The Seal of Mercury

Planetary spirits

Engraved on silver, tin or yellow brass with Mercury fortunate, or written on virgin parchment, the seal is held to make the bearer grateful and fortunate in doing what he pleases, to bring gain and prevent poverty, and to conduce to memory, understanding and divination.

Tradition · Hermetic Western

A note on this entry

Agrippa allows silver, tin, yellow brass or virgin parchment for this seal, so the metal field marks the planet's own metal while the text is broader; the parchment option is worth keeping because it is the only working in the chapter that a modern hand could perform without a foundry. The figure-with-caduceus that planetary_talismans.json calls Mercury's seal is the image of Book II, ch. 43, not this character.

Correspondences

Planet: Mercury
Chakra: Throat Chakra
Color: Orange
Rank: Planetary seal

Sacred timing

Day: Wednesday
Hour planet: Mercury

Symbols and forms

Alternate Names: The character of Mercury

Practice

Magical Uses: Talisman engravingLearningMemoryDivinationProsperity

Nature and meaning

Kind: Seal
Office: Engraved on silver, tin or yellow brass with Mercury fortunate, or written on virgin parchment, the seal is held to make the bearer grateful and fortunate in doing what he pleases, to bring gain and prevent poverty, and to conduce to memory, understanding and divination, including the understanding of occult things in dreams. With Mercury unfortunate it does the contrary. The parchment alternative is Agrippa's own and is one of the few instructions in the chapter that does not require a metal at all.

Details

Order of angels: Archangels in the received tables, Bene Elohim in Agrippa's scale of ten.
Metal: Mercury
Stone: Agate
Sigil: The character of the planet as such, drawn from the divine names over the numbers of the eight-by-eight square and printed in the plate between the characters of Tiriel and of Taphthartharath. It is drawn from the divine names over the square and not from any of the names under it, so it is not a variant of Tiriel's character and must not be copied as one.
Keywords: MercurySealCharacterSilverParchmentDivination

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