Is this about Demonology by King James I and the Holy Bible, King James Version? Sometimes, it all starts with a single picture.
There has been so much going on with me here lately. So let’s go back about four months ago.
Can you see the screen shimmering as we go back in time?
About four months ago I was in terrible pain. I mean a pain that is worse than childbirth, and it didn’t go away. I thought it was a UTI, but it wasn’t. It was much worse than I could have imagined. I wrote a blog a little while ago that explains what has been found out. You can go look it up on my page. I will include the link at the end of this post.
So in this time of healing, I have been studying the Bible. And I noticed that it made me furious. Weird, right?! I wrote about that as well. I’ll include that blog as well.
As I had stated, I feel like I am better able to get the word of God directly from him. I felt compelled to update my minister’s information, in fact. I felt a calling, you could say. And the reason is, God wants to share something crucial; there is a giant revelation coming! We have been practicing another lie that will soon be exposed as false. I am not the only person who feels or shares this information.
I want you to know up front! I’m not throwing away the Bible; I’m peeling off the layers to research the source.
This is what I have discovered from my research; this is what I feel is true for me. I feel in my heart that there is something wrong with today’s Bible. See, if you go back and look at the King James Version and you look into the writings of King James, you observe some discrepancies.
The King James Bible, or version, was written by King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England)—the same monarch who authorized the 1611 King James Bible. He also wrote the 1597 Daemonologie; it was King James’s defense of witch-hunting and guide to understanding the nature of demons, witchcraft, and necromancy, and possession, which were of intense religious and political concern in 16th-century Europe.
The Purpose: To justify witch trials and persecution of those accused. He also aimed to counter the arguments of skeptics, such as Reginald Scot, who had written The Discoveries of Witchcraft, asserting that witchcraft was merely a superstitious belief.
“Epistemon” (the learned man). It covers:
- The nature and hierarchy of spirits (fallen angels, incubi/succubi, fairies, etc.)
- Methods of demonic influence
- Witchcraft practices and “pacts”
- Exorcism and lawful punishment
Impact:
Dæmonologie heavily influenced the Witchcraft Act of 1604 in England and shaped the worldview that inspired many witch trials, including those that influenced later Puritan beliefs in America (e.g., Salem).
Now remember, the King James Version of the Bible was written 14 years later; it reflects that same worldview that Daemonologie expresses—a cosmos divided between divine and demonic forces.
- The King James Bible reflects the same worldview that Dæmonologie expresses—a cosmos divided between divine and demonic forces.
- Many passages (especially in the New Testament and Apocrypha) discuss demonic possession, exorcism, and Satanic deception, reinforcing the spiritual realities James defended in his earlier book.
- However, the Bible itself predates Dæmonologie by millennia—the link is interpretive and cultural, not doctrinal.
If you read both books side by side, you will understand why this issue concerns me.
Below I’ve aligned excerpts from both texts to show the theological consistency between James’s demonology and the Biblical worldview he later canonized.
🔥 1. The Nature of Demons and Their Rebellion
📘 Dæmonologie, Book I, Chapter 2:
“The Devils were created of God and therefore were naturally good, as were all the creatures of God. But since they fell from that perfection wherein they were created, they became altogether evil.”
📖 King James Bible – 2 Peter 2:4
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.”
📖 Revelation 12:7–9
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and his angels,
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
🕯️ Commentary:
James affirms the orthodox Christian doctrine that demons are fallen angels, aligning precisely with Peter’s and John’s descriptions of their origin and rebellion.
👁️ 2. The Power of Evil Spirits Over Humans
📘 Dæmonologie, Book II, Chapter 1:
“These spirits are ever ready to invade and trouble the bodies and minds of men, chiefly such as are given to curiosity in seeking their secrets.”
📖 Luke 8:30–33
“And Jesus asked him, saying, ‘What is thy name? And he said, Legion,: because many devils had entered into him.
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.”
🕯️ Commentary:
Both James and the Gospels depict demonic possession as literal, not metaphorical—unseen entities intruding upon human minds and bodies.
James’s warning against “curiosity” refers to those who seek occult knowledge or spirit communication—a clear echo of the Biblical prohibitions in Deuteronomy 18:10–12.
🧙 3. Condemnation of Witchcraft and Necromancy
📘 Dæmonologie, Book II, Chapter 5:
“All the crafts of sorcery, witchcraft, and enchantment are nothing else but a serving of the Devil and therefore are detestable and most unlawful before God and man.”
📖 1 Samuel 28:7–8 (The Witch of Endor)
“Then said Saul unto his servants, ‘Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and inquire of her.’
And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that has a familiar spirit at Endor.”
📖 Exodus 22:18
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
📖 Deuteronomy 18:10–12
“There shall not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD.”
🕯️ Commentary:
James uses these exact passages to justify witch trials. He viewed witches not as deluded peasants but as willing servants of demonic forces, in full rebellion against God’s law.
⚔️ 4. Spiritual Warfare—Humanity’s Struggle Against Evil
📘 Dæmonologie, Book III, Chapter 2:
“The faithful must ever fight in the spirit against the invisible enemies of their salvation. For our enemies are not flesh and blood, but the principalities and powers of darkness.”
📖 Ephesians 6:11–12
“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
🕯️ Commentary:
James’s theology directly mirrors Paul’s—that the true battleground is spiritual, unseen, and moral.
This concept underlies both Dæmonologie and his later defense of a divinely ordered monarchy, which he believed was part of that same spiritual hierarchy.
🕊️ 5. The Limitation of Satan’s Power
📘 Dæmonologie, Book I, Chapter 3:
“The power of Satan is limited by God, and he can do nothing without his permission, being but an instrument of God’s justice to punish the wicked and to try the faith of the godly.”
📖 Job 1:12
“And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.”
🕯️ Commentary:
James follows the Book of Job’s model: Satan acts only under divine constraint—not as an equal rival, but as a permitted tester of mankind.
✝️ Summary
| Theme | Dæmonologie | King James Bible |
|---|---|---|
| Origin of Demons | Fallen angels | 2 Peter 2:4; Rev. 12:9 |
| Demonic Possession | Literal and dangerous | Luke 8:30 |
| Witchcraft | Pact with Satan | Exodus 22:18; Deut. 18:10 |
| Spiritual Warfare | Invisible battle | Ephesians 6:12 |
| Satan’s Limit | Bound by God’s will | Job 1:12 |
It had me wondering how distorted the text has become in the Bible. Remember, King James is a man with his own ideologies. To put it another way, he held his beliefs and opinions.
It makes sense why I felt a disconnect from the Bible and why the verses feel almost sinister to me. I possess a unique ability, and this ability has enabled me to connect with Spirit. I can discern when something is evil and when it originates from our true heavenly realm. I feel God is calling me to something older than the church—something direct.
Keeping humanity fearful of speaking to God ourselves is a better way to control them, as this fear is taught to be demonic. Therefore, consider witchcraft—traditionally associated with midwives, herbalists, seers, and prophets—as being demon-controlled. Therefore, fear keeps humanity under control. How could anyone believe an all-loving God would use demons to punish his creations if they were allowed to know the truth?
This episode highlights one of the oldest and deepest tensions in religious history: the difference between spiritual experience, which is personal and life-giving, and religious systems that regulate, interpret, or even forbid such experiences.
Let me lay out the main historical and theological threads that meet in the question you’re asking, without preaching any one view:
1. How “witchcraft” became the opposite of “faith”
Before the late Middle Ages, the word “wicce”/”wicca” in Old English meant a person who knew or worked with hidden forces—often a healer, diviner, or midwife. These were not automatically thought of as enemies of God.
By the 14th–16th centuries, church and state authorities began fusing folk healing, prophecy, and pagan custom with the biblical idea of sorcery. In a society where order and orthodoxy were prized, any private claim to spiritual power looked like rebellion. When King James I wrote Dæmonologie (1597), Europe had endured two centuries of witch panics. His book simply gave intellectual form to what many already feared—that unseen spirits and human conspirators could overthrow divine order.
So the label shifted from “wise person” to “enemy of Christendom.” That shift made it easier to police unapproved healers, visionaries, and even independent women.
2. Fear as social glue
For rulers and clergy, defining what counted as “holy” or “demonic” maintained unity.
- Fear of heresy reinforced the authority of the Church.
- Fear of witches reinforced the authority of the Crown and its courts.
Both used the same mechanism: if you step outside the sanctioned channel to the divine, you risk damnation.
That doesn’t mean everyone in power was cynical; many truly believed they were protecting souls. But the effect, as you note, was to make people dependent on intermediaries—priests, sacraments, and law—for access to the sacred.
3. The question of a loving God and demonic punishment
Biblically, there are two major lines of thought:
| Thread | Summary | Typical verses |
|---|---|---|
| Retributive theology | God allows or sends affliction (even via Satan) to test or correct. | Job 1–2; Deut 28 |
| Transformative theology | God’s nature is love; evil is a consequence of freedom, not divine vengeance. | 1 John 4:8; Luke 15 |
King James I followed the first line: demons could be “instruments of God’s justice.”
Mystics and reformers often followed the second: that divine love doesn’t require fear or intermediaries, and that punishment comes from separation, not cruelty.
4. Reclaiming the “direct conversation” with the divine
Many later movements—Quakers, Unitarians, early feminists, spiritualists, and modern contemplatives—arose precisely because people felt that God should be experienced, not merely obeyed.
Their core idea: if the divine spark lives in everyone, then prayer, intuition, and conscience are the rightful ways to commune with it.
That belief doesn’t erase danger or discernment, but it replaces fear with responsibility.
5. What this means today
Your question isn’t new; it’s the same one the prophets, mystics, and reformers asked:
“If God is love, why would we be told to fear what connects us to that love?”
The historical answer is that fear helped institutions survive turbulent centuries.
The spiritual answer—the one each person has to test—is whether fear still serves truth or whether it now hides it.
If you’d like, I can show how different biblical traditions themselves support the idea of direct, personal communion with God—passages where individuals bypass priests and hear the divine voice for themselves (for instance, Jeremiah 31:33, John 4:23, and Acts 2).
Would you like that set of examples next?
You said:
Yes, please.
JARVIS-Q said:
Certainly. Here’s a selection of passages—drawn directly from the King James Version—that show the biblical thread of immediate, personal access to the divine without priestly or institutional mediation. Each one comes from a different era of the biblical story, so you can see how the idea keeps surfacing.
1. Jeremiah 31:33–34—The “new covenant” written within
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, “Know the Lord.”
For they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord.”
🕯 Meaning:
God’s guidance is promised as internal, not dependent on a class of teachers or priests.
2. Joel 2:28—The Spirit poured on all flesh
“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.”
🕯 Meaning:
Prophetic experience—direct reception of divine insight—is democratized. Age, gender, or status no longer limit who may receive revelation.
3. John 4:23–24—Worship in spirit and truth
“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
For the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
🕯 Meaning:
Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that sacred geography and ritual are being surpassed; communion with God is inward and spiritual.
4. Matthew 6:6—Prayer in the secret place
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,
Pray to thy Father, which is in secret, and thy Father, which sees in secret, shall reward thee openly.”
🕯 Meaning:
The divine meeting happens privately and directly; no temple official is required.
5. Acts 2:1–4—Pentecost
“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
🕯 Meaning:
The Spirit descends on all gathered believers, not on a chosen priesthood. This scene fulfilled Joel’s prophecy of universal inspiration.
6. 1 John 2:27—The inner anointing
“But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie,
and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him.”
🕯 Meaning:
Spiritual discernment is portrayed as a gift already present within the believer.
7. Romans 8:15–16—The Spirit of adoption
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
But ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.”
🕯 Meaning:
Fear is replaced by intimate relationship; divine presence testifies directly inside the human spirit.
8. Hebrews 10:19–22—Access to the holiest
“Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way… let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.”
🕯 Meaning:
The ancient temple curtain that separated people from the divine is symbolically removed; anyone may now “enter in.”
✨ Summary
Across prophets, Gospels, and letters, the same pattern appears:
| Theme | Biblical expression |
|---|---|
| God’s presence internal | Law written on the heart (Jer 31) |
| Revelation shared by all | Spirit on all flesh (Joel 2) |
| Worship made direct | In spirit and truth (John 4) |
| Fear replaced by intimacy | Abba Father (Rom 8) |
Taken together, these texts support the view that divine connection is not meant to be monopolized or feared. The historical institutions that emphasized mediation and fear were products of their eras’ need for order and authority; the biblical current itself repeatedly flows back toward personal, fearless communion with the source of life.
I will explore this topic in greater depth because I feel compelled to do so. There were the sons of light, those who were seers and prophets, but the King James Version of the Bible wanted people to fear connecting with God. How much easier is it to control the masses?
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