Original post: theblackpeacock
this guy is supposedly stronger than the devil himself and responsible for the end of the world. I read somewhere that he was the god of alchohol and outcasts (until i found out it was rpg instructions:-? .The wierd thing is, he isn't a demon, or an angel, and switches between both randomly.
Anyone know anything about him? I'm rather surprised he doesn't have a cult by now.
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Original post: Alarum
Those damn rpg sites......
The Satanic Bible states- Abaddon: (Hebrew) The Destroyer
and (suprise suprise lol) the Occultopedia has much more on the subject.
ABADDON
Also Apollyon, Appolyon and Appolion (Greek). Abaddon â?? literally meaning destruction, ruin or perdition â?? is the Hebrew name of the demon identified as the 'angel' of the bottomless pit, or the abyss, in Revelation, 9, 11. Also known as 'The Destroyer', from his role as one of the destroying angels of the Apocalypse. In Job 26:6, and Proverbs 15:11, the word Abaddon arises in conjunction with Sheol.
Abaddon/Apollyon is the chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy, the king of the grasshoppers, or demon locusts (described as having the bodies of winged war-horses, the faces of humans, and the poisonous curved tails of scorpions).
Cornelius Agrippa was the one that equated Abaddon with Apollyon, and positioned him as the monarch in the lower shadow of the sphere of the planet Venus, which is the Sephirah of Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree:
"The seventh mansion the Furies possess, which are powers of evil, discords, war and devastations, whose prince in the Revelations is called in Greek Apollyon, in Hebrew Abaddon, that is destroying and wasting"
(Occult Philosophy, Book 3, Chapter 18 ).
The biblical verse cited by Agrippa is Revelation 9:11, which reads:
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."
As described in Revelation, Apollyon opens the gates of the abyss and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of demons locusts, who then proceed to torture those of mankind who do not bear the seal of God upon their forehead. After that, he is supposed to seize Satan himself, bind him and toss him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.
The role of Apollyon in biblical references is ambiguous, sometimes being described as a good angel who serves God, and sometimes also being described as a fallen angel who succumbed to evil.
The word Apollyon and its variations are sometimes used to mean Hell itself (in the Old Testament the name Abaddon is used for the place of the dead). The word Abbadon is also used for Hell in rabbinical literature. Milton, in Paradise Lost, also used the name for the pit itself:
"In all her gates Abbadon rues
Thy bold attempt."
(Paradise Regained, iv 1671)
Those damn rpg sites......
The Satanic Bible states- Abaddon: (Hebrew) The Destroyer
and (suprise suprise lol) the Occultopedia has much more on the subject.
ABADDON
Also Apollyon, Appolyon and Appolion (Greek). Abaddon â?? literally meaning destruction, ruin or perdition â?? is the Hebrew name of the demon identified as the 'angel' of the bottomless pit, or the abyss, in Revelation, 9, 11. Also known as 'The Destroyer', from his role as one of the destroying angels of the Apocalypse. In Job 26:6, and Proverbs 15:11, the word Abaddon arises in conjunction with Sheol.
Abaddon/Apollyon is the chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy, the king of the grasshoppers, or demon locusts (described as having the bodies of winged war-horses, the faces of humans, and the poisonous curved tails of scorpions).
Cornelius Agrippa was the one that equated Abaddon with Apollyon, and positioned him as the monarch in the lower shadow of the sphere of the planet Venus, which is the Sephirah of Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree:
"The seventh mansion the Furies possess, which are powers of evil, discords, war and devastations, whose prince in the Revelations is called in Greek Apollyon, in Hebrew Abaddon, that is destroying and wasting"
(Occult Philosophy, Book 3, Chapter 18 ).
The biblical verse cited by Agrippa is Revelation 9:11, which reads:
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."
As described in Revelation, Apollyon opens the gates of the abyss and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of demons locusts, who then proceed to torture those of mankind who do not bear the seal of God upon their forehead. After that, he is supposed to seize Satan himself, bind him and toss him into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.
The role of Apollyon in biblical references is ambiguous, sometimes being described as a good angel who serves God, and sometimes also being described as a fallen angel who succumbed to evil.
The word Apollyon and its variations are sometimes used to mean Hell itself (in the Old Testament the name Abaddon is used for the place of the dead). The word Abbadon is also used for Hell in rabbinical literature. Milton, in Paradise Lost, also used the name for the pit itself:
"In all her gates Abbadon rues
Thy bold attempt."
(Paradise Regained, iv 1671)