What Is Demonology?
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 2023-07-31

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A. What is demonology exactly?

Demonology is a branch of ritual or ceremonial magic that deals specifically with the “dark arts” or “black magic” - summoning and pacts. As with any branch of magic, one can study this field, practice it, or both; for example, I merely study. Insofar as “theurgic” angelology invokes from the macrocosm beyond, “goetic” demonology evokes from the microcosm within. Aleister Crowley put it in no uncertain terms in his introduction to the “Lesser Keys of King Solomon” grimoire, when he said, “the spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain,” and went onto elaborate: “The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish: (a) General control of the brain., (Establishment of functions relative to the subtle world.) (b) Control over the brain in detail. (Rank or type of the Spirit.) (c) Control of one special portion. (Name of the Spirit.)” Mengele’s “Monarch” method of mind-control - establishing a complex of personality “alters” in a multistory memory-castle, each “floor” being accessed by a central stairwell or elevator - is a clear evolution from Crowley’s understanding of the Goetia, possibly combined with the Golden Dawn’s models of the “Enochian” Watchtowers. So, we can posit that “demonology” and pacts, being propagandized as the “ultimate evil” during the Dark Ages, has its similarities to the modern field of “mind-control,” nowadays considered the “most evil” violation of mental privacy imaginable.  To put it in no uncertain terms for ourselves: “demonic magic is = to mind control.” Thus a “curse” and a “love spell” maybe indistinguishable to their victim, considering neither is enacted of their own volition, and so both maybe considered equally “evil.” For what it’s worth, Crowley also describes how to free oneself from unwanted forms of mind-control in his “Book of Lies” in poem 47, “Windmill Words” - where he sums up succinctly his “8 lectures on yoga.” In this poem, Crowley notes:
“Asana gets rid of Anatomy-con- \
sciousness.                                  | Involuntary
Pranayama gets rid of Physiology-     | "Breaks"
consciousness.                            /
Yama and Niyama get rid of  \   Voluntary
Ethical consciousness.          /    "Breaks"
Pratyhara gets rid of the Objective.
Dharana gets rid of the Subjective.
Dhyana gets rid of the Ego.
Samadhi gets rid of the Soul Impersonal.
Asana destroys the static body (Nama).
Pranayama destroys the dynamic body (Rupa).
Yama destroys the emotions. \ (Vedana).
Niyama destroys the passions. /
Dharana destroys the perceptions (Sanna).å
Dhyana destroys the tendencies (Sankhara).
Samadhi destroys the consciousness (Vinnanam).
Homard a la Thermidor destroys the digestion.
The last of these facts is the one of which I am most certain.”