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AVNAS - The 58th spirit of the Goetia, demon by night of the first decante of Scorpio ( according to the Aurum Solis, demon of the second quinance of Pisces)
Also spelled “Amy”
President commanding 36 legions
Appears at first as a flaming fire, later as a man
Powers: Teaches astrology and liberal sciences;
gives good familiars; bewrays treasure kept by spirits.

AZAEL ( Asiel, “whom God strengthens”) - one of 2 fallen angels ( Aza is the other ) who cohabited with Naamah, Lamech’s daughter, and sired the sedim, Assyrian guardian spirits. [Rf. The Zohar.] Azael, it is reported,
is chained in a desert where he will remain until the day of judgement. [Rf.
De Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal.] In Midrash Petirat Mosheh, Azael is mentioned as one of 2 angels ( the other being Ouza ) who came down from heaven and was corrupted. Cornelius Agrippa, in his Occult Philosophy, lists 4 evil angels as the opposites of the 4 holy rulers of the elements; among the evil ones Azael is included. Schwab in his Vocabulaire de l’Ange’lologie identifies Shamhazai ( Semyaza ) with Azael ( Aziel ), guardian of hidden treasures.

AZARADEL - in The Book of Enoch ( Enoch I ), Azaradel is one of the fallen angels who taught men the motions of the moon.

AZAZEL - Demon Prince of Air
( Azael, Hazazel, “God strengthens”) - Azazel is the chief of the Se'irim, or goat-demons, who haunted the desert and to whom most primitive Semitic (most likely non-Hebrew) tribes offered sacrifices. The Old Testament states that Jeroboam appointed priests for the Se'irim. But Josiah destroyed the places of their worship, as the practices accompanying this worship involved copulation of women with goats.

The Se'irim, or hairy demons as the word itself means, are mentioned in Leviticus 17:7 and 2 Chronicles 11:15 as "goat-demons". Isaiah 34:14 says that the "goat-demons" greet each other amoung the ruins of Edom along with Lilith and other wild beasts.

In Enoch I, Azazel is one of the chiefs of the 200 fallen angels ( Revelation speaks of one-third of the heavenly host being involved in the fall). Azazel “taught men to fashion swords and shields” while women learned from him

Azazel “ finery and the art of beautifying the eyelids.” He is the scapegoat in rabbinic literature, Targum, and in Leviticus 16:8, although in the latter he is not actually named. In The Zohar ( Vayeze 153a ) the rider on the serpent is symbolized by “ the evil Azazel.” Here he is said to be chief of the order of bene elim ( otherwise ischim, lower angels, “men spirits”).
Irenaeus calls Azazel “that fallen and yet mighty angel.” In The Apocalypse of Abraham he is “ lord of hell, seducer of mankind,” and here his aspect, when he revealed his true form, shows him to be a demon with 7 serpent heads, 14 faces, and 12 wings. Jewish legend speaks of Azazel as the angel who refused to bow down before Adam ( in the Koran the angel is Eblis or Iblis ) when the first human was presented to God tothe assembled hierarchs in Heaven. For such refusal, Azazel was thenceforth dubbed “ the accursed
Satan.” [ Rf. Bamberger, Fallen Angels, p.278.] According to the legend in Islamic lore, when God commanded the angels to worship Adam, Azazel refused, contending “ Why should a son of fire [ ie., an angel ] fall down before a son of clay [ ie., a mortal ]?” Whereupon God cast Azazel out of Heaven and changed his name to Eblis. Milton in Paradise Lost I, 534 describes Azazel as “ a cherub tall,” but also as a fallen angel and Satan’s standard bearer.

AZZA - ( Shem-yaza, “ the strong” ) - a fallen angel who is, according to rabbinic tradition, suspended between Heaven and earth ( along with Azzael)
as punishment for had carnal knowledge of mortal women. Azza ( Shemyaza,
meaning the name Azza’ ) is said to be constantly falling, with one eye shut,
the other open, so that he can see his plight and suffer the more. There is another explanation for Azza’s expulsion from Heaven: it is that he objected to the high rank given Enoch when the latter was transformed from a mortal into the angel Metatron. In Solomonic lore the story is that Azza was the angel who revealed to the Jewish king the heavenly arcana, thus making Solomon the wisest man on earth. In Talmud, the sedim ( Assyrian guardian
spirits ) are said to have been “ begotten by Azza and Azael on the body of the evil Naamah, daughter of Lamech, before the Flood.” [ Rf. Thompson,
Semitic Magic, pp. 44-45.] In his introduction to 3 Enoch, Odeberg remarks
that, of the two groups of angels headed by Metatron, one group ( the angels of justice ) was under the rulership of Azza. At that time, evidently, Azza was not yet fallen.

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