Orobas is expressly faithful to the exorcist and protects against temptation by other spirits. The horse-shaped prince becomes human, gives true answers about creation and grants honours and favour. [1]
Discovering events across time, granting dignities and prelacies, securing favour, answering about divinity and creation, and protecting the exorcist from temptation by other spirits. [1]
Orobas begins as a horse and assumes a man’s image at command. He reveals past, present and future and gives true answers about divinity and the creation of the world. He is very faithful to the exorcist and will not allow another spirit to tempt him. [1]
His gifts include dignities, prelacies and favour with friends and foes. Prelacies are high church offices. Twenty legions are under this great prince. [1][4][5]
Fidelity and the condition of truth
Scot says Orobas deceives no one. Furfur’s notice, by comparison, makes truthful speech depend on compulsion or entry into a triangle. Orobas’s own promise is expressed through fidelity and protection, without that particular truth condition. [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 55; printed pp. 26–27, PDF pp. 23–24
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Orobas; 1886 reprint p. 325.
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 34, Furfur; printed p. 21, facsimile PDF p. 18.
