Blood of the Pure - Chapter One - Sulfur

Sulfur

A symbol for the alchemical element Sulfur, 

which is analogous to the Human Soul. 

Alchemically, sulfur has the qualities of masculine, hot and dry- combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist).

The pair were considered the parents of all metals.

Alchemical drawings often portray Sulfur as the sun. (In some views, sulfur and salt are the parents of Mercury).

The symbol of sulfur is often used as an identifying symbol by many Satanists.

This glyph is often incorrectly referred to as the "pontifical cross of Satan" by tract writers, due to its adoption as an emblem of Satanism by Anton LeVey.

Blood of the Pure - Preface - The Pentagram

Pentagram

(pentacle, pentangle, pentalpha)

In alchemical texts, the four elements (in Latin):

Flatus

Ignus

Aqua

Terra

superseded by Light, or Divine Energy

illustrated the process of creation

Fiat Lux, or, "Let there be Light."

In Wiccan/Pagan lore, the pentagram symbolizes the five elements- 

Earth

Air

Water

Fire

Spirit.

The Wiccan emblematic pentagram faces point upward to symbolize the triumph of Spirit over Matter; the Satanic pentagram is transposed, point downwards, to symbolize Earthly Gratification, or the triumph of the Individual over Dissolution.

Some Wiccan grades also utilize a reversed pentacle, although for different purposes.