#43 · Marquis

Sabnock

The 43rd of the seventy-two, a marquis. Builds towers and castles. In the language of this path, Sabnock is a shadow pole — worked only with its angel, Veualiah.

What the grimoires say

In the 1904 Goetia, Sabnock is a Marquis governing 50 legions. Builds towers and castles; gives familiars.

A mighty, great and strong Marquis who appears as an armed soldier with a lion's head, riding a pale-coloured horse. His office is to build high towers, castles and cities and to furnish them with armour. Like several martial spirits he can also afflict men for many days with rotten, worm-filled wounds and sores, and he grants good familiars on request. No confirmed public-domain figure engraving exists.

“The Forty-third Spirit... is called Sabnock, or Savnok. He is a Marquis, Mighty, Great and Strong, appearing in the Form of an Armed Soldier with a Lion's Head, riding on a pale-coloured horse. His office is to build high Towers, Castles and Cities, and to furnish them with Armour... Also he can afflict Men for many days with Wounds and with Sores rotten and full of Worms. He giveth Good Familiars at the request of the Exorcist. He commandeth 50 Legions of Spirits.”— Mathers & Crowley, The Goetia (1904), public domain

The shadow it carries

Stripped to the bone, Sabnock's traditional office turns on building and fortifying: raising strong, lasting structures - towers, castles, cities, and by extension defended projects and boundaries. Read plainly, that is a real human force; in the language of this path its raw, unowned form is a shadow pole. Its shadow is what that force does when it runs you from the dark; its gold is the same force — seen, owned, governed.

You never reach for it alone. Its light pole is the angel Veualiah; met together, behind protection, Sabnock becomes a disowned part of yourself approached while the light is already in the room.

Correspondences

A word of honesty first: almost none of the table below is from the old grimoires. The rank, legions, direction and office are traditional; the planet, day, colour, tarot, incense and the Enn are modern attributions (mostly 20th–21st-century Demonolatry and correspondence compilations), and the sources openly disagree. Use them as a working frame, not as law.

Its modern Enn — a chant from the Demonolatry current, not found in any grimoire:

“Tasa Sabnock on ca Lirach”

Making a connection

Gathered from what practitioners report, put plainly — a starting point, not a rule:

• Sit with the seal above as the first meeting-place: trace it, hold it in the mind’s eye, and let impressions arrive without grabbing at them.
• Set a gentle frame. Keep it simple — a red or black candle, a tuesday, a little incense, a moment of quiet. If you work the Demonolatry current, chant the Enn softly — more like settling than commanding.
• Bring the real theme. Practitioners associate Sabnock with protection, warding and martial strength; steadfastness under siege, the shadow edge of the wound-giver: work with binding, banishing and confronting decay/affliction. Name what you actually want, and ask — don’t demand.
• Journal before and after, and treat everything as your own experience, not fixed doctrine.

Rank, legions, direction and office are from the public-domain grimoires (Weyer 1577; Mathers & Crowley, The Goetia, 1904). Images are public domain: the 1904 seal. The Enn and the planet/day/colour/tarot correspondences are modern attributions (Demonolatry and compilations), flagged as such; sources disagree, and no copyrighted description or artwork is reproduced. Angel pairing per the Rudd tradition. Take the technique, never the tribe.

“Build your walls high enough to be safe, low enough to still see out.”