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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 17
Declaring past and future matters and reconciling friends and enemies. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot names Botis’s alternative form of the name as Otis. The earlier appearance moves from an ugly viper to a human figure with large teeth, two horns and a sharp sword. The titles president and earl, and the sixty-legion command, agree with the 1904 catalogue. [2][1]
Scot includes present events alongside past and future, then adds reconciliation between friends and foes. The Goetia names past and future in its summary. Across that difference, the office remains one of answering and reconciling, performed by a spirit whose appearance changes from a viper to an armed, horned human figure. [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 17, Botis; facsimile PDF page 14 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Botis; 1886 reprint page 315
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10