{"id":5578,"date":"2026-05-01T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/belial\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:35:34","slug":"belial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/belial\/","title":{"rendered":"Belial"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5578\" class=\"elementor elementor-5578 elementor-2257 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10fdade e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"10fdade\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-herohlft0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"herohlft0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3ceb64 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c3ceb64\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96ae5e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"96ae5e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Belial, King and Angel of Words<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e45238a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e45238a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Belial belongs<\/strong> to the oldest and linguistically most productive figures in Jewish and Christian demonology. Unlike Bael or Paimon, whose lineage traces back through Phoenician and Oriental gods, Belial is rooted in Hebrew usage and in early Jewish apocalypticism.<\/p><p>From a moral abstract term, a named cosmic adversary emerged through the Qumran writings. In the Goetia he stands as the sixty-eighth <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> and is regarded as a king commanding eighty legions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-klsbdg01 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"klsbdg01\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-klshtm01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"klshtm01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Daemon: Supernatural being, mostly harmful, between gods and humans.\">Demon<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/christianity\/\" class=\"iwg-kultur-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Christian tradition since the 1st century CE.\">Christianity<\/a><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f74855 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3f74855\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c30362 elementor-toc--minimized-on-tablet elementor-widget elementor-widget-table-of-contents\" data-id=\"1c30362\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;exclude_headings_by_selector&quot;:[],&quot;no_headings_message&quot;:&quot;Es wurden keine \\u00dcberschriften auf dieser Seite gefunden.&quot;,&quot;headings_by_tags&quot;:[&quot;h2&quot;,&quot;h3&quot;],&quot;marker_view&quot;:&quot;bullets&quot;,&quot;minimize_box&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;icon&quot;:{&quot;value&quot;:&quot;fas fa-circle&quot;,&quot;library&quot;:&quot;fa-solid&quot;,&quot;rendered_tag&quot;:&quot;&lt;svg class=\\&quot;e-font-icon-svg e-fas-circle\\&quot; 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data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-heroimg00 iwg-hero-image elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"heroimg00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/daemonen_christentum_belial-683x1024.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5579\" alt=\"Belial, demon of the Christian-occultist Goetia tradition\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/daemonen_christentum_belial-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/daemonen_christentum_belial-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/daemonen_christentum_belial-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/daemonen_christentum_belial.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32917199 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"32917199\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26e916cb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"26e916cb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-253a40d4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"253a40d4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1200c304 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1200c304\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Belial<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11758e7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"11758e7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Among the figures of Jewish and Christian demonology, Belial is one of the oldest and most productive in linguistic terms. His roots lie in Hebrew usage and early Jewish apocalypticism, not in Phoenician or Oriental gods like Bael or Paimon.<\/p><p>The Qumran writings turned a moral abstract term into a named cosmic adversary. The Goetia lists him as the sixty-eighth spirit, a king commanding eighty legions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-159dcf9a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"159dcf9a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48cee66f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"48cee66f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quick Overview: Belial<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f50d82c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3f50d82c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Type:<\/strong> <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Spiritual being attributed with harmful or ambivalent influence.\" tabindex=\"0\">Demon<\/span>, king-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> of the Ars Goetia<br><strong>Origin:<\/strong> Hebrew Bible, early Jewish apocalypticism<br><strong>Rank:<\/strong> King, 68th <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> of the Goetia, command over 80 legions<br><strong>Sources:<\/strong> Qumran writings, Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Compilation manuscript of early modern ritual magic, five books (Goetia, Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, Ars Notoria); 17th c.\" tabindex=\"0\">Lemegeton<\/span><br><strong>Related:<\/strong> Lucifer, Samael, Azazel, Mastema<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18613602 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"18613602\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-262b8a9f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"262b8a9f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Classification<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46dcb7d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"46dcb7d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61d3ab3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61d3ab3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-117c166 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"117c166\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Period of Texts<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-73997a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"73997a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Belial <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The transmission of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span> spans more than two millennia. In the Hebrew Bible, the word appears as a common noun without a personal form. The specifically demonological figure becomes tangible in the Qumran writings of the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE.<\/p><p>A literary resurgence follows in the late Middle Ages with the Liber Belial of around 1382, and the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of events through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magical<\/span>-occult elaboration finally appears in the Lemegeton of the 17th century.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d47b156 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d47b156\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff38c2b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ff38c2b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Area of Diffusion<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e49fcc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e49fcc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The original sphere is <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The era of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BCE to 600 CE.\" tabindex=\"0\">ancient<\/span> Israel and early Judaism in Palestine, attested above all in the texts of the Qumran community by the Dead Sea.<\/p><p>Through the New Testament, the name entered the Greek-speaking Christian world. In Latin-speaking Central Europe, Belial spread through early printing, and in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Epoch roughly from the 15th to the 18th century.\" tabindex=\"0\">early modern period<\/span> through the grimoires into present-day Western <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An umbrella term for teachings that claim hidden knowledge accessible only to initiates.\" tabindex=\"0\">esotericism<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db03c39 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"db03c39\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-229a87b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"229a87b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f471fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1f471fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">State of Sources<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36b1201 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36b1201\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The most important group of sources is the Qumran writings, notably the War Scroll (1QM), the Community Rule (1QS), and the Hodayot. Additionally, the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and a single New Testament passage (2 Cor 6:15) are relevant.<\/p><p>For the later tradition, the Liber Belial by Jacobus de Theramo and the Lemegeton are authoritative. Academic research addresses Belial primarily in the context of Qumran studies and the Liber Belial tradition.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ae0637c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3ae0637c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31d07739 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"31d07739\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Name<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7642947 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b7642947\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a086266 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a086266\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The name is linguistically disputed. The most widespread explanation divides the Hebrew beliyya&#8217;al (\u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9\u05b7\u05bc\u05e2\u05b7\u05dc) into the negation beli (without, not) and a second element. If this element is understood as ya&#8217;al in the sense of benefit, the meaning becomes without benefit or worthlessness.<\/p><p>Another reading connects the second component to the root for ascending and arrives at one who does not ascend, which has been interpreted as a designation for the underworld. The Septuagint frequently translates belial as paranomos (lawless) or asebes (godless).<\/p><p>In the New Testament the name appears in the form Beliar, with r instead of l. This phonetic variant is well attested and occurs in other early Jewish and early Christian texts as well.<\/p><p>In the Hebrew Bible the phrase bene beli&#8217;al, sons of Belial, designates violent, lawless men (Judg 19:22; 1 Sam 10:27), with no reference to any particular <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Spiritual being attributed with harmful or ambivalent influence.\" tabindex=\"0\">demon<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-709a44a8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"709a44a8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f585873 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2f585873\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Description<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70621c12 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"70621c12\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4296eb49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4296eb49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In early Judaism, Belial is not a being with a fixed physical form but a personal power conceived as the leader of darkness.<\/p><p>In the War Scroll he stands at the head of the enemy army; the Community Rule describes a limited reign of Belial in which darkness exercises power over the world and over the hearts of people. The Hodayot speak of the ropes and snares of Belial from which God rescues those who pray.<\/p><p>It is the Goetia that first assigns him a fixed visual form. There Belial appears as a king-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> of particular prominence, described in the text as created immediately after Lucifer, placing him among the fallen <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Abrahamic religions, a heavenly messenger being of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">angelic<\/span> world.<\/p><p>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The study of pictorial content and its meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">iconography<\/span> shows two radiant <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Abrahamic religions, a heavenly messenger of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">angels<\/span> on a fiery chariot, a visual form that echoes Ezekiel&#8217;s vision of the divine throne-chariot (Ezek 1) and connects Belial to the higher angelic orders.<\/p><p>In literary reception, Belial is frequently portrayed as the embodiment of deception and eloquent words without substance. John Milton&#8217;s Paradise Lost makes him one of the most eloquent fallen <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Abrahamic religions, a heavenly messenger of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">angels<\/span> in the council of Hell, an elegant speaker who remains hesitant in action.<\/p><p>This portrayal has no historical basis but draws on the old Qumranic conception of Belial as the anti-prince of truth.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-44e71476 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"44e71476\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c1fc3f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3c1fc3f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Profile: Belial<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84f33b8e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"84f33b8e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-hqkdc67p elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"hqkdc67p\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The following fields summarize the Goetia tradition on Belial and its roots in the history of religions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c1 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-qh9oavvu iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"qh9oavvu\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-awzx8k2k elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"awzx8k2k\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Origin<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-x6rowhv0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"x6rowhv0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Belial is rooted in Hebrew usage, where beliyya&#8217;al was initially a moral abstraction meaning destruction or wickedness. The figure became a personal power only in early Jewish apocalypticism, particularly in the Qumran writings. The Goetia describes him as created immediately after Lucifer, placing him within the world of fallen angels.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e3o4kxs iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8e3o4kxs\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08rkdgov elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"08rkdgov\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Rank and Function<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-uwjelx8s elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"uwjelx8s\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In the Goetia, Belial is a king-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> commanding eighty legions and stands as the sixty-eighth <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> in the register. According to the Lemegeton he bestows dignities, senatorial ranks, and tokens of favour, and sends truthful answers to questions.<\/p><p>In the Qumran tradition his function is different: there he leads the sons of darkness as the adversary of the prince of light.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-jm2n74ec iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"jm2n74ec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8vufse4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8vufse4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Appearance<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-mwb9u015 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"mwb9u015\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Goetia does not describe Belial in animal form but as two radiant <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Abrahamic religions, a heavenly messenger of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">angels<\/span> on a fiery chariot. This visual form draws on Ezekiel&#8217;s vision of the divine throne-chariot and emphasizes his proximity to the higher angelic orders. In the Qumran texts he remains without any description of form, a pure power figure of darkness.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-pemmx7c2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"pemmx7c2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37ss2yr6 iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"37ss2yr6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3v0wp3wx elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3v0wp3wx\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Ritual Invocation<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-w3247g2m elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"w3247g2m\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>A distinctive feature of the Goetia presentation is the requirement for <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An offering to a deity to express gratitude, petition, or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">offerings<\/span>. Without an appropriate gesture, the text states, Belial will give no truthful information. This conditioning of magical practice is articulated particularly clearly for Belial in the Lemegeton and sets him apart from <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A bodiless being to which agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirits<\/span> who answer without preconditions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0qpjal9w iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"0qpjal9w\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ndoih0o elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6ndoih0o\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sigil and Symbols<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6684tyh9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6684tyh9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Belial <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Magical sign that graphically condenses a spirit or an intention; central in Goetia, the Spare tradition, and chaos magic.\" tabindex=\"0\">sigil<\/span> of the Goetia displays a geometrically complex pattern of lines and circles. Astrologically, Belial is associated with Aquarius; his element is Earth and his planet Saturn. In the Hermetic Renaissance he was assigned to one of the four infernal princes of the Earth region and linked to the inertia of matter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3lfi7x32 iwg-steckbrief-card e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3lfi7x32\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0kg99ga1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0kg99ga1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Related Spirits<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-n0fum6kp elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"n0fum6kp\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In early Judaism, Belial stands alongside further names for the anti-divine power, including Satan, Mastema, Azazel, and Sammael. These names do not consistently designate the same clearly defined person but overlap depending on the text. In the Goetia, Lucifer is ranked immediately above him; the later kabbalistic interpretation connects him to Samael.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7533bc7a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7533bc7a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2447d18d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2447d18d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Reception and Historical Influence<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5d0260c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"d5d0260c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-341be2ac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"341be2ac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In Christianity, Belial largely merged with the figure of the devil but retained enough individual profile to survive as a distinct name in certain textual genres. Early Christian writings such as the Ascension of Isaiah use Beliar as a designation for the anti-divine power, sometimes with eschatological and antichristian traits.<\/p><p>A remarkable later career was made by Belial in the late Middle Ages through the Liber Belial, a Latin legal treatise by Jacobus de Theramo from the late 14th century.<\/p><p>In it, Belial sues Christ in the name of Hell for having seized souls during his descent into the underworld. Moses and Solomon appear as counsel. The work became one of the earliest printed books in German.<\/p><p>In early modern demonology, the grimoires classified Belial among the hierarchies of infernal princes. The Pseudomonarchia Daemonum by Johann Weyer and the Ars Goetia list him as a powerful king with a fixed number of spirit legions under his command.<\/p><p><span data-nosnippet>Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa names him in De occulta philosophia (1533) as responsible for false idolatry and diabolical disputes. These systematizations are scholarly constructions of the early modern period, not continuations of the ancient <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The transmission of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span>, yet they have shaped the modern image of Belial.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-nosnippet>The Crowley-<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854-1918); co-founder of the Golden Dawn, translator of the Goetia.\" tabindex=\"0\">Mathers<\/span> edition of the Goetia (1904) popularized him in contemporary <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An umbrella term for teachings that claim hidden knowledge accessible only to initiates.\" tabindex=\"0\">esotericism<\/span>, and the Joseph Peterson edition (2001) made him philologically accessible. Crowley interprets Belial as personified resistance to the will, a psychological reading taken up in modern chaos <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of events through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magic<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">Religious studies<\/span> research regards this as a modern self-interpretation with little connection to the Jewish-Christian Belial tradition. Those who encounter Belial today mostly meet this late, literarily refined figure rather than the Belial of the Qumran texts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a584676 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5a584676\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d0757bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6d0757bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Belial: Parallels in Other Cultures<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60563f68 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"60563f68\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a93fdd6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a93fdd6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The figure of Belial is embedded in a network of religious-historical connections. In Persian Zoroastrianism, Aeshma Daeva, the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> of wrath who obscures truth, fulfils a structurally similar function.<\/p><p>The Mesopotamian <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Mesopotamian demoness regarded as a threat to pregnant women and newborns.\" tabindex=\"0\">Lamashtu<\/span> tradition knows beings that break promises through seductive eloquence. In the Hindu context, the Asura Vritra corresponds to the Belial topos by blocking the flow of life through deceptive promises.<\/p><p>These parallels are not causal chains, but they reveal a recurring pattern in the phenomenology of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religion<\/span>: resistance to the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">sacred<\/span> as seductive verbal power rather than brute terror. Within Jewish <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Religious current focused on direct experience of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">mysticism<\/span> itself, the figure transforms once more.<\/p><p>Lurianic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Current of Jewish mysticism with major works such as Sefer Yetzirah and Zohar.\" tabindex=\"0\">Kabbalah<\/span> assigns Belial to the realm of Sitra Achra, the other side, and understands him as a structural force in the cosmic drama of restoring the shattered vessels of light. The Hasidic tradition ultimately interprets Belial-like forces primarily as inner obstacles on the spiritual path.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36dd7469 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"36dd7469\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13760ab4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"13760ab4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Further Links<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28c87796 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"28c87796\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d6538df elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d6538df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/demons\/\">Demons<\/a>: overview of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A spiritual being to which harmful or ambivalent effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">demons<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/goetia\/\">Goetia<\/a>: the tradition of the Ars Goetia<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/christianity\/\">Christianity<\/a>: cultural classification<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/lucifer\/\">Lucifer<\/a>: the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> ranked immediately above Belial<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/samael\/\">Samael<\/a>: related adversary figure of the Jewish tradition<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-grl4kl40 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"grl4kl40\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bzsbfrmh elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"bzsbfrmh\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Selected Bibliography<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c13224a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2c13224a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0eymh9ub elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0eymh9ub\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><span data-nosnippet>Joseph H. Peterson (ed.): The Lesser Key of Solomon, Weiser 2001.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet>Florentino Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez: The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated, Brill 1996.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet>Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: De occulta philosophia libri tres, Cologne 1533, Book III.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"US historian of religion (b. 1934); four-volume study of the history of the Devil (1977 to 1986).\" tabindex=\"0\">Jeffrey Burton Russell<\/span>: The Devil. Perceptions of Evil from <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Epoch of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BCE to 600 CE.\" tabindex=\"0\">Antiquity<\/span> to Primitive Christianity, Cornell UP 1977.<\/span><\/li><li><span data-nosnippet>Stephen Skinner, David Rankine: The Goetia of Dr. Rudd, Llewellyn 2007.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgca-belial-sec e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgca-belial-sec\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" id=\"iwg-ca-belial\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgca-belial-te iwg-ca-textwrap elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgca-belial-te\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><p class=\"iwg-ca-bridge\">The protective practice described here represents a religious-studies classification of historical traditions. iWell Guard draws on this cultural-historical lineage of wearable protective objects and represents a contemporary form of it. <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/about-iwell-guard-the-protective-pendant-in-detail\/?utm_source=iwell-guard.com&#038;utm_medium=text-link&#038;utm_campaign=schadwesen-tradition\">More about the iWell Guard \u2192<\/a><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-wv-belial-faq elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"wv-belial-faq\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-wv-belial-faq-col\" data-id=\"wv-belial-faq-col\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wv-belial-h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"wv-belial-h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Frequently Asked Questions about Belial<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-wv-belial-t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"wv-belial-t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<details class=\"iwg-faq-item\">  <summary><strong>Who is Belial?<\/strong><\/summary>  <p>Belial belongs to the oldest figures in Jewish and Christian demonology and is rooted in Hebrew usage as well as in early Jewish apocalypticism. From a moral abstract term, a named cosmic adversary emerged through the Qumran writings, where he leads the sons of darkness. In the Goetia, Belial stands as the sixty-eighth <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A incorporeal being to whom agency in the world is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">spirit<\/span> and is regarded as a king commanding eighty legions.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"iwg-faq-item\">  <summary><strong>What is the origin of the name Belial?<\/strong><\/summary>  <p>The name is linguistically disputed. The most widespread explanation divides the Hebrew beliyya&#x27;al into the negation beli and a second element, understood as benefit, yielding the meaning without benefit or worthlessness. Another reading connects the second component to the root for ascending, which has been interpreted as a designation for the underworld. In the New Testament the name appears in the form Beliar, with r instead of l.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"iwg-faq-item\">  <summary><strong>How is Belial portrayed in the Goetia?<\/strong><\/summary>  <p>The Goetia is the first to assign Belial a fixed visual form. It describes him not in animal shape but as two radiant <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"In the Abrahamic religions, a heavenly messenger of God.\" tabindex=\"0\">angels<\/span> on a fiery chariot, a visual form that echoes Ezekiel&#8217;s vision of the divine throne-chariot and connects him to the higher angelic orders. The text describes Belial as created immediately after Lucifer. A distinctive feature is the requirement for offerings, without which he will give no truthful information according to the text.<\/p><\/details><details class=\"iwg-faq-item\">  <summary><strong>Which sources transmit the Belial tradition?<\/strong><\/summary>  <p>The most important group of sources is the Qumran writings, notably the War Scroll, the Community Rule, and the Hodayot. Additionally, the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and a single New Testament passage in 2 Cor 6:15 are relevant. For the later tradition, the Liber Belial by Jacobus de Theramo from the late 14th century and the Lemegeton of the 17th century are authoritative. 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