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Originally Posted by seashore
Please forgive me if the answer to this question is in the Wikipedia article...
Is the being physical or non-physical?
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I'll try to share a few thoughts here... Yes, that demon was a multi-dimensional physical being, a demonic being, both in and beyond our physical world. All beings in the human world normally need to re-incarnate in human form here, but a few other lowly beings were allowed to crawl in to exert influence in the human realm during this recent "dharma-ending period". That being had reign over other extra-dimensional beings and malevolent spirits, that are not normally visible to the ordinary human eyes, but can exert influence--interfere with people's thoughts and actions and influence things in the human world--if human beings themselves do not have clear or righteous thoughts, or if they have other karmic circumstances.
The phenomena that manifest here in the human world are, in fact, reflections of phenomena that originate in other time-space dimensions. The higher and more broad a dimension is, the more influence it can exert on lower dimensions, including the human world. That is to say, the things that happen in the human world are actually arrangements made by beings at much higher levels, or in other words, by high-level gods.
Originally, that being Lucifer was a high-level being that rebelled against Heaven's Law out of spite and jealousy, was cast down during the formation of the Three Realms (Heaven, Earth & Underworld), and made to rule over beings in the Underworld. You see that people who follow that system use a pyramid as a symbol with those towards the pinnacle of the pyramid supposedly having greater rank and knowledge than those at lower levels of the pyramid. In fact, this is their rigid hierarchy, their chain of command as it were, and it literally did exist. It's just that this pyramid is all evil (founded upon the principles of deceit, callous hatred and selfish greed), and when it's viewed from an upright perspective, it is precisely upside down, with the pinnacle of the pyramid being the most evil and deceptive.
I speak above using the past tense because that evil hierarchy has already been weakened to the point that it doesn't really exist anymore. In other dimensions beyond the human realm, the evil factors and evil beings have already been dealt with--either they've been annihilated or they've been redeemed and saved. The outcome in the human world that remains is now a forgone conclusion. So if you were to go looking for some of those evil spirits (still not recommended) you may find that they're no longer there, or they've been weakened to the point that they are just barely surviving, since the factors that strengthened them in other dimensions have already been disposed of.
Human beings who have gone looking for these things in search of political power or in pursuit of some other worldly interest have brought trouble to themselves, as many of these low-level spirits actually want to feed on human beings' energy, and they have the disposition or the goal to cause disruptions in the human world.
These are just a few of my own limited understandings...
I posted a brief essay about 'Supernormal and Occult Abilities' a while back. I'll see if I can dig that up.