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The Book of ceremonial Magic

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PLATE V: CHARACTERS OF EVIL SPIRITS<br />

p. 87<br />

bulls. <strong>The</strong>y have the motion <strong>of</strong> burning fire, and their sign is thunder and lightning about<br />

the circle. <strong>The</strong>ir particular forms are an armed king riding on a wolf; 1 an armed man; a<br />

woman holding a buckler on her thigh; a she-goat; a horse; a stag; a red garment; wool; a<br />

cheestip. Wool <strong>of</strong> a choleric disposition is perhaps a Goëtic form <strong>of</strong> gun-cotton.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Spirits <strong>of</strong> the Sun are usually large <strong>of</strong> body and limb, sanguine, gross, and <strong>of</strong> a gold<br />

colour tinctured with blood--which recalls Mrs. Browning's pomegranate. <strong>The</strong>ir motion is<br />

that <strong>of</strong> lightning; their sign is to produce sweat in the operator, which might, however, be<br />

the normal property <strong>of</strong> all these stellar nondescripts <strong>of</strong> the world infernal. <strong>The</strong>ir particular<br />

forms are a sceptred king riding on a lion; a crowned king; 2 a queen with a sceptre; a<br />

bird-not otherwise described, but anything probably except that <strong>of</strong> paradise; a lion; a<br />

cock; a golden garment; a sceptre; and lastly, something which Robert Turner wisely left<br />

untranslated--caudatus, i.e., tailed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Spirits <strong>of</strong> Venus have a body <strong>of</strong> medium height and a pleasant visage, <strong>of</strong> which the<br />

upper part is golden and the lower white or green. <strong>The</strong>ir motion is like that <strong>of</strong> a brilliant<br />

star. <strong>The</strong>ir sign is the semblance <strong>of</strong> maids sporting about the circle and luring the<br />

<strong>Magic</strong>ian to join them. <strong>The</strong>ir particular forms are a sceptred king riding on a camel; a

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