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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 64
Also recorded as Hauras, Havres, Flauros
Haures changes from a terrible leopard into a human with fiery eyes. His answers concern creation and the spirits’ fall, but their truth depends on a triangle clause that reads in opposite ways in the two English witnesses. [1]
Goetia 1904
Haures first appears as a mighty, terrifying leopard. After a time, at command, he becomes a human figure with flaming eyes and a terrible face. He answers truly about past, present and future, but lies and deceives if not commanded into a triangle. His further speech concerns the world’s creation, divinity and his own and other spirits’ fall. [1]
At the caller’s desire he burns and destroys enemies and prevents temptation by any other spirit or otherwise. The great duke has thirty-six legions, and his seal is worn as a lamen. [1]
Scot’s Flauros has twenty legions and, as printed, lies when inside the triangle. Nicholson proposes repairing the older clause by moving its punctuation or inserting ‘non’, meaning not. His proposal would bring the triangle condition into agreement with the later account, but remains an emendation, not the sentence printed in Scot. [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 64, Haures/Hauras/Havres/Flauros; printed pp. 28–29, PDF pp. 25–26
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Flauros; 1886 reprint p. 325.
Brinsley Nicholson, editorial Notes in the 1886 reprint of The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Notes, reprint page 561, item (w), Flauros; commentary on Book XV, chapter II.
