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Teaching geometry, measurement and astronomy, and changing a person into a bird's likeness. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Andrealphus appears as a noisy peacock, then takes human form to teach geometry, measurement and astronomy. He also makes a person a subtle disputant and changes a person into a bird’s likeness. The Goetia keeps the geometric and astronomical learning, the transformation and thirty legions, while placing subtlety especially within the learned subjects. [2][1]
Andrealphus first changes from a peacock into a human teacher, then grants a person the likeness of a bird. The transformation works in both directions, surrounding instruction in geometry, measurement and astronomy. His noisy arrival gives way to the precise learned subjects, while the gift to the questioner returns the description to avian form. [2][1]
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, numbered catalogue entry 65, Andrealphus; facsimile PDF page 26 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Andrealphus; 1886 reprint page(s) 324.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10