The shared vocabulary
Powers & offices
Grimoires describe the same office in a dozen phrasings — “teacheth astronomie”, “maketh men cunning in astronomy”. Each is mapped to one entry here, so the powers become comparable across texts and across cultures.
Most widely attributed
knowledge
Answers Truly
12Gives true and full answers to questions put to it.
Bears Messages
10Carries revelation and annunciation between the divine and the human.
Grants Languages
6Fluency in tongues the operator has never learned.
Records Deeds
15Keeps the register of acts, names and books of the living.
Teaches Astronomy
14Knowledge of the courses of the stars and planets.
Teaches Handicrafts
19Mechanical arts, trades and manual skill.
Teaches Herbs & Stones
10The virtues of plants and precious stones.
Teaches Rhetoric & Logic
12Argument, disputation and persuasive speech.
Teaches the Liberal Sciences
39Instruction in the trivium and quadrivium — the standard grimoire promise of learning without study.
martial
Binds Spirits
34Constrains, imprisons or thwarts other spirits.
Commands Legions
106Holds a standing host of subordinate spirits.
Executes Judgment
56Carries out sentence, punishment or destruction on command.
Grants Victory in War
53Turns battles and single combat.
Guards & Wards
56Protects a place, a person or a threshold.
material
Builds & Destroys
8Raises towers and cities, or throws them down.
Gives Familiars
12Provides attendant spirits to serve the operator.
Governs Nature
68Holds office over an element, a season, a nation or a heavenly body.
Grants Riches
13Wealth, dignities and worldly estate.
Heals
27Cures sickness, blindness and wounds.
Transmutes Metals
3Alchemical conversion, commonly of base metal into gold.
malefic
transformation
Changes Shape
22Appears in many forms, or alters the form of others.
Conducts Souls
38Takes souls at death or leads them onward.
Confers Invisibility
6Hides the operator from sight.
Raises or Speaks with the Dead
14Necromantic office — animates corpses or summons shades.
Restores Lost Dignities
6Returns rank, honour or estate that has been lost.
Transports Swiftly
8Carries people or goods great distances at speed.
divination
Declares Thefts
7Names thieves and recovers stolen goods.
Discovers Hidden Things
17Uncovers secrets, concealed objects and things done in private.
Reveals Divine Secrets
26Discourses on creation, the fall, and the nature of spirits.
Reveals Past, Present & Future
40Full temporal knowledge. One of the two offices the Goetia hands out most often, behind teaching the liberal sciences.
Reveals Treasure
14Locates buried or guarded hoards.
social
Grants Favour & Dignity
20Wins the goodwill of rulers, friends and foes.
Intercedes
13Pleads on behalf of humanity or of a people.
Praises Unceasingly
7Occupies the liturgical office of the highest choirs.
Procures Love
20Kindles affection or desire between people.
Reconciles Enemies
6Makes peace between those at odds.
Sows Discord
23Breeds strife, jealousy and quarrels.