Phul is the Olympic Spirit associated with the Roman goddess Diana, the moon, and the elemental realm, including the fairy realm.
The Olympic Spirits
and the Seal of Secrets of the World
Phul, the Governor of
the Mysteries of the Moon
Seventhly the [wisdom of the] Pigmies pertains to the
lowest place, including they who inhabit the elements and things related to
them.”
–from Aphorism 9 of the Arbatel
Phul is the Olympic
Spirit associated with the moon and the Roman goddess Diana. In Sanskrit the
word Phul means “flower.” The word for “moon” in
Sanskrit is soma, which happens to be
the Latin word for body. If we
understand the wordplay correctly, then we can understand that Phul is
associated with the material world, the body, sense experience, and the
elements, including the fairy realm, which the writer of the Arbatel –the
quintessential medieval book on the OS -- refers to as “the Pigmies.”
Phul said to rule 7
Provinces. This translates into the equation 7 x 1, making Phul’s value 1. Its
geometric form is the point and its placement in a diagram described in the
Arbatel called the Seal of Secrets of the world is its center. In addition to
Phul, this center may be associated with the dimensionless point which according to Empedocles, is “the circle,
the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.” The Arbatel’s
instructions for drawing the Seal of Secrets says:
Projecting from the center, this is the invisible God in
the entire creature.
The Arbatel suggests that, in addition to
representing the Divine Ground from which all of existence emerges and spreads
out into time and space, the center of the Seal/ of Secrets—where Phul
resides–represents the body, elemental beings, and the microcosm, which is the
reflection of the macrocosm.
Phul is said to make
men to live 300 years. This may be a cryptic
way of saying that mastery of Phul consciousness makes one a master of the
elemental sphere—Nature, including human nature within the terrestrial sphere. We know this because 300 resolves to 3, a number associated
with, in the Arbatel, with Hagith, the Intelligence of the planet Venus. In this way, we see a relationship between the elemental
and terrestrial spheres.
--ZSD23
