The Seventy-Two Spirits · 71

Dantalion

Teaching arts and sciences, revealing secret counsels and thoughts, changing thoughts, causing love, and showing likenesses of absent people in visions. [1]

Goetia 1904

Spirit profile

Rank: Duke [1]
Attributed Office: Teaching arts and sciences, revealing secret counsels and thoughts, changing thoughts, causing love, and showing likenesses of absent people in visions. [1]
Legion Count: 36 legions. [1]
Description of the Entity: A man with many men's and women's faces, carrying a book in the right hand. [1]

Illustration of Dantalion — **Artistic interpretation** Dantalion · Goetia 1904.

Dantalion, First-edition plate 3, figure 79, attributed to Dantalion — **Source reproduction** Dantalion · First-edition plate 3, figure 79, attributed to Dantalion.

Place in the catalogue

Dantalion does not appear in Scot’s complete inventory. The Goetia describes a human figure with many faces, both men’s and women’s, holding a book in the right hand. His knowledge includes everyone’s thoughts and secret counsels, bringing an office concerned with many minds beside an appearance composed of many countenances. [2][1]

Dantalion teaches arts and sciences, changes thoughts and causes love. He can also show the likeness of an absent person in a vision, wherever that person may be. Seere carries things rapidly across distance; Dantalion’s related power leaves the person elsewhere while making the likeness visible to the questioner. [1][3]

Sources and editions

The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — entry 71: Dantalion
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 71, Dantalion; facsimile PDF page 27 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10
The Discoverie of Witchcraft — complete spirit inventory
Reginald Scot (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s first-edition reprint (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II; complete inventory, reprint pages 314–326.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10
The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King — entry 70: Seere
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 70, Seere; facsimile PDF page 27 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10

Return to your archive search ↑

Loading Luminary Oddities

Spirit profile

Place in the catalogue

Sources and editions