A Jupiter Talisman, also called the Seal of Jupiter or the Jupiter Pentacle, is a talisman representing the influences of Jupiter: Success, money, power in the world and power over women. Jupiter’s influence is one of expansion and greatness. The talisman aides the magician in finding treasure and the one who carries it has the power to make others love him and give him whatever he asks for.

This talisman seems to have worked very well for Smith, who almost seems to have made a Faustian pact with the spirits, given the violent and untimely nature of his death. The talisman brought him power, money and success. In 1842, he became the mayor of the City of Nauvoo, Illinois and his followers remained loyal to him despite all the evidence of fraud.

One of the Jupiter Talisman’s abilities is to bestow power over women and to make others give you whatever you ask of them. It is not known exactly how many wives he had, although 31 are documented. Two of them (Nancy Winchester and Helen Mar Kimball, daughter of Heber C. Kimball) were only 14-years old, at least one of whom he pretended to adopt as his own daughter. Some of his wives were married to other men, who according to Smith’s doctrines, have the right to give them to other men, if they wish. (See The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Genealogical Library record for Joseph Smith, Jr. and his wives) – (Update: Upon this date, July 25, 2012, the author of this article learned that the LDS Genealogical Library at ancestry.com has recently removed information about Smith’s child-wives. This information can still be found at: http://www.WivesofJosephSmith.org.)

Click the following link to read: “A Widow’s Tale: 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar” by Kimball Whitney, Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton, publilshed by Utah State University Press Publications, January 1, 2003.

When Smith was killed in an attempt to escape the Carthage, Missouri jail, it is alleged that a silver-colored Jupiter Talisman identical to the silver Seal of Jupiter found in Francis Barrett’s book, “The Magus” and Cornelius Agrippa’s “Three Books of Occult Philosophy,” which will be familiar to many modern occultists, particularly students of ceremonial magic, was found on his body. According to his wife, Emma Smith, he carried this talisman with him at all times.

There is more to making this talisman work for you than just carrying it. The spirits associated with Jupiter must be invoked at the appropriate astrological hour. It must be conducted during the day or hour Jupiter. It is probably, also, helpful to conduct such a ceremony during either the waxing or full moon. Different Hermetic organizations, grimoires and individual magicians employ different but similar methods in invoking the spirits, which must be done regularly to increase the talisman’s power.

For readers who are unfamiliar with the medieval grimoire of Agrippa, which Smith must have had more than passing familiarity with, it contains information about the use of gemstones and herbs and their use in witchcraft. The information in this and similar books is used in the conjuration of angels, including fallen angels, demonic entities and elemental thought forms. Not only are there planetary talismans, but seals used in ceremonies to call upon high ranking fallen angels whom we occultists regard as separate and distinct entities, but which Christians generally regard as one entity known as “the devil” or “Satan.”

Some of these entities are able to grant supernatural powers to the conjurer and quite a few of them are able to tell the magician where to dig for buried treasure. Some of the entities from such grimoires have names like “Lucifer” and “Beelzebub.”

In other words, this practice is at odds with all of Christianity for, at least, the past 1,700 years. These books involve dark magic and are often unfamiliar to or unused even by some witches, especially Wiccans who eschew all forms of black magic. So, even among those of us who live and breathe in the world of the occult, some of the material in these books is considered off limits because it is associated with the Dark Arts.

Interestingly, some occult jewelers who sell this talisman to modern witches and ceremonial magicians advertise it as “Joseph Smith’s Talisman.” So, this is a selling point to many occultists.

At the right of this segment is believed to be a photograph of the very same article taken from Smith’s Body. It is the obverse side of Cornelius Agrippas Seal of Jupiter. Note the Kabbalistic Hebrew lettering.