A symbol for the alchemical element Sulfur, (Brimstone) which is spiritually analogous to the human soul. Alchemically, sulfur has the qualities of masculine, hot and dry. Combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist), the pair were considered the parents of all metals.
Alchemical drawings often portray Sulfur as the sun. (In some views, sulfur and salt are the parents of Mercury) The symbol of sulfur is often used as an identifying symbol by Satanists, due to sulphur’s historical asociation with the devil.
This glyph is often referred to incorrectly as the “pontifical cross of Satan” by Christian tract writers, due to its adoption as an emblem of Satanism by Anton LaVey in the 1960s. The emblem has no history as a symbol of Satanism outside of LaVey’s usage, and the attribution is most likely a product of anti-Catholic sentiment, as it is often compared in this context to the Catholic Pontifical Cross. A more common symbol for sulfur is a fire triangle surmounting a cross of earth:
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Hell ya King Diamond ;P It took me 14 years after I thought about getting a tattoo to finally get one. We were drunk and I let my roommate do it. His first subject. He never finished it, and it took me several months before I finally figured out that it was possibly never meant to be finished. The top half is filled in dark, the bottom light. A type of balance, which is what I strife to understand. Plus in alchemy, sulphur is read as one of the three primes: Sulfur (fluid connection between the High and the Low). Even though the actual symbol apparently is a triangle on top of a cross, LaVey had a reason to adopt it, and it fits.
Hello,
Browsing through your website was great.
I am a medical doctor from Baroda. It is here that a Guru – Shrimaan Nrusinhacharyaji has set up his Ashram.
Based upon the book Mata the Magician by Isabella Ingalese, one of His disciples has put forth a work titled YOGINIKUMARI, lit. a female Yogic adept wherein chapters devoted to alchemy are preset,
For experiment purposes I am trying to get my hands on 1 kg red sulphur. Could you suggest me some genuine sellers?
Yours truly,
Dr. Anurag Gumashta
00971 567 328598
Thought for the day: Thank God, it could have been worse!
You sir, should not be practicing medicine.
this cross was put on graves of socalled vampires.they were affraid they would stand up from the grave and wondering arround the earth.so they put this cross on the grave so they would stay down.as if that would help this superstitious idiocy.
LONG LIVE KING DIAMOND!!!