Ars Goetia glossary
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Key terms for understanding the Ars Goetia and the grimoires: what a seal, a legion, an infernal rank or a grimoire is…
Ars GoetiaThe first of the five parts of «The Lesser Key of Solomon» (Lemegeton)…LemegetonAlso called «The Lesser Key of Solomon». A 17th-century grimoire in fi…GrimoireA manual of magic with instructions, seals and conjurations to summon …Seal (sigil)The graphic sign that identifies a spirit. According to the grimoires,…LegionA unit of subordinate spirits that, according to the Ars Goetia, each …Infernal rankThe Ars Goetia orders its 72 spirits with feudal titles: king, prince,…EnnA short summoning formula associated with each demon. It is an element…UPG (unverified personal gnosis)What a modern practitioner reports having experienced or intuited —an …Goetia (goeteia)From the Greek «goeteia», which originally meant simply sorcery or wit…Grimorium Verum«True Grimoire»: a grimoire of Continental folk sorcery, French and It…Three ChiefsIn the Grimorium Verum, the three superior powers of hell: Lucifer (em…Livre des Esperitz«Book of Spirits»: a 15th-century French demonological catalogue, one …Pseudomonarchia DaemonumA list of spirits published by the physician Johann Weyer in 1577, an …Bornless (Preliminary Invocation)«Bornless Ritual». A rite Aleister Crowley added to his edition of the…ShemhamphorashThe 72 divine names derived from three verses of Exodus, with their 72…Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteA Christian Neoplatonist author of around the year 500. He wrote under…Gregory the Great (St Gregory I)Pope (590–604) and Doctor of the Church. In his «Homily 34» he gave th…Thomas Aquinas (St Thomas)A 13th-century Dominican theologian (1225–1274). In his «Summa Theolog…