Demons and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Interesting riff on names at
Tim Boucher's blog.
Tim starts off with a quote from an Aleister Crowley grimore:
What I am interested in though is a section of the introduction, which was penned by Crowley, explaining certain metaphysical properties of these demons, which I think is very interesting.
The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain.
Their seals therefore represent (Mr. Spencer's projected cube) methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots (through the eye).
The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish:
[1] General control of the brain., (Establishment of functions relative to the subtle world.)
[2] Control over the brain in detail. (Rank or type of the Spirit.)
[3] Control of one special portion. (Name of the Spirit.)
He then looks at some names of Goetic Demons:
Valefor
Zepar
Focalor
Oriax
Vapula
Zagan
Volac
Phenex
And then:
So yeah, I was just thinking about how similar those are to the names of different drugs made by pharmaceutical heavyweights like Pfizer and Lilly. Examples:
Prozac
Strattera
Xigris
Zyprexa
Zoloft
Zyrtec
Viagra
Celebrex
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at May 1, 2005 11:15 PM