History and Later Influence

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.