The Fourth Pentacle of Mars

The pentacle of The Fourth Pentacle of Mars
Tap or click the pentacle to save it
In orderNo. 18 of 44
PlanetMars
Of its planetFourth of seven
✦
As the 1889 edition has it
It is of great virtue and power in war, wherefore without doubt it will give thee victory.
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: In the Centre is the great Name. Agla; right and left, the letters of the Name IHVH; above and below, El. Round it is the versicle from Psalm cx. 5:—“'The Lord at thy right hand shall wound even Kings in the day of His Wrath.”

← All sigils