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CHAPTER SIX SERVANTS OF DARKNESS<br />
The third means of enlisting demonic support comes down from<br />
the medieval days of Sorcery. In the Grand Grimoire. the Magician is<br />
instructed to recite to the demon once It has been Summoned. "I am<br />
coing to strike you and all of your cohorts by the power of the great<br />
Adonay if you do not grant to me that which I ask of YOU."3<br />
At this, the apparition will unequivocally reply, "Do not strike<br />
me anymore. I promise to do everything you want."<br />
The above dialogue is characteristic of the interactions between<br />
Operator and entity throughout the majority of grimoires and medieval<br />
spellbooks. In much the same way the demons of the Goetia are presented<br />
in a manner less offensive to the Christian ruling class of the time. the<br />
crimoires in question present demons as inferior and wretched<br />
creatures. gnashing their teeth at even the mention of the name of<br />
Jesus.<br />
Either the authors of these tomes were paying lip or pen service<br />
to their social superiors, or they were members of the Christian elite of<br />
the times, believing the words that they inked on their parchment.<br />
Whatever the case. those words endured for centuries. as did the belief<br />
that demons are the lowest of the spiritual creatures, creeping in the<br />
darkness because it is the only place that would have them.<br />
As the result of this standardized information on demons. it<br />
became common custom. if not mandatory practice. to intimidate.<br />
threaten, and scourge the Summoned throughout every step of the<br />
evocation. Without such. the demon may forget Its place and rise into<br />
insubordinance. becoming more uncontrollable with each second. Only<br />
""hen the evoked entity is properly subdued and degraded will it serve<br />
the Magician in utter fear of the godly torment hovering over its horned<br />
bead.<br />
Demons are the servants of Darkness, the emissaries of evil<br />
They will bring about the miraculous and the terrible. They will make<br />
rivers of blood flow or mountains of stone crumble if needs be. But they<br />
will not do so out of fear or gratitude. but instead out of pure sinister<br />
comprehension of the eventual effects of such actions. They see the<br />
inner reality of things and follow all origins of action to conclusion. All<br />
that they do, they do with full knowledge of the path that will be traveled<br />
into an eternal round.<br />
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