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Goetia - S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1904)
The Thirty-third Spirit is Gaap. He is a Great President and a
Mighty Prince. He appeareth when the Sun is in some of the
Southern Signs, in a Human Shape, going before Four Great and
Mighty Kings, as if lie were a Guide to conduct them along on
their way. His Office is to make men Insensible or Ignorant; as
also in Philosophy to make them Knowing, and in all the Liberal
Sciences. He can cause Love or Hatred, also he can teach thee to
consecrate those things that belong to the Dominion of AMAYMON his
King. He can deliver Familiars out of the Custody of other
Magicians, and answereth truly and perfectly of things Past,
Present, and to Come. He can carry and re-carry men very speedily
from one Kingdom to another, at the Will and Pleasure of the
Exorcist. He ruleth over 66 Legions of Spirits, and he was of the
Order of Potentates. His Seal is this to be made and to be worn as
aforesaid, etc.
Pseudomonarchia daemonum - Johann Wier (1583)
Gaap, alias Tap, a great president and a prince, he appeareth in a
meridionall signe, and when he taketh humane shape he is the guide
of the foure principall kings, as mightie as Bileth. There were
certeine necromancers that offered sacrifices and burnt offerings
unto him; and to call him up, they exercised an art, saieng that
Salomon the wise made it. Which is false: for it was rather Cham,
the sonne of Noah, who after the floud began first to invocate
wicked spirits. He invocated Bileth, and made an art in his name,
and a booke which is knowne to manie mathematicians. There were
burnt offerings and sacrifices made, and gifts given, and much
wickednes wrought by the exorcists, who mingled therewithall the
holie names of God, the which in that art are everie where
expressed. Marie there is an epistle of those names written by
Salomon, as also write Helias Hierosolymitanus and Helisæus. It
is to be noted, that if anie exorcist have the art of Bileth, and
cannot make him stand before him, nor see him, I may not bewraie
how and declare the meanes to conteine him, bicause it is
abhomination, and for that I have learned nothing from Salomon of
his dignitie and office. But yet I will not hide this; to wit,
that he maketh a man woonderfull in philosophie and all the
liberall sciences: he maketh love, hatred, insensibilitie,
invisibilitie, consecration, and consecration of those things that
are belonging unto the domination of Amaymon, and delivereth
familiars out of the possession of other conjurors, answering
truly and perfectly of things present, past, & to come, &
transferreth men most speedilie into other nations, he ruleth
sixtie six legions, & was of the order of potestats.
Dictionnaire Infernal - Collin de Plancy (1863)
Tap/Gaap is a high president & prince of hell, commanding 4
of the principal kings and 60 legions, & as powerful as Byleth.
He also has an empire over those demons Amaymon commands. He appears
in human form at noon, and is said to intensify the passions of love
and hatred, and can transport men to different countries. Earlier
necromancers invoked Tap by spells composed by King Solomon, but
that is not true, as it was Noah's son, Cham, who first began
evoking evil spirits. The necromancers also offered him libations
& holocausts. Tap was made to serve Byleth by composing a book
of mathematics. If the exorcist knows of the art of Byleth, Gaap
will not cooperate. Another book attributed to the prophets Eli and
Elijah states that Gaap can be conjured by virtue of the saints'
names of God listed in the Key of Solomon. |
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