The Goetia

Seventy-two spirits, bound and cataloged. A phonebook, magicians joke, that answers.

The Ars Goetia, first part of the 17th-century grimoire 'The Lesser Key of Solomon,' catalogs 72 demons with ranks, seals, and legions — a bureaucratic org chart of hell, compiled from earlier lists like Weyer's 'Pseudomonarchia Daemonum' (1577). Documented: the manuscripts, and Crowley's 1904 edition. Its significance on this map is structural: the Goetia treats hidden powers as an administrative hierarchy with names, numbers, and jurisdictions — the same instinct that later draws org charts of the Illuminati.