The Fifth Pentacle of Venus

Its virtue

When it is only showed unto any person soever, it inciteth and exciteth wonderfully unto love.

The Key of Solomon the King, Mathers (1889), Figure 43, the last of Venus. Public domain.

What is written on it

A square with 'Passing of the River' characters and the Names Elohim and El Gebil.

The versicle

“My heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”

Psalm 22:14

How it is made

• Engrave it in copper on a Friday, in an hour of Venus. Made in the planet's metal, it needs no particular colour.
• Or draw it on virgin paper or parchment, exorcised first, in green, the colour of Venus.
• The material must be new and never used for anything else. Metal is first purified by fire.
• The size is up to you, as long as it is made by the rules. Burn the incense while you work, and be pure in body and mind.

From Mathers, Book I, chapter 18, "Concerning the Holy Pentacles or Medals".