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sorcery 243 18th—Modebel: He causes married couples to separate but will retreat if the names of the eight fathers are written down and posted in doorways. 19th—Mardeo: He causes incurable fevers and is sent away by writing his name down in the house. 20th—Rhyx Nathotho: He causes knee problems and is repelled if the word “Phounebiel” is written on a piece of papyrus. 21st—Rhyx Alath: He causes croup in infants and is dispelled if the word “Rarideris” is written down and carried on a person. 22nd—Rhyx Audameoth: He causes heart pain and is dispatched by the written word “Raiouoth.” 23rd—Rhyx Manthado: He causes kidney disease and is thwarted by the written words “Iaoth, Uriel.” 24th—Rhyx Atonkme: He causes rib pain. If a person writes “Marmaraoth of mist” on a piece of wood from a ship that has run aground, the demon retreats. 25th—Rhyx Anatreth: He causes bowel distress and is quelled by the words “Arara, Arare.” 26th—Rhyx, the Enautha: He alters hearts and “makes off” with minds. He is thwarted by the written word “Kalazael.” 27th—Rhyx Axesbuth: He causes diarrhea and hemorrhoids. If he is adjured in pure wine given to the sufferer, he retreats. 28th—Rhyx Hapax: He causes insomnia and is subdued by the written words “Kok; Phedisomos.” 29th—Rhyx Anoster: He causes hysteria and bladder pain and is thwarted when someone mashes laurel seeds into oil, massages it into the body, and calls upon Mamaroth. 30th—Rhyx Physikoreth: He causes long-terms illnesses but retreats when the sick person massages his or her body with salted olive oil while saying, “Cherubim, seraphim, help me.” 31st—Rhyx Aleureth: He causes choking on fish bones. If one places a fish bone into the breasts of the afflicted one, the demon retreats. 32nd—Rhyx Ichthuron: He detaches tendons and retreats when he hears the words “Adaonai, malthe.” 33rd—Rhyx Achoneoth: He causes sore throats and tonsillitis. He is sent away by writing “Leikourgos” on ivy leaves and heaping them into a pile. 34th—Rhyx Autoth: He causes jealousy and fights between people who love each other. He is subdued by writing the letters alpha and beta. 35th—Rhyx Phtheneoth: He cast the evil eye on everyone and is thwarted by the “much suffering eye” amulet. 36th—Rhyx Mianeth: He holds grudges against the body, causes flesh to rot, and demolishes houses. He flees when the words “Melto Ardad Anaath” are written on the front of the house. King Solomon orders the demons of the decans to bear water and prays that they will go to the Temple of God (Jerusalem). Magical Handbooks The Testament provides a significant contribution to the legends of Solomon’s magical powers and the magical handbooks attributed to Solomon. The two most important magical handbooks, or GRIMOIRES, are the Key of Solomon, also called the Greater Key of Solomon, and the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon, said to be based on Solomonic wisdom. Many other grimoires borrow from these texts. FURTHER READING: The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. Vols. 1 & 2. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. 1983. Reprint, New York: Doubleday, 1985. Sons of God FALLEN ANGELS known as the WATCHERS. Genesis 6:1–4 states, “The sons of God, looking at the daughters of men, saw they were pleasing, so they married as many as they chose.” The cohabitation produces a race of giants called NEPHILIM (also sometimes called the Sons of God) and leads to great corruption among humans. Yahweh is not pleased at the mixture of his spirit with flesh and casts the offending angels out of heaven. The corruption leads to God’s decision to destroy life on the Earth with the flood. In other biblical references, Sons of God are good angels shouting for joy when the morning stars sing (Job 38:7), and the Chosen People (Exodus 4:22; Wisdom 18:33), individual Israelites (Deuteronomy 14:1; Hosiah 2:1), and their leaders (Psalms 82:6). FURTHER READING: Godwin, Malcolm. Angels: An Endangered Species. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Graves, Robert, and Raphael Patai. Hebrew Myths. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1964. Ibn Taymeeyah’s Essay on the Jinn (Demons.) Abridged, annotated, and translated by Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips. New Delhi: Islamic Book Service, 2002. Sorath DEMON angel who is the spirit of the Sun and whose number is 666. RUDOLF STEINER said Sorath is the Sun-demon of Revelation, a great evil power far mightier than LUCIFER and AHRIMAN. He predicted that after the turn of the millennium, spiritual people would be able to see the Sun- Genius, the etheric vision of Christ. In response, Sorath will foment opposition through men who are possessed by him, who have strong natures, raving tongues, destructive fury in their emotions, and faces, which outwardly appear like those of animals. They will mock that which is of a spiritual nature. The mystery of Sorath and his number 666 holds the secret of black MAGIC. The power by which the Sun-Genius overcomes Sorath is the archangel Michael, who has the key to the abyss and the chain in his hand. See SIX-SIX-SIX. sorcery A magical art involving spell casting with the help of spirits, including DEMONs, and often associated
244 Spare, Austin Osman with WITCHCRAFT. Sorcery is derived from the French word sors, which means “spell.” Sorcery is engaged to influence one’s lot in the world: love, fertility, luck, health, and wealth; protection against disaster, outsiders, and enemies; redress of wrongs and the meting out of justice; control of the environment; and explanations of frightening phenomena. Sorcerers have the power to harm, curse, and kill and to counteract spells cast by other sorcerers or practitioners of magic. They make use of FAMILIARs, sending them on magical errands to fulfill their spells. They have shape-shifting powers. Goetic sorcery in Western magic is based on the 72 SPIRITS OF SOLOMON, also called FALLEN ANGELS. Details of their duties, characteristics, and SEALs are given in the Lemegeton, a grimoire attributed to Solomon but probably written much later than his time. Spare, Austin Osman (1888–1956) English magician who expressed his occult vision in strange and sometimes frightening art. Austin Osman Spare’s talent for art was widely acknowledged and even called genius. He could have pursued a conventional artist’s career but instead chose to devote himself to creating images of DEMONs and spirits raised up from deep levels of consciousness. Spare was born on December 31, 1888, in London; his father was a City of London policeman. He left school at age 13 and worked for a time in a stained glass factory. He obtained a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in Kensington and enjoyed success as an artist by 1909. The seeds for Spare’s occult life were sewn early in childhood. Alienated from his mother, he gravitated toward a mysterious old woman named Mrs. Paterson. She claimed to be a hereditary witch descended from a line of Salem witches who escaped execution during the witch trials in 1692—an unlikely claim, considering that the Salem incident was perpetrated by hysterical children. The young Spare referred to her as his “witch-mother.” Later, he said that she possessed great skill in divination and had the ability to materialize her thoughts. Mrs. Paterson taught Spare how to visualize and evoke spirits and elementals and how to reify, or interpret, his dream imagery. Information was transmitted in dreams with the help of Mrs. Paterson’s FAMILIAR, Black Eagle. She also initiated Spare in a witches’ SABBAT, which he described as taking place in another dimension, where cities were constructed of an unearthly geometry. Spare said he attended such sabbats several times. Under further tutelage of Mrs. Paterson, Spare developed his own system of MAGIC, based heavily on will and sex—his own sex drive was quite intense—and the works of ALEISTER CROWLEY. When Mrs. Paterson died, Black Eagle was passed to Spare. For practitioners of the Left Hand Path, Black Eagle is seen as a “vampyre spirit” of the dream or astral plane. Black Eagle can be summoned by ritual involving intense concentration of will, desire, and belief. It manifests in different forms, including bestial and demonic. Spare believed that the power of will is capable of fulfilling any deeply held desire. The formula, simpler than ceremonial magic, was in his unpublished grimoire, “The Book of the Living Word of Zos.” The formula called for creating sigils, or talismans, in an “alphabet of desire.” The desire is written down in full. Repeating letters are crossed out, and the remaining letters are combined into a sigil like a sort of monogram. The sigil is impressed upon the subconscious by staring at it. The original desire is then let go so that the “god within” can work undisturbed toward the desired end. According to one story, Spare once told a friend he would conjure freshly cut roses to fall from the air. His magic involved creating some symbolic drawings, which he waved in the air while repeating “roses.” He got results, but they were unexpected. The plumbing in the room overhead burst, and Spare and his friend were dowsed by sewage. In his art, Spare is best known for his atavisms, the reifying of primal forces from previous existences, drawn from the deepest layers of the human mind. This, too, was a product of his education from Mrs. Paterson. According to another story, one of his atavisms caused the suicide of one witness and the insanity of another. Despite his ability to paint the spirits and images he saw, Spare was occasionally at a loss for words to describe some of his more bizarre experiences. Some of his visions put him into a place that he was able only to describe as “spaces beyond space.” In 1956, the English Witch Gerald B. Gardner (see WITCHCRAFT) contacted Spare for his help in a magical war with Kenneth Grant. Gardner believed that Grant was stealing his witches for his own New Isis Lodge, and he decided to launch a magical attack on him and reclaim his witches. In particular, Gardner wanted back a selfproclaimed “water-witch” named Clanda. It was the last year of Spare’s life, and by then he was living in dire poverty and obscurity, eking out a living by painting portraits in local pubs. Using his “alphabet of desire,” Spare created a talisman for Gardner that would “restore lost property to its rightful place,” which Spare himself described as “a sort of amphibious owl with the wings of a bat and talons of an eagle.” Gardner did not give Spare specific information as to the exact nature of the “lost property”; he knew that Spare and Grant were on friendly terms. During a Black Isis rite at the New Isis Temple, Clanda experienced the apparent negative effects of the talisman. Her role was to lie passively on the altar. Instead, she sat up, sweating and with a hypnotized and glazed look in her eyes. She behaved as though in the grip of terror, convulsing and shuddering. Later, she described what she experienced: the appearance of a huge
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