Och

In the Arbatel de magia veterum, Och is the Olympic spirit given governance over the sphere of the Sun, and the text credits him with the richest offices among the seven. He is said to grant six hundred years of health to those who bear his character, along with great wisdom, excellent attendant spirits and a perfect knowledge of medicine. The Arbatel also credits him with the power to turn base matter into gold and precious stones, and to fill a purse that continually replenishes itself with gold, offices that made Och one of the most frequently cited of the seven Olympic spirits in later popular retellings of the Arbatel.

The text goes further than it does for most of the other spirits, saying that those who bear Och's character are honored as though divine by the rulers of the world, an unusually strong claim even by the Arbatel's own generous standard for the other six. Like the rest of the Olympic spirits, Och commands a large nested court of subordinate ranks and holds his office for one of the seven 490 year ages the Arbatel assigns as a group, consistent with the Sun's traditional astrological association with honor, gold and vitality. The Arbatel does not specify how the promised six hundred years of health interacts with an ordinary human lifespan already underway, and later commentators on the text have generally left that ambiguity unresolved rather than proposing a single reading.

Och reached English readers through Robert Turner's 1655 translation of the Arbatel de magia veterum, first printed in Latin at Basel in 1575 and issued by Turner alongside his own edition of the pseudo Agrippa Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. Och's offices of gold, wealth and honor made him one of the most quoted of the seven Olympic spirits in later summaries of the Arbatel, often set beside Bethor's more modest promise of dignity and Hagith's promise of beauty as the three most fortune focused of the seven.

Later ceremonial magic drew on the Arbatel as one source among several distinct grimoire traditions active in the same general period, including John Dee's Heptarchia Mystica, recorded within a decade of the Arbatel's first printing, and the Ars Goetia, compiled somewhat later from a different manuscript line entirely. This atlas keeps those three systems separate, since Och, the Heptarchia's kings and princes, and the Goetia's seventy two spirits come from independent sources with independent names and structures, despite sharing a broadly similar early modern European magical milieu. Och's reputation for gold and honor has made him one of the Olympic spirits most often referenced outside specialist literature, sometimes in passing descriptions of grimoire magic aimed at a general readership rather than in detailed studies of the Arbatel itself.