The 72 seals / Marbas
Spirit 5 of 72
Marbas
Reveals secrets; causes and cures disease.
- Rank
- President, ruling 36 legions
- Planet
- Mercury
- Seal made in
- mercury
- Hours
- Presidents may be called in any hour, excepting twilight at night (The Goetia)
On the station
Marbas: The Mechanical Arts
To gain skill in the mechanical arts, by the office of Marbas, who "giveth great Wisdom and Knowledge in Mechanical Arts".
Marbas in The Goetia (1904)
The fifth Spirit is Marbas. He is a Great President, and appeareth at first in the form of a Great Lion, but afterwards, at the request of the Master, he putteth on Human Shape. He answereth truly of things Hidden or Secret. He causeth Diseases and cureth them. Again, he giveth great Wisdom and Knowledge in Mechanical Arts; and can change men into other shapes. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits. And his Seal is this, which is to be worn as aforesaid.
From the public-domain text of The Goetia, ed. Mathers and Crowley (1904; 1916 reprint).
The 5th of the seventy-two. Run its operation on the Psychotron station.