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Sytry, Sitri |
Bitru: Otherwise called Sytry, a great Prince of Hell,
according to the demonographer Wierius. He appeared in the form
of a leopard with the wings of a griffin. But when he adopted a
human appearance for the nonce it was invariably one of great beauty.
It is he who awakes lust in the human heart.
Seventy
legions obey his commands. (b)
Sytry,
a great prince with the
head of a leopard and the wings of a griffin. He stimulates
passion between the sexes, in part by encouraging women to display
themselves naked. (c)
Sitri,
alias Bitru, is a great prince, appeering with the face of a leopard,
and having wings as a griffen: when he taketh humane shape, he is
verie beautiful, he inflameth a man with a womans love, and also
stirreth up women to love men, being commanded he willinglie deteineth
secrets of women, laughing at them and mocking them, to make them
luxuriouslie naked, and there obeie him sixtie legions.
(g)
SITRI.
- The Twelfth Spirit is Sitri. He is a Great Prince and appeareth at first
with a Leopard’s head and the Wings of a Gryphon, but after the command of
the Master of the Exorcism he putteth on Human shape, and that very
beautiful. He enflameth men with Women’s love, and Women with Men’s love;
and causeth them also to show themselves naked if it be desired. He
governeth 60 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, to be worn as a Lamen
before thee, etc. (h)
The Names of Some of the Good and Bad Spirits Solomon Made Use of
which are mentioned in Enoch's Seven Tables, with a true account of their
shapes, powers, government and effects, with their several seigniories* and
degrees.
58 SITRI, is a great Prince appearing with the face of a Leopard
having wings as a Griffin. When he taketh human shape he is very
beautiful, he inflameth a man with woman's love, and stirreth up women to
love men, being commanded he willingly destroyeth secrets of women
laughing at them and mocking them to make them luxuriously naked.
And there obey him sixty Legions. (s)
*this is the spelling in the text
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Resource List - all entries are taken verbatim
from the original source:
(b)
"Encyclopaedia
of Occultism" by Lewis Spence. ©1959
(c) "Fallen Angels...and
Spirits of the Dark" by Robert Masello ©1994.
(h) The Lesser Key of Solomon. GOETIA.
Compiled and Translated By S.L. "MacGregor" Mathers. Editing
and Additional Material By Aleister Crowley
(g) Pseudomonarchia daemonum - Johann Wier
(1583)
(s) "A Treatise on Angel Magic, Being a
Complete Transcription of Ms. Harley 6482 in the British Library."
Edited & Introduced by Adam McLean. Phanes Press. ©1990.
First published in 1949.
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