Demon Directory

AMY

Seal of Amy

AMY

Amy is the fifty-eighth spirit of the Ars Goetia, a Great President who rules thirty-six legions. He appears first as a flaming fire and then takes the shape of a man. He makes one wonderfully knowing in astrology and all the liberal sciences, gives good familiars, and can reveal treasure that is kept by spirits. That makes him a spirit of discovery on two levels: the hidden knowledge that a mind can reach, and the hidden wealth that other spirits guard.

Amy at a glance

Number: 58th of the 72 spirits of Solomon
Rank: President (S. Connolly calls him a supreme president of hell; de Plancy, one of the princes of the infernal monarchy)
Legions: 36
Appearance: a flaming fire, then a man
Other spellings: Avnas

Correspondences used by many modern magicians (these come from later systems, not from the Goetia itself): Mercury, as for all the Goetic presidents; Wednesday and the hour of Mercury; yellow and orange; quicksilver; lavender, fennel and lemongrass. In the Rudd tradition, which pairs each Goetic spirit with one of the 72 angels of the Shem ha-Mephorash, his angel is Ieialel (Yeialel).

What the Goetia says

The entry gives Amy three offices:

Wonderful knowledge of astrology and the liberal sciences. In the old sense the liberal arts are grammar, rhetoric and logic, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy: the full education of a free mind. Amy does not just inform; he makes you “wonderful knowing”.
Good familiars. Spirits who serve, assist and stay. Weyer calls them excellent familiars.
Treasure kept by spirits. He can betray, that is reveal, treasure that other spirits guard.

Weyer adds a line the Goetia drops: Amy is partly of the order of angels and partly of the Potentates, and he hopes after 1,200 years to return to the seventh throne. Weyer immediately adds that this “is not credible”. Collin de Plancy repeats the hope of return and gives him a far longer wait. Whatever you make of it, it marks Amy as a spirit with a memory of heaven and an eye on rank.

Where Amy comes from

Amy first appears in print in Johann Weyer’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577), carried into English by Reginald Scot in 1584. The fire, the human shape, the astrology and liberal sciences, the familiars, the treasure and the thirty-six legions are all already there. The Ars Goetia, the first book of the seventeenth-century Lemegeton, keeps the entry, numbers him 58 and records his seal. De Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal describes him as Grand President of Hades, enveloped in flame below but in human form on earth, revealing treasure guarded by demons to those who have his favour.

What Weyer and the Goetia share is his core profile. Planetary rulers, colours and herbs, and the modern enns used in demonolatry, are later additions: useful tools, but not part of the grimoire entry.

Benefits people seek from Amy

Study and exams: academic deadlines, licensing tests, research projects and any long stretch of learning.
Astrology: skill in reading and casting charts, and timing other workings.
Hidden resources: an overlooked opportunity, a forgotten asset, an inheritance detail that has gone unaddressed, information that changes a decision.
Familiars: a lasting spirit helper for your own magick.
Cunning in negotiation, legal filings and pitches, where knowing more than the other side decides the outcome.

The commonest mistake is to treat Amy as a generic money spirit. His treasure is discovered, not manufactured. Results tend to arrive as insight first: a piece of information surfacing, a document turning up, a connection becoming obvious. If you want new income generated directly, a prosperity spirit such as Clauneck fits better; if you want to find what is already there, Amy does.

Working with Amy

The Goetia gives his seal and offices, not a modern ritual. This is how we approach him.

1. Name what you want found or learned. Write one sentence before you begin: the exact exam, the exact search, the exact negotiation. Specific petitions work; “knowledge” or “treasure” in the abstract does not.

2. Prepare the seal and the altar. Draw his seal by hand and place it at the centre of the altar, with yellow or orange candles and a light incense such as lavender. Offerings that suit him are dried lavender, coins, or a written question. Work on a Wednesday in the hour of Mercury if you follow planetary timing.

3. Call him. Many in our tradition first approach him through Satan or Lucifer, with a petition such as:

“Lord Satan, by your grace, grant me the power to conceive in my mind and to carry out that which I desire, the end I would reach by your help. I ask you to move Amy to come before me, that he may give me a true and faithful answer and help me reach my desired end, provided it is proper to his office. This I ask in your name, Lord Satan.”

Then call him by name over his seal, slowly and repeatedly, until you feel the room change. Expect heat: he comes first as fire. Some address him formally by title as well, for example “President of hidden learning and buried treasure”, before stating their need.

4. State the petition and the terms. Say plainly what you want revealed or learned and what you will give in return. If you are asking for a familiar, say what work you want it to do and how you will keep it.

5. Close properly. Thank him by name, state that the working is complete, give the promised offering and dismiss him. Those who work in the Rudd tradition place Ieialel’s sigil opposite Amy’s seal and acknowledge the angel at the close; that is a Solomonic option, not a requirement.

6. Follow through. Do the research. Open the files, make the calls, read the books. Amy reveals; you still have to look. A single working suits a defined question; returning to him every Wednesday suits a long research project.

Four common pitfalls in Amy workings

How it looks in practice

These are illustrations, not client cases.

The candidate preparing for a licensing exam calls Amy at the start of her revision period and returns to his seal each Wednesday until the test.
The heir who suspects there is more to an estate than he has been told asks Amy to reveal what is hidden, then works through every document and account.
The litigant works with Amy to uncover the facts of the case, and separately with Eligor for the outcome in court: one spirit to find, another to win.

Black Witch Coven’s view

Amy is a scholar with a key to someone else’s vault. He makes the mind wonderful in what it knows, and he reveals what other spirits have hidden. Bring him a precise question and the willingness to do the digging, and keep each spirit to its own office rather than asking one entity to do everything. Fire first, then a man: he burns away what obscures, and then he teaches.

If you would rather have the working done for you, see our daemonic spell casting or book a consultation first. For the structure of a call, see our guide to demonic invocation. As with all magick, results are never guaranteed.

How Amy compares with similar spirits

Similar spirits

Andrealphus: teaches geometry, measurement and astronomy
Stolas: teaches astronomy and the virtues of herbs and stones
Vassago: finds hidden and lost things
Andromalius: uncovers hidden treasure and recovers stolen goods
Clauneck: riches, and treasure discovered for those who make a pact with him

Sources

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Johann Weyer (1577; Scot’s English, 1584)	“Amy is a great president, and appeareth in a flame of fier, but having taken mans shape, he maketh one marvelous in astrologie, and in all the liberall sciences…”
The Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia), ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1904)	“The Fifty-eighth Spirit is Amy, or Avnas. He is a Great President, and appeareth at first in the Form of a Flaming Fire…”
Dictionnaire Infernal, Collin de Plancy (paraphrased)	Grand President of Hades and one of the princes of the infernal monarchy; enveloped in flame below, in human form on earth.
The Complete Book of Demonolatry, S. Connolly	“Said to be supreme president of hell. He will trade knowledge for the human soul.”