This is a pantheistic and magical portrayal of the absolute. The torch between the two horns represents the rectifying intelligence of the trinity; the ram's head is a synthesis of the features of dog, bull and donkey and symbolizes the responsibility of matter alone and, through the bodies, the expiation of the sins of the body. The hands are human to show the sacredness of work. They point upward and downward, making the esoteric sign adjuring the initiates to secrecy, and indicate two crescent moons a white one above, a black one below, to clarify the relationship of good to evil and of mercy to justice. The lower part of the body is veiled, indicating the mystery of the universal procreation, which is hinted at only by the symbol of the Hermes' staff. The ram's belly is scaly and must be seen as green; the semicircle above must be blue; the feathers, reaching up to the breast, are variously coloured. The ram has women's breasts and thus the only signs of mankind it bears are those of maternity and work i.e. the signs of redemption. On its brow, between the horns and below the torch, it bears the sign of the macrocosm or pentagram with its point facing upward as symbol of human intelligence; by its position under the torch, and through the flames of the torch, this symbollizes the divine revelation. This multivalent figure is seated on a cube which is set either on a sphere only or a sphere and a stool. This drawing shows only the sphere so as not to appear too complicated.

By Eliphas Levi (Eliphas Levi, whose real name was Alphonse Louis Constant, was born in Paris in 1810. He was originally destined for the priesthood, but was excluded from this profession because of his idiosyncratic views on the church. He devoted a long time to the study of magic. More than two hundered works carry his name clearly and nearly all of the occult movements have “borrowed” from his works, mostly without mentioning his name. One of the most famous and erudite occultists of all time, Levi died in Paris in 1875