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Reconstruction of the Veneris pentacle The main source of
Pentacles in Western Tradition - books, known collectively as a
"Key of Solomon".
The modern reader who is familiar with Western magic, texts
"Clavicules" known mostly from the works of
Papus and McGregor Mathers. The latter belongs to, it seems, the
first compilatory edition of "Greater Key
of Solomon", for which he used several manuscripts. Mathers also
to be commended not only for the
publication of books, but also for trying to understand the many
distortions in the inscriptions, formulas
and images of Pentacles.
But there are those, of which he wrote that does not know and
does not understand what is depicted
there. And as you know, that's incomprehensible is usually the
most interesting and effective.
One of these relates to the pentacles of Venus (Figure 43 in
this volume), and the description is able to
arouse love in any particular: "When it is only showed unto any
person soever, it inciteth and exciteth
wonderfully unto Love."
Mathers comments: Around the central Square are the Names
Elohim, El Gebil, and two other Names
which I cannot decipher, and have, therefore, given them as they
stand. The characters are those of the
"Passing of the River." The surrounding Versicle is from Psalm
xxii. 14: "My heart is like wax, it is melted in
the midst of my bowels."
So great Mathers could not decipher these names, but we will
make an attempt to reconstruct the
talisman, because, in our disposal there is a greater number of
available manuscripts and images.
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1. Text in a circle, or words of power
It would seem text is clear:
Or without diacritic signs:
However, in most of the manuscripts it is written in Latin:
inflammatum est cor meum, et renes mei commutati sunt (Thus my
heart was grieved, and I was pricked in
my reins.)
And this is a quote from another Psalm 72, 21: Quia inflammatum
est cor meum, et renes mei commutati
sunt.
Others contain a lengthy quote from the same psalm (often
distorted):
inflammatum est cor meum et renes mei commutati sunt
et ego ad nihilum redactus sum
Translation:
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. So
foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast
before thee (Ps.73, 21-22 of KJB).
This is clearly more suitable quote for words that define love
with those feelings, which are supposed to be
transferred to the object of love, as opposed to text
Ps.21.15.
Incidentally, with regard to the text of the words of power,
according to the traditions of the Middle and
Dark Ages quotations from the Vulgate (Latin Codex of Bible) are
more preferable, because it is the sacred
language used in the worship of the Western Church, whose
priests were fathers of grimoires their selves.
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2. Symbol in the center
The central character is a seal of Venus, which is composed with
a kamea of Venus in manner not usually
described from contemporary authors.
Seal is drawn by vertical and horizontal lines between the five
points (the principle of the pentagram, and
the secondary number of Planet relates to the human world,
microcosm of cause).
The sum of these five numbers should result into a secondary
number of Planet.
In our example we have:
The Sum that gives the sigil of this form is equal to 13, ie
Venus secondary number corresponding to the
words of Ahaba - Love.
This number is typical for one of the spelling of a name in
Hebrew Venus (Nogah).
=05 +3 +0 =05 =33
Two other names too distorted, so in this version of talisman
they can not be read.
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3. Words around the Seal and the formula of the pentacle
Names that are arranged around the Seal in this kind of
Pentacles formed based on certain rules, which are
based on the numerical equivalent of the name (the number of the
name).
Firstly, the number of the Name should not be greater than the
number of Seal.
Secondly, the number of Names must form an equivalent or a
spiral structure.
Equivalent structure implies that the number of each word to one
or less coincides with the number of
Seal.
Example:
Spiral structure implies that the numbers go counterclockwise
from the smallest to largest, leading to the
center of the whole structure - the number of Seal.
Example:
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Inscriptions around our pentacle written with alphabet, which
Agrippa called Transitus Fluvii (passing the
river).
Handwritten variant of this alphabet are quite diverse.
Therefore, for comparison (from the manuscript
Magia Criptographica):
Thus, the two Names around the square, which Mathers was able to
read, in Hebrew: and
El Gebil (bottom) - Aramaic origin. means something that is
mixed, collected together. Meaning of the
verb - collect, rake, purify, clean. El Gebil - a "God unites
[by purification]." However, I have not find this
Name nowhere else. At least, it is not known to us.
Elohim (top) in this context is not the Name of God but the rank
of angels corresponding to Sephira
Netzach.
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The number of names
Elohim: 86 = 14 (in the alphabet "passin the river" there is no
final Mem, so the name is not the sum of
646, but 86)
ElGebil: 76 = 13
This, of course, does not fit into the scheme of drawing before
for this kind of Pentacles. It is possible that
the author of this grimoire experimented with "reverse
spiral."
Other names in this example cannot be deciphered or restored,
since there is an obvious combination of
alphabets, possibly, the subsequent distortion of copyists.
In the next example, characters and the names are similar, but
the right word has been replaced by the
Elohim.
Figure from Sl. 3091, fol. 65v
And the left word some authors indicate as Adonai. But in this
case the numbers of the names are
distributed not quite correctly:
14 11 14
13
In contrast to the above instances, "Clavicules" which stored in
the library of Leipzig, have images that are
more readable.
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Reconstruction # 1
Talisman is taken from a manuscript: Clavicula del Salomone re
dEbrei Spiegata dallEbreo in Volgare per
Rabbi Colorno per ordine di. Sua A. S. il Duca di Mantova in
Anno 1453.
Word Above:
=065 =33
Anagram verse of Deuteronomy (Devarim) 33.4:
"Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the
congregation of Jacob.."
Full anagram () used by Kabbalists for the acquisition of
masculinity.
MlVT
The word at the bottom:
=85 =31
Anagram verse of Psalm 116.9:
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
= 1413=9
HBYLA
The word on the left:
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=60 =33
God's name, translated as "Lord" (literally, Lords of mine).
YnDA
This makes sense, especially if you remember that earlier in the
manuscript at this point it occurred.
The word on the right:
Word written with symbols "Passing the river", but the
penultimate letter is of the usual Hebrew - he.
Usually, the combination of alphabets alludes to deliberately
wrong spelling, coding. This is typical for the
pentacles, which the author has decided to distort, because they
seems to have a real effect. Familiar with
tradition to understand.
So we have something like
The sum of the word - 48 = 12
I do not know the meaning of the word. Maybe it's the name with
permutation of letters Gedulah (second
designation Chesed):
HLEDG
But by the logic of the talisman, we have two acronym and one
Name of God. The forth has to be some
divine name. If it is encrypted, the only thing that comes to
mind is the name Gadiel. Vav and Heh (the
letter, which is written in Hebrew and indicates a simple point
of distortion) have amount of 15, and if
replace them with a pair of Yod-Aleph, we get the same number
15. Name of an angel:
LAYDG
However, Gadiel - a great angel, who does not have a planetary
correspondence. In Heptamron of Peter
dAbano the Great Angel of Friday is Dagiel. Only one transition
of letters else:
LAYGD
And numerical values fit perfectly into a spiral shape of
Pentacle:
11 11 13 12
12
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Estimated reconstructed pentacle (with Gadiels name):
Estimated reconstructed pentacle (with Gadiel name):