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ating from the early middle ages, is the six-pointed star. Not just a Jewish symbol, deriving from the period in which Jewish alchemists held and studied the Loculus in Languedoc, France, but an important and universal mystical sign over the ages.

The Sri-Yantra in India stands for the complete interpenetration of the sexes, and in Tantric belief the triangles also represent Shiva (male) and Shakti (female) energies combining with form and matter. In short, the hexagram points at the mystery of creation....

Inside the hexagram is the ankh was an early crucifix symbol in the Coptic (primarily Egyptian) church, thus acknowledging the link to previous religions and beliefs of Egypt, in which the symbol represented the hope of future life and resurrection. This and the Chi-Rho are the first known symbols to adorn the Loculus, carved in on the original wood and subsequently inlaid with silver.

he script and seal of mystics left various codes found on the surface, comprised of consonants in different alphabets as was typically found in the form of wheels or circles. The use of consonants and numbers to produce many different meanings for one series of letters or numerals is derived from the book of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah.

Many alchemists were devoted Kabbalists. And in fact, the area of South Western France, Languedoc, where some of our story unfolds, was a stronghold both of alchemy and Jewish Kabbalah studies.

uring the Dark Ages and up to the first crusade, the Loculus was believed to be held by Byzantine Greeks, a time in which alchemy went underground because it was repressed by the church.

When the Loculus was in the keeping of the freemasons' Templar Lodge of Great Britain, their symbols were also inlaid in silver and gold on the surface.

The lore of freemasons dates back to Ancient Egypt and also to the Temple of Solomon, hence their links both to alchemists (who trace their science back to the time of the Pharaohs) and the Knights Templar.

Sir Isaac Newton was certainly an alchemist, and probably a freemason. Did he and the Templars aspire to work the Great Work with the Loculus?