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Throughout history, few names have carried the weight of
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blasphemy, obsession, and fear. Like Asmodeus, he's not merely a
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figure of folklore, but one of few demons whose presence
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crosses multiple religions, cultures, and centuries.
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From ancient Zoroastrian texts, where he first emerged as a
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wrathful spirit, to the Jewish Talmud where he became Ashmadeh,
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the tempter and deceiver, and from there into Christian
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demonology, where he took his final form as Ismodius, demon
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Prince of lust, his reputation has only grown darker, more
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personal, and more dangerous. This video explores his
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existence through religious texts, banned grimoires,
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exorcist handbooks, documented possession cases, and much more.
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So join me as we open the Demonology archives.
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They descended in silence before mankind carved stone into idols
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or penned prayers and ink. They came watchers, cloaked in
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fire and shadow, bound to the high places of the world.
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According to the ancient Book of Enoch, these were the Gregory or
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Watchers, a class of angels set to observe and guide mankind.
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But in the time before time they transgressed. 200 of them, led
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by the arch rebel Samyaza, abandoned their post and
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descended upon Mount Hermon. Their oath was not to God but to
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each other, and in that blasphemous covenant they made a
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pact to take human women as wives, to blend spirit and
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flesh. The children they spawned were
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called the Nephilim, monstrous giants, savage and cursed, great
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men of renown whose bloodlines poisoned the earth.
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Among these unions, whispered in apocryphal scrolls and ancient
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oral traditions, was born something worse, something
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neither watcher nor man, something corrupt.
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Asmodeus. Though his name is absent from
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Enoch's original list of watchers, later Mystics and
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scholars across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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theorized that Asmodeus was the offspring of one of the fallen
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Grigory, an immortal woman, possibly even Neme the demon is
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daughter of Lamech. This would make Asmodeus not
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just a demon, but a hybrid of divine rebellion and human lust,
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a creature born from the first crime of heaven.
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Where others fell from grace, Asmodeus rose in wrath.
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He would become the embodiment of unsanctioned desire, of
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twisted love, and of the rage that blooms when longing goes
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unfulfilled. He was not the Lord of war, but
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he would tear hearts from chests.
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He was not the God of fire, but he would burn cities with
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seduction and vice. His earliest whispers come not
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from temples, but from ruined cities.
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Cities like Uradu, Urgharit, and Urich where once sacred rites
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devolved into blood soaked orgies and priests heard voices
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and smoke filled chambers. Mesopotamian demonology speaks
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of a Sog, a being whose name is eerily similar and who brought
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disease and madness through lustful union.
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Later scholars would retroactively associate Asmodeus
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with these early figures, but it was not until the Hebrews went
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into exile that his name was written, etched into parchment,
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sewn into folklore, and sealed behind divine fear.
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By the time of the Babylonian captivity, Asmodeus had become
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known among Jewish Mystics and scribes as Ashmadi, the demon of
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lust, destruction, and vengeance.
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Yet unlike many demons, Ashmadi has never fully been cast into
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oblivion. He was too intelligent, too
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cunning, and too ancient. He knew the tongues of angels
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and men, and he played them both against each other.
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The Talmud would describe him as king over all Shedim spirits
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that existed in the spaces between heaven and hell.
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He was not born in a single moment, but forged across
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centuries in the primal fears of childbirth, in the sins of
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forbidden desire, and in the screams of those who died not by
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sword but by temptation. He was shaped not in the
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underworld, but in humanity's reflection, a demon born from
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what men wanted and could not have, And that is what made him
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unstoppable. In the book of Tobid we are
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introduced for the first time to Asmodeus by name, for she had
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been married to 7 husbands, but the wicked demon Asmodeus had
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killed them before they had slept with her.
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Tobit 38 Asmodeus is not just a destroyer, he is the embodiment
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of obstructed love, twisted jealousy, and Rage Against holy
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union. He did not kill Sarah, he
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possessed her. Not in the sense of rotating
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heads and split tongues, but something more intimate and more
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invasive. Her soul had been shadowed by
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him. The demon of lust made her his
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own, and anyone who dared approach her and desire was
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slain before the ACT could be completed.
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The text implies his wrath was both personal and ritualistic.
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He struck 7 times the biblical number of completion, covenant,
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and divine judgment, and each time the act of sacred union was
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corrupted. What should have been holy
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became cursed. When Tobias, the son of Tobin,
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journeys to Medea to retrieve his father's silver in Mary,
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Sarah, the Archangel Raphael appears in disguise, sent by God
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to aid him. Raphael does not simply offer
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moral support, he gives Tobias a weapon, a ritual.
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Take the heart and liver of the fish and burn it to produce
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smoke in the essence of the man or woman afflicted by a demon or
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evil spirit, and the affliction will flee Tobit 6-7.
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Here we are given one of the earliest formal exorcism rites
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recorded in ancient literature. Tobias follows the command, and
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on the night of the wedding he enters Sarah's chamber and burns
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the entrails of a fish, the smoke of which repels as Modius.
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The demon smelled the odor, and he fled to the remotest parts of
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Egypt. There the Angel Raphael bound
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him. Tobet 83.
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The Book of Tobet is not often classified as horror, yet its
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roots are soaked in dread. A demon who kills in the bed
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chamber, a woman haunted, shunned and shamed for the
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deaths that she did not 'cause, and a divine messenger engaging
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in spiritual warfare on Earth's threshold.
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And most chilling of all, Asmodeus is not destroyed.
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He is banished, bound for a time, but never slain, never
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cast into oblivion. The implication remains that he
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still waits just outside the Vale.
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In rabbinical and Talmudic depictions, it is said that even
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kings must kneel before him at least once.
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He was not born of clay nor crowned by blood.
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His throne was made of smoke and his crown of serpents.
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His Kingdom had no borders, only victims, and once, just once, he
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sat on Solomon's throne. In the great sea of Jewish
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folklore, the figure known as Ashma Day emerges not simply as
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a demon of lust, but as a being of immense intelligence, pride
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and cunning. Unlike the beasts of Pagan
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myths, Ashma Day was rational, calculating and terrifying.
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In his human like craftiness, he did not just haunt, he
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outwitted. And he did not just tempt, He
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ruled. Ashmond Day appears vividly in
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the Babylonian Talmud. The tale is as bizarre as it is
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unnerving. King Solomon, known for his
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divine wisdom, sought to build the Temple in Jerusalem.
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But he learned that to cut the sacred stones without
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desecrating them with iron tools, he needed a mythical
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object, the shamir, a worm or stone that could cleave rock
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without metal. The only being who knew its
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whereabouts was Ashmaday. With the help of his captain,
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Solomon lured Ashmaday into a trap using chains engraved with
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a divine name and a wineskin of strong drink.
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Ashmaday was captured and brought to Solomon in these
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chains, but what followed was no simple imprisonment.
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For years, Ashmadeh served Solomon, offering insights,
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riddles and strange knowledge. But behind his compliance was
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hatred and calculation. One day, as a show of confidence
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or divine arrogance, Solomon removed Ashmadeh's chains and
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the demons struck. Ashmadeh hurled Solomon hundreds
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of miles from Jerusalem, stole his ring, which bore the name of
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God, and took the King's appearance.
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For 40 days, some say longer, Ashmade sat on the throne in
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Solomon's form, issuing decrees, seducing women and spreading
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chaos. Beneath the guise of divine
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authority, Solomon wandered in exile, mad, barefoot, ranting of
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a demon wearing his face. Few believed him, and only after
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great tribulation did Solomon retrieve the ring, cast Ashma
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Day back into the underworld, and reclaim his throne.
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This tale, preserved not in Scripture but an oral rabbinic
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tradition, is no simple fable. It contains layers of cosmic
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horror. The wisest man alive is
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overthrown by betrayal. A demon's cunning, a creature
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that understands sacred law yet perverts it for his own mockery
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and reminder that even the great are vulnerable to spiritual
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overthrow. Unlike other demons, Ashma Day
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doesn't need claws or fire. He needs only a moment of pride,
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a misplaced trust to take everything.
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Strangely, some mystical writings claim that Ashmade
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assisted in the building of Solomon's temple.
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Once subdued, his knowledge of divine order, geometry, and
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sacred construction was unparalleled even among angels.
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This places him in the paradoxical position of both
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enemy and contributor to holy things.
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Could it be that evil was woven into the foundations of the
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Temple itself? Some cabalists say yes, that the
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Temple was built not just of stone and cedar but of
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compromise, that beneath its gold lay secrets, and that one
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of the secrets, or a demon's smile.
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In Islamic lore there seems to be a jinn connection.
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They are made of smokeless fire, and they see you from where you
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cannot see them. That is the ancient warning
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found in the Koran, of creatures called jinn, created long before
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mankind, invisible and burning. Among them walk the chiatin.
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The devils rebels against divine order, and within this fire lit
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pantheon shadows of Hismodius linger.
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Though his name is never directly spoken, yet he is there
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by form, function and fear. The Quran does not mentioned
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Asmodius directly, nor is there an exact linguistic counterpart,
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but scholars, particularly in Persian, Syriac, and esoteric
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Islamic commentary, have speculated that certain jinn in
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Shayaten are avatars of echoes of the same primordial spirit.
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In Sarah al Baraka 21-O2A chilling account emerges.
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And they followed that the devils had recited during the
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reign of Solomon. It was not Solomon who
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disbelieved, but the devils disbelieved teaching people
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magic. The verse continues with the
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mention of Babel or Babylon and Harut and Marut, angels who
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taught mankind how to summon spirits and manipulate the
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hidden. This was not divine knowledge,
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it was forbidden power. The devil spread it among men,
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whispering corruption in teaching them to separate
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husband and wife. To those with Christian
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backgrounds, this line sounds eerily familiar.
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It mirrors Asmodeus's actions in the Book of Tobid, tearing
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marriages apart through demonic intervention.
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Though the Quran does not name him, the spiritual profile
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matches almost precisely in Islamic folklore.
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Jin can be good, evil or neutral.
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They live, love, marry and die, but they also possess, deceive
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and destroy. Among them are types associated
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with sexual assault and seduction.
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The Czar, for example, is a class of spirit in North Africa
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and in the Middle East that is believed to cause illness in
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women, often manifesting through sexual dreams, infertility or
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hysteria. Another infamous figure is the
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Ifrit, a powerful, malevolent class of gin often associated
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with fire, ruin and rage. The effort has long been invoked
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in horror tales as being of unrelenting violence and
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cruelty, appearing in both the Quran and countless Arabic folk
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tales. In some apocryphal Persian
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texts, a demon known as Ashmadai or Ishem emerges.
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These writings describe Ishem as a demon of wrath, a being who
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strikes lovers and ruins families.
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He is opposed by Surasha, the Angel of obedience, mirroring
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Raphael's opposition to Ismodius in the Book of Tobid.
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He is also a demon that is found in grimoires.
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By the time the Middle Ages bled into the Renaissance, Asmodius
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had fully emerged from scripture and folklore into Western
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ceremonial magic. No longer a vague adversary or
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whispered fear, he became a named and ranked demon of the
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Infernal hierarchy. Complete with symbols, powers,
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and prescribed summoning riots, he had become something far more
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dangerous, a God for sale. Written sometime between the
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17th and early 18th centuries, The Lesser Key of Solomon is a
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grim compilation of magical invocations, demon summoning
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rituals and protective seals. It codifies 72 demons said to
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have been bound by King Solomon himself in the 1st and most
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infamous section known as the Arsegoesha as Modius appears as
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the 32nd Spirit, ranked as a powerful king under the rule of
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a Maiman, A demonic Prince of the East.
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He is strong and powerful and appears like 3 heads, the first
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like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram.
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He has the tail of a serpent and from his mouth issues flames.
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He rides upon an infernal dragon and bears a Lance with a banner.
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Asmodeus is associated with lust, luxury, and debauchery,
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and is said to teach arithmetic, astronomy, geometry, and
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handicraft, a clear echo of his role in Solomon's Temple, an
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earlier Jewish lore. Yet beneath A scholarly surface
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lies a disturbing warning. He must be approached with great
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caution, for if the conjurer is not guarded by the proper rights
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and protections of the angels, Asmodeus will deceive, destroy
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or possess. His wrath is legendary, and his
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contempt for weakness, especially that of the conjurer,
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is absolute. In 1818, French occultist
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Jacques Colleen Polansi published the dictionary
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Infernal, a dark encyclopedia of demons, complete with grotesque
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illustrations. By the 1863 edition, Asmodeus
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was featured prominently. Asmodeus is the demon of
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lechery. He preserves the secrets of
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pleasure houses temps men into impure acts, and rules over
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gambling dens and corrupt courtships.
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Duplancy's illustrations shows a monstrous being with clawed
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feet, a crown and wings holding a scepter, half king and half
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beast. He was no longer the subtle
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spirit of Tobit or the manipulative Ashmidae of the
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Talmud. He was now a fully integrated
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figure of Christian demonology, adopted into the growing Canon
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of Hell's nobility. The Grimroorium Virum, an 18th
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century Italian grimoire falsely attributed to Solomon, focuses
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more explicitly on practical demon summoning.
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Asmodeus is listed here not just as a name, but as a summonable
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entity through invocations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek.
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In this text, his role is erotic and violent.
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He grants invisibility during adultery.
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He can instill uncontrollable desire in any target.
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These rituals are marked by high risk.
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Blood, mirrors and sacrificial fire are commonly required.
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Should the ritual falter, it warns Asmodeus may stay and not
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as a servant. Asmodeus also appears during the
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Inquisition in witchcraft confessions.
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Beginning in the late 15th century and reaching its
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horrifying peak in the 16th and 17th centuries, the European
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witch hunt swept across Germany, France, Scotland and Spain like
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a plague. Inquisitors under both the
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Church and state extracted testimonies, often under brutal
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torture, from accused witches, heretics, and apostates.
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These confessions followed a disturbingly consistent pattern.
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Packs signed in blood, desecrated crosses, naked
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gatherings under the full moon, and, most disturbingly, sexual
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intercourse with demons. The demon named most frequently
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in cases involving lust, fertility, adultery and sexual
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assault was Osmodius. In 1589 in France, a midwife
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named Jean Rebelay was accused of causing miscarriages,
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blighting crops and leading young men into sexual ruin.
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Under torture, she confessed to nightly visitations by a black
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ram headed demon who mounted her in her sleep and whispered the
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tongues of Babel into her ear. She named him Asma Day.
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In 1611 in Bamberg, Germany, Brother Klaus, A monk, was
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charged with breaking his vows of chastity.
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He claimed in court that he had been seduced by a female demon,
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but that her Master, a crowned beast with a serpent's tail,
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washed from the shadows and sometimes took her place.
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His name, Klaus said, was Ismodius, and he came to test
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holy men. In both cases, the accused were
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executed, burned alive, their screams masked by hymns.
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The infamous Inquisitor's Manual, the Malaeus Maleficarum
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or the Hammer of Witches, written in 1487, was compiled by
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Henry Kramer, played a pivotal role in reshaping how demons
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were perceived during trials. Later versions and commentaries
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began associating the sexual tempter figure with Ismodius,
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especially when witches were accused of luring priests into
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scandal, causing infertility, or having demonic offspring.
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Some Inquisitors even declared that Ismodius could enter a
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man's seed corrupted and thus pollute bloodlines.
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The idea was simple and horrifying.
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A demon could possess a generation from the womb.
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By the 17th century, sexual demons were commonly categorized
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into two groups, succubi, which were female demons who seduced
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men, and incubi, male demons who assaulted women.
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As Modius was said to command both, he did not appear in every
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ritual, but where lust and shame intersected, there he reigned.
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Victims often claimed that a presence entered their bedroom
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at night, that they would have dreams of being violated, often
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with animalistic features present such as horns, scales or
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hooves, the sensation of paralysis and burning, and
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unwanted arousal. From the late 1800s through the
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early 20th century, Europe experienced what scholars call
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the occult revival. Disillusioned with institutional
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religion, intellectuals and Mystics turned towards forgotten
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gods, spirits and ancient demons.
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They did not deny the supernatural, but they did
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invite it. Orders like the Hermetic Order
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of the Golden Dawn, the Esophical Society, Ordo Templi
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Orientis, or the OTO and Fraternal Lodges drew from old
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grim wars like the Goisha, the Grimurorium Virum in the
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Dictionary Infernal, reviving their rituals under the veil of
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high ceremonial magic. And in many of these texts one
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name was marked with lust and danger.
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Asmodeus within these orders as Modius was reimagined less as a
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grotesque monster and more as a symbolic force representing
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libido, hidden knowledge through desire and wrath turned into
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willpower. His traditional image of being 3
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headed, crowned riding a dragon was reduced to sigils, tarot
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archetypes and planetary associations.
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But beneath this intellectual repackaging, Asmodius was still
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dangerous. His rituals, preserved in
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grimoire traditions, demanded nudity, sexual acts,
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bloodletting, or abstinence prior to invocation.
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For some, these were metaphors, for others they were literal.
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Perhaps no occult figure flirted more directly with Asmodius than
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Aleister Crowley, the founder of Thelema and self styled Great
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Beast 666. Though Crowley rarely invoked
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Asmodeus by name in his public writings, private journals such
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as The Magical Record of the Beast included coded references
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to the King of Lust and Amodeo, a spirit bound to the sex ritual
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known as Lieber XLIX. Crowley's magic involved sex as
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a sacrament, including same sex riots, tantric inversion, and
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ritual orgasm, all concepts that mirrored Asmodian mythos.
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Interruption of sacred union, twisting of desire into power,
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and knowledge gained through pleasure and taboo.
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It is widely believed that OTO initiates were taught rituals
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and which Asmodius was invoked directly mast in layers of
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Hebrew, Latin and Gematria. These rites did involve sex,
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fire and invocations of Mars. Crowley himself wrote that the
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pleasures of Ismodius are the keys to unlocking the Temple of
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Man. He did not fear Ismodius.
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He worshipped what he believed Ismodius represented.
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Separately, legends began to circulate tying Ismodius to
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Freemasonry, especially in French and Scottish traditions.
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In particular, the Chateau de Ranale Chateau in southern
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France, a mystery rich estate allegedly tied to the Knights
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Templar, became the focal point of Asmodian myth.
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In the 1890's, the Catholic priest renovated the church on
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the estate and installed a statue of Ismodius at the
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entrance, one that was grotesque, hunched and holding
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holy water. This image of a demon inside a
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church ignited a century of speculation.
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Did this priest discover forbidden Templar knowledge?
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Was the statue symbolic of the church's secret pact with
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infernal powers? Or did he, as some believed,
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engage in ritual worship of Ismodius in exchange for sudden,
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inexplicable wealth? No confession was ever made, but
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the rumors, rituals at midnight, gold in the crypt, and orgies
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within spread like fire and dry hay.
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There are other notable possession cases as well, in
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which Asmodius is believed to be tied to.
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In South Africa, a 16 year old orphan named Clara Germanicile
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began exhibiting symptoms that baffled missionaries and
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physicians alike. The records written by nuns of
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Saint Michael's Mission in Natal reported that Clara understood
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languages that she had never studied.
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She displayed supernatural strength, throwing nuns across
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rooms. She revealed the private sins of
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those around her, and she had a violent aversion to holy water,
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crucifixes and Latin prayers. Most disturbing, the
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manifestations were described as sexual and blasphemous.
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She often spoke in a male voice and made obscene gestures toward
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priests, even during prayer. Though no specific demon was
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named in the surviving documents, later Catholic
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scholars and demonologists, especially in post Vatican 2
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studies, have speculated that the characteristics aligned
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closely with Ismodius. Clara's exorcism lasted 2 days,
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and witnesses claimed that a dark, smoky figure left her body
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during the final rite. Another case, one that I have
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covered on this channel, is also loosely associated with Ismodius
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in West Pittston, PA. Jack and Janet Smurl and their
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children claimed they were terrorized by a demonic entity
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for over 15 years. Their story became a national
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sensation, eventually drawing the attention of Ed and Lorraine
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Warren, the famed demonologists. Their activity reported foul
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odors of rotting flesh, violent sexual assaults on both Jack and
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Janet, growls, and shadows moving through rooms in a black
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mass that would manifest and vanish on command.
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The Rain warns stated in interviews that the entity was
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not human and that it was not just a haunting but a demonic
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infestation. Though the Warrens avoided
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naming this spirit publicly, speculative connections in later
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books and occult forums pointed towards Asmodeus.
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This was due to the sexual assault of both genders,
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destruction of intimacy in the home, and the targeting of
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religious individuals. Considering Jack was a devout
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Catholic, the Church eventually sanctioned an exorcism, and
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though the results were unclear, the family moved and the
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phenomena ceased. In modern Catholic exorcism
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handbooks, Asmodeus is listed among spirits of impurity.
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Priests are advised to watch for the following signs during
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possession. Cases that suggest his presence.
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Obscene speech or gestures during holy rites.
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Sexual nightmares involving beast like creatures, sudden
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divorce, adultery or abuse within families under spiritual
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attack, fixations on mirrors, self-image or nudity in Father
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Antonio Fortia's Field Notes. A leading Vatican trained
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exorcist, he recounts a case of a Spanish woman who spoke in
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ancient Hebrew and claimed to be the consort of kings, the one
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who breaks their beds and names. She repeatedly referenced the
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burning throne and demanded blood and wine.
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Fortea never publicly confirmed the demon's identity, but in a
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footnote he marked the reference C ismodius Tobid 3/8 in 2004.
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A New England based clinical psychologist by the name of
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Doctor Keith Callahan privately shared notes with the Catholic
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Diocese involving a patient given the pseudonym Alyssa.
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Her case presented as hypersexual behavior followed by
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intense guilt, voices urging her to seduce her father, priest and
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therapist, reoccurring dreams of a horned man laying beside her
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in bed, and sudden violent outbursts during religious
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exposure. Doctor Callahan, an agnostic,
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began documenting what he believed were signs of demonic
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attachment. When he administered an EEG scan
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during one of Alyssa's states, the results resembled epileptic
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seizure activity. Yet neurologists found no
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medical 'cause she later attempted to UN alive herself,
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according to the diocesan notes, and she underwent a private
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right of deliverance, not a full exorcism but a sanctioned prayer
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session. Her symptoms improved only after
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she renounced all sexual contact and spiritual practices,
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including yoga and meditation. Doctor Callahan's private
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conclusion, whether psychosis or spiritual.
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This patient did not invent the name Esmodius.
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She had never heard it before, but she drew his sigil
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perfectly. In the modern day, Asmodius has
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taken a new form, one born not in parchment but in pixels.
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Online forums like our Occult and even private Discord servers
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often report Ouija board sessions gone wrong, with the
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name Asmodius spelling itself out repeatedly.
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Shadow figures during masturbation or pornography
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withdrawal. Teenagers performing ritual
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challenges on TikTok involving packs and summoning rights.
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Some of the most chilling modern claims here to quote.
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I felt something climb into bed with me.
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It felt like a man. It whispered things that I
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wanted to hear. But I wasn't alone.
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After I did the ritual, I couldn't stop thinking about
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hurting the people I love. And I asked for power.
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But now I see him everywhere, reflected in glass and strangers
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and in myself. Whether hoax, hysteria or true
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spiritual contact, the mythos is certainly very alive.
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There are mentions of Ismodius during the Satanic Panic, as
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well as very real cult and occult related crimes and their
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court documents, but I think I'm going to save that for another
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separate video so that way I can do a full, proper deep dive into
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what all that contains. But given all that we've delved
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into today, if someone's obsession, pain, and violation
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feel external, if their healing comes through exercising a name,
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does it matter whether Ismodius truly exists?
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Or perhaps worse, does it make him more real if enough people
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believe? He does.
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Asmodeus survives not because of belief, but because of behavior.
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He feeds on repetition, the jealousy, the lust, the wrath.
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We hide behind poetry and psychology.
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Whether you believe in demons or not, one truth remains.
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The effects attributed to Asmodeus are real, and sometimes
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so is he. Thank you guys so much for
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joining me into this deep dive of this very creepy demon here
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on another episode of the Demonology Archives.
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