“XLII
Comfort me Mother, enfold me in bliss,
Destroy me and keep me from that black Abyss
And from the deceiving tongue 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.

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, XLI
  3. In Nomine Babalon, CXV
  4. “For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is his head raised unto Daäth, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika. And this is that which is written in the Holy Qabalah, concerning the Whirlpool and Leviathan, and the Great Stone.”
  5. In Nomine Babalon, LXII