Paimon appears as a crowned man riding a dromedary. A host resembling men precedes him with trumpets, cymbals and other instruments. His voice is initially a great roar; the notice says that his speech must become distinct before questions can be understood. [1]
The Goetia calls Paimon obedient to Lucifer and places him among the Dominations. His two hundred legions include Angels and Potentates. The attendant kings Labal and Abalim come with other spirits of Potentates and twenty-five legions. [1]
Questions about the world and mind
Paimon teaches arts, sciences and secret things. The questions assigned to him concern the earth’s support in the waters, the nature of mind and where it resides. He also grants and confirms dignities, subjects people to the questioner, and gives familiars able to teach the arts. [1]
The earlier English account
Scot’s Paimon rides a swift dromedary and wears a splendid crown. The earlier account adds an effeminate countenance to the procession of men, trumpets, cymbals and other instruments. His first arrival is a cry or roar; the account then calls for distinct answers to questions. It names two attendant kings as Beball and Abalam, beside two hundred legions under Paimon and twenty-five in the attending host. [2][1]
The questions in Scot concern the world’s disposition, the earth and what supports it in water, the abyss, and the source and location of the wind. The Goetia instead includes a question about mind. Scot locates Paimon’s house in the northwest and mentions alternative affiliations to Dominations or Cherubim; the 1904 account directs the observer west and names Dominations. [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 9, Paimon; facsimile PDF page 12 (PDF index includes three preliminary plates)
Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584); Brinsley Nicholson’s reprint of the first edition (1886), Project Gutenberg transcription. Book XV, chapter II, Paimon; 1886 reprint page 317 and following
