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CHAPTER SIX SERVANTS OF DARKNESS<br />
the armies of Passiel, Rosus, and many others. The King of the North is<br />
Amayon, who commands the armies of Madael, Laaval, Bamlahe, Belem,<br />
and Ramath. Amayon also appears in several other grimoires as a King<br />
of Hell, although his name is spelled differently throughout.s<br />
Simon's edition of the fabled Sorcerer's handbook NecronomicDn,<br />
supposedly translated from an archaic manuscript in the early 1980'S,<br />
gives a precise chain of command for entities of both dark and light, the<br />
Ancient Ones and the Elder Gods. The Elder Gods, championed by a<br />
Jupiterian deity Marduk, represented the pla<strong>net</strong>ary and astrological<br />
powers, while the Ancient Ones were the icons of chaos, led by their<br />
worm Queen Tiamat, and her cohort and military general, Azag-Thoth,<br />
the blind god of madness. All of the spirits and powers given in the<br />
Necronomicon fit perfectly into the ranks of one camp or the other, and<br />
the Superior Spirit of each is easily identifiable. 6<br />
The GDetia offers greater detail than most grimoires as to the<br />
exact hierarchal structure of the demons, especially Aleister Crowley's<br />
second edition. The 72 demons of the GDetia are first divided into two<br />
categories: day demons and night demons. This division has little to do<br />
directly with the demonic chain of command, but is more a point of<br />
reference for the powers, abilities, and restrictions of each demon, as do<br />
the astrological associations given in Crowley's second edition.<br />
The Goetic hierarchy is headed by Lucifer, who is never spoken<br />
of directly in the text, but whose indisputable reign is alluded to by the<br />
mention of the allegiance of various entities listed. Lucifer seems to be<br />
immediately followed on the chain of command by the nine Goetic<br />
Kings, Bae!, Paimon, Beleth, Purson, Asmoday, Vine (who is also an<br />
Earl), Balam, Zargan (who is also a President), and Belial. The hierarchy<br />
continues to descend with the Marquis, Dukes, Prelacies, Knights,<br />
Presidents, and Earls. 7<br />
The above examples taken from some of the most well known<br />
dark grimoires evidence the differences between each account of the<br />
demonic hierarchy. Two factors obstruct the honest student from<br />
understanding the hierarchy. and from gaining a working alliance<br />
with demons: the lies intentionally created to mislead the uninitiated,<br />
and those lies that developed of their own accord.<br />
The first fallacy of the known demonic hierarchy is at the very<br />
head of it. Nearly all grimoires used in occult Workings and study seat<br />
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