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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 65
A noisy peacock becomes a precise human teacher. Andrealphus teaches geometry, measurement and astronomy, and can give a person the likeness of a bird. [1]
Goetia 1904
Andrealphus arrives as a peacock making great noises, then takes human shape after a time. He teaches geometry perfectly and makes people subtle in it and in subjects of measurement and astronomy. He can also transform a person into a bird’s likeness. Thirty legions are beneath the mighty marquis. [1]
Scot gives the human teacher another particular gift: making a person a subtle disputant. The Goetia applies subtlety directly to geometry and the other named subjects. [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 65; printed p. 29, PDF p. 26
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Andrealphus; 1886 reprint p. 324.
