Goetia - Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Canada

Editorial notes to the Celephaïs Press edition.
This edition of the Goëtia was prepared by Frater Tripudians Stella from the 1976 facsimile
reprint (Equinox Books) of the 1904 Mathers-Crowley edition, and the 1993 First Impressions
reprint incorporating Crowley’s doodles and marginalia. Some of the latter have been retained as
footnotes, flagged by double square brackets [[like this]]. Also consulted were e-texts of the
Goëtia and Pseudomonarchia dæmonum by Joseph Peterson (www.esoteric-archives.org)
and of the other books of the Lemegeton by Ben Rowe (the URL previously given for these no
longer exists, but they have been mirrored by many sites, including www.hermetics.org);
Rowe’s version of the Goëtia was prepared primarily from the de Laurence piracy and not used in
preparing this edition. The 1995 Weiser edition (edited by “Hymenæus Beta” based on the
Mathers-Crowley edition and other sources) was not directly consulted.
In the printed edition the figures (seals of spirits, diagram of the Circle, etc) were given on
three full-page plates: one facing the main title, one facing the start of the list of spirits, and one
before the start of the conjurations. I have inserted the bulk of them in appropriate places in the
text for ease of reference: as such the original pagination has not been retained past the start of
the list of Spirits. Figures 176-184 from the 1904 edition are omitted; these belonged with the
Theurgia-Goetia, the second book of the Lemegeton.
“EPIKALOUMAI SE TON EN TW KENEW PNEUMATI k.t.l.”
This curse is extracted from the Demotic and Greek magical papyrus of London and Leiden, now
known as PGM XIV / PDM xiv. A semi-popular edition with an English translation, edited by
F.L. Griffith and Herbert Thomson, was published in 1904 as The Demotic Magical Papyrus of
London and Leiden (London: H. Grevel & co.). The spell in question appears in col. XXIII lines
1-22. In full, including the rubric (in Demotic in the papyrus) it runs:
A spell to inflict (?) catalepsy (?) Formula. You take an ass’s head, and you place
it between your feet opposite the sun in the morning when it is about to rise,
opposite it again in the evening when it goes to the setting, and you anoint your
right foot with set-stone of Syria, and your left foot with clay, the soles (?) of your
foot also : and place your right hand in front and your left hand behind, the head
being between them. You anoint your hand, of your two hands, with ass’s blood,
and the two fnz (?corners) of your mouth, and utter these charms towards the sun
in the morning and evening of four days, then he sleeps. If you wish to make him
die, you do it for seven days, you do its magic, you bind a thread of palm-fibre to
your hand, a mat (?) of wild palm-fibre to your phallus and your head; very
excellent. This is the invocation which you utter before the sun :
“I invoke thee who art in the void air, terrible, invisible, almighty, god of gods,
dealing destruction and making desolate, O thou that hatest a household well
established. When thou wast cast out of Egypt and out of the country thou wast
entitled, “He that destroyeth all and is unconquered.” I invoke thee, Typhon Seth,
I perform thy ceremonies of divination, for I invoke thee by thy powerful name in
(words?) which thou canst not refuse to hear: IOERBETH IOPAKERBETH IO
BOLCHOSETH IOPATATHNAX IOSORO IONEBOUTOSOUALETH AKTIOPHI ERESCHIGAL,
NEBOPOOALETH, ABERAMENTHOOU, LERTHEXANAX, ETHRELUOTH, NEMAREBA,
AEMINA, entirely(?) come to me and approach and strike down that person [here
Crowley adds “Mathers”] with frost and fire; he has wronged me, and has poured
out the blood of Typhon (?) beside (?) him or her: therefore I do these things.”
(add the usual).
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