The Legacy of Buer: The Great President of the Wheel, Sacred Botany, and the Healing of the Flesh

Origin and Legend: The Sun of Nature and the Celestial Wheel

To trace the primordial seed of Buer—the Tenth Spirit of the Ars Goetia—it is necessary to turn away from the geography of the desert and direct one's gaze toward the classical Hellenic world and the Hermetic traditions of the Levant. Buer was not born in the flames of the Judeo-Christian underworld; his archetypal matrix is deeply linked to the mythological figure of the Centaur Chiron, the wise healer, astrologer, and botanist who lived on the fringes of civilization, and to the solar symbology of perpetual motion.

His name bears a close resonance with Germanic and Latin roots associated with the wheel (wheel, rad) and circular motion. When medieval and Renaissance demonology reduced the ancient tutors of humanity in Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Lemegeton, Buer was codified as a Great President of Hell with direct rule over fifty legions of spirits. However, the oldest texts kept the core of his mythology intact: a spirit linked to the realm of health, the teaching of the virtues of medicinal plants, and moral philosophy, whose influence reaches its peak when the Sun crosses the constellation of Sagittarius.

Historical Evolution: From the Wise Centaur to the Monster of the Wheel

During the centuries of religious persecution and inquisitorial paranoia, Buer's iconography underwent one of the most disturbing metamorphoses in European demonology. In popular nineteenth-century representations, such as Louis Le Breton's famous illustrations for Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal, Buer was stripped of all traditional human or kinetic form and portrayed as a lion's head at the center of a wheel composed of five horse legs.

To the inquisitorial mind of the time, this grotesque image represented the unnatural nature of the demon. However, for alchemists, Paracelsian physicians, and practitioners of high magic, this hieroglyph possessed a sublime meaning: the lion's head embodied the vital force of the Sun and the sovereignty of the spirit over matter, while the five legs arranged in a Wheel (the moving Pentagram) symbolized the dynamic dominion of the will over the four elements of nature, integrated by the fifth element: the Ether or Akasha. Buer ceased to be perceived as an infernal chimera and came to be respected as the archetype of healing dynamism that balances the humors of the body.

Esoteric Meaning: Solar Vitality and the Alchemy of Health

In the architecture of the Qliphotic Kabbalah and the occult medicine of the Left-Hand Path, Buer operates at the intersection of higher solar energy and the domain of micro-cosmic biology.

The Archetype of the Great Healer (Dark Chiron): It represents the understanding that illness is not a divine punishment, but an interruption of the natural flow of vital movement in the temple of the body. Buer teaches occult anatomy and the way energy fields shape dense matter.

The Lord of Botany and Hermetic Medicine: He is the custodian of the virtues of herbs, roots, and minerals. He teaches the preparation of Spagyria and plant alchemy, allowing the practitioner to extract the "life force" or the light imprisoned in the Plant Kingdom to repair damaged tissue.

The Wheel of Regeneration: Its helical shape symbolizes the circulation of Prana or Kundalini. It represents the ability to move stagnant energy in the vital centers of the human being, dissolving emotional knots and physical blockages that lead to biological degeneration.

Practice and Manifestation: The Presence, the Bond, and Sovereignty

Buer's energy does not possess the oppressive weight of Paimon or the scorching temperature of Amon. His presence in the ceremonial chamber is clean, direct, fresh, and charged with a vitality that electrifies the skin and clears the senses.

The Manifestation of His Energy: When evoked, the atmosphere of the place is usually perceived as subtly permeated with the scents of purifying resins, forests, or pine. In spiritual vision, Buer usually manifests initially under the iconic form of the rapidly spinning lion wheel, later condensing into the venerable figure of a wise philosopher in simple robes or a master centaur with a serene and deep gaze.

Action on the Individual: When Buer works with the operator, his impact is immediate on the general vitality of the body. He grants a clear mind, eliminates intellectual fatigue, and awakens an intuitive understanding of what the body needs to regain its homeostasis. He grants the practitioner the ability to diagnose ailments in themselves and others through the perception of the energetic network, as well as the ability to transmit healing energy through the hands.

Approach, Protection, and Respect: Buer is a power of order, harmony, and scientific-spiritual rigor. Approaching Buer with superficial intentions or pretending to use sacred medicine to profit through deception is to cut off the current of his force. Imprudence before this energy does not generate violent attacks, but rather the closing of perception and the stagnation of the summoner's health.

The Sovereignty of the Magician: To bond with Buer from a place of balance, the practitioner must assume absolute responsibility for their own biological temple. True protection against any imbalance is not a passive Amulet, but daily discipline, temperance, and the mastery of the mind over instincts. Whoever presents themselves before Buer as an alchemist of their own life finds in the Great President the ultimate mentor who teaches how to restore the flesh and keep the sacred fire of health burning.