Knight is the rarest of the Ars Goetia's ranks, applied to only one of the seventy-two catalogued spirits, Furcas. The title inserts a lesser military rank beneath the higher nobility titles of duke, marquis and king, following the same borrowed feudal logic as the rest of the scheme.
Facts
Origins
Whose Classification This IsThe rank ladder is the Ars Goetia's, compiled in England in the mid-seventeenth century from older material including Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum of 1577. Manuscripts differ, and some give a spirit more than one rank. 2Tradition: Ars Goetia (Lemegeton), mid-17th century Overview
What Defines This GroupingThe spirits the Ars Goetia ranks as knights, the lowest title in its courtly scheme and the rarest in the book. Rank is a literary grade assigned by the grimoire; it says nothing about any spirit's standing in any religion. 2 Learn More
The Goetic Knights
This small group gathers the spirit ranked as Knight among the seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon, the rarest rank in the hierarchy, held by a single spirit in the grimoire's catalogue.
The browser will find the spirit of this rank. The atlas describes its attributes and seal as the grimoire gives them, treating the Goetia as a historical textual tradition.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Owen Davies, Oxford University Press, 2009ch. 3, on the Lemegeton and the Solomonic grimoiresView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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