Triangle
A figure formed by three lines intersecting by twos in three points, and so forming three angles. (WD)
The equilateral triangle with the apex uppermost is one of the signs of the White Brotherhood. (LHR I, p 398)
The triangle was sacred and used as a religious sign in the Far East ages before Pythagoras proclaimed it to be the first of the geometrical figures, as well as the most mysterious. It is found on pyramid and obelisk, and is pregnant with occult meaning, as are, in fact, all triangles. Thus the pentagram is the triple triangle—the six-pointed being the hexalp ha. The way a triangle points determines its meaning. If upwards, it means the male element and divine fire; downwards, the female and the waters of matter; upright, but with a bar across the top, air and astral light; downwards, with a bar—the earth or gross matter. When a Greek Christian priest in blessing holds his two fingers and thumb together, he simply makes the magic sign—by the power of the triangle or “trinity”. (TG)
The white and black interlaced triangles were used by the Theosophical Society as the seal, and in The Mahatma Letters, Master K.H. explains some of the great mystery inherent in such a symbol: “… the double triangle viewed by the Jewish Kabalists as Solomon’s Seal, is, as many of you doubtless know the Sri-antara of the archaic Aryan Temple, the ‘mystery of mysteries’, a geometrical synthesis of the whole occult doctrine. The two interlaced triangles are the Buddhagums of Creation. They contain the ‘squaring of the circle’, the ‘philosophers stone’, the great problems of Life and Death, and the Mystery of Evil. The chela who can explain this sign from every one of its aspects — is virtually an adept.”
(ML, p 345)
see also Solomon’s Seal
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