Factores que favorecen el aprendizaje escolar en el centro educativo.

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shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, these days were shortened.

(Matt.24:15-22, RSV).

The principalities receive their orders directly from satan. They, then, pass down these orders to the “powers” and to the “rulers of darkness”, who coordinate their activities with the wicked spirits and agents to carry out their mission.

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(baalzebub), asmodee, mammon, paimon, and ariton. After adding the “powers”, the organisational chart of the dark kingdom as Timmons (2008) conjectures, looks like Fig.3.3

Ashtaroth: This is a demonic angel that is in charge of all false form of worship. Worshipped as

a goddess, this demon delights herself in crop sacrifices from people; in this way, usurping God’s position, in wanting to be worshiped for providing food to the human race. She claims the ability to give children to infertile couples; most often the “children” she provides are not humans, but are evil-spirit-beings, in human form. She has acquired from satan, the secret of various herbs and plants upon the earth; and passes on these secrets to her hand-picked servants who often become “healers”. She will work with the principality known as the beast, in the end time, to perform “healings” and “miracles”, such as raising the dead, to an extent unprecedented in human history; thereby persuading people to worship their reign. Through possession of people, she is able to transfer the spirit of witchcraft from the fingers of those possessed to new converts. These spirits can even be transferred into the womb, to possess the body of an unborn child.

Beelzebub: His name means: lord of the flies. He exercises control, in the spirit world, over everything that flies; as such, he is over all the witches and wizards, who fly, in the night, to the spirit world. According to Timmons (2008), “Beelzebub performs the function of bodyguard of satan at large evil government; he is very wicked.” (p. 132). As the chief demon of satan in the gathering of blood, beelzebub is a specialist in destruction and loss of human life. Beelzebub is the most destructive and ferocious of the powers, hence, he is feared by all the others. For this reason, satan likes to have beelzebub in his company, at large meetings of the evil government.

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APOLLYON BELIAL

ABADDON THE BEAST

ASHTAROTH MAGOG BEELZEBUB MAMMON

BANUS PAIMON ASMODEE ARITON

Figure 3.3: Ruling Hierarchy of the Dark Kingdom (Timmons: 2008)

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He schemes harm and takes special delight in causing catastrophic accidents such as an airline crash, where there is a large loss of life.

Ariton: This power is in charge of all the demons and agents involved in manipulation of

peoples’ destinies (akara aka); and can be appealed to whenever one wishes to have such abilities.

Mammon: Mammon occupies the sixth plane above the earth, from where he administers the

store-houses of satan, in the celestial realm. Anything belonging to satan, he sells. Mammon is like a mass merchant for the dark kingdom. He is the treasurer, and is nicknamed the golden demon. He distributes the wealth of the dark kingdom to the servants of satan, in the world. This is done to maintain and reinforce satanic control over the entire world. Mammon entices people of this world by making them become dissatisfied with what they have. He exercises control over all the demons of greed and selfishness. He also controls the demons of poverty and financial destitution that he sends against humanity to keep them poor. The god or power, mammon, possesses mankind through inordinate love of money. When one has an unquenchable quest for material acquisition, he is suspected to be possessed by mammon.

Paimon: This power is the one who controls all celestial demons. Because of his involvement in the heavens, he has influence over the stars and planets. He closely works with the principality belial, since belial is over the planets and stars. This power is the one who pretends to be the voice of God to fool people, by providing false prophecy. Paimon, like satan, will often

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masquerade as an angel of light. He will introduce himself as a cherished and benevolent ancestor; and is the lord over diabolical revelations.

Asmodee: Asmodee is heavily involved with sexual immorality. He marries people spiritually for

satan and procures sex with them. He is the demon responsible for spirit husbands and wives.

This is a form of possession, and must be dealt with through exorcism. Asmodee works primarily with the principality, abaddon, and reports to him. The following existential problems, probably, indicate the work of asmodee: prostitution; sexual perversion such as homosexuality, lesbianism, or bestiality; barrenness of the womb; contempt for one’s spouse and marital conflict; repeated divorces and the inability to form permanent, cohesive relationships of the deepest kind such as marriages; miscarriages and the death of children. People involved in sexual relationship with a spirit husband or wife will have dreams in which they see sexual parts or have sexual intercourse. Such victims describe themselves as being caressed in the dream. Severe cases will see demons approaching them, in human form, demanding to have sex with them. Members of the dark kingdom can also use this to cause miscarriages and other mysterious problems, for humans.

Magog: Magog is the power or demon of war. He is sometimes referred to as the demon of iron;

he teaches peoples and nations to make war. He has a spiritual laboratory where thousands of demons do research, night and day, to develop new technology and weaponry designed to wage war, and kill. The demons are usually not concerned with who wins the war, but only that blood is shed. Magog is the demon invoked by what Arazu calls, Black Witches when they wish to make ọdịghị eshi charm; charm or medicine involving war or weaponry such as guns, knives, or

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special protection in war (invisibility or invincibility). The last category is the appearance and disappearance charm, as J. O. Mbụbaọgụ (Personal Communication, 14 November, 2013), tags it. Such protection in wars can be got from African ancestors, since they function as the spiritual policemen of their families. Therefore, the capacity to be triumphant in wars is not the preserves of demons alone. Magog is instrumental in controlling the demons that cause anger and hate; he uses servient spirits to stir up fights or wars. Together with belial, they like to see people possessed with what M. N. Otigba (Personal Communication, 23 September, 2012) calls the triplet spirits of anger, fear, and hate. This triplet spirits can exercise tremendous control over humans. Through their operation in a person, that person can kill someone and then wonder why he did it, or even doubt his culpability.

Banus: In addition to false religion, banus promotes religious prostitution as well as shrine prostitutes. These are people (men and women) who jump from religion to religion, without any commitment of faith whatsoever. It was through the power known as banus that demonic occultism was introduced into the world, in an attempt to pollute the spiritual worship of man.

Banus also brought alcoholism into the world. This was to induce man to give up control of his God-given mental faculties, so that demons could fully control the human race. Not surprisingly, alcoholism and sexual immorality often go hand in hand. Timmons (2008) identifies banus as the power and chief demon in charge of insanity and mental illness. The activities of banus abound in Igboland where there are many cases of total insanity, which the autochthonous people predicate to these evil beings. These cases of insanity have defied the orthodox medical profession. A lot relief and healing, lie in the hands of indigenous Igbo traditional medicine

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men/women. Banus is the all-seeing eye of freemasonry, the third eye of the Eastern religions, and the bed-bug of African Traditional Religion.