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PART I: OF THE ARTE GOETIA<br />
2I<br />
hearbs & precious stones, & [he] teacheth them ye art [of] Logick & Ethicks<br />
in All their partes ifdesired, he maketh men Invisible, witty, Eloquent & to<br />
live Long;53he [can] discoverTreasures and recoverThings lost, & he ruleth<br />
over 29 Legions of spirits, his seale or Character is thus to be made &<br />
worne as a Lamen.<br />
The 32d spirit in order is called Asmoday.54 he is a great king, strong &<br />
powerfull, he appeareth w th 3 heads, whereof ye first is like a Bull The<br />
second like a Man, The third like a Ram, [he appeareth also] w th a<br />
serpents Taile, Belching or vomitting up flames offire55 out ofhis mouth<br />
his feet are webed like a Goose, he sitteth on an Infernall dragon earring<br />
a Launce and a flagg in his hands, he is ye first & chifiest under ye<br />
power ofAmaymon, & goeth before all others: when the Exorcist hath<br />
a mind to call him, lett it be abroad,56 and lett him stand on his feet all<br />
ye Time of action, wth his cap57 of [off], for if it be on, Amaymon will<br />
deceive him and cause all his doeing to be bewrayed [divulged], But as<br />
soone as ye Exorist [Exorcist] seeth Asmoday in ye shape aforesaid, he<br />
shall call him by his Name, saying, thou artAsmoday, & he will not deny<br />
it; & by & by he will bow down to ye ground &c he giveth ye Ring of<br />
vertues he teacheth ye art of Arithmitic, geomitry, Astronomy and all<br />
[lOSr]<br />
53 C: "invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent." He adds the footnote "One or<br />
two Codices have 'invincible,' but 'invisible' is given in the majority. Yet the form of<br />
appearance of Foras as a strong man might warrant the former, though from the<br />
nature of his offices the invincibility would probably be rather on the mental than<br />
on the physical plane."<br />
54 W: "Sydonay/Sidonay, alias Asmoday"; H: "Asmodai"; C: ''Asmoday, or Asmodai.'<br />
Asmoday or Asmodeus occurs in Tobit 3:8, New English Bible (New York: University<br />
of Oxford Press. 1971), and is ultimately derived from the Avestan demon Aeshmadaeva<br />
("demon of wrath").<br />
55 C: "from his mouth issue Flames of Fire."<br />
56 The translator has evidently read foris ("in a foreign land") by mistake; it should read<br />
fit fortis ("let him be brave"). See W.<br />
57 This follows Scot's "ifhis cap be on his head," a truly bizarre mistranslation ofsi vero<br />
coopertusjUerit ("if he is afraid he will be overwhelmed"). Crowley does it one better<br />
by adding "or Head-dress."
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