Hey everyone, welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video we're going to try and figure out whether demons are more powerful than angels.

Let me start off by saying that this question has no definitive answer and that there's a lot of different ways one could try to answer it, different ways yielding different results. There's different angelic hierarchies, and there's different demonic hierarchies, many of which, in both cases, have been influential for centuries. Although, I will say that angelic hierarchies do have a degree of legitimacy that the demonic hierarchies do not. Most demonic hierarchies were produced during the late medieval period, the renaissance, and the early modern period, and words like occult and folklore go a lot farther in describing them accurately than the phrase 'Christian doctrine'. The bible has little to say about angels and even less about demons.

We'll begin by answering two questions: where do demons come from, and how is the angelic hierarchy structured?

Answering where demons come from, we'll explore the theory of demons being fallen angels. While this isn't the only theory that explains the origin of demons (in the Book of Enoch, for example, demons are said to be the spirits of the Nephilim) It is the most widely accepted theory in Christianity, as evidenced by many of the early church fathers endorsing it.

Answering how the angelic hierarchy is structured, we'll look at Dionysius the Areopagite's angelic hierarchy, one of the most influential and widely recognized systems of angelic stratification in Christian theology. However, it is important to note that there is no single "official" version of the angelic hierarchy accepted by all Christian denominations, different traditions having various interpretations and classifications of angels.

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