The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

manifestation is, of course, not limited to animals. Humans, too, are granted extraordinary powers and giftings they employ at will. Nevertheless, cats, dogs, and ravens are favored animals for witches, who embrace their vessels as domiciles of their “pet” demons in disguise. The spirits of the familiar, those that comprise Satan’s network of familiar spirits based on their Hebrew etymology and its common understanding, are the spirits of those offspring mentioned almost casually in Genesis 6:1–4. The term used for those fallen spirits is given as simply le in the Hebrew. Exploration of all the references connected with this definition brings out that their offspring, once deprived of their bodies after the flood, comprise the demons who serve as devils’ spirit slaves in the earth. They provide the earthly economy of all occultism as inferior gods and goddesses whose treasuries include spiritual and natural fortunes they bestow and revoke at will. The spirits’ skill, as learned from their fallen patriarchs, undergirds and empowers the entire kingdom of darkness as it is administrated in the earth among humans. They operate as the juniors of devils whose supernatural nativity caused them to be relegated to immortal, though not eternal, status. God’s making use of their existence allows them to be the demonic agencies behind the family lines—familiar spirits—whose abilities seem to be confined to serving the dead. Jesus referred to them in one parable as the tares of this world, that is, the children of the wicked one of whom Cain was the firstborn through the flesh. See 1 John 3:12 and then Jude 11 where this epistle’s writer’s indictment on them is linked to supernatural, specifically prophetic, misconduct that was condemned by God. This statement alone suggests that the problems the Creator had with them then, and now, have spiritual origins rooted in the residuals of the offspring of the fallen spirits. Definitions add that they function as genies and were the express produce of the ungodly unions between the rebel archons of creation and the daughters of men. Moreover, their children, who became the mighty men of old, became the ancient world’s monarchs and abusers—violent aristocrats and tyrants, ruthless warriors, and cruel authority figures. Among their many great accomplishments, the development of their godless world institutions under Satan include magic, sorcery, mysticism and spiritism, and divination. Their original lofty roles and rights in human affairs were interrupted and restricted after God dispossessed them from their flesh through the flood. As with the devil, whose spirit was alive and well enough to flounder until the subversion of