Crowley later published a terse and incomplete abstract of this material as "A brief abstract of the symbolic representation of the Universe" in Equinox I (7-8). lxviii), Astarot, Magot, Asmodee and Belzebud (sic) a total of 316 named spirits are listed below the eight SubPrinces, some subject to one of them, some shared between two or more.Ħ The Book of the Concourse of the Forces is the title of a collection of Golden Dawn papers loosely based on the "Enochian" material which emerged from the ceremonial skrying of John Dee and Edward Kelly. xix) are tabulated the names of various Evil Spirits: chief among these are the "Four Princes and Superior Spirits", to wit Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan and Belial who may perhaps be referred to the Elements (I would suggest Fire, Water, Air, Earth respectively) immediately below these are eight "Sub-Princes", namely Oriens, Paimon, Ariton, Amaimon (vide 777 col.
The Ars Notoria was condemned by Aquinas (cited in Yates, Art of Memory) and various Renaissance writers such as Erasmus and Agrippa (in De vanitate &c.) Robert Turner produced an English translation which was made less than useful by the omission of the figures: this translation has been incorporated into some later MSS and printed editions of the Lemegeton.ĥ In The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (tom. The Ars Nova is sometimes confused with the Ars Notoria (Notary Art) attributed to Solomon, which latter rather appears to be a medieval magical derivative of classical art of memory, based around the contemplation of images or not& while repeating prayers. The 'fifth book of the Lemegeton", Ars Nova, is rather a kind of appendix which appears in one MS where it occupies one and a half sides of a single folio leaf: it contains an extended prayer associated with the names on the circle and triangle of the Goetia, possibly intended to be spoken while drawing these, along with a short and garbled conjuration containing some highly corrupt Hebrew names, probably also connected with the Goetia as it mentions the brazen vessel and finally, a lengthy curse targetted at anyone who steals the book. The fourth book, Ars Almadel, is probably of medieval origin: it divides up the powers it summons into four "Altitudes", seemingly referred to the cardinal points of the Zodiac. The third book, Ars Paulina, contains a catalogue of Angels for the 12 hours of the day and night, and for the 12 signs and 360 degrees of the Zodiac they are also attributed to the seven classical Planets. It is possible that the Theurgia-Goetia was based on the Steganographia of Trithemius by someone who did not realise that the latter was primarily a work of cryptography. They are said to be partly evil and party good, hence the apparently oxymoronic title.
The second book, Theurgia Goetia, describes 27 principal spirits and a very large number of subordinates of whom relatively few are named of the 27, i6 are referred to the points of the compass and the other ii are said to wander and have no fixed place. clv - clxvi the spirits are referred to the Decans by day and night. The first book, Goetia, describes 72 "Evil Spirits" and gives instructions for evoking them (it derives variously from the Key of Solomon, the Heptameron, the Fourth Book of pseudo-Agrippa and the Pseudomonarchia D&monum of Wier).
After swearing a long and tortuously phrased Oath of Secrecy, the Neophyte was issued a "Knowledge Lecture" which consisted of the names and symbols of the Elements, Planets and Signs along with the Hebrew Alphabet and the names of the Sephiroth in Hebrew.Ĥ The Lemegeton is a 17th-century compilation, probably English, of magical texts attributed to Solomon. The uncontested works of d'Abano do deal in part with astrological images and the medical / talismanic use of the same (vide Walker, Spiritual and Demonic Magic and Yates, Giordano Bruno), and he is occasionally cited as an authority by Renaissance writers such as Ficino and Agrippa the material specifically attributed to d'Abano in 777 is from the Heptameron, although the images of the decans may be from his genuine works.ģ Probably a reference to the Golden Dawn. Its attribution to Pietro d'Abano (1253-1316) is generally recognised as spurious. 2 The reference is probably to the Heptameron seu elementa magica, a i6th-century Grimoire of planetary magick (published with the Fourth Book of pseudo-Agrippa) deriving in part from the Solomonic cycle and in part from the Liber Juratus or Sworn Book of Honorius, a medieval work on magick (not to be confused with the early modern Grimoire of Honorius falsely attributed to the third Pope of that name).