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Choronzon (também conhecido como 'Coronzon' ou pelo número '333') é um demônio originado dos escritos do século XVI dos ocultistas Edward Kelley e John Dee no sistema de magia enoquiano. No século XX ele tornou-se um elemento importante no sistema thelêmico, fundado por Aleister Crowley, onde Choronzon é o habitante do Abismo, acreditando-se que seja o último grande obstáculo no caminho do Iniciado. Thelemitas acreditam que caso ele seja encontrado com a preparação necessária, então sua função será a de "destruir" o Ego, o que permite ao adepto mover-se além do Abismo chegando à Cidade das Pirâmides.
Variações no nome
Incluindo a forma a qual Crowley escreve, parecem haver três alternativas. Meric Casaubon afirma que o nome é Coronzon (sem o 'h') em seu ‘True and Faithful Relation…’. No entanto, essa é uma variação da palavra escrita nos próprios diários de Dr. John Dee. Uma terceira maneira de se escrever, Coronzom, é listada no dicionário de enoquiano de Laycock, citando um manuscrito original (Cotton XLVI Pt. I, fol. 91a) como sendo a fonte da variante.
Choronzon according to Crowley
Otherwise known as the Demon of Dispersion, Choronzon is described by Crowley as a temporary personification of the raving and inconsistent forces that occupy the Abyss. In this system, Choronzon is given form in evocation only in order that it may be mastered.
Crowley states that he and Victor Benjamin Neuburg evoked Choronzon in the Sahara Desert. In Crowley's account, it is unclear whether Choronzon was invoked into an empty Solomonic triangle while Crowley sat elsewhere, or whether Crowley himself was the medium into which the demon was evoked. Nearly all writers except Lawrence Sutin take him to mean the latter. In the account, Choronzon is described as changing shape, which is read variously as an account of an actual metamorphosis, a subjective impression of Neuburg's, or fabrication on Crowley's part.
The account describes the demon throwing sand over the triangle in order to breach it, following which it attacked Neuburg 'in the form of a naked savage', forcing him to drive it back at the point of a dagger. Crowley's account has been criticised as unreliable, as the relevant original pages are torn from the notebook in which the account was written. This, along with other inconsistencies in the manuscript, has led to speculation that the event was heavily embroidered in order to support Crowley's own belief system. Moreover, according to Arthur Calder-Marshall's The Magic of my Youth, Neuburg gave a quite different account of the event, claiming that he and Crowley evoked the spirit of an Egyptian workman.
Choronzon is deemed to be held in check by the power of the Goddess Babalon, inhabitant of Binah, the third Sephirah of the Tree of Life. Both Choronzon and the Abyss are discussed in Crowley's Confessions (ch. 66):
- "The name of the Dweller in the Abyss is Choronzon, but he is not really an individual. The Abyss is empty of being; it is filled with all possible forms, each equally inane, each therefore evil in the only true sense of the word—that is, meaningless but malignant, in so far as it craves to become real. These forms swirl senselessly into haphazard heaps like dust devils, and each such chance aggregation asserts itself to be an individual and shrieks, "I am I!" though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust devil, brings it in showers of sand to the earth."
References
- Crowley, Aleister. "The Cry of the Tenth Aethyr" in The Vision and the Voice
- Dee, John, edited by Meric Casaubon. A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-0812-0
- Rowe, Benjamin. "The Illusion of the Abyss."
- Thelemapedia. Choronzon.