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the banishment of illusion. (Of course, if we regard C[h]oronzon and Babalon as
essentially Enochian words, their numbers 333 and 156 when rendered in Hebrew are
irrelevant and merely a curiosity.)
The account of the skrying of the 10th Æthyr was unusual among the 30 Æthyrs in
that it was subjected to editing and revision. It states in the published version in The
Vision and the Voice:
This cry was obtained on Dec 6, 1909, between 2 and 4.15 pm, in a lonely valley of fine
sand, in the desert near Bou-Saada. The Æthyr was edited and revised on the following
day.
The original account penned at the time was in fact torn out of the ms. notebook,
according to an editorial note in the 1998 Weiser edition (p 159 n1 and p 170 n3) . I
have often wondered why exactly that was. And why, indeed, was this Æthyr edited and
revised? What was the nature of this revision? Crowley doesn’t say, and the torn-out
pages are now apparently lost. Was it simply to create a more ordered account out of the
chaotic events of the operation, with bracketed explanations, or was there another reason?
Although the demon “Coronzon” does not appear in the Enochian of the 19 Keys
and so is not therefore strictly an Enochian word, as implied by Donald Tyson who
believes it is Enochian for Lucifer, nonetheless this entity was named to Dee and Kelly
on one occasion. (Laycock also lists Coronzon as an Enochian word in The Complete
Enochian Dictionary.) The passage naming Coronzon is found in the Cotton Appendix
XLVI, “Mensis Mysticus Saobaticus, Pars prima ejudem”. The dialogue took place on
April 21, 1584, and is between Edward Kelly, John Dee, and the Archangel Gabriel, on
the topic of the Angelic Tongue, now called Enochian. Kelly asked whether Angelic
was known in any part of the world, or not. Gabriel answered that “Coronzon (for so is
the true name of that mighty Devil)” envied the status of man in the eyes of God and so
began to assail him. Coronzon prevailed with the result that man lost “the Garden of
Felicity” and was “driven forth (as your Scriptures record) unto the Earth which was
covered with brambles…”. And as a result of that so too was the Angelic language
spoken by Adam in his innocence also lost. (This episode naming Coronzon is recorded
in Meric Casaubon’s A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many Yeers Between
Dr John Dee … and some Spirits, pp 92–93. The Enochian Keys themselves were received
over the period from April 13 to July 13, 1584, at Cracow. Causabon’s title “A True and
Faithful…” could be an allusion to Revelation 21:5.)
So far as I have been able to ascertain, the demon Coronzon does not appear in prior
literature. If we put aside for one moment the popular conception of what happened in
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