S. L. MacGregor Mathers & Aleister Crowley (1904 edition).
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the 27th spirit
Ronove
TitlesMarquis and Earl
Seal inSilver
Legions19
Of seventy-twoNo. 27
Reading this entry
The number places Ronove in this edition's seventy-two-part catalogue. Its titles and the metal assigned to its seal come from the edition's classified appendix; the legion count is read from the entry itself. The passage below may describe an appearance, an office, a voice or an older order of beings. These are things the book says, not independent facts about a spirit. The original wording is left intact so a reader can check exactly where the description ends and our notes begin.
From the 1904 edition, with its spelling and capitalisation preserved.
The Twenty-seventh Spirit is Ronove. He appeareth in the Form of a Monster. He teacheth the Art of Rhetoric very well and giveth Good Servants, Knowledge of Tongues, and Favours with Friends or Foes. He is a Marquis and Great Earl; and there be under his command 19 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc.
Two titles
The appendix lists this spirit under Marquis and Earl. It is one of seven given more than one rank, an inconsistency the edition itself notes but does not resolve.
Sources
Goetic officecanonical
Marquis and Earl, 19 legions
Rank and legion count as the 1904 edition gives them. The legions come from the phrase that closes almost every entry; the rank comes from the book's own appendix, which classifies all seventy-two and states the metal each rank's seal is to be made in — silver for this one. TWO TITLES. The appendix lists this spirit under Marquis and Earl, and the edition's note remarks on exactly this: several spirits possess two titles of different ranks. The entries use rank words descriptively as well — Eligos appears 'in the form of a goodly Knight' and Barbatos comes 'with four noble Kings' — so a rank harvested from the prose would invent titles the book does not give. Only the appendix classifies.
Sources (1)
Lemegeton, The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King — The Goetia, spirit 27
“The Twenty-seventh Spirit is Ronove. He appeareth in the Form of a Monster. He teacheth the Art of Rhetoric very well and giveth Good Servants, Knowledge of Tongues, and Favours with Friends or Foes. He is a Marquis and Great Earl; and there be under his command 19 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc.”
Verbatim, cut from the 1904 text by script/extract_goetia.rb. Mathers' spelling and capitalisation are left exactly as printed.
The APPENDIX classifies this spirit, not its entry. The entries use rank words descriptively as well — Eligos appears 'in the form of a goodly Knight' — so a rank taken from the prose would invent titles the book does not give. This spirit holds two titles of different ranks, and the edition's own note remarks on it.
Sources (1)
Lemegeton, The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King — Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits
The APPENDIX classifies this spirit, not its entry. The entries use rank words descriptively as well — Eligos appears 'in the form of a goodly Knight' — so a rank taken from the prose would invent titles the book does not give. This spirit holds two titles of different ranks, and the edition's own note remarks on it.
Sources (1)
Lemegeton, The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King — Classified List of the 72 Chief Spirits
