Amon

Interpretation — Solomonic Tradition (Mathers/Crowley, 1904)

In Mathers' edition, published with commentary by Aleister Crowley, Amon holds the catalog's seventh position and is described as a strong and powerful Marquis, commanding a number of legions of spirits according to the text. He is listed with the attribute of knowing and revealing matters of the past and future, and of having the power to reconcile controversies and differences between friends.

Interpretation — Dr. Rudd's Tradition (manuscript, c. 1650)

The manuscript attributed to Thomas Rudd, predating Mathers' edition by roughly two and a half centuries, documents a related but distinct version of the catalog — in it, each of the 72 spirits, including Amon, is paired with a corresponding angel drawn from the Kabbalistic Shem HaMephorash system (72 divine names), a restraining/governing structural element absent from Mathers' edition. The precise identification of the angel associated with Amon in the Rudd manuscript is documented in Joseph Peterson's research on the Rudd manuscripts, which preserves this layer of angelic correspondence distinct from the better-known Mathers/Crowley tradition.

Interpretation — Luciferian Tradition (modern interpretation)

Modern Luciferian authors, chiefly Michael W. Ford (in works such as The Luciferian Goetia), offer an alternative reading of the Ars Goetia's 72 spirits: rather than external entities summoned through the authority of a higher divinity — the Solomonic model — they are understood as archetypal masks representing psychological currents of the practitioner's own consciousness, integrated in service of self-deification. In this reading, Amon's hybrid form — a wolf's body, a serpent's tail, and the head of an owl or raven — is reinterpreted as a symbol of integrating distinct instincts and forms of knowledge (animal drive, nocturnal insight) into a unified consciousness, while his command of matters past and future is read as an archetype of self-awareness expanded across time.