Mathers assigns blue to Jupiter and names tin as its corresponding metal. The 7 figures cover treasure, status, protection, visions, and relief from poverty. Those claims belong to the historical edition; the diagrams can still be analyzed as arrangements of text, script, and geometry without treating the promised effects as measured results.
The Jupiter series alternates planetary characters with hexagrams, crosses, angel names, and verses about wealth or steadfastness. Mathers also intervenes directly in the fifth figure’s text, making it a useful case for separating plate from editorial argument.
How the Jupiter sequence changes
The collection is not one emblem repeated 7 times. Its centers range from a small central planetary character to an open central hub. The framing systems likewise move between eight radial strokes terminating in Jupiter characters and a radial wheel carries varied Jupiter characters. Reading the group in order makes those structural choices visible.
The perimeter often does a different job from the center. In the first figure, four angel names occupy the border; in the last, the elevation-from-poverty verse surrounds the wheel. A plate crop becomes misleading when those outer words are discarded as decoration.
7 Jupiter figures at a glance
First Pentacle of Jupiter
The first Jupiter caption invokes planetary spirits and singles out Parasiel as a master of treasures and their locations.
Second Pentacle of Jupiter
Mathers assigns this figure to honor, status, riches, tranquillity, and the discovery of guarded treasure.
Third Pentacle of Jupiter
The caption presents the figure as protection for an invocation and as a sign shown to arriving spirits.
Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter
Mathers says the figure brings wealth and honor and names Bariel as its angel.
Fifth Pentacle of Jupiter
The fifth figure is assigned to visions and is linked in the caption to Jacob’s ladder.
Sixth Pentacle of Jupiter
The caption describes daily contemplation of the figure as protection from earthly dangers.
Seventh Pentacle of Jupiter
Mathers gives the last Jupiter figure power against poverty and against spirits said to guard treasure.
Text and plate comparison
| Figure | Mathers’s stated theme | Textual anchor | Plate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. First Pentacle of Jupiter | treasure, angels, planetary characters | No biblical verse is identified | IV, fig. 18 |
| 2. Second Pentacle of Jupiter | wealth, hexagram, psalm | Psalm 112:3 | IV, fig. 19 |
| 3. Third Pentacle of Jupiter | protection, seals, psalm | Psalm 125:1 | IV, fig. 20 |
| 4. Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter | wealth, Bariel, comparison | Psalm 112:3 | IV, fig. 21 |
| 5. Fifth Pentacle of Jupiter | visions, editorial emendation, hexagram | Ezekiel 1:1 | V, fig. 22 |
| 6. Sixth Pentacle of Jupiter | protection, cross, elemental rulers | Psalm 22:16–17 | V, fig. 23 |
| 7. Seventh Pentacle of Jupiter | poverty, treasure, planetary characters | Psalm 113:7 | V, fig. 24 |
What the plate can and cannot establish
The crops preserve the figures as Mathers printed them, including damaged or uncertain readings he discusses in his notes. The linework establishes the edition’s layout. The accompanying prose supplies names, script identifications, and claimed purposes that may not be recoverable from shape alone.
Different manuscript witnesses can change spelling, letter shape, color, order, or even the set of figures. The individual pages therefore distinguish visible evidence from Mathers’s interpretation and from the broader Clavicula tradition.