Darkened eyes and eyes that cannot see enclose the Sun’s invisibility pentacle. Within its triangle, two magical alphabets carry a divine name and a central letter; a longer inscription left Mathers uncertain. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 66; figure 37, Plate VIII; plate PDF page 86
For the operation of invisibility, when correctly made. [1]
Design
A lettered triangle surrounds a double circle and a smaller triangle; Celestial Yod and Passing of the River characters lie within a Hebrew band of two Psalm passages. [1]
Source reproduction The 6th Pentacle of the Sun: a triangular inscription, Celestial Yod and the name Shaddai within verses about unseeing eyes. Mathers 1889, Plate VIII, figure 37; notice on p. 66.
The figure of invisibility
The sixth Sun pentacle is credited with the operation of invisibility when correctly made. Its position beside a design that transports a person and another that releases a prisoner gives concealment a place among the sequence’s transformations. The fourth pentacle makes unseen spirits visible; this one seeks invisibility. [1]
The triangle and its two alphabets
A broad triangular band is inscribed inside the circle. Within it lie a double circle and a small triangle with circles at its three corners. Mathers identifies the central character as Yod in the Celestial alphabet. Three other letters, placed at the larger triangle’s angles in Passing of the River writing, form Shaddai. [1]
The characters running along the triangle’s three sides are a separate problem. Mathers proposes that they represent the opening of Genesis 1:1—“In the beginning the Elohim created”—but says the manuscript characters are badly mangled. His suggested creation text accompanies the clearer identifications of Yod and Shaddai without having the same degree of certainty. [1]
Two kinds of unseeing eyes
The Hebrew circumference combines Psalm 69:23 and Psalm 135:16. Mathers’s English moves from “Let their eyes be darkened that they see not” and trembling loins to “They have eyes and see not.” The first passage is a hostile prayer against enemies; the second describes manufactured idols, with eyes, mouths and ears that cannot function. [1][2][3]
These are different biblical settings for a shared failure of sight. Around the invisibility figure, they stand beside the triangular names and characters as direct verbal expressions of unseeing. [1][2][3]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 66; figure 37, 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
