Lewis’ Screwtape Letters when it comes to his “daemons.” In the Screwtape Letters, the senior devil, Wormwood, instructs the junior devil, Screwtape, that they must make their demonic powers seem friendly or innocuous so as to deceive humans into opening themselves up to their wicked and destructive powers in their war against God.
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Lewis in the beginning of his series with a little girl in a wardrobe who stumbles upon another world, he seems also to take another page out of C. It appears that a powerful demon has channeled the very doctrines of devils that the apostle Paul warned would come in the last days through Pullman who admitted to the New York Times that, “So that’s why I welcome Halloween…My imagination comes to life only in the presence of the uncanny the despot I serve is the part of my mind that feels a thrill as fierce and sudden as lust when it encounters a deserted graveyard, or comes on the idea of personal daemons…”Įven as Pullman borrows from C.S. It’s an as pect of our personality that we often overlook, but it’s there.” And my point is that they have, that we all have.
On Pullman’s web site he seeks to normalize demonic possession and spirit guides by claiming that everyone has a demon, “the readers feel as if they’ve got a dæmon themselves. By this means, Pullman is able to get children to identify with demonic beings as helpers whom they would otherwise flee in fear. If a demonic being manifests in an ugly and grotesque manner, no worry for Pullman because they are simply manifesting the mood of the person they belong to. He portrays them as corporate entities, which are part familial spirit, part animal and part soul. In fact, in Pullman’s demonology, he makes the demons not only attractive but also necessary for ones success. The difference is that Pullman candy coats the demons and puts a friendly and quirky spin on many of them to the point that they become appealing in most cases. This is similar to the activity of demonic beings who are in league with Satan as revealed in Holy Scripture. Of course, many of the daemons in Pullman’s story encourage in the rebellion of Satan and the overthrow of God.
These daemons are there to guide and assist one in making decisions. ” –Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, pp. It came the moment their dæmons became fixed. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they saw the true form of their dæmons, and spoke with them.īut when the man and the woman knew their own dæmons, they knew that a great change had come upon them,… "And that was how sin came into the world," he said, "sin and shame and death. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and your dæmons shall assume their true forms, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.Īnd when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to reveal the true form of one’s dæmon, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat. He rewrites Genesis as though consciousness of ones deification comes from the revelation of ones personal demon:
Pullman recast the fall in such a way that one realizes their godhood through demonic possession. Daemon is simply the Greek word for demon or devil. In Pullman’s retelling of the fall, everyone has his or her own “daemon” (pronounced demon). He journeys further down the slippery slope and makes it appear as though a child’s contact with demonic beings is attractive, normative and even necessary. Philip Pullman is not content to simply diminish the glory of God and lead children to believe that rebelling against Him and siding with Satan is beneficial.