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catalog of demons

 

ANGE-MORT -

Ange-mort

APOLLYON
- ( The Destroyer ) The righteous angel of hell’s Bottomless Pit, as described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation. During the end times, Apollyon will chain Satan and throw him into the pit for 1,000 years, locking him away with a key. According to Revelation, the Bottomless Pit will eventually be opened up in the end times to set free swarms of human-faced locusts who torture sinners for five months--insects controlled by Apollyon.
( Demons, by the way, are also imprisoned in the Pit until Doomsday.) However, in writings outside of the Bible, Apollyon is usually considered a fallen angel--some writers describing him as snake-like, writhing in a pit at the center of the seventh and lowest layer of hell.

ARAXIEL - in Enoch I, Araxiel is mentioned as one of the fallen angels.

ARAZIEL - ( Arazjal, Arazyal, Atriel, Esdreel, Sahariel, Seriel, Sariel, ect.,
-” my moon is God “ )- an angel who sinned when he descended to earth to unite with mortal women. Araziel governed, with Bagdal, the sign of the bull ( Taurus ). [ Rf. Enoch I; Levi, Transcendental Magic; Prince of Darkness.]

ARIAS - an angel who rules over sweet-smelling herbs. In occultism, Arias
is regarded as a demon and is one of the 12 marquises of the infernal empire.
[ Rf. De Plancy, Dictionaire Infernal. ]

ARIEL - ( Arael, Ariael, meaning “ lion of God “ )
the name of an angel in the apocryphal Ezra; also in Mathers, The Greater Key of Solomon, the Grand Grimoire, and other tracts of magic, where he is pictured as lion-headed. Cornelius Agrippa says: “ Ariel is the name of an angel, sometimes also of a demon, and of a city, whence called Ariopolis, where the idol is worshipped.”
In Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, Ariel ranks as one of 7 princes who rule the waters and is “ Earth’s great Lord.” Jewish mystics used Ariel as a poetic name for Jerusalem. In the Bible the name denotes, variously, a man, a city ( Isaiah 29 ), and an altar. In occult writings Ariel is the “ 3rd archon of the winds.” Mention is also made of Ariel as an angel who assists Raphael in the cure of disease. [ Rf. M. Gaster,
Wisdom of the Chaldeans.] In the Coptic Pistis Sophia, Ariel is in charge of the punishment in the lower world, corresponding with Ur of the Mandaeans. In The Testament of Solomon, he controls demons.
In gnostic lore generally he is a ruler of winds and equated with Ialdabaoth
as an older name for this god. In practical cabala he is regarded as originally of the order of virtues. According to John Dee, astrologer royal in Queen Elizabeth’s day, Ariel is a conglomerate of Anael and Uriel. In The Tempest,
Shakespeare casts Ariel as a sprite. To Milton he is a rebel angel, overcome
by the seraph Abdiel in the first day of fighting in heaven. The poet Shelley
refered to himself as Ariel, and Andre’ Maurois is the author of a life of Shelley called Ariel. Sayce (” Athenaeum,” October 1886 ) sees a connection between Ariel and the arelim ( erelim ), the valiant ones spoken of in Isaiah
33:7, an order of angels equated with the order of thrones. [ Rf . Texts of the Saviour; Butler, Ritual Magic; Bonner, Studies in Magical Amulets.]

ARIOCH - ( “ Fierce Lion “) - a demon of vengeance, a follower of Satan,
a fallen angel ( as in Paradise Lost VI, where he is overthrown by the angel Abdiel during the war in Heaven ). In Nash, Pierce Penniless, reference is made to “ the great Arioch that is termed the spirit of revenge.”
[ Rf. Schwab, Vocabulaire de l’Ange’lologie; De Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 ed., where Arioch is pictured as the bat-winged demon of vengeance; The Ancient’s Book of Magic.]

The name of one of the fallen angels in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) and is derived ultimately from the Hebrew meaning 'fierce lion', the name of a man (the captain of the guard) in Daniel 2:14.

This was a demon that, unlike Alastor, concerned himself only with vengeance, and it was often summoned for that purpose.

ARMAROS - ( Armers, Pharmaros, Abaros, Arearos )
one of the fallen angels as listed in Enoch I . Armaros taught “ the resolving of enchantments.”
According to R.H. Charles, the term Armaros may be a corruption of Araros.

ARMEN - ( Ramiel ? Arakiel? Baraqel? ) - one of the fallen angels listed in Enoch I , 69.