I am reading a manga and I'm going to try a bit of context in hopes that you
can tell me how some particular sentences sound like, because I do get the
gist of them but a few things got me stumped.  
The context is, there is a battle between a boy with a special power and a
demon like character.  
The boy is chanting a spell that goes like this " **私は法で汝は悪魔"  
"歪んでいるのはわかってる**"  
As a very rough translation I came up with this "I [the boy] am (the) law, you
are a demon."  
The one distorted is clear (or understandable). So, **歪む** means distorted or
crooked (as in views, or a crooked mind and this is the meaning that I want to
go with, because it describes a character that is evil, the demon).  
  
The verb seems to show the condition/state of being and because of the の
particle that acts as nominalizer, I concluded that makes the whole thing to
mean "The one [between the two characters] that is crooked is...(which I
assume is the demon). But what about the わかってる part? Does it make sense with
the following translation? "I understand what is the distortion" (The boy
wants to eliminate the evil one, the crooked being). I went with the words
clear/understandable to somehow make it as vague as the Japanese version, at
least to my understanding).  
What about わかってる instead of わかっ **ている** Is the first one just colloquial? (The
way the characters speak does change quite a lot from impolite to polite)

It would be a great help if someone can enlighten me with a proper translation
and more in-depth explanations if possible. Thank you in advance and apologies
if I made things hard to understand.
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Difference between わかってる　and わかっている , two ている forms in a sentence
> "歪んでいるのはわかってる"

Literal translation is like: (I/We) do know/have known that (sth) is
warped/distorted.

But I don't know what it is supposed to mean. If it's a spell, they are often
supposed to sound mysterious....

> What about わかってる instead of わかっている Is the first one just colloquial?

Yes, but so common that I think it's colloquially more popularly used than いる
version.
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Based on my understanding of the context you provided, I would translate the
passage as follows:

> I am the law. You are a demon.
>
> I know/realize (that) you are warped.

As others have stated, "わかってる" is the colloquial speech variation of the full
grammatical form, and わかる has a broad range of meanings, only some of which
actually correspond to the English "understand" most commonly listed as its
translation in dictionaries. In practice, most day-to-day situations I hear
and use it in are closer to "being aware of" or "having knowledge of" X than
to "having comprehension of".

In the second sentence, the "の particle that acts as nominalizer", as you put
it, can be translated somewhat heavy-handedly as "the fact that [you] are
warped (distorted)". The translation using "you" assumes he's still addressing
the demon in that part of the spell, which seems like a logical continuation
of the first line.
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