Grimorium

The Grimorium Verum —printed in the 18th c. but heir to the 17th-c. De Secretis manuscripts— closes its catalogue with a brief passage: «there are yet other daemons… who are under Duke Syrach; there are eighteen of these» [documented, Waite ed.]. Syrach is given no office of his own like the Goetic spirits: he is the rubric gathering these eighteen, whose concrete powers —riches, love, storms, invisibility, resurrection…— the Verum's Second Book sets out. Above him the work places the three superiors (Lucifer, Beelzebuth and Astaroth). He is thus not a “greater demon” with a biography: he is the name under which a southern tradition orders its eighteen servants. The spelling “Sirachi” circulates in modern practice, with no located historical source; we use Syrach, the documented form. His equivalence to the Ars Goetia is [reconstructed]: this is another textual family, not the 72 with extra spirits. Read the full page on Duke Syrach →