The Fifth Pentacle of the Sun

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Of its planetFifth of seven
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As the 1889 edition has it
It serveth to invoke those Spirits who can transport thee from one place unto another, over a long distance and in short time.
Where this comes from

The Key of Solomon is the best known of the Renaissance grimoires, surviving in dozens of manuscripts in Latin, French, Italian and Hebrew. Mathers made his 1889 edition from seven manuscripts in the British Museum, and it is his plates that every later reproduction of these pentacles descends from.

The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers (London: George Redway, 1889). The text and the pentacles are in the public domain.

The pentacle is traced from the plate in the De Laurence edition of 1914 (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott & Co.), which reprints Mathers' plates at a larger size, and checked line for line against the 1889 printing.

Mathers' note: Characters in the “ Passing of the River” Alphabet, forming Spirit’s Names. The Versicle is from Psalm xci, 11, 12:—“ He shall give His Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands,”

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