Eliphas Levi's Great Symbol of Solomon
From his Book Transendential Magic. Eliphas LeviThis illustration comes from Eliphas Levi's 19th-century publication Transcendental Magic. In it, he describes it as: "The great Symbol of Solomon. The Double Triangle of Solomon, represented by the two Ancients of the Kabalah; the Macroprosopus and the Microprosopus; the God of Light and the God of Reflections; of mercy and vengeance; the white Jehovah and the black Jehovah."
There's a lot of symbolism packed into that explanation. The Macroprosopus and Microprosopus translate to "creator of the greater world" and "creator of the little world." This, in turn, can refer to a number of things as well, such as the spiritual world and the physical world, or the universe and the human being, known as the macrocosm and the microcosm. Levi himself states that the Microprosopus is the magician himself as he shapes his own world.
As Above, So Below
The symbolism is also frequently equated to the Hermetic maxim "As above, so below." That is to say, things that happen in the spiritual realm, in the microcosm, reflect throughout the physical realm and the microcosm. Here that idea is emphasized by the literal depiction of reflection: the dark Jehovah is a reflection of the light Jehovah.
IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF FAULT OR EVEN OF BLAME ITS A REFLECTION OF INDIFFERENCE TO SELF AND HUMANITY!
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