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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 37
Also recorded as Pheynix
Speaking about the sciences, composing excellent poetry, and carrying out requests. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s inventory calls the spirit Phœnix and already gives him the voice of a child, a succession of sweet notes and an excellent poet’s command of the sciences. The account moves through sound before it reaches instruction: singing accompanies the bird’s arrival, then a human form speaks of learned things. The 1904 Phenex passage retains that sequence and the twenty-legion command. [2][1]
Both accounts also give the spirit a hope of returning to the seventh throne after 1,200 years. In the Goetia, that hope is reported as something said to Solomon. The poet’s learning sits beside a remembered celestial rank and an imagined future restoration, giving this brief appearance a span of time beyond its immediate encounter. [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 37, Phenex; 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, Phœnix; 1886 reprint page(s) 326.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10