Solomonic Cycle Magic Collection

72 Spirits from Weyer and The Goetia of Solomon the King

These are arranged much as they appear in Weyer Johann Weyer (1515–1588), a Dutch physician and occultist who authored Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, including the spirit Pruslas who was mistakenly omitted from Scot Reginald Scot, author of The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) and the Goetia; Astaroth has been raised from the list of 72 princes to the Chiefs, as seen in the Grimorium Verum original: Verum; a 18th-century grimoire and elsewhere, and the additional spirits from The Goetia of Solomon have been added. The names of the Four Kings and the elements and directions to which they are attributed are taken from Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, a major influence on Western esotericism. Not only was Agrippa the mentor of Weyer, but these are also the most consistent and trustworthy correspondences, even though they do not alone explain all the relevant variations in Goetic literature.

Some of these difficulties in harmonizing the various Grimoires term: textbooks of magic can likely be explained by the widespread use of two different systems of attribution: the Zodiacal system, as given here, and the more material attribution "to the four winds." In this alternative schema, East is associated with Air, South with Fire, West with Water, and North with Earth. Thus, for example, in Weyer’s text, Paimon is said to be "obedient unto Lucifer," which is consistent with this table, while the reference to his association with the North is consistent with the alternative system of assigning elements to directions.