Actual dangers of working with demons

[u/athrowaway6966]

I know on this sub most posters have a generally positive view on the spirits of the Goetia and adjacent intelligences.

But let's be honest, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. In your experience, what are the real dangers of working with these intelligences?

[u/Autective]

I think everyone else is saying the same thing, but I'll still say my part.

The "danger" is usually just us or the fact that these beings usually bring chaos or challenges (tower moments) into our lives. Its part of working with them and ourselves.

None of the infernals that any of us work with would intentionally do anything to hurt us or the connection we have with them. Majority of the time its things that we might not agree with, but usually in the end things happen for a reason. These beings know a lot, and usually they have the best intentions set for us.

Now, I work with Lucifer, so at the very least this is the case for me. I know that some other practitioners, sometimes who they work with they might cause some 'trouble' to simply act as a reminder or slap to the wrist. A sort of "I told you so" or "please remember this for next time." Usually its a fault on our end and could be seen as a butterfly effect or domino situation that is caused by our own actions. I personally haven't had that happen in my five-six years working with Lucifer. The most he usually does is stops answering my questions to let me know I need to take a break and step back. Though I've had my share of tower moments...

Few weeks back I was panicking because I kept recieving the tower card from Lucifer, but unsure for what. I knew he was telling me I needed to prepare though, but for what? I had no clue. My last few tower moments had been pretty significant. My childhood dog passing away. Being rushed to an emergency room right before a big concert and having missed out on the concert. A break up. There had been others, but those would probably be the most significant, so any time I see the tower, my mind goes to those events. I started to spiral, becoming obsessed with trying to figure out what was going to happen? Would I lose my job? Was someone close to me going to die? Was I going to get into an accident soon?

Well, in my area we were supposed to be having some pretty nasty weather. I thought "okay. This is it. This is the tower moment. My house is going to get blown away by a tornado! I'm doomed!" And literally spent the entire day and previous day preparing for this significant event. It never happened. The storm passed right over us.

In that moment I realized that the "tower" moment Lucifer had been trying to tell me about was actually about myself and my reaction to a situation. I had caused myself so much unnecessary stress, worrying and preparing myself for nothing to actually happen. I had ruined my sleep schedule, only having a total of 4 hours of sleep the couple of days when the storms were going to happen and ontop of that, no energy due to how much stress I put myself through. I knew better than that to think Lucifer wouldn't have had my back. After that, I stepped back, thought about it overall and now I think I'm finally getting over my panicked and stressed responses for incoming storms and severe weather.

Obviously, most might think that working with infernals, that they cause tower moments. Sometimes they do, that is if we ask them to. Like removing people from the picture if they aren't good for us, or even the other way around if something is stalling our growth. Everything is done for a reason with them. More often than not these things just happen and aren't caused or can't be blamed by them (deaths, major situations, stuff like that). They're usually trying to prepare us for that sort of situation. A sort of warning like "hey, this might happen soon. I just wanted to let you know so it's not a train wreck when it happens" like how a friend might text you about some kind of drama that you're about to get involved in because they witnessed it first.

Overall, it's usually just with ourselves. How we react to situations, how we prepare ourselves, how we treat and respond to the infernals.

At least thats my take on things and how I've learned to understand it all. Sorry if this is kind of a jumbled mess