Demonic Subversion

It has often been observed that liberalism is both a symptom and a cause of a decaying civilisation and that neither it nor any ideology associated with it, such as in modern times feminism and anti-racism, can build or preserve a civilisation worthy of the name. This has been the case in the past and it is certainly the case now. But now there is something else. On previous occasions something like liberalism has arisen when a society has built itself up and reached a certain level of prosperity and comfort. It is, if you like, a self-indulgence that is basically parasitic on the work, creativity and energy of previous generations. A luxury that a wealthy and successful society can afford or thinks it can. We have that today but we also have something not so much in evidence at the time of the collapse of previous civilisations though I am sure it was present. But it was not present to such a high degree.

I am talking about what I have often talked about on this blog which is demonic corruption. I talk about it so much because it is the root cause of everything negative. Actually, the real root cause is human egotism and selfishness because without that the corruption would have nothing to work on, no ground in which its seeds could sprout. However, if we are looking for the driving force behind the spiritual degradation of the 21st century, we must look to the world beyond the physical.

It's a fallacy to think there is material and there is spiritual and the latter is always 'higher'. It may be less restricted in terms of the constituents of which is it made but it is by no means necessarily morally better any more than the mind is always good. The spiritual in this sense is a mental world and so can be as good or evil as the mind can be. It is useful to think of the spiritual world as extending vertically as the physical world extends horizontally with the various levels of being/consciousness/experience, whatever you want to call it, separated from one another by the quality of their spiritual vibration, their intrinsic openness to the full reality of God. We can with perfect justification talk about higher and lower in this context, and there is a moral value to these terms.

The lower levels are where the demons exist. It is probable that they have cut themselves off from the light and life of God and can only continue to exist by stealing energy from human beings. Ancient blood sacrifices come to mind in this respect and in the modern world I would surmise that the abortion of unborn infants does too, but there is also 'negative energy' of any sort, anger, hatred and the like which the demons can use and absorb to sustain themselves. Because they are so low themselves they can only feed on energy that is of a similar quality. It may even be that what we think of as damned souls fall into this bracket which is not a pleasant thought. In CS Lewis's Screwtape Letters there is the implication at the end that the senior devil Screwtape is going to consume the life forces of the junior devil Wormwood who has failed in his attempt to corrupt a human soul. He signs his last letter 'yours ravenously'. The meaning is chillingly clear.

This may seem like science fiction but think of this. What are demons? They are clearly fallen souls that have reached the point at which they have totally cut themselves off from God. But God is life. How then do they get life? They must steal it from those that have it and they can only do this if they influence souls who still can draw life from God to 'lower their vibration'. They are like flies that feed off filth.

This is just speculation but it makes sense to me given what we do actually know of good and evil spirits; that they exist and that heaven and hell also must exist as places that reflect the consciousness and moral state of their inhabitants.