The Fifth and Last Pentacle of Mercury

The pentacle of The Fifth and Last Pentacle of Mercury
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In orderNo. 38 of 44
PlanetMercury
Of its planetFifth of five
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As the 1889 edition has it
This commandeth the Spirits of Mercury, and serveth to open doors in whatever way they may be closed, and nothing it may encounter can resist it.
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: Within the Pentacle are the Names E] Ab, and IHVH. The versicle is from Psalm xxiv. 7:—“ Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in,”

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