Papa Legba, King Solomon - Old/New World Magic

This is a veve of Papa Legba, the Loa of the crossroads, bringer of sacred knowledge to men and women, teacher of how to read the world. Opener of the paths between this world and the worlds above.

You'll be, mm-mm-mm-mm, magnet for love / You'll feel, hmm, light in your body
This symbole is from the Clavicula Salomonis, (Sepher Mafteah Shelomoh). To summon old world spirits.

One is drawn with flour on the floor, the other is printed in a book.
One is made to open things, so it turns to the four directions. Has no border. The other is made to protect. To be worn on the body. One was made by African slaves and the other by Jewish and Christian scholars.


But the principle is the same, look into the symbole and let your mind open to the divine. What the symbole represent. As Gershom Sholam said, "The symbole is what can not be replaced by words. It produces a variety of meaning in the beholder's mind that language can never aspire to." If words are but labels, magic is a good way to peel the labels off the beer bottle* of experince.

* People don't drink beer, they drink an image. Once you start drinking beer and not an image you might have more fun.