The Fifth Pentacle of Mercury
Commands Mercury's spirits and opens any door, however it is closed.
Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate XI fig. 48; Peterson's e-text (esotericarchives.com) lists the same sequence. The 1-44 number follows the edition's own 'Order of the Pentacles' (Saturn first: 7+7+7+7+5+5+6); later books reorder (Mastros 2023 counts from the Moon), and the pentacle's own name is its per-planet ordinal. One of two 'open doors' pentacles; the first pentacle of the Moon has the same office. Verse: Ps 24:7. Where a Psalm is cited, the numbering is Mathers' English (KJV); the Hebrew numbering is lower.
Correspondences
- Number
- 38
- Planet
- Mercury
- Chakra
- Throat Chakra
- Colors
- mixed coloursPurple
Practice
- Purpose
- Commands Mercury's spirits and opens any door, however it is closed.
- Psalm
- Psalm 24:7
- Magical Uses
- Opening doorsTravelSpirit obedience
Details
- Metals
- mixed metalsQuicksilver
- Angel
- El Ab, IHVH
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