The Pentacles of Solomon
The Key of Solomon is the best known of the Renaissance grimoires, surviving in dozens of manuscripts in Latin, French, Italian and Hebrew. Its pentacles are circular figures, each belonging to a planet and each put to a particular use — protection, more often than anything else.
The forty-four here are the set S. L. MacGregor Mathers printed in his edition of 1889, made from seven manuscripts in the British Museum. Seven belong to Saturn, seven to Jupiter, seven to Mars and seven to the Sun; five to Venus, five to Mercury, and six to the Moon.
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The First Pentacle of Saturn
The Second Pentacle of Saturn
The Third Pentacle of Saturn
The Fourth Pentacle of Saturn
The Fifth Pentacle of Saturn
The Sixth Pentacle of Saturn
The Seventh and Last Pentacle of Saturn
The First Pentacle of Jupiter
The Second Pentacle of Jupiter
The Third Pentacle of Jupiter
The Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter
The Fifth Pentacle of Jupiter
The Sixth Pentacle of Jupiter
The Seventh and Last Pentacle of Jupiter
The First Pentacle of Mars
The Second Pentacle of Mars
The Third Pentacle of Mars
The Fourth Pentacle of Mars
The Fifth Pentacle of Mars
The Sixth Pentacle of Mars
The Seventh and Last Pentacle of Mars
The First Pentacle of the Sun
The Second Pentacle of the Sun
The Third Pentacle of the Sun
The Fourth Pentacle of the Sun
The Fifth Pentacle of the Sun
The Sixth Pentacle of the Sun
The Seventh and Last Pentacle of the Sun
The First Pentacle of Venus
The Second Pentacle of Venus
The Third Pentacle of Venus
The Fourth Pentacle of Venus
The Fifth and Last Pentacle of Venus
The First Pentacle of Mercury
The Second Pentacle of Mercury
The Third Pentacle of Mercury
The Fourth Pentacle of Mercury
The Fifth and Last Pentacle of Mercury
The First Pentacle of the Moon
The Second Pentacle of the Moon
The Third Pentacle of the Moon
The Fourth Pentacle of the Moon
The Fifth Pentacle of the Moon
The Sixth and Last Pentacle of the Moon
Forty-four is Mathers’ number, not a fixed canon. The manuscripts disagree with one another — some carry a dozen pentacles, some more than forty — and in the older ones only some of them are tied to a planet at all. What is shown here is the set as he printed it, which is the set every later reproduction descends from.
Clavicula Salomonis, manuscripts of the 16th and 17th centuries. Edited and printed 1889. The text and the pentacles are in the public domain.
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