Fear, Madness, and Deception
This may be my favorite topic to speculate on. Although it is more than controversial in nature, especially with so many different interpretations out there, I’d love to dig deep and hopefully offer a clearer, more grounded perspective. While dogma and ritual are deeply rooted in religion, particularly when it comes to demonic and angelic orders and their place in spiritual and esoteric studies, I’ll do my best to avoid coming across as dogmatic in any way.
Although the Devil is mostly known as a single figure from the Bible and seen as the personal adversary of God, the one who deceives, destroys, or tempts people into sin, his role is much more active than people realize. Before I get started, I want to clarify an important distinction. There is a difference between disobedience, suppressing parts of ourselves we deem as negative, or subconscious impulses to question authority, and outright denial, destructive intent, maliciousness, and spite, whether rooted in ignorance or not.
What I am referring to in this post are the fearful, the neurotics, and the psychotics. When I say psychotics, I’m not referring to those clinically diagnosed at an early age, which is very rare by the way, or those born with neurological divergence. I mean those who choose illusion over truth, worship their delusions and weaponize madness against others. I had close encounters with a truly fearful neurotic a while back. Fear consumes every fiber of their being, and the way they move through the world is not the same way you and I move. These people are dangerous, unpredictable, and faithless, and what they carry is corrosive, not just to others, but to the world around them. Malice doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Also, when I say dangerous, I don’t necessarily mean they’ll become physically abusive, although that may very well be the case sometimes as they can become very animalistic. These people do not accept the concept of truth or loyalty. They rejoice in your pain and in seeing you become as fearful as they are. As they try to plant the same fear that has taken root in their own bones, they fool themselves into feeling elevated or somewhat adequate. These are the last people you’d want to collaborate with, especially in business. Their behavior goes far beyond mere malice.
The Corrosion of Willful Delusion | Demonic Possessions
Psychotics have always existed. These are individuals who can also suffer from destructive visions and hallucinations. Like schizophrenics, they are driven by complete self-denial, which, as I have observed, is the root of most psychotic phenomena and mental illness. A psychotic came to me recently and said, “You don’t know who I am, you don’t know who I am?” She showed me an AI-generated image of a beautiful woman in heaven who looked nothing like her and an Islamic god. “I am her,” she insisted. “I am this Goddess from this heavenly realm, and Allah, my god,” she showed me another picture of a random Sufi god found on the internet, “has sent me here to meet the Devil,” and she showed me a picture of a snake. “Do you know the Bible story of Adam and Eve?” she continued, insisting that she was like Eve when she saw me in shock. She also showed me an image of a random man on Facebook and claimed he was her husband. As she seemed highly upset and insisted that I knew her, I replied, “I’m sorry, I must have forgotten,” a couple of times, and she eventually stopped.
Clearly, the poor woman has lost her mind. But what strikes me most about her behavior is not just the delusion. It is her arrogance, her hostile demeanor in how she’s willing and ready to provoke other individuals, her vanity, her extreme sense of entitlement and self-importance, and the total denial of reality and her actions. To test her once, I mirrored her behavior, and she couldn’t stand it even for one second. I have noticed this in many psychotics, not just her. They cannot tolerate being shown exactly how they interact with others. Self-denial is their only means of survival, the only way they can keep living inside their bubble of illusion, which they prefer instead of humbling themselves and breaking free from their strong unrooted beliefs and coming to terms with reality itself.
Now, there are rare cases where people experience psychosis due to long-term brainwashing, such as in cults or other similar manipulative environments. The strong beliefs, mental toll, and stress can be overwhelming for the individual; hence, they may develop neurosis or some form of psychosis. These phenomena were seen as demonic possessions in the past. But for the most part, an individual who deliberately and willingly chooses to stay in a psychotic state, worshipping their delusions, no matter the excuse or trauma, commits a willful act of evil. Do you need to empathize with such individuals? I am in no place to tell you what to do. I’l let you be the judge of that. Hitler, for instance, was high functioning, but in a constant state of psychosis and paranoia, and he had millions of followers.
I want people to understand that there is a big difference between people who are born with certain mental or cognitive impairments and those who develop psychotic traits later in life. There is a clear distinction here between the two. The latter selfishly acts out of self-preservation. These are the same individuals who you will often see struggle with various addictions and will have no problem abandoning or neglecting their children while doing so. If you work with such individuals, you’ll often hear them say they’ll change, but they never do.
Demonic Sprites
“Woe to the one who disturbs those who rest.” In the Spiritual world, or the world of archetypes and the unseen, there are orders and forces that match frequency, energy, and vibration., including demonic forces. They all play their role in the material plane of forms. Let’s look at a brief scientific preview of our world before it came into being and into form, from the formless to the form, simply for contemplative reflection and perhaps as a catalyst for insight.
About 4.6 billion years ago, a massive cloud of gas called a solar nebula collapsed under gravity. The cloud was made up of mostly hydrogen and helium, the main two elements in the Universe, and with some heavier elements of previous stars. Scientists speculate that the collapse was triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. In spiritual science, the phenomenon of collapsing under gravity is called love.
From this collapse, all the material about 99.8% got pulled to the center and formed the sun. The pressure and heat from Hydrogen (1 proton, 1 electron, 0 neutrons, the most abundant element in the universe) atoms smashing into each other at the center ignited nuclear fusion, creating helium, and our star, the sun, was born. Helium is the second most abundant element in the Universe, with Hydrogen being the first. Helium releases energy in the form of light and heat that we feel on this planet, and particles (neutrinos).
The remaining 0.2% of the material formed a spinning protoplanetary disk around the sun. Tiny grains of dust and ice in the disk stuck together over time, forming planetesimals (baby planets). Through collision and gravity, these planetesimals grew into planets, moons, asteroids, and comets we know today. Interstellar dust consists of small particles made up of various elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, such as carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and others. Dust plays a significant role in the formation of planets and comets through the process of accretion. So the saying we are all made of stardust is scientifically and poetically true.
Now some may ask, why am I even bringing up all these scientific facts into the picture? Because there is a natural order of things, and most forget that everything in nature, everything in the Universe that has substance, has its place and its purpose. Now going back to Demonic Sprites. Many will play with certain forces undermining the consequences of summoning and disturbing them in the first place. They lack foresight and foolishly disturb such forces to bind them to some absurd purpose of their own. Secondly, they bind them for a selfish and malicious purpose to afflict another, completely undermining that individual’s spiritual rank. To use and work with such demonic forces to afflict and hurt others developed much later in humanity as it was not the original design at all.
Also, most true initiates don’t need to boast about who they are, and what kind of powers or protection they hold, and they certainly won’t boast about having power over both worlds, lower, higher, east, and west, or whatever you want to come up with. In literature and folklore sprites or elementals are forces of nature and would never really bother anybody if humans just left them alone. Still, to this day, people play around and work with such demonic forces until it is too late and the consequences are too severe to go back and undo what was already done. Until it’s time to pay the piper.
