MATHERS 1889 · PLATES II–XIII

The 44 Pentacles of Solomon: Complete Illustrated Atlas

Mathers’s planetary pentacles keep inscription, geometry, plate position, asserted purpose, and editorial reconstruction together across all seven planetary groups.

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This atlas treats the 44 figures as parts of one edited book rather than as loose symbols. Each entry separates Mathers’s stated purpose from the words actually printed in the design, then reads the center, geometric frame, perimeter, and plate placement.

The count follows the order printed in 1889: seven each for Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and the Sun; five each for Venus and Mercury; and six for the Moon. Figures 11–54 span Plates II–XIII. The individual crops remain linked to their complete public-domain plates.

44
individual figures
7
planetary groups
12
printed plates
1889
edition analyzed

What each entry analyzes

InscriptionVerse, divine names, angel names, and script named by Mathers.
DiagramCenter, geometric framework, and perimeter read as separate layers.
EditionMathers’s restorations, uncertainties, and plate arrangement kept visible.
Worked readingOne concrete path through the figure instead of a list of keywords.

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All 44 pentacles

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♄ Saturn · FIGURE 11

First Pentacle of Saturn

Mathers describes the figure as a display that makes spirits submit through terror.

  • authority
  • spirits
  • psalm
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 12

Second Pentacle of Saturn

The caption assigns the figure to adversity and the repression of spiritual pride.

  • word square
  • adversity
  • psalm
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 13

Third Pentacle of Saturn

Mathers assigns this night figure to invocations of spirits associated with Saturn.

  • night
  • angels
  • planetary characters
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 14

Fourth Pentacle of Saturn

The caption associates the figure with ruin, destruction, death, and spirits said to bring news from the south.

  • destruction
  • triangle
  • composite text
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 15

Fifth Pentacle of Saturn

Mathers says the figure protects a night invocation and drives away spirits guarding treasure.

  • protection
  • treasure
  • night
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 16

Sixth Pentacle of Saturn

The caption makes an aggressive claim that pronouncing the figure against someone brings demonic obsession.

  • hostility
  • planetary characters
  • psalm
♄ Saturn · FIGURE 17

Seventh Pentacle of Saturn

Mathers connects the final Saturn figure with earthquakes through the collective power of the angelic orders named inside it.

  • angelic orders
  • earthquake
  • mixed scripts
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 18

First Pentacle of Jupiter

The first Jupiter caption invokes planetary spirits and singles out Parasiel as a master of treasures and their locations.

  • treasure
  • angels
  • planetary characters
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 19

Second Pentacle of Jupiter

Mathers assigns this figure to honor, status, riches, tranquillity, and the discovery of guarded treasure.

  • wealth
  • hexagram
  • psalm
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 20

Third Pentacle of Jupiter

The caption presents the figure as protection for an invocation and as a sign shown to arriving spirits.

  • protection
  • seals
  • psalm
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 21

Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter

Mathers says the figure brings wealth and honor and names Bariel as its angel.

  • wealth
  • Bariel
  • comparison
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 22

Fifth Pentacle of Jupiter

The fifth figure is assigned to visions and is linked in the caption to Jacob’s ladder.

  • visions
  • editorial emendation
  • hexagram
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 23

Sixth Pentacle of Jupiter

The caption describes daily contemplation of the figure as protection from earthly dangers.

  • protection
  • cross
  • elemental rulers
♃ Jupiter · FIGURE 24

Seventh Pentacle of Jupiter

Mathers gives the last Jupiter figure power against poverty and against spirits said to guard treasure.

  • poverty
  • treasure
  • planetary characters
♂ Mars · FIGURE 25

First Pentacle of Mars

The first Mars figure is a general invocation of spirits placed under that planet.

  • angels
  • invocation
  • planetary characters
♂ Mars · FIGURE 26

Second Pentacle of Mars

The caption claims the figure can be applied to an afflicted part against disease.

  • healing claim
  • John
  • editorial argument
♂ Mars · FIGURE 27

Third Pentacle of Mars

Mathers connects the figure with war, anger, discord, hostile resistance, and terror.

  • war
  • divine names
  • hexagram
♂ Mars · FIGURE 28

Fourth Pentacle of Mars

The fourth Mars caption promises victory in war.

  • victory
  • AGLA
  • spatial reading
♂ Mars · FIGURE 29

Fifth Pentacle of Mars

Mathers presents this scorpion figure as frightening and coercive toward demons.

  • scorpion
  • coercion
  • psalm
♂ Mars · FIGURE 30

Sixth Pentacle of Mars

The caption claims protection in combat and the reversal of an attacker’s weapons.

  • protection
  • Malachim
  • weapon reversal
♂ Mars · FIGURE 31

Seventh Pentacle of Mars

Mathers associates the last Mars pentacle with hail and tempest.

  • weather
  • mixed scripts
  • hail
☉ Sun · FIGURE 32

First Pentacle of the Sun

Mathers identifies the face as a solar image of Shaddai’s authority before which creatures and spirits bow.

  • Metatron
  • portrait
  • Latin
☉ Sun · FIGURE 33

Second Pentacle of the Sun

The caption groups this with the first and third solar figures as a means to repress the pride of solar spirits.

  • solar spirits
  • angels
  • comparison
☉ Sun · FIGURE 34

Third Pentacle of the Sun

Mathers assigns the figure to rule, renown, and glory, as well as harm to others.

  • authority
  • twelve names
  • Daniel resemblance
☉ Sun · FIGURE 35

Fourth Pentacle of the Sun

The caption says this figure makes otherwise invisible spirits visible.

  • visibility
  • Passing of the River
  • psalm
☉ Sun · FIGURE 36

Fifth Pentacle of the Sun

Mathers links this figure with spirits said to transport a person over a long distance quickly.

  • transport
  • encoded names
  • angels
☉ Sun · FIGURE 37

Sixth Pentacle of the Sun

The sixth solar caption claims an operation of invisibility.

  • invisibility
  • damaged text
  • editorial uncertainty
☉ Sun · FIGURE 38

Seventh Pentacle of the Sun

The caption associates the gold figure with release from imprisonment and iron bonds.

  • release
  • elements
  • cross
♀ Venus · FIGURE 39

First Pentacle of Venus

The first Venus figure is a general control and invocation figure for the spirits named around it.

  • Venus spirits
  • variant spelling
  • planetary characters
♀ Venus · FIGURE 40

Second Pentacle of Venus

Mathers assigns the figure to favor, honor, Venusian matters, and the accomplishment of desire.

  • desire
  • pentagram
  • Song of Songs
♀ Venus · FIGURE 41

Third Pentacle of Venus

The caption says displaying the figure attracts love and names Monachiel as its angel.

  • attraction
  • Monachiel
  • Genesis
♀ Venus · FIGURE 42

Fourth Pentacle of Venus

Mathers gives the figure a coercive claim: compelling Venus spirits and forcing a desired person to come.

  • coercion
  • union verse
  • partial transcription
♀ Venus · FIGURE 43

Fifth Pentacle of Venus

The last Venus caption claims that merely showing the figure excites love.

  • love
  • undeciphered names
  • Passing of the River
☿ Mercury · FIGURE 44

First Pentacle of Mercury

The first Mercury caption assigns the figure to spirits described as beneath the firmament.

  • spirits
  • pentagram
  • paired names
☿ Mercury · FIGURE 45

Second Pentacle of Mercury

Mathers says the named spirits answer requests outside the other categories, though they are difficult to see.

  • Boel
  • unusual requests
  • sparse geometry
☿ Mercury · FIGURE 46

Third Pentacle of Mercury

The caption invokes Mercury spirits, especially the four angels written in the figure.

  • angels
  • planetary characters
  • comparison
☿ Mercury · FIGURE 47

Fourth Pentacle of Mercury

Mathers assigns this figure to broad knowledge, hidden things, and messenger spirits called Allatori.

  • knowledge
  • Allatori
  • unidentified verse
☿ Mercury · FIGURE 48

Fifth Pentacle of Mercury

The last Mercury caption says the figure opens closed doors and overcomes barriers.

  • opening
  • doors
  • comparison
☽ Moon · FIGURE 49

First Pentacle of the Moon

The first lunar caption invokes Moon spirits and, like Mercury 5, claims to open fastened doors.

  • gate
  • opening
  • architectural diagram
☽ Moon · FIGURE 50

Second Pentacle of the Moon

Mathers assigns the figure to danger by water and to the cessation of rain or tempests during a lunar invocation.

  • water
  • storm
  • pointing hand
☽ Moon · FIGURE 51

Third Pentacle of the Moon

The third lunar caption assigns the figure to protection on journeys, especially against night attacks and water danger.

  • journey
  • night
  • comparison
☽ Moon · FIGURE 52

Fourth Pentacle of the Moon

Mathers describes defense from harmful sorcery and injury, and links Sophiel with knowledge of herbs and stones.

  • herbs
  • stones
  • Sophiel
☽ Moon · FIGURE 53

Fifth Pentacle of the Moon

The caption combines answers in sleep with hostile and necromantic claims concerning enemies, night phantoms, and the dead.

  • dreams
  • dead
  • multiple claims
☽ Moon · FIGURE 54

Sixth Pentacle of the Moon

The final lunar caption claims that a silver plate placed under water brings continuing rain.

  • rain
  • flood
  • plate context

Edition boundary

The images here document Mathers’s 1889 printed reconstruction. They are not photographs of one medieval original. Mathers says he compared differing manuscripts, restored Hebrew and magical characters, and sometimes marked a reading as uncertain. Sloane 2731 and Lansdowne 1203 establish that named manuscript witnesses have their own dates, languages, and material arrangements.