Who is Abraxas?
An ancient God or a Demon.
Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung transcribed a short Gnostic treatise in 1916, attributed to Basilides in Alexandria called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas the supreme power of being transcending both God and the Devil and unites all opposites into one Being.
(see below on what Jung wrote about Abraxas)
Pronunciation:
a-BRAHK-zuhs
Also Known As:
- Abrasax
- Abracax
Demons With Similar Skills and/or Abilities:
- Picollus
- Gaap
- Lamia
- Naberius
- Behemoth
Appearance:
Abraxas “possesses the head of a fanged, deformed bird with a tooth-filled mouth and lizard-like crest behind his head. In place of his legs, Abraxas has a pair of writhing vipers, each with its own head and venomous fangs. Abraxas’s torso is humanoid with the exception of his viperous legs and demented head. His two arms end in large claws that wield a flail and a shield.”
Some sources replace the flail with a whip that is forked like a serpent’s tongue.
Working With This Demon:
Abracadabra… all is not what it seams! Today I must watch people who present themselves with one intention, but have other ulterior motives. By calling to Abraxas for wisdom and guidance, I will understand what magic I need to perform to make such issues dissolve – BWS
Abraxas has watched throughout history and gathered dark arcane secrets from countless ages. He is said to know countless magical formulae, spells and secrets, including the Final Incantation, a single word so powerful its speaking causes the annihilation of magic.
He specializes in magic and lore associated with pain and devastation.
Abraxas can assist those seeking forbidden knowledge at any price, even the death of all those they loved.
History:
Abraxas has an amazing history, and is a demon/God all occultist must look at with open eyes. What is written below is but a snap shot of a deep history of this name Abraxas.
Infernal Dictionary
The Catholic church deemed Abraxas a pagan god, and ultimately branded him a demon as documented in J. Collin de Plancy’s Infernal Dictionary, Abraxas (or Abracax) is labeled the “supreme God” of the Basilidians, whom he describes as “heretics of the second century.”
He further indicated the Basilidians attributed to Abraxas the rule over “365 skies” and “365 virtues”.
In a final statement on Basilidians, de Plancy states that their view was that Jesus Christ was merely a “benevolent ghost sent on Earth by Abracax.”
Aleister Crowley
Abrasax is invoked in Aleister Crowley’s 1913 work, “The Gnostic Mass” of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica:
IO IO IO IAO SABAO KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE. IO PAN, IO PAN PAN IO ISCHUROS, IO ATHANATOS IO ABROTOS IO IAO. KAIRE PHALLE KAIRE PAMPHAGE KAIRE PANGENETOR. HAGIOS, HAGIOS, HAGIOS IAO.
Jung:
Abraxas is an important figure in Carl Jung’s 1916 book Seven Sermons to the Dead, a representation of the driving force of individuation (synthesis, maturity, oneness), referred with the figures for the driving forces of differentiation (emergence of consciousness and opposites), Helios God-the-Sun, and the Devil.
A summary of Sermo II:
“There is a God about whom you know nothing, because men have forgotten him. We call him by his name: Abraxas. He is less definite than God or Devil…. Abraxas is activity: nothing can resist him but the unreal … Abraxas stands above the sun[-god] and above the devil If the Pleroma were capable of having a being, Abraxas would be its manifestation.”
Here are two excerpts from Seven Sermons to the Dead:
Sermo III
Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god.
Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum; but from Abraxas life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.
Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum; wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the sun in power, who is himself the radiant source of all the force of life.
Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.
The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished.
What the god-sun speaketh is life.
What the devil speaketh is death.
But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim. It is beautiful as a day of spring. It is the great Pan himself and also the small one. It is Priapos.
It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy.
It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning.
It is the lord of the toads and frogs, which live in the water and go up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight.
It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.
It is holy begetting.
It is love and love’s murder.
It is the saint and his betrayer.
It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness.
To look upon it, is blindness.
To know it, is sickness.
To worship it, is death.
To fear it, is wisdom.
To resist it not, is redemption.
God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his curse.
Everything that ye entreat from the god-sun begetteth a deed of the devil.
Everything that ye create with the god-sun giveth effective power to the devil.
That is terrible Abraxas.
It is the mightiest creature, and in it the creature is afraid of itself.
It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness.
It is the son’s horror of the mother.
It is the mother’s love for the son.
It is the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens.
Before its countenance man becometh like stone.
Before it there is no question and no reply.
It is the life of creatura.
It is the operation of distinctiveness.
It is the love of man.
It is the speech of man.
It is the appearance and the shadow of man.
It is illusory reality.
Now the dead howled and raged, for they were unperfected.
Sermo VII
Yet when night was come the dead again approached with lamentable mien and said: There is yet one matter we forgot to mention. Teach us about man.
Man is a gateway, through which from the outer world of gods, daemons, and souls ye pass into the inner world; out of the greater into the smaller world. Small and transitory is man. Already is he behind you, and once again ye find yourselves in endless space, in the smaller or innermost infinity. At immeasurable distance standeth one single Star in the zenith.
This is the one god of this one man. This is his world, his pleroma, his divinity.
In this world is man Abraxas, the creator and the destroyer of his own world.
This Star is the god and the goal of man.
This is his one guiding god. In him goeth man to his rest. Toward him goeth the long journey of the soul after death. In him shineth forth as light all that man bringeth back from the greater world. To this one god man shall pray.
Prayer increaseth the light of the Star. It casteth a bridge over death. It prepareth life for the smaller world and assuageth the hopeless desires of the greater.
When the greater world waxeth cold, burneth the Star.
Between man and his one god there standeth nothing, so long as man can turn away his eyes from the flaming spectacle of Abraxas.
Man here, god there.
Weakness and nothingness here, there eternally creative power.
Here nothing but darkness and chilling moisture.
There wholly sun.
Whereupon the dead were silent and ascended like the smoke above the herdsman’s fire, who through the night kept watch over his flock.
**Source: http://gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm
F.Y.I
Abraxas is linked to two important concepts
Abracadabra…”makes something disappear.”
- It derives from the name Abraxas, “the Gnostic god who appears on charms against the evil eye.”
- Most commonly, abracadabra is inscribed on an amulet in the shape of a magical inverted triangle. One letter of the word is dropped in each succeeding line, until one letter forms the point of the triangle. The evil is supposed to fade away just as the word does.
- The diminishing-word technique is used in many other spells for the same purposes.
- Crowley considered it to possess great power; he said its true form is abrahadabra.
- In medieval times, abracadabra was believed to ward off the plague. The triangle was written on a piece of paper, which was tied around the neck with flax and worn for nine days and then tossed backward over the shoulder into a stream of water running toward the east.
Basilisk ….an important SYMBOL in ALCHEMY and in MAGIC.
The basilisk is a symbol of wisdom and is often shown devouring a human. To the ancients, to be devoured by wisdom means enlightenment, gnosis, and initiation into the mysteries.
Christianity demonized the basilisk as a symbol of the devil.
The basilisk is related to the all-powerful Gnostic god Abraxas, ruler of magic and spiritual powers in the universe, who is portrayed in art as having the head of a cock or lion and the body of a man with legs that end in serpents or scorpions.
Ensure you research more into this demon from these external sources.
Source:
- Dictionnaire Infernal
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas
- http://gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm
Abracadabra… all is not what it seams! Today I must watch people who present themselves with one intention, but have other ulterior motives. By calling to Abraxas for wisdom and guidance, I will understand what magic I need to perform to make such issues dissolve.
-Black Witch Savannah
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