When you mention magick to someone, particularly in America, it's usual to hear the words "Satan," "demons," "Lucifer," or "black magic" within seconds. There are reasons for this that I'm not going to get into right now, (I will later) but I'd like to take some time in this short post to make a couple of comments about the nature of Demonic and Angelic intelligences. Typically, when an initiate avoids working with Left Hand paths, or with the Goetia, it's because they fear doing so, they've been instructed not to do so, or they simply see no need to do so. This latter point is the default position of the Golden Dawn. Any magickal system that directly descends from Golden Dawn practices is therefore likely to work primarily with the Archangels. By the same token, the great majority of aspirants who start a magickal path find working with the Angels to be slow, incomplete, and often very weak. This is why so many people turn to the demons of the Goetia to fulfill their desires. The problem Westerners seem to have is understanding that they're all the same entities. The demons of the Goetia are former Gods and Angels of Canaan. They'll tell you this themselves if you make pacts with them or scry. In Magick in Theory and Practice. Crowley states: "In evocation, the Magician, having become the macrocosm, creates a microcosm. You invoke a God into the Circle. You evoke a spirit into the Triangle."1 What most people miss is that it's the means of summoning that determines the means of manifestation. If you turn to a spirit with the intent of focusing your will on an earthly goal, a solitary goal, then you don't need God to do this, you need only a lower emanation. So you turn to a demon, which in happier times was known as a daemon. If you're trying to reach a higher plane of being and knowledge, you call God into your circle. This is where magick will take you, life and existence will take you, no matter what you do, so why not just do it now? That's the Golden Dawn pov. But you can also call on Angels for earthly things and demons for salvation because they are the same entities. It's your intent that determines the kind of interaction you'll have. When summoning spirits, angels or demons, it's quite usual for demons to appear right away, ready to make a pact, while angels often make a momentary apparition in your scrying glass at the close of a ritual. This is because angels provide guidance and growth first and give earthly things (like beautiful apparitions) when you're ready for them. Demons give you what you want right up front and let you experience the often very painful lessons and growth after the fact. You want to see evidence: check out any celebrity that's worked the Goetia for fame and fortune. That's the only real difference. Either way, the lesson is going to be: "forget your earthly desires and seek God" but you don't want to hear that, you want to know about demons and devils. And now you know slightly more than you did before. 1. Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice, p. 12. Archives
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