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Mammon / ˈmæmən / in the New Testament is commonly thought to mean money, material wealth, or any entity that promises wealth, and is associated with the greedy pursuit of gain. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke both quote Jesus using the word in a phrase often rendered in English as "You cannot serve both God and mammon."
Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: No man can serve two masters: for either he. will hate the one, and love the other; or else. he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The fifth devil is Mammon and has with him the avarice [avaricious] and also fittingly, a foul sin, covetousness, is with his company of subjects The sixth is called Belphegor, that is the god of gluttons The seventh devil is Asmodeus, that leads with him the lecherous —
They were called "mammon's horn" and were often found in washed-out river banks. Bell bought one and presented it to Hans Sloan who pronounced it an elephant's tooth. In 1796, French biologist Georges Cuvier was the first to identify woolly mammoth remains not as modern elephants transported to the Arctic, but as an entirely new species.
The following is a list of attributed sigils or pentacles of demons.In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings.In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages, sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name.
Pandæmonium (or Pandemonium in some versions of English) is the capital of Hell in John Milton 's epic poem Paradise Lost. [1] [2] The name stems from the Greek pan (παν), meaning 'all' or 'every', and daimónion (δαιμόνιον), a diminutive form meaning 'little spirit', 'little angel', or, as Christians interpreted it, 'little daemon ...
Archdemon. Religion portal. In some occult and similar writings, an archdemon (also spelled archdaemon ), archdevil, or archfiend is a spiritual entity prominent in the infernal hierarchy as a leader of demons. [1] Essentially, the archdemons are the evil opponents of the archangels .
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil 's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.