The “Star of David” –
Is It Pagan?
What is the origin of the “Star of David”? Was it really the ancient
symbol
on David’s shield? Did it originate with
king Solomon?
What is the meaning of
two interlaced triangles, one pointed upward
and
one pointed down? Where did this ancient
symbol REALLY
originate? Why does this symbol figure so prominently
in the modern
nation
of
provocative
answers to these questions!
William
F. Dankenbring
A Jewish Orthodox internet website tells us: “The Magen David (shield of David, or as it is more commonly known, the Star of David) is the symbol most commonly associated with Judaism today, but it is actually a relatively new Jewish symbol. It is supposed to represent the shape of King David’s shield (or perhaps the emblem on it), but there is really no support for that claim in any early rabbinic literature. In fact, the symbol is so rare in early Jewish literature and artwork that art dealers suspect forgery if they find the symbol in early works.
“Scholars such as Franz
Rosenzweig have attributed deep theological significance to the symbol. For
example, some note that the top triangle strives upward, toward G-d, while the
lower triangle strives downward, toward the real world. Some note that the
intertwining makes the triangles inseparable, like the Jewish people. Some say that the three sides represent the
three types of Jews: Kohanin, Levites
and
The site continues: “The symbol of intertwined equilateral
triangles is a common one in the
In the 17th century, it became a popular practice to put Magen Davids on the outside of Jewish synagogues to identify them as Jewish houses of worship in much the same way that a cross identified a Christian house of worship.
The so-called “Star of David”
gained popularity as a symbol of Judaism when it was adopted as the emblem of
the Zionist movement in 1897, but the symbol continued to be very controversial
for many years. When the modern state of
Today, of course, the “Star of
David” is a universally recognized symbol of Jewry. It appears on the flag of
the state of
The Hexagram
The so-called “Star of David” is
essentially a “hexagram,” nothing more, nothing less. There is no Biblical or Jewish evidence that
traces this ancient occult symbol with king David of Israel. However, there is evidence that it was used
by king Solomon, after he turned to pagan gods and the occult, late in his
life, causing God to become very angry with him .
A Masonic book called The Second
Mile, an Eastern Star book, reveals that the “six pointed star is a very
ancient symbol, and one of the most powerful.”
The hexagram is used in magic, witchcraft, sorcery and occultism and the
casting of zodiacal horoscopes by astrologers.
“It was considered to posses mysterious powers,” says A Concise
Cyclopaedia of Freemasonry.
The six pointed star is used as a
“stand-by for magicians and alchemists.
The sorcerers believed it represented the footprints of a special kind
of DEMON called a trud and used it in ceremonies both to call up demons and to
keep them away” (O. J. Graham, The Six Pointed Star, New Puritan Library,
1988, p.35).
Says Masonic and Occult Symbols
Illustrated, by Dr. Cathy Burns, “The Hexagram is formed by united the
Water Triangle with the Fire Triangle, which is the Six-pointed Sart, Star of
David, Solomon’s Seal, etc. When the two
triangles (the ‘Water Triangle’ and the ‘Fire Triangle’) are joined together
into one symbol, it forms a six pointed star known as a double triangle,
hexagram, Crest of Solomon, star of the microcosm and the Shield of David,
among other names. It
is even called the ‘talisman of Saturn’” (p.38).
Occultists use it as a “stand-by for
magicians and alchemists. The sorcerers
believed it represented the footprint of a special kind of DEMON called a trud
and used it for ceremonies both to call up demons and to keep them away”
(ibid.).
Bill Schnoebelen, a former Satanist,
tells us, “To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke
Satan.” In fact, the word “hex” -- as to
put a “hex” or “curse” on people -- comes from this word.
The hexagram also has a sexual
connotation. It represents sexual
union. The triangle pointed downward is
a female symbol and the triangle pointed upward is the male symbol; when they
are interlaced it represents coitus, or sexual union of the active and passive
forces in nature. A former witch
reveals, “When the male triangle penetrates the female triangle it produced the
six pointed crest of Solomon or hexagram, the most wicked symbol in witchcraft”
(Burns, ibid., p.39).
In fact, the hexagram was also used
by the ancient Hindus in the worship of their divine “Trinity” – Brahma, Vishnu
and Shiva – as the “unity” of three gods in one. J. S. M. Ward adds that it is “strictly the
sign of Trimurti, the Three in One, typifying the creative, preservative and
destructive natures of the Deity.”
If you examine the so-called “Star
of David,” or hexagram, closely, you will discover something astonishing. It has six points, forms six equilateral
triangles, and in its interior forms a six sided hexagon -- thus it
reveals the number of Satan the devil, or the beast of Revelation -- 66, and
6 -- 666 !!!
A Masonic author declares that the
triangles that make up the hexagram “are symbolic of good and evil, day and
night, the Chinese yang and yin, etc.”
In the Masonic system, we have the interlaced triangles, one black and
one white, the white triangle with its point up, the black triangle with its
point down. It represents the male and
female elements. The
interlaced black and white triangles picture darkness and light, good and evil,
error and truth, ignorance and wisdom, and supposedly balance and harmony.
In The Gods of India, by
Alain Danielou, we read:
“The triangle with its
apex upward is also taken to represent fire,
identified
with the male principle, the linga or phallus, symbol
of
Siva the Progenitor or of the Cosmic Person . . .
“The triangle pointed
downward represents the force of inertia
which
pulls downward, and tends to suppress activity.
It is
associated
with the element of water, which always tends to
come
down, to equalize its level. It is the
passive aspect of creation
and
thus is represented by the yoni or female organ, the emblem
of
Energy or CosmicNature” (quoted by Dr.Burns, p.35).
We see that this ancient occult
figure of the hexagram, or Seal of Solomon, or Star of David – as it is also
called -- is nothing more than a repulsive pagan symbol of sexual union and
reproduction. The triangle pointing
downward represents the female sexual organ, the vagina, and the upward pointing
triangle represents the male penis.
Joined together in the hexagram, they represent the act of sexual
intercourse. Thus the hexagram was a
part of Satan’s original “sex worship” rites and symbols of ancient BAALISM –
the sensuous religion of Nimrod and Semiramis – which began just this side of
the Flood!
In the book The Gods of India, by
Alain Danielou, we also discover: “The
two complimentary principles, the linga and the yoni, are graphically
represented by the fiery triangle with upward apex and the watery triangle with
downward apex. When the triangles
penetrate each other to form the hexagon, this is taken to show the state of
manifestation. When
they part, the universe dissolves” (p.219).
Archaeologist E.A. Wallace Budge, an
authority on ancient Egyptian mythology, relates: “Those who believed in the physical
significance of the Hexagram taught that communication between the living and
the dead was possible, and adopted the dogma of reincarnation
” (Amulets and Superstition, p.432).
How did this ancient symbol of the
occult, and Satan the devil, find its way into Judaism, and become the major
symbol today of the Jewish people, adorning the Israeli flag? That is an interesting question, indeed! As God says in His Word, Satan the Devil is
“that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of
the WHOLE WORLD” (Revelation 12:9, NRSV).
That means virtually everybody – every nation – every religion – the
WHOLE WORLD!
The
Christians have their “cross” – also an ancient pagan symbol of sex
worship. And the Jewish people have the
Seal of Solomon or hexagram – another ancient pagan sex symbol! See our article, “The Mystery of the Cross.”
When did the hexagram become a
symbol of the Jewish people?
The first martyr of the Christian
church, Stephen, in his defense before the Sanhedrin, warned the Jewish nation,
as he reviewed the history of Israel:
“Then God turned and gave them p to worship the host of heaven, as it is
written in the books of the Prophets: Did
you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the
wilderness, O house of Israel? You also
took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and THE STAR of your god Remphan, IMAGES
which you made to WORSHIP” (Acts
God’s Word warns us, in the prophecy
of Amos: “You also carried Sikkuth your
king [tabernacle of Moloch] and Chiun, your idols, the STAR of your gods, which
you made for yourselves” (Amos
How did this figure become popular
in
Solomon who loved the Lord in the
beginning of his reign, turned away from the true path of worship as he grew
older. The Scriptures tell us, “But King
Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Sidonians, and Hittites -- from the nations of whom the LORD had said, ‘You
shall not intermarry with them, nor they with
you. Surely they will turn away your
hearts after THEIR GODS.’ Solomon clave to these in love” (I Kings 11:1-2).
“For it was so when Solomon was old,
that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal
to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David” (v.4). Solomon worshipped, among other gods,
Ashtoreth (Easter, Venus, Aprhodite), Milcom or Molech, the fiery king of gods
whose rites included human sacrifice and witchcraft and sexual orgies, and
Chemosh (see verses 5-7). Solomon built
high places, temples, and altars, for these pagan abominations, “And he did
likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their
gods” (v.8).
It would appear that king Solomon
adopted the Hexagram, which became known as “Solomon’s Seal.” When he went astray from God’s path of truth,
and began to consort with evil forces, he became a powerful wizard, or
consulter of demons and the occult powers of darkness. Thus it would appear that Solomon made the
hexagram a prominent symbol in ancient Israel.
He adopted it from the pagan nations around him.
There is no evidence to connect the
hexagram with David, his father. There
is no reason to believe that David, a man after God’s own heart, would ever
adopt a pagan symbol for his “shield.”
But Satan the devil, the chief of liars and deceivers, would certainly
love to have you think so! (Rev.12:9; John 8:44).
However, since the Seal evidently
was used in Israel since the time of Solomon, it would not be strange if it was
found associated with kings of Israel in later times. James Trimm makes such an assertion saying a
bas relief from the time of king Jehu of Israel shows a “Star of David” symbol
over the prostrate Israelite king as he pays homage to the Assyrian
conqueror. It is found in the book Kings
and Pharoahs by David Rohl. He got
the title reversed.
I found the illustration he
mentioned in Pharaohs and Kings: A
Biblical Quest, by David M. Rohl (Crown Publishers, New York, 1995). It is on page 33. It is a panel from the Black Obelisk of
Shalmaneser III, showing either Jehu or his representative bowing and scraping
before the Assyrian king. The so-called
“Star of David” high on the wall behind the bowing figure, however, is hardly
convincing. It is nothing like two
intersecting, interlaced triangles at all.
It looks more like a wheel with six spokes – much like a chariot
wheel (or even the nautical “wheel” used to steer a ship or boat). This picture hardly proves the Star of David
was the seal of state of ancient Israel.
If this is supposed to be proof in the eyes of James Trimm that
justifies the use of the Star of David, then I shudder to consider what some
people consider “proof” of anything.
Jehu, of course, was definitely not
a righteous king of Israel. He
himself went astray from the paths of God and departed from His commands. Jehu started out with great zeal, and slew
the house of Ahab, and even Jezebel, and destroyed the temple of Baal, making
it a latrine (II Kings 10:27), “But Jehu did
not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he caused
Israel to commit – the golden calves that were in Bethel and Dan” (verse 28). We read, “But Jehu was not careful to follow
the law of the LORD the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from
the sins of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to commit. In those days the LORD began to trim off
parts of Israel’ (II Kings 10:31, NRSV).
Why and how did the six-pointed star
-- the pagan occult symbol -- become connected with the MODERN state of
Israel? It was adopted as the family
crest or shield by the Rothschild family during the 19th century. The Rothschilds bought a great deal of
property in Israel, from the Turks and Arabs, and were amongst the major
supporters of the Zionist movement in the early decades. The influence of the Rothschilds and their
heavy financial support of Israel, led the Jewish nation to adopt the so-called
“Star of David” as their own symbol as a nation.
How
amazing it is! When we look at all the
evidence, truly Satan the devil has deceived the whole world – all mankind –
both Jews and Gentiles. The Christians,
so-called, adore the cross, which is an ancient pagan fertility symbol. And likewise, the Jews cherish the Star of
David or Seal of Solomon – the hexagram – which is another powerful occult sex
symbol!
What should God’s people do about
these things? The prophet Jeremiah
states, “Do not learn the way of the nations . . . For the customs of the
peoples are FALSE” (Jer.10:1-3, NRSV).
Moses wrote: “You must demolish completely all the places
where the nations whom you are about to dispossess served their gods [and their
symbols] . . . Break down their altars, smash their pillars, burn their sacred
poles with fire, and hew down the idols of their gods, and thus blot out their
name from their places. You shall not
worship the LORD your God in such ways” (Deuteronomy 12:2-4).
The apostle Paul wrote: “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between
righteousness and lawlessness? Or what
fellowship is there between light and darkness?
What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with
idols? For we are the temple of the
living God; as God said, ‘I will live in them and walk among them, and I will
be their God, and they shall be my people.
Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the
Lord, and TOUCH NOTHING UNCLEAN; then I will welcome you, and I will be
your father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty’”
(II Cor.6:14-18, NRSV).
As God’s people, we should have NO
PART in the use of these perverted and demonic symbols which have been the
trademark of pagans, witches, and practitioners of the occult. That includes both the falsely portrayed
“Star of David,” which has nothing to do with David, or the so-called
“Christian cross,” which has nothing whatever to do with the true Christ,
Yeshua the Messiah, who died on an upright pole and not a cross!
As the apostle Paul declared, its
time to repent and put away all these pagan emblems and symbols, and become
holy and pure before God. “While God has
overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands all people everywhere
to REPENT, because he has fixed a day on which he will have the world judged”
(Acts 17:30-31).
The apostle Jude declared, it is
time we should “earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the
saints” (Jude 3, KJV). Let’s free
ourselves from all such unholy influences.