[UA] Culture of The OU

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I guess you made your point.  For the edification of
all, 

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

is a magic square.  In a way, it's THE magic square, a
symbolic talisman referenced in mainstream occult
writings (now there's an oxymoron) from McGregor's
Book of Abra-Melin to, as is mentioned below, 4th
Century churches.  The words are latin and appear, by
most accounts, to mean something like "Slowpoke Arepo
keeps the wheels turning" or "at work" or something. 
Suggestions abound that Arepo is another name for God
or an Angel or a Daemon, ad nauseum.  It is also
suggested that this was a major seal of the templars
and it certainly counted as evidence against them in
their trail.  The symbol can be found at Malta as well
as some more modern churches.  "Holy Blood, Holy
Grail" certainly links it to the Templars and to the
Merovingian Monarchs (the bloodline of Christ, per the
book's authors) through them.

It does not have to be written as a square.  It has
been found inscribed on the outer edges of circular
amulets and on long, thin strips of paper.  Of course,
if you DO write it as a square, the two TENETs form a
cross.  Tenet means "he holds" (So I guess I should
say that the words mean "Arepo, he who slows, holds
the wheels from working.")

Maybe Arepo isn't God after all.
--- Will <will_ml at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Brian Nisbet <lir at lspace.org> a écrit :
> > 
> > Ok, I'm definitely missing something here, but
> it's interesting none the
> > less.  I've come across that particular group of
> words twice before.  One
> > version is 4th century Christian (you can form a
> cruciform Pater Noster
> > with the letters and have an a and o over for
> alpha and omega) and the
> > other is a pre-celtic lust/love charm.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand you here. Does it make
> more sense if I write it
> down like that or are we at a terminal stage of
> incommunicability?
> 
> SATOR
> AREPO
> TENET
> OPERA
> ROTAS
> 
> Will
> 
>
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