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Teaching philosophy, astrology, rhetoric, logic, palm divination and divination by fire. [1]
Goetia 1904
Furcas is already a knight in Scot’s inventory, with a long beard, hoary head, pale horse and sharp weapon. The later Goetia keeps that uncommon rank and the twenty-legion command. Scot names practical philosophy, rhetoric, logic, astronomy, chiromancy and pyromancy; the later list gives astrology alongside the remaining learned and divinatory arts. [2][1]
Furcas’s teaching proceeds from philosophy, rhetoric and logic to divination through the hand and fire. A pale horse and sharp weapon accompany this learned office without a stated power of warfare. He is the only knight in the Goetia’s classified list, set among rulers otherwise titled kings, dukes, princes, marquises, presidents and earls. [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 50, Furcas; facsimile PDF page 22 (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, Furcas; 1886 reprint page(s) 322.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10