[ARSGO] The Ars Goetia

Goetia or Go\xebtia is a practice that includes the conjuration of demons. The Ancient Greek word γοητεία (goēte\xeda) means "charm, jugglery, sorcery", from γόης (g\xf3ēs) "sorcerer, wizard" (plural: γόητες g\xf3ētes). The meaning of "sorcerer" is attested in a scholion, or commentary, referring to the Dactyli, a mythical race, stating that according to Pherecydes of Syros and Hellanicus of Lesbos, those to the left are goētes, while those to the right are deliverers from sorcery. The word may be ultimately derived from the verb γοάω "groan, bewail" (go\xe1ō). Derivative terms are γοήτευμα "a charm" (goḗteuma, plural γοητεύματα goēte\xfamata) and γοητεύω "to bewitch, beguile" (goēte\xfaō).

Γοητεία was a term for the magic in the Greco-Roman world. Its Latinized form is go\xebtia; in the 16th century, English adopted it as goecie or goety (and the adjectival form goetic), via French go\xe9tie.[citation needed]

During the Renaissance, go\xebtia was sometimes contrasted with magia, as "evil magic" vs. "good magic" or "natural magic", or sometimes with theurgy. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy, writes "Now the parts of ceremonial magic are goetia and theurgia. Goetia is unfortunate, by the commerces of unclean spirits made up of the rites of wicked curiosities, unawful charms, and deprecations, and is abandoned and execrated by all laws."