ATDTDA (8) (219. . . . ) Goetia : Crying/Howling

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I'm reading "Do What Thou Wilt, a Life of Aleister Crowley" by Lawrence Sutin, 
and ran across this:

                  Crowley:
                  To my amazement he came straight to me, looked 
                  into my eyes. and said in penetrating and, as it 
                  seemed, even menacing tones: 'Little brother, you 
                  have been meddling with the Goetia!' (Goetia 
                  means 'howling'; but that is the technical word 
                  employed to cover all the operations of that 
                  Magick which deals with gross, malignant or 
                  unenlighted forces.) I told him, rather timidly, 
                  that I had not been doing anything of the sort. 
                  "In that case,' he returned, 'the Goetia has been 
                  meddling with you.' pg.65

The Goetia: 

http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/goetia.htm

                  The 67th spirit in order is called Amduscias, he is 
                  a strong & great duke appearing at first like an 
                  Unicorne, But afterwards at ye Request of ye 
                  Exorcist he standeth [110r] before him in humane 
                  shape causing Trumpets and all manner of 
                  Musicall Instrument to be heard But not seene 
                  also [causing] Trees to bend and Incline according 
                  to ye Exorcist [Exorcist's] will; he giveth Excellent 
                  familiars & ruleth 29 Legions of spirits his seal is 
                  Thus formed and is to be worne as a Lamin &c.

You have to scroll down to get to the 67th sigil, but note the similarity to:

http://www.cafes.net/ditch/crying2.jpg

The "sigil" in COL49 is modernized, simplified, but still recognizably a family 
relation to that which spawned the 67th sigil in the Goetia.

This is the "Key of Solomon", here edited by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers:

http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol.htm

You might note the repeated use of horn or trumpet imagery, similar to that used in COL49.
This is a website with many, many rooms, so be careful noting what doors you've 
entered and exited, which ones are locked, which ones are unlocked. . . .

This excerpt from the introduction to "Key of Solomon"gives a lot of useful 
background detail for some of the characters that we are about to encounter:

INTRODUCTION by Joseph H. Peterson.

The Key of Solomon is the most famous and important of all Grimoires, or 
handbooks of Magic. As A.E. Waite has stated (BCM, pg. 58) "At the head of all, 
and, within certain limits, the inspiration and the source of all, stands the 
Key of Solomon. ... Mr. Mathers' presentation of the Key of Solomon, which is 
still in print, though the work of an uncritical hand, must be held to remove 
the necessity for entering into a detailed account of the contents of that 
curious work. ... The Key of Solomon can scarcely be judged accurately in the 
light of its English version, for the translator, preternaturally regarding it 
as a highly honourable memorial of lawful magic, has excised as much as possible 
the Goëtic portions, on the ground that they are interpolations, which is of course arbitrary."

Mr. Waite's harsh criticism is hardly justified. In fact, Mathers excised very 
little. Actually, three of the four significant excisions are operations dealing 
with love magic (Colorno, chapters 11-13: The experiment of Love, and how it 
should be performed; The experiment or operation of the Apple; Of the operation 
of love by her dreams, and how one must practice it. The fourth excision is 
chapter 14: Operations and experiments regarding hate and destruction of 
enemies.)

It is true that the Mathers edition would not be considered critical by modern 
standards of scholarship (but Waite's editions of various esoteric texts leave 
far more to be desired than Mathers'). Especially wanting are a proper critical 
apparatus, an analysis of the relation between manuscripts, and better 
utilization of the Latin and Italian manuscripts. Nevertheless, this edition has 
stood the test of time.