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pentagram
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pentagram
1. a star-shaped figure formed by extending the sides of a regular pentagon to meet at five points
2. such a figure used as a magical or symbolic figure by the Pythagoreans, black magicians, etc.


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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to approve the pentacle for use on government-issued headstones and memorial plaques.
They also are active in campaigns to allow the pentacle to be displayed on veterans' grave markers as one of the government-sanctioned religious symbols.
8) The pentacle for this ritual invoked Love, Truth, Honor, Courage, and Beauty, with Love banishing apathy and despair, Truth banishing uncertainty and delusion, Honor banishing injustice and disconnection, Courage banishing fear and paralysis, and Beauty banishing intolerance and envy.
 
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