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57: OSÉ. The Pseudomonarchia does not state how many legions Osé rules, so whoever compiled
the Goëtia had to guess.
61: ZAGAN. According to the Pseudomonarchia Zagan, besides the trick with the metals and
achieving what the British educational system generally fails in, transforms water into wine, and
blood into oil, and the reverse; “T.R.” gave ‘wine’ for ‘oil.’
64: FLAUROS has acquired sixteen more legions between the Pseudomonarchia and the Goëtia.
67: AMDUSIAS. The thing with the trees has been garbled due to “T.R.” mistranslating and
possibly also failing to understand a Latin idiom: Pseudomonarchia has ut … abores ad
exorcistæ genu se inclinent, lit. “that trees bend the knee to the Exorcist” probably meaning “that
the trees shall be subject to the exorcist.”
68: BELIAL. The Pseudomonarchia assigns 80 legions to Belial. The entry for Belial in the
Pseudomonarchia includes an account of the myth of Solomon’s sealing up the spirits in the
brazen vessel. While only listing 69 spirits, the Pseudomonarchia version of the myth states that
72 kings along with their legions were sealed up in the brass vessel; it also gives various other
details not included in the Goëtia. The writer presents himself not as Solomon himself, but as
one who learnt the Art from Solomon; he angrily rebuts the claim that Solomon, seduced by the
cunning of a certain woman, once inclined himself to pray before the idol of Belial, asserting
rather that Solomon accomplished all his works by divine virtue which never forsook him.
Crowley’s note from 1923 e.v. possibly alludes to various workings directed at this spirit, in
particular one on the 9 th of March 1918 e.v. “to create Belial as 2nd dec. Aquarius, night-demon –
to bring ‘earned success.’ ”
70: SEERE, in common with DANTALION and ANDROMALIUS, does not appear in the Pseudomonarchia.
71: DANTALION appears to have been the first Goëtic spirit to get its own fansite on the World
Wide Web.
72: The seal of ANDROMALIUS appears on the cover of the paperback edition of Lon Milo
DuQuette’s autobiography, My Life with the Spirits, possibly as a “do not steal this book” device.
Observations.
The compiler of the Goëtia evidently left it to the ingenium of the Magician to determine which
of the four Great Kings each spirit was under; since the rulership or assignment to a quarter is
only given for a few, and there is no obvious pattern.
Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits.
Planetary symbols were handwritten in by Crowley in his personal copy.
In the Hebrew versions of the names from the “Dr. Rudd” MSS. (probably Harleian 6483) I
have not reproduced Hebrew pointing.
In 777 (cols. CLV to CLXVI) Crowley gave a different set of Hebrew spellings for the 72
Spirts, assigning them to the Decans by day and night. I reproduce this information below,
adding the key numbers of the spirits for ease of reference, and the attributions to Tarot number
cards thereby implied. Planetary symbols indicate the rank of the spirit (in the print edition, that
for 50, Furcas, was given as $ rather than '). Crowley has largely dropped Latinised endings
such as –es, –us, –ius, –ion, etc. Some errors in the Hebrew (}rmyap for Paimon, 9; [xg for
Gaap, 33; lamnd for Dantalion, 71) have been fixed.
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