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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. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 67; figure 40, Plate IX; plate PDF page 89
Grace, honour and matters belonging to Venus are assigned to the second pentacle. Its notice places these desirable social goods within the planet’s sphere. [1]
A pentagram carries names and letters within concentric circular inscriptions. Mathers calls the letters names of Venusian spirits; the surrounding passage is Canticles 8:6. [1]
The pentagram contains letters that Mathers identifies as names of Venusian spirits. Canticles 8:6 surrounds it with the image of a seal upon the heart and arm and with love’s strength compared to death. This is an unusually close meeting of the pentacle’s own form as a seal and the verse’s language of attachment. [1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 67; figure 40, Plate IX; plate PDF page 89
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