Mathers describes the figure as a display that makes spirits submit through terror.
- Planetary group
- ♄ Saturn
- Mathers figure
- 11
- Printed plate
- II
- Text anchor
- Psalm 72:9
Mathers assigns black and lead 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 describes the figure as a display that makes spirits submit through terror.
Within the Saturn collection, this places figure 11 among themes of constraint, adversity, night work, protection, and destructive claims.
Inscription, names, and script
Psalm 72:9: The Ethiopians shall kneel before him; his enemies shall lick the dust.
IHVH, ADNI, IIAI, and AHIH occupy the four-by-four field.
How the diagram is organized
The visible core is a sixteen-cell square of divine names. Around it, the square sits inside a double circular boundary beneath the Saturn sign. At the edge, the psalm verse closes the outer band.
Mathers plate and witness differences
Mathers says he restored Hebrew letters across the pentacle series. Here his note supplies vocalized forms and a numerical comment, so the plate records an editorial reconstruction rather than a diplomatic manuscript image.
Plate II 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 11
Read from the gridded center outward: four divine-name groups turn the square into a compact authority field, while the kneeling verse translates that authority into the caption’s claim of submission. The Saturn sign above identifies the planetary series after the internal hierarchy is already established.
View this figure in sequence
The Saturn collection contains 7 figures, numbered 11–17 in the 1889 edition.