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The following are some excerpts from Archimandrite Haralambos Vasilopoulos’ booklet, The 52 Demons in a Deck of Cards.
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THE 52 DEMONS IN A DECK OF CARDS
I Ching, Dice, Cards and Tarot
The following are some excerpts from Archimandrite Haralambos Vasilopoulos booklet, The
52 Demons in a Deck of Cards:
The I Ching or Book of Changes
In ancient times, the great continent of the Pacific Ocean, Mu, began to be shaken by terrible
earthquakes, to finally be submerged with a population of millions of inhabitants into the
depths of the ocean. A sufficient number of them had gone to East Africa, Central America, and
Tibet in time! Mu was destroyed and sunk by Gods wrath because its inhabitants were Satan
worshippers and degenerates. It is historically evident that punished many other peoples in the
same way for the same reasons. Sodom and Gomorrah, Sybaris, and Mu are all deep in the
bowels of the earth.
The priests established themselves in the Himalayas and continued their work. These priests
comprised the nucleus of the White Brotherhood. These Himalayan priests came in contact
with the peoples of Asia and taught them various techniques.
Since the Chinese were then the most numerous and mightiest of all Asiatic peoples, the
priests of Mu taught them typography, the making and use of cards, pyrites, compasses and
many other things which were discovered in Europe many years later. The Chinese were
publishing daily papers before Guttenburg invented the printing press. They circulated
regular paper money in China 1500 years before Christ.
They were also taught how to use Bengal lights...Naturally whatever the descendants of the
Priests of Mu taught were with barters. Thus, all the religions of Asia are saturated by
Satanism.
The descendants of the Priests of Mu also taught the Chinese and other peoples how to
contact demons! In their turn, the demons taught them divination and magic. Namely, they
were taught how they could be helped by the demons throughout their life. The I Ching was
compiled for this purpose 5000 years before Christ. Nearly every Chinese person considers it
his duty to seek refuge in the magic of this holy book in every step of his life.
Tradition relates how during the writing of I Ching, hundreds of demons presented
themselves and gave living instructions which were copied by special, expert scribes. The
compiling of this Codex was of such great significance that Confucius is reported to have once
said, 'If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Y, and might
then escape falling into great errors (Confucian Analects, VII, xvi.).
Afterwards, Confucius added many scholia to the I Ching. With the passing of time, 48 other
Chinese sages also added other scholia and commentaries.1
...According to Chinese tradition, a monster would emerge from the Hwang Ho, which was a
dragon and horse crossbreed. This monster bore shapes in the form of black circles on its back.
A tortoise emerged from another river called Luo. It bore shapes in the form of red circles on its
back. Today, the river Ho is known as the Yellow River.
The Chinese sages of ancient times made a combination of the shapes, which they called chart
of divination and this was preserved as a treasure in palaces until 1079 BC. This eventually
became what is now known as The Book of Changes or I Ching.
Around 600 BCE, when the Jews were still slaves in Babylon, many of them came into contact
with people who used the I Ching in regions outside the Chinese wall and some even reached
the White Brotherhood hideouts in the Himalayas. According to tradition, the result was an
assembly of all those concerned, in which 365 demons presented themselves. According to the
Chinese texts, most of them were of small stature (2.5-3 feet tall), very deformed, filthy, and
disgusting. Some of them bore black and red attire with black circles or lines.
Overall, these demons taught 13 various games of chance to the assemblymen...An
appropriate demon is designated for every symbol and kind of game of chance (or luck).
Dice
Dice were quickly propelled to the West after the countries of Asia were seized by assault. It
appears that the ancient Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Assyrians, etc. knew quite well that
dice were the demons jurisdiction because in many ancient depictions of dice players, there are
also depictions of small hairy demons! The places where dice were usually played were
brothels, public baths, taverns and markets. Then, for the first time, demonic fylakta which
would apparently bring luck to players, were placed in circulation.
To this day, we still see the small black or red circles on dice, the bones of Dominoes, and
other chance games.
Around 1400 AD, the powers of darkness decided the time was right for packs of cards.
Noble merchants who had visited India, China, Persia and the rest of the Asiatic countries,
brought back a new innovation with them. 52 depictions of men and women, depictions on
white slates made from elephant tusks, or specially wrought skins. The travelling benefactors
brought details about the different games and combinations, and what games could be played
by one, two or more persons.
French monks started to throw bassets in their cells, just as the aristocrats, in order to kill
time.
Spain was the first European country cards were introduced. This happened when Spain was
conquered by the Arabs. Around 1376, decks of cards were transported by gypsies to Italy and
afterwards France.
During the Inquisition, the papal inquisitors burnt the iniquitous and righteous without
discernment. In 1589, during the arrest of a rabbi in Spain, a large number of volumes and texts
in Hebrew, French, Spanish and German were found in his house. One of the books gave fine
details about card-playing: Their origin from China, each demon patron for every card, the
reinforcing demons for the complete destruction of the card-player, as well as, various fylakta.
Naturally, this revealing book was burned on the pyre along with the other books, however,
without their owner who disappeared from prison, leaving no trace other than the chains he
was locked in!
A young cleric had the prudence to copy some useful details from this demonic book of card-
playing, which we will cite below.
Some More Details
The first deck of cards had 68 cards, which were imitations of chess pawns. Up to 1423, when
wood engraving was discovered, decks of cards were painted works and only the dignitaries
and rich could supply themselves with them. It is related how a certain Duke Visconti paid
1500 gold crowns for a deck of cards painted by a renowned painter.
In Asia, the first cards were painted on thin parchments or small leaves from ivory. The old
Indian cards were very beautiful. Except for the playing cards that had been standardized in
international scales, there were those which corresponded to a particular people. For example,
the Japanese deck of cards is very big. It has 200 cards and each card has a greater thickness
than the European. However, this last characteristic is no longer static.
During the 15th century in Germany, there was an organized industry of card playing which
also made a significant export in other countries
In the 19th century, the French contrived fantasy packs of cards. They were cartoons
satirizing persons and things of the age allegorically.
Cards in Greece
The Venetians brought cards to Greece. They originally brought them to the Seven Islands
and theyve maintained their Italian name in Greece.
The Italian term trapoula means mousetrap, snare and deceit. But the other Italian term
kontsina also means snare, collusion.
The first Greek cards were printed in Vienna by philhellenes after the Revolution of 1821 and
had a patriotic character. Their figures depicted heroes, forms of the ethnic struggle, such as
Kolokotronis, Miaoulis, Kanaris, Rigas, Ypsilantis and others. As queens, this deck had the
goddess Athena, the Karteria2, etc. Such a deck of cards is saved in the Ethnological Museum.
Around the 16th century, the passion for card playing was so great in various countries that
there wasnt a popular restaurant without a deck of cards either new or old.
In Greece there were reactions to this game. It was quickly characterized as a school for
corruption and deceit, and a cause of destruction for family and society. The figures of the
Greek revolution heroes were painted on cards to precisely circumvent this reaction.
The first Greek written text that mentions cards in Greece is a poem. This poem, written in
1498, has the title, The Plague of Rhodes. The poet, E. Georgilas, attributes the plague which
mowed down many people in that epoch, to Gods wrath because they played cards with great
passion. Georgilas counsels the Rhodites, and good Christians, who have been carried away by
satanic card-playing to repent in order to stop the just wrath of God. Essentially he counsels
them to burn games, cards and dice and to cease whatever evil works harm the soul.
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52 Demons Rule over the Deck
Before we cite the 52 appropriate demons for every card, we must say that during the first
contact, all of them try to ascertain if they will match with their candidate victim. Finally, 1-4
of them prevail and start to influence. Then the card player starts to notice this or that card
favours him. When things proceed according to wish, the established demons seek help from
other special comrades in theft, card theft, inciting to fornication, adultery, murder, and finally
suicide.
We should also observe that the evil spirits appear to be divided into three genders: male,
female, and neutral. Its not by chance the four Queens have four satanic spirits of female
gender as patrons. The Queen of Spades being the worse of them. The great Russian writer,
Alexander Pushkin, wrote a short story called The Queen of Spades3. It describes the drama of
a young Russian card player who murders an old lady card player who constantly wins, in
order to reveal her secret. Eventually, the young Russian meets a tragic end.
The Names of the Demons
SPADES CLUBS HEARTS
DIAMONDS
1) Samas 1) Raymon 1) Marut 1) Murmur
2) Sariel 2) Zavebe 2) Beleth 2) Balam
3) Sarlil 3) Tumael 3) Uraka Barameel 3) Verrine
4) Turel 4) Iblis 4) Simare Siel 4) Paimon
5) Rumael 5) Azazelon 5) Atargulph 5) Azazel
6) Mammon 6) Rimmon 6) Meresin 6) Sealiah
7) Azaradel 7) Azza 7) Azzael 7)
Hananel
8) Gaim 8) Hakael 8) Hauras 8) Usiel
9) Tabaet 9) Zefonith 9) Gadreel 9)
Armaros
10) Beliar 10) Iuvart 10) Asbeel 10) Kokabel
Rigas Adrameleg Rigas Sagham Rigas Sarmiel Rigas
Samsaveel
Dama Satrina Dama Ratpotai Dama Seket Dama
Lilith
Vales Samangaluf Vales Sagmagirin Vales Yahriel Vales
Dagon
The Symbols of A Deck of Cards
We will reveal to our readers what is truly behind the four camouflaged and seemingly
innocent signs in a deck of cards:
() The female breasts and genital organs.
() The anus and male genital organs.
() Our old, familiar Crux Ansata(Ankh), the unholy cross of Black Magic, comprised
from the interlacement of both female and male genital organs.
() Two touching triangles. If you push one of the triangles downwards or upwards, you
would have a Jewish star.
Card Divination
The cradle of card divination is Turkey, Egypt and India. In Greece, there are enough
strongly rooted centers in Crete, Corinth and Thrace.
Notes
1) Legge, James, The I Ching, tr. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 16, 1899, Introduction.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/index.htm
2) The Kartera (Greek for "Perseverance") was the first steam-powered warship to be used in combat operations in history. It was built in 1825 in an English
shipyard for the revolutionary Hellenic Navy during the Greek War of Independence.
3) This is an interesting story and can be read online here: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/9482/