Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy according to the Lesser Key of Solomon the King.: Demons: LX. (Vapula) to LXXII. (Andromalius)

1 he can change any metal into coin of the realm and can make fools wise.

LXIII. ANDRAS, a great marquis, comes in the form of an angel, with the head of a black night-raven, riding upon a strong black wolf and having a sharp bright sword gleaming in his hands. He sows discord and will kill the unwary. 1

LXIV. FLAUROS, a great duke, appears at first like a terrible leopard, but at the command of the exorcist he puts on the shape of a man, with fiery eyes and terrible countenance. He gives true answers of things past, present and future, but unless commanded into the triangle he will deceive the exorcist. He converses gladly of divinity and the creation of the world, as also of the fall of spirits, his own included. If desired, he will destroy and burn the enemies of the operator, nor will he suffer him to be tempted, by spirits or otherwise.

LXVI. CIMERIES, a powerful marquis, appears like a valiant soldier on a black horse. He rules the spirits in the parts of Africa; he teaches grammar, logic and rhetoric, discovers buried treasures and things lost and hidden; he can make a man appear like a soldier of his own kind.

LXXII. ANDROMALIUS, a great duke and earl, appears in the form of a man holding a serpent in his hand. He returns stolen goods, reveals the thief, discovers all wickedness and underhand dealing, as also hidden treasures.

Such are the prime mysteries of Goëtia according to the tradition of the Lemegeton; such is the work which has been described in the interest of White Magic as distinct from the Key of Solomon, but highly important and valuable in its own department. 1 Viewed in the light of these two-and-seventy methods of accomplishing all abominations, it would seem that the three "analogical realms of occult philosophy" are the three kingdoms which we have known under other names from our childhood--as "the world, the flesh and the devil." It

Footnotes

215:1 Otherwise, wine into water or into blood.

216:1 Another codex says frankly that be can kill the Master and all his Assistants.

218:1 He is partly of the Order of the Virtues and partly of that of the Angels. Unless he be constrained by Divine Power, he will not remain one hour in the truth. He was one of the vast cohort shut up by Solomon in a brazen vessel and released subsequently by the Babylonians.

219:1 That is the discriminating judgment of Mr. Mathers, who forbears, however, to specify. I do think that the Lemegeton is very curious and in this sense important, but not for the reasons which actuated Mr. Mathers presumably.

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