Mathers says the figure brings wealth and honor and names Bariel as its angel.
- Planetary group
- ♃ Jupiter
- Mathers figure
- 21
- Printed plate
- IV
- Text anchor
- Psalm 112:3
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
Mathers says the figure brings wealth and honor and names Bariel as its angel.
Within the Jupiter collection, this places figure 21 among themes of treasure, status, protection, visions, and relief from poverty.
Inscription, names, and script
Psalm 112:3: Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endureth for ever.
IH appears above the central sigil; Adoniel and Bariel are arranged below and around a four-part square.
How the diagram is organized
The visible core is a vertical sigil-and-name axis. Around it, a four-compartment square organizes Bariel’s letters. At the edge, the same wealth verse used for Jupiter 2 surrounds the design.
Mathers plate and witness differences
The caption adds silver, a Jupiter day and hour, and a Cancer placement that the line drawing cannot show. This is a clear example of the plate being only one layer of the edited procedure.
Plate IV 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 21
Compare this figure with Jupiter 2: both use Psalm 112:3, but this one replaces a hexagram with a vertical sigil and compartmented angel name. The shared verse does not make the diagrams interchangeable; it reveals two visual arguments around the same prosperity text.
View this figure in sequence
The Jupiter collection contains 7 figures, numbered 18–24 in the 1889 edition.