Thaumaturgy

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A word about Demons.  I'm going to explain a great deal about demons now.  Then explain why they are here and why they are hard to get gone.  Actually, as I am editing  I am going to just hint at it some so as not to scare you off.  I am watching Iron Man 3, another movie about me.  They are all about me sometimes it seems.  

In the movie, at the start of it, he ignores a woman and a man at a nightclub and because of this slight, because Iron Man is so great and because THEY will not be slighted being also "challenged" by his greatness, they become willing to hurt him.  And they are willing to do this without telling him.  In other words they are willing to deal in poison.  

Fast forward to the end of the movie and Iron Man is almost killed.  In fact, I am watching it now and I know that it doesn't even matter how it ends.  These two demons are the SOLE reason for his existence until they are gone.   

In Sword of the Berserk, Gutts also faced a Demon.  There it was called Nosferatu Zodd.  This demon is seen on the second DVD and is almost as terrifying as the Dragon of the Hobbit.  Really?  Yes, really. Again you have to watch the whole series like 7 times to understand it all.  In this scene, he is surprised that 30 of his men have not been able to secure a castle and have not returned so as he is about to go find out what happened, one his men half beaten to death, tells him "Zodd", then dies.  

Gutts tells noone to follow him.  It's obvious that if 30 men cannot take one man down, all the rest of his men will not be able to help.  Gutts is quite the warrior at this point in the movie.  All of the men respect him and have accepted him, his comraderie with the men are at an all-time high.  He is "unbeatable" on the battlefield based on the battles already shown in the movie.

He goes in to find a huge man with a bastard sword held in one hand that has two impaled bodies on it.  He calmly turns to look at Gutts, who when he recognizes the faces of the two men as his, attacks.   The man counters his attacks easily and forces him into a wall.  At that point the man attacks with unbelievable speed with Gutts barely escaping each time as the man crashes blow after blow of which one hit would easily crush him.  Finally, one of the blows land and Gutts is thrown up against a wall and has his wind knocked out and he realizes that THIS is his last move.  

Gutts' sword is three times the size of a normal sword.  This is because growing up he was forced to use a regular sized sword for an adult and to compensate he just kept using huge claymores as an adult.  At this moment, he devises a plan to instead of blocking his attack, to attack his sword and then, as the man is defenseless, to attack a now defenseless huge man with half a sword.  Everything goes as planned.  Gutts sticks him in his shoulder and the huge man grabs the sword amazed at his wound then grows into the twice his size demon that is Nosferatu Zodd.  He is delighted to have been aroused.   What happens next?  Buy the DVD set.  

The movie Wanted is a movie that I have some kinship with.  The girl, Angelina, is an invincible type.  She is driven by her belief in a greater good that is tainted when a fellow "angel" decides to exchange the secret names for his own set of names.  "Your name came up".  But the demon in this movie is the main character.  He is recruited for the sole purpose of killing his father.  Why does this have anything to do with demons you ask?  How do I know so much about demons and what is a thaumaturgist you ask? 

Well, see you can't attack someone you love.  So the son could not attack the father.  Iron Man, not knowing he did anything wrong, could not return fire on the two that trapped him.  The demon from Gutts' army was in fact one of his own officers from the army he served, the army of midland.  You see you can't attack one of your OWN officers even if he thinks you are a threat and has attacked you.  

A demon is magical.  It takes a great many people to create a situation like this where you are unaware of being attacked and yet the person attacking you feels a righteous need to do so.   It's called thaumaturgy.  

A summoning.  

ps. These were some great movies so I recommend them all. You want to know more about thaumaturgy? No you don't.