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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 38
Also recorded as Malthus, Malthas
A hoarse stock-dove is assigned the work of fortification and deployment. Halphas builds towers, supplies weapons and ammunition, and sends warriors to their appointed places. [1]
Goetia 1904
Halphas appears as a stock-dove and speaks hoarsely. His office builds towers, furnishes them with weapons and ammunition, and sends men-of-war to designated places. The edition’s note explains men-of-war here as warriors or men-at-arms, rather than ships. Twenty-six legions obey the great earl, also named Malthus or Malthas. [1]
Scot gives Halphas a stork’s form and describes towns full of munitions, where the Goetia speaks of towers. Malphas, the next spirit in the later catalogue, also builds high towers but has a separate office concerning enemies’ thoughts and deeds. [1][2][3]
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 38 and men-of-war gloss; printed p. 22, PDF p. 19
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Halphas; 1886 reprint p. 323.
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 39, Malphas; printed pp. 22–23, facsimile PDF pp. 19–20.
