Sigil of Buer
At a glance
- Entry
- 10 of 72
- Rank
- President
- Legions
- 50 in the text
Description in the text
Buer is said to teach moral and natural philosophy, logic, and the properties of herbs and plants. The account also attributes healing and the provision of good familiars to him.
Read entry 10 on page 25 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
The passage connects his visible form with Sagittarius but gives no further physical detail.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Philosophy
- Herbs and plants
- Healing
Reading this entry
Buer’s description ties his appearance to Sagittarius when the sun occupies that sign. It does not provide the familiar wheel-legged body seen in many later images. That absence is important when identifying what the numbered text actually says. The president is credited with moral and natural philosophy, logic, and knowledge of the properties of herbs and plants. The passage also assigns healing and the provision of good familiars.
The offices place learned explanation beside practical care of the body, but the text gives no botanical list or medical method. A modern reader should treat “healing” as an attributed power in a historical source, not a treatment claim. Buer’s 50 legions and seal follow the recurring pattern. The sparse appearance description leaves unusually wide space between the original passage and later popular iconography.
Read entry 10 on page 25 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 10
What the numbered text says
The numbered passage supplies no anatomy for Buer beyond its Sagittarius wording, phrased as his shape when the sun occupies that sign. The attributed teaching is unusually disciplinary: moral philosophy, natural philosophy, and logic are named before herbs and plants. Healing and good familiars follow, without a recipe, plant list, or account of an actual cure.
About the printed seal
Buer’s “character of obedience” appears as number 10 on the 1916 plate. It can establish which printed sign accompanies the entry, but it cannot fill in the missing anatomy of the source description. A figure with additional bodily details would require a separately cited visual source.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 8: Barbatos. Both entries mention Sagittarius, but Barbatos arrives under a solar condition while Buer is said to have that as his shape. Barbatos’s offices concern animal voices, enchanted treasure, and reconciliation; Buer’s concentrate on learned subjects, plants, and healing.