The five-pointed star.
The five-pointed star.
He reads the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry: U.S. Freemasons have, by tacit consent, used the pentagram as the Five Points of Fellowship. The outline, he says, is the pentalpha of Pythagoras.
Then the magic quote on the same slide: the pentalpha is called the holy and mysterious pentagram, the star of the Magians, and by the number five it is said to have command over evil spirits.
Veith’s line: we walk around carrying a star, and it is really something else.
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