From: dshomshak@aol.com (DShomshak)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.storyteller
Subject: Re: [Mage] Sphere Sigils
Date: 27 Dec 1995 07:24:52 -0500
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In article <4a9kro$q0t@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, wwgames@aol.com (WWGames)
writes:

>
>Anyone know the origins of the sigils for the Spheres in Mage? . . . Was
>someone borrowing from someone else, or do these symbols rest in real
>world 'occult' lore? What about the other Spheres?
>------------
>I believe that most of them are old Alchemical symbol, so chances ae that
>you'll see them in various places.
>
>

Last week I found the complete set, all on one page.  They are all symbols
for alchemical processes or products.  The meanings are:
Correspondence:    Amalgam
Entropy:                To Rot
Forces:                 To Boil
Life:                      To Compose
Matter:                  Amalgamation
Mind:                    To Solve [dissolve]
Prime:                   Essence
Spirit:                    Fumes
Time:                    Powder

The citation is:
Lehner, Ernst.  Symbols, Signs and Signets (World Publishing Co.,
Cleveland:  1950)

This book's chapter on alchemical symbolism has lots of other neat
symbols, too.


Dean Shomshak