Flaming fire who becomes a man — who gives perfect knowledge of the stars, excellent familiars, and can reach into the hoards that other spirits guard and will not release.
Amy appears first as a flaming fire — not a spirit bearing fire or standing amid it, but the fire itself, the elemental form of combustion as a presence and an intelligence. When commanded, he takes human form, and speaks in a hoarse and broad voice. He is one of only a handful of Goetia spirits whose initial form is purely elemental rather than animal or hybrid — joining Vine (45th, a lion/man/horse) and a small group whose appearances are not composite animals but elemental expressions.
The flaming fire form encodes his domain before his gifts are described: fire is the element of transformation, of the conversion of one substance into another, of the heat that releases what is bound in matter. A President who arrives as fire teaches knowledge that transforms the mind (astrology, liberal sciences), sends companions (familiars) who assist ongoing work, and reaches into treasures kept by spirits — accessing what is locked within other spiritual domains through the penetrating capacity of fire that yields to no door and melts any lock.
The hoarse and broad voice echoes Furcas (50th) and Furfur (34th) — the other hoarse-voiced spirits — and connects Amy to the register of experienced authority, of the voice that has spoken much and carries the evidence of that speaking in its texture. The broad quality suggests a voice that fills space, that does not confine itself to the directed channel of normal speech but spreads outward to encompass the listener on multiple sides. Fire speaks broadly; Amy speaks as fire does.
Amy belongs to the small group of spirits — alongside Phenex (37th) and Marchosias (35th) — who hope to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years. Three spirits share this aspiration: the phoenix-poet, the fire-breathing wolf, and the flaming fire President. All three arrive in forms associated with burning or transformation; all three hope for a return to the highest celestial position. The fire that teaches and the fire that aspires: Amy is the Presidential expression of the aspiration that Phenex and Marchosias embody in their Marquis forms.
Amy holds three powers — one of the standard intellectual gifts of the Presidents, one of familiar provision, and one that is specifically his own: access to the treasures that other spirits guard and will not yield. He is the spirit who can enter where other spirits have set their locks, who penetrates the spiritual hoards that the grimoire world's other intelligences have gathered and sealed against human access.
The three powers create the profile of the fire that illuminates, accompanies and penetrates: perfect knowledge (illumination), familiar companions (accompaniment), and access to spirit-guarded treasures (penetration). The flaming fire that takes human form for the teaching arrives already equipped to give everything the conjurer needs for both independent practice (knowledge) and practical operation (familiars and treasures). Amy's fire is not destructive but instructive — the flame that shows rather than burns, that opens rather than closes.
Amy joins Phenex (37th) and Marchosias (35th) as the three Goetia spirits who explicitly hope to return to the seventh throne after 1,200 years. The three share this aspiration but express it through entirely different elements and forms: Phenex is fire (the phoenix born from flame), Marchosias is earth-and-air (the wolf with wings), and Amy is fire again — the two fire spirits flanking the earth-air wolf, the burning aspiration expressed twice in elemental terms around its earthbound companion.
The seventh throne toward which all three aspire is the highest position in the celestial hierarchy — the throne of the divine presence in the seventh heaven. That three Goetia spirits maintain this aspiration while performing their service to conjurers suggests a specific theological claim embedded in the grimoire: that the fallen state is not permanent for all spirits, that the hierarchy of the spiritual world retains a movement of return as well as a movement of fall, that the fire which fell can rise again.
The 1,200 years is a specific number that has been interpreted variously: as a literal claim about the duration of their service before hoped-for restoration, as a conventional expression of indefinite but bounded time, or as a reference to specific theological chronologies (some traditions place the fall of the angels at specific historical moments and calculate the period of their fallen state accordingly). Whatever the interpretation, the specificity of 1,200 years across all three spirits suggests a shared tradition — these three were transmitted together with this specific temporal claim as a defining feature of their identity.
The name Amy (also rendered as Avnas in some manuscript traditions) is the most simply human name in the Goetia — a personal name, a name that might belong to a person. The contrast between the flaming fire initial appearance and the quietly human name creates a characteristic Goetia paradox: the most inhuman elemental arrival named with the most ordinary human designation. Amy the fire, Amy the man-voice, Amy the hoped-for returnee to the seventh throne: the name makes the vast cosmological aspiration intimate and almost familiar.
Amy is invoked for complete astrological knowledge, for excellent familiars, and for access to the specific category of treasure that other spirits guard — the hoards of the spiritual world rather than the deposits of the physical one. The flaming fire that becomes a man with a broad hoarse voice and then returns to fire when the work is done carries the aspiration of the seventh throne in its burning nature: the spirit who teaches stars and hopes to return among them, who penetrates the hoards of other spirits and hopes one day to enter the hoard of the highest heaven. For 1,200 years, he teaches and sends familiars and opens sealed treasures. Then, he hopes, the fire rises.