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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 39
Building houses and high towers, revealing enemies' desires, thoughts and actions, and giving familiars. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Malphas gathers craftsmen quickly, builds houses and high towers, and demolishes enemies’ buildings. In 1904 the description turns from destroying those structures to revealing enemies’ desires, thoughts and deeds. The crow, later human form, hoarse voice and forty-legion command remain, while the treatment of enemies shifts from their buildings to their intentions. [2][1]
Both accounts promise good familiars and warn that Malphas willingly accepts sacrifices but deceives the giver. His readiness to receive an offering is therefore accompanied by an explicit warning about his response. Building and dealings with enemies stand beside this unreliable exchange, making the terms of his assistance an important part of the notice. [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 39, Malphas; facsimile PDF pages 19, 20 (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, Malphas; 1886 reprint page(s) 320.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10