Re: dumb newb question: Working with Deities
No offense intended. But consider that the Christian god offers punishment and damnation in a firery Hell if you don't get saved and accept his son as your savior. Creates someone whose sole purpose is to test and try to lure you away from this God who sends destruction down upon the world with the only promise he'll not destroy it by flood again. Then offers you a better life once you die than can be offered to you while your alive but provides someone who will listen to your sins (granted church specific) and forgive you of them so you don;'t have to take responsibility for your own actions. If that's not fear driven then I really do not know what is.
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Now Demons and Daemons are something different. In that capacity I would say I do work with certain of those though it's an approach with caution working relationship. I know Hecate / Hekate will send daemons to either inspire or punish her followers. Yet that punishment is not so broad minded as much of it is derived against the right way to practice and the notion of hubris and such. I suppose one might place vanity beneath that umbrella of hubris when you consider both Hecate / Hekate and Artemis have punished vanity by either death or transformation into a lessor being for their transgressions.
I will admit I am often subjective when it comes to the term Demon and Ceremonial Magics for many times it implies the Christianized notion, well at least Solominized Goetia notion of them, and what a demon is and how we expect them to operate upon the material plain of earth. Especially painted against the back drop of agents of Satan or other Princes of Hell. Especially demons that are derived from many of the Eastern Med basin archaic gods / goddesses who were demonized by the early church though that is not so much done against more Nordic / Teutonic gods / goddesses.
I'd also use the term work with when it pertains to guides , totems, land spirits, etc as that I agree is a very different type of relationship than a divine one. Not to say as demi beings they are not divine in that sense.
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Originally posted by Rae'ya
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Now Demons and Daemons are something different. In that capacity I would say I do work with certain of those though it's an approach with caution working relationship. I know Hecate / Hekate will send daemons to either inspire or punish her followers. Yet that punishment is not so broad minded as much of it is derived against the right way to practice and the notion of hubris and such. I suppose one might place vanity beneath that umbrella of hubris when you consider both Hecate / Hekate and Artemis have punished vanity by either death or transformation into a lessor being for their transgressions.
I will admit I am often subjective when it comes to the term Demon and Ceremonial Magics for many times it implies the Christianized notion, well at least Solominized Goetia notion of them, and what a demon is and how we expect them to operate upon the material plain of earth. Especially painted against the back drop of agents of Satan or other Princes of Hell. Especially demons that are derived from many of the Eastern Med basin archaic gods / goddesses who were demonized by the early church though that is not so much done against more Nordic / Teutonic gods / goddesses.
I also use the term 'work with' when talking about other entities... animal guides, land spirits, that sort of thing. The relationships there are different again, but that's outside the scope of this thread lol.
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