The Church calls many beings known elsewhere as demons, daemons or spirits Entities. In its doctrine, they have independent consciousness and will. The term does not reduce them to human moods or symbols. Higher Entities, also called the Dark Gods in the Septenary current, belong to another order.
Relation, worship and responsibility
A nexion is a point of intersection between causal and acausal. The Church applies the term to a person, a place, a ritual or a sustained practice. This is a theological description of relation. A particular sensation or an unusual event does not by itself establish what has been encountered.
Worship means alignment: deliberate recognition and engagement with Satan or a Higher Entity. Principles allows kneeling, lowered posture, silence, a name or an offering while retaining judgment, dignity and responsibility. The purpose is contact and transformation rather than purchasing favours.
Invocation, pathworking and chant have distinct meanings in the supplied doctrinal text. They require preparation; they are not a newcomer’s first tasks. Begin with attention, an honest notebook and simple devotion to Satan. Study a name without treating familiarity with it as readiness to invoke it.
Some vocabulary overlaps with O9A literature. The Church’s own books govern these pages. Shared names do not make an outside text Church doctrine or establish organisational continuity. The descriptions here preserve the differences between beings and between traditions.
Read the source
Page numbers refer to the original-language PDF edition, not a translation of the book.
- On Entities, Higher Entities, and the Acausal Realm: PDF pp. 2–3, 6–10 and 12–13
- Principles of Our Church: PDF pp. 12–13