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Venus’s five green pentacles move from command of spirits to favour and attraction. Their enclosing verses give attachment the forms of a seal, fruitfulness, shared flesh and a melting heart. [1]
Mathers 1889
To control Venus’s spirits.
To obtain favor, honor and matters attributed to Venus.
To arouse love in the person to whom it is shown.
To compel Venus’s spirits to obey and a desired person to approach.
To attract love.
| Pentacle | Purpose attributed by this witness |
|---|---|
| The 1st Pentacle of Venus | To control Venus’s spirits. |
| The 2nd Pentacle of Venus | To obtain favor, honor and matters attributed to Venus. |
| The 3rd Pentacle of Venus | To arouse love in the person to whom it is shown. |
| The 4th Pentacle of Venus | To compel Venus’s spirits to obey and a desired person to approach. |
| The 5th Pentacle of Venus | To attract love. |
The first Venus notice establishes authority over named spirits; the second assigns favour, honour and matters belonging to the planet. The third names Monachiel and specifies Venusian timing. The fourth joins spiritual obedience to the compelled approach of a desired person, while the fifth concentrates on attraction through the sight of the pentacle. [1]
A wheel opens the group, followed by a pentagram, two triangles touching at their points, a divided diamond and a square. Nogahiel, Acheliah, Socodiah or Socohiah, and Nangariel identify the opening company. The third includes Monachiel among its names; IHVH occupies the fourth’s angles. Mathers reads Passing of the River characters in the fifth but leaves two names undeciphered. [1]
The scriptural boundaries give the group a more varied language than attraction alone. Canticles 8:6 places a seal on the heart and arm and compares love’s strength with death. Genesis 1:28 brings fruitfulness and multiplication to the third design; Genesis 2:23–24 brings shared flesh to the fourth. Psalm 22:14 surrounds the fifth with a heart melting like wax. Attachment appears successively as sealing, increase, union and inward yielding, each beside the office of its own notice. [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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