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The Dragon, or Serpent, is amongst the oldest and most primal mythological symbols known to man. Most familiar to modern magicians and Gnostics as the Typhonian Current written about extensively by Kenneth Grant. Grant explains in Nightside of Eden, (t)he earliest Mystery tradition (i.e. the African) was dominated by three key symbols: the Tree, the Water and the Serpent … (and are found) in the metaphysics of the Kabbalah as the Tree of Life, the Water of the Abyss and the Serpent which achieved it apotheosis or Height in the Depth to which the Gateway is Da’ath 96 . The symbolism is explained in more detail by showing the numerical (and thus the Kabalistic) formulae upon which they are constructed and by which we can interpret them: (the Hebrew letter Zain is) attributed to the Twins, Set-Horus,. Zain is the number seven, the number of Sevekh, the earlier form of Set as the son of the Mother, Typhon, one of whose symbols was the crocodile, the water-snake or the Dragon of the Deep. Like the progeny of Tiamat [note: the Dragon-goddess of the ancient Babylonian myth-cycle of creation] Sevekh [Set] assumed his mothers totem, the crocodile. 97 (my emphasis) It is also of note, we have seen, that the Enochian magical system of John Dee references the Demon Choronzon as the TELOCH-VOVIN, literally, the Death Dragon. The tangle of mythologies that have infected the Christianity of today make it difficult to render this properly without extensive background material. For our purposes, it will suffice to say that the Death Dragon is the offspring or reborn aspect a most primordial being, known as the Leviathan in the Old Testament and conflated with Satan as the Great Red Dragon in Revelation. In the older myth streams referenced above, the Dragon- Serpent is pre-existent. Though there is some tendency to conflate the Demon with the Satan of Christian myth, this is not very useful as, in the end, we must realize that God has set the Death Dragon in his place and it is, it nothing else, vital for the magician or Gnostic to embrace the Universe as it is in order to thereby transcend it. 96 Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden, Skoob 97 Grant, ibid. 72
A mythological rendering of these symbols is a monumental task. The best explication of the Dragon is to be found in Massey 98 and synthesized by Grant in reading these stories in light of the work of Crowley et al. The Magical Revival and Cults of the Shadow 99 are indispensable in this vein. The Mythology of the primordial serpent or Dragons was astronomical or symbolized in the Stars. In this vein, Gerald Massey writes: We call them the Two Bears. But the seven stars of the Lesser Bear were once considered to be the seven heads of the Polar Dragon, which we meet with—as the beast with seven heads--in the Akkadian 100 Hymns and in the Book of Revelation. The mythical dragon originated in the crocodile, which is the Dragon of Egypt. … one particular cult, the Sut-Typhonian, the first god was Sevekh, who wears the crocodile’s head, as well as the serpent, and who is the Dragon, or whose constellation was the Dragon 101 . Grant describes the son, Set, as the Eighth of seven, the numerical symbolism which is the perfection of the number 7, as in the seven stars of the constellation Ursae Major which was earlier considered the sign of the Dragon, in 8 102 . This is also important to our next point. This god, Sevekh or Set, according to Grant was the fulfillment of his mother. In this role, the Mother and the male child (set) …occupy the central position at the summit or the pole. The background related above now has prepared the ground, so to speak, for the explication of the central Mystery of the Dragon: The Mother and Child constitute the Dragon with eight heads … seven of the heads are identified with the seven planets, and the seven inferior 98 The Book of the Beginnings, Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World, Gerald Massey 99 Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival and Cults of the Shadow, Skoob Publishing 100 the forerunners of the Assyrians and later Babylonians 101 Gerald Massey’s Lectures – “The Hebrew and other creations fundamentally explained” 102 Interestingly, this bit of the Gnosis is preserved in the Revelation of John ,as Massey says; “The name of Sevekh signifies the sevenfold; hence the seven heads of the Dragon, the Dragon who is of the seven and `is himself also an eighth,` as we are told in Revelation.” (op cit.) 73
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The Key of the Abyss Jack Parsons,
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And the fifth angel sounded, and I
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Part V Inner Apocalypse Chapter 28
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Afterward: The Key to the Abyss The
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