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Demonology

The word demons is often misunderstood. There are spirits that are really bad to mankind we in magic terms call them larvae, larvae are energies created when you get a good spirit pissed off, for instance you go to someone's house and try to do them harm, when you leave that person turns to his spirits and asks for justice that spirit in return will create energy and go and harm the culprit. You also have people building house on old funeral grounds, them people (spirits) have been resting there in peace and you disturb them, it's not that those spirits are bad, people should respect their resting place, unfortunately most builders too greedy to loose a contract will go and build there ignoring the presence of bones and other artifacts! The word Satan means adversary enemy in old Jewish language. Understand that Demons were the gods of ancient Assyrian Babylonian and Phoenicians the original word was daemon which means my god, in Latin Deus mei (just like the word the word devil comes from the word diva which means gods) when the Jewish people went in war and conquered those nations they declared that those gods were enemy of their gods and all demons bad spirits but in reality demons like Lucifer, and the others pictured below are just others gods forced into exile buy the Jews, the Christian and many other religions. If you want to fix a Ford you need a Ford manual, and to fix a Chevy you need a Chevy manual, the same goes for Allah you need the Koran, for Jehovah you need the torah, unfortunately most modern religions tried to destroy all the manuals, the ways to communicate with daemons because of jealousy and misunderstanding, just like the U.S.A. tries to impose their democracy on all other people. In many countries the people are not educated and civilized enough to be democratic.  The story about Lucifer being a fallen angel or being on the dark side is a man made fable. God the creator never created any bad spirits, Man has been on the earth according to scientists at least 5 millions years for the past 3000 years a group of men tried to brain wash others into believing that there was only one god (Buddha said it was Buddha, Mohamed said It was Allah, and the Christian say it is Jehovah) before all nations used to worship the gods. It is the same way at the turn of the 14een century a group of men managed to convinced the whole European continent that the earth was like the back of a turtle, Pythagoras had already declared the earth was round and it revolved around the sun, the same men said that when Christopher Columbus came to America there was only Indians, in his memoirs he clearly states that there were blacks people (among other nations there). Not everyone should practice magic, It's is a complicated science of dealings with beings in a dimension parallel of our own it requires years of patience and knowledge. But If you seek the truth and know how to cook, don't listen to what the simple minded brainwashed persons are telling you, definitely step into the kitchen. Below you will find different views about demons enjoy.

           Lucifer

Demonology That branch of magic, which deals with male­volent spirits. In religious science it has come to indicate knowledge regarding supernatural beings that are not deities. But, it is in regard to its magical significance only that it falls to be dealt with here. The Greek term Daimon, originally indicated ‘ genius “ or spirit,” but in England it has come to mean a being actively male­volent. Ancient Demonology will be found dealt with in the articles Egypt, Semites, Genius and Devil-Worship, and savage demonology under the heads of the various countries and races where it had its origin. According to Michael Psellus, demons are divided into six great bodies. First, the demons of fire, second, those of the air, third, those of the earth, the fourth inhabit the waters and rivers, and cause tempests and floods; the fifth are sub­terranean, who prepare earthquakes and excite volcanic eruptions. The sixth are shadows, something of the nature of ghosts. St. Augustine comprehends all demons under the last category. This classification of Psellus is not unlike that system of the middle ages, which divided all spirits into those belonging to the four elements, fire, air, earth, and water, or salamanders, sylphs, undines, and gnomes.

The medieval idea of demons was, of course, in a direct line from the ancient Christian and Gnostic supposition. The Gnostics, of early Christian times, in imitation of a classification of the different orders of spirits by Plato, had attempted a similar arrangement with respect to an hierarchy of angels, the gradation of which stood as fol­lows: The first and highest order was named seraphim, the second cherubim, the third was the order of thrones, the fourth of dominions, the fifth of virtues, the sixth of powers, the seventh of principalities, the eighth of archangels, the ninth, and lowest, of angels. The apostles in a pointed manner censured this classification, yet still, strange to say, it almost outlived the pneumatologists of the middle Ages. These schoolmen, in reference to the account that Lucifer rebelled against heaven, and that Michael, the archangel, warred against him, long agitated the momentous question: What orders of angels fell on this occasion? “ At length, it became the prevailing option that Lucifer was of the order of Seraphim. It was also proved after infinite research, that Agares, Belial, and Barbatos, each of them deposed angels of great rank, had been of the order of virtues; that Bileth, Yocalor, and Phoenix, had been of the order of thrones; that Goap had been of the order of powers, and that Purson had been both of the order of virtues and of thrones; and Murmur, of thrones and of angels. The pretensions of many other noble devils were likewise canvassed, and, in equally satisfactory manner, determined. Afterwards, it became an object of enquiry to learn:” How many fallen angels had been engaged in the contest? “ This was a question of vital importance, which gave rise to the most laborious research, and to a variety of discordant opinions. It was next agitated: “Where the battle was fought— in the inferior heaven, in the highest region of the air, in the firmament, or in Paradise? “ “ How long it lasted? — Whether during one second, or moment of time (unrfunz temporis), two, three, or four seconds? “ These are queries of very difficult solution, but the notion which ultimately prevailed was, that the engagement was concluded in exactly three seconds from the date of its commencement and that while Lucifer, with a number of his followers, fell into hell, the rest were left in the air to tempt man. A still newer question rose out of all these investigations

Whether more angels fell with Lucifer, or remain in heaven with Michael? “ Learned clerks, however, were inclined to think that the rebel chief had been beaten by a superior force, and that, consequently, devils of darkness were fewer in number than angels of light.

             Astaroth

These discussions that, during the number of successive centuries interested the whole of Christendom, too fre­quently exercised the talents of the most erudite persons in Europe. The last object of demonologists was to collect, in some degree of order, Lucifer’s routed forces, and to reorganize them under a decided form of subordina­tion or government. Hence, extensive districts were given to certain chiefs who fought under this general. There was Zimimar, the lordly monarch of the north,” as Shakespeare styles him, who had his distinct province of devils; there was Gorsoo, the King of the South Amaymon, the 1King of the East; and Coap, the Prince of the West. These sovereigns had many noble spirits subordinate to them, whose various ranks were settled with all the preciseness of heraldic distinction; there were Devil Dukes, Devil Marquises, Devil Counts, Devil Earls, Devil Knights, Devil Presidents, and Devil Prelates. The armed force under Lucifer seems to have comprised nearly twenty-four hundred legions, of which each demon of rank commanded a certain number. Thus, Beleth, whom Scott has described as “ a great king and terrible, riding on a pale horse, before whom go trumpets and all melodious music,” commanded eighty-five legions; Agares, the first

Duke under the power of the East, commanded thirty-one legions; Leraie, a great marquis, thirty legions; Morax, a great earl and a president, thirty-six legions; Furcas, a knight, twenty legions; and, after the same manner, the forces of the other devil chieftains were enumerated.

Such were the notions once entertained regarding the history, nature, and ranks of devils. Our next object will be to show that, with respect to their strange and hideous forms the apparitions connected with the popular belief on this subject, were derived from the descriptive writings of such demonologists, as either maintained that demons possessed a decided corporeal form, and were mortal, or that, like Milton’s spirits, they could assume any sex, and take any shape they chose.

When, in the middle ages, conjuration was regularly practiced in Europe, devils of rank were supposed to appear under decided forms, by which they were as well recognized as the head of any ancient family would be by his crest and armorial bearings. Along with their names and characters were registered such shapes as they were accustomed to adopt. A devil would appear, either like an angel seated in a fiery chariot, or riding on an infernal dragon, and carrying in his right hand a viper; or assum­ing a lion’s head, a goose’s feet, and a hare’s tail; or putting on a raven’s head, and mounted on a strong wolf. Other forms made use of by demons were those of a fierce warrior, or of an old man riding upon a crocodile with a hawk in his hand. A human figure would arise having the wings of a griffin; or sporting three heads, two of them being like those of a toad and of a cat; or defended with huge teeth and horns, and armed with a sword; or displaying a dog’s teeth and a large raven’s head; or mounted upon a pale horse, and exhibiting a serpent’s tail; or gloriously crowned, and riding upon a dromedary; or presenting the face of a lion; or bestriding a bear, and grasping a viper. There are also such shapes as those of an archer, or of a Zenophilus. A demoniacal king would ride upon a pale horse; or would assume a leopard’s face and griffin’s wings; or put on the three heads of a bull, of a man, and a ram, with a serpent’s tail, and the feet of a goose; and, in this attire, bestride a dragon, and bear in his hand a lance and a flag; or, instead of being thus employed, goad the flanks of a furious bear, and carry in his fist a hawk. Other forms were those of a goodly knight; or of one who bore lance, ensigns, and even a scepter; or of a soldier, either riding on a black horse, and surrounded by a flame of fire, or wearing on his head a duke’s crown, and mounted on a crocodile or assuming a lion’s face, and, with fiery eyes, spurring on a gigantic charger; or, with the same frightful aspect, appearing in all the pomp of family distinction, on a pale horse; or clad from head to foot in crimson raiment, wearing on his bold front a crown, and sallying along on a red steed. Some infernal duke would appear in his proper character, quietly seated on a griffin; another spirit of a similar rank would display the three heads of a serpent, a man, and a cat; he would also bestride a viper, and carry in his hand a firebrand. Another of the same type would appear like a duchess, encircled with a fiery zone, and mounted on a camel; a fourth, would wear the aspect of a boy, and amuse himself on the back of a two-headed dragon. A few spirits, however, would be content with the simple garbs of a horse, a leopard, a lion, an unicorn, a night raven, a stork, a peacock, or a dromedary, the latter animal speaking fluently the Egyptian language. Others would assume the more complex forms of a lion or of a dog, with a griffin’s wings attached to each of their shoulders, or of a bull equally well gifted; or of the same animal, distinguished by the singular feature of a man’s face; or of a crow clothed with human flesh; or of a hart with a fiery tail. To certain other noble devils were assigned such shapes as those of a dragon with three heads, one of these being human; of a wolf with a serpent’s tail, breath­ing forth flames of fire; of a she-wolf exhibiting the same caudal appendage together with griffin’s wings, and ejecting from her mouth hideous matter. A lion would appear, either with the head of a branded thief, or astride upon a black horse, and playing with a viper, or adorned with the tail of a snake, and grasping in his paws two hissing serpents.

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