The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology

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he founded the Paranormal Research Society of New England
in 1998.
FURTHER READING:
Brittle, Gerald Daniel. The Demonologist: The Extraordinary
Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Lincoln, Nebr.: An
Authors Guild BackinPrint.com Edition, 2002.
New England Society for Psychic Research. Official Web site
of Ed and Lorraine Warren. Available online. URL: http://
www.warrens.net. Downloaded January 18, 2006.
Pionzio, Melissa. “Factual Exorcism Book Evokes Past Pain.”
Hartford Courant, October 14, 2007. Available online.
URL: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19688/the-devilin-connecticut.
Downloaded August 6, 2008.
Smith, D. R. “An Interview with the Ghost Hunter: Ed Warren.”
Left Field-Paranormal Studies & Investigations.
Available online. URL: http://www.leftfield-psi.net/ghosts/
warren.html. Downloaded January 18, 2006.
Warren, Ed, and Lorraine Warren with Robert David Chase.
Ghost Hunters. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1989.
Watchers FALLEN ANGELs. The Watchers cohabited
with human women and fell from God’s grace. Watchers
are also referred to as SONS OF GOD. Their monstrous offspring,
the NEPHILIM, and the corruption the Watchers
created on Earth so revolted God that he decided to send
the great flood to destroy all life on Earth. The cohabitation
of the Sons of God and the daughters of men is
briefly described in Genesis 6:1–4.
Watchers also describes ANGELs who do not fall but
who are close to the throne of God, thus causing some
confusion as to whether they are good or bad.
1 Enoch tells in detail the story of the Watchers and
their fall. The Watchers, described as angels who are “the
children of heaven,” see the beautiful daughters of men
and desire them. They decide to take them as wives. But
their leader, SEMYAZA, expresses the fear that he alone
will be held accountable for this great sin. The angels,
who are 200 in number, swear an oath binding them all
together. Their chiefs (called chiefs of tens) who serve under
Semyaza are Arakeb, Rameel, Tamel, Ramel, Danel,
Ezeqel, Baraqyal, Asel, Armaros, Batrel, Ananel, Zaqeel,
Sasomaspweel, Kestarel, Turel, Yamayol, and Arazyal.
The Watchers descend to Earth and take the women.
Many of them commit adultery against their new wives.
Their offspring, the giant Nephilim, turn against people,
cannibalize them, and drink their blood.
The Watchers teach people secret arts such as magical
medicine, incantations, and knowledge of plants and
herbs. AZAZEL teaches the art of making weapons of war,
jewelry, and cosmetics, and dye making and alchemy.
Amasras teaches plant lore and how to perform magic.
Baraqiyal teaches astrology, Kokarerel teaches the zodiac,
Tamel teaches about the stars, and Asderel teaches about
the Moon and the deception of humans.
Later in the text, 1 Enoch gives the names of 21 chiefs
of the fallen (some angels are named more than once):
Semyaza Aristaqis
Armen Kokbael
Turel
Rumyal
Danyul Neqael
Baraqel Azazel
Armaros Betryal
Besasel Hananel
Turel
Sipwesel
Yeterel Tumael
Turel
Rumel
Azazel
Fallen angels who are known as the Five Satans:
• Yeqon, who misleads all the children of the angels,
brings them down upon the earth, and perverts
them by the daughters of the people
• Asbel, who misleads holy angels so that they will
defile their bodies by the daughters of the people
• Gaderel, who shows the children of the people all
the blows of death, who misleads Eve, and who
shows the children of the people how to make
weapons and all other instruments of war and death
• Pinene, who demonstrates to people the bitter and
the sweet, reveals to them all the secrets of wisdom,
and teaches them the secret of writing with ink and
paper, thus causing them to err through all eternity
• Kasadya, “who reveals the flagellations of all evil
including the flagellation of the souls and the
DEMONs, the smashing of the embryo in the womb
so that it may be crushed, and the flagellation of
the soul; snake bites, sun strokes, and the son of
the SERPENT whose name is Tabata” according to 1
Enoch 69:4–12
Sin, corruption, and oppression spread across the
earth. Horrified, the angels Michael, Surafel (Suriel/
Uriel), and Gabriel petition God to take action, for the
people on Earth are suffering. God declares that he will
wipe out the wicked and all life on Earth in a great flood.
He instructs Raphael to bind Azazel hand and foot and
to throw him into darkness. Raphael makes a hole in the
desert, casts Azazel into it, and covers him with sharp
rocks. God tells Gabriel to destroy the children of the
Watchers. He tells Michael to inform Semyaza that they
will die together with their wives and children in their
defilement. He is to bind them for 70 generations beneath
rocks until the day of judgment. They will then be led into
the bottom of fire, where they will be locked up in prison
and in torment forever. All those who collaborated with
the Watchers will be similarly punished. Finally, Michael
is to eradicate injustice from the face of the Earth.
The Watchers call to the prophet Enoch for help, and
he hears them in a dream vision. Upon awakening, he
tells Azazel there will be no peace for him, for a grave
judgment has come upon him. Enoch then speaks to all
the Watchers, who are full of fear and trembling. They