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post Jan 24 2005, 05:15 PM
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I'm just wondering if anyone knows the history of the eight-pointed star?


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post Mar 27 2005, 01:23 PM
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I believe the 8-pointed chaos star was derived from Peter Carroll's description of 5 dimensional space. The up-down cross represents the three spatial dimensions, the upper right to lower left represents time while the upper left to lower right represents shadow time.
You can read more about Carroll's shadow-time in the first little bit of Liber Kaos.
Carroll writes "Magicians without some prior knowledge of physics and mathematics might find parts of Principia Magica challenging". I'd also like to add that magicians with a fair amount of the current knowledge of theoretical physics might find parts of Principia Magica to be hogwash.


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Zahaqiel   History of the Eight-Pointed Star of Chaos?   Jan 24 2005, 05:15 PM
Crom Cruach   Do you mean the Star of Ishtar or the so-called 8 ...   Mar 22 2005, 08:05 AM
Zahaqiel   8 pointed star of chaos. However, I wouldn't ...   Mar 22 2005, 09:12 AM
Crom Cruach   The Star of Ischtar This is one of the ideograms f...   Mar 22 2005, 12:36 PM
Zahaqiel   Interesting - so where does the eight-pointed star...   Mar 22 2005, 01:03 PM
Crom Cruach   8 is a powerfull and mythical number, there are ma...   Mar 22 2005, 05:34 PM
Rakesh   <-   Mar 27 2005, 05:50 PM
Zahaqiel   Rakesh, I don't 'spose we can get that at ...   Mar 27 2005, 06:12 PM
Rakesh   [color=red]EDITED [color=olive]Rakesh, please read...   Mar 28 2005, 04:32 PM
Zahaqiel   Now that is interesting... unfortunately, I can on...   Mar 28 2005, 06:00 PM
Rakesh   *casts a shy look in Kinjo's general direction...   Mar 29 2005, 01:29 PM
Zahaqiel   Well in the circle itself, Michael, Gabriel and Ra...   Mar 29 2005, 02:39 PM
Rakesh   "Agfa" is probably "Agla" Zaha...   Mar 29 2005, 04:43 PM
Pride_is_a_virtue   An Article of interest regarding the kaosphere. ht...   Mar 29 2005, 07:45 PM
HenrySpencer   It was Peter Carroll who applied the Chaosphere to...   Mar 30 2005, 01:34 AM
Zahaqiel   That's odd... since Games Workshop has been us...   Mar 30 2005, 02:01 AM
HenrySpencer   If you are commenting on my post you seem to be m...   Mar 30 2005, 02:25 AM
Radiant Star   Rakesh, I am not seeing your star picture as a cha...   Mar 30 2005, 02:58 AM
HenrySpencer   I personally don't think that the circle that ...   Mar 30 2005, 04:03 AM
Rakesh   There's an eight rayed star in it, so relevanc...   Mar 30 2005, 08:50 AM
Zahaqiel   Yeah, we all know where that comes from. ;) Tha...   Mar 30 2005, 11:26 AM
HenrySpencer   Rakesh, I was not trying to imply that the circle ...   Mar 30 2005, 01:54 PM
mediocracy   My understanding is that the chaosphere/chaos star...   Mar 31 2005, 12:32 PM
Sicksicksicks   I first saw it in a Moorcock novel in the mid 70s ...   Mar 27 2006, 04:45 PM
Aunt Clair   From : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic ...   Nov 8 2006, 08:29 AM
ClockKeeper   Lots of interesting stuff on Chaos Magic on the wi...   Nov 8 2006, 05:28 PM
Laguz   The chaos star has its origins in Michael moorcock...   Feb 21 2011, 10:16 AM

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