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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 57
Also recorded as Oso, Voso
Osé changes not only a person’s shape but the conviction of what that person is. The leopard-shaped president becomes human and grants learning, yet his transformation office makes the altered identity seem entirely true to its recipient. [1]
Goetia 1904
Osé appears as a leopard and becomes a man after a short time. He teaches the liberal sciences and answers divine and secret matters truly. His other office changes a person into whatever shape the exorcist desires, so that the changed person believes himself truly to be that creature or thing. [1]
The main text gives the great president three legions. A footnote proposes thirty, reasoning that the seventy-two are leaders of numbers. Oso and Voso are alternative names. [1]
Scot’s earlier example is a person who thinks he is a king, a pope or a crowned figure. A concluding Latin clause gives that imagined reign an hour’s duration. The Goetia instead describes belief in being the chosen creature or thing, without the hour limit. Scot supplies no legion count for Ose. [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 57, Oso/Osé/Voso, and legion note; printed p. 27, PDF p. 24
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Ose; 1886 reprint pp. 324–325.
