Modern Demonology

For reasons mentioned in previous pages, mostly due to the fact that modern-day demonology is the quest of the fanatics, I shall only quote a passage. I don't even interfere with it in the least, I leave it to you to discern whether or not there is fault in my ways when I consider the modern-day Catholic Church as fanatic, mundane and obsolete. 

As for the subject of modern demonology, I don't have much to report, besides the fact that if you look at the other entries in the section, you'll figure everything out. Modern demonology doesn't exist. The few people who deal with the subject are tormented by passages like the following one, or are the ones who write passages like the following one. I'm a witch. How can I write on demonology today, when I haven't yet concluded on demonology past? Modern demonology is flooded by priests and charlatans, none of which can safely provide any conclusive evidence. I reckon there are no new 20th century demons around, cause we've got our hands full with the old ones. I firmly believe that sooner or later the Catholic church will invent a dozen new ones, for a change. After all, there are a handful of new sins to cover: the web, pc games, virtual sex, bungee-jumping, that sort...

Demonolatrors today worship old beings, so go ask them what they believe in. I'm not one, and I cannot answer that one. However, I know people who worship even the very primal beings, like Lilith and Asmodeus, going back even to deities long lost, like Mithras. 

Demonologists today are of three kinds: priests, "paladins" and scholars. For priests I've covered the subject, and if you need further aid, take a look below. "Paladins" are (my term) a weird sort of religious fanatics who go about convincing people they're possessed and then proceed to cure them from their ailment draped in self-righteousness and wreathed in hollow virtue. There are many of these. Scholars are all sorts of weirdoes, like me, who find the subject fascinating from a research-wise point of view, and try to figure out the development and evolution of demonology through the ages. There aren't many of that sort.

Catholic Belief passage - from crap to crapper...

"Throughout the Christian Middle Ages the external systems of demonology among the uncultured races or in the ancient civilizations of the East continued their course, and may still be found flourishing in the home of their origin or in other lands. Within the Catholic fold there was less scope for the worse form of the old errors. The early heresies had been cast out, and theological speculation had been directed in the true way by the decision of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (545), which condemned certain Origenist errors on the subject of demons. But while the theologians of the great scholastic period were setting forth and elucidating the Catholic doctrine concerning angels and devils there was withal a darker side in the popular superstitions, and in the men who at all times continued to practise the black arts of magic, and witchcraft, and dealing with the devil. In the troubled period of the Renaissance and the Reformation there appears to have been a fresh outbreak of old superstitions and evil practices, and for a time both Catholic and Protestant countries were disturbed by the strange beliefs and the strange doings of real or supposed professors of the black arts and by the credulous and cruel persecutors who sought to suppress them. In the new age of the Revolution and the spread of practical ideas and exact methods of science it was at first thought by many that these medieval superstitions would speedily pass away. When men, materialized by the growth of wealth and the comforts of civilization, and enlightened by science and new philosophies, could scarce find faith to believe in the pure truths of revealed religion, there could be little room for any belief in the doctrines of demons. The whole thing was now rudely rejected as a dream and a delusion. Learned men marvelled at the credulity of their fathers, with their faith in ghosts, and demons, and black magic, but felt it impossible to take any serious interest in the subject in their age of enlightenment. Yet in fact there was still stranger delusion in the naive faith of the early Rationalists, who fondly fancied that they had found the key to all knowledge and that there were no things in heaven or earth beyond the reach of their science and philosophy. And much of the history of the last hundred years forms a curious comment on these proud pretentions. For far from disappearing from the face of the earth, much of the old occultism has been revived with a new vigour, and has taken new form in modern Spiritism At the same time, philosophers, historians, and men of science have been led to make a serious study of the story of demonology and occultism in past ages or in other lands, in order to understand its true significance."