Abaddon aka Apollyon

SLEEP HAS NO PLACE IT CAN CALL ITS OWN



Awaken to darkness on this place we call Earth,
One vampire's bite brings another one's birth.
A vampire wakes with blood thirsty needs
On the warm rich sensation he feels when he feeds.
He stalks in the night like a disatrous beast,
And what once was alive will soon be deceased.
So when the last bit of sunlight disappears from the sky,
You better watch out unless you want to die.

But first, on earth as Vampire sent,
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;
There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corpse.
Thy victims are they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire,
As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers withered on the stem.
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ABADDON

Also Apollyon, Appolyon and Appollion (Greek).
Abaddon - literally meaning destruction, ruin or perdition - is the Hebrew name of the demon identified as the 'angel' of the bottomless pit, or the abyss, in Revelation. 9.11. Also known as 'The Destroyer', from his role as one of the destroying angels of the Apocalypse. In Job 26:6, and Proverbs 15:11, the word Abaddon arises in conjunction with Sheol.

Abaddon/Apollyon is the chief of the demons of the seventh hierarchy, the king of the grasshoppers, or demon locusts (described as having the bodies of winged war-horses, the faces of humans, and the poisonous curved tails of scorpions).

Cornelius Agrippa was the one that equated Abaddon with Apollyon, and positioned him as the monarch in the lower shadow of the sphere of the planet Venus, which is the Sephirah of Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree:

"The seventh mansion the Furies possess, which are powers of evil, descords, war and devastations, whose prince in the Revelations is called in Greek Apollyon, in Hebrew Abaddon, that is destroying and wasting"
(Occult Philosophy, Book 3 Chapter 18 ).

The biblical verse cited by Agrippa is Revelation 9:11, which reads:

"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon".

As described in Revelation, Apollyon opens the gates of the Abyss and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of demons locusts, who then proceed to torture those of mankind who do not bear the seal of God upon their forehead. After that, he is supposed to seize Satan himself, bind him and toss him into the bottomless pit of a thousand years.

The role of Apollyon in biblical references is ambiguous, sometimes being described as a good anger who serves God, and sometimes alo being described as a follen angel who succumbed to evil.

The word Apollyon and its variations are sometimes used to mean Hell itself (in the old Testament the name Abaddon is used for the place of the dead). The word Abaddon is also used for Hell in rabbinical literature. Milton, in Paradise Lost, also used the name for the pit itself:

"In all her gates Abaddon rues
Thy bold attempt."
(Paradise Regained, iv 1671)

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