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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 39
Malphas builds high towers and reveals an enemy’s thoughts, desires and deeds. The crow-shaped president accepts a sacrifice willingly, yet deceives the person who offers it. [1]
Goetia 1904
Malphas first appears as a crow, then assumes human form at the exorcist’s request and speaks hoarsely. He builds houses and high towers and discloses enemies’ desires, thoughts and what they have done. He also provides good familiars and rules forty legions. [1]
His favourable reception of a sacrifice is deceptive. He takes it kindly and willingly, but deceives its giver. [1]
Scot gives the builder two additional activities: quickly bringing skilled artificers together and throwing down enemies’ buildings. The 1904 notice instead emphasises knowledge of enemies’ intentions and actions. Scot’s sacrifice clause is broader in its wording, saying Malphas deceives all sacrificers. [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 39; printed pp. 22–23, PDF pp. 19–20
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Malphas; 1886 reprint p. 320.
