Uncovering this solar pentacle is said to make otherwise invisible spirits appear immediately. Its radiating characters surround Hebrew divine names and a prayer that the speaker’s eyes be filled with light. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 65; figure 35, Plate VIII; plate PDF page 86
When uncovered, to make spirits otherwise invisible to their invoker appear visible immediately. [1]
Design
Eight triangle-tipped spokes surround ordinary Hebrew names, with Passing of the River characters at their ends and Psalm 13:3–4 around the rim. [1]
Source reproduction The 4th Pentacle of the Sun: central Hebrew names and Passing of the River characters around the rays. Mathers 1889, Plate VIII, figure 35; notice on p. 65.
The moment of unveiling
The fourth Sun pentacle concerns a spirit already present but invisible to the person invoking it. The Key says that once the pentacle is uncovered, the spirits will immediately appear visibly. [1]
Hebrew at the centre, another script at the rays
Eight spokes meet at one central point and end in triangular heads. Beyond them are distinct magical characters, some hooked or looped and some formed from bars. The Hebrew letters around the centre make the names IHVH and Adonai. [1]
Mathers distinguishes that central Hebrew from the characters around the radii, which use the alphabet called Passing of the River. The two kinds of writing occupy separate positions in the same figure: divine names close to the centre and the special characters towards its circumference. [1]
Lighten mine eyes
The outer band carries Psalm 13:3–4. Mathers’s quotation begins “Lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death” and continues with the enemy’s feared declaration of victory. In the psalm, the speaker asks how long God will hide his face and how long the enemy will be exalted. The request for light is part of an urgent appeal to be heard and preserved. [1][2]
That wording gives the revelation claim a precise point of contact with scripture: the prayer concerns the speaker’s eyes, while the pentacle is intended to disclose spirits hidden from those eyes. The sixth Sun figure takes up the contrary language of darkened, unseeing eyes in an operation of invisibility. [1]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 65; figure 35, Plate VIII; plate PDF page 86; relevant solar notices, printed pp. 65–66; construction context, chapter VIII pp. 39–41 and chapter XVIII pp. 56–57
