The Image of Mercury

Planetary spirits

Tradition · Hermetic Western
Alternate Names
Mercurii imago
Kind
Image
Planet
Mercury
Chakra
Throat Chakra
Order of angels
Archangels in the received tables, Bene Elohim in Agrippa's scale of ten.
Metal
Mercury
Stone
Agate
Color
Orange
Day
Wednesday
Hour planet
Mercury
Rank
Talismanic image
Office

The first image confers knowledge, eloquence, diligence in merchandising and gain, and is said to beget peace and concord and to cure fevers. The second is for goodwill, wit and memory. Mercury's images are therefore the only ones in the set aimed squarely at the operator's own capacities rather than at fortune, health or love.

Image

A handsome bearded young man with winged feet, a rod with a serpent twined about it in his left hand and a dart in his right, made in the hour of Mercury with Mercury ascending in Gemini; it confers knowledge, eloquence and diligence in merchandising and gain, begets peace and concord, and cures fevers. A second, for goodwill, wit and memory: a man seated in a chair or riding on a peacock, with eagle's feet and a crest on his head, holding a cock or fire in his left hand, made with Mercury ascending in Virgo.

Keywords
MercuryImageCaduceusPeacockEloquenceKnowledge
Magical Uses
LearningCommunicationMemoryTradePeaceHealing

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