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The Book of Moses, included in the LDS standard works canon, references the war in heaven and Satan's origin as a fallen angel of light. [15] The concept of a war in heaven at the end of time became an addendum to the story of Satan's fall at the genesis of time—a narrative which included Satan and a third of all of heaven's angels.
[112] [113] For Augustine, the rebellion of Satan was the first and final cause of evil; thus, he rejected earlier teachings about Satan having fallen when the world was already created. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] In his Civitas Dei , he describes two cities ( Civitates ) distinct from and opposed to each other like light and darkness. [ 116 ]
The Testament of Solomon is a pseudepigraphical work, purportedly written by King Solomon, in which the author mostly describes particular demons who he enslaved to help build the temple, the questions he put to them about their deeds and how they could be thwarted, and their answers, which provide a kind of self-help manual against demonic activity.
[33] [9] [34] Jewish conceptions of Satan were impacted by Angra Mainyu, [9] [35] the Zoroastrian spirit of evil, darkness, and ignorance. [9] In the Septuagint, the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word "devil" is derived. [36]
The incarnation of the demons has been a problem in Christian demonology and theology since early times. A very early form of the incarnation of demons was the idea of demonic possession, trying to explain that a demon entered the body of a person with some purpose or simply to punish that one for some allegedly committed sin.
Vedic scriptures include a range of spirits (Vetalas, Rakshasas, Bhutas, and Pishachas) that might be classified as demons. These spirits are souls of beings that have committed certain specific sins. As a purging punishment, they are condemned to roam without a physical form for a length of time, until a rebirth.
Rosier (demon) S. Samael; Satan; X. Xaphan This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at 22:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
These illicit unions result in demonic offspring, who battle each other until they die, while the Watchers are bound in the depths of the earth as punishment. [37] In Jubilees 10:1, another angel called Mastema appears as the leader of the evil spirits. [36] He asks God to spare some of the demons, so he might use their aid to lead humankind ...