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The subject of Infernal Manifestations is, however, fully treated in the next chapter. The
indications in the present section are merely the later variants.
Footnotes
194:1 A portion of this statement is derived from the Key of Solomon; but whereas it is
put clearly in the Grimoire, it is incomplete and inconsequent in the original. It is the
alternative aspect of the Kabalistic principle that the spirit clothes itself to come down
and divests itself to return upward. When the abyss gives up forms its capacity of
manifestation is Protean, but the most beloved tendency is monstrous. And the forms
disrobe for the abyss to open and receive them when they go back to their cover.
194:2 A giant, a serpent, a woman, are also other modes of his manifestation, according
to the discretion of demonologists.
CHAPTER IV
The Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy according to the
Lesser Key of Solomon the King
§1 Concerning the Spirits of the Brazen Vessel, otherwise called the False
Monarchy of Demons
THE Goëtic Art of Solomon 1 gives instructions for the evocation of the seventy-two
spirits whom the King of Israel, according to a well-known legend, shut up in a brass
vessel and cast into a deep lake. When the vessel was discovered by the Babylonians, it
was supposed to contain a great treasure and was accordingly broken open. The spirits
who were thus set at liberty, together with their legions, returned to their former places,
Belial excepted, who entered into a certain image, and gave oracles to the people of the
country in return for sacrifices and divine honours, by which there is corrupt Kabalistic
authority for concluding that demons were assuaged and sustained. Their names and
offices are as follows:--
Footnotes
195:1 Though a work of considerable length, this Lesser Key, so far as it concerns our
inquiry, admits of reduction into a manageable compass by the omission of tiresome and
egregious particulars as to the number of spirits who are subject to a particular Lord,
Prince or Emperors and are liable to appear in his company. It should be understood in a
general way that there are hundreds and thousands and millions, according to the dignity