I am familiar with John Eliot Gardiner's Bach recordings and I already own these works in a small box set, with the smug mug of Gardiner on the front. But I hate playing these discs. These cheap cardboard sleeves, with an ugly design and ugly fonts, they didn't even bother displaying the original art work and to make matters worse I had to write on those sleeves which work and part of that work is hidden under the sleeve. A big "1" isn't enough info...
Call me shallow. but to me a big part of the experience, the sense of luxury and pleasure rests in the presentation.
So I bought these works in the original releases, in near mint condition on Discogs. I made sure that the manufacturing of these 80's DG/Archiv discs' wasn't done by PDO UK, because some of these discs are prone to 'bronzing', which I found out the hard way with a recently bought Mozart Piano concertos box. The discs play without problems, but for how long?
According to the description given in the Lesser Key of Solomon, who enslaved demons with a different ring and forced them to build a temple:
"The Ninth Spirt in this Order is Paimon, a Great King, and very obedient unto LUCIFER. He appeareth in the form of a Man sitting upon a Dromedary with a Crown most glorious upon his head. There goeth before him also an Host of Spirits, like Men with Trumpets and well sounding Cymbals, and all other sorts of Musical Instruments. He hath a great Voice, and roareth at his first coming, and his speech is such that the Magician cannot well understand it unless he can compel him. This Spirit can teach all Arts and Science, and other secret things. He can discover unto thee what the Earth is, and what holdeth it up in the Waters; and what Mind is, and where it is; or any other thing thou mayest desire to know. He giveth Dignity, and confirmeth the same. He bindeth or maketh any man subject to the Magician if he so desire it. He giveth good Familiars, and such as can teach all Arts. He is to be observed towards the West. He is of the Order of Dominations.1 He hath under him 200 Legions of Spirits, and part of them are of the Order of Angels, and the other part of Potentates. Now if thou callest this Spirit Paimon alone, thou must make him some offering; and there will attend him two Kings called LABAL and ABALIM, and also other Spirits who be of the Order of Potentates in his Host, and 25 Legions. And those Spirits which be subject unto them are not always with them unless the Magician do compel them. His Character is this which must be worn as a Lamen before thee, etc."
I wear that on my left hand. I wear these on my right, to ward off evil greater than mine. The Seal of Solomon and Kabbalists Wheel of Fortune. Take it, Vanna:
To go with my Sheri Moon Zombie Werewolf Women of the SS, Say You Love Satan, Lords of Salem, Living Dead Girl T-shirts. Did I mention I'm 66 years old?
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