Jupiter’s seven blue pentacles give wealth several forms: hidden treasure, worldly honour and release from poverty. Their notices also provide protection and promise visions of an opened heaven. [1]
Mathers 1889
The members of this set
Source reproduction Mathers 1889, figure 18, plate IV.
For relief from poverty and to repel spirits that guard treasure.
Prosperity, stability and vision
Treasure recurs in several forms. Parasiel teaches its locations in the first pentacle; the second promises riches with honour and tranquillity; the fourth names Bariel and abundant possessions. The seventh joins poverty relief to the expulsion of treasure guardians. Protection occupies the third and sixth, while the fifth promises assured visions and names Jacob’s ladder as its example. [1]
The variety of the figures
Wheels open and close the group, while hexagrams occupy the second and fifth designs. The third combines divine names with the seals of Jupiter and its intelligence. Bariel’s letters fill the four-part square in the fourth; elemental rulers occupy the cross in the sixth. The second and fourth share Psalm 112:3 but differ in names, geometry and prescribed medium: paper or parchment with a swallow’s pen and screech-owl blood in one, silver under Jupiter in Cancer in the other. [1]
Words that enact an ascent
The sixth and seventh connect their effects with devotional attention and repeated verses. The last rim describes the needy rising from the dunghill to sit with princes. In the fifth, words from Ezekiel 1:1 become mystical names, yet the notice credits the pentacle to Jacob. Mathers recognises this chronological tension and proposes a shorter inscription. His note records the difficulty of reconciling the diagram’s biblical wording with the story attached to it. [1]
