Demonology

We’re most familiar with genies, or djinni, as characters in fables and children’s stories. In Middle Eastern and Islamic mythology, they are demon-like spirits. Just folklore, right? But is it possible that these spirits are real? Ramona is convinced they are. She may have encountered such an entity one strange day that has haunted her ever since. This is Ramona’s story.My story begins in 2002 when I was at college studying. As I was attending a city college, there was a large mix of people and I really enjoyed the diversity.There were people of all different races and religions who attended the college and I found the environment very pleasant. There was an acceptance and warmth at thecollege that I found refreshing.

Nobody judged anyone; they just accepted them as they were. I had been attending the college for three months when I started working on a project with one of the other students, Hamzah, who was an Arab. As I got to know him, he told me that he came from a Muslim family. One day while we were working, I noticed another Arab-looking student across the hallway. I turned to Hamzah and said "Oh, is he one of your friends?" Hamzah looked up and saw the man in question. His expression changed instantly from smiling and kind to a seething, hateful look. I was shocked and asked him if he was alright. He turned to me and stared, with his dark eyes fixing me with a meaningful glare. "That man is trouble," he hissed vindictively. "Just make sure you have nothing to do with him! He isa very, very bad man. Have nothing to do with him!" I looked down at my arm, which Hamzah was now holding very tightly. "You're hurting my arm!" I stammered, terrified. The hateful look on Hamzah's face dissolved and he let go of me and seemed mortified. He apologized profusely, and there were tears in his eyes. He was genuinely sorry for what he had done. I wondered what on earth had worried Hamzah so much about this man. Hamzah was always so polite, modest and gentle; he never said a bad word about anyone. Even during confrontations and arguments, he was polite and gentlemanly, and never raised his voice or became aggressive with anyone. I desperately wanted to ask Hamzah why he had reacted this way. What had this man done to offend him? But after he had behaved this way, I was quite hesitant to broach the subjectagain. ......

Many people in the North are fearful about a spate of incidents where what they call demons are terrorising people with mysterious phenomena. More than 10 pastors and school authorities are struggling to deal with cases of bewitchment at schools and in villages.A 17-year-old schoolgirl from Oshidhiya village in Ohangwena Region, in Grade 8 at Ozizi Combined School, says she cannot wear clothing because it catches fire spontaneously.Johannes Nghidipo (21) from Elyalyatika village in the Omusati Region is in the Oshakati Hospital with feet so burnt that theymay have to be amputated.And 41 schoolchildren - 39 girls and two boys - at Mumbwenge Combined School near Oshigambo in Ohangwena are falling to the ground in school, screaming for Satan to leave them alone."We really do not know what to do," Helena Makili, the Principal of Mumbwenge Combined School, told The Namibian yesterday.She said that the whole school - 514 pupils from Grade 1 to 10, 16 teachers, two cleaners and a secretary - is stunned by the phenomenon."This has never happened at our school and we are praying to our Lord to stop these demons as soon as possible," Makali said.She said the incidents started on July 8 among children in Grade 3and it has now spread to other classes, except in Grade 1 and 10."We have reported the incident to our School Inspector, Linus Nakamwe, and to our Director of Education for Ohangwena region, Josia Udjombala, who still has not come to see us," she said.The school has called in parents and had meetings, and then decided to take the concerned children to Onandjokwe Hospital, where no illness was found.

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There have always been those who are attracted to the ‘Dark Side’, usually as an act of rebellion or through ignorance. Sometimes, a simple misunderstanding can be enough to divert an otherwise logical person’s morality to malelovance.But what if the real evil is almost universally worshipped as good? What if, through centuries of persecution, the mephitic has subdued the majority into a numbed, blind belief of which any questioning incurs retribution?An odd state of affairs was posed to me recently concerning a young lady’s slip into the darker realms. Through misguided counsel, the young lady in question began to associate with atruly heinous figure, namely, one Ialdabaoth.

For reasons unclear at the present, her adopted (or perhaps imposed) circle of friends led her to a bizarre form of “Gnosticism”.. they presented her with the infamous celebrity of the Demiurge, the Creator of the Physical, and she embraced him with open arms. This acceptance of Chaos, illusion and insane jealousy was chosen for all the wrong reasons (if there ARE any right ones). Little does she realize it but this young lady has chosen, unwittingly, to worship the God of Jews and Christians alike. The Judeo-Christian God, evil? I hear you cry. Never! He is the God of forgiveness and love! Nay, reply I – he is the same as Ialdabaoth: an aberrant, abhorrent, genocidal maniac. But it is the devil that is evil, you retort. And in that, you arewrong. We do not even have to resort to the Gnostic gospels or any other arcane literature to see this. Got a Bible handy? Jehovah, the self-proclaimed god of the Israelites (and of no other tribe, let’s make that clear), appeared a few thousand years ago, according to the Bible. For the sake of argument, I’ll ignore the fact that his name changes and that he goes from being plural (Elohim) to singular (El), and that his main preoccupation is that his tribe does not worship any other gods, even though he repeatedly states that he, as an Omnipotent Deity, exists alone. No, I’ll skip that and instead compare what the God of Goodness has done, and what the foul Satan (his apparent opposite) has done. Again, for the sake of argument, I’ll not cite the different names and descriptions of the devil as that may confuse the reader intobelieving......

by Alan G. Hefner
A female demon of the night who supposedly flies around searching for newborn children either to kidnap or strangle them. Also, she sleeps with men to seduce them into propagating demon sons. Legends told about Lilith are ancient. The rabbinical myths of Lilith being Adam's first wife seem to relate to the Sumero-Babylonian Goddess Belit-ili, or Belili. To the Canaanites, Lilith was Baalat, the "Divine Lady." On a tablet from Ur, ca. 2000 BCE, she was addressed as Lillake.

One story is that God created Adam and Lilith as twins joined together at the back. She demanded equality with Adam, failing to achieve it, she left him in anger. This is sometimes accompanied by a Muslim legend that after leaving Adam Lilith slept with Satan, thus creating the demonic Djinn. In another version of the myth of Lilith, she was Adam's first wife before Eve. Adam married her because he became tired of coupling with animals, a common Middle-Eastern herdsmen practice, though the Old Testament declared it a sin (Deuteronomy 27:21). Adam tried to make Lilith lie beneath him during sexual intercourse. Lilith would not meet this demand of male dominance. She cursed Adam and hurried to her home by the Red Sea.

Adam complained to God who then sent three angels, Sanvi, Sansanvi and Semangelaf, to bring Lilith back to Eden. Lilith rebuffed the angels by cursing them. While by the Red Sea Lilith became a lover to demons and producing 100 babies a day. The angels said that God would take these demon children away from her unless she returned to Adam. When she did not return, she was punished accordingly. And, God also gave Adam the docile Eve.

According to some Lilith's fecundity and sexual preferences showed she was a Great Mother of settled agricultural tribes, who resisted the invasions of the nomadic herdsmen, represented by Adam. It is felt the early Hebrews disliked the Great Mother who drank the blood of Abel, the herdsman, after being slain by the elder god of agriculture and smithcraft, Cain (Genesis 4:11). Lilith's Red Sea is but another version of Kali Ma's Ocean of Blood, which gave birth to all things but needed periodic sacrificial replenishment.