin
for Order of the Temple of the Orient, or Oriental Templars.) One of Crowley’s
best and brightest students in the O.T.O. was none other than Jack Parsons
(One of the founders of the American Space Program and the J.P.L. the jet
propulsion laboratory. Or as it has also been called “The Jack Parsons
Laboratory.”) Anyway as usual I digress, this is not an essay on the history
of Western Occultism, nor is it my personal soap-box........................
their exaltations. The circle of twelve petals alludes to the twelve signs
of the Zodiac. There is also a correlation drawn between this and the written
Hebrew language, and not just because this particular “Lamen” is made of
Hebrew letters. The numbers III, VII and XII are the very “foundation”
of the Hebrew written language, as the three refers to the “Mother” letters,
the seven to the letters that have a “singular” sound, and the twelve refers
to the letters that have “two, or dual sounds”. All in all encompassing
the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Above and around the letters on
the rose’s petals are the arms of the cross. The upper arm is attributed
to the element of Air. The right arm is attributed to the element of Water.
The left arm to the element of Fire. The bottom arm is “dual” in nature
for it is attributed to both the planets and the element of Earth. On each
of the floriated ends of the arms of the cross one can see the symbols
of the three alchemical principles of nature, Sulfur, Mercury and Salt.
All of which are written in a different order, depending on the element
or arm they rest upon. As stated in the
document sigils are a way to call upon an entity in a “linear language”
if you will. Sigils are symbols connected to a set of ideas or to the letters
of an alphabet. The drawing of sigils is a method through which deities
or spirits may be summoned to awareness and controlled. The term Sigil
is derived from the Latin “Sigilum” meaning seal. The sigil itself does
not call forth the entity, but serves as a physical “focus”, through which
the “mage” can achieve the desired state of mind necessary to elicit a
“change in conformity with his will”. (Or work the desired magick as it
were.) One example of a sigil that all “Occultists” are familiar with is
the Pentacle or five-pointed star. Sigils can also be derived from using
a combination of numerology and magick squares. The term “magick squares”
refers to the magickal squares of the seven planets, which was a very popular
method of invocation in Medieval Europe and well through the renaissance
period. See a book called “The Three Books of Occult Philosophy” written
by the Elizabethan mage Henry Cornelius Agrippa in the fifteenth century,
for a complete description of magickal squares and many other very interesting
“insights” into the use of Magick, herbs and the Kabbalah. The examples
that I have given thus far however have been Hebrew in nature so we will
stick with this theme. Let us take the Archangel Uriel as an example. The
spelling of his name (From right to left.) in the Hebrew language is thus;
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