kaos

it of interest that preceding the formation of kaos-babalon I had an intense period of
summoning Astaroth, which at the time I thought of as a male demon from the Goetia
and did not particularly associate with Babalon, despite knowing that the goddess Astarte
was Astaroth’s antecedence. In fact, at the time I was not particularly aware where my
fascination with Astaroth came from.
This practice of forming denigrating titles and names for deities with letter
manipulation seems to me an intriguing form of magic akin to sigil magic, to literally
demonize. Baal, for instance, is identified with Molech in Jeremiah 19:5: “They have
built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto
Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind.” Molech
(also Moloch, although some distinguish the two) was the Ammonite deity, to whom
children were sacrificed in fire, but some scholars believe that it is not actually a proper
name at all but is derived by combining the consonants from the Hebrew word for
“king” (mlk) with the vowels of the word for “shame” (boshet), thus “King of Shame”.]
AGLA on the back of the Sigillum Dei Æmeth
Hi Joel—I’m well aware of agla on the back of the Sigillum, but I don’t recall now
whether it even crossed my mind when I composed the notes on “Jubalcain”. Honesty
prompts me to I say it didn’t. That we weren’t, at that time, actively addressing Enochian
issues might be a good excuse, but little more than that.
The word agla appears on two sigilla actually, Dee’s and another found in Liber
Juratus, more commonly known as The Sworne Booke of Honorius. Daniel J Driscoll,
editor and translator of the first printed edition, was of the opinion this other source
was composed no later than the year 1311 [The Sworn Book of Honourius (sic) the
Magician. Gillette, New Jersey: Heptangle Books, 1983. p xviii]. This is as may be, but
it at least admits the possibility that a nearly identical symbol was used on a similar sigil
(Ibid, p 10, here called the “Sigil of God”, as opposed to Dee’s “Sigil of God’s Truth”).
This earlier version is described and illustrated in Sloane ms. 313, which itself may be
the oldest grimoire found in the British Museum’s collection (Driscoll, p xi). Moreover,
in one of the prayers in Honorius, one with a great litany of names divine, agla heads
the list (Ibid, “The 100 Names of God”, p 14). We certainly can’t rule out the possibility
that Uriel, Kelly, Dee, or all three were aware of its prior existence in the literature
available at the time, and drew on that source. In fact, the archangel specifically instructed
Dee he would find the Sigillum Dei perfected in a book already in his possession (Sloane
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