President breaks from the feudal pattern of the other Ars Goetia ranks; it names a spirit said to govern or preside rather than command troops in the field. Several spirits hold the title jointly with a nobility rank such as earl or duke, and sources disagree on exactly how the two kinds of title relate.
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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 presidents, the one title in its scheme that is administrative rather than noble. 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 Presidents
This group gathers the spirits ranked as Presidents among the seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon, one of the ranks the grimoire assigns within its catalogue of spirits.
The browser will find the spirits of this rank. The atlas describes each spirit's 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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