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===Gallery=== <gallery> Image:Goetia seal of solomon.svg|The "Pentacle of Solomon" from the 17th century [[grimoire]] ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]''. Its purpose is to constrain spirits during magical evocation. Image:Second Pentacle of Jupiter.jpg|The Second Pentacle of Jupiter, from the ''[[Key of Solomon]]'' (''Clavicula Salomonis''). This was found on the body of [[Anselm Franz von Ingelheim (Bishop of Würzburg)|Anselm]], [[Bishop of Würzburg]], on the night of his death in 1749. He was rumored to be an [[Alchemy|alchemist]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Secret Lore of Magic: Books of the Sorcerers |publisher=Citadel |location=New York |first=Idries |last=Shah |author-link=Idries Shah |year=1958 |orig-year=1957 |oclc=1066407}}</ref> Image:Heptameron Pentacle.jpg|The pentacle in the 1500s grimoire ''[[Heptaméron]]''. It is to be drawn on kid-skin parchment on the day and in the hour of Mercury, the Moon increasing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://esotericarchives.com/solomon/heptamer.htm|title=Peter of Abano: Heptameron, or Magical Elements}}</ref> Image:First Pentacle of the Moon.png|The "First Pentacle of the Moon" from the ''Key of Solomon''. It serves "to call forth and invoke the spirits of the moon, and further serveth to open doors, in whatever way they may be fastened." It is to be drawn in silver or grey. Image:Golden Dawn Earth Pentacle.svg|The Earth Pentacle in the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn|Golden Dawn]] system of magic, one of the elemental "weapons" or tools of an adept. File:Emb-37.svg|[[United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers|USVA]] Headstone Emblem 37. </gallery>
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