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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 11
Knowing past, present and future, resolving questions, reconciling friendships, and giving honour and dignity. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot spells the name Gusoin and names the form Xenophilus; the 1904 text uses Gusion and Xenopilus. The earlier account assigns forty legions and combines answers about past, present and future with the resolution of questions, reconciliation of friendships, and the distribution of honours and dignities. [2][1]
Answers and honours belong to the same office: Gusoin resolves questions, reconciles friends and changes a person’s standing through dignities. The name of his form remains unexplained in both passages. Xenophilus in Scot and Xenopilus in the Goetia are closely related readings, but neither provides an anatomy for the reader to reconstruct. [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 11, Gusion; facsimile PDF page 12 (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, Gusoin; 1886 reprint page 315
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10