Mathers assigns red to Mars and names iron as its corresponding metal. The 7 figures cover conflict, healing, defense, coercion, and weather. 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 Mars figures move between healing and openly hostile purposes. The drawings pair martial characters with hexagrams, divine names, a scorpion, weapon imagery in the verses, and a final hail-and-fire claim.
How the Mars sequence changes
The collection is not one emblem repeated 7 times. Its centers range from a small central crossing to paired divine names at the center. The framing systems likewise move between eight radii terminate in Mars characters and an angular multi-point field holds spirit names. 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 enclose the wheel; in the last, the hail-and-fire passage fills the rim. A plate crop becomes misleading when those outer words are discarded as decoration.
7 Mars figures at a glance
First Pentacle of Mars
The first Mars figure is a general invocation of spirits placed under that planet.
Second Pentacle of Mars
The caption claims the figure can be applied to an afflicted part against disease.
Third Pentacle of Mars
Mathers connects the figure with war, anger, discord, hostile resistance, and terror.
Fourth Pentacle of Mars
The fourth Mars caption promises victory in war.
Fifth Pentacle of Mars
Mathers presents this scorpion figure as frightening and coercive toward demons.
Sixth Pentacle of Mars
The caption claims protection in combat and the reversal of an attacker’s weapons.
Seventh Pentacle of Mars
Mathers associates the last Mars pentacle with hail and tempest.
Text and plate comparison
| Figure | Mathers’s stated theme | Textual anchor | Plate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. First Pentacle of Mars | angels, invocation, planetary characters | No biblical verse is identified | V, fig. 25 |
| 2. Second Pentacle of Mars | healing claim, John, editorial argument | John 1:4 | VI, fig. 26 |
| 3. Third Pentacle of Mars | war, divine names, hexagram | Psalm 77:13 | VI, fig. 27 |
| 4. Fourth Pentacle of Mars | victory, AGLA, spatial reading | Psalm 110:5 | VI, fig. 28 |
| 5. Fifth Pentacle of Mars | scorpion, coercion, psalm | Psalm 91:13 | VI, fig. 29 |
| 6. Sixth Pentacle of Mars | protection, Malachim, weapon reversal | Psalm 37:15 | VII, fig. 30 |
| 7. Seventh Pentacle of Mars | weather, mixed scripts, hail | Psalm 105:32–33 | VII, fig. 31 |
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.