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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 21
Also recorded as Morax
A great bull with a human face teaches astronomy and the liberal sciences. Marax also supplies wise familiars whose knowledge concerns herbs and precious stones; the two English witnesses give different legion totals. [1]
Goetia 1904
Marax appears as a great bull with a man’s face. Both earl and president, he makes people knowledgeable in astronomy and the other liberal sciences. His good, wise familiars know the virtues of herbs and precious stones, extending the notice’s teaching through attendant spirits. The 1904 text gives him thirty legions. [1]
Scot prints Morax and Foraii and gives thirty-six legions. His bull takes a man’s face before making people learned; the Goetia describes the face as part of the initial appearance. The later translator also acknowledges Morax in some codices, while preferring Marax as the spelling. [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 21 and Morax footnote; printed p. 18, PDF p. 15
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Morax; 1886 reprint page 316
