Ok here some ideas I’ve been working on over the last year or so. Many people see deamons as being spirits, servants of the underworld ect... I have however began to reject this as mere superstition, deamons are something that is very hard to describe… they rest in the unconscious mind acting as our drives making is lust after things that deep down we really want, like ones "true will" however deamons are usually the darker things that we have been forced to repress as most of these things are a taboo this is not however always the case they can be emotions towards a person or anything. They come in many different forms and can be hard to recognize. The unconscious mind is haunted by these demons, though they have no real form they can be forced to take one so to be studied (often symbolic), as an artist I found that automatic drawing when in a state of "gnosis" the most useful way to draw (pun not intended lol) out these deamons. Once on paper the deamons have now been forced into the physical and out of the unconscious, only now may the magician start to see his own deamons and recognize them. Once realized and physically manifested not only can the sorcerer know his faults/fears/deep dark emotions he can begin to fix these things.
The way I see it is like this; if there is a”higher self” there also must be “lower selves”. Where the higher self is whole the lower is broken up into many different parts hence why it’s “lower selves” rather than “lower self”. The higher self can only truly be realized once the magician is one and not a broken many.
I’ll stop now rambling on a bit. Just what I’ve been working on thought it might be helpful, feel free to disagree. Still looking for that e-book might be on my other laptop when I find it I’ll post it here.
Hope this helps
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