A healing claim appears among Mars’s figures of conflict. The Key says this pentacle succeeds against diseases when applied to the afflicted part; its star holds divine names and John’s words about life and light. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 63; figure 26, Plate VI; plate PDF page 79
According to the Key, to act against all kinds of disease when applied to the afflicted part. [1]
Design
A six-pointed star contains He letters and divine names, within John 1:4’s life-and-light wording. [1]
Source reproduction The 2nd Pentacle of Mars: He, divine names and John 1:4 within and around a hexagram. Mathers 1889, Plate VI, figure 26; notice on p. 63.
The afflicted body
The second Mars notice credits the pentacle with success against all kinds of disease, on the condition that it is applied to the afflicted part. [1]
The name with Shin inserted
Two overlapping triangles form a six-pointed star. He appears in its six projecting angles. Inside are IHVH, Elohim and the extended name IHShVH, which Mathers calls Yeheshuah, the mystic Hebrew name for Joshua or Jesus. He explains it as IHVH with Shin inserted as an emblem of the Spirit. [1]
IHVH and Elohim run horizontally through the interior; the intervening letters also descend through its centre. A small six-pointed star stands at the top of the outer Hebrew sentence. [1]
Life as the light of humankind
The outer words come from John 1:4: “In Him was life, and the life was the light of man,” in Mathers’s rendering. The Gospel’s opening identifies the Word with God and the making of all things, then speaks of light shining in darkness. The healing notice is enclosed by this Christian language of life and light. [1][2]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 63; figure 26, Plate VI; plate PDF page 79; Complete Mars notices and notes, printed pp. 63–64 (PDF pp. 80–81); Preface p. vi; general Book I VIII pp. 39–41 and XVIII pp. 56–57
