Osé

The fifty-seventh spirit, also written Voso.

Number57 of 72
RankPresident
Legions30

The Fifty-seventh Spirit is Oso, Osé, or Voso. He is a Great President, and appeareth like a Leopard at the first, but after a little time he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His Office is to make one cunning in the Liberal Sciences, and to give True Answers of Divine and Secret Things; also to change a Man into any Shape that the Exorcist pleaseth, so that he that is so changed will not think any other thing than that he is in verity that Creature or Thing he is changed into. He governeth 3026 Legions of Spirits, and this is his Seal, etc.

As printed in Mathers’ Lesser Key of Solomon, page 50. The text above is that page’s, not a paraphrase of it.

A number and a footnote, run together. The Mathers scan of this entry reads “governeth 3026 Legions” — but the De Laurence printing sets the same sentence as “governeth 30[26] Legions”, where the bracketed 26 is a footnote marker and not part of the count. The number is 30. Taken literally the merged reading would have made this spirit command fifteen times more than the largest force anywhere in the book, which is how it was noticed.
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