Appendix · Seals of the grimoires
The 72 Spirits of the Ars Goetia
Belial
68th spirit of the Ars Goetia · King · 50 legions
Belial, the sixty-eighth spirit, is described as a mighty and powerful king who was created next after Lucifer. He appears as two beautiful angels sitting in a chariot of fire and speaks with a comely voice. The Goetia credits him with distributing presentations and senatorships, causing favour between friends and foes and giving excellent familiars, but adds that he must have offerings and does not readily tell the truth. Mathers gives him 50 legions; Weyer's longer entry gives 80. The name comes from the Hebrew Bible, where beliyya'al means worthlessness. His seal is one of the 1904 plates.
- Source
- Ars Goetia (Lesser Key of Solomon), 17th c.; Mathers & Crowley ed. 1904
- The text
- The Goetia (Lemegeton, Book One)
- Read more
- Ars Goetia: The 72 Spirits of Solomon and Their History
Prayers & conjurations
- The Preliminary Invocation (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The First Conjuration (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The Second Conjuration (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The Constraint (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The Invocation of the King (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The General Curse, called the Spirits' Chain (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The Address unto the Spirit upon his Coming (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The Welcome unto the Spirit (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)
- The License to Depart (Goetia)S. L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.) & Aleister Crowley (ed.)