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Demons (A-B)
by Kerr Cuhulain
Abbadon:
In his 1993 novel Abaddon, radio evangelist Bob Larson describes the
actions of demons. The imposing name of Larson's book comes from a well
known character and place name in the Bible. Abaddon (Variations: Abbadon,
Abbadona, Abbaton, Abadon, Obaddon) is a name derived from the Hebrew term
"abad" ("to perish"). Abaddon was originally appears to
have been a synonym for Hell or Sheol in several texts, such as the 1st
century apocryphon The Biblical Antiquities of Philo and "The
Thanksgiving Hymns" found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls. The
qabbalist Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla lists Abaddon as the sixth of the
seven lodges of Hell, under the presidency of the angel Pasiel.
In the Bible Abaddon is a destroying angel of the Apocalypse. St. John
appears to have been the first to use Abaddon as the name of an angel
rather than a place. Abaddon appears in Revelations 9:11: "And they
had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name
in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name
Apollyon". Abaddon is the angel who binds Satan for 1,000 years in
Revelations 20. Abaddon's Greek name, "Apolluon" or
"Apollyon", means "the Destroyer".
De Plancy and Grillot list Abaddon as a chief demon of Hell, equated with
Samael or Satan. Milton lists Abaddon as the name for the pit of Hell in Paradise
Regained. Abaddon is a synonym for the Devil in Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress and the name of a demon in the third century Acts of Thomas.
The Greater Key of Solomon lists Abaddon as the name Moses invoked bring
down rain storms. Abaddon is the angelic ruler of the furies in The
Magus. Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey lists Abaddon as one of the
Infernal names in The Satanic Bible and as the name of the
"Angel of the Bottomless Pit", used in the performance of the
Black Mass in The Satanic Rituals. In the magical system of the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Abbadon is one of seven infernal abodes
mentioned in the initiation of the Theoricus grade. In the Diabolicon,
Abaddon is the daimon of temporal death and life in death. This explains
why Larson chose this demon as the name of his book.
Agni:
In Mystery Mark of the New Age, Texe Marrs states that "The New
Agers and the Hindus call the site where the invisible third eye is located
the Agni, or Ajna Center. I found some remarkable information when I researched
the doctrinal and historical foundations of the Hindu religion in regard to
this teaching about a third eye. It turns out that Agni was the Hindu male
fire god who was the sexual partner of the Mother Goddess. Symbolically
Agni was represented as fire from heaven; lightning. Ancient peoples later
began to call him by his actual name, Lucifer. When you take Agni's Mark,
you are in reality taking Lucifer's mark."[7]
Agni ("fire") was the fire God in Hindu beliefs. The Hindus did
not view Agni as bringing fire to earth as lightning: Rather, it was
believed that his lightning brought life bringing water (rain) to earth.
Agni formed a triad with Indra ("air") and Surya
("sky"). He was not the sexual partner of the "Mother Goddess"
either. Agni's wife was a fire Goddess: Agnayi. Agni is in no way cognate
with Lucifer. Lucifer is a Latin name that isn't as old as Agni.
Ajna is a Sanskrit term meaning "authority" or
"command". As I indicated in elsewhere in this series, it is a chakra
located at the pineal gland in the head, roughly between the ears and
straight back behind a point between the eyebrows referred to as the
"third eye". Agni is not another name for this chakra.
Ahab:
On the Demonbusters website one finds a page with the title "Learn
About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names of Satan and His
Demons" which lists "Ahab"[8]
as a demon. Jezebel is also on the Madrak's list and Ahab was Jezebel's
husband, so you didn't think that the Madraks would leave him off the list
if they had Jezebel on it, did you? I'll tell you about them both in the
entry for Jezebel, below.
Amenon:
Lou Sloat's Texas Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime
Manual lists "Amenon" as the "Ruler of the Spirits of
the East."[9] While I've found
the names of many entities, such as Oriens, alleged to be the "ruler
of spirits in the east" in the grimoires that I've seen over the
years, I've never encountered one by this name before. In E. Cobham
Brewer's 1898 Dictionary of Phrase and Fable one finds a listing for
Amenon, who is described as a "hero of Chaldea, who reigned 12
sares". A sare is 3,600 years.[10] You also can find
this name in a Xena the Warrior Princess website called Land in
Turmoil.[11] Look on the page Murder
Most Unreal in this site and you'll find that Amenon is an evil judge.[12]
Later in the list Sloat lists "Eltzen" as the ruler of spirits of
the north. Curiously, Sloat doesn't give any names for spirits of the south
or west. I suspect that these are names that Sloat has borrowed from an
Fantasy Role Playing Game.
Amy:
Amy is a name which appears in a "Satanic Circle" depicted in
Alford's Occult Crimes Investigations. "Amy" is the fifty
eighth spirit of the Lemegeton, described as a great president who
appears as a flaming fire. The Lemegeton says that Amy has the power
to impart knowledge of astrology and liberal sciences, the power to locate
treasures hidden by spirits and the power to assign good familiars. He
commands 36 legions of spirits.
Anakim:
Anakim is listed as a demon on the Demonbusters website in the section with
the title "Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names
of Satan and His Demons".[13] Anakim is a name
derived from a Hebrew term, "ONQIM" ("giants"). In
Judaic mythology the Anakim were the offspring of fallen angels and mortal
women, mentioned in Genesis 6 in the Bible as well as in The Zohar.
Anakim appears on the first line of a gnomonic square used to cause a
familiar spirit to appear in the form of a lion in the Book of the
Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.
Ananais:
Ananias is listed as a demon on the Demonbusters website in the section
"Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names of Satan
and His Demons".[14] Ananias isn't a
demon, we was the high priest before whom the prophet Paul was tried (Acts
23:2‑5; 24:1; 25:2).
Anari:
Anari is defined as "A forest or jungle" in a list of terms
borrowed from Ritualistic Crime Consultants in Lou Sloat's Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual.[15]
Anari is the name of an elven woman who is a character in a fantasy
role playing game called Broken Dagger. You'll find the Broken
Dagger community easily on the internet (http://www.brokendagger.com).
Neither Satanists, nor Neo-Pagans or members of Afro-Caribbean religions
use this term.
Apollo:
Madrak's short list of "Gods / Goddesses" on their Demonbusters
website includes Apollo.[16] In both Greek and
Roman mythology Apollo was the God of the Sun, fertility, medicine, music,
poetry, eloquence and truth. He was the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin
brother of the Goddess Artemis. The Madraks may have been influenced in
including Apollo on this list because Apollo is one of the "watery
reflections of the three enthusiasms" in Crowley's Liber HHH, the
other two being Dionysus and Aphrodite. Crowley also mentions Apollo in Liber
A'Ash and Liber DCCCXI.
Apollyon:
Apollyon is listed as a demon on the Demonbusters web in the section
"Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names of Satan
and His Demons".[17] Apollyon
(Variations: Apollion, Apolhun, Appolyon) is a name derived from the Greek
terms "Apolluon" or "Apollyon" ("the
Destroyer"). Apollyon is another name for Abaddon, a destroying angel
of the Apocalypse. In Revelations 9:11 Apollyon is the angel of the
bottomless pit. In The Magus he has become a fallen angel who is a
deceiver as well as the leader of the Furies. Apollyon is one of the
Infernal names listed in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible.
Aradia:
Jules Michelet was a popular French scholar of the early 1800s. Michelet
wrote a book entitled La Sorciere, claiming to be a description of
the rites of medieval Witches, describing them as followers of a
pre-Christian Goddess religion. La Sorciere was a best seller, but
the scholarship that went into it was poor. Michelet was not a good
historian even by the standards of his era, and his book was basically a
romantic flight of fancy. Michelet reported that the name of the Goddess of
this ancient religion was "Herodias." This is the name of a very
wicked woman who appears in the chapters Matthew (14:3, 14:6), Mark (6:17,
6:19, 6:22) and Luke (3:19) in the New Testament of the Bible.
Now in the 10th century the Church issued the Canon Episcopi, which
claimed that literal belief in witchcraft was folly because it was an
illusion inspired by Satan. The Canon, re-enacted several times until the
Council of Treves in 1310, gave the name Herodias as the name of the leader
of the "Wild Hunt," the nocturnal procession of the Goddess of
the Hunt and her retinue. Michelet probably thought that this was based on
factual accounts, rather than the speculation of Church theologians of the
time.
Charles Geoffrey Leland, a lawyer and soldier of fortune, took up this same
idea in 1899 with his book Aradia: Gospel of the Witches. This was
allegedly a description of traditional Tuscan witchcraft as described to
him by a witch named Maddelena and a translation of their
"gospel," which he named "Vangelo." It bears a striking
resemblance to Michelet's earlier La Sorciere. Originally the name
of the Goddess in Leland's book was identical to that in Michelet's book:
"Herodias." Once rendered into Italian, "Herodias"
became "Aradia".
The first problem with Leland's allegations is that no historian or
folklorist has found any evidence of the Tuscan witch cult described by
Leland, nor any evidence of a goddess named "Aradia". Leland's
original use of the name "Herodias" clearly shows that he was
borrowing from the Canon Episcopi and/or the Bible. Secondly, the
language of Vangelo, the witch "gospel" allegedly recovered by
Leland, is unmistakably nineteenth century, and not fourteenth century as
Leland suggests.
The first chapter of Leland's Aradia tells us that "Diana greatly
loved her brother Lucifer, the god of the Sun and the Moon, the god of
Light (splendor), who was so proud of his beauty, and who for his pride was
driven from Paradise."[18] This paragraph in
this interesting yet fraudulent text is where many Christian authors seem
to have got the idea that Lucifer and Diana are a part of the same
mythology. You'll see this story being cited again and again by the people
that I write about in Witch Hunts.
Asmodeus:
In Schemes of Satan, Warnke states that "Asmodeus was an evil
being who was known as the 'king of the demons.' He is also identified with
Beelzebul."[19] On the Ex
Pagans 4 Christ website, Asmodeus shows up as the name of a high priest in
a coven that Keziah Thomas claims to have belonged to.
Asmodeus is a Biblical figure, adopted from Zoroastrianism, who appears in
the Apocrypha. Zoroaster named this entity "Aeshma-daeva"
("demon of fury"), so Warnke's translation of the name is
incorrect. The name Asmodeus does not appear at all in the Lemegeton.
The name that does appear in the Lemegeton is Asmoday, who is the
thirty second spirit, described as a king who appears with a serpent's
tail, webbed feet and with three heads that vomit fire: a bull, a man and a
ram. The Lemegeton names Asmoday as one of the four chiefs of the
seventy two spirits of the Goetia. Asmodeus and Beelzebul are two entirely
different entities. Beelzebul does not appear in the Lemegeton
either.
Astaroth:
In Schemes of Satan, Warnke describes Astaroth: "Also known as
Astarte, Astaroth is the Phoenician goddess of fertility and of sexual
love. Asmodeus: ...derived from a Hebrew term that means 'destroyer'."
[20] Madrak's short list of
"Gods / Goddesses" on their Demonbusters website includes
"Ashtar, Ashoreth, Ashtoreh, Istar, Astar.[21]
Tal Brook teamed up with Russ Wise to write an article, "Goddess
Worship", for the Winter 1998/99 issue of the SCP Newsletter.
They mention this entity in their anti-feminist article:
"The goddess has returned. She who brought judgment on the hillsides
of apostate Israel--the Ashteroth from Canaan whose altars were condemned
by God--is being revered and embraced by today's followers of witchcraft,
radical feminism, the occult, and increasingly, those in the liberal
church. Neopagans look toward an idealized feminine age to heal the world.
To them, the masculine age has been an age of destruction and broken
relationships. But "feminine energies" promise to bring balance
to the destructive aspects of the Piscean Age--so says this emerging
myth."[22]
In the film The Massacre of Innocence Eric Holmberg' makes the
argument that abortions create Goddess religion. His argument hinges on his
claim that Astaroth is the "demon of fertility and erotic love and is
known by many other names (Astarte, Aphrodite, etc)". He calls
Aphrodite "the goddess of child sacrifice." He cites the Chambre
Ardente incident involving Madame de Montespan in Louis XIV's court as
proof of his claims. Curiously, Holmberg does not call it Satanism or a
Black Mass. Instead Holmberg dwells on the fact that during one of the
Black Masses the participants called upon "Ashtaroth", which he says
is proof of the link between Witchcraft and child sacrifice. The Chambre
Ardente incident was a parody of the Catholic Mass, based on Christian
liturgy and not on ancient Pagan practices.
Astarte was a Caananite version of the Goddess Ishtar, a fertility Goddess.
Aprhodite was a Greek Goddess of fertility and love. Contrary to Holmberg's
pronouncements, the worship of these Goddesses did not involve child
sacrifice at all. Holmberg is wrong about magical grimoires connecting
Astaroth with sacrifice too. Astaroth appears in grimoires variously as an
angel, spirit, duke or demon. In a fashion typical of these Judeo Christian
magickal texts, Astaroth is turned into a male entity. The powers usually
attributed to Astaroth in these grimoires involves the ability to divine
the location of hidden wealth or create storms. None of these aspects
involves sacrifice. Holmberg is obviously basing his entire premise on the
Chambre Ardente affair, which was, as I have already said, an invention of
renegade Christians, not Pagans.
Holmberg quotes from the first book of Kings and links Jezebel to Baal and
Astaroth "the demons of child sacrifice."
Astaroth is a Hebrew name, "OShThRvTh", meaning
"flocks," "crowds" or "assemblies." Warnke is
partially right in that Astaroth is used in the Bible as an alternate name
for Astarte, a Canaanite goddess of love. Ashtart is the name the
Phoenicians used for this Goddess: Astaroth is a name assigned by the
Bible, not the Phoenicians. Astaroth is found in 1 Samuel 7:3,4, 1 Samuel
12:10, 1 Samuel 31:10 ("Because that they have forsaken me, and have
worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians..."), Judges 2:13 and
Judges 10:6 ("And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight
of the Lord, and served Baal-im, and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria, and
the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of
Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served
not him").
Astaroth is the twenty ninth spirit of the Lemegeton, described as a
duke who appears as an angel, not a demon as Warnke suggests. Some
translations describe this angel as beautiful, but with awful breath and
other translations describe this angel as foul looking. The Lemegeton
assigns Astaroth the power of divination and the ability to reveal secrets.
Astarte:
Astarte's name came up in the previous section on Astaroth as well as in
several other sections in this article. Her name appears on the Ex Pagans 4
Christ website created by supposed former "Witch Queen" Keziah
Thomas. You'll see Astarte come up in Eric Holmberg's anti-Pagan films.
Astarte was a Caananite version of the Goddess Ishtar, a fertility Goddess
Avim:
Avim is listed as a demon on the Demonbusters website in the section
"Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names of Satan
and His Demons".[23] Avim is a place
and a tribe, not a demon. In the Bible it is a city of Benjamin (Joshua
18:23) and a tribe in southern Palestine.
Baal:
As we've seen elsewhere in this series, Baal is a demon mentioned in many
occult crime manuals: He is mentioned in Westhoelters NIN manual and his
name appears in a diagram of a "Satanic Circle" in Clifford
Alford's Occult Crimes Investigations. Warnke describes him as
"Baal: Also known as Hadad,"[24]
Baal's name turns up on Keziah Thomas's Ex Pagans 4 Christ website.
In Matrisciana's 1991 film Halloween: Trick or Treat, Eric Holmberg
quotes from the first book of Kings and links Jezebel to Baal and Astaroth
"the demons of child sacrifice." Holmberg then quotes from
Revelation 2:20: "But I have this against you, that you tolerate the
woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my
bond servants astray, so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things
sacrificed to idols". In none of the grimoires in which Baal is named
(the Grand Grimoire, the Pseudo-Monarchia, the Dictionaire
Infernal, Levi's Transcendental Magic, and De Givry's Witchcraft,
Magic and Alchemy) is Baal listed as a demon of child sacrifice.
In this same movie Matrisciana gives other examples of her lack of
knowledge of things Celtic by stating: "The ancient Druids worshipped
Baal, one of the most powerful of all the demon kings. In the list of
Enochian demons, Baal is said to be a king which is at the power of the
east [sic]. Eastern religions emphasize that spiritual power comes from
meditation. The common denominator between Druids, Witches and Satanists is
the practice of meditation for the purpose of making contact with the spirits
of the dead or disembodied spirits." The scene being shown while
Matrisciana says this is of Wiccans celebrating in a rather smoky circle.
Enochian demons are part of the Judeo-Christian magical tradition, not
Druid or Wiccan beliefs. Many religions practice meditation, and just
because they share a particular practice does not mean that everything else
they do is the same. Druid beliefs aren't an "Eastern religion"
as Matrisciana claims here: The Celts were centered in Western Europe. Matrisciana
has obviously mistaken Baal for Bel/Belenus/Bile, a God of the Celtic
underworld.
In Larry Jones' File 18 newsletter David Brown also tries to link
Baal to Halloween and the Druids: "The god whom the Druids
worshiped was Baal, as the blazing Baal-fires show... we know they offered
human sacrifices...we have evidence that they made 'their children pass
through the fire to Molech', and that makes it highly probable that they
also offered them in sacrifice... we find that these things were parts of
one and the same system... Priests of Nimrod or Baal were necessarily
required to eat of the human sacrifices; and thus it has come to pass the 'Cahna-Bal',
(Canha is the emphatic form of Cahn which means 'a priest') meaning the
priest of Baal, is the established word in our tongue for a devourer of
human flesh."[25]
Brown's etymology is imaginative but entirely inaccurate.
"Cannibal" is a name originally given by the conquering Spaniards
to the Carib peoples of the West Indies. It is a variation of the word
"Caribes", first used by Christopher Columbus, which comes in
turn from the word "Carib" in the Arawakan language of the
Caribbean and South America. "Carib" is related to the name that
the Carib's gave to themselves: "Galibi" ("strong
men"). The word cannibal later came to mean people who eat human flesh
because these early Spaniards believed that the Carib people did so. It has
absolutely nothing to do with the Bible or Middle Eastern history. This is
just another example of a fundamentalist trying to make connections with
the ubiquitous Baal. Baal was a Phoenician deity, Nimrod a king who appears
in the Bible and Molech a name derived from a Hebrew term meaning
"king". None of these is or was used by Druids.
Baal does not appear in the Lemegeton. Originally a
Phoenician vegetation and storm God whose name translates as
"lord", Baal is mentioned many times in the Old Testament, an
example being Judges 2:13: "And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal
and Ashtaroth." Baal was a pre-Biblical Phoenician vegetation and
storm God whose name translates as "lord". Baal is mentioned many
times in the Old Testament, an example being Judges 2:13: "And they
forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth". In some places in
the Bible Baal has become a demon. In other instances the Bible uses the
name Baal simply as a synonym for "Lord", as in the name Baal
zebub ("Lord of the Flies"). In The Zohar, Baal is cognate
with the angel Raphael. In the Grand Grimoire, Baal is a subordinate
of Lucifuge Rocofale. In his Pseudo-Monarchia, Wierus lists Baal as
the Commander in Chief of the armies of Beelzebuth. He is described as
having three heads: toad, cat and man. In Levi's Transcendental Magic,
Baal is the leader of the Harab-Serapel. Baal is a demon mentioned by
Grillot De Givry in his Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy. In the Dictionaire
Infernal, Baal is listed as a demon.
Balaam:
Balaam is listed as a demon on the Demonbusters website in the section
"Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his Followers- Names of Satan
and His Demons".[26] Balaam
(Variations: Balam, Balan) is a Hebrew name meaning
"destruction". In the Bible Balaam was a Mesopotamian soothsayer
and prophet (Deuteronomy 23, Joshua 13 and many other books). Balaam is one
of the Infernal names listed in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible and an
entity mentioned in "Homage to Tchort" in LaVey's The Satanic
Rituals, which is probably what prompted this entry on the Madrak's list.
Baphomet:
In his America's Best Kept Secret, John Frattarola lists
"Baphomet" as an inverted pentagram, defining it as follows:
"...often called the 'baphomet', is strictly Satanic in nature and
represents the goat's head."[27] Shane
Westhoelter, in his General Information Manual With Respect to Satanism
and the Occult, lists Baphomet as a symbol of the Templars.[28]
Lyle Rapacki, in Satanism: The Not So New Problem, claims that
Baphomet "At one time was worshipped by the Knights Templar and later
by those who took part in the Black Mass. Today it is seen as a deity, a
goat-headed god with angelic wings, the breasts of a female, and an
illuminated torch between his horns".[29]
The description of Baphomet that Rapacki is presenting here is of the
picture that first appeared in 1896 in the book Transcendental Magic by
Eliphas Levi. The Watch Network mentions Baphomet in their Be Aware!
handbook: "The presence of books about Satanism or the occult...robes
(usually black, but perhaps red or other colours...The altar- traditionally
a nude woman is the actual altar, but she would lay on a sort of table or
slab of stone or metal...The symbol of Baphomet, or the goat of Mendes...
Candles... Bell... Chalice."[30]
Eventually Baphomet shows up in law enforcement manuals. It is listed in
Anderson's Law Enforcement Guide to Occult Related Crime as the "Emblem
of Baphomet".[31] Lou Sloat's Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual lists
"baphomet" and "goat's heads" in an untitled list of
symbols attributed to Satanism.[32] Rimer's
"Symptoms Characterizing Occult Ritual Abuse" contains a
"Glossary of Occult Terms" which describes Baphomet as "The
human creature with a goat's head."[33]
Baphomet is a bisexual idol or spiritual symbol, usually with goat
attributes, that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping in the
14th Century CE. There are several theories about how this name was
derived. Some suggest that Baphomet is simply a corruption of Mohammed, a
theory probably first advanced by the Crusaders who considered the Islamic
faith demonic. Some say that it comes from the Arabic
"abu-fihamat" ("father of wisdom"). Some say that it is
from the phrase "Baphe Meteos" ("baptism of Metis"),
Metis being a Greek Goddess of knowledge. Others suggest that Baphomet is
"Tem ohp ab" backwards, this being an abbreviation for the
expression "Templi omium hominum pacis abbas" ("the father
of the temple of peace of all men").
Aleister Crowley used Baphomet in his books Liber Samekh, Liber A'Ash
and in his version of the Gnostic Mass. Anton LaVey adopted Baphomet as a
symbol in the form of an inverse pentagram with a goat's head superimposed
on it, surrounded by the Hebrew letters lamed, vau, yod, tau and nun
(LVYTN). These letters spell the Hebrew rendering of the name Leviathan.
The name Baphomet also appears as one of the Infernal names listed in Anton
LaVey's Satanic Bible and in the Black Mass and Satanic Baptism in
his Satanic Rituals. This may have been where individuals like
Westhoelter and Frattarola got the idea that Baphomet was a Satanic entity.
Beelzebub:
Clifford Alford mistakenly refers to a spirit Beeazlebub" in his Occult
Crimes Investigations. Obviously Alford is referring to Beelzebub here.
Beelzebub shows up in Lt. Norman Mitchell's Hidden Practices and in
the "Glossary of Occult Terms" in Detective Don Rimer's
"Symptoms Characterizing Occult Ritual Abuse" as "Beelzebub:
The prince of demons."[34]
Known variations of this name include: Beelzebuth, Belzebuth, Beelzeboul, Baalzebub,
Belzebut, Belzeboub and Belzebud, but not Beeazlebub. This Latin name is
derived from the Hebrew term "Baalzebub" and means "lord of
flies" ("Baal", meaning "lord" + "zebub"
("ZBVB"), meaning a fly or insect). Originally a Syrian God,
Beelzebub appears in the New Testament of the Bible, examples being Mathew
10:25, 12:24 ("But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow
doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils"),
and Mark 3:22 ("And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said,
He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out
devils"). Groups such as the Essenes created personifications of evil
such as Beelzebub to denounce their opponents, claiming that their
opponents had been seduced by these personifications of evil.
In Milton's Paradise Lost, Beelzebub was Satan's chief lieutenant
among the fallen angels. In the Grimorium Verum Beelzebub is called
the prince of spirits. According to Eliphas Levi, Beelzebub was the leader
of the Chaigidel. Beelzebub was described as the supreme chieftain of
demons in Alexis De Terreneuve de Thym's autobiography Farfadets, Ou
Tous Le Demons Ne Sont Pas L'autre Monde. Beelzebub was the leader of
the "false gods" in Barret's The Magus. Beelzebub is one
of the Infernal names listed in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible, as well as a
name used in the performance of a Black Mass in LaVey's The Satanic
Rituals. Beelzebub is an archdaimon who is Satan's second in command,
who makes one of the "Statements" in the Diabolicon.
Beelzebub is a prince of the demonic order of Seraphim listed by Michaelis
in his Admirable History. He is also a demon of gluttony listed by
Binsfield.
Belial:
In Schemes of Satan, Warnke states that "Belial: ... [is] uniformly
regarded as the proper name for the prince of evil- Satan."[35]
Rapacki describes Belial as "The most vicious of all demons. He is
identified with death and evil. He is the demon of destruction".[36]
Belial is listed on Madrak's "Satanists and Setians" list on his
Demonbusters website.[37] The same site has
a page with the title "Learn About The Real Enemy- Satan and his
Followers- Names of Satan and His Demons" which also lists
"Belial".[38] Lou Sloat's Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual lists the
definition: "Belial: Without a master."[39]
This brief and cryptic definition suggests that Belial is a adjective,
rather than a name.
Belial is a Hebrew name, "BLIOL," meaning "wicked one."
It appears in numerous places in the Old Testament, such as Deuteronomy
13:13, Judges and 1 Samuel. Belial is the sixty eighth spirit of the Lemegeton,
described as a king, created next after Lucifer, who appears as a beautiful
angel seated in a chariot of fire, not a demon. The Lemegeton
names Belial as one of the four chiefs of the seventy two spirits of the
Goetia. The Lemegeton assigns him the power to win the favors of
friends and foes, to give familiars, and to make men senators. Belial was
not used as an alternative name for Satan as Warnke suggests, appearing in
many grimoires as a separate entity along side or subordinate to Satan.
None of these listings would suggest that Belial is, as Rapacki suggests,
"the demon of destruction.
Black Walkers/Mord Wraiths:
"Black Walkers & Mord Wraths [sic]" are defined as the
"Servants created or born from evil and black magic to be protectors
of witches and warlock lords"[40]
in a list of terms borrowed from Ritualistic Crime Consultants in Lou
Sloat's Texas Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual.
This is obviously a misspelling of the term "Mord Wraiths" (who
are the "Black Walkers") from fantasy writer Terry Brooks's Sword
of Shannara series. These fictional characters, who appear in the book Wishsong
of Shannara, are not used in Satanism, Neo-Pagan religion or
Afro-Caribbean religion.
Buddha:
Buddha is included in Madrak's short list of "Gods/Goddesses" on
their Demonbusters website.[41] Bill Schnoebelen
claims that Jack O'Lanterns are a symbol of "the Lord of the Dead,
a 'god', just like a Buddha- in short an idol"[42]
Buddha is not a Buddhist "lord of the dead", a God or an
"idol." Buddha is the enlightened man in Buddhism. It is typical
of such fundamentalist "experts" to lump all non Christian
religions together under the category of Satanism.
Footnotes...
[7] Marrs, Texe: Mystery Mark of the New
Age, pg 70.
[8] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[9] Sloat, Lou. (Date unknown). Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual, pg 14.
[10] E. Cobham Brewer. (1898) Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable.
[11] Land In Turmoil Website:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/2015/landinturmoil.html
[12] Murder Most Unreal:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/2015/murder.html
[13] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[14] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[15] Sloat, Lou: Texas Ritualistic Crime Information
Network Occult Crime Manual, pg 78.
[16]
Demons and Characteristics" http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[17] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[18] Leland, Charles Geoffrey. (1899).
Aradia: Gospel of the Witches, pg 1.
[19] Warnke, Schemes of Satan. Pg 167.
[20] Warnke, Schemes of Satan. Pg 167.
[21] Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[22] Brooke, Tal & Wise, Russ. (Winter
1998/99). "Goddess Worship," SCP Newsletter, WINTER 1998/99,
Volume 23:2
[23] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[24] Warnke, Schemes of Satan. Pg 167.
[25] File 18, CCIN Inc, Vol. 5, No.
90-5, pg 2, emphasis in original.
[26] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[27] Frattarola, John: "Passport
Magazine Special Edition: America's Best Kept Secret", insert "A
Look At Modern Day Satanism", page 2.
[28] Westhoelter, Shane. General
Information Manual With Respect to Satanism and the Occult, National
Information Network, pg 69.
[29] Rapacki, Lyle J. (1988). Satanism:
The Not So New Problem, Intel, pg 55.
[30] Be Aware!: A Handbook for the Purpose
of Exposing Occultic Activity, WATCH Network, pg 2.
[31] Anderson, Sgt Edwin C, Jr.: Law
Enforcement Guide to Occult Related Crime, California State University
Police, pg 35.
[32] Sloat, Lou. (Date unknown). Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual, pg 28.
[33] Rimer, Don. "Symptoms
Characterizing Occult Ritual Abuse'"
http://www.ogia.net/oklahoma%20gang%20investigators'%20association/occult/htm
[34] Rimer, Don. "Symptoms
Characterizing Occult Ritual Abuse'"
http://www.ogia.net/oklahoma%20gang%20investigators'%20association/occult/htm
[35] Warnke, Schemes of Satan, pg 167.
[36] Rapacki, Lyle J. (1988). Satanism:
The Not So New Problem, Intel, pg 55.
[37] "Demons and Characteristics",
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html.
[38] "Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[39] Sloat, Lou. (Date unknown). Texas
Ritualistic Crime Information Network Occult Crime Manual, pg 15.
[40] Sloat, Lou: Texas Ritualistic Crime
Information Network Occult Crime Manual, pg 78.
[41] Demons and Characteristics"
http://www.demonbuster.com/zpart2‑w11.html
[42] Ibid, pp 8, emphasis in original.
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