2018 2/30

(31.) FORAS. - The Thirty-first Spirit is Foras. He is a Mighty President, and appeareth in the Form of a Strong Man in Human Shape. He can give the understanding to Men how they may know the Virtues of all Herbs and Precious Stones. He teacheth the Arts of Logic and Ethics in all their parts. If desired he maketh men invisible, and to live long, and to be eloquent. He can discover Treasures and recover things Lost. He ruleth over 29 Legions of Spirits

Foras:

• forīs (in Vulgar Latin)

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer- (“door, gate”); compare foris, forum

That which is outside the door

that waits, and does not knock

the clatter of branches against a window

the call of cats, of animals in the walls

tatter of trash bags in an old fence

strings of wire singing in the wind

amongst the trash

animals root among old bones

and rags, and grudging green life

crawls from the cold ground

 the ring of firelight fails in the dark

home of lost things