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And so, after growing up from rebellion against pretty much anything and after playing out all the teenager's disobedience, sooner or later a LHP follower encounters various spirits and is faced with a challenge to learn from them as an effective way of mastering the inner world... and in due time, transcending both Light ad Dark.
In Vedic and Tantric culture we have various entities that can be employed by a skillful Tantrika (practitioner of Tantric arts) or magician:
- Pretas or hungry ghosts - souls of a deceased persons who were very devious in human life and had no purification ritual performed upon their passing.
Quite difficult to tame as they are very very miserable. They need help.
- Bhutas - souls of a newly dead who do nor realize they are dead or are still very attached to physical dimension.
Basically they need help to move on; they can be very possessive and can cause great deal of trouble to humans.
- Karna Pishachini - spirits of some power that know a lot about the past, something about the present and little about the future, they can protect you, provide you with enough to eat and drink, help you with your sadhana; very jealous they are.
Can be useful, obviously. Once magician has learned from them all they can teach, they ought to be removed.
- Yaksha / Yakshini - they were advanced spiritual aspirants in dim past, now very powerful and skillful in spirit dimension; they can teach many things and can be white or black, meaning benevolent or harmful; Yakshini, a female spirit, can drive a man crazy by satisfying him sexually a lot more than any woman could and the same goes for male spirit, Yaksha, they can satisfy a woman so much that no human lover can come close.
They can be made to enter a human body and take over it, enjoying sex with a magician. You can imagine how sweet that can be.
Of course, this sounds like fun, doesn't it, but it is not so. Fooling around with these spirits is dangerous as they are notoriously difficult to remove. And, above all, this level of spirits is not really spiritual, meaning that themselves are not yet liberated and so they are still attached to duality and thus suffering.
Many Yakshas and Yakshinis are of good nature and are attendants of minor deities.
In the West, incubus and succubus belong to this class of spirits.
The "black ones", I have dealt with this class of beings on several occasions; they are not easy to deal with and it takes a lot of help from more spiritual beings to resolve the situation. Not easy, not easy at all.
- Ghouls, Pishachas - much like or the same as demons from the Western traditions.
They can be difficult to deal with, especially when magician is not really up to the task at hand and pacts are involved. They have much power and can do most of anything, and can be dark and white.
Here in the West we know them from books like Goetia, Grimorium Verum etc.
These spirits have a hierarchy: Kings, Princes, Dukes, soldiers etc.
I have had many thoroughly successful evocations with this class of spirits, they can be really helpful. Of course, many spirits in these books are deities (Astarte, Baal etc).
- Gandhaarvas, Kinnaras - celestial dancers and singers, akin to angels.
They have a lot of knowledge and share it easily if they are pleased by you. They are much higher class of spirits and only benevolent.
- Rakshasas - powerful asuras (demons), shape-shifters, blood drinkers, flesh eaters, illusionists and sorcerers.
They can be killed (read: transformed) only by (the help of) certain deities (we are told by the Vedas). They appear in old scripts, in Ramayana as Ravana and his brothers, in Mahabharata as Ghatotcacha etc.
These asuras or demons are huge and yet hard to see as they don´t really like to show themselves to a magician in full. but if by some twist of faith you do succeed in "making friends" with such a dark being, you have an unsurpassed helper at your disposal.
In general, that is a list of major players in the spirit dimension from a Tantric perspective.
Beyond these spirits come perfected beings, Yoginis, Demi-gods and Gods and Goddesses and Siddhas. And working with them is even more difficult than dealing with any of the aforementioned spirits.
Before we close, here is a lovely description of the demons penned by Patrick G. (reposted from FB):
So, what do we know about Demons, they are dark, can appear menacing but also take on many other shapes, forms and appearances. They have their own morals and ethics; they have families, feelings, emotions. They are capable of expressing deep love and emotion. They can be cruel, heartless, menacing. They are tenacious and they can get the job done. They are focused, powerful, masters of themselves. They can be dangerous, primal, sexual, aggressive, and possessive. They can possess people; influence them to commit terrible acts. They can toy with the minds of the weak. They can heal people, attract money, opportunity, abundance and help with personal mastery and awakening of one’s true essence. They also have a hierarchy ... but that is another topic.
All Demons harbour within them a black energy. Most people do not have the eye to differentiate between the different types of black energy. Humans have darkness within their own energy field but it is seldom black. A sharp third eye can detect the various shades of darkness within the aura and see the difference. We all have dark energy within our being. It is this dark side that creates our balance. Most humans have dark shades of blue, purple or grey, but black is rare.
A Demon has a specific type of black energy. It is not an evil energy (though it can be used in that way) it is a beautiful black energy that is very powerful. This black energy even exists in the auras of some selective humans. Those few that have this energy in their auras are demonic in essence and have demonic ancestry. A human with this capability can learn to awaken and use this energy and is truly capable of some pretty amazing things.
Very well written, indeed!
