THE
Pentagrammatic Rose Cross
OF
HENRI KHUNRATH

By M. Charrot, disciple of Eliphas Lévi.

In "Le Voile d'Isis", 1914.




The true Rose Cross, traditional and prophetic is this one, intercalated with the plan of Thebes in red lines.

Its kabbalistic and prophetic number is 18, and, as everything is double in the march of events, it comprises the 36 talismanic decans of Solomon as well as the 72 divine names.

The great pentacle of Thebes includes the cross of Jesus Christ, the cross of Saint Peter and the cross of Saint Andrew where humanity is nailed.

The Rosicrucians, repositories of supreme wisdom and peaceful possessors of all the gifts of nature which they can dispose of as they please by commanding the most powerful spirits and geniuses by means of the light of true science.

Well, in the spirit of justice and truth, and unlike so-called scholars who call themselves of the venerable school of Freemasonry, but who are only children of one to two, knowing too much and not quite like those whom Pharaoh slew because they were the scourge of hierarchy and true freedom (Occult Question).

The Rose Croix have always respected the dominant revealed religion because they could no more be enemies of the Papacy than of the legitimate monarchy.

And if they sometimes conspired against popes and against kings, it was because they considered them personally as apostates of duty and supreme jousters of anarchy by imposing themselves as despots, for every despot is a monarch of anarchy, a crowned monster, a deified vice, like despotic anarchy, without God and without principle.

The Rose Cross, if not the Crossed Rose, represents the union of the dogmas of science because of Faith, in the same halo; for the rose is the graceful symbolism of pure Christian love and the cross is its stern symbolism. This is how the love, in Jesus iod-he-shin-vav-he spread on the cross of the world.

This marvelous and mysterious pentacle entitled the Pentagrammatic Rose Cross is a great and powerful talisman of life which contains all the attributions of Holy Kabbalah.

For we know that the most powerful talisman is in the permanent sacrifice of the divine and human Christ in whom is the spirit of life, truth and peace in the nature of Humanity.

This great perpetual sacrifice of Humanity governs and is governed by all the laws of reciprocity in the movement of the unique life.

The sacrifice that gives itself to this very power that attracts everything and can rise above everything.

Thus Christ-Humanity on the cross, if not Adam regenerated by pain, living in his body from the sweat of his brow and in his soul from the work of his intelligence and his aspirations.

This man of all men lives the life of all men in the four elementary animals, figured in the four letters of the incommunicable name of God iod-he-vav-he.

This man is the very light, the Verb or the Word by which God lives eternally in Nature which is his body.

Christ, God made man and man made God, or in other words, is the center or focus where the divine becomes human and the human divine in the splendors of creation whose raison d'être is pain, because no beauty is without its ugliness and no enjoyment without its pain.

Thus on this admirable pentacle summarizing, as a whole, the Kabbalah, described by the eminent kabbalist Henri Khunrath, in the middle of this beautiful and effective talisman, the son of God is represented there as the son of man who had to make sons of his works.

He is there on the cross, from which he radiates the radiance of light and life through his sacrifice.

Around this living cross is written in small characters Vere filius Dei eral ipse! "The true son of God in the righteous is God himself."

And in larger characters, in the same radiant wheel of light and life, around the cross on which is nailed the creator who became, who becomes and who will become flesh, there is written In hoc signo vinces; “By this sign, you will conquer”.

For whoever knows the value of sacrifice, who knows and can overcome himself can overcome obstacles and dominate the world, by making himself served by the elements.

Directly under the cross savior's feet there is a great winged dragon of iron, having the form of a shin fatally balancing the world under the laws of the genie of the cross. This Dragon of fire is the great magic agent of life and death who stands at the command of the righteous who know the value of sacrifice well understood, And, in the sense of the life of the senses, he is the beast of the angel as well as the Saviour's stool.

It is also the devouring fire of the powers from below, it feeds on the perpetual combustion of bodies and centralizes bodies to dissolve them. He is the death of souls, dilating and illuminating their faculties. In short, it is the astral dragon of perversities.

Around the circle radiated by the man God on the cross, blazing all the sublimities of the sacrifice of Adam deified in Jesus Christ, there are five compartments of splendid light radiating the wisdom of the Son of man in the intelligence of righteous at all times.

These five compartments or pentagrammatic divisions each contain one of the letters which compose the sublime, adorable Name, in truth, reality, reason, justice, iod-he-shin-vav-he IESCHOE is the unspeakable name of the absolute Being,
It is centralized from the shin which represents the light that God first created to sustain and balance the universe, under the emblem of three tongues of fire emerging from the mysterious unknown.

1° In principle and end this name begins with: Iod, which represents the spiritual essence of everything and from which letter all the letters of the sacred alphabet are formed.

2° Hey, polarized light and providential motherhood.

3° Vau, the repulsive attraction of opposites as well as the love of work which gives freedom and which unites the active with the passive.

4° Hey, the realization of the world and of the kingdom of God, the great human family, the great work.

These four relative forces of living Nature are thus governed in creation by the trinity of essence with which souls are clothed, which Holy Trinity balances and sustains all forms and forces of Nature.

Around the radiant sphere of divine flame where Christ-Humanity lies, and between the five triangular points of the star of the Magi where the five letters iod-he-shin-vav-he are, there are five boxes with each an inscription in Hebrew of the intellectual, moral, and physical conditions which the school of the righteous demands of the disciple of wisdom.

Here are the words that are around beginning at the top and going down to the right to go up to the left

1° (mem-lamed-kaph aleph-daleth-guimel-iod) The Lord King should not be confused with the

2. King idol of passions and God of beasts: for divine royalty is for the just king oaths in council.

3° (iod-he) where the Divinity is an abbreviation iod-he-vav-he and of Alleluia to God and to the Word of his eternal light.

4° (iod-he) Iaia = the Eternal, it is the most sublime name of God.

5° (aleph-lamed) Force of God, power, cyclical movement Alohim, the powers or the
6° Agents of nature; it is the plural of aleph-lamed-he in the power of God, Ghibbor who makes one strong and overcomes obstacles.

7° (aleph-lamed-vav-he) continuation of aleph-lamed, astral force of the magnetic currents, and iod-he-vav-he, God is in

8° (tsade-beth-aleph-vav-he) Tsebaoth or the Divinity governs the celestial years in aleph-lamed-he-iod-mem or Him, the Gods who said that there be and was light, light and strength .

9° The Alohim Tsebaoth, are the plural of the power of armies, angels, stars, celestial forces in nature. shin-daleth-iod is the very

10th power after iod-he-vav-he in tsade-beth-aleph the army of the currents of ideas and the showers of civilizing progress.

After this nomenclature in Hebrew around the five progressive faculties of the star which represents the Absolute Being and expressing approximately the hieroglyphic value of the five letters of the name of iod-he-shin-vav-he.

After that come the ten Sephirothic names, or in other words the name of each of the ten books of the law of the laws of the Creator in his creation.

Each of these names and numbers in the pentacle of Khunrath and which represents the pentacle of the Torah or the Law of the laws, each therefore is thus figured in a flame with three jets, because everything is based on the ternary of the universal balance , so that all numbers are a ternary.

Each sphere is surrounded therein by the mysterious clouds of symbolism.

aleph-tsade-lamed-iod-tav, The Aziluth in the black circle superior to the Sephiroth, which means at the center of the Sephiroth and which corresponds for the seers to the world of intuitive, perfect revelation and represented by the lid of the ark of Moses on the coffers, as celestial circle of the mysterious and superhuman ideal, inaccessible to the thought of man here below.

It is designated there only by aleph-he-iod-he, AIEIE. He Is Ain-Soph, in Greek, also means the inexpressible, the superhuman and ineffable absolute, without sex, the non-existent existence but by which life is in all the living.

For God's ideal of sublimity or sublime perfection is neither conceivable nor palpable to our thought.

But this supreme Unity cannot be one for the thought of man who can only begin to understand the incomprehensible in his Binary or in his Word which then becomes Unity for us in its entelechy.

The Sephiroth are one of the great divisions of the science of signs and signify notions by numbers.

They constitute the universal book of the law of transition of the Churches; they are always multiplied by themselves and the whole tree of the Sephiroth, tree of good and evil according to the Genesis of Moses, is found in each of its flowers and each of its fruits, this tree bearing ten fruits of which Adam ate the tenth.

The flaming triangle representing the sublime ideal of the divine Trinity which is at the top of the great pentacle contains the four letters of the sacred name where the lod is repeated 4 times, the Hé 3 times, the Vau, 2 and the second Hé 1 time, because that the number 4 is ten by the kabbalistic multiplication of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 which here represents the crown of the kingdom of nature and life.

Around the ten books of the Law of Laws or Sephiroth, there are the 22 great keys of the Tarot, of the great wheel of universal life, represented by the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

Here is the hieroglyphic description:

1° Aleph The individual spirit A by sacrifice L rises to the intelligence of the soul of nature F. The sign of the Aleph is represented by a man raising one hand to heaven and lowering the other to the earth to signify that the higher sense from above is the spirit directing the volatility of the great astral agent and the prime substance of all forms and all bodies, and that the outer is the expression of this same coagulated substance in material forms of the life of beings and things.

In addition, this cross shape gives us the idea to raise our thoughts and prayers to heaven to support us in our earthly necessities.

It is Unity, the principle of life in the synthesis of the spirit of the universal Adamic being; it is the living appendage of all forms of nature and life, as Adam is the origin of all the names of creation.

2° Beth. Wisdom, which comes to everything through the spirit of unity. It is the house or the school of universal science.

This letter has the form of a ray of light extending to all horizons and verticalizing to feed the earth which extends under it and forming, between spirit and matter, the subject of the highest physical studies and metaphysical.

It is the man and the woman producing the family under the care of the mother, the Church and the State which govern the peoples and make the nations, the good and the true which make the life of the just, evil and the scythes that cause the death of the wicked.

It is divine and human teaching that make, by means of Charity, the Éo-lise and its priesthood;

It is the house of God and of man between the two columns of the temple of nature;

Universal wisdom, in the archetype of the forms of life, in the science of the Elohim.

Philosophy and religion, constituting the two columns of the social world.

3° Ghimel - The form of this letter is that of childbirth, that of production,
It is the expression of the generative and creative spirit, the intermediary medium between the spiritual or internal Church and the official or external Church;

The Holy Spirit, comforter of the afflicted, intermediary between God and man;

The electro-spermatic ferment of all decomposition and recomposition, by the bud of new lives, in all the principles of beings and things;

The spirit of discernment which distinguishes apparent opposites, the perpetual birthing of nature;

The intelligence of all the lucidities of supreme Reason which leads the reciprocal alternatives of mirages between active light and passive light;

The supreme judgment of the three principles of divine unity, setting the y magnets of harmonious order in the analogies of the Universe.

4° Daleth. - Basically solid basis of the squaring of the elements by the immutable laws of nature.

These are the four living forms of humanity UNDER the mysterious form of the four animals.

They are the living forms of the realization of the types and archetypes of the astral soul of the worlds where the eternal word of God, their father, is incarnated, who is the same for all.

According to the order of the Sephiroth, it is the empire of sovereign goodness which binds the four cherubim of heaven and earth, always pursuing each other and never reaching each other;

Solid basis of social movements that are based on the reality of the double binary of the balance of the worlds.

It is the fund of the positivists, exclusive materialists, who see and understand only the down to earth of Epicurus in the midst of the universal spirit which vivifies them.

5° Hey. - Its form is that of a solar and providential ray which pours on the earth its beneficent rain of life like a grace which relieves the afflicted hearts.

His number, five, is that of the absolute Being who commands the four living forces as well as the four elementary currents of life, the kingdom of him who eternally creates the center of the cross, where everything is consummated. Always the living source of the universal tree of life and death, image of the savior of the world who gives life by dying, is at the center of the four elements, of the four rivers of living nature.

His genius is embodied in the sovereign prince of religion who offers peace on earth to men of good will and who is represented by the Pope.

6° Wao (vav-vav). - Its shape is that of a hook, a nail, a link. It is the bond or the hook of attachment, which binds and entangles in currents of ideas all the opinions and all the manners of seeing.

This link on the earth is electromagnetic between the elementary bodies; it is the sympathy between beings; it unites the divine triangle with the human triangle to make the macrocosm of Solomon or the world. It attracts man to woman and woman to man.

It is the fire of the earth, feeding on the fire of heaven. It is the man who makes himself free by work or a slave by laziness, depending on whether at his departure in life he has chosen good or evil, eternal wisdom or the folly of human stupidity, courage or cowardice, honor or debasement, chastity or lasciviousness.

7° Zain. It is the scepter of the victor over the elements or fatal forces, Adam's staff, Joseph's flowery rod, Moses' wand.

It is the altar, the dogma,

It is the will of the just who triumphs over all worldly vulgarities and makes himself served by the spirits of the elements, for he is victorious over himself and the four general currents of life by the three principles of divinity.

8° Heth. - It is the universal balance of justice, in the eternal order, consisting in the fact that, according to the formula of Hermes Trismegistus, what is above (spiritual interior) is like what is below (external material ) and vice versa.

It is universal Providence that provides everything for all beings and things on earth. It is the eternity of the stable movement of the laws of nature, the harmony of the various elements, in ascent on the assumption of the natural elements, thus operating the swinging of the pendulum of the clock of the centuries. It is the just rightness of active and passive, of action and reaction, communicating the impulse to the world to maintain eternal order there so that truth and peace may meet and embrace it to restore to man his divine and human serenity.

9° Teth. - Its form is that of the whirlwind of the stars, as well as that of the whirlwind of the great magic agent around the suns, which are all of the same substance, like all the bodies of creation,

This sign, whose approximate shape is that of a gleaming sun, is on the forehead of the wise initiate, whose intelligence knows the solar science of making itself useful to men, like the star of good and truth, for it is initiated into the true school of the righteous of all times.

On the other hand, this number nine is the foundation of the hierarchy in the State and in the Church.

It is also the prudence of the sage who hides in the shadow of his light under his cloak of discretion, and whose circle of active will is represented by the corbin of his pastoral staff.

10° Yod. - On the one hand, this tenth letter has the shape of a semicolon, as if to express the central point or the core of the circumferential movement of the light of life similar to that of an astral nebula which extends its circumference to let s to detach worlds from it.

On the other hand, it recalls the shape of the two segments of a circle, united and reversed in relation to each other, indicating the movement against the direction of the circulation of universal light, a movement similar to that of day and of the night which turn one into the other while marking their distinction.

It is also the universal circulation of life which gravitates in infinite space.

This wheel carries harmoniously across the immensity the concentric procession of the stars around their common hearth of fire, light and life. And the Holy Spirit eternally distributes there the life of souls in all the degrees of the spheres of the universal hierarchy.

11° Caph or Kaph. - This letter is shaped like an open hand for picking up and holding.

It is the strength of the Elohim between the two great pillars of the eternal wisdom of God; it is the perpetual struggle of seemingly contrary forces in nature, the struggle of the active and the passive, of more and less, of fullness and emptiness, of greed and satiety, which establishes the balance of the worlds as the balance of social forces.

Because, without the struggle of apparent opposites, movement would stop and consequently life would die out, for lack of resistance and movement.

12° Lamed. - This letter has the shape of a sickle, instrument of Chronos the Chronocrate who harvests his week when the savior of worlds and men holds his works.

Because this letter expresses the secular hour of the worlds marching towards civilization, when everything is consummated after the duodenal cycle, hour of sacrifice, evoking death to renew the empire of civilization.

The sickle therefore expresses the completed cycle, the maturity of the harvest, after the twelve weeks, as 12 times 150 also make 1800 every three weeks, of which 4 times three weeks make 72, or 12 weeks. That who reads understands and who understands be silent because then the regimes will be reversed.

It is the universal cycle of accomplished evolutions producing the movement of the agents of creation and of the great work of God and of man who has conquered himself for his dignity.

It is the New Year's Day of the eternities, the perpetual sacrifice of human life, of good for evil and evil for good, a sacrifice which Christianity calls charity and without which charity the world cannot be saved from the clutches of evil. selfishness which is the Moloch of the human race.

13° Mem - It is the expressive and ideal form of a soul [conjunction] which rises from matter, leaving its astral appendage [the moon] or its plastic mediator, at the death of the body.

It is the regeneration or stripping of the old man for the establishment of the new man, the spiritual man, the spirit or interior man, when the disciple of wisdom dies in all that is not not wisdom, in order to live only in the spiritual world, thus leaving the exclusive egoism of the world to live only in the disinterestedness of oneself, for God and for one's neighbour.

It is also the expression of the divine soul, Providence of a humanity that has reached the end of its progress,

It is also the departure of the geniuses of the dying worlds, the hour when the Messiahs return to their primitive origin after their civilizing peregrinations.
14° Noun - It is the shape of a cup which pours its content as if to mix and remix the fluid-ferments in the perpetual combustion of bodies.

It is the mixture of all the elements in one and of one in all, of the great astral agent in all and of all in him, except for the soul of humanity and of the man who governs the elements by providing for the needs of all beings.

As number 14, it is the double victory of ideas over forms and forms over ideas, the perpetual triumph of Heaven over Earth and of the elementary matter of bodies over ideas,

It is the fiery kiss of civilizations which supplant each other, marking the end of one and the beginning of the other. It is the meeting of truth and peace, of mercy and justice which give each other the embrace of divine and human unity, of Church and State understanding each other as indispensable. each other and uniting or marrying, forgetting their past mistakes.

15° Samech - It is the form of the astral serpent, tempter of Eve in human weakness which allows itself to be dominated.

It is the diabolical and legionary spirit of the wicked which works and which is itself the furnace engulfing lies, error, night, ignorance and crime, which is at the same time the master and despot of the world. , the wizarding agent
It is the great agent of hallucinations and dreams, the light of the virtual forms of generation, the placenta of the worlds and of the beings who inhabit them, the dragon who bears the shadows of death as well as the lights of life, the great instrument of formation and destruction of everything in nature.

It is this agent, Azoth, who is figured in the figure of the scapegoat of the Sabbath, the bearer of typhoon terrors and despairs in the chasm of the grave of the wicked.

But, in the opposite direction, it is also the Goat sacrificed to erase the sins of the world, which brings hope and consolation to the afflicted as well as to the hearts of mothers near a cradle.

Finally, it is the very humble and very obedient servant of the just of all times who command and make themselves obeyed by this prowler, the ambient vehicle of instincts and passions, because the Adam or the regenerated man does not allow himself to be drawn into the abyss of the passions of the world.

16° Hain - It is approximately the shape of the optic nerve and the eye is the emblem of reason, of intelligence.

And the intelligence of supreme Reason directs divine justice in the fire of heaven which overthrows the too lofty summits and strikes down the unbridled pride of the too powerful on earth.

This form is still that of the minister of the thunderstruck tower of Babel. He falls, legs in the air, at the bottom of the tower; and this must make it understood that, to establish an orthodox power, the power of the hierarchy of the angels of heaven must be taken as a foundation.

But it is also the expression of the fall of intelligences led astray by their too great. sensual and autocratic tendency.

Thus the lack of balance in the extremes attracts the opposite extremes, like a backlash.

17° Pi or Phi. - It is the lamp of light, of truth, of peace and of life in the divine, immortal soul which waters and cultivates the garden of natural intelligence in man of goodwill.

For there is the eternal springtime of pure hearts which contemplate the harmonious splendors of creation where the sublime genius of the Great Architect of the Universe shines.

18° Tadi or Tsade. - It is the return of the beginning which ends and of the end which begins.

It is dusk pursuing the dawn of a new cycle, the end of a world and the beginning of the resulting one, according to the transcendental law of the succession of all things.

It is the disappointment of a civilization which no longer sees anything but the dead letter in place of the spirit which vivifies, the magic of priestly piety of the priests giving way to the anti-priesthood or to the black and impious magic of the wizards; it is the symbolism of the official Church conceived in the material sense.

19° Coph, two iods circumventing each other simultaneously as in a gleaming sun, being one with the sun of the reason for being, the spirit of intelligence, the star principle of spiritual and natural life.

It is the Son, word of the Father, splendor of life and truth, manifesting God in the spirit of united action, Home of the lights of wisdom, abode of the just and citadel of the pure-hearted wise.

It is the college or the school of adepts initiated into the wisdom of God, who live in the science of the balance of divine forces and taste the eternal peace of the living.

The number 19 is that of the star which enlightens the minds, vivifies the innocent or the pure hearts, represented by the children who frolic in the garden of humanity when peace is made between the empires and between the Church. and the state, between husband and wife.

20° Resch. - It is the celestial light where everything is written from eternity, which shines on the earth at times of spiritual renewal of ideas and mores these are the innovations of perpetual progress advancing by conversions and returns; it is eternal rebirth, renewal of the forms of humanity by the divine spirit, consummalum est of the great sacrifice.

And it is the hour when the disciple of wisdom renews himself, by receiving the baptism of blood or of the light of life, to die to the profane world and live only in the thoughts and deeds of the just. It is the awakening of the Word of truth, light and peace which was dead or misunderstood in the coffin of symbolism taken literally.

Such is also the awakening of the dead of a Church which falls, for lack of true light, to rise again and live again in a spirit of blessing and forgiveness, by the revelation or re-veiling of the true Christ of truth and life.

It is the regenerating spirit of hearts desiccated by the selfishness of all the passions, selfishness which is the prince of this world and of the too positivist sciences, excluding any providential spirit. It is the spirit of symbolism which explains and demonstrates the secrets of God, of Love and of Nature, hidden under the letter of the Scriptures while the eternal truths are forgotten which must be found at the end of time, because the twentieth key relates to the twentieth century.

21° Shin. - A shape of the V represents three teeth with their roots and three strokes of a hammer or mallet, another represents three tongues of fire, like those of the Holy Spirit descending on the apostles in the Cenacle, like those received by the intelligence of the disciple of wisdom after his regeneration.

It is the figurative representation of the incipient, intelligent and universal balance of the great magical agent of nature, the most impalpable of all bodies and which penetrates the bodies of which it is the unique substance.

It is the elemental fire which constantly tends to polarize all that is unbalanced as well as to redo all that is counterfeit, to recast all the badly succeeded moulds, works of misguided intelligences. For this agent sets in motion all the molecular particles of ether and of bodies, animate or not. It is the triplicity of acts of life in the creation of worlds and their inhabitants.

It is, on the other hand, the great whirlwind of the stars one in the vicinity of the other, as well as the whirlwind of hallucinatory light whose triple vibration of mirages drives mad the man who loves himself too much to the detriment of others and makes wise the man who knows how to use it for the good of all.

This letter, which counts as twenty second of the sacred alphabet, is without number by itself, because it is considered as zero, 0, as the circle of light and life, outside of life and light of life.

It represents the cultivation of the fields of uncultivated nature in man, the world of the wanderers, led haphazardly by ignorance, error and crime, who are like madmen, their saddlebags loaded with all their foolishness.

22° Tov. - It is the All completed from infinity to finite and from finite to infinity.

It is the world having come to its proposed end, its final progress, its full maturity, as the soul of humanity rises to another proposed end.

Its form is that of the ray of Lights and life which feeds the globe and which inspires the intelligences.