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The Brass VesselLesser Key · Greater Key · Solomonic manuscripts
The Brass Vessel
Solomon’s legendary wisdom opens a world of hidden books, imprisoned spirits and intricate figures of power. Explore the seventy-two spirits of the Goetia, follow the king’s story through the grimoires, or examine pentacles whose names and verses promise protection, knowledge and command.
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Spirit · 02Agares
Teaching languages, returning runaways, moving those who stand still, destroying dignities, and causing earthquakes.
Spirit · 03Vassago
Declaring things past and future, and discovering what is hidden or lost.
Spirit · 04Samigina
Teaching the liberal sciences and reporting on souls of people who died in sin.
Spirit · 05Marbas
Answering about hidden matters, causing and curing diseases, teaching mechanical arts, and changing people's forms.
Spirit · 06Valefor
Serving as a familiar while tempting the person he accompanies to steal.
Spirit · 07Amon
Declaring past and future events, creating feuds, and reconciling disputes between friends.
Spirit · 08Barbatos
Understanding animal voices, opening enchanted treasures, knowing past and future, and reconciling friends and powerful people.
Spirit · 09Paimon
Teaching arts, sciences and secrets; answering questions about earth and mind; granting and confirming dignities; subjecting people to the magician; and giving familiars who teach the arts.
Spirit · 10Buer
Teaching moral and natural philosophy, logic and the virtues of herbs and plants, healing ailments, and giving good familiars.
Spirit · 11Gusion
Knowing past, present and future, resolving questions, reconciling friendships, and giving honour and dignity.
Spirit · 12Sitri
Inflaming desire between men and women and causing people to show themselves naked.
Spirit · 13Beleth
Causing love between men and women.
Spirit · 14Leraje
Causing battles and contests, and making wounds inflicted by arrows putrefy.
Spirit · 15Eligos
Discovering hidden things, knowing future events and the meeting of armies, and obtaining the love of lords and great people.
Spirit · 16Zepar
Causing women to love men and bringing them together, while also making women barren.
Spirit · 17Botis
Declaring past and future matters and reconciling friends and enemies.
Spirit · 18Bathin
Knowing the virtues of herbs and precious stones, and transporting people swiftly between countries.
Spirit · 19Sallos
Causing love between women and men.
Spirit · 20Purson
Knowing hidden matters and events in past, present and future, finding treasure, answering earthly and divine questions, and giving good familiars.
Spirit · 21Marax
Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing wise familiars who know the virtues of herbs and precious stones.
Spirit · 22Ipos
Knowing past, present and future, and making people witty and bold.
Spirit · 23Aim
Setting cities, castles and great places on fire, making people witty, and answering private matters.
Spirit · 24Naberius
Teaching arts and sciences, especially rhetoric, and restoring lost dignities and honours.
Spirit · 25Glasya-Labolas
Teaching arts and sciences and past and future matters, causing bloodshed, producing love between friends or enemies, and making people invisible.
Spirit · 26Bune
Moving the dead, assembling spirits at sepulchres, giving wealth, wisdom and eloquence, and answering questions truthfully.
Spirit · 27Ronove
Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving good servants, and obtaining favour with friends and enemies.
Spirit · 28Berith
Answering past, present and future matters, changing metals into gold, and granting or confirming dignity.
Spirit · 29Astaroth
Answering past, present and future questions, disclosing secrets and the spirits' fall, and teaching the liberal sciences.
Spirit · 30Forneus
Teaching rhetoric and languages, giving a good reputation, and securing affection from enemies as well as friends.
Spirit · 31Foras
Teaching the virtues of herbs and precious stones, logic and ethics; granting eloquence, longevity and invisibility in the main reading; discovering treasure and recovering lost things.
Spirit · 32Asmoday
Giving the Ring of Virtues, teaching arithmetic, astronomy, geometry and handicrafts, answering questions, making people invincible, and finding and guarding treasure.
Spirit · 33Gaap
Making people insensible or ignorant or learned in philosophy and the liberal sciences; causing love or hatred; teaching consecration under Amaymon; freeing familiars; answering across time; and carrying people between kingdoms.
Spirit · 34Furfur
Urging love between man and woman, raising lightning, thunder, blasts and storms, and answering secret and divine matters when constrained.
Spirit · 35Marchosias
Fighting as a powerful combatant.
Spirit · 36Stolas
Teaching astronomy and the virtues of herbs and precious stones.
Spirit · 37Phenex
Speaking about the sciences, composing excellent poetry, and carrying out requests.
Spirit · 38Halphas
Building towers, supplying ammunition and weapons, and sending warriors to appointed places.
Spirit · 39Malphas
Building houses and high towers, revealing enemies' desires, thoughts and actions, and giving familiars.
Spirit · 40Raum
Stealing royal treasure, destroying cities and dignities, revealing past, present and future, and producing love between friends and enemies.
Spirit · 41Focalor
Slaying or drowning people, overturning ships of war, and controlling winds and seas; the account also allows contrary commands preventing harm.
Spirit · 42Vepar
Governing waters and guiding armed ships, raising storms and the appearance of ships, and causing death within three days through putrefying, worm-filled wounds.
Spirit · 43Sabnock
Building and arming towers, castles and cities, afflicting people with wounds and worm-filled sores, and giving familiars.
Spirit · 44Shax
Removing sight, hearing or understanding, taking royal money, fetching horses or other things, revealing hidden things not kept by wicked spirits, and sometimes giving familiars.
Spirit · 45Vine
Discovering hidden things, witches, wizards and past, present and future matters; building towers, overthrowing stone walls and making waters stormy.
Spirit · 46Bifrons
Teaching astrology, geometry and other sciences and the virtues of stones and woods, moving dead bodies, and lighting seeming candles on graves.
Spirit · 47Uvall
Obtaining women's love, knowing past, present and future, and reconciling friends and enemies.
Spirit · 48Haagenti
Making people wise, teaching diverse matters, changing metals to gold, and changing wine to water and water to wine.
Spirit · 49Crocell
Teaching geometry and the liberal sciences, producing sounds like rushing water without water present, warming waters, and discovering baths.
Spirit · 50Furcas
Teaching philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, palm divination and divination by fire.
Spirit · 51Balam
Answering past, present and future questions, making people invisible, and making them witty.
Spirit · 52Alloces
Teaching astronomy and the liberal sciences, and providing good familiars.
Spirit · 53Camio
Speaking skilfully in debate, giving understanding of birds, cattle, dogs, other creatures and the voice of waters, and answering questions about the future.
Spirit · 54Murmur
Teaching philosophy and compelling deceased souls to appear and answer questions.
Spirit · 55Orobas
Discovering events across time, granting dignities and prelacies, securing favour, answering about divinity and creation, and protecting the exorcist from temptation by other spirits.
Spirit · 56Gremory
Telling past, present and future matters, discovering hidden treasure and its location, and obtaining women's love.
Spirit · 57Ose
Teaching the liberal sciences, answering divine and secret matters, and changing a person's form and belief about that form.
Spirit · 58Amy
Teaching astrology and the liberal sciences, giving familiars, and revealing treasure kept by spirits.
Spirit · 59Orias
Teaching the virtues of stars and planetary mansions, transforming people, granting or confirming dignities and prelacies, and obtaining favour.
Spirit · 60Vapula
Teaching handicrafts, professions, philosophy and other sciences.
Spirit · 61Zagan
Making people witty or wise, changing wine, water and blood, and turning metals into coin.
Spirit · 62Valac
Answering about hidden treasure and the whereabouts of serpents, and bringing those serpents to the exorcist.
Spirit · 63Andras
Sowing discord; the passage also threatens the exorcist and companions with death if care is lacking.
Spirit · 64Haures
Answering about events, creation, divinity and the spirits' fall, burning enemies, and preventing temptation by other spirits.
Spirit · 65Andrealphus
Teaching geometry, measurement and astronomy, and changing a person into a bird's likeness.
Spirit · 66Cimejes
Teaching grammar, logic and rhetoric, and discovering lost or hidden things and treasure.
Spirit · 67Amdusias
Producing instrumental music, bending trees, and providing excellent familiars.
Spirit · 68Belial
Distributing presentations and senatorships, securing favour with friends and enemies, and providing excellent familiars.
Spirit · 69Decarabia
Discovering the virtues of birds and precious stones, and producing bird likenesses that fly, sing and drink like natural birds.
Spirit · 70Seere
Swiftly bringing events to pass, carrying things between places, travelling across the earth, and giving accounts of theft and hidden treasure.
Spirit · 71Dantalion
Teaching arts and sciences, revealing secret counsels and thoughts, changing thoughts, causing love, and showing likenesses of absent people in visions.
Spirit · 72Andromalius
Returning thieves and stolen goods, exposing wrongdoing, punishing thieves and wicked people, and discovering hidden treasure.
ChapterThe Gift of Wisdom
As Solomon lies down to sleep, he asks for wisdom. An angel answers him. Another introduction to the Greater Key places the revelation beneath the trees, in the light of a blazing star.
ChapterHeaven and Nature
In the Lansdowne introduction, Solomon explains a world inhabited by celestial, planetary and elemental spirits. Their duties reach from the motion of the stars to the preservation of human lives.
ChapterA Testament for Roboam
Solomon gives Roboam an inheritance more precious than riches: the knowledge gathered into the Key, with instructions for studying and preserving it.
ChapterThe Ivory Casket and the Recovered Key
Babylonian philosophers find the Key in an ivory casket while repairing Solomon’s tomb. They possess the book, but cannot understand it until one of their company seeks divine help.
ChapterThe Temple and the Angelic Notes
The Lemegeton introduces another account of Solomon’s learning: prayers at the Temple altar, Michael’s revelation and notes written by the divine hand or finger.
ChapterThe Court of Seventy-Two
Crowned riders, changing beasts, teachers and treasure-finders fill the Goetia’s seventy-two notices. Their recorded forms, offices and companies of spirits differ from one name to the next.
ChapterThe Sealed Vessel and Babylon
The people of Babylon opened a brass vessel expecting treasure. Inside were the seventy-two spirits and their legions, bound there by Solomon.
ChapterMany Keys, One Solomonic Name
Solomon’s name travelled with books, languages and figures. Later manuscripts and printed editions preserved different accounts of his teaching, while translators and editors worked through uncertain names, words and drawings.
Sun
The Pentacles of the Sun
Pentacle · SunThe 1st Pentacle of the Sun
A bearded face confronts the viewer beneath a declaration of universal obedience. The Key calls it the countenance of Shaddai; Mathers sees Metatron, the Almighty’s representative and Prince of Countenances.
Pentacle · SunThe 2nd Pentacle of the Sun
Solar spirits are described as proud and arrogant; this pentacle is intended to bring that pride under command. Eight differently tipped spokes lie inside a band naming four angels.
Pentacle · SunThe 3rd Pentacle of the Sun
Twelve repetitions of God’s four-letter name fill two overlapping squares. Around them runs a statement of everlasting kingdom, accompanying claims of empire, renown, glory and the power to inflict loss.
Pentacle · SunThe 4th Pentacle of the Sun
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.
Pentacle · SunThe 5th Pentacle of the Sun
Spirits summoned by the fifth Sun pentacle are said to carry a person a long distance in a short time. Its outer verse describes angels keeping the traveller’s ways and bearing the traveller in their hands.
Pentacle · SunThe 6th Pentacle of the Sun
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.
Pentacle · SunThe 7th Pentacle of the Sun
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.
Moon
The Pentacles of the Moon
Pentacle · MoonThe 1st Pentacle of the Moon
No fastening is meant to resist the Moon’s first pentacle. Its gateway is filled with divine and angelic names, while a verse recalls brass gates broken and iron bars cut apart.
Pentacle · MoonThe 2nd Pentacle of the Moon
Lunar spirits raise rain and violent tempests around the circle to frighten the invoker. Showing this pentacle is said to stop them quickly; its pointing hand is enclosed by a declaration of trust and refusal of fear.
Pentacle · MoonThe 3rd Pentacle of the Moon
A properly made pentacle carried on a journey is credited with protection from attacks by night and every danger by water. Its hand points towards Aub and Vevaphel, within an urgent prayer for deliverance.
Pentacle · MoonThe 4th Pentacle of the Moon
Sophiel offers knowledge of the virtues of every herb and stone to whoever names him. This teaching claim accompanies protection of body and soul, a divine name from Exodus and a Latin petition against persecutors.
Pentacle · MoonThe 5th Pentacle of the Moon
Answers in sleep open a more perilous lunar notice. Iachadiel is also linked with destruction and loss, night phantoms and the summoning of departed souls from Hades; a verse calls for enemies to scatter.
Pentacle · MoonThe 6th Pentacle of the Moon
A silver plate beneath water is said to bring heavy rain for as long as it remains submerged. The sixth Moon pentacle joins that unusual condition to eight radiating lunar characters and words from the biblical Flood.
Venus
The Pentacles of Venus
Pentacle · VenusThe 1st Pentacle of Venus
The Venus family opens with command over spirits, especially the named company in this figure. Eight unlike characters radiate inside the angelic names, before the later pentacles turn to favour, honour and attraction.
Pentacle · VenusThe 2nd Pentacle of Venus
“Love is strong as death” runs around a lettered pentagram. The Venus notice speaks more broadly of grace, honour and fulfilling desires within the planet’s sphere; its verse imagines a seal upon heart and arm.
Pentacle · VenusThe 3rd Pentacle of Venus
Showing the third Venus pentacle is said to attract love. Its angel Monachiel has a stated Venusian timing, while two point-touching triangles hold names inside a verse of blessing and multiplication.
Pentacle · VenusThe 4th Pentacle of Venus
The fourth Venus pentacle claims power to compel the planet’s spirits and bring a chosen person at once. Its divided diamond is enclosed by Genesis’s words about bone and flesh, giving the command a distinctly bodily setting.
Pentacle · VenusThe 5th Pentacle of Venus
A verse about a heart melting like wax surrounds this love-attraction figure. Its square carries special-script names, two of which Mathers left undeciphered; merely showing the pentacle is said to excite love.
Mercury
The Pentacles of Mercury
Pentacle · MercuryThe 1st Pentacle of Mercury
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.
Pentacle · MercuryThe 2nd Pentacle of Mercury
These spirits are said to answer easily but appear only with difficulty. Their Mercury notice also gives them an unusually open remit: effects contrary to nature and outside the book’s other headings.
Pentacle · MercuryThe 3rd Pentacle of Mercury
Four named angels enclose a wheel of eight varied Mercury characters. Its invocation also extends to the following pentacle, where spirit-command opens into hidden knowledge and the work of envoys.
Pentacle · MercuryThe 4th Pentacle of Mercury
Mercury’s fourth pentacle promises understanding of created and hidden things and commands spirit envoys called Allatori. Around its central El, a twelve-pointed figure carries a strange request to fix the volatile and restrict the void.
Pentacle · MercuryThe 5th Pentacle of Mercury
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates” encircles the last Mercury pentacle. The notice claims command over Mercury’s spirits and entrance through doors however they are closed, with nothing able to resist.
Mars
The Pentacles of Mars
Pentacle · MarsThe 1st Pentacle of Mars
Eight characters of Mars radiate within four angelic names. The opening figure summons spirits of this planetary nature, especially the company written around its circle.
Pentacle · MarsThe 2nd Pentacle of Mars
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.
Pentacle · MarsThe 3rd Pentacle of Mars
War, wrath, discord and hostility belong to the third Mars notice, alongside resistance to enemies and terror for rebellious spirits. A large Vau stands in its centre, among letters forming Eloah and Shaddai.
Pentacle · MarsThe 4th Pentacle of Mars
Victory in war is the fourth Mars pentacle’s promise. AGLA occupies its centre, while Psalm 110 surrounds the cross with a Lord who strikes through kings in the day of wrath.
Pentacle · MarsThe 5th Pentacle of Mars
A detailed scorpion fills the fifth Mars pentacle. The Key says demons cannot resist its sight, and surrounds the creature with HVL and a Psalm’s lion, adder and dragon underfoot.
Pentacle · MarsThe 6th Pentacle of Mars
An attacker’s weapons are said to turn against their owner, while the bearer of the sixth Mars pentacle escapes injury. Its angelic characters name divine protection; the Psalm around them sends a sword into the aggressor’s own heart.
Pentacle · MarsThe 7th Pentacle of Mars
The seventh Mars notice stages an immediate hailstorm: the figure is uncovered within the circle while its written demons are invoked. Its mixed scripts surround El and Yiai, and its Psalm remembers fire and shattered vines in Egypt.
Jupiter
The Pentacles of Jupiter
Pentacle · JupiterThe 1st Pentacle of Jupiter
Parasiel, “Lord and Master of Treasures,” belongs to the company named around Jupiter’s opening wheel. The notice says this spirit teaches how to gain possession of the places where treasures lie.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 2nd Pentacle of Jupiter
Glory, honour, riches and tranquillity of mind are promised together in the second Jupiter notice. The same figure discovers treasure and drives its guardians away; a hexagram arranges divine names within a verse about wealth and lasting righteousness.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 3rd Pentacle of Jupiter
The third Jupiter pentacle protects someone calling spirits and promises their immediate obedience when it is shown. Two smaller seals share a divided circle with divine names, surrounded by Mount Zion’s image of unshaken endurance.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 4th Pentacle of Jupiter
Riches and honour are the promises of Mathers’s fourth Jupiter pentacle. A branching sigil, the angel Bariel and a silver engraving made under Jupiter in Cancer give this wealth-bearing design its particular character.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 5th Pentacle of Jupiter
Jupiter’s vision pentacle is credited with the ladder Jacob saw reaching heaven. Its lettered star, however, sits inside Ezekiel’s words about opened heavens beside the Chebar—a meeting of two biblical visions that Mathers tried to reconcile.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 6th Pentacle of Jupiter
Psalm 22’s words about pierced hands and feet surround a promise of preservation from earthly danger. Four elemental rulers fill the cross, while the notice ties protection to daily devotion and repetition of the verse.
Pentacle · JupiterThe 7th Pentacle of Jupiter
The needy rise from the dunghill to sit with princes in Jupiter’s final verse. Its notice joins relief from poverty to the discovery of treasures and the expulsion of their guardian spirits, through devotion and repeated words.
Saturn
The Pentacles of Saturn
Pentacle · SaturnThe 1st Pentacle of Saturn
Spirits kneel upon the earth when the first Saturn pentacle is shown, according to the Key. Four divine names fill its sixteen-cell square, inside a Psalm’s image of enemies licking the dust.
Pentacle · SaturnThe 2nd Pentacle of Saturn
Saturn’s second pentacle meets adversity with a twenty-five-letter square and a promise to repress spirit pride. Mathers connects its Hebrew grid to the famous SATOR word puzzle and builds a numerical argument around the divine name IHVH.
Pentacle · SaturnThe 3rd Pentacle of Saturn
Made within the magical circle and recommended for night invocation, Saturn’s third pentacle has a precise setting. Four angelic names enclose its wheel of magical characters.
Pentacle · SaturnThe 4th Pentacle of Saturn
Ruin, destruction and death are the fourth Saturn pentacle’s principal purposes. A second use concerns news-bearing spirits invoked toward the south; divine unity runs along its triangle while a bodily curse encircles it.
Pentacle · SaturnThe 5th Pentacle of Saturn
Night invocation and the expulsion of treasure guardians meet in Saturn’s fifth pentacle. Divine names occupy its cross and diamond, surrounded by the words “a great God, a mighty, and a terrible.”
Pentacle · SaturnThe 6th Pentacle of Saturn
A hostile pronouncement accompanies Saturn’s sixth wheel. The Key says the person against whom it is pronounced will be afflicted by demons, while the outer petition calls for a wicked ruler over that person and Satan at their right hand.
Pentacle · SaturnThe 7th Pentacle of Saturn
Nine orders of angels occupy Saturn’s last pentacle, whose notice gives them enough power to make the universe tremble. Its assigned effect is an earthquake; the enclosing Psalm shakes the earth and the foundations of hills.
Athens MS 115
Athens 115: the Twenty-Four Seals
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 01
Loops gather in pairs at the ends of this cross, turning with its four arms towards a single circular boundary.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 02
Short cross-strokes mark an eight-armed wheel whose straight lines meet at one centre.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 03
Three squared terminals give way to a triangle and a broad loop beneath the centre.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 04
Tiny rings crowd the cells of a circular grid, following its straight dividers into the narrow spaces at the rim.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 05
The cross’s side ornaments diverge: a figure-eight loop to the left, a longer chain of curves to the right.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 06
Four large marks occupy a quartered circle, two of them shaped like an H.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 07
A six-pointed star fills the centre, with curved and letter-like signs standing clear of its outline.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 08
Five rings gather at the centre of a square whose corners curl into loops.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 09
A downward-pointing triangle cuts through a rectangle, joining two geometric frames amid loops and character-like marks.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 10
The ends of this eight-spoked wheel carry an assortment of loops, bars and curves.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 11
Three stems rise from a narrow base: a straight central stroke between two curling outer branches.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 12
Curled caps follow the outer ends of an eight-armed wheel, with small gaps separating most from the straight spokes.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 13
An angular upper structure narrows into a long upright, which passes through a ring near the bottom of the seal.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 14
Numbers punctuate an uneven grid, with several cells left open near the circular edge.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 15
A small circle encloses the crossing of eight otherwise unadorned arms.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 16
Long straight arms and shorter curled diagonals meet beneath a cup-like mark.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 17
Two sweeping curves cross a marked square and bend towards its right side.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 18
A long wavy stroke stands beside a six-pointed star, accompanied by scattered letter-like signs.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 19
Six arms meet at a common centre and end in different marks, from short cross-strokes to a rippled curve. The Greek text places this seal on a phylactery carried at the chest.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 20
Broad brackets end the four arms of a cross, leaving a narrow margin inside its circular boundary.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 21
The descending arm bends into a wavy line, among five other arms with crossed bars, curves and forks.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 22
Two squares overlap around an open eight-sided centre; small loops mark the corners of the upright square.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 23
Writing occupies one half of the circle while broad open spaces and nested curves fill the other.
PentacleAthens 115 · Seal 24
Hooked and crossed endings surround the centre of the last seal in Delatte’s twenty-four-drawing sequence.
The Nine Kandariri
The Nine Kandariri
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 1 · Left
Hebrew word groups flank a descending column of characters. A small cross above the design links its two enclosing circles.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 1 · Centre
Three little rings sit above an elongated character and four below. Its joined strokes run across most of the inner circle.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 1 · Right
A long angular figure crosses the upper part of this talisman. Several lines of Hebrew writing descend below it, with three little rings beside its right-hand upright.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 2 · Left
A crescent-shaped cap tops a broad upright cross. Loop-ended bars close its sides and lower arm.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 2 · Centre
A ring-centred cross is surrounded by little circles and unlike terminal characters. Six small circles fill the space above its horizontal arm.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 2 · Right
Curled and angular terminals mark a cross passing through a central ring. Stacked short bars sit on its upper arm, with a broad arch-like form below.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 3 · Left
A short group of Hebrew characters begins four separate tiers of marks: paired strokes, four small rings and three more below them.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 3 · Centre
A long stepped character lies between two rings above and rows of rings and hooks below. Its left end curls into a loop.
PentacleNine Kandariri · Row 3 · Right
Eight arms extend from a small central ring. Squared, looped and hooked terminals give each part of the radial design a different ending.
Lansdowne MS 1202
Lansdowne 1202: Armadel’s French CatalogueLansdowne MS 1203
Lansdowne 1203: the Abognazar WitnessAubrey MS 24
Aubrey 24: the Latin PentaclesHarley MS 5596
Harley 5596: the Twenty-Four SigillaFrançais 25314
Français 25314: Grid and Portrait
Pentacle · MarsFrançais 25314 · The Mars Pentacle on Page 92
Nine separate characters occupy a square grid beneath a Latin verse of dominion. The French notice places this pentacle under Mars and promises invulnerability to its wearer.
PentacleFrançais 25314 · The Portrait of the Eternal
A bearded face looks outward from a halo of rays. The manuscript calls it the portrait of the Eternal and prescribes lion skin, solar timing and gold or yellow colour.
Finding Passages and Figures
Follow a reference from the name or figure to its original words and image. A printed page, numbered notice, manuscript folio and plate number each point to a different part of the source.
Ranks and Terminology
A spirit’s title, office, legions and appearance answer different questions. Pentacles have another vocabulary, including names for their geometry and two kinds of numbering.
Reading the Solomonic Books
Begin with the books behind the stories, spirits and pentacles. The Greater Key and the Lesser Key share Solomon’s name, but organise his teaching in different ways.
Seals and Visual Traditions
The Solomonic books place written figures on a vessel’s cover, a conjuror’s breast and a prepared sheet or metal plate. Their names, verses and characters accompany accounts of making, consecrating, carrying and displaying them.
Texts and Editions
A photographed manuscript leaf and an edited plate show different things. Knowing who copied, translated or reconstructed a figure helps explain the form in which it reaches the reader.