Who invented the Unicursal Hexagram? Here is an old one
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I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
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I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
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I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
The unicursal hexagram is discussed in the GD 2=9 knowledge lecture "Polygons and Polygrams"
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I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
Some research shows that the balcony by McVicar-Anderson, the one based entirely on the Unicursal Hexagram design as shown in the photograph, dates from 1886.
It therefore predates the founding of the Golden Dawn by two years.
It may well be that the UC is a symbol used in some branch of Freemsonry - I would suspect that Mr Anderson was in the SRIS, a very Golden-Dawn-like society. -
I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
BTW, SRIS is not "a very Golden-Dawn-like society." Have you seen their rituals? There are utterly different in style, content, formula - no relationship one can discern at all. (The 8° could be said to resemble the G.D. 5=6, in that they're both based on the Fama.) The work required is entirely intellectual and quite different, mostly writing an original essay on the grade. The members are different in type and character because they are all male (all Master Masons). The purposes are quite different.
About the only similarities are the grade names (not even their style of numbering) and some overlap in membership.
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I always thought that The Great Beast invented the unicursal hexagram. But the other day I popped into a building near where I live that dates from the 1880s. It is the Headquarters of the London Scottish Regiment on Horseferry Road.
'Twas designed by John McVicar Anderson who, being a Scot and an architect, must be odds-on to have been a Freemason as well.If you go to this link
www.alternativevenues.co.uk/content/westminster
and click on the picture in the bottom set of 5 marked "Hall". It is identical to the Crowley version.How's about that, then?
@Zafero Berr said
"Some research shows that the balcony by McVicar-Anderson, the one based entirely on the Unicursal Hexagram design as shown in the photograph, dates from 1886.
It therefore predates the founding of the Golden Dawn by two years.
It may well be that the UC is a symbol used in some branch of Freemsonry - I would suspect that Mr Anderson was in the SRIS, a very Golden-Dawn-like society."I was just pointing out a source where Crowley would have absolutely learned of a Unicursal Hexagram.
If we're talking about the oldest examples available of the Unicursal Hexagram, see image 3 in the link, from 1588.
unurthed.com/2009/06/21/brunos-mathesi
http://images.unurthed.com/Bruno-Figura-Amoris-307.jpg