Demons & Dark Spirits

"The atmosphere is filled with demons"

St Athananius

Aye, but what do Saints know of the ways of demons?

Crushed by their own dogma and plagued by their mortal desires, they are prone to gross exaggeration.

Alphonsus de Spina in his monumental work Fortalicium Fideli (1460) dared to suggest that of the original orders of angels some 133,306 became demons. (Pretty close to the 144,000 that the Book of Revelation says will return to heaven. Rev 7:4 - any comments from the JW's ?)

Whilst Jean Weir, a pupil of Cornellius Agrippa, identified 66 Infernal Princes; each commanding 6,666 legions; each of these containing 6,666 demons. Around 44, 435, 556 demons - which at that time, 1560, was about half the worlds population.

Perhaps, as some suggest there is a demon for every one of us.

Lurking in the dark, in those places within...

Places where we dare not look...

I have unleashed my demons and now they roam these caverns looking for darker places to hide... less knowledgeable souls to inhabit.

Have you recognised your demons yet ?

Some call me hedonistic, but the focus is the self, for without that there can be no interaction out side of the self.

The demons love those with no idea of self... those who accept blindly as well as those who make rationalism a deity. Those whose nature is too flexible they tease - those who are too rigid they break. The uniformed New Age Devotee is as vulnerable as the celebrated Sceptical Scientist.

Gnosis, achieved through metaphysical techniques is liberating only when balanced with that which is explored with honest empiricism.

Observing a chemical reaction whilst contemplating Jung, Blavatsky and