Demon

Bronze statuette of the Assyro-Babylonian demon king Pazuzu, circa 800 BC – circa 700 BC, Louvre

A demon is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore.

Quotes

• Evil power disappears
  Demons worry when the wizard is near
  He turns tears into joy
  Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by.
  • The Wizard, from the album Black Sabbath, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward

• Man's need of self-esteem entails the need for a sense of control over reality – but no control is possible in a universe which, by one's own concession, contains the supernatural, the miraculous and the causeless, a universe in which one is at the mercy of ghosts and demons, in which one must deal, not with the unknown, but with the unknowable; no control is possible if man proposes, but a ghost disposes; no control is possible if the universe is a haunted house.
  • Nathaniel Branden, "Mental Health versus Mysticism and Self-Sacrifice" (1963)

• May a cruel curse be uttered against the galla demon who has brought his hand against you.
  • Elegy on the Death of Nawirtum (3rd millennium BCE). [1]

• The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.
  • Justin Martyr. Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40

• I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too.
  • Paul of Tarsus, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 21, New International Version.

See also

• Demonic possession
• Devil
• Evil
• Satan