The Seba library treats Pentagram in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Jung, C.G., Liz Greene, Hamaker-Zondag, Karen).
not the pentagram, but fourness with unity, the quaternity with the quinta essentia. And, of course, this is something that plays a great role for Cardanus.
Jung explicitly distinguishes the pentagram from the quaternary-plus-centre configuration, insisting the quinta essentia is a structurally different symbolic schema rather than a synonym for fiveness.
, Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941, 2014thesis
The ancient symbol for man is the pentagram or five-pointed star, and the number five has always traditionally been associated with both man and with Mercury, the significator of mind.
Greene establishes the pentagram as the classical anthropological symbol par excellence, linking it to Mercury, mental capacity, and the quintile aspect as expressions of the specifically human faculty of analytical consciousness.
, Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil, 1976thesis
five is characteristic of humans: we have five senses, five fingers on each hand, and five toes on each foot, and if we stand with head erect and arms and legs spread out, we find that these five extremities form the points of a pentagram.
Hamaker-Zondag grounds the pentagram in somatic anthropology, presenting the human body in upright posture as the living realisation of the five-pointed figure and connecting it to the revolutionary, anti-crystalline quality of fiveness.
, Tarot as a Way of Life: A Jungian Approach to the Tarot, 1997thesis
five, 373, 389 six, 372 seven, 136n, 140n eight, 136n twelve, 241, 305; 306, 307, 310, 335; see also dyad; triad; tetrad; quaternity; pentad; hexad; nonad
Jung’s index to the Archetypes volume locates the number five within a systematic numerological sequence alongside the pentad, situating it as one member of the series of numerically significant archetypes.
, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, 1959supporting
the golden ratio has a relation with the number 5, since φ i
McGilchrist notes in passing that the Golden Ratio’s mathematical structure connects it to the number five, contextualising fiveness within broader arguments about intrinsic aesthetic and mathematical meaning in nature.
, The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, 2021aside
the golden ratio has a relation with the number 5, since φ i
Parallel passage to the above, associating the number five with the Golden Ratio and the broader thesis that numbers possess inherent meaning beyond convention.
, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, 2021aside