Key of Solomon · Figure 47
The Fourth Pentacle of Mercury
Mercury ☿︎ · Wednesday · Mixed metal · Mixed colours
What it is for
For knowledge of all created things and their secrets, and to send the spirits called Allatori on errands.
Its virtue
This is further proper to acquire the understanding and Knowledge of all things created, and to seek out and penetrate into hidden things; and to command those Spirits which are called Allatori to perform embassies. They obey very readily.
The Key of Solomon the King, Mathers (1889), Figure 47. Public domain.
What is written on it
A twelve-pointed star with El at the centre and the sentence 'IHVH, fix Thou the Volatile, and let there be unto the void restriction.'
The versicle
“Wisdom and virtue are in his house, and the Knowledge of all things remaineth with him for ever.”
The versicle
How it is made
- Engrave it in mixed metal on a Wednesday, in an hour of Mercury. Made in the planet's metal, it needs no particular colour.
- Or draw it on virgin paper or parchment, exorcised first, in mixed colours, the colour of Mercury.
- 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".