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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 60
Also recorded as Naphula
A lion with gryphon’s wings presides over handicrafts, professions, philosophy and the sciences. Vapula brings skilled making and learned study together in a single teaching office. [1]
Goetia 1904
Vapula appears as a lion with gryphon’s wings. The great duke makes people knowledgeable in handicrafts and professions, philosophy and other sciences. He governs thirty-six legions; Naphula is an alternative name. [1]
Scot’s list speaks of handicrafts, philosophy and sciences contained in books. Elsewhere his Marbas passage glosses mechanical arts as handicrafts, giving a useful link between two notices of skilled making. The word professions belongs to Vapula’s later list. [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 60, Vapula or Naphula; printed p. 28, PDF p. 25
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Vapula, reprint p. 325; Marbas, p. 314
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 5, Marbas; printed p. 14, facsimile PDF p. 11.
