Hand of the Mysteries
The alchemical symbol of apotheosis, the transformation of man into god, is traditionally represented by an image of a hand with other symbols, including skulls, crowns, stars, fish, keys, lanterns, astrological symbols and the all-seeing eye.
The Hand of the Mysteries goes by many other names, including the Hand of the Master Mason, Hand of the Philosopher, and the Emblematic Hand of Mysteries.
It is said that the hand holds the keys to divinity, and is used as an invitation to discover the “great secrets.”
Loving the book..find myself “researching”(google)..lol..every couple of pages ..and sometimes more (hence i’m only still in the 12th chapter.But as to the hand..i don’t know what greater mysteriy they might mean or what “knowledge ” they had that is really secret anymore..lol..but it looks like a symbolic spiritual quest ..pretty simple if you think of it,” the key is for opening the path, the lantern for traversing the darkness of ingnorance, the sun represents earthly enlightenment, and the star is for when you have finailly reached the stage of universal awareness.”.of entanglement, and the power of conscienceness..the crown speaks for… Read more »
This plays a bit-part near the start of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol!
Just started reading it, cant put it down. I have seen how everything is connected in an intense DNT trip. This shit is real.
So I’m unaware of some of the symbols but I know the silver key is the first of the two keys if creation the gold key is for manifesting and the silver key us for order. The sun is in reference to the solar religion Ie Christianity. The sun is also in reference to the tarot card. The eyes are the all seeing eye. Other than that I’m unaware. I’m pretty new to alchemy.
Hi Sandra. Totally agree with your logic. Just stumbled on this page….what book are you referring to? Sounds like a great read. Thank you .
Totally got engrosed so just curiose to find out uf any such thung ever existed……. I need to get back and find out what happened nd i hope this book is real and not fiction
yeah…so Brownian…
You all talk to much