Pagan and LHP ONLY: Demonolatry

[EtuMalku]

From what I heard, the original meaning was very wide, though.
It could refer to any kind of spirit, or to a deity proper, or (in Platon's texts) to one's own conscience/inner voice/higher self.


I would assume that the majority of demonolators are neither pantheistic. I think some do consider working with demons the same thing as working with parts of one's psyche (i.e. basically what you call daimon), but for most it would rather be some form of polytheism.

Then where do they belong, would you say?

 

[crossfire]

Related question: how do dæmons and instincts (unlearned behavior) compare according to Pagan traditions?

 

[Liu]

Then where do they belong, would you say?

Good question - as I said, I find both DIRs reasonable places.
I would say, let's look at hose here who do work with demons - to they tend to identify as LHPers or as Pagans or as both or neither?
Or let's just put this sub-DIR into one of the DIRs and see whether it works.

 

[Quintessence]

Considering how ill-defined contemporary Paganism is as a movement, I am hard pressed to see why one couldn't incorporate that. You'll inevitably have whiners and critics, but that happens with anything and everything you do somewhere along the lines.

Would I personally consider Demonolatry to fit within contemporary Pagan as a Pagan tradition? Nope. Demonization was a thing that came up with Abrahamic traditions sullying indigenous gods of polytheistic religions or in some cases is much more contemporary. I've classified Demonology squarely within LHP/occultism... at least if we're talking about the Beelzebub, Asmodeus and so forth sort of Demonology (I would hardly call honoring Daemons in the classical Greek sense "Demonology").

 

[Erebus]

Demonolatry doesn't neatly fit into either Paganism or LHP as far as categorizing things is concerned. It sort of sits somewhere in the middle of the two, with individual practitioners sometimes leaning more to one side than the other.

My personal view is that it doesn't matter whether you call something a god, demon, angel, elf or spirit. Call them whatever suits you best.