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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 24
A black crane flutters around the circle and speaks hoarsely. Naberius teaches the arts, especially rhetoric, and restores lost honours in the Goetia; Scot’s earlier notice assigns him the opposite power over dignities. [1]
Goetia 1904
Naberius appears as a black crane moving about the circle, with a hoarse speaking voice. The valiant marquis makes people skilled in arts and sciences, especially rhetoric—the art of effective speech. He restores lost dignities and honours and governs nineteen legions. [1]
Scot’s Naberius, also named Cerberus, appears as a crow rather than a crane. His hoarse voice, nineteen legions and rhetorical teaching are familiar, but his social office differs sharply: the printed notice says he causes the loss of prelacies and dignities. A prelacy is a high ecclesiastical office. The Goetia instead promises to restore lost honours and standing. [1][2][3][4]
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 24; 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, Naberius; 1886 reprint page 316
Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Sense 1: office or dignity of a prelate
Merriam-Webster online dictionary. Definition: ecclesiastic of superior rank
