Theurgia, or The Egyptian Mysteries (includes Letter to Anebo)

or guardian spirit—how the "Lord of the House" original: "οἰκοδεσπότης: Hebrew, Baal Zebul." In astrology, a "house" is a twelfth part of the sky marked out for horoscopes. assigns it, according to what purpose or what quality of emanation, life, or power comes from it to us. I ask whether such a spirit really exists, and whether it is possible to actually identify the Lord of the House. Certainly, if it is possible, then the person has learned the scheme of his nativity; by knowing his own guardian demon, he is liberated from fate and is truly favored by divinity. Nevertheless, the rules for casting nativities are countless and beyond comprehension. Moreover, it is impossible for expertness in astral observations to amount to an actual knowing, for there is great disagreement regarding it, and Chairemon, as well as many others, have spoken against it. Hence, the assumption of a "Lord of the House" (or Lords, if there are more than one) pertaining to a nativity is almost confessed by astrologers themselves to be beyond absolute proof; and yet they say that it is from this assumption that identifying one's personal demon is possible.

But further, I wish to be informed whether our personal demon presides over some specific region within us. For it seems to be believed by some that there are demons allotted to specific departments of the body—one over health, one over the figure, and another over bodily habits, forming a bond of union among them—and that one is placed as superior over all of them. Further, they suppose that one demon is the guardian of the body, another of the soul, and another of the superior mind Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:23: "Spirit and soul and body."; also that some demons are good and others bad.

I am in doubt, however, whether our particular demon may not simply be a specific part of the soul; thus, he who has a mind imbued with good sense would be the truly favored one.