Forbidden Mysteries of Faery Witchcraft by Storm Faerywolf

Author:Storm Faerywolf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: CVR01122018;faery witchcraft;forbidden mysteries of fairy witchcraft;fairy witchcraft;faery tradition;fairy tradition;storm faerywolf;storm fairywolf;pagan;paganism;witch;witchcraft;CVR08292018
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-10-02T17:34:44+00:00

The Demon Work

In Faery Tradition, there is much work done around demons and Demons alike. In the early 1980s within the coven Korythalia, there came into being a body of material collectively called “the Demon Work,” which has continued its use in those lineages that stem from Bloodrose. This work borrows ideas from those in Ceremonial Magic, and seeks to identify and transform the relationship to one’s personal demons, which are treated largely as Demons in a ritual context.

This work has generally been given later in the training, after the student has had ample time to work with our various tools and inner contacts. The work itself has consisted of the teacher guiding the student into a space in which they summon their personal demons—often with very specific visualizations—which are the embodiments of imbalances, impurities, and blocks as expressed through each of the five elements. In the Hidden Temple of a particular element, the Watcher and the Well would be invoked along with the elemental tool in order to assist in the demonic confrontation as well as any subsequent work in how to actually deal with it.

Its emergence into the praxis of Faery was met with some resistance, however. Victor Anderson reportedly warned against the practice, specifically the assumption that we each already have demons in each of the five elements, and warned that a demon could be accidentally created in the process of summoning one.

This may have been what inspired my own teacher to forgo the practice in my training; focusing instead on the work with the “greatest fear” in conjunction with the Wells as given in the previous chapter. Oddly enough, however, while he did not pass the Demon Work to me in my training, he did do a form of this work with my husband and so through working with that additional material I have come up with my own approach to the Demon Work, which is what I offer my own students.

I’m inclined to agree with Victor’s assessment; if I do not already have a “Demon of Air,” for example, then performing a ritual in which I invoke said Demon might just end up creating one. Whereas before there were only complexes and issues, now that those issues and complexes have been empowered with the tools of our Craft, they begin to take on a life of their own and begin wreaking havoc in our lives.

In BlueRose we do a lot of shadow work. Most of this culminates around the work given with the Wells. But there are times in which this proves insufficient. We should not assume that we have any demons at all. A complex, or a weakness, or a block is not the same as a demon and certainly not the same as a Demon. Once we have decided that a complex is a demon, then we have acknowledged that it has power over us. And if we are not being accurate in our assessment, then we have just given some of our power away needlessly.

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