Paimon is more obedient to Lucifer than other kings are. Lucifer is here to be understood he that was drowned in the depth of his know|ledge: he would needs be like God, and for his arrogancy was throwne out into destruction, of whom it is said; Every prtious stone is thy covering. Paimon is constrained by divine vertue to stand before the exorcist where he putteth on the likenesse of a man: he sitteth on a beast called; a dromedary, which is a swift runner, and weareth a glorious crowne, and hath an effeminate countenance. There goeth before him an host of men with trumpets and well sounding cimbals, and all musicall instruments. At the first he appeareth with a great cry and roring, as in Circulo Salomonis, and in the art is declared. And if this Paimon speake some|time that the conjuror understand him nor, let him not therefore be dis|maied. But when he hath delivered him the first obligation, to ob|serve his desire, he must bid him also answer him distinctly and plainely to the questions he shall aske you, of all philosophy, wisedome, and science, and of all other secret things. And if you will know the disposi|tion of the world, and what the earth is, or what holdeth it up in the water, or any other thing, or what is Abyssus, or where the wind is, or from whence it commeth, he will teach you aboundantly. Consecrations also as well of sacrifices as otherwise may be reckoned. He giveth dignities and confirmations; he bindeth them that resist him in his owne chaines, and subjecteth them to the conjuror; he prepareth good familiars, and hath the understanding of all arts. Note, that at the calling up of him, the exorcist must looke towards the northwest, because there is his house. When he is called up, let the exorcist receive him constantly without feare, let him aske what questions or demands he lift, and no doubt he shall obtaine the same of him. And the exorcist must beware
he forget not the creator, for those things, which have been rehearsed before of Paimon, some say, he is of the order of dominations; others say, of the order of cherubim. There follow him two hundred legions, partly of the order of angels, and partly of potestates. Note that if Paimon be cited alone by an offering or sacrifice, two kings follow him; to wit, Beball and Abalam, and other potentares: in his host are twenty five legions, because the spirits subject to them are not alwayes with them, except they be compelled to appeare by divine vertue.
