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Saturn’s seven black pentacles range from spirits kneeling before divine names to an earth shaken by angelic orders. Protection, treasure and directed affliction share this planetary series. [1]
Mathers 1889
To terrify spirits and cause their submission.
To counter adversity and restrain the pride of spirits.
To invoke Saturn’s spirits, especially at night.
For operations described as ruin, destruction and death, and for spirits bringing news.
To protect at night and drive away spirits guarding treasure.
To cause the affliction described in the text as demonic obsession.
To produce earthquakes in the source’s account.
| Pentacle | Purpose attributed by this witness |
|---|---|
| The 1st Pentacle of Saturn | To terrify spirits and cause their submission. |
| The 2nd Pentacle of Saturn | To counter adversity and restrain the pride of spirits. |
| The 3rd Pentacle of Saturn | To invoke Saturn’s spirits, especially at night. |
| The 4th Pentacle of Saturn | For operations described as ruin, destruction and death, and for spirits bringing news. |
| The 5th Pentacle of Saturn | To protect at night and drive away spirits guarding treasure. |
| The 6th Pentacle of Saturn | To cause the affliction described in the text as demonic obsession. |
| The 7th Pentacle of Saturn | To produce earthquakes in the source’s account. |
The first two Saturn pentacles restrain spirits through letter squares; the third belongs to nocturnal invocation. The fourth is assigned ruin, destruction and death, while the fifth protects the night-time invoker and disperses treasure guardians. The sixth directs demonic obsession against a person. In the seventh, the scale widens from a threatened individual to the trembling earth. [1]
The first square gathers four divine names: IHVH, ADNI, IIAI and AHIH. The second enlarges the square to twenty-five cells and prompts Mathers’s comparison with SATOR, together with his numerical interpretation of the letters. Wheels in the third and sixth direct attention toward their terminal Saturnian characters. Triangles dominate the fourth and seventh; the fifth nests cross, circle and diamond. Repeated geometries do not produce identical offices: the two wheels, for example, accompany invocation and affliction. [1]
The first two rims use Psalm 72, moving from enemies kneeling to dominion reaching from sea to sea. The fourth combines the declaration of divine unity in Deuteronomy 6:4 with a curse imagined as entering flesh and bones in Psalm 109:18. The seventh gathers nine angelic orders, written in ordinary Hebrew and Passing of the River characters, inside Psalm 18:7. Its shaking earth and moving foundations give a scriptural form to the earthquake attributed to the pentacle. [1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII, printed pp. 58–70
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