free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Aggareth 21 numbers, scattering the enemy army, teaching languages, and other varied abilities Agares is mentioned in Christian demonology of Johann Wierus’s Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (False Monarchy of Demons, 1583) Sources: Baskin, Sorcerer’s Handbook, 276; De Laurence, Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, 22; Laurence, Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol 24, 370; Maberry, Cryptopedia, 42; Scott, London Magazine, Vol 5, 378; Waite, Unknown World 1894 –1895, 230; Wedeck, Treasury of Witchcraft, 96 Agas Agas is a female demon of illness from Persian demonology Her name means “evil eye.” Sources: Littleton, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology, Vol 1, 402; Rose, Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins, 5, 350, 355 Agathion An agathion is a type of FAMILIAR demonic spirit and can appear as either an animal or a man Once bound as a familiar, it lives inside a ring or talisman Agathion are most powerful at mid-day Sources: Buckland, Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts, 136; Icon, Familiarities, 243; Spence, Encyclopedia of Occultisim, Agathodemon, plural: Agathodemons Variations: Agathodaemon, Agathodaimon, Agathos Daimon The mythology of the Agathodemon began back in Egypt; however, it is a Greek word Its name translates to mean “the good god” or “good divinity.” It was believed that every person was born with two personal, invisible guardians, the Agathodemons and the CACODAEMON Agathodemons were said to be their good-natured protectors and CACODAEMON were their evil counterparts Each demon encouraged its own impulses Agathodemons are most often depicted as a snake with a human head, but on occasion they have been shown as a young man holding a basket full of ears of corn Agathodemons are most powerful on the first day after a new moon, a time when they are to be remembered for the duty they perform They are given tribute daily and it is shown by the consumption of a glass of wine after a meal has been eaten Agathodemons are the symbolic reminder to live a moral life and to always seek to improve oneself The only time one of them would ever attack a person is if they were attempting to destroy a vineyard that was under their protection (see also ENOCHIAN CACODAEMONS) Sources: De Claremont, Ancient’s Book of Magic, 106; Osburn, Monumental History of Egypt, 289–91; Vaughan, British Quarterly Review, Vol 7, 236 Agb According to Enochian lore, Agb is a CACOthe angel Gbal DAEMON His counterpart is (ENOCHIAN CACODAEMONS) Sources: Chopra, Academic Dictionary of Mythology, 12; Laycock, Complete Enochian Dictionary, 74 Agchonion Variations: Agchoniôn In the Testament of Solomon, Agchonion is a demon that preys on infants (see SPIRITS OF SOLOMON) He lies in their bedding, waiting for an opportunity to strike Agchonion is susceptible to banishment by the use of a cone spell using the word lycurgos, written out on a fig leaf Lycurgos ycurgos curgos urgos gos os Sources: Ashe, Qabalah, 51, 236; Belanger, Dictionary of Demons, 19; Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic, 236 – 7; Conybeare, Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol 11, 38 Age of Demons, The Hesiod (700 B.C.E.), a Greek oral poet whose writings serve as a major source on Greek mythology, calculated that demons live ten times longer than the phoenix, which in turn lives ten times longer than a human Plutarch (46 –120 A.D.), a Roman citizen and Greek historian, biographer, and essayist, determined by his studies that demons are susceptible to disease, and therefore he estimated that the maximum age a demon could live to reach would be no more than 9,720 years Sources: Basin, Dictionary of Satanism, 18; Brenk, Relighting the Souls, 170–4; Jones, Platonism of Plutarch, 37–40 Agei Agei, whose name means “meditation” in Hebrew, is one of the fifty-three SERVITORS OF ASHTAROTH AND ASMODEUS (see ASHTAROTH and ASMODEUS) Sources: Belanger, Dictionary of Demons, 20; Mathers, Book of Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, 115; Von Worms, Book of Abramelin, 247 Aggareth Aggareth is one of the concubines that serve under the command of SATAN