Och
Governor of the Sun
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Och governeth solar things; he giveth 600 yeares, with perfect health; he bestoweth great wisdom, giveth the most excellent Spirits, teacheth perfect Medicines: he converteth all things into most pure gold and precious stones: he giveth gold, and a purse springing with gold. He that is dignified with his Character, he maketh him to be worshipped as a Deity, by the Kings of the whole world. He hath under him 36536 Legions: he administreth all things alone: and all his spirits serve him by centuries.
The Arbatel was first printed in Latin at Basel in 1575, and its seventh aphorism names the seven Olympic Spirits who govern the world between them. The passage here is Robert Turner's English translation, printed in London in 1655. The long s of the original is set as a plain s; nothing else is changed.
Arbatel of Magick, translated by Robert Turner, in Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (London, 1655). The text and the characters are in the public domain.
The character is traced from the page of the 1655 printing on which it stands.
In the book the character stands between the account of what the governor does and the count of his court.
By the book's reckoning Och governed from the year 920 until 1410.
The book lists the provinces as 49, 42, 35, 28, 21, 14 and 7, then gives the total as 186. Those figures add to 196. The discrepancy is in the book, not here.