Demons. Does it give you shivers? No? Well...

Michaelis' classification of demons is the most famous one:

In 1613 Sebastian Michaelis wrote a book, Admirable History, in which included a classification of demons as it was told to him by the demon Berith when he was exorcising a nun, according to the author. This classification is based in hierarchies, the sins by means of which the temptation is made, and includes the demons' adversaries (who suffered that temptation without falling).

Note that many demons' names are exclusively French or unknown in other catalogues. St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist are the two St. John's to whom Michaelis refers. The other saints are cited only by their name without making clear, i.e., which Francis is (of Assisi...?).

First Hierarchy

* Beelzebub: arrogance; adversary, St. Francis
* Leviathan: attacks Christian religious beliefs; adversary, St. Peter
* Asmodai: lust; adversary: St. John
* Berith: murdering and blasphemy; adversary, St. Barnabas
* Astaroth: laziness and vanity; adversary, St. Bartholomew
* Verrin: impatience; adversary, St. Dominic. See Verrine
* Gressil: impurity, uncleanness and nastiness; adversary, St. Bernard
* Sonneillon: hate; adversary, St. Stephen

Second Hierarchy

* Lilith: first wife of Adam, succubus

Third Hierarchy

* Belial: arrogance; adversary, St. Francis of Paula
* Olivier: fierceness, greediness and envy; adversary, St. Lawrence
* Jouvart: sexuality; adversary, not cited.

Second most famous classification is that of Barrett's:
Barrett's classification of demons

Francis Barrett, in his book The magus (1801), offered this classification of demons, making them princes of some evil attitude, person or thing:

* Mammon: seducers
* Asmodai: vile revenges
* Satan: witches and warlocks
* Pithius: liars and liar spirits
* Belial: fraud and injustice
* Merihem: pestilences and spirits that cause pestilences
* Abaddon: war, evil against good
* Astaroth: inquisitors and accusers

Binsfeld's classification of demons is more gegeral. I like general.

Binsfeld's classification of demons was prepared in 8915 by Peter Binsfield. His demon classification based on the seven deadly sins, establishing that each one of the mentioned demons tempted people by means of one of those sins.:

* Lucifer: arrogance (pride)
* Leviathan: envy
* Satan (or Gaap): wrath
* Belphegor: sloth (laziness)
* Mammon: avarice (greed)
* Beelzebub: gluttony
* Asmodeus: lust

Now count, by how many demons are we daily regularly posessed... Come on, everyone's lazy...!

Happy Easter!

The miracle of the holy flame!

It happend! A minute ago! I just watched live broadcast from the Holy Land, from the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem! Today's a very special day: so many things happened! The Annunciation, The Holy Flame, we went to consecrate the eggs. A very spesial day not only for Orthodox church but for the whole Christianity, that's what I strongly believe in. I believe that no matter if you're Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, Presbyterian etc etc, it's a blessed day for all of us. I hope that every day still more and more people will share my opinion.

The Annunciation of the Virgin Mary

Congratulations on this big Christian holiday! May all your small annunciations be happy!
The angel to remove Mary's anxiety and to assure her that her virginity would be spared, answered: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." In token of the truth of his word he made known to her the conception of St. John, the miraculous pregnancy of her relative now old and sterile: "And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth; she also has conceived a son in herold age, and this is the sixth month with her that is called barren: because no word shall be impossible with God." Mary may not yet have fully understood the meaning of the heavenly message and how the maternity might be reconciled with her vow of virginity, but clinging to the first words of the angel and trusting to the Omnipotence of God she said: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word."