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The Olympic Spirits of the Arbatel

Och

Olympic spirit of the Sun · Arbatel · 28 provinces

Seal of Och
Clown in black and yellow · Seal of Och.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Och is the Olympic spirit of the Sun in the Arbatel of Magic (1575), governing 28 of the 196 Olympic provinces. The Arbatel's account is expansive: he is said to give six hundred years of healthy life, great wisdom and knowledge of medicine, to turn things into the purest gold and precious stones, and to give a familiar spirit. The text claims that whoever possesses his character will be honoured like a god by the kings of the world. According to the Arbatel's scheme of history, his government followed Phaleg's. The Commons file reproduces his character.

Source
Arbatel de magia veterum (Basel, 1575), Aphorism 16–17; English trans. Robert Turner, 1655
The text
Arbatel: Of the Magic of the Ancients
Read more
Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy: History and Ideas