Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff.

You should know a podcast put on by classical educators working for Veritas Academy in

Austin, Texas.

Joined as always with, we have Graham Donaldson.

Hi.

And A.J. Hanenberg. Howdy do you do? And I and Thomas Magby. I am slightly concerned about our podcast right now. We had our last episode on

heresies in which we are called a heretical podcast. And today we'll talk about demons,

which I believe makes us a demonic podcast. So yes, well we are sitting around having a council about what we should do.

Which feels oddly similar to a scene from Paradise Lost.

Yes, well, today we are going to go into John Milton's Paradise Lost book two.

And just to set the scene for you, we're going to,

Satan has lied to a one third of, well, he lied to all of heaven,

but one third of the angels of heaven believed his lie.

Except for Abdel.

Except for Abdel.

They all believed his lie, and then they fought God,

and God smoked them out of heaven and they fell

to hell and were laying on the ground rolling around for nine days. Or they fell, they fell and lay in

hell for nine days just being absolutely smote. And then they got up, dust themselves off and they

decided that they needed to

figure out what to do next. So they did what any group of people do when they are trying to

figure out what to do next. They formed a committee. Yay. After building a sweet demon castle.

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