THE KEY AS A SYMBOL

Under the poet's tongue lies the key of the treasury.

- Nizami

 "That round thing (uroboros-Agathodaimon) was in possesion of the magical key which unlocked the closed doors of matter. As it is said in the Timaeus, only the demiurge, the perfect being, is capable of dissolving the tetraktys, the embrace of the four elements." 

C.G. Jung, para. 92-94. Psychology and Religion.  

The Maiden caught me in the Wild
Where I was dancing merrily;
She put me into her Cabinet
And Lock'd me up with a Golden Key.

- The Resources of William Blake from Manas magazine

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lion key bee

 

Later, the Ark was lost in a battle with the Syrians, but the men of Israel were led to it by the roar of a lion, which had guarded it with the golden key in its mouth. The Treasurer's Key thus has the words "in arc leonis verbum inveni" ("in the lion's mouth I found the word"). Still later, Solomon planned to build his Temple on Mount Moriah. Under it's Holy of Holies, a secret vault was built which could only be accessed via eight other underground vaults. The Ark was placed in this vault, under the "ninth arch," and upon a twisted "Pillar of Beauty" made from white marble. Solomon also began to build a "Temple of Justice," and he selected the site of Enoch's original Temple. Gibulum, Joabert, and Stolkin were chosen to survey and clear the ground, but they made an interesting discovery....

 

Scottish Rites Masonry

 

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“Thus mystical exegesis, this new revelation imparted to the mystic, has the character of a key. The key itself may be lost, but an immense desire to look for it remains alive. In a day when such mystical impulses seem to have dwindled to the vanishing point they still retain an enormous force in the books of Franz Kafka. And the same situation prevailed seventeen centuries ago among the Talmudic mystics, one of whom left us an impressive formulation of it. In his commentary on the Psalms, Origen quotes a 'Hebrew' scholar, presumably a member of the Rabbinic Academy in Caesarea, as saying that the Holy Scriptures are like a large house with many, many rooms, and that outside each door lies a key—but it is not the right one. To find the right keys that will open the doors — that is the great and arduous task.1 This story, dating from the height of the Talmudic era, may give an idea of Kafka's deep roots in the tradition of Jewish mysticism. The rabbi whose metaphor so impressed Origen 2 still possessed

 

1 Origen, Selecta in Psalmos (on Psalm I), In Migne, Patrologia Graeca, XII, 1080. This important passage is stressed by P. I. Baer in his Hebrew article in Zion, XXI (1956). p. 16.

 

2 Origen calls this metaphor 'very ingenious."

 

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 KEY,   The, Strong, Pythagorean Basilica, p. 92.

B 5.- Amphora, hoop, tympanon, and temple key (?). The key has a symbolic and magical value both in Greek and Roman religion. It is among the insignia of the priesthood (cf. ..Greek...of Iphigenia as priestess of Artemis in Eur. Iph. Taur. 131) and a procession of the key (doubtless. that of the underworld) was a ceremonial of importance. 75a

75. On the magical property of the key, see Hubert in Saglio, art. ' magia,' p. 1508; ibid., Vallois, art. 'serra,' p. 247.

Strong-Norah Jolliffer, Eugene. The stuccoes of the underground: Basilica near the Porta Maggiore, Journal of Hellenistic Studies VOL. XLIV. [44], 1924, p.103 et seqq.;See both: Barb, A.A. Diva Matrix, and: Ritner, Robert, "A Uterine Amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 43 (1984) pp. 209-221.

the key at the mouth of the Uterus.

Hecate and the Key - pp. 40-41.

KEY

In Maier: Enter the Walled Garden

Epigram text, linked to Mercury

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"Masonry.—The degree of Provost and Judge is based upon Arcanum XVII. The duality of truth is symbolized in this degree by two keys. One is the key to the small ebony box containing the plans for building the temple, that is, the key to understanding the Divine Plan. The other is the key to the ivory box containing the temple keys, that is, the laws which govern the universe and the progress of the soul. The ivory box and the ebony box clearly indicate that both positive keys and negative keys are required, and that man and woman complement and complete each other. " C.C.Zain, The Sacred Tarot.

             Alciati was a member of the Cavallieri del Sole - (Chevaliers of the Sun) - or Knights of the Sun in Pavia. The motto on the Key was: "It shuts and opens for its children..." Every member wore the key around his neck.

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KEY. The Key is Twofold, a Silver Key and Moist Key and a Golden and Dry Key. Silver = Moist = Moon = Dionysos = Tarot.

Gold = Dry = Sun = Apollo = Horus = Astrology

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LOST WORD - see 'Community', para 58.

The Lost Word is the same as the Masonic Key.

"This word is as a key to the lock." i.e. it is a 'word key'. May be the same as DVM of Reuchlin. See KEY. 

Janus and the KEY 

   "In religious ceremonies, his name was always invoked the first, because he presides over all gates and avenues, and it is through him only that prayers can reach the immortal gods. From that circumstance, he often appears with a key in his right hand, and a rod in his left."

            Lempriere.

 KEY - In Aion. See Aion.doc - Vermaseren.

            The Key in Palazzo Schiffanoia.

            The Key in Hecate.