# The Seven Spirits of Deceit

Source: https://enocharchive.com/symbols/seven-spirits-of-deceit (Enoch Archive).

In his testament Reuben says that during his repentance he saw the truth about seven spirits of error. Seven spirits are sent against a person from Beliar, and seven others are given at creation so that every human work can be done. The created spirits are life, sight, hearing, smelling, speech, taste and begetting, with sleep added as an eighth.

Mixed in with these are the spirits of error. Reuben names them in order: fornication, which lives in the nature and the senses, insatiateness in the belly, fighting in the liver and gall, fawning and trickery, arrogance, lying, and injustice, which brings theft. Sleep, the eighth, is joined with error and fantasy. Reuben says this is how every young man perishes, and that it happened to him. Later speakers in the book return to the same spirits.

**category:** Spiritual Warfare

**symbol:** Vices that mislead the young