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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. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 62; figure 22, Plate V; plate PDF page 76
The fifth Jupiter notice promises assured visions and invokes Jacob’s ladder reaching heaven as its example. The inscription draws instead on Ezekiel’s vision beside the river Chebar, where the heavens open. [1]
A hexagram carries Hebrew words and letter groups across its six points. Mathers connects the lettering with Ezekiel 1:1 and with names formed from its words. [1]
Mathers explains that five words of Ezekiel 1:1, each containing five letters, are recombined into mystical names. He recognises the chronological difficulty of attributing an Ezekiel inscription to Jacob and proposes shortening the verse. That proposal is his editorial response to the discrepancy between the pentacle’s biblical story and its wording. [1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 62; figure 22, Plate V; plate PDF page 76
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