The 72 seals / Orias
Spirit 59 of 72
Orias
Teaches the virtues of the stars; gives honours.
- Rank
- Marquis, ruling 30 legions
- Planet
- the Moon
- Seal made in
- silver
- Hours
- Marquiss may be called from 3 in the afternoon till 9 at night, and from 9 at night until sunrise (The Goetia)
On the station
Orias: The Confirmation of Dignities
To confirm the operator in a dignity or post they already hold, with favour from friends and foes, by the office of Orias, who gives "Dignities, Prelacies, and Confirmation thereof".
Orias in The Goetia (1904)
The Fifty-ninth Spirit is Oriax, or Orias. He is a Great Marquis, and appeareth in the Form of a Lion, 3 riding upon a Horse Mighty and Strong, with a Serpent's Tail; 4 and he holdeth in his Right Hand two Great Serpents hissing. His Office is to teach the Virtues of the Stars, and to know the Mansions of the Planets, and how to understand their Virtues. He also transformeth Men, and he giveth Dignities, Prelacies, and Confirmation thereof; also Favour with Friends and with Foes. He doth govern 30 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, etc.
From the public-domain text of The Goetia, ed. Mathers and Crowley (1904; 1916 reprint).
The 59th of the seventy-two. Run its operation on the Psychotron station.