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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 57
Also recorded as Oso, Voso
Teaching the liberal sciences, answering divine and secret matters, and changing a person's form and belief about that form. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Ose alters a person’s shape and belief so that the transformed person imagines being a king, a pope or a crowned figure. The closing Latin phrase gives that imagined reign an hour’s duration. The Goetia instead speaks broadly of believing oneself to be whatever creature or thing one has become. Its body gives three legions, with Mathers proposing thirty in a note; Scot supplies no count here. [2][1]
Ose changes belief along with the body: the transformed person accepts the new identity as true. The same spirit teaches the liberal sciences and answers divine and secret questions. Instruction and deception therefore appear within one office, with the knowledge he supplies placed beside his power to alter a person’s understanding of the self. [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 57, Ose; facsimile PDF page 24 (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, Ose; 1886 reprint page(s) 324–325.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10