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“CXVII
As I come through the ordeal which is bliss,
Careful I tread to avoid the Abyss
And escape the clutches of Choronzon!
I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!”
— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

Quote featured at MILLIONS OF MAD VOICES from the Ministry of Information.

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Consider also:

  1. “Somewhere along the way from one side to the other, Crowley says, the magician must also confront and temporarily become the ‘Demon of the Abyss’, whose nature is Dispersion. Crowley named this demon Choronzon, a name for Satan from the works of Dr. John Dee; but the characteristics he assigns to the demon owe more to the ‘Dweller on the Threshold’ from Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni novels. It is unclear how this confrontation relates to the destruction of the magician’s human self.”
  2. In Nomine Babalon, CXV
  3. God’s Boredom or Why we are not Enlightened
  4. In Nomine Babalon, CXXXIV
  5. Make Magic of Your Life
January 16, 2017

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