throughout human life.”
33rd Degree Freemasons Albert G. Mackey and Charles T. McClenachan quoted from Codex Magica by Texe Marrs
The hexagram is featured within and on the outside of many Masonic temples as a decoration. The hexagram, one of the world’s most ancient symbols, may have been found within the structures of King Solomon’s temple, from which Freemasons are inspired in their philosophies and studies.
Other uses
A six-point interlocking triangles has been used for thousands of years as an indication a sword was made, and “proved,” in the Damascus area of the Middle East. Still today, it is a required “proved” mark on all official UK and U.S. military swords though the blades themselves no longer come from the Middle East.
In Unicode, the “Star of David” symbol is U+2721 ().
There is a plant named Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum multiflorum) in the lily family.
In alchemy, the two triangles represent the reconciliation of the opposites of fire and water. Non-Jewish Kabbalah (also called Christian or Hermetic Kabbalah) interprets[citation needed] the hexagram to mean the divine union of male and female energy, where the male is represented by the upper triangle and the female by the lower one. Moreover, it derives four triangular symbols from it (two triangles crossed like a capital letter A and two uncrossed) to represent the four elements: water, fire, air, and earth. This use of the symbol was used as an important plot point in Dan Brown’s popular novel The Da Vinci Code and the Da Vinci Code film cites this as the origin of the star.
In southern Germany the hexagram can be found as part of tavern anchors. It is symbol for the tapping of beer and sign of the brewer’s guild. In German