Figure 1: The symbol of the Sun God Shamash, being a form of the eight-pointed star, was widely employed all throughout Mesopotamia.
Figure 2: These four pairs of deities, male and female, were the personification of the powerful primeval deities; the first manifestation of the Sacred Ogdoad.
Figure 3: Egyptian writing of “Kemenu, the City of the Eight.”
Figure 4: The Egyptian name of “Thoth.”
Figure 5: The symbolic presence of Thoth in his baboon shape as it is in the Mojave Desert, southwest USA.
Figure 6: Egyptian writings of Thoth as the “Lord of Divine Words.”
Figure 7: Thoth being named the Thrice Great (Trismegistos).
Figure 8: The Greek God Hermes as the Messenger of the Gods, carrying the Ogdoadic Light.
Figure 9: Pythagoras was the first famous figure to travel to Egypt to learn the secrets of this ancient religious and magical tradition.
Figure 10: Plato, the founder of the famous school the “Academy,” which endured for over ten centuries.
Figure 11: Iamblichus of Chalcis, Head of the Theurgic tradition.
Figure 12: Apamea, the place where Iamblichus developed his famous Theurgic school.
Figure 13: The tombs in Palmyra; Iamblichus’s tomb is on the right.
Figure 14: Sculpture on the tomb of Iamblichus in Palmyra (Syria).
Figure 15: The Emperor Julian, who worked vigorously to restore the greatness and values of Paganism.
Figure 16: A page excerpt from the ritual of the “Brothers of the Luminous Ring.”
Figure 17: A ritual chandelier used by the “Brothers of the Luminous Ring,” and the correspondences of the Lights. (Excerpt from the Ritual Book.)
Figure 18: In the eighteenth century a “Societas Rotae Fulgentis,” or “Society of the Burning Wheel,” appeared as part of the Aurum Solis Tradition.
Figure 19: The three groups: Theurgists, Hermetists, and Neoplatonicians.
Figure 20: Thoth revealed the sacred books, later entitled the Hermetica.
Figure 21: From its beginnings in Sumer and Egypt, this system was structured according to a system of four elements, seven planets, the Aether (sometimes fifth element), and the zodiac crowned by the Mysterious Ogdoad.
Figure 22: The planets and their sidereal cycles.
Figure 23: The quaternary structure known as the Divine Tetractys.
Figure 24: The five Platonic solids.
Figure 25: A copy of a Gallo-Roman artifact representing one of the Platonic solids.
Figure 26: The pentagram, the elements, and the Aether.
Figure 27: Astrological signs on one of the traditional representations of a zodiacal chart.
Figure 28: The Celestial Ladder and the Bodies of Light.
Figure 29: The occult structure of a human being according to the Theurgic tradition.
Figure 30: The occult structure of a human being in accordance with the five principles of the temenos.
Figure 31: The structure of the temenos and the Greek temple.
Figure 32: The Body—Soma.
Figure 33: The Bodies of Light “surrounding” the Body.
Figure 34: The pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn from the points of intersection of a pentagon.
Figure 35: The pentagram and the elements.
Figure 36: Pentagram of “activation/invocation.”
Figure 37: Pentagram of “deactivation/blessing.”
Figure 38: The wheel of the year according to the Aurum Solis Tradition. Each year the calendar is updated in real time and provided on the Aurum Solis website.
Figure 39: Activation of Fire.
Figure 40: Deactivation of Fire.
Figure 41: Activation of Air.
Figure 42: Deactivation of Air.
Figure 43: Activation of Water.
Figure 44: Deactivation of Water.
Figure 45: Activation of Earth.
Figure 46: Deactivation of Earth.
Figure 47: Activation of Air.
Figure 48: Presigillum of Air.
Figure 49: Activation of Fire.
Figure 50: Presigillum of Fire.
Figure 51: Activation of Water.
Figure 52: Presigillum of Water.
Figure 53: Activation of Earth.
Figure 54: Presigillum of Earth.
Figure 55: Ouranos.
Figure 56: Eros.
Figure 57: Pontos.
Figure 58: Gaia.
Figure 59: The Roman calendar of 354, showing the two first days of the week, beginning with Saturday (Saturn).
Figure 60: Small bronze boat from the Roman Epoch, discovered in France, shows the traditional sequence of the days, beginning with Kronos (on the right of the boat).
Figure 61: Roman octagonal golden bracelet found in Syria with the divinities of the week in their original sequence.
Figure 62: Sequence of the divinities on the Syrian bracelet. As you can see, the first divinity is Tyche (fate-luck).
Figure 63: The planetary days and the cycle of the Moon.
Figure 64: The wheel of the magical hours.
Figure 65: The sequence of the seven planets according to the most famous ancient Greek astronomers (circle) and the seven days of the week (heptagram).
Figure 66: Saturn—Kronos.
Figure 67: Activation of Water.
Figure 68: Presigillum of Water.
Figure 69: Activation of Earth.
Figure 70: Presigillum of Earth.
Figure 71: Activation of Air.
Figure 72: Presigillum of Air.
Figure 73: Activation of Fire.
Figure 74: Presigillum of Fire.
Figure 75: The encircled cross.
Figure 76: Sun—Helios.
Figure 77: Moon—Selene.
Figure 78: Mars—Ares.
Figure 79: Mercury—Hermes.
Figure 80: Jupiter—Zeus.
Figure 81: Venus—Aphrodite.
Figure 82: A temenos.
Figure 83: Official seal of the Aurum Solis.
Figure 84: Official symbol of the Ecclesia Ogdoadica.
Figure 85: QR code of the timeline.