“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on...that’s who we really are.” (J.K. Rowling)
A long time ago before God created the first
man and woman, Adam and Eve, He made the angels. The most beautiful of them was
named “Lucifer,” which means "light from heaven". He sparkled with
incredible brilliance. Lucifer was in charge of leading all of the praise and worship in Heaven. Thousands
of angels (and other creatures) worshipped God at His throne.
Lucifer was prideful of his position. He
thought he was great and should
be praised instead of God. Lucifer was jealous, and decided to punish God by taking
one-third of all the angels in Heaven as he left. All those angels that left Heaven
turned into Satan’s demons.
David Jeremiah had this to say: “Satan can imitate
God, but he cannot duplicate Him. God is the only One who can deliver us from
our pain and suffering.” So just like God and
His heavenly angels, Satan has his own hierarchy of demons, which is presented
below:
The First
Hierarchy
Leviathan is believed to be
the prince of the Seraphim, who tempts humans to give into heresy.
Asmodeus is considered to
tempt people to immorality.
Astaroth is believed to be
the prince of Thrones, who tempts humans for laziness.
Berith is considered to be
the prince of the Cherubim, who tempts people to be quarrelsome, and to commit
murder.
Gressil is considered to be
the third prince of Thrones, who tempts humans with impure thoughts.
Verrine tempts people with
impatience.
Sonneillon is believed to be
fourth prince of Thrones, who tempts men with hatred.
The Second
Hierarchy
Carreau (prince of Powers) tempts
people with rudeness and hardness of heart.
Carnivean (prince of Powers) tempts
men to hardheartedness and obscenity.
Oeillet (prince of Dominions)
tempts people for breaking the vow of poverty.
Rosier is considered to be
the second in the order of Dominions. He tempts humans towards sexual impurity
Verrier (prince of
Principalities) tempts men against obedience.
TheThird
Hierarchy
Belias was considered to be
the prince of Virtues. He tempts humans with arrogance, and tempts women to
raise their children without discipline. He tempts them for vanity and for
gossip during church.
Olivier is known as the
prince of the Archangels. This demon tempts men with wickedness and cruelty for
the poor.
Luvart is the prince of
Angels, and has dominion over human possession. Luvart possessed Sister Madeline during
the demon attacks on nuns in the South of France in the seventeenth century.
"Be
careful fighting someone else's demons, it might awaken your own." (Bryant
McGill)[i]
[i] Adapted from:
· “Hierarchy of Demons” by www.hierarchystructure.com
·
“The
Story of Lucifer “by Just4Kidsmagazine.com

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