Goetia
Fruit - Gods Branches - Angels Trunk - Man Roots - Daemons
Reaching up to the angelic upper worlds and bring that energy and consciousness down Reaching down to the lower, earthly, primordial, darkness… and pulling that energy up Being the Magus - the tree with roots into the earth and branches and flowers in heaven
The Daemons are aspects of your consciousness, fundamental energies And they also exist as external beings
“Demons may now be as rare as wolves or bears in the streets of a modern metropolis, but they are real nevertheless. The parallel is deliberate, because it emphasizes the fact that both were much more common in the past, and that in the twenty-first century your chances of encountering one is much greater outside of heavy populated urban metropolises. Another that is certain is that these creatures are certainly not ‘parts of the human brain’ as Crowley would have you believe.”
- “The Keys to the Gateway of Magic: Summoning the Solomonic Archangels & Demon Princes” by Stephen Skinner and David Rankine
Daimon - Daemon - Demon
“ The one place where demons inarguably exist is in the human mind where they are real beyond refute, in all their malice and monstrosity.”
- Alan Moore
"Like angels, they [the demons] have wings and fly from one end of the world to the other, and know the future; and like men they eat, propagate, and die"
- Hagaddah 16b; Ab. R. N. xxxvii.
daiesthai ("to divide" or "distribute”)
δαίμων,- daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate")
Proto-Indo-European daimon "provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies
the root da- "to divide".
Koine δαιμόνιον (daimonion) - ???
εὐδαιμονία (eudaimonia, which literally translates as "good-spiritedness") means happiness.
Demons as intermidiaries who deliver messages between the Divine and Humans Who can be commanded by the awakened magician
Angels are the messengers of the upper realms Demons the messengers of the lower realms
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"),12 originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.3 The word is derived from Proto-Indo-European daimon "provider, divider (of fortunes or destinies)," from the root da- "to divide".4 Daimons were possibly seen as the souls of men of the golden age acting as tutelary deities, according to entry δαίμων at Liddell & Scott.
The Ancient Greek word δαίμων (daimōn) denotes a spirit or divine power, much like the Latin genius or numen. Daimōn most likely came from the Greek verb daiesthai ("to divide" or "distribute”). The Greek conception of a daimōn notably appears in the philosophical works of Plato, where it describes the divine inspiration of Socrates. The original Greek word daimōn does not carry the negative connotation initially understood by implementation of the Koine δαιμόνιον (daimonion),5 and later ascribed to any cognate words sharing the root.
Egyptian Demons
The exact definition of "demon" in Egyptology posed a major problem for modern scholarship, since the borders between a deity and a demon are sometimes blurred and the ancient Egyptian language lacks a term for the modern English "demon".1112 Both **deities and demons can act as intermediaries to deliver messages to humans. * *** By that, they share some resemblance to the Greek daimon. However, magical writings indicate that ancient Egyptians acknowledged the existence of malevolent demons by highlighting the demon names with red ink.12 Demons in this culture appeared to be subordinative and related to a specific deity, yet they may have occasionally acted independently of the divine will. The existence of demons can be related to the realm of chaos, beyond the created world.
Ancient Egyptian demons can be divided into two classes: "guardians" and "wanderers".13\>14 "Guardians" are tied to a specific place; their demonic activity is topographically defined and their function can be benevolent towards those who have the secret knowledge to face them.15 Demons protecting the underworld may prevent human souls from entering paradise. Only by knowing the right charms is the deceased able to enter the Halls of Osiris.16 Here, the aggressive nature of the guardian demons is motivated by the need to protect their abodes and not by their evil essence.
The "wanderers" are associated with possession, mental illness, death and plagues. Many of them serve as executioners for the major deities, such as Ra or Osiris, when ordered to punish humans on earth or in the netherworld.15 Wanderers can also be agents of chaos, arising from the world beyond creation to bring about misfortune and suffering without any divine instructions, led only by evil motivations. The influences of the wanderers can be warded off and kept at the borders of the human world by the use of magic, but they can never be destroyed. A sub-category of "wanderers" are nightmare demons, which were believed to cause nightmares by entering a human body.
Sumerian Demonology
The ancient Mesopotamians believed that the underworld was home to many demons,17 which are sometimes referred to as "offspring of arali".17 These demons could sometimes leave the underworld and terrorize mortals on earth.17 One class of demons that were believed to reside in the underworld were known as galla;18 their primary purpose appears to have been to drag unfortunate mortals back to Kur.18 They are frequently referenced in magical texts,19 and some texts describe them as being seven in number.19 Several extant poems describe the galla dragging the god Dumuzid into the underworld.20 Like other demons, however, galla could also be benevolent
Jewish
The Hebrew Bible mentions two classes of demonic spirits, the se'irim and the shedim.
Demons supposedly entered the body and caused the disease while overwhelming or "seizing" the victim. To cure such diseases, it was necessary to draw out the evil demons by certain incantations and talismanic performances, at which the Essenes excelled.28 Josephus, who spoke of demons as "spirits of the wicked which enter into men that are alive and kill them", but which could be driven out by a certain root,35 witnessed such a performance in the presence of the Emperor Vespasian36 and ascribed its origin to King Solomon.
In Kabbalah, demons are regarded as a necessary part of the divine emanation in the material world and a byproduct of human sin (Qlippoth).43 After they are created, they assume an existence on their own. Demons would attach themselves to the sinner and start to multiply as an act of self-preservation.44 Medieval Kabbalists characterize such demons as punishing angels of destruction. They are subject to the divine will, and do not act independently.45
Persian
Aggadic tales from the Persian tradition describe the shedim, the mazziḳim ("harmers"), and the ruḥin ("spirits"). There were also lilin ("night spirits"), ṭelane ("shade", or "evening spirits"), ṭiharire ("midday spirits"), and ẓafrire ("morning spirits"), as well as the "demons that bring famine" and "such as cause storm and earthquake".4128 According to some aggadic stories, demons were under the dominion of a king or chief, usually Asmodai.42
India
In the Veda, gods (deva) and anti-gods (asura) share both the upper world. It is only by the time of the Brahmanas that they are said to inhabit the underworld. The identification of asura with demons stems from the description of asura as "formerly gods" (pūrvadeva). The gods are said to have claimed heaven for themselves and tricked the demons, ending on earth. During the Vedic period, gods aid humans against demons. By that, gods secure their own place in heaven, using humans as tools to defeat their cosmic enemies. Asura, in the earliest hymns of the Rigveda, originally meant any supernatural spirit, either good or bad. Since the /s/ of the Indic linguistic branch is cognate with the /h/ of the Early Iranian languages, the word asura, representing a category of celestial beings, is a cognate with Old Persian Ahura. Ancient Hinduism tells that Devas (also called suras) and Asuras are half-brothers, sons of the same father Kashyapa; although some of the Devas, such as Varuna, are also called Asuras.
Iranian
The Zorastrian belief in demons (Daeva, later div)57 had strong influence on the Abrahamic religions, especially Christianity and Islam. In hell, demons continue to torment the damned. Book 3 of the Denkard describes demons as the opposite of the creative power of God. As such, they cannot create, but only corrupt, and thus, evil is merely the corruption of the good. Since demons can only destroy, they will ultimately destroy themselves.