Alternative Demonologies

"'All magic - I repeat, all magic, with no exceptions whatsoever - depends upon the control of demons. By demons I mean specifically fallen angels. No lesser class can do a thing for you.'"
-James Blish, Black Easter IN Blish, After Such Knowledge (London, 1991), pp. 319-425 AT p. 332.

"'Our universe has a straightforward space-time geometry, except in odd places like the cores of white dwarf stars. Demons can move about in it without trouble - in fact, they can play tricks with distance and chronology that gave them the reputation of being supernatural in olden days - because their home universe is wildly complicated and variable.'"
-Operation Chaos, XXVIII, p. 221.

Thus, in the goetic universe of Operation Chaos, demons are not fallen angels but embodied beings from another universe, formerly believed to be fallen angels. Such beings are "paranatural," (XXIX, p. 224) not "supernatural." Earlier, the afreet, described by Virginia as a Low Worlder, talked about being hatched and referred to his mother. (VI, pp 37, 39) These are kinds of aliens, not extraterrestrial but extracosmic.