The Second Pentacle of Mercury
For spirits who bring about things contrary to the order of nature and not contained under any other head; they answer easily but are hard to see.
Source: S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King (1888), Book II ch. 18, Plate X fig. 45; 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 prints the name with an umlaut; lists vary between Boel and Boel/Bael, and conflating it with the Goetic Bael is an inference, not Mathers' text. No verse.
Correspondences
- Number
- 35
- Planet
- Mercury
- Chakra
- Throat Chakra
- Colors
- mixed coloursPurple
Practice
- Purpose
For spirits who bring about things contrary to the order of nature and not contained under any other head; they answer easily but are hard to see.
- Magical Uses
- Spirit conjurationUnnatural worksHidden knowledge
Details
- Metals
- mixed metalsQuicksilver
- Angel
- Boel (Mathers prints it Boel with an umlaut) and other spirits
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