This blog is going to be a small dive into my personal beliefs and practice. I’m going to be talking about my worship of demons, how I approach it, and why. I focus heavily on self-growth and shadow work on my path, and you can see that heavily in my worship. I follow the left-hand path and focus a lot on myself, and how I can better myself and my life. My worship is no exception to this, and I have found that Demons are happy to help you grow if you’re willing to hear their lessons and accept the tools they’re willing to give you. It has been a long path of healing my own wounds and taking back the power I have in myself. And it will still be longer, I have grown enough to know that I will always be learning, and healing. There is not an end of the cycle, only the continuance of growing pains. Please keep in mind this is my beliefs and my worship, you do not have to worship this way, I am more so sharing my preference and approach.
Demon Worship
Worshiping Demons can be very rewarding, because there’s often a push on personal growth. You are not asked to grow-you are told you will. Whatever you ask to build they will offer you the tools, but you will be expected to use them. The Demonic Divine have a way of holding up a mirror to you and showing you all the sleeping wounds and ignored scars. You will be told to sit with them and use the tools to overcome them. You will see yourself laid bare, exposing all of the hidden aches and forgotten pains. Every pit of anger, each lake of sorrow. Even the bittersweet memories of childhood will be combed out of the dust. And this can be daunting, feel impossible. It is fully possible. When you offer devotion to a Demon, you are offering devotion to yourself. Your body is a temple-your mind is a gauntlet.
The journey you will walk will be well worth it in the end. As for exact details of that worship it will depend a lot on the path you wish to take, and who you wish to offer your devotion to. To many this is a very daunting task, but you likely already feel the pull towards a specific Demonic figure. Explore that pull, look into who they are, what they stand for, what they rule over. If you do not feel a pull to anyone, think about the things you wish to work on in yourself, and seek out the energy you wish to bring. What that you will experience can differ as there are many different Demonic figures, each with different focuses and approaches. You will get the feel for it once you let yourself embrace it.
My Approach and how I found it
Now getting into how I approach demon worship. I want to be upfront and clear that a lot of this is my personal preference, and I will be using a mix of personal experience and well-known information. I am also not telling you must do it this way, but for me this path has helped me grow and heal in ways I never dreamed I could. And that happened because I began to recognize my own power in my life and I began to apply what I needed mentally across the board in my life, even spiritually. But this made sense for me, and it’s been how I’ve done it ever since. Even if you just take a concept or an idea from this you feel will work, I will have succeeded in teaching you something here.
So, when I first started exploring the world of Demonolatry, I had come across the Binsfeld Classification. This was, similar to the Lanterne of Light, a classification built off the ‘Seven Deadly Sins.’ There were many different classifications, but this one had stuck out more to me. Binsfeld did have different demons listed for the sins than the Lanterne of Light, and I will list it below.
| Sin | Demon |
| Greed | Mammon |
| Wrath | Satan |
| Pride | Lucifer |
| Gluttony | Beelzebub |
| Envy | Leviathan |
| Lust | Asmodeus |
| Sloth | Belphegor |
At that point in my life there was a lot going on and this made me sit down, and think about what I considered sin. I grew up in a relatively non-standard-religious household, a lot of my family practiced witchcraft in some form. One side of my family was heavily native and still practiced as they always had, and the other half was full of witches, pagans, and more. So, sin was not something I had often thought of or focused on. I knew the whole point of them was a mark of wrongdoing and to be punished. But I had never thought about the concept, and now looking into demons I had all the reason to sit with it and mull over how I see sin, how I would apply the concept of sin to my own life. And I saw wounds.
I have my own story that we won’t get into, but I knew many of these sins, and began to look at them more so as wounds. In my own life thinking back to when I would express something like wrath, where did it come from? I was wounded. I didn’t know how to control my anger or my mouth and often acted out of that anger, with the aim to hurt those who angered me. The wrath wasn’t the cause of the wound, more so the symptom of it. And I could see many aspects of my life where I was wounded in these areas and needed to strive for better balance. So that’s what I sought out, to balance and heal these wounds.
I had them, I existed with them. These were just feelings, a symptom of the human condition. Who has not lusted after someone or something? Who hasn’t gorged on food or laid in bed all day? I saw no reason to punish these-but I did see balance. All of these things are bad if you do them too much. But it’s not any better to neglect them entirely either. Each sin was just something that needed balance in your life to be healthy. Something you could even enjoy if you did the internal work to enjoy them and live peacefully with them. And that is when I began to worship Demons as Lords of this Balance.
But I didn’t limit these wounds to these specific seven sins. While the Binsfeld Classification led to think of sin and what it meant for me, I did not believe all human issues came specifically for the Seven Deadly Sins, and I was aware they weren’t the only sins. So, I did not limit myself in my worship to these specific demons. Realistically, everyone will have a different balance, a different wound. The Demonic figure you relate with the most is likely not going to be for the same reasons as myself. This path was a lot of shadow work, and that is going to be a deeply personal practice.
To me, wounds are a good way to describe the lack of balance, but I wouldn’t see the Demons as Lords of the Wounds but instead of the Balance. Which is where a lot of my overall worship took me, to achieve balance and healing the old wounds I let fester on my mind and body. And one by one I was able to limit my infections and save myself from the growing turmoil I allowed to build within me. I became a person again.
Shadow Work and its Importance to My Path
Shadow work is where we get into the meat of my worship. If you haven’t gotten into Shadow work, it’s focus is sitting with your shadow self, and pulling those gritty bits of inner emotion you’ve hidden deep within yourself. It is the examination and inventory of the deep-seated roots that have taken hold to protect a version of you.
Journaling was a big start, but a hard habit to build. I would focus by writing about something I like that happened and why I liked it, and then something I disliked and why I disliked it. Over time it became easier, and I’d branch out into other topics, if I was having a stressful day, and genuinely just journal my thoughts and feelings. I used this to try and highlight areas I could help myself and adjust thinking or recognize harmful patterns. This was very helpful and gave me a decent foundation to keep up my shadow work.
To start with an example, I grew up in poverty. I grew up to have a relatively unhealthy relationship with money because of this. I would cling onto any money I had, but once I started spending it was like I had no ability to stop. This was a cycle where I knew I had grown this unhealthy relationship with money and needed to work towards something different. I would look to Mammon to meditate and try to learn where the roots of my issues were and how I could work on this aspect in my life. I would work towards trying to find where the roots were, what my fears were under the surface level reactions, and how to help ease my mind on them.
It took me a lot of introspection before I finally realized my saving and spending habits came from my own insecurities with money, and the fear I wouldn’t be able to do that stuff later if I didn’t do it then. Addressing this gave ma new outlook, and I’ve been able to limit and control my spending much more than I’ve been able to in my life. Because I had finally addressed it at the root of the issue, which was the fear of constant financial insecurity, and not being able to afford nice things long term. Which caused me to not be able to afford nice things long term.
Now obviously it wasn’t like this solved all my life problems and I became a millionaire overnight thanks to Mammon-but I do have a proper savings set up, that I never dip into unless it’s what it’s planned for. I am financially secure and have been able to get myself to a place where I have a high understanding of finances, how they work and why, and why my finances look the way they do with his guidance and help.
I had a similar process with each demon, but pacing is important through all of this. I would work with the demons to try and work through this inner turmoil. I’d meditate on their domains, and seek to understand myself in these concepts. To try and understand why I had the wounds I did, and how I could best try and fix them. But most importantly, I put work into stopping these bad habits. My mind had become a gauntlet to traverse, and my body a temple I was honoring. I had to let go of a lot of my habits that were no longer serving me, or adding to my life. Derogatory remarks towards myself, treating my body in unhealthy ways, negative coping skills like smoking. None of these were things that actively helped me, or influenced me for better.
Now while I cannot tell you this will be the perfect path for you, and how you should worship demons-this path has been very eye opening to me and helped me stop doing a lot of the things I wanted to stop doing. I was not nice to my body or myself, I had no solid coping mechanisms, and I couldn’t communicate my feelings to those around me. I was agoraphobic and reclusive, depressed, and angry. All because I had these deep-seated wounds that I was unable to look at and address.
Patience
Between the shadow work and the Demons, I devoted myself to, I have begun to find more balance in my life. I consider myself lucky to walk the path that I walk. I cannot promise it will help everyone, or that it will be the right fit for you. But I can say that this is something that’s helped me a lot, and that I feel very solid in my beliefs to this day. It is hard to put it all into words exactly, but in a quicker view this is a decent break down on why I address demons the way I do, and why I work with them the way I do. I do lean heavy towards shadow work and will show bias towards paths that lead to self-growth than anything else. But it took a lot of patience for me to get to this point, and it wasn’t overnight. The most frustrating part of this all was I simply had to wait.
This isn’t to say I do nothing else, but it is the focus of my worship and works into a lot of my core beliefs and views. When it comes to the magic side of things I do take a different approach, which you will likely see when you see me talking about that side of my path.
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