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The Brass VesselThe Pentacles
A five-pointed star bears the letters of Yekahel and Agiel. The opening Mercury notice gives these spirits a broad setting: beneath the firmament, the heaven above the human world. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 68; figure 44, Plate X; plate PDF page 92
The first Mercury notice assigns a single task: invoking spirits who are under the firmament. The word belongs to the biblical language of the heavens; Genesis calls the firmament Heaven and places it between waters below and above. [1][2]
A five-pointed star touches the inner circle at its tips. Five Hebrew letters lie within the star’s projecting spaces, while five more are spaced around the outer band. The middle pentagonal field is empty. Mathers reads the letters as forming Yekahel and Agiel, names of the spirits invoked by the figure. [1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 68; figure 44, Plate X; plate PDF page 92; Complete Mercury notices and notes, printed pp. 68–69 (PDF pp. 91, 96); general Book I VIII pp. 39–41 and XVIII pp. 56–57
King James Version, public-domain biblical text. Genesis 1:6–8