The Image of the Sun
The first image makes men invincible and honourable, helps bring business to a good end, drives away vain dreams, and is held to prevail against fevers and the plague. The second makes a man fortunate, rich and beloved of all.
Agrippa's first stone is balanite, which is not a catalogued id and is probably the fossil spine known as lapis judaicus; ruby is the alternative he himself gives, and is used here. The second image is in diamond, and a variant in cornelian — three stones for one planet, which is normal in this chapter and a reminder that the recipes are a compilation rather than a system. The metal is gold by the planet's correspondence, not by the chapter, which names no metal at all.
Correspondences
- Planet
- Sun
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus Chakra
- Color
- Gold
- Rank
- Talismanic image
Sacred timing
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- Solis imago
Practice
- Magical Uses
- SuccessHonoursHealthWealthProtection
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Image
- Office
The first image makes men invincible and honourable, helps bring business to a good end, drives away vain dreams, and is held to prevail against fevers and the plague. The second makes a man fortunate, rich and beloved of all, and a version of it on cornelian is used against the lunatic passions that follow the Moon's combustion. The two together are the solar programme: victory in the world and health in the body.
Details
- Order of angels
- Principalities in the received tables, Malachim in Agrippa's scale of ten.
- Metal
- Gold
- Stone
- Ruby
- Image
A king crowned and seated in a chair, a raven in his bosom and a globe under his feet, clothed in saffron, made in the hour of the Sun with the first face of Leo ascending, in a balanite stone or a ruby while the Sun is in his exaltation; it renders men invincible and honourable, brings their business to a good end, drives off vain dreams, and prevails against fevers and the plague. A second: a crowned woman dancing and laughing, standing in a chariot drawn by four horses, a looking glass or buckler in her right hand and a staff in her left leaning on her breast, a flame of fire on her head, made in a diamond, to make a man fortunate, rich and beloved; a form of it is cut in cornelian against lunatic passions.
- Keywords
- SunImageKingRubySaffronVictory
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