Goetia
Goetia is a practice which involves invoking ("calling") angels and demons. The word came from the 17th-century grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. It describes the calling of seventy-two demons. The book was edited by Aleister Crowley in 1904. It was then called The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King.
The word comes from the Greek word γοητεία (goēteia), meaning "charm".
More reading
- Aleister Crowley (ed.), Samuel Liddell Mathers (trans.), The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King. York Beach, ME : Samuel Weiser (1995) ISBN 0-87728-847-X.
- Stephen Skinner, & David Rankine, The Goetia of Dr Rudd: The Angels and Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia (Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic). Golden Hoard Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9547639-2-3
Goetia Media
The magical circle and triangle, magical objects/symbols used in the evocation of the seventy-two spirits of the Ars Goetia
Page from the Greek Magical Papyri, a grimoire of antiquity
Hecate, the ancient Greek goddess of magic
A Sator Square (laid out in the SATOR-format), etched onto a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France
A facsimile page of Bald's Leechbook
Merlin is said to have been born from the relationship of an incubus with a mortal (illumination from a 13th-century French manuscript).
A 1613 English pamphlet showing "Witches apprehended, examined and executed"
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