THE HEXAGRAM

OF MAGICK
By David Cherubim
(Frater Aurora Aureae).
Copyright 1992 e.v.
All rights reserved.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
The Hexagram represents the formula and accomplishment of the Great Work in both the material and
spiritual worlds. It is composed of the symbols for Fire and Water. It is synonymous with the symbol of
the Rose and Cross, the Ankh (Crux Ansata), the Sun and Moon Conjoined, and the Cross in the
Circle. It represents the union of the two opposites in Nature, male and female, light and darkness,
activity and passivity, and all other opposites that constitute creation.
The Hexagram is a geometrical symbol of the Sun. The Sun is an external symbol of the One Reality
or the One Self that is manifest in all things. One of the most significant of all realizations for the Adept
is that s/he is the Sun made manifest in the flesh, an incarnation of the Lord of the Solar System. The
Hexagram is the Sign of such an Adept.
From one point of view, the upright triangle of the Hexagram represents the Holy Guardian Angel, our
inner Self, and the inverted triangle represents WoMan, our human self. These two triangles united
represent what is called in Magick "the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy
Guardian Angel." The Holy Guardian Angel is the "star" of every man and every woman, that is, their
inner celestial nature as opposed to their purely human self. To unite one's human consciousness with
that Angel is to awaken the Solar Consciousness and to realize oneself in the Sun of Light and Life.
From another point of view the upright triangle represents WoMan ascending into Godhead through
the power of Aspiration, and the inverted triangle represents God descending into WoMan through the
power of Inspiration. These two triangles interlaced indicate the completion of the Great Work; they
represent a perfect balance of the human and divine Will, a complete synthesis and harmony of all
that is terrestrial and celestial. The Hexagram is also a geometrical symbol of Lapis Philosophorum,
the Stone of the Philosophers, which is the product of Sol and Luna and/or Fire and Water. It is
therefore a symbol of what is termed in Magick, "the Mystery of Mysteries" and "the Secret of
Secrets." It is said that by the application of this Great Secret the Alchemist can transmute all base
metals into the perfect material gold of the Sun, which is the first and final product of the mineral
kingdom. Gold is the perfect metal of all metals, the most exalted form of the mineral kingdom. It is a
material symbol of a spiritual reality that is also symbolized in Heaven by the Great Sun of Light. All
other metals are said to be imperfections of gold, and they are striving in Nature to become the perfect
gold. Thus the Hexagram represents that which brings Nature to perfection.

In the Hexagram are not only contained the mysteries of Fire and Water, but also of Air and Earth.
Notice that when you combine the symbols for Fire and Water to produce the grand symbol of the
Hexagram, you also make the symbols for Air and Earth, which are the same as the symbols for Fire
and Water but with a cross bar or line in each triangle which is formed in the Hexagram.
Each line of the Hexagram or Hexalpha indicates the number 111, since a single line of the Hexagram
contains three equal parts, each of which may be represented by the number 1, so that the number
111 can symbolize every line. There are six lines in all, so that 111 x 6 = 666, the Most Holy Number of
the Sun. Each angle of the Hexagram is 60 degrees. 60 is the number of the Hebrew letter Samekh,
which is the letter of the Holy Guardian Angel. Six angles of 60 degrees each equal 360 degrees, and
360 is the number of the Hebrew letter Shin spelled in full. Shin is the letter of the Spirit of the Sun and
it is esoterically composed of three Hebrew Vavs. Vav is the sixth letter of the Hebrew Alphabet, so
that three Vavs indicate the number 666. 666 is the number of Sorath (SVRTh), the Spirit of the Sun. It
is also the number of Shemesh Yahweh (ShMSh IHVH), the Sun of Tetragrammaton.
The Hexagram of Magick further represents the operation of the Seven Planets under the presidency
of the Sephiroth and of the seven-lettered name ARARITA. ARARITA is a Notariqon. In other words, it
is a word which is composed of seven letters formed from the initials of a Hebrew sentence meaning:
"One is His Beginning: One is His Individuality: His Permutation is One."
Concerning the word ARARITA, Aleister Crowley wrote: "The use of this Name and Formula is to
equate and identify every idea with its opposite; thus being released from the obsession of thinking
any one of them as "true" (and therefore binding); one can withdraw oneself from the whole sphere of
the Ruach."
The seven letters of ARARITA are linked to the six points of the Hexagram and its center. Thus these
seven letters also correspond with certain Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life and their
corresponding Planets, since the seven Planets and their corresponding Sephiroth are linked to the
points of the Hexagram. Such are the following:

LETTER

PLANET

SEPHIRA

Saturn

Binah (3)

Jupiter

Chesed (4)

Mars

Geburah (5)

Sol

Tiphareth (6)

Venus

Netzach (7)

Mercury

Hod (8)

Luna

Yesod (9)

The attribution of the Planets to the points of the Hexagram is derived from superimposing the
Hexagram on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. (For the sake of convenience, the Sun and Moon are also
called Planets). Thus the Path between the Sephiroth called Chesed and Geburah corresponds with
the base of the inverted triangle, while the Path between the Sephiroth called Netzach and Hod
corresponds with the base of the upright triangle. The uppermost point of the Hexagram corresponds
to Daath, the invisible Sephira, and the lowest point corresponds to Yesod, the ninth Sephira.

The Planets (including Pluto, Uranus and Neptune) are linked with certain Sephiroth on the Qabalistic
Tree of Life. Pluto corresponds with Kether (1); Uranus corresponds with Chokmah (2); Saturn
corresponds with Binah (3); Jupiter corresponds with Chesed (4); Mars corresponds with Geburah (5);
the Sun corresponds with Tiphareth (6); Venus corresponds with Netzach (7); Mercury corresponds
with Hod (8); and the Moon corresponds with Yesod (9). Neptune corresponds with Daath, the socalled eleventh Sephira, which is located in the Abyss below Chokmah and Binah on the Tree of Life.
It was the original location of Malkuth, the tenth Sephira, before the so-called Fall of Man. It is said that
Daath was formed out of the conjunction of Chokmah and Binah.
Since the Hexagram cannot embrace any of the Supernal Sephiroth to correspond with any of its
points, it is said that these Supernals called Kether, Chokmah and Binah are concentrated in the
uppermost point of the Hexagram at the place of Daath. Crowley informs us that Daath is in another
dimension to the other Sephiroth, and it forms the Apex of a Pyramid of which the three Supernal
Sephiroth form the three basal angles.

Love is the law, love under will.

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