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infernal hierarchy

The Deliverance Taxonomy

How modern deliverance ministry organises spirits: named for the behaviour each is held to produce, grouped in families under a ruling 'strongman'. The most widely read demonology in the world today, and one built almost entirely since 1973.

Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance · 1973

Entries per grouping

Source base of members

  • 50–794
  • 25–494
  • <251

Alignment mix

  • Infernal6
  • Disputed3

9 of 21 nodes link to a profile; the rest are structural labels from the source text.

21 nodes

the whole structure as one tree

The Deliverance TaxonomyThe Deliverance TaxonomyNamed from a personHuman beings in the text, spir…Named from a person — Human beings in the text, spirits in the tradition.JezebelControl and false prophecy.Jezebel — Control and false prophecy.AhabAbdicated authority.Ahab — Abdicated authority.The queen herself1 Kings: a Sidonian princess, …The queen herself — 1 Kings: a Sidonian princess, not a spirit.Named from a creatureA beast in the text, a method …Named from a creature — A beast in the text, a method in the tradition.LeviathanPride and twisted speech.Leviathan — Pride and twisted speech.PythonThe one with a genuine word be…Python — The one with a genuine word behind it.Named from a cultDeities of the biblical polemi…Named from a cult — Deities of the biblical polemic, treated as territorial powers.AsherahBuried in English as 'grove'.Asherah — Buried in English as 'grove'.BaalBaalMammonA word for money in …Mammon — A word for money in the gospels.Named from a resemblanceNo proof text at all — the met…Named from a resemblance — No proof text at all — the method running without a hook.The religious spiritThe religious spiritThe biblical 'spirit of …The raw material. Whether thes…The biblical 'spirit of X' phrases — The raw material. Whether these name entities is the whole dispute.A spirit of divination —…A spirit of divination — Acts 16:16A spirit of infirmity — …A spirit of infirmity — Luke 13:11A lying spirit — 1 Kings…A lying spirit — 1 Kings 22:22A spirit of jealousy — N…A spirit of jealousy — Numbers 5:14A spirit of heaviness — …A spirit of heaviness — Isaiah 61:3A spirit of fear — 2 Tim…A spirit of fear — 2 Timothy 1:7A familiar spirit — Levi…A familiar spirit — Leviticus 20:27

Reading this tree

Nodes with a coloured dot and an underline link to a full profile. Structural nodes — spheres, ranks, offices — are labels from the source text itself and have no separate entry. Where a figure appears in more than one hierarchy, its profile lists every placement.

The book this structure comes from

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