The Fourth Pentacle of Mercury
To gain understanding and knowledge of all created things, to penetrate hidden things, and to command the Allatori spirits on errands.
Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate XI fig. 47; 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. Mathers gives the versicle ('Wisdom and virtue are in his house...') but no citation, and does not identify its source. The dodecagram text ('IHVH, fix Thou the Volatile...') is his reconstruction.
Correspondences
- Number
- 37
- Planet
- Mercury
- Chakra
- Throat Chakra
- Colors
- mixed coloursPurple
Practice
- Purpose
- To gain understanding and knowledge of all created things, to penetrate hidden things, and to command the Allatori spirits on errands.
- Magical Uses
- KnowledgeHidden knowledgeCommunicationSpirit conjuration
Details
- Metals
- mixed metalsQuicksilver
- Angel
- El; the Allatori spirits
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