The pantacle of Pure Love is based on a phrase from the Song of Songs that expresses reciprocity between two beloved people. For Abbé Julio, this reference gives the sign an application to union, fidelity, and stable emotional bonds. The notice includes the love of engaged couples and spouses, as well as friendships to which one wishes to give a solid foundation.
This figure is immediately distinguished from Troubled Love, where the same biblical book provides images of passion and jealousy. Here, the heart of the interpretation is freely shared exchange. The letters and forms of the engraving serve to inscribe this idea in a prayer support.
Essential points
| Tradition | Shared love and Song of Songs |
|---|---|
| Figure | Inscription of reciprocal love and lily |
| Applications | Union of spouses, fidelity, friendship, and harmonious bonds |
| Reference | Abbé Julio, 1908, notice no. 73 |
Reading the symbolism
The formula from the Song expresses that two people mutually recognize each other in their relationship. It does not describe one person’s domination over the other. In Julio’s reading, this reciprocity is decisive for understanding the sign’s purpose in faithful love and harmony of feelings.
The notice explains a formula of reciprocity between the beloved and the image of the lilies. The text, letters, and forms on the plate constitute the pantacle. Julio extends this reading through his theme of universal love.
The lilies evoked by the prayer belong to the poetic language of the Song. They should not be turned into a prescription to place flowers on a table or into a mandatory material correspondence. The pantacle brings together a text, letters, and a graphic arrangement that recall the quality of the bond.
History and traditions
The Song of Songs belongs to biblical literature and has received multiple interpretations. It can be read as a love poem while also occupying an important place in Jewish and Christian spiritual reflection on covenant and love. Julio uses one of its most explicit statements of reciprocity.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Julio’s Christian occultism brought together prayers for many everyday concerns, including relationships. The use of the Song places this request within a recognized textual heritage rather than in a formula invented for a rite of influence.
Attributed effects
The applications cited are the love of engaged couples, shared love, the union of spouses, a happy marriage, and secure friendship. The reciprocal nature of the bond is present both in the formula and in the list of these intentions.
Julio attributes to this pantacle an application to engagements, a happy marriage, shared affection, and fidelity in friendship. What these intentions have in common is the constancy of a freely maintained bond. This orientation appears in the terms of the biblical formula itself.
The sign should not be presented as a means of forcing someone to love or of removing their ability to choose. For Julio, the notion of true love provides a moral framework for this prayer for union.
Use according to Julio
The sign accompanies an intention to bless the bond, within the framework of the consecrated supports and prayer described by Julio. Its notice adds neither a required material nor a particular schedule to this request.
The support falls under the blessings and consecrations described in the book. The notice adds neither a required day of Venus, nor perfume, nor a technique for obtaining consent. To read it faithfully, one must begin with the formula and the intention of blessing a reciprocal relationship.
The presence of another pantacle devoted to Troubled Love helps avoid confusion. This one concerns the harmonious preservation of a bond, whereas the other evokes jealousy, conflict, and love put to the test.
Understanding related figures
The Winged Bull and Grapes have applications to family and fertility, but they do not bear the same words and do not directly concern emotional reciprocity.
The Lily shares a plant motif with the formula from the Song without having the same purpose: its notice addresses purification and repentance. These parallels show the need to read the inscriptions before comparing images.
The source and variants
Abbé Julio, The Secret Book of Great Exorcisms and Blessings, Vincennes, published by the author, 1908. Explanation and application no. 73, p. 455. Practical advice on blessed and consecrated supports: pp. 462–463.
Numbering in the classic directory: 39 of 44. This numbering differs from the inventory of engravings in the old volumes.
Read the notice in the 1908 edition
Engraving taken from the copy digitized by the Divinity School Library, Duke University / Internet Archive, at 360 dpi. Composition, lettering, and colors preserved.
