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The Brass VesselThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 16
A soldier in red clothing and armour, Zepar is assigned both attraction and barrenness. His office brings women and men together in love while also preventing offspring. [1]
Goetia 1904
Zepar appears like a soldier, dressed in red and armoured. The great duke’s office is to cause women to love men and bring them together, while also making women barren. Twenty-six legions of inferior spirits are under him. [1]
The notice gives sight of his seal a particular role: Zepar obeys when he sees it. [1]
Scot’s soldier has the same attraction and barrenness offices and twenty-six legions. His notice also says Zepar changes women’s shapes when commanded so that they may enjoy their beloved. The Goetia leaves out this bodily-change clause and adds the red clothing and armour to its soldier’s appearance. [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 16; printed p. 17, PDF p. 14
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Zepar; 1886 reprint page 316
