Raziel is an angel associated with the revelation of divine secrets, especially the legendary book given to Adam. His name appears in Jewish interpretive and magical literature and later Western esotericism, where Agrippa connects him with Chokmah, or Wisdom.
The serpent in Genesis 3 persuades the woman to eat from the tree of knowledge. The chapter does not name Satan. Later texts and interpretations connect the serpent with the Devil, adding to the history of the Eden story.
Faust is the scholar or magician at the center of a European legend about bargaining with the Devil. The 1587 Faust book, Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and Goethe’s Faust give the story different treatments of knowledge, desire, damnation, and human striving.
A Goetic spirit combining learned offices with a violent reputation and a winged dog form.
A Goetic marquis with a wolf-like appearance, associated with knowledge and the making or resolution of disputes.
A Goetic king riding a pale horse, associated with desire and an elaborate ceremonial reception.
A Goetic spirit with an angelic body, lion head, goose foot, and hare tail, associated with knowledge and boldness.
A Goetic spirit associated with rhetoric, languages, servants, and social favor.
A Goetic earl depicted as a hart with a fiery tail, associated with storms and constrained answers.
A Goetic duke depicted as a woman on a camel, associated with hidden knowledge, treasure, and attraction.
A German magical fraternity whose teaching gives Saturn a central symbolic and initiatory role.
A modern approach to magic that treats techniques and belief systems as tools for practical experimentation.
An English artist and occult author whose treatment of desire and sigils influenced later magical practice.
A Goetic prince associated with finding lost things and knowledge of past and future events.
A Goetic marquis, also called Gamigin, associated with liberal studies and accounts of deceased souls.
A Goetic prince portrayed with a leopard head and griffin wings, whose stated office concerns desire.
A Goetic marquis described as a green-clad archer associated with conflict and arrow wounds.
A Goetic duke associated with wealth, eloquence, and the places of the dead.