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Some of these insights are noted in CS Lewis's space trilogy. In "Out of the Silent Planet" he produces the insight that the planetary spirits and their servants are reflected in each of the planets: Malacandra (Mars) has the planetary spirits of all the other worlds including Thulcandra (Earth (Satan)), but the reflected spirit has the valence of the planet on which they are reflected. Therefore the Malacandra on Earth is the degenerate, demonic form of the Angelic Malacandra that exists on Mars, and the Lucifer on Mars is the Angelic form of the demonic Satan which is the Oyarsa (Archangel) of Earth. In this way we can see that the nature of Angels is not one which includes choice, but rather their positive or negative valence is determined by modality, and restoring the proper modality to the universe will necessarily recall the spirits of the higher modality back into the universe.
We are made aware of the essential equivalence of the natures of the angels and demons in "That Hideous Strength," where a wizard uses the same rituals to summon the heavenly, angelic version of the planetary gods that he might use to summon their demonic, earthbound versions. His efforts are uniquely guarded from demonic inversion because they occur at a specifically appointed time which has been set by the heavenly spirits; therefore, magic is real and works and can be used for good, but is always misled when the time and nature of the spell is set by the spellcaster rather than the god (angel) on which he hopes to call. This is why it is not wrong in a total sense for Julius Evola to hope that science will be replaced by magic in the Fascist future; Julius Evola was probably and unfortunately working with demons, though: his central caste-inversionary error over which the split between himself and Guenon occurred has the essential tendency to privilege human will over the Cosmic Order; when this is done magic has a much higher chance of instantiating demonic, not angelic, forces.
