The word sigil means a seal or device (like a personal seal, a printer’s mark, etc.), but the word today usually denotes a magical sigil, a glyph used in ritual or sympathetic magick as a focus, or for summoning angels, demons, or spirits. Sigils as the signature of ‘mark’ of a spirit began in antiquity and reached a peak of popularity during the Renaissance.
The seal or signature of an angel, spirit, or demon was thought to contain the essence of that being’s name, and give one power to summon that entity. These sigils were often thought to be concealed. In a common example, the sigil of a planetary spirit could be discovered in the planetary kamea, or magick square. The detailed center of the Golden Dawn Cross is such a pattern, as are John Dee’s Enochian tables. A modern method involves reducing alphabetical characters into a single glyph.
Pronunciation: Sij-ill • (noun)
|Sigil of Goetic Spirit||Sigil of the Archangel Michael||Sigil of the intelligence of Mercury|
Sigils from Levi’s “Transcendental Magic.”