People's interest in demons is generally quite narrowly focused: they're fascinated by the capacity for temptation, destruction, and damnation that's typically associated with demons. If an uninitiated person warns of the dangers of working with demons and tells you that you're in peril for your mortal soul, ask yourself a simple question. Would that same person help you carry your groceries in on a rainy day? Listen to your life story? Help you through a break-up? Pay your overdue electric bill? They're not concerned with you or your fate; they just want to put themselves in a position of moral and spiritual superiority to you and everyone else. And that's what many people want. Including many of those who work with demons. They just happen to also want to appear dark and dangerous as they go about doing it. The truth is: everything is a Divine emanation and therefore at the deepest level of being All is One. Dealing with Angels tends to remind us of Divine Unity through exaltation, epiphany, and revelation, while dealing with demons tends to remind us of Divine Unity by exhausting our earthly desires. Demons both excite and repulse us because we're excited and repulsed by our sensual experiences. When we see a demon we see the illusion that the Divine is divided. Anything less than Divine Oneness will be less than the Most High and is therefore, by definition, "fallen." Demons represent our will to fall and to experience the illusion of disunity -- and with that comes struggle, passion, power, karma, and desires. There is a real danger in dealing with demons, but it's a bit trickier to understand than "God will send you to Hell for eternity." Here's the danger. Think of Angels as the Mind, as inspiration and creativity; think of demons as the muscles, the body, the earthly tools that translate inspiration to action and manifestation. Now, consider that when most people find inspiration, or learn new talents, or explore fresh creative capacities, they're in a place that's free of struggle, interpersonal strife, and so forth. Not always, clearly, but often enough that we all instinctively know that, to find your genius you need "alone" time and lots of it. In fact, it's even more precarious than that. If someone merely "dings" you emotionally in the morning at work or on social media or elsewhere, this single incident can block your creativity and inspiration. Temperamental artist and all that... Well, demons are here precisely to get you involved with earthly desires, imbroglios, and ambitions. You'll be mixed up in the world, but good. The noise of your earthly involvements interrupts your ability to hear the Angels of inspiration. This is what typically happens to people who "sell their souls" for fame and fortune. They get a bunch of earthly stuff and lose the creative inspiration that made getting it possible. This is also what's meant when adepts and even some masters warn that demons can "steal" your abilities. They aren't stealing anything; you're just so involved in earthly life that you stop listening to the Angels of inspiration. Furthermore, it's hard to get out of these earthly, karmic entanglements: hence the metaphor of the "burning pit of fire" that never ends. So the danger's quite real. So much so that I'll blog some more on the topic soon. Categories
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