The caption presents the figure as protection for an invocation and as a sign shown to arriving spirits.
- Planetary group
- ♃ Jupiter
- Mathers figure
- 20
- Printed plate
- IV
- Text anchor
- Psalm 125:1
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 caption presents the figure as protection for an invocation and as a sign shown to arriving spirits.
Within the Jupiter collection, this places figure 20 among themes of treasure, status, protection, visions, and relief from poverty.
Inscription, names, and script
Psalm 125:1: They that trust in IHVH shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
A Jupiter seal and intelligence seal appear with Adonai and IHVH.
How the diagram is organized
The visible core is a divided field containing name and sign. Around it, four quadrants distinguish a planetary seal, an intelligence seal, and divine names. At the edge, the Mount Zion verse supplies the stable rim.
Mathers plate and witness differences
Mathers’s note classifies the internal marks by type rather than treating every mark as letters. That taxonomy is an editorial aid and should remain visible when comparing a redraw with a named manuscript.
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 20
Read each quadrant as a different kind of identifier instead of sounding the marks as one sentence. The verse of immovability unifies seal, intelligence, and names from outside, so the protection claim emerges from coordinated categories.
View this figure in sequence
The Jupiter collection contains 7 figures, numbered 18–24 in the 1889 edition.