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>ars goetia and the lesser key were written by bored monks over decades because they had nothing better to do with their time in their monastaries


Mysticfag but the Ars Goetia are bastardizations of older systems based on the 70 Decan Spirits of the Zodiac with the earliest attestations of them as harmful and rebellious spirits going back to the New Kingdom.
The Western European overlay is garbled bullshit transmitted from Egyptians to Greeks and Judaeans, to Arabs, to Byzantines and Jews to Italians and Germans who mangled it trying to make it fit with Catholicism.
The current form is so far from the stuff mentioned in the Egyptian Astrological Texts or the Testament of Solomon that any connection is hazy at best, something compounded by the Vivziepop interpretations.

Now if you want real Christian Demonology and not the King James 'Witches made me masturbate' shit I'd recommend 'On the Operations of Demons' by Byzantine monk Michael Psellos. Follow it up with Jacques Vallee and John Keel if you want to freak yourself out.