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.
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