The Image of Mars
The first image makes a man powerful in good and evil so that he is feared by all, and gives the bearer the power of enchantment, to terrify and stupefy by a look when angry. The second is for boldness, courage and good fortune in war and contention.
Diamond is Agrippa's martial stone here, chosen for its hardness, though the corpus assigns diamond to the Sun and ruby or bloodstone to Mars elsewhere; the entry keeps Agrippa's stone and records the difference rather than retargeting it. Tyson notes the practical objection that engraving a diamond was all but impossible in the ancient world, which is one reason to read these image recipes as prescriptive astrology rather than as workshop notes. Agrippa gives no metal for the image; iron is the planet's own and is supplied by the correspondence.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Mars
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Red
- Rank
- Talismanic image
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Martis imago
Practice
- Magical Uses
- CourageVictoryProtectionFearStrength
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Image
- Office
The first image makes a man powerful in good and evil so that he is feared by all, and gives the bearer the power of enchantment, to terrify and stupefy by a look when angry. The second is for boldness, courage and good fortune in war and contention. Both are works of martial force, one directed outward as fear, the other inward as nerve.
Details
- Order of angels
- Powers (Potestates) in the received tables; Seraphim in Agrippa's scale of ten. See the note on the intelligence of this sphere.
- Metal
- Iron
- Stone
- Diamond
- Image
A man armed and riding a lion, a naked sword erect in his right hand and a man's head carried in his left, made in the hour of Mars with Mars ascending in the second face of Aries, in a martial stone, especially a diamond; it renders a man powerful in good and evil and feared by all, and gives the bearer the power to terrify and stupefy by his look. A second, for boldness, courage and good fortune in wars and contentions, is a soldier armed and crowned, girt with a sword and carrying a long lance in his right hand, made in the hour of Mars with the first face of Scorpio ascending.
- Keywords
- MarsImageDiamondLionFearWar
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