Deliverance & Spiritual Warfare · English · 1973
Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance
Frank and Ida Mae Hammond
The founding handbook of the modern deliverance movement, and the source of its characteristic method: demons grouped into families under a ruling 'strongman', each named for the behaviour it is held to produce. Its list of groupings is the direct ancestor of nearly every deliverance taxonomy since.
Read Pigs in the Parlor: A Practical Guide to Deliverance in full at the linked edition →Hierarchies from this text
What this text attests · 5
| Name here | Rank given | # | Powers described |
|---|---|---|---|
Familiar spirits = The Familiar Spirit | Grouping | — | Treated as a family of spirits attached to occult practice and inherited involvement in it. |
| Ruling spirit | — | Cited as the warrant for demanding a spirit's name during deliverance, and for the idea that demons operate in grouped families under one head. | |
Spirit families = The Spirits of Affliction | Groupings | — | Each phrase is treated as a ruling spirit with a family of subordinate spirits beneath it, which is the organising principle of the whole book. |
Spirit of Leviathan = The Leviathan Spirit | Ruling spirit | — | Read as pride and as the twisting of communication, from the closed scales of Job 41 and the crooked serpent of Isaiah 27. |
Spirit of Python = The Python Spirit | Ruling spirit | — | Read as a constricting spirit that works by degrees against prayer and spiritual vitality, on the model of the snake rather than the oracle. |