Liber Sanctum Arcanum Symbola Novus Aeon Da’ath, 2025

This seal was created for the forthcoming tarot deck Aeon of Da’ath, a system grounded in classical Hermetic sigils and symbolic frameworks. Each card layers multiple occult languages, intended to support both magical practice and intuitive forms of divination.

The outer inscription reads Liber Sanctum Arcanum Symbola Novus Aeon Da’ath, interpreted here as The Sacred Book of Arcane Mysteries, Symbols of the New Aeon, Da’ath. The term “Book” is understood as Story, acknowledging tarot’s capacity to generate symbolic narratives that guide the practitioner inward, facilitating self examination and spiritual development.

Da’ath, the hidden sephirot on the Tree of Life, signifies Knowledge. Traditionally elusive, it is positioned here as the bridge between the Tree of Life and its shadow root, the Qliphoth. As esoteric knowledge becomes increasingly accessible, Da’ath emerges as a point of passage and integration. This system reflects that shift, operating within what is described as the Age of Da’ath, an era defined by the expansion and synthesis of spiritual knowledge.

The structure of the seal was developed with deliberate precision, as each layer carries specific symbolic function. Its foundation is the heptagram. Seven is unique among classical divisors of the circle in that it does not divide 360 degrees into a whole number. While numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 produce clean harmonic divisions, seven yields an endlessly repeating decimal. In Hermetic symbolism, this irregularity situates seven outside conventional harmonic order, associating the heptagram with mystery, liminality, and non linear currents. The number recurs throughout esoteric systems in the seven Archangels, seven Planetary Intelligences, seven Planetary Spirits, seven elements, seven alchemical stages, seven metals, and seven rays of light.

At the apex of the heptagram, and at its lower left and right points, appear the three Hebrew Mother Letters, Aleph, Mem, and Shin, in conjunction with the Four Worlds of Kabbalah, Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiah.

The next concentric ring contains the twenty two Hebrew letters, forming the 231 Gates and representing the fundamental permutations and connective paths of the Tree of Life. Within this lies the triangle of Prima Materia, composed of Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt, the three prime substances from which the four elements emerge. Enclosed within the triangle is a secondary heptagram representing the seven classical planets, central to astrology, alchemy, and Hermetic correspondence.

At the center of the seal rests the Solomonic Seal of Mercury, rendered as a pentagram with its corresponding Hebrew letters. Here it functions as the balancing intelligence, integrating all surrounding principles into a unified and coherent system.

Each pyramid and heptagram within the seal is oriented upward, mirroring the movement from the material toward the spiritual. The seal marks the completion of a project initiated in January 2022, the result of a sustained and focused period of study and synthesis. Explore more from this series →