It is here published, for the benefit of such persons as may have followed the standard Goetic instruction to its end, that the seventy-two princes named by Weyer (1577) and re-published by Crowley’s precursors are NOT, as the casual reader may suppose, the complete enumeration of the False Monarchy. There exists also a SEVENTY-THIRD, who is not named in the catalogues, who answers to no sigil generally known, and whose appearance must be acknowledged at the conclusion of any careful reading of the catalogue itself.
This Prince, called by the present pamphleteer BOTTOMROTH the SUZERAIN UNDERNEATH (or, in the Polish line, the podkról), is to be understood as the principle that obtaineth beneath all named demons, as the floor of a chamber obtaineth beneath all its furniture. He appeareth not as a figure but as a low BROWN LIGHT at the edge of vision, which the eye attempts to fix and cannot.
His provinces are nine, his legions are eight, and his form is the form of any room in which he is not currently present.
| Rank: | Suzerain Underneath; demanded of him no obeisance; he commandeth, nevertheless, eight legions of nameless principalities, the names of which were withheld at his own request. |
| Appearance: | A low brown light at the edge of vision, never approachable by direct sight. To look at him directly is to see ordinary furniture. |
| Sigil: | None known. The Pamphleteer has attempted one (see below); the attempt is, by the Pamphleteer’s own confession, almost certainly wrong. |
| Office: | To attend, to record, and (as is supposed) to forget nothing. |
| Summoning: | Not by ritual. He is summoned by the careful reading of anything. |
| Dismissal: | None known. He does not, in any tradition consulted by this Pamphleteer, depart. |
The Reader is hereby cautioned: it is the considered opinion of the Pamphleteer that BOTTOMROTH may already be present to any Reader who hath, in the course of his ordinary day, given more than common attention to printed matter. The signs of his presence are seven in number and are not here reproduced, as their reproduction is considered, in the trade, to constitute another summoning.
The Pamphleteer himself is at present unable to say whether BOTTOMROTH attendeth him; he is, however, able to say that he hath, in the past sennight, found three of his books moved upon their shelves by a hand he cannot identify, and that he no longer leaves his lodgings without checking, three times, that he hath shut his door behind him.