Demonology

Demonology
The study and classification of the hierarchy of demons, their powers and limitations, attributes, multiple names, and derivations. Also, a branch of magic which deals with malevolent spirits.

Demonology is described as a branch of magic that deals with malevolent spirits. In religious science it has come to indicate knowledge relating to supernatural spirits not considered deities.

Demonology Demonology is the systematic study of demons or beliefs about demons. Insofar as it involves exegesis, demonology is an orthodox branch of theology.

Idel: Pardes: From Sefiroth to Demonology
Petru Moldovan: Moshe Idel: Maimonides and the Jewish Mystic
JSRI: Moshe Idel: "Unio Mystica" as a Criterion: Some Observations on "Hegelian" Phenomenologies of Mysticism ...

This dishonoured science has some right to be mentioned in a "Treatise on Demonology," because the earlier astrologers, though denying the use of all necromancy-that is, ...

Image of Lucifer, from two very different websites, Demonology - A Who's Who of the Demon World By Martin J. Clemens (June 7, 2009) (informative but rather dry academic style article) and Divine Rebels, Alien Dissidents! ...

The most lurid versions combine Kabbalah with medieval demonology to produce detailed lists of demons, with Samael and Lilith riding at their head as king and queen. A version of this survives in the Golden Dawn tradition on the qlippoth.

He was consdidered an authority on all things theological, including demonology. He concluded that there are ten orderes of demons and that they totalled in the millions. He categorized the demons as falling into nine specific types.

Scholem edited the text in 'Some Sources of Jewish-Arabic Demonology', in Journal of Jewish Studies, xvi (1965). It contains a large number of Greek (such as Sabaoth), Latin, and Italian elements.

It was almost never aggressively repressed, apparently because it was considered rather tame stuff compared to demonology and necromancy (Flint 1991).

Where do these images originate? Your unconcious/superconciousness with the 'safeties' off? Jung's collective unconsciousness? Ascended Masters? Could we be treading on the edges of demonology?

See also: Demon, Spirit, World, Magic, Occult