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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 02
Also recorded as Agreas
A mild-looking old man rides a crocodile with a goshawk on his fist. Agares reverses human movement, returning runaways and making the stationary flee, while his other powers reach into language, authority and the earth itself. [1]
Goetia 1904
Under the power of the East, Agares appears as an old, fair man on a crocodile, carrying a goshawk upon his fist. The Goetia calls him mild in appearance. His offices are less placid: he brings runaways back and makes those who stand still run. [1]
He teaches languages immediately, destroys dignities both spiritual and temporal, and causes earthquakes. Dignities here are positions of honour or authority; the notice includes both religious and worldly standing. Agares was of the order of Virtues and governs thirty-one legions. His character is worn before the caller as a lamen. [1]
Scot calls Agares the first duke of the East and describes a hawk upon the rider’s fist. The 1904 portrait gives the bird a more particular name: a goshawk. [1][2]
S. L. MacGregor Mathers, translated; Aleister Crowley, edited, The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King (1904), first-edition facsimile supplied by Keep Silence. Shemhamphorash, entry 2; printed p. 12, PDF p. 10
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Agares; 1886 reprint page 314
