spirit · 01

Bael

Making a person invisible.

spirit · 02

Agares

Teaching languages, returning runaways, moving those who stand still, destroying dignities, and causing earthquakes.

spirit · 03

Vassago

Declaring things past and future, and discovering what is hidden or lost.

spirit · 04

Samigina

Teaching the liberal sciences and reporting on souls of people who died in sin.

spirit · 05

Marbas

Answering about hidden matters, causing and curing diseases, teaching mechanical arts, and changing people's forms.

spirit · 06

Valefor

Serving as a familiar while tempting the person accompanied by him to steal.

spirit · 07

Amon

Declaring past and future events, creating feuds, and reconciling disputes between friends.

spirit · 08

Barbatos

Understanding animal voices, opening enchanted treasures, knowing past and future, and reconciling friends and powerful people.

spirit · 09

Paimon

Teaching arts, sciences and secrets, answering questions about earth and mind, granting dignity, subjecting people, and giving learned familiars.

spirit · 10

Buer

Teaching moral and natural philosophy, logic and the virtues of herbs and plants, healing ailments, and giving good familiars.

spirit · 11

Gusion

Knowing past, present and future, resolving questions, reconciling friendships, and giving honour and dignity.

spirit · 12

Sitri

Inflaming love between men and women and causing people to disclose their nakedness.

spirit · 13

Beleth

Causing love between men and women.

spirit · 14

Leraje

Causing battles and contests, and making wounds inflicted by arrows putrefy.

spirit · 15

Eligos

Discovering hidden things, knowing future events and the meeting of armies, and obtaining the love of lords and great people.

spirit · 16

Zepar

Causing women to love men and bringing them together, while also making women barren.

spirit · 17

Botis

Declaring past and future matters and reconciling friends and enemies.

spirit · 18

Bathin

Knowing the virtues of herbs and precious stones, and transporting people swiftly between countries.

spirit · 19

Sallos

Causing love between women and men.

spirit · 20

Purson

Knowing hidden matters and events in past, present and future, finding treasure, answering earthly and divine questions, and giving good familiars.

spirit · 21

Marax

Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and precious stones.

spirit · 22

Ipos

Knowing past, present and future, and making people witty and bold.

spirit · 23

Aim

Setting cities, castles and great places on fire, making people witty, and answering private matters.

spirit · 24

Naberius

Teaching arts and sciences, especially rhetoric, and restoring lost dignities and honours.

spirit · 25

Glasya-Labolas

Teaching arts and sciences and past and future matters, causing bloodshed, producing love between friends or enemies, and making people invisible.

spirit · 26

Bune

Moving the dead, assembling spirits at sepulchres, giving wealth, wisdom and eloquence, and answering questions.

spirit · 27

Ronove

Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving good servants, and obtaining favour with friends and enemies.

spirit · 28

Berith

Answering past, present and future matters, changing metals into gold, and granting or confirming dignity.

spirit · 29

Astaroth

Answering past, present and future questions, disclosing secrets and the spirits' fall, and teaching the liberal sciences.

spirit · 30

Forneus

Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving a good reputation, and securing affection from enemies as well as friends.

spirit · 31

Foras

Teaching the virtues of herbs and precious stones, logic and ethics, eloquence and longevity, discovering treasure and lost things, and making people invisible in the main reading.

spirit · 32

Asmoday

Giving the Ring of Virtues, teaching arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts, answering questions, making people invincible, and finding and guarding treasure.

spirit · 33

Gaap

Making people insensible or ignorant or learned in philosophy and sciences, causing love or hatred, freeing familiars, divining events, and carrying people between kingdoms.

spirit · 34

Furfur

Urging love between man and woman, raising lightning, thunder, blasts and storms, and answering secret and divine matters when constrained.

spirit · 35

Marchosias

Fighting strongly and responding to requests; the passage also reports a hope of return to the Seventh Throne.

spirit · 36

Stolas

Teaching astronomy and the virtues of herbs and precious stones.

spirit · 37

Phenex

Speaking about the sciences, composing excellent poetry, and carrying out requests.

spirit · 38

Halphas

Building towers, supplying ammunition and weapons, and sending warriors to appointed places.

spirit · 39

Malphas

Building houses and high towers, revealing enemies' desires, thoughts and actions, and giving familiars.

spirit · 40

Raum

Stealing royal treasure, destroying cities and dignities, revealing past, present and future, and producing love between friends and enemies.

spirit · 41

Focalor

Slaying or drowning people, overturning ships of war, and controlling winds and seas; the account also allows contrary commands preventing harm.

spirit · 42

Vepar

Governing waters and armed ships, raising stormy seas and the appearance of ships, and causing putrefying wounds.

spirit · 43

Sabnock

Building and arming towers, castles and cities, afflicting people with wounds and worm-filled sores, and giving familiars.

spirit · 44

Shax

Removing sight, hearing or understanding, taking royal money, fetching horses or other things, revealing unguarded hidden matters, and sometimes giving familiars.

spirit · 45

Vine

Discovering hidden matters and witches, wizards and events across time, building towers, overthrowing stone walls, and making stormy waters.

spirit · 46

Bifrons

Teaching astrology, geometry and other sciences and the virtues of stones and woods, moving dead bodies, and lighting seeming candles on graves.

spirit · 47

Uvall

Obtaining women's love, knowing past, present and future, and reconciling friends and enemies.

spirit · 48

Haagenti

Making people wise, teaching diverse matters, changing metals to gold, and changing wine to water and water to wine.

spirit · 49

Crocell

Teaching geometry and the liberal sciences, producing sounds like rushing water without water present, warming waters, and discovering baths.

spirit · 50

Furcas

Teaching philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, palm divination and divination by fire.

spirit · 51

Balam

Answering past, present and future questions, making people invisible, and making them witty.

spirit · 52

Alloces

Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing good familiars.

spirit · 53

Camio

Understanding birds, cattle, dogs, other creatures and the voice of waters, disputing well, and answering about the future.

spirit · 54

Murmur

Teaching philosophy and bringing deceased souls to answer questions.

spirit · 55

Orobas

Discovering events across time, granting dignities and prelacies, securing friends' and enemies' favour, and answering about divinity and creation.

spirit · 56

Gremory

Telling past, present and future matters, discovering hidden treasure and its location, and obtaining women's love.

spirit · 57

Ose

Teaching the liberal sciences, answering divine and secret matters, and changing a person's form and belief about that form.

spirit · 58

Amy

Teaching astrology and the liberal sciences, giving familiars, and revealing treasure kept by spirits.

spirit · 59

Orias

Teaching the virtues of stars and planetary mansions, transforming people, granting or confirming dignities and prelacies, and obtaining favour.

spirit · 60

Vapula

Teaching handicrafts, professions, philosophy and other sciences.

spirit · 61

Zagan

Making people witty or wise, changing wine, water and blood, and turning metals into coin.

spirit · 62

Valac

Answering about hidden treasure and the whereabouts of serpents, and bringing those serpents to the exorcist.

spirit · 63

Andras

Sowing discord; the passage also threatens the exorcist and companions with death if care is lacking.

spirit · 64

Haures

Answering about events, creation, divinity and the spirits' fall, burning enemies, and preventing temptation by other spirits.

spirit · 65

Andrealphus

Teaching geometry, measurement and astronomy, and changing a person into a bird's likeness.

spirit · 66

Cimejes

Teaching grammar, logic and rhetoric, and discovering lost or hidden things and treasure.

spirit · 67

Amdusias

Producing instrumental music, bending trees, and providing excellent familiars.

spirit · 68

Belial

Distributing presentations and senatorships, securing favour with friends and enemies, and providing excellent familiars.

spirit · 69

Decarabia

Discovering the virtues of birds and precious stones, and producing bird likenesses that fly, sing and drink like natural birds.

spirit · 70

Seere

Swiftly bringing events to pass, carrying things between places, travelling across the earth, and giving accounts of theft and hidden treasure.

spirit · 71

Dantalion

Teaching arts and sciences, revealing secret counsels and thoughts, changing thoughts, causing love, and showing likenesses of absent people in visions.

spirit · 72

Andromalius

Returning thieves and stolen goods, exposing wrongdoing, punishing thieves and wicked people, and discovering hidden treasure.

story

The Gift of Wisdom

Solomon asks for wisdom and receives knowledge of heaven and earth. The Greater Key preserves two accounts of the revelation: an angel’s visit before sleep and a blazing star among the trees.

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Heaven and Nature

The Lansdowne introduction assigns spirits to the heavens, elements and human lives, linking their natures with names, seals, times and earthly materials.

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A Testament for Roboam

Solomon entrusts his knowledge to Roboam as an inheritance more precious than wealth, commanding his son to study, preserve and honour its teachings.

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The Ivory Casket and the Recovered Key

The Key is buried with Solomon in an ivory casket. Babylonian philosophers later recover the book, but an angel must reveal the meaning of its obscure words.

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The Temple and the Angelic Notes

At the Temple altar, Solomon receives learned prayers and notes through Michael. The Lesser Key’s introductory accounts place this revelation among several books of spirits and sacred learning.

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The Court of Seventy-Two

The Goetia describes seventy-two spirits through their names, ranks, offices, legions and changing appearances, then gathers them into the story of Solomon’s sealed vessel.

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The Sealed Vessel and Babylon

Solomon confines the seventy-two spirits and their legions in a vessel of brass. In Babylon, treasure-seekers break it open and release its inhabitants.

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Many Keys, One Solomonic Name

The Greater Key and the Lemegeton preserve different accounts of Solomon’s wisdom, hidden writings and command over spirits. Their shared attribution brings these stories together without erasing their differences.

The Pentacles of the Sun

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The 1st Pentacle of the Sun

A radiant face makes solar authority visible. The notice calls it Shaddai’s countenance; Mathers identifies the figure as Metatron, representative of Shaddai and Prince of Countenances.

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The 2nd Pentacle of the Sun

Four angelic names encircle the solar wheel. Its notice links the first three Sun pentacles through their common office of restraining the pride and arrogance of solar spirits.

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The 3rd Pentacle of the Sun

Twelve repetitions of IHVH fill interlocking squares. A surrounding statement of enduring kingdom accompanies promises of empire, renown, glory and the power to inflict loss.

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The 4th Pentacle of the Sun

A prayer for enlightened eyes encloses the fourth solar wheel. The notice assigns it the revelation of spirits that would otherwise remain invisible.

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The 5th Pentacle of the Sun

Psalm 91’s angels bear a person in their hands around a square and circles. The notice assigns this figure swift transportation over a great distance.

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The 6th Pentacle of the Sun

Two alphabets and a difficult triangular inscription lie within verses about darkened or unseeing eyes. The sixth solar pentacle is assigned the concealment of its bearer.

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The 7th Pentacle of the Sun

Names fill a curved cross enclosed by Psalm 116’s loosened bonds and thanksgiving. Gold and solar timing accompany the pentacle’s promise of release from imprisonment.

The Pentacles of the Moon

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The 1st Pentacle of the Moon

A drawn gateway gives the lunar opening of doors an architectural form. Psalm 107’s broken gates of brass and severed bars of iron supply its scriptural counterpart.

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The 2nd Pentacle of the Moon

A pointing hand, El and Abariel appear within a verse of trust and freedom from fear. The second lunar notice assigns protection from water and the quieting of storms.

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The 3rd Pentacle of the Moon

Aub and Vevaphel accompany a pointing hand enclosed by a prayer for deliverance. The notice concerns travellers carried from place to place, especially at night and over water.

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The 4th Pentacle of the Moon

A petition against persecutors encloses divine and angelic names beside a pointing hand. Protection from sorcery accompanies Sophiel’s knowledge of herbs and stones.

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The 5th Pentacle of the Moon

Dream answers, enemies, phantoms and the departed share the fifth lunar notice. A pointing hand and lunar symbol lie within Psalm 68’s image of scattered enemies.

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The 6th Pentacle of the Moon

The Flood’s opening deep and windows of heaven surround a lunar wheel. Its rain-bearing notice specifies silver and immersion, with the duration of the rain tied to submersion.

The Pentacles of Venus

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The 1st Pentacle of Venus

Four Venusian names surround a wheel of differentiated characters. This invocation figure establishes authority over spirits before the sequence turns to favour, honour and attraction.

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The 2nd Pentacle of Venus

Canticles 8:6 places a seal upon the heart and arm around a Venusian pentagram. The figure’s notice associates it with grace, honour and the affairs of Venus.

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The 3rd Pentacle of Venus

Two triangles meet at their points beneath a verse of fruitfulness. Monachiel links the names in the figure to its notice concerning the attraction of love.

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The 4th Pentacle of Venus

IHVH marks the angles of a divided diamond, enclosed by Genesis’s language of shared flesh. The notice joins obedience from Venusian spirits with a desired person’s approach.

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The 5th Pentacle of Venus

A heart melting like wax supplies the verse around Venus’s final figure. Mathers reads some names in Passing of the River characters but leaves two undeciphered.

The Pentacles of Mercury

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The 1st Pentacle of Mercury

Yekahel and Agiel are formed by letters in a pentagram. The opening Mercury notice assigns invocation of spirits described as being under the firmament.

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The 2nd Pentacle of Mercury

Boel is singled out among names crossing the circular field. The notice describes spirits whose answers come readily, although their appearance is difficult to perceive.

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The 3rd Pentacle of Mercury

Kokaviel, Ghedoriah, Savaniah and Chokmahiel encircle a wheel of Mercurial characters. The notice assigns invocation of Mercury’s spirits and the inscribed angels.

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The 4th Pentacle of Mercury

El occupies a twelve-pointed figure bounded by Hebrew and Latin sentences. Knowledge of created and hidden things accompanies embassies performed by the spirits called Allatori.

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The 5th Pentacle of Mercury

Psalm 24 commands gates and everlasting doors to rise around a quartered circle of divine names. The final Mercury notice assigns the opening of closed doors.

The Pentacles of Mars

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The 1st Pentacle of Mars

Madimiel, Bartzachiah, Eschiel and Ithuriel surround an eight-spoked wheel of Martian characters. This opening pentacle invokes the named spirits of Mars.

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The 2nd Pentacle of Mars

Life and light from John 1:4 surround a healing hexagram. Among its divine names, Mathers reads IHShVH as a form associated with Joshua or Jesus.

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The 3rd Pentacle of Mars

A central Vau, Eloah and Shaddai stand within a verse proclaiming divine greatness. The notice assigns war, discord and authority over enemies and rebellious spirits.

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The 4th Pentacle of Mars

AGLA centres a broad cross, surrounded by Psalm 110’s image of kings wounded in divine wrath. Victory in war is the pentacle’s stated office.

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The 5th Pentacle of Mars

A scorpion stands within Psalm 91’s language of dangerous creatures trodden underfoot. The notice says that demons yield when this paper or parchment pentacle is shown.

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The 6th Pentacle of Mars

A protective name in Malachim characters radiates through the wheel. Psalm 37’s sword returning into its owner’s heart gives the promised reversal of weapons a precise image.

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The 7th Pentacle of Mars

Hail and flaming fire in Psalm 105 surround divine names in Hebrew and Celestial characters. The tempest-bearing notice specifies bat blood and Martian timing.

The Pentacles of Jupiter

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The 1st Pentacle of Jupiter

Parasiel, named among four spirits around a Jupiterian wheel, receives the office of lord and master of treasures. The notice connects invocation with possession of treasure’s location.

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The 2nd Pentacle of Jupiter

AHIH occupies the centre of a hexagram associated with honour, riches and tranquillity. Mathers tentatively reads its outer letters as a verse linking wealth with enduring righteousness.

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The 3rd Pentacle of Jupiter

The seals of Jupiter and its intelligence share a divided circle with divine names. Psalm 125’s unmoving Mount Zion frames the pentacle’s protective office.

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The 4th Pentacle of Jupiter

Bariel’s letters occupy a small divided square beneath IH and beside Adoniel. This wealth-bearing pentacle is prescribed on silver under Jupiter in Cancer.

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The 5th Pentacle of Jupiter

Jacob’s ladder appears in the promise of assured visions, but Ezekiel’s words appear in the hexagram. Mathers’s note confronts the chronological tension between story and inscription.

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The 6th Pentacle of Jupiter

Four elemental rulers occupy a cross enclosed by a verse of bodily vulnerability. The protective notice connects the figure with daily attention and repeated scripture.

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The 7th Pentacle of Jupiter

The final Jupiterian wheel sets poverty relief within a biblical ascent: the needy rise to sit with princes. Treasure and its guarding spirits also figure in the notice.

The Pentacles of Saturn

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The 1st Pentacle of Saturn

Four divine names fill a compact square, framed by Psalm 72’s image of submission. The notice says that displaying this pentacle makes spirits kneel.

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The 2nd Pentacle of Saturn

Relief from adversity and restraint of spiritual pride accompany this five-by-five letter square. Mathers connects it with SATOR and interprets its letters through numerical correspondences.

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The 3rd Pentacle of Saturn

Saturnian characters terminate the eight spokes of this invocation wheel. Its notice places the figure within the magical circle and reserves its use for the night.

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The 4th Pentacle of Saturn

A declaration of divine unity encloses a Yod, while an outer verse describes a curse entering the body. The notice assigns destruction and news from southern spirits.

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The 5th Pentacle of Saturn

A cross, circle and diamond gather divine and angelic names around a promise of protection. The notice also assigns this pentacle power over spirits guarding treasure.

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The 6th Pentacle of Saturn

An eight-spoked Saturnian wheel is surrounded by a hostile petition. The notice directs its power against a named person, to whom it attributes demonic obsession.

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The 7th Pentacle of Saturn

Nine angelic orders fill an inverted triangle in two alphabets. Psalm 18’s shaking earth surrounds a notice that attributes earthquakes to their combined power.

Delatte 1927, printed historical edition; Athens MS 115

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Athens 115 · seal 01

A cross with paired loops at the ends is drawn within two circular boundaries. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 02

Eight spokes end in short parallel bars inside a circular boundary. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 03

A divided cross has bent terminals and a small angular-and-curved figure at its center. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 04

A rectangular grid and dot-like marks are enclosed within a circle. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 05

A cross combines squared horizontal terminals with curved vertical forms. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 06

A quartered cross bears letter-shaped forms in its divisions. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 07

A hexagram is flanked by curved brackets and letter-shaped marks. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 08

A rectangular loop connects four curved corner forms around a central set of loops and a dot. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 09

An inverted triangular framework crosses a rectangular loop and character-shaped marks. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 10

An eight-spoked construction has different character forms at the spoke ends. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 11

Two angled stems with looped ends converge in a V-like form. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 12

Eight spokes carry bent or curved terminal forms. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 13

A vertical stem joins an upper angular construction, loops and a lower circular form. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 14

A rectangular number grid is enclosed by a circular boundary. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 15

An eight-spoked wheel has a small ring at its center. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 16

A cross and diagonals have curved or bracket-like terminals. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 17

A squared construction with curved corners is crossed by curved inner lines. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 18

A hexagram is surrounded by small character-shaped annotations. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 19

Eight spokes carry differentiated hooked or curved terminals. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 20

A cross has bracket-like forms at its extremities. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 21

Crossed stems combine curved terminals and arrow-like marks. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 22

Overlapping upright and rotated squares form the central construction. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 23

A divided circular construction contains letter-shaped marks on one side and parallel curved forms on the other. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

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Athens 115 · seal 24

Eight spokes carry various hooked and character-shaped endings. It belongs to the twenty-four-seal phylactery carried at the chest in preparation for the art of the circle.

Latin manuscript passage, preserved editorial excerpt

French manuscript, BnF Français 25314; digitized original

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Français 25314 · the Mars pentacle on page92

A nine-cell grid of characters is assigned to Mars in the French caption, which attributes invulnerability to the person who wears the pentacle.

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Français 25314 · the portrait pentacle on page93

A haloed, bearded bust represents the portrait of the Eternal. Its French caption attributes power to constrain spirits and tame earthly creatures to the pentacle.

1914 Hebrew manuscript photographic facsimile

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Nine Kandariri · row 1 · center

An elongated character construction is surrounded by rows of small circular marks inside a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 1 · left

A vertical sequence of characters is flanked by Hebrew word groups inside a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 1 · right

An angular character figure stands above a vertical group of Hebrew writing inside a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 2 · center

A cross through a central ring has differentiated terminal forms and small circular marks in its quadrants. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 2 · left

A cross with a crescent-like upper end and a curved lower bar is enclosed by a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 2 · right

A cross through a central ring has distinct curved and character-shaped endings. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 3 · center

A horizontal character sequence is enclosed by rows of circular and curved marks inside a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 3 · left

A short Hebrew word group and three rows of strokes and circular marks occupy a double circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

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Nine Kandariri · row 3 · right

Eight spokes with differentiated character terminals radiate from a small central circle. It is one of the nine Kandariri, the talismans Gollancz’s contents describe as revealed to King Solomon.

French manuscript passage, preserved editorial excerpt