1. Most often, the witchcraft "profession" is hereditary. The ability to communicate with evil spirits passes from older generations to younger generations. All the most famous sorcerers had ancestors who had been engaged in magical "arts" for generations. In fact, neither Y. Tarasov, nor Y. Longo, nor Maria-Stefania conceal this, and the biographies of Dzhuna Davitashvili, A. Kashpirovsky, David Copperfield (Kotkin) and many other less or very little known sorcerers and psychics testify to this.

Demons who helped ancestral sorcerers always pass on to their descendants, sometimes even "jumping" over generations, and without any special initiation procedure. In such cases, the child unexpectedly has a feeling of his magical power, as if knowledge of spells and rituals that no one told him about is revealed from within. This is how the magical abilities of Helena Blavatsky, Wolf Messing and Aleister Crowley were discovered. The latter wrote: "Even before I reached the age of adolescence, I already knew that I was a BEAST, the number of which is 666. I did not yet fully understand what it meant – there was only a passionate ecstatic feeling of identity (with the personality of the Antichrist – Author)." But it was only at the age of 21 in Stockholm that Crowley experienced the main mystical insight that turned his whole life towards professional magic (sorcery): "I woke up and realized that I possessed all the magical means necessary to realize and satisfy that part of my nature that had been hidden from me until that moment."

2. There are also cases when a dying sorcerer or sorceress handed over a demon who collaborated with them during his lifetime to a stranger who agreed to accept this "gift" if the sorcerer did not have close relatives or they themselves did not want to be "happy" in this way.

3. In some cases, people who want to possess magical power and power consciously go as apprentices to hereditary professional sorcerers, who undergo appropriate initiations (initiations).

4. Others come into contact with demonic forces thanks to books: manuals on magic and occultism. The latter include, first of all, the Kabbalah and books that have a Kabbalistic basis, for example, the works of Eliphas Levi, Dr. Papus, Aleister Crowley, the theosophical works of Helena Blavatsky, Helena and Nicholas Roerich. The same purposes are served by manuals on the technique of Reiki, Lamaist, Hindu, Krishna and many other soul-destroying literature.

5. There are also cases when demons in human form appeared to people deprived of the grace of the Holy Spirit for many personal sins and offered their cooperation and help in solving their problems. Some of these "lucky ones" later became sorcerers.

There are also many descriptions of other very different and very individual ways of coming into direct contact with evil spirits, which there is no point in listing, since they all have something in common. This common feature is, firstly, the lack of grace (personal or hereditary) of the individual, and secondly, the desire to use some supernatural forces to solve some of his own completely earthly and always sinful tasks, which, as a rule, are masked by some plausible pretext. It is in such cases that the saying is used: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

FORMS OF COMMUNICATION

WITH THE DEMONIC WORLD

There are several main forms of communication between magicians and psychics and demons:

1. Most often, contact is carried out in the form of mental suggestion, which can be clearly perceived by a person precisely as a suggestion from the outside, that is, as a way of receiving mental information from another person. In this way, the sorcerer-contactee is informed of facts unknown to him or given instructions about his further actions. Such contact, but in a pathological form, psychiatrists call mentism.

2. Another type of contact is carried out in the form of hearing an inner voice (sometimes the voice can sound as if from outside), but the contactee sorcerer is always clearly aware that the voice belongs to his mentor from the other world. A similar contact in psychopathology is called verbal (i.e., verbal) pseudohallucinosis — in intra- or extraprojection (that is, when hearing a voice as if from within or from without). And in cases where the voice is accompanied by energy that suppresses the will of a person, which makes him carry out an order at the level of an automaton or biorobot, this phenomenon is called imperative hallucinosis.

In contacts of both types, sorcerers have the opportunity to give tasks to demons not only orally, but even mentally. This means that, unlike all other people, sorcerers can enter into two-way contact with spirits, since only in the case of a special contract do demons have the opportunity to read a person's thoughts. The consciousness of all other people, that is, those who have not dared to devote themselves to the service of Satan, is protected to one degree or another by the grace of God, so the demons are not able to read their thoughts. Otherwise, none of the people would even have a hope of salvation. However, demons still have the opportunity to unilaterally instill thoughts in people with the help of suggestive-telepathic influence, which they most often take for their own. Such a possibility of influence opened up for the demons as a result of the ancestral sin, which deprived Adam, Eve and all their offspring of the fullness of the grace of the Holy Spirit, which alone can protect a person from such an influence of demons on consciousness.