Dictionary of Occult – Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils
GABRIEL
Mag. As this Archangel is ruler of the MOON, almost any of the sigils given for this ‘planet’ might be used to symbolise him.
TRITHEMIUS 1503
BRAHE 1582
SCHEIBLE 1848
See also GRAPHIEL, SPHERE OF THE MOON and SPIRIT OF AQUARIUS
GAMIGIN
Demon – GAMIGIN « the horse lord »
GARN
Demon – GARN « the king tempter »
GARNET
Alc. FRANCKLYN 1627
SHELTON 17C
SOMMERHOFF 1701
GESSMANN 1906
SCHNEIDER 1962
GEMINI
Ast. The most common modern sigil for the zodiacal sign of the ‘Twins’, also used indiscriminately for the constellation of the same name, is given by HYGINUS 1482, derived ultimately from the ancient manuscript tradition (see NEUGEBAUER 1959 below) :
The sigil is said by AGRIPPA 1510 to be based on the idea of ’embracing’, though most modern explanations are based on the idea of communication.
Ancient Egyptian (demotic) BERLIN 42AD
STOBART 2C
SPIEGELBERG 1911
Graeco-Byzantine, c500AD NEUGEBAUER 1959
WALTER 1970 gives a Greek variant which was also used for ‘lead’ :
ASTRONOMICAL 1400
JANUA 14C
LEUPOLDI 14C
MANSIONIBUS 1482
SCHYKAGEL 1500
ASTROLOGICAL 15C
BONATTI 15c
QUADRANTIS 15C
LAMBECIUS 1500
BLUNDEVILLE 1602
ASTROLOGY 17C
MAGICI 17C
TABLE 17C
TRACTS 17C
VALLEMONT 1707
SOMMERHOFF 1701
BOUCHE-LECLERCQ 1899
WIRTH 1927
NEROMAN 1537
WILCZKOWSKI 1947
LUEDY 1928 records a related siqil from the Syrian astrological tradition :
LEOPOLDI 14C gives a siyil for the constellation Gemini :
See also MYSTERIOUS PLANETS and SPIRIT OF GEMINI
GENIUS OF EARTH
Occ . AGRIPPA 1531
GENIUS OF FIRE
Occ AGRIPPA 1531
GENIUS OF WATER
Occ. AGRIPPA 1531
GENUINE SULPHUR
Occ. GESSMANN 1906 gives the mediaeval sigils :
See also SULPHUR
GEOMANTIC SEAL – Sceau Geomantique
GEOMANTIC SIGILS
Geo. The sixteen figures of the geomantic tradition have been accorded very many variant terms – for example, the figure AMISSTO hay been expressed in the forms giver, by AGRIPPA 1531
TABULAE 15C
and SCHMUCTEN 1642 :
See each of the entries under the names given below for the associate ‘geomantic characters’ :
ALBUS
FORTUNE MINOR
AMISSIO
LOLITIA
AQUISITIO
POPULUS
CAPUT
PUELLA
CANCER
PUER
CAUDA
RUBEUS
CONJUNCTIO
TRISTITIA
FORTUNA MAJOR
VIA
GIMEL
Occ. The third Letter of the Hebrew alphabet for which very many variants and derivative forms are given within the tradition of secret-alphabets (see HEBRAIC SCRIPT), notably those collected by BARTOLOZZI 1675 :
WIRTH 1927 equals iiSniel with the Tarot arcanum of the EMPRESS, and thus with the zodiacal Virgo. WIRTH 1927 traces the graphic etymology of the Hebrew form from vestigial drawings relating to early alphabets
and links the form with the idea of ‘camel’ , though the historical connexion with the Egyptian hieroglyphic pictorial form would suggesL the idea of ‘officialdom’ (see JENSEN 1970) .
GINGER
Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701
GLASS
Alc. ONOMASTICUM 1574
VALENTINE 1671
ALCHEMICAL 17C
SHELTON 17C
SICNA 17C
DIDEROT 1763
GESSMANN 1906
SHEPHERD 1971
LUEDY 1928 records a sigil from the Syrian alchemical tradition
BERTHELOT 1885 records an ancient Greek form :
GESSMANN 1906 records three sigils for glass drop :
See also the notes regarding the application of this sigil under VITRUM
GLUE
Alc. GESSMANN 1906
See also LUTUM SAPIENTIAE
GOD
Occ. A sigil derived from the Boehmiar. philosophy, recorded by LAW 1772, ‘comprehends all whatever God and Eternity is’ :
but see EVE OF ETERNITY. CHASSANT 1884 gives several mediaeval abbreviations for the Latin Deus :
KOCH 1930 gives three sigils which are derived from the theosophical image for ONE
and the ancient image for the TRINITY
KIRCHER 1655
See also DEITY.
GOLD
Alc. Since In the alchemical and astrological tradition gold is synonymous with SUN, all the sigils used Tor this ‘planet’ may be used to denote the Metal, and indeed may denote both at the same time. The following sigils are specifically given for gold, but as the sigils given under the entry for SUN indicate, they and related variants are used tor the solar body.
BERTHELOT 1885 records for the metal the ancient Greek astrological sigil for the Sun :
ALCHYMIA 1563
WORLIDGE 1651
CROLLIUS 1612
SHELTON 17C
SOMMERHOFF 1701
DIDEROT 1763
GESSMANM 1906
GOLD ALLOY
Alc. BERTHELOT 1385 records an ancient Greek sigil :
GOLD DUST
Alc. GESSMANN 1906
GOLD FILINGS
Alc BERTHEL0T 1885 records an ancient Greek sigil :
GOLD FOIL
Alc. DIDEROT 1763
GESSMANN 1906
GOLD LEAF
Alc. SCHNEIDER 1962
BERTHELOT 1885 records a few sigils from the Greek alchemical tradition :
GOLD LITHARGE
Alc. GESSMANN 1906
GOLD PAINT
Alc. SOMMERHOFF 1701
SCHNEIDER 1962
But see also AURUM MUSICUM
GOLD SAFFRON
Alc. GESSMANN 1906
GOLD SOLDER
Alc. BERTHELOT 1885 records two sigils from ancient Greek alchemical texts :
GOLD SPIRIT See SPIRIT OF GOLD
GOVERNORS SEAL – Sceau Gouverneurs
VÉNUS
SATURNE
JUPITER
LUNE
MARS
MERCURE
SOLEIL
JUPITER
LUNE
MARS
MERCURE
SATURNE
SOLEIL
GRACHIEL
Demon – GRACHIEL « archdemon of the dying times »
GRADE
Alc. GESSMANN 1906 records mediaeval abbreviations and sigils restricted to the verbal use :
GRADES OF FIRE
Alc. There are four different grades, each linked to the four elements, for which ALCHEMY 1650 gives the following sigils :
AIR
EARTH
FIRE
WATER
These are usually termed (respectively) , the aerial, cineris, igne aperto and balneum mariae.
SOMMERHOFF 1701 gives the following sigila for the four grades :
SHELTON 17C gives a simple series :
while GESSMANN 1906 records a (mediaeval) sigil which stands for the general idea of- ‘grades of fire’ :
This last sigil may be adapted in various combinations with the standard sigils of the elements, so that for example :
may be used to indicate igno aperto.
LUEDY 1928 records the sigils for the four grades In a simple progression :
SOMMERHOFF 1701 lists other systems, one of 8 and one of 9 grades, but provides no related sigils.
GRAIN
Alc. A measure of weight, one twentieth of the SCRUPULUM,
DIDEROT 1763
GESSMANN 1906
GRAPHIEL
Mag. Sigil for spirit (in cabbalistic lore an alternative name for GABRIEL) given by HEYDON 1664, to represent letter G in secret writing called ‘the Alphabet of Angels and Genii’ :
GRATE
Alc. Mediaeval sigil recorded by GESSMANN 1906 and apparently restricted to veroal use :
GRAVEL BATH
Alc. GESSMANN 1906 gives several mediaeval variants based apparently on the idea of arena, or sand :
GREATER WORLD
Occ. WELLING 1735 reinterprets the modern sigil for the SUN as an image of the lesser world (the point, which represents the human being), standing within the ambient of the Greater World (the circle which represents the Macrocosm) , deriving
from 
To some extent he is following the symbolic forms of DEE 1564, as set out in his study of the MONAD, but WELLING 1735 reasons that the inner nature of iaan is potential gold (the sigil for uhe Sun is also of course the sigil for GOLD) , and is eternal and indestructibl.,
DEE 1564 gives the sigil, later called the circulus simplex in the Rosicrucian literature, to represent the Macrocosm and as one of the three basic forms which link the invisible and celestial spiritual world (that is, the Greater World) with the visible world, the open
product of Nature :
GREEK
Alc. BERTHELOT 1885 records a short -form from a collection of Greek alchenical texts :
GREEN VITRIOL
Alc. DIDEROT 1763
See also VITRIOL,
GUM
Alc. Generally the sigils would appear to relate to the gum arabic but ether resin gums may also be signified.
ALCHYMIA 1563
FRANCKLYN 1627
ALCHEMICAI. 17C
SHELTON 17C
SOMMERHOFF 1701
DIDEROT 1763
GESSMANN 1906 records the following as general sigils for ‘gum’
with tho e following specifically listed as for ‘gum arabic’ :
SCHNEIDER 1962 gives the sigil
for ‘gum arabic’.
See also GLUE and LUTUM SAPIENTIAE
GYPSUM
Alc. SIGNA 17C
DRACULUM
Alchemical Iconography 