Here's an easy way to look at demons and angels. Consider a beautiful flower, a rose, growing in a park. One day a lonely poet comes by, stands captivated for twenty minutes scribbling in a notebook and writes a poem about the Universal imagination that transcends all races, classes, and faiths. It's a great poem that's destined to be published and bring joy and inspiration to thousands of people. Later that same day, two retired ladies, both amateur gardeners, happen by the same flower and have dispute over the kind of rose the flower is. They have a heated argument over its name and wind up not speaking to each other for several days. That evening, the groundskeeper of the park comes by and sprays pesticides all around to stop the slugs and aphids from eating his flower. After hours, when the park's closed, a drunk comes along and steps on the rose, crushing it to bits without even noticing while cursing his ex-wife for cheating on him decades past. Think of the flower as Angelic inspiration. Think of the interpersonal entanglements that obstruct hearing or seeing this inspiration as the noise of earthly life, the entanglements that demons are obliged to immerse you in because -- without them -- you can't fulfill your earthly desires. So, if demons are dangerous because they lead you away from Angelic inspiration, are angels dangerous in any way? Yes, they are. The reason angels can be dangerous is that when we're filled with Divine inspiration, we're less bound by the gravity of life and we reclaim the joy of experiencing a glimpse of Divine unity and our own unimpeded will. Playing spoiler here: the angels are happy to serve our earthly desires, but their real job is to guide us to a Higher Life. So, one of the dangers in working with angels is that they, by necessity, try to point you to and immerse you in this higher plane of being at all times, and this sometimes can make regular life seem twice as heavy and lethargic. There's a way to deal with all of this, to balance out Angelic and Demonic forces in your life, and it's actually not as difficult as it may seem. I'll blog on a topic soon called the Ladder of Love, which is a magickal spin on Diotima's Ladder of Love analogy in Plato's Symposium. This is the esoteric version of that. It's not as egg-heady as it sounds. So stand by! But my next post will once more be on demons. This time literally answering all of the questions and comments I get about them, one by one, in as concrete as possible way, so that I can refer future commenters and questioners and those who are fascinated by demons to these blog-posts. Categories
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