The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy

table of images, you will find those who display Royal Dignity. From a crown, judge the dignity; from instruments, judge a Prefecture Prefecture; an administrative or governing office, indicating the spirit functions as a magistrate or official rather than a monarch.. Finally, those who excel in human form are more worthy than those who appear under the images of beasts; likewise, horsemen excel over footmen: and you shall judge the preeminence of spirits according to the ranks Dignities; the hierarchical status or "nobility" of a spirit. of all those combinations. Know this, however: Spirits of an inferior order, of whatever Rank they may be, are always subject to spirits of a higher order. And so it is not unfitting for Kings and Dukes to be subject to and serve the Governors original: Præsidibus; translated here as "Governors" to indicate those who preside over a specific celestial or elemental region. of a higher order.

Familiar forms of the Spirits of Saturn.

THEY APPEAR for the most part with a long and slender body, with an angry countenance, having four faces: one on the back of the head, another on the front of the head, and both of them beaked original: rostratas; this likely describes a sharp, hooked nose or a bird-like beak, a common feature in descriptions of Saturnian entities.. Faces also appear on each knee. They are of a black color, and