Belial

BELIAL

Belial means “without a master,” and symbolizes true independence, self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment. Belial represents the earth element.

– Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible (1969)

Who Belial is to practitioners today

Belial is the King without a master: the sixty-eighth spirit of the Goetia, the Crown Prince of the North and of Earth in modern demonolatry, and for the people who work with him today the spirit of independence, worldly success and standing on your own two feet.

He is said to have been created next after Lucifer, and he carries himself that way. Practitioners describe him as noble, cool, restrained and a little proud, a King who rewards self-respect and has no patience for pleading.

He is approached for promotions, titles, favor and authority, and just as often for the harder gift underneath them: learning to stop pleasing everyone and live by your own rule. One long-time devotee described five or six years of work in which Belial never once caused them pain, but kept putting them in situations that exposed their people-pleasing until they changed.

This page starts with how people actually work with him now, the prayers they use and the questions they ask, and ends with what the old books say.

Why people work with Belial

People search for the right spirit for the right purpose. These are the reasons practitioners come to Belial, from the oldest and best-known to what people actually ask him for today.

Classic reasons

• Titles and preferment: the grimoires’ “senatorships,” positions of rank and honor
• Favor: winning the goodwill of friends and foes alike
• Reconciliation: turning enemies into allies and mending broken friendships
• Familiars: excellent helper spirits
• Independence: freedom from any master, human or divine
• Earthly power: mastery of the material world

Modern reasons

• Promotions and career: people pray to Belial for advancement, job titles and recognition at work
• Self-employment: many work with Belial when leaving a job to answer to no one but themselves
• Breaking people-pleasing: practitioners summon Belial to help them say no, hold boundaries and stop living for others’ approval
• Self-respect and pride: petitions for the sense of worth that does not depend on anyone else
• Favor with those in power: spells with Belial before interviews, reviews, court dates and meetings with authority
• Making peace: reconciliation with a colleague, family member or old friend
• Popularity and social standing: being liked, invited and respected in a group
• Grounding and stability: as Prince of Earth, he is called on for steadiness, routine and a solid footing
• Money and property: earthly abundance, property and the discipline to build wealth
• Owning desire: some invoke Belial to accept their pleasures and appetites without shame
• Guarding the North: in demonolatry ritual, he is called to the northern quarter
• Shadow work: facing the parts of yourself you have called worthless, and finding their value

Traditional, for reference

What the old grimoires and demonologies assign him. This is historical background, not modern practice.

• Ars Goetia: sixty-eighth spirit, a mighty King created next after Lucifer, who distributes “preferments of senatorships,” causes favor of friends and foes, and gives excellent familiars
• Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Weyer): the same offices, plus the tale of Solomon shutting him in a brass vessel
• Book of Abramelin: one of the four superior princes, with Lucifer, Leviathan and Satan (Mathers’ translation)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: leader of the Sons of Darkness in the War Scroll; his three “nets” in the Damascus Document
• The Satanic Bible: Crown Prince of Hell for the North and the element of Earth

Belial at a glance

• Other names: Belhor, Baalial, Beliar, Beliall, Beliel
• Name: from the Hebrew beliya’al, usually read as “worthless”; LaVey reads it as “without a master”
• Rank: King, the sixty-eighth spirit of the Goetia; one of the four Crown Princes in modern demonolatry
• Rules: eighty legions of spirits (fifty in some texts)
• Appearance: two beautiful angels, or one, sitting in a chariot of fire, speaking with a comely voice
• Direction: North
• Enn: Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehl Belial (see our demonic enns page)

Correspondences

Used in Black Witch Coven (from our own practice):

• Candle color: Orange
• Plant: Mullein
• Planet: Jupiter/Neptune
• Metal: Tin/Neptunium
• Element: Water
• Rank: King
• Day or night: Belial is a Night Demon and governs 80 legions of spirits
• Direction: North
• Incense: Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cedar, Vetiver, Lemon balm. You could make a combination, or choose one

Also used by other practitioners:

• Element: Earth, following The Satanic Bible and the Dukante hierarchy
• Colors: Black, Green, Brown, Gold
• Day: Thursday, the day of Jupiter; Saturday for his earthy, disciplined side
• Stones: Black onyx, Jet, Obsidian, Pyrite, Garnet
• Offerings of earth: Soil, salt, bread, grain, coins
• Qliphothic placement: Da’ath, the hidden “knowledge” between the supernal and lower worlds, in some Qliphothic systems

Working with Belial today

The Goetia gives a ceremonial conjuration for Belial, and says he will not stay in the truth unless he is constrained by divine power. Ceremonial magicians still work him on those terms. What follows is the practice that has grown up in demonolatry and Left Hand Path communities, together with how we approach him in Black Witch Coven.

Come as an equal, not a supplicant

The most consistent report concerns bearing. Belial is the spirit of having no master, and people who come to him pleading or apologizing tend to describe a cold silence. People who come with dignity, state plainly what they want and what they will give, and treat him with the respect owed a King report a far warmer response. Respect without servility is the whole tone of the relationship.

Steady practice first

Several practitioners report that Belial’s first request was for regular meditation and grounding. One devotee lit a candle for him every day for two to three weeks, grounded twice a week and worked an elemental stabilizing ritual from Connolly before he appeared in a dream. Another who did not keep up the meditation he asked for found their connection with spirits growing weaker. The pattern is clear enough: he answers people who keep a discipline.

His seal and enn

• Draw his seal by hand in black ink, and keep it at the center of the altar
• Chant the enn Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehl Belial slowly until the room becomes still and heavy
• Gaze at the seal for several minutes with slow breath
• Wear it during ritual if you follow the Goetic instruction that it be worn as a lamen

The altar

Face it North, his direction. Common items:

• His seal, hand-drawn
• An orange candle in our tradition; black, green or gold for others
• A dish of soil or salt for Earth, or a bowl of water following our coven’s attribution
• Patchouli, cedar or vetiver incense
• Coins, a small crown or a symbol of the position you are working toward
• Something that represents your independence: a business card, keys to your own place, your own signature

Offerings

• Incense: patchouli, sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, lemon balm
• Earth offerings: bread, grain, salt, a dish of rich soil
• Drink: dark red wine, whiskey or strong coffee
• Coins and gold: for the King of the material world
• Dark chocolate and rich food
• Candles: left to burn while you give thanks
• Blood: a drop of your own blood on his seal, on the candle or in the wine
• Acts of self-respect: turning down something you would once have accepted out of fear, and dedicating that refusal to him

The Goetia insists that Belial “must have offerings, sacrifices and gifts presented unto him” or he will not give true answers.

Offering, sacrifice and gift together are the oldest exchange between people and their gods, the currency of the Temple’s burnt offerings, the Passover lamb and the qurbani of Eid al-Adha, and the Goetia asks that Belial be honoured in it. Many practitioners today honour the principle with gifts, and others keep the older forms in their own practice.

Across both, a promised offering left undelivered is the most reported way to lose his attention.

Timing

• Night: he is a Night Demon in our tradition
• Thursday: the day of Jupiter, for career, titles and favor
• Saturday: for boundaries, discipline and long-term building
• Winter: the season of the North; some save larger rites for the winter months
• Before a big step: the night before an interview, a review, a resignation or a business launch

Signs of contact

• A cool, regal presence: the most common report, often described as noble, proud and restrained
• Weight and stillness: the room becoming heavy and very quiet
• Dreams: a figure seated on a red or royal chair, legs crossed, watching; sometimes a beautiful, cold young man
• Situations that test you: people who take advantage of you showing up, so you finally say no
• Favor out of nowhere: a call from a superior, an unexpected offer, a door opening at work
• Reconciliation: someone you had fallen out with reaching out first

The lesson of independence

This is the part of working with Belial people talk about most. He grants favor and position, but he seems to grant them to people who are becoming their own masters. Practitioners describe:

• Relationships built on people-pleasing coming to a head
• Being pushed to set boundaries they had avoided for years
• Jobs where they were undervalued becoming impossible to stay in
• A growing, sometimes uncomfortable, sense of their own worth

Most say afterward that this was the real gift, and that the promotion or favor that followed felt like a side effect of becoming someone who expected it.

A simple working for favor at work

• Set his seal facing North with an orange or gold candle
• Write the position, title or recognition you want on a slip of paper, in the present tense, and sign it
• Chant his enn until the room grows still, then read the paper aloud standing
• State what you will do in the world to earn it, and what you will give him in return
• Place the paper under the candle with a coin on top
• Offer patchouli or cedar incense and let the candle burn down safely
• Keep the coin in your wallet or work bag until the matter is settled, then give thanks

The elemental summoning

Our earlier page gave this summoning, built on S. Connolly’s elemental ritual. It asks for real concentration and a quiet place with no disturbance.

• Set out a scrying mirror, incense and Belial’s sigil, placed where it is clearly seen
• Prepare body, emotions and mind to merge your energy with his; many meditate first
• Place a candle at each of the four quarters: North for Belial and earth, East for Lucifer and air, South for Flereous and fire, West for Leviathan and water
• Gesture to each quarter in turn while chanting the enns of Belial and Lucifer, Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehl Belial and Renich Tasa Uberaca Biasa Icar Lucifer, at least three times
• Gesture to the centre to call the fifth element, spirit, which belongs to Satan
• Watch the mirror or the incense smoke, where Belial manifests; introduce yourself and make your request
• Give the offerings and gifts of the bargain before dismissing him with respect

Pacts and deals

Belial is a natural spirit for a deal, since the grimoires make exchange central to working with him. A typical modern agreement:

• Is written by the practitioner
• Names one clear goal, such as a promotion, a business milestone or a title
• Sets a term, often six months or a year
• States the exchange: a monthly offering, a public acknowledgment, a commitment to a discipline
• Is signed in ink beside his seal, and may be sealed with a single drop of your own blood, since blood is life force and nearly every faith speaks of it as life itself
• Is read aloud standing, and kept on the altar until the term ends

If you would like a pact made with an experienced guide, see our Demonic Pact with Savannah.

Prayers and invocations to Belial

Belial is a King who values dignity, so most people pray to him standing, facing North, speaking plainly. The prayers below are written by Black Witch Coven for your own use. Speak them as they are, or let them show you the shape of a prayer and then use your own words.

How people pray to him

• Standing, facing North: upright rather than kneeling; many say he answers best to people who stand before him
• In a steady voice: clear statements rather than pleading
• Written and signed: a prayer or petition signed with your full name, as a person who answers for themselves
• Simply talking: as one would to a powerful, respected patron
• Candle colors: orange in our tradition; gold for career and favor, green for money, black for boundaries and independence
• Repetition: a short prayer said each night for the length of a working

Prayer and petition

A prayer keeps the relationship: thanks and respect offered with nothing attached. A petition asks for something specific, names what you will do and what you will give in return, and is written and placed under his seal. Practitioners who keep up regular devotion to Belial say their petitions are answered more readily, much as a King favors those he already knows to be loyal and capable.

His enn

Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehl Belial

Chant it slowly and evenly, letting your voice drop lower with each round until the room feels still and heavy. Most people chant it before a prayer or ritual to open the way.

Opening invocation for ritual

Belial, King of the North,
created next after the Light-Bearer,
who rides in the chariot of fire,
I call you as one who stands on their own feet.
Come to this place with your dignity and your power.
I greet you with respect and without fear.
Lirach Tasa Vefa Wehl Belial.
Hail Belial.

Spoken standing, facing North, after the candles are lit and the enn has been chanted.

Prayer for independence

Belial, you who have no master,
teach me to have none.
Loosen every hand that holds me by guilt,
every voice that tells me I owe my life to its approval.
Let me say no without apology
and yes without fear.
Let me answer to myself.

Said at night with a black candle. Many repeat it while working on boundaries in a relationship or job.

Prayer for advancement

King Belial, giver of rank and preferment,
set my name before those who decide.
Let my work be seen and my worth be counted.
Open the door to the place I have earned,
and give me the bearing to walk through it
as if it were always mine.

Said the night before an interview or review, with a gold or orange candle and a coin under his seal.

Prayer for reconciliation

Belial, who causes favor of friends and foes,
soften what has hardened between us.
Turn the anger to understanding,
the silence to speech,
the enemy to ally.
Let what was broken be mended
on terms that honor us both.

Said with the other person’s name written beneath his seal. Some add a small offering of bread to be shared.

Prayer of worth

Belial, whose name they called worthless,
you know what it is to be named small by others.
Show me the worth in what I was taught to despise.
Let me stand in my body, my desires and my ambitions
without shame.
I am my own.

A prayer for shadow work, often written in a journal and read aloud once a week.

Gratitude and offering prayer

King Belial, I thank you
for the doors you opened,
for the favor you turned toward me,
for the lessons that made me stand taller.
I give you this offering freely, as one sovereign to another.
Hail Belial, King of the North.

Said as the offering is placed on the altar. Name it aloud before you begin.

Closing and release

Belial, King of the North, I thank you for your presence.
What was asked here is sealed.
Return to your realm with my respect,
and walk with me as you will.
This rite is ended.

Spoken before the candles are snuffed.

Questions people actually ask

These are the questions that come up again and again in demonolatry, Goetic and Left Hand Path communities, answered the way we would answer them.

Is Belial dangerous?

Practitioners who have worked with him for years say he has never harmed them. What he does do is push. One devotee of five or six years put it simply: the difficulties came from their own habits, and Belial kept showing those habits to them until they changed. If that counts as danger, it is the danger of growing.

Is Belial good for beginners?

He is not usually recommended as a first spirit. He tends to answer people with a steady practice, and his cool, proud manner can feel like rejection to a newcomer. People who feel him calling often describe beginning with regular meditation, grounding and a daily candle, which is what he asked of several practitioners at first contact.

Does his name really mean “worthless”?

The Hebrew beliya’al is usually read as “without worth” or “worthless,” and in the Hebrew Bible “sons of Belial” means scoundrels. LaVey read it as “without a master,” and that is the meaning most modern Satanists and demonolaters work with. Many practitioners like both: a power called worthless by an old religion who teaches people to find their own value.

Is Belial the same as Satan or Lucifer?

In some early Jewish and Christian writings Belial is a name for the chief of evil, and Paul sets “Christ” against “Belial” in 2 Corinthians. In the grimoires and in modern demonolatry, he is a distinct King, created next after Lucifer, one of the four Crown Princes alongside Lucifer, Leviathan and Satan or Flereous. People who work with all of them describe Belial as feeling quite different: earthy, cool and proud.

Why does Black Witch Coven give him Water, when others say Earth?

Our coven’s correspondences place him in Water with Jupiter and Neptune, which suits his fluid, reconciling and favor-bringing side. The Satanic Bible and the Dukante hierarchy place him in the North with Earth, which suits his material, grounding side. Both are in use. Try each and see which brings him closer for you.

Will he really get me a promotion?

Promotions, titles and favor are his oldest offices, and they are among the most common results practitioners report. He tends to work through you, though: you will be pushed to ask for what you are worth, to stop accepting less, and to carry yourself like someone who deserves the role. Those who report results pair the petition with action.

Do I have to give him offerings?

The Goetia says he must have offerings, sacrifices and gifts or he will not answer truly. Most practitioners take that seriously. Incense, bread, coins, wine and candles are common, and practitioners agree that giving what was promised, when it was promised, matters most.

He appeared in my dream sitting on a throne. What does it mean?

This is one of the most common first contacts. People describe him seated on a red or royal chair, legs crossed, cool and noble, sometimes in the form of a figure from media they half remember.

Practitioners read it as an acknowledgment that he has heard you. Most thank him, keep up a daily candle, and ask through divination what he wants next.

Is Belial a demon of lust?

Older writings tie him to fornication and the carnal, and the Damascus Document names lust among his three nets, beside wealth and the defiling of the sanctuary. Some modern practitioners do bring desire and pleasure to him, usually as part of owning their appetites without shame. Most people know him first as a King of independence and worldly success.

Can I work with Belial alongside other spirits?

Yes. In demonolatry ritual he holds the North while Lucifer holds the East, Flereous the South and Leviathan the West. He works well alongside Goetic Kings such as Paimon and Bael, and some work with him alongside Lilith or Asmodeus for desire and pleasure.

He feels cold and distant. Is he rejecting me?

Probably not. Coolness and restraint are how most people experience him, even after years of work. Distance often means he wants you to come to him with more confidence and less need. Practitioners who closed that distance describe coming with more confidence, stating their business plainly and keeping their promises.

What works, what doesn’t

These patterns come from first-hand accounts on Reddit, practitioner blogs and our own coven. None of it is a rule, and accounts sometimes contradict each other.

What practitioners report works

• Dignity. Standing, speaking plainly and treating him as a King, upright rather than kneeling.
• A steady discipline. Daily candles, regular meditation and grounding before and during the work.
• Specific worldly goals. A named position, title or result lands better than “success.”
• Delivering offerings on time. He is said to notice every broken promise.
• Doing your part. Applying, asking, negotiating and showing up.
• Letting him show you your patterns. People who lean into the lessons report the deepest change.

What practitioners report working less well

• Pleading. Practitioners report that pleading meets silence.
• Skipping the discipline he asks for. One practitioner who let meditation slide felt their connection weaken.
• Resisting the lessons. Holding on to people-pleasing while asking for independence makes the process harder.
• Treating him as a vending machine. He is a King, and he expects a relationship.
• Coming in afraid. Old religious fear of his name makes the contact confusing until his history is known.

What people report from their first months

• Calling him as a first spirit with no practice behind you
• Kneeling and pleading
• Asking for “success” without saying what it looks like
• Promising an offering and forgetting it
• Reading his coolness as rejection and giving up
• Mixing up his direction and element without choosing one system

What changed when they kept going

People who stay with Belial describe a slow hardening of the spine. They stop apologizing for wanting things. Their working life improves, often through a series of decisions they would not have dared to make before. Many say his coolness became something they valued: a presence that never flatters them, never fusses, and always expects them to rise to the occasion.

The darker work: desire, favor and foes

Belial’s old offices include causing “favor of friends and foes,” and the older writings bind him to lust and the carnal. Practitioners bring him that side of things too, and we would rather explain it than pretend it does not happen.

Workings of desire

Some practitioners work with Belial on their own desire: owning pleasure, ending shame about the body, charging a working for confidence and allure. Others bring him workings meant to stir desire in a particular person. That second kind of work is handled very differently.

Turning foes

The grimoire’s “favor of foes” is read two ways today. Most practitioners use it for genuine reconciliation.

Some use it to bend an opponent’s will, so that a rival backs down, a hostile boss turns supportive, or an enemy finds they cannot act against you. Practitioners describe this as asking a King to rearrange the board, with the outcome left in his hands.

What the old grimoires say

The modern practice above is the living part of Belial’s work. The old books are its background, and knowing them helps you see where today’s ideas came from.

The Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls

In the Hebrew Bible, beliya’al is a word, not yet a name: “sons of Belial” are worthless or lawless men.

By the time of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Belial has become a being. In the War Scroll he leads the Sons of Darkness against the Sons of Light. The Damascus Document says he will be let loose upon Israel and describes his three nets: fornication, wealth and the defiling of the sanctuary.

Paul’s question in 2 Corinthians 6:15, “what concord hath Christ with Belial?”, carries the name into Christianity.

The Damascus Document also rules that any man over whom the spirits of Belial hold sway and who speaks apostasy is to be judged by the law of the necromancer and the wizard, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs name Beliar as lord of the spirits of deceit.

The Ars Goetia

The 68th spirit is called Belial, a mighty and powerful king, created next after Lucifer, and of his order. He appears in the form of a beautiful angel sitting in a chariot of fire, speaking with a comely voice, declaring that he fell first among the worthier and wiser sort who went before Michael and the other heavenly angels. His office is to distribute preferments of senatorships and to cause favor of friends and foes; he gives excellent familiars and governs 80 legions of spirits. The book adds that he must have offerings, sacrifices and gifts presented to him, or else he will not give true answers, and that his seal is to be worn as a lamen.

The Pseudomonarchia Daemonum

Johann Weyer gives the same offices and tells the story of Solomon shutting Belial and his legions in a brass vessel, which the Babylonians later broke open hoping for treasure, releasing the spirits. Weyer is blunter than the Goetia about the exchange: Belial is constrained by divine power “when he taketh sacrifices, gifts, and [burnt] offerings” (sacrificia, munera & holocausta), so that he gives true answers in return to those who make them.

Abramelin, Milton and LaVey

• Abramelin (Mathers, 1898): one of the four superior princes, with Lucifer, Leviathan and Satan
• Milton, Paradise Lost: a graceful, persuasive and idle fallen angel who has no temple but rules in courts and cities
• Jacobus de Teramo, Das Buch Belial (1473): Belial as Hell’s advocate in a trial against Christ; in some accounts he danced before Solomon
• LaVey, The Satanic Bible (1969): Crown Prince of the North and Earth, “without a master”

What the coven’s earlier page recorded

Our earlier page also noted that some describe him as slender with platinum blonde hair and a viper-like face, that he is one of the four Crown Princes taking command of the North, and that in Connolly’s elemental ritual North is for Belial and earth, East for Lucifer and air, South for Flereous and fire, and West for Leviathan and water, with Satan holding the center as spirit. It also ranked him second only to Lucifer and called him the true ruler of this earthly world.

Crowley’s Belial

In The Vision and the Voice (1911), Aleister Crowley gave Belial these lines:

I cling unto the burning Aethyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air.
And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God.
And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.

Solomonic command and demonolatry

The Goetia says Belial will not stay in the truth unless constrained by divine power, and the Solomonic operator works him on exactly those terms, as ceremonial magicians still do. Demonolatry approaches him from the other side:

• Stance: a King constrained by divine authority in the Solomonic rite; a King honoured in demonolatry
• Truth: compelled by the divine names in the one; earned through relationship and kept promises in the other
• Exchange: the offerings, sacrifices and gifts the book demands in the one; gifts and devotion in the other
• Aim: a specific charge carried out, or a lasting alliance and personal sovereignty

Black Witch Coven’s view

We find Belial to be the King of standing on your own. He opens doors in the material world, brings favor and position and mends broken alliances, but the greatest thing he offers is the freedom of having no master. He is cool, proud and demanding, and he will not flatter you. In our experience, those who come to him with dignity, keep their word and let him show them where they have been giving their power away are the ones who rise.

Work with Belial through Black Witch Coven

• Belial’s Oleum: for your own altar and seal work
• Belial Ritual for Career Success: if you would rather have the working done for you
• Daemonic Magick for Friendship, Reconciliation, and Popularity: for favor and mending alliances
• Candle for Demonic Request: a petition to Belial burned on our altar for you
• Monthly Demonic Praise Subscription: ongoing devotion on your behalf
• Demonic Pact with Savannah or a Demonic Pact with a Junior Coven Member: for a pact
• The Goetia Devils: a compendium of the Goetic spirits

As with all magick, results are never guaranteed.

Related spirits

• Lucifer: created before Belial; the East to his North
• Leviathan: the West, and with Lucifer and Satan one of the four princes of Abramelin
• Satan: the center in Connolly’s elemental ritual
• Paimon: Goetic King and sub-prince beneath Belial in Abramelin
• Bael: first King of the Goetia
• Lilith and Asmodeus: for desire and pleasure work
• Similar Goetic spirits for love, favor and reconciliation: Eligor, Sitri, Gaap and Amon
• Also named on our earlier page: Leraje, who causes great battles and contests; Gremory, who procures the love of women; Furfur, who causes love between man and woman; Raum, who reconciles friends and foes; and Vual, who procures the love of women and the friendship of friends and foes

Sources

The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers and A. Crowley (1904)	“He was created next after Lucifer”; preferments of senatorships; favor of friends and foes
Johann Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577), in Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)	The brass vessel
Dead Sea Scrolls: War Scroll (1QM); Damascus Document	Belial leads the Sons of Darkness; his three nets
2 Corinthians 6:15, King James Version	“What concord hath Christ with Belial?”
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, trans. S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1898)	Belial among the four superior princes
Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible (1969)	“Belial means ‘without a master'”
Michelle Belanger, The Dictionary of Demons	“There is some debate about whether Belial was intended as a proper name at all”
Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice	“And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God.”

Further reading: S. Connolly, The Complete Book of Demonolatry; Asenath Mason, Chants of Belial; Baal Kadmon, Belial: A History; Joseph H. Peterson (ed.), The Lesser Key of Solomon.

• Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, Esoteric Archives
• Belial, Delirium’s Realm
• Belial, Wikipedia