The Devil: A Jungian Witchcraft Perspective
The Devil is not a horned demon waiting outside us; it is the living image of our personal and collective Shadow.
It is born from those things which we fear so deeply we bury them, yet we keep them alive by burying them: taboo, compulsion, shame, hunger, violence, desire.
It is the sum of those unacknowledged, unassimilated parts of the Self, given shape, autonomy, and terrible vitality by the energy we donate through fear, secrecy, and repression.
The Devil is neither god nor demon in the mythic sense, but a self-made deity:
• It is built of demons — fragments of us that became monsters when starved of light.
• It wants to be a god: it seeks dominion over us through our own denial.
• It becomes a god precisely when we pretend it does not exist, or treat it as only external.
Encountering the Devil
To meet the Devil is to confront the mirror of our own excess and resistance:
• Fear, the primal instinct, becomes terror that overrules thought.
• Greed, the will to gather, becomes mindless hoarding and consumption.
• Lust, the force of creation, becomes devouring obsession.
• Envy, the awareness of lack, becomes venom.
These are not foreign poisons; they are vital forces misused.
Jungian witchcraft teaches:
We assimilate them by letting them out — naming them, channeling them, ritualising them safely — or they will rule us unseen.
By acknowledging what is taboo within us, we break its chains over us.
By acting consciously with what compels us, we rob it of compulsion.
The Devil as Portal
In this sense, the Devil becomes a gatekeeper:
• Guardian of what is sacred because it is feared.
• The final initiator who bars the way, demanding: “Do you know your own darkness?”
Through the Devil, we find the raw spirit of nature:
• The will to life unbound by hypocritical constraint.
• Freedom that respects harmony, rather than mindless obedience.
• Humanity as wild, whole, and unashamed — neither slave to instinct nor slave to law.
The Path of Jungian Witchcraft
This understanding is more than a philosophy:
It is a personal path of self-work:
• To map one’s Shadow.
• To reclaim power through integration, not denial.
• To see the Devil not as enemy, but as the broken mirror of Self that must be mended.
It rejects the cowardice of a society that demonises what it secretly worships;
And embraces instead an honest, sacred, dangerous freedom:
To be fully human, to hold the light and the darkness, and so become whole.