E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
out into the world to vanquish his enemies, reward his friends, and seat
him on a throne for all the world to see. He dreams of the day that he
can find the right book and pronounce the incantations correctly so the
demons can materialize before his eyes. He looks forward to drawing
out the details of his deal with the devils, agreeing on the specifics, and
signing his name or shaking hands to seal the pact. In some ways, the
reality of working with demons is much easier. In other ways, it is
infinitely more difficult.
Most western-minded people maintain a very narrow and
altogether erroneous understanding of the existence, powers and
fundamental intentions of demons. They are "known" as being the
followers of Satan, who is also called Lucifer. who is also called Baal, etc.
They fell with him from their Olympic abode, exiled to earth until
their final day of judgment. Full of hatred for a God that abandoned
them and a Christ that defied them, they have sworn their existence to
the single task of the destruction of the soul of man, the only prized
possession of their enemy. In vengeance they tempt men with lust,
power, greed. anger, and all things that man's nature would eventually
lead him towards anyways. In every bargain they strike, in every
hand they shake, with every smile they are deceiving mankind,
tricking God's herd one sheep at a time into damnation.
The story is very cut and dry. As a Christian once told me,
"I've read the book, I know how it ends!" Unfortunately, one book cannot
document this whole story.
One of the most popular grimoires among practicing magicians
is Clavicula Salomonis Regis, otherwise known as the Goetia. Of the
seventy-two demons listed in the pages of the Goetia, several are said to
have specific knowledge of the battle in heaven and the fall of the angels.
The Inquisition applauds the reaffirmation received when even the
demons themselves speak of the glory of God and their own weakness in
His light. Even the hosts of hell proclaim the word of the Bible to be
true.
Once evoked, however, conversation with these Goetic entities
will reveal quite a different truth of the nature of demons and the myths
of religion. The author of the manuscript was writing such words in a
very dangerous time to be liberal, especially concerning the views of
the Church; he therefore masked the truth in the same veil of myth
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