kaos

The seven-headed dragon and
the demon Choronzon
by Joel Biroco
The beasts of the Apocalypse and their relationship with precursors in Near Eastern
mythology, Enochian entities, & Crowley’s skrying of the Æthyrs in Algeria in 1909
In consideration of the Enochian Keys and their Apocalyptic imagery, and Revelation,
a bizarre constellation of creatures emerges that are difficult to disentangle. Even the
identity of the Beast 666 is far more ambiguous than generally realised, Aleister Crowley
may have got the wrong beast if he wanted the one the Great Whore of Babylon was
riding (hereinafter Babalon). And even the number may be wrong. And the more one
looks the more the identities of Lucifer, Satan, the Great Red Dragon, and the serpent
become indistinct and related by strange connections to such Enochian entities as the
Stooping Dragon, Telocvovim (the Death Dragon), and John Dee’s demon Coronzon
(Choronzon to Crowley).
First off notice that the Great Red Dragon of Revelation 12:3, who wants to devour
the pregnant woman’s child, has seven heads and ten horns, perhaps identifying him
with Babalon’s beast, although the red dragon has seven crowns upon his heads unlike
the ten crowns of the beast that rises up out of the sea in 13:1, which, though it has the
seven heads and the ten horns is distinctly undragon-like, looking like a leopard with a
bear’s feet and lion’s mouth. Babalon’s beast in 17:3 is “scarlet coloured” and has seven
heads and ten horns, no mention of how many crowns, if any. The red dragon in 12:9 is
described as the ancient snake, who is called the Devil and Satan, and there was war in
Heaven with Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon (12:7). So it’s intriguing
that Telocvovim in the 19 th Enochian Key, for whom Babalon’s bed is his dwelling
place, is translated as “Him that is fallen”, suggesting Lucifer, and yet this name in
Enochian appears to be a contraction of two separate words, “death” (teloch, TELOCH,
used in Keys 3, 8, 11) + “dragon” (vovin, VOVIN, two variant forms in the 8 th Key).
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