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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 03
Vassago is a prince of discovery, called upon for knowledge of the past, things to come and whatever has been hidden or lost. The Goetia describes him as mighty and of a good nature. [1]
Goetia 1904
Vassago declares things past and to come and discovers what is hidden or lost. He is said to be of the same nature as Agares, the duke immediately before him, but receives a distinct office and twenty-six legions of his own. [1][2]
Discovery takes several forms in the Goetia. Seere gives accounts of theft and hidden treasure and can carry objects from place to place. Andromalius brings back a thief together with the stolen goods. Vassago’s province is the disclosure itself, reaching beyond lost possessions into past and future events. [1][3][4]
Scot’s sixty-eight-entry inventory passes from Agares to Marbas and contains no named Vassago notice. The 1904 catalogue places Vassago third, before Samigina and Marbas. [1][5]
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 3; printed p. 12, PDF p. 10
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 2, Agares; printed p. 12, facsimile PDF p. 10.
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 70, Seere; printed p. 30, facsimile PDF p. 27.
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 72, Andromalius; printed pp. 30–31, facsimile PDF pp. 27–28.
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s first-edition reprint (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II; reprint pages 314–326, beginning with Baëll, Agares and Marbas.
