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Earls
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Earl is the least common title among the Ars Goetia's borrowed noble ranks, held by only a handful of the seventy-two catalogued spirits. It mirrors an English peerage rank rather than a Continental one, a small reminder that the whole hierarchy is a human classification laid over the spirits rather than something the texts describe the spirits claiming for themselves.
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What Defines This GroupingThe spirits the Ars Goetia ranks as earls, a title some manuscripts give instead as count. Rank is a literary grade assigned by the grimoire, borrowed from the titles of an earthly court; it says nothing about any spirit's standing in any religion. 2 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 Learn More
The Goetic Earls
This group holds the spirits ranked as Earls (or Counts) among the seventy-two demons of the Ars Goetia of the Lesser Key of Solomon, one of the noble ranks the grimoire uses to order the spirits.
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