Gold is set against iron in the final Sun pentacle: its presence is said to free a prisoner from confinement or fetters immediately. Elemental angels fill the cross inside a verse of release and thanksgiving. [1]
Mathers 1889 · Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 66; figure 38, Plate IX; plate PDF page 89
At its presence, to release someone imprisoned or held in iron fetters immediately; the figure is to be engraved in gold on the Sun’s day and hour. [1]
Design
Four broad curved cross arms and four intervening spaces carry eight elemental names inside a Hebrew verse band.
Source reproduction The 7th Pentacle of the Sun: elemental names within Psalm 116’s words of release and thanks. Mathers 1889, Plate IX, figure 38; notice on p. 66.
Gold before iron fetters
The final Sun pentacle promises immediate deliverance to someone imprisoned or detained in iron fetters when the pentacle is present. Its own making requirement names gold and the day and hour of the Sun. The metal of the prescribed figure and the metal of the restraints are both part of this short account. [1]
Angels of the elements
Four broad arms form a cross with curved sides. Along them Mathers identifies Chasan, angel of Air; Arel, angel of Fire; Phorlakh, angel of Earth; and Taliahad, angel of Water. These names occupy the cardinal divisions of the figure. [1]
The spaces between the arms hold another four names: Ariel, Seraph, Tharshis and Cherub, which the note calls rulers of the elements. The drawing thus contains two groups of four. A Hebrew verse circles them, with a small diamond-shaped, circle-tipped mark at the top of the outer band. [1]
Release followed by thanksgiving
The circumference uses Psalm 116:16–17. Mathers’s translation begins “Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder” and continues with a sacrifice of thanksgiving and calling upon IHVH. The psalm’s speaker has passed through sorrow and the threat of death into deliverance; the later verses express service, vows and thanks. [1][2]
The pentacle’s notice concentrates on the instant of liberty. Its surrounding words continue into the response after liberation: an offering of thanks and the invocation of the divine name. Release from bonds closes the solar sequence with both an attributed marvel and its act of gratitude. [1][2]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, 1889; printed edition, including editorial restoration of Hebrew characters. Book I, chapter XVIII; printed p. 66; figure 38, Plate IX; plate PDF page 89; relevant solar notices, printed pp. 65–66; construction context, chapter VIII pp. 39–41 and chapter XVIII pp. 56–57
