The fifth figure is assigned to visions and is linked in the caption to Jacob’s ladder.
- Planetary group
- ♃ Jupiter
- Mathers figure
- 22
- Printed plate
- V
- Text anchor
- Ezekiel 1:1
Mathers assigns blue and tin to this planetary group. The crop documents his printed linework; it does not reproduce the color or material described elsewhere in the edition.
What Mathers’s caption claims
The fifth figure is assigned to visions and is linked in the caption to Jacob’s ladder.
Within the Jupiter collection, this places figure 22 among themes of treasure, status, protection, visions, and relief from poverty.
Inscription, names, and script
Ezekiel 1:1: The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of Elohim.
The interior letters are recombinations of five-letter words taken from the verse.
How the diagram is organized
The visible core is a name cluster at the center. Around it, a hexagram and enclosing circle order the recombined letter groups. At the edge, the Ezekiel vision verse surrounds the figure.
Mathers plate and witness differences
Mathers argues that only the last five words should count, because that removes the anachronism of Jacob using a later Ezekiel sentence. The correction exposes the editor solving a chronological problem inside his source.
Plate V is an artifact of Mathers’s 1889 arrangement. His preface and final note say that he compared differing manuscripts and restored difficult Hebrew and magical characters. Sloane 2731 and Lansdowne 1203 remain distinct manuscript objects; this printed crop should not stand in for either one.
WORKED EXAMPLE
A diagram reading of figure 22
Separate the printed evidence from the explanation: the plate shows letters inside a hexagram and a verse outside, while the note proposes a five-word extraction. Reading those layers in order demonstrates where observation ends and Mathers’s emendation begins.
View this figure in sequence
The Jupiter collection contains 7 figures, numbered 18–24 in the 1889 edition.