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today as it was also used in Egypt, where once a year it was sacrificed to a God.
    The devils of mankind are many, and their origins diversified. The performance of Satanic ritual does not embrace the calling forth of demons; this practice is followed only by those who are in fear of the very forces they conjure.
    Supposedly, demons are malevolent spirits with attributes conductive to the deterioration of the people or events that they touch upon. The Greek word demon meant a guardian spirit or source of inspiration, and to be sure, later theologians invented legion upon legion of these harbingers of inspiration - all wicked.
    An indication of the cowardice of “magicians” of the right-hand path is the practice of calling upon a particular demon (who would supposedly be a minion of the devil) to do his bidding. The assumption is that the demon, being only a flunky of the devil, is easier to control. Occult lore states that only the most formidably “protected” or insanely foolhardy sorcerer would try to call forth the Devil himself.
    The Satanist does not furtively call upon these “lesser” devils, but brazenly invokes those who people that infernal army of long-standing outrage - the Devils themselves!
    Theologians have catalogued some of the names of devils in their lists of demons, as might be expected, but the roster which follows contains the names and origins of the Gods and Goddesses called upon, which make up a large part of the occupancy of the Royal Palace of Hell: THE FOUR CROWN PRINCES OF HELL SATAN - (Hebrew) adversary, opposite, accuser, Lord of fire, the inferno, the south LUCIFER - (Roman) bringer of light, enlightenment, the air, the morning star, the east BELIAL - (Hebrew) without a master, baseness of the earth, independence, the north LEVIATHAN - (Hebrew) the serpent out of the deeps, the sea, the west THE INFERNAL NAMES
    Abaddon - (Hebrew) the destroyer
    Adramelech - Samarian devil
    Ahpuch - Mayan devil
    Ahriman - Mazdean devil
    Amon - Egyptian ram-headed god of life and reproduction Apollyon - Greek synonym for Satan, the arch fiend Asmodeus - Hebrew devil of sensuality and luxury, originally “creature of judgement”
    Astaroth - Phoenician goddess of lasciviousness, equivalent of Babylonian Ishtar Azazel - (Hebrew) taught man to make weapons of war, introduced cosmetics Baalberith - Canaanite Lord of the covenant who was later made a devil Balaam - Hebrew Devil of avarice and greed
    Baphomet - worshipped by the Templars as symbolic of Satan Bast - Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat Beelzebub - (Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab Behemoth - Hebrew personification of Satan in the form of an elephant Beherit - Syriac name for Satan
    Bilé - Celtic god of Hell
    Chemosh - national god of Moabites, later a devil
    Cimeries - rides a black horse and rules Africa
    Coyote - American Indian devil
    Dagon - Philistine avenging devil of the sea
    Damballa - Voodoo serpent god
    Demogorgon - Greek name of the devil, it is said should not be known to mortals Diabolus - (Greek) “flowing downwards”
    Dracula - Romanian name for devil
    Emma-O - Japanese ruler of Hell
    Euronymous - Greek prince of death
    Fenriz - son of Loki, depicted as a wolf
    Gorgo - dim. of Demogorgon, Greek name of the devil Haborym - Hebrew synonym for Satan
    Hecate - Greek goddess of the underworld and witchcraft Ishtar - Babylonian goddess of fertility
    Kali - (Hindu) daughter of Shiva, high priestess of the Thuggees Lilith - Hebrew female devil, Adam's first wife who taught him the ropes Loki - Teutonic devil
    Mammon - Aramaic god of wealth and profit
    Mania - Etruscan goddess of Hell
    Mantus - Etruscan god of Hell
    Marduk - god of the city of Babylon
    Mastema - Hebrew synonym for Satan
    Melek Taus - Yezidi devil
    Mephistopheles - (Greek) he who shuns the light, q. v. Faust Metztli - Aztec goddess of the night
    Mictian - Aztec god of death
    Midgard - son of Loki, depicted as a serpent
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