#macgregor mathers

[askyea-poesy]

The true alchemy of life is found in gratitude, for it transforms the mundane into the sacred and binds the soul to the rhythm of the universe.

Macgregor Mathers

[kinsey3furry300]

So, how fucked would heaven have been in Hazbin Hotel had Hell invaded?

Spoilers for both Hazbin and Helluva boss below.

So, we don't get firm details on the relative population or military forces of heaven or hell in the show, but it's implied that hell considerably outnumbers heaven, but we have no idea by how much.

Except… Helluva Boss repeatedly mentions the Goetia commanding "legions" of demons, and the Lesser key of Soloman the grimoire Vivzi seems to have taken most of her lore from, gives exact numbers of legions, so we can estimate Hell's standing army, if not heaven's. (what percentage of these legions, if any, were actually loyal to Vox is never confirmed, so this is just an estimation of numbers.)

So, I was going to start with the highest ranking Goetia we meet in the show, Hell's dad-of-the-year runner-up 35 years running, King Paimon.

in The Lesser Key (MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowly translation) Paimon directly controls 200 legions, and has two underlings Labal and Abalim, who each control 25. So that's 250 legions. So how big is a "legion"? Well in the roman republic it's about 4,800, in the late roman empire it's around 6,000, but the "Classic" Roman legion of the early empire, after the Marian reforms, with the double-strength first cohort, is 5,280, not counting auxilia support. Paimon, on his own, commands between 1,200,000, and 1,500,000 troops. Most likely 1,320,000 troops.

1.3 million.

For context, that's about the size of the Active personnel of the entire US military: Army, Marines, Navy and Airforce combined, not counting reserves and civilian DOD staff (US military strength is 2.9 million if they are counted). Paimon, on his own, has an equivalent armed forces to the USA, and more than India or Russia. The only standing military on earth bigger than his personal, private army would be China.

His immediate family named in the show (Stolas, Andrealphus by marriage) not counting the "So fucking many" kids he has, control 1,610,400 assuming the middle value for a legion. 1.6 million.

Stolas on his own commands (or commanded) 137,280. Closest real-world equivalent would be Algeria (139k). He's got an armed force somewhere in size between the United Kingdon, (144k) and Greece (136k). Fucking Stolas, the demon listed as being “Too pacifistic” in lore. And he’s only got 26 legions, the average is over 30. The 72 Goetia daemons listed in the Lesser Key, command between them, 2, 699 legions (I made a spreadsheet).

That's between 12,955,200, and 16,194,000. Most likely 14,250,720.

Hell's standing army is over 14 Million, not counting Lucifer and the Seven Deadly Sins troops if they have any... for context, the largest army earth has ever seen, the Red Army circa 1945, was 12 million. No wonder Sera looks like this for most of Hazbin s2.

[rosentryst]

FUCK!!!! spoilers beneath cut im just compiling this bunch of info for my perusal lmao

omg. OMG!! MICHAEL CREW MENTIONED!!! I GOTTA SAY i love the book related episodes omggg omfg!!!! so awesome ugh!!! i love the concept of bleeding books so much aaaahhhh...

ahhhh let me do some year things;; adekoya says that the book turned up about three years before he gave this statement, so 1996. he dies in 2006. 10 years, see. death obviously quite suspicious.

in page turner, swain said he got ex altiora on 10th November, 2012.

michael crew the guy who got hit by lightening in 04? so 04 is about swain having ex altiora, which was in 2012 winter. we are told that michael crew was 8 years old when he was hit by lightening... which doesn't say much about his age, sadly. but apparently he comes in possession of the bone turner's tale for 3 weeks, in 1999. only 3 weeks, unless that was fake information, ofcourse.

now for jurgen leitner and his library. there's stuff we know about it from swain:

he and macgregor mathers owned key of solomon 1863. it was on ebay in 2007, and won by grbookworm1818 for 1200 pounds.

had been a big name in the literary scene during the 1990s

some rich Scandinavian recluse, lmao

dropped from public view sometime around ’95

used to have extensive dealings with Pinhole Books down in Morden

and from jonathan:

there was an 'incident' in 1994 and they had apparently 'dealt with his library's remains'

all the known books from his library have been custom editions of known texts on daemonology or the arcane

and for the books... when mary passed her book, the one in sanskrit, under the shadows, it caused small, seemingly animal bones to fall out in warped shapes. well. the bone turner's tale was fucking around with bones too- we had strange contorting shapes and new limbs and flattened bodies. all very disturbing... not to mention in first aid, 12, gerard keay was asking after a small book bound in red leather. lmao also these are probably written on skin.

I LOVE THIS SMMMMMM !!! XD

[witch-breaker]

[maeviuslynn]

This is an old newspaper clipping of the obituary of MacGregor Mathers found stored in the back pocket of Crowley's first edition of The Winged Beetle.

"He died at the age of 64 after a long and useless life as a freak."

[lichtheim]

British occultist Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

[arcane-offerings]

Alison Butler, Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Hardcover edition. 225 pages. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254720635516

[thechaosmage]

Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon : The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magic