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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 38
Also recorded as Malthus, Malthas
Building towers, supplying ammunition and weapons, and sending warriors to appointed places. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Halphas appears as a stork and builds fortified towns supplied with weapons. The later Goetia calls the bird a stock-dove and describes towers stocked with ammunition, while retaining the dispatch of warriors and twenty-six legions. The military office continues through a substantial change in the bird named by the English texts. [2][1]
Halphas builds, supplies and deploys: his towers hold ammunition, and his men of war move to appointed places. Malphas also constructs houses and high towers, but reveals enemies’ thoughts and deceives those who offer him sacrifices. The related building offices differ in the accompanying work, from Halphas’s military provisioning to Malphas’s knowledge of adversaries and unreliable acceptance of offerings. [2][1][3]
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 38, Halphas; facsimile PDF page 19 (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, Halphas; 1886 reprint page(s) 323.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10S. 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 39, Malphas; facsimile PDF pages 19, 20 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10