A hierarchy used by the source
The classified list near the end of the Goetia groups entries under kings, dukes, princes or prelates, marquises, presidents, earls or counts, and a knight. These labels function as ranks in the book’s imagined hierarchy. They are useful for navigating the source, but they are not evidence that a real political order existed.
The directory preserves the rank attached to each numbered entry. Some spirits carry two titles: the source itself points out examples including Viné, listed as both king and earl, and Glasya-Labolas, listed as president and earl. A filter by rank should therefore be read as a way of finding entries, not as a claim that the categories never overlap.
Sources: The Lesser Key of Solomon, classified list and entries
What a legion count records
Many descriptions say that a spirit rules a specified number of legions. In an entry page, the number is reproduced as a textual attribute, with “in the text” beside it. The Goetia does not provide an independently verifiable census, and the number should not be turned into a literal count of beings.
The counts are part of the catalog’s repeated pattern: name, rank, appearance, attributed office, seal, and often legions. Looking at that pattern can help readers compare what the author chose to emphasize from one entry to the next.
Sources: The Lesser Key of Solomon, classified list and entries
Ranks are not a reading order
The 72 entries have a fixed number sequence in the cited edition. Rank is a separate classification; kings and dukes are distributed across the numbered list. A rank grouping does not replace the source order when comparing passages.
Sources: The Lesser Key of Solomon, classified list and entries