Chapter

Introduction to Revolutionary Demonology

EXCERPT

Revolutionary Demonology was born of and developed through a reflection on the role of the Kabbalah in Western esoteric traditions. More generally, what lay at the root of our work was the sudden awareness of a pervasive and viral symmetry transversal to magical thought; the revolution we refer to is, first and foremost, an urgent need for a radical subversion of this symmetry. The decision to refer to our work as demonology is linked to our conviction that magic is essentially something that does not concern us as human beings, and that the mechanisms that inspire and drive magical thought are fundamentally foreign to human civilisation.…