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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesThe Seventy-Two Spirits · 60
Also recorded as Naphula
Teaching handicrafts, professions, philosophy and other sciences. [1]
Goetia 1904
Scot’s Vapula makes a person skilled in handicrafts, philosophy and sciences contained in books. The Goetia gives Naphula as an alternative and expands the phrasing to handicrafts and professions, philosophy and other sciences. The winged lion, duke’s rank and thirty-six legions continue through both accounts. [2][1]
Scot’s reference to sciences contained in books sets written learning beside handicrafts and philosophy. Marbas’s mechanical arts offer another instance of instruction in skilled making. The Goetia adds professions to Vapula’s description, broadening the kinds of cultivated work named alongside the learned subjects. [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 60, Vapula; facsimile PDF page 25 (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, Vapula; 1886 reprint page(s) 325.
Full passage · accessed 2026-10-10