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P.S. you are not asking about “angels” strictly but now talking about demons, and even what the Gnostic texts called “archons” (rulers). In that very quote you gave, “rulers” is “archons” in the original Greek. So the Gnostic tractates are rather relevant to this.

For modern “magicians” (drug-addled schizophrenics? attention-seeking lunatics and abusive cult leaders? or all these but also genuine occultists playing with weird inhuman forces?), like Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley, this comes with the territory, and the anonymous 17th-century grimoire on demonology, the Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as the Ars Goetia, was an inspiration for them.

Then, in the modern day, you have Father Malachi Martin, SJ’s books on exorcism such as “Hostage to the Devil: The Possession and Exorcism of Five Living Americans,” (1976), as well as his kooky claims in interviews that Devil worship and Luciferianism has already infiltrated the Catholic Church.