The crops withered, until Baal’s sister, Anat, the maiden goddess of love, found his body and gave it proper burial. He engaged in a battle with Mot (death) and was slain and sent to the underworld. He was the lord of life and ruled the death-rebirth cycle. Many minor deities of ancient Syria and Persia carried the name Baal, which means “the lord.”Īccording to the Canaanites, Baal was the son of El, the High God of Canaan. He was an agricultural and fertility deity of Canaan. It is also believed in the Grand Grimoire that he is a direct subordinate of Lucifuge. According to Rudd, Bael is opposed by the Shemhamphorasch angel Vehuiah. Bael appears in later editions of the Grimoire of Pope Honorius, under Astaroth, as a prince whose powers include (again) invisibility and popularity. Sloane MS 3824 mentions Baal, in 'Of the Demon Rulers,' as a king ruled by Oriens, attributed with teaching science, granting invisibility, and controlling 250 legions of spirits. In the Livre des Esperitz, Bael is described as a king ruled by Orient ( Oriens), still possessing the power of invisibility, as well as the power to garner the favor of others, but ruling over only six legions of demons. Bael was originally prominent King of Hell before being overtaken by Belial. His activities in Heaven were unknown but according to the Zohar, Baal was equal in rank to the archangel Raphael.Īfter the governing system was set, Bael became a Duke of Hell, with 66 legions of demons under his command.

He is able to make his conjurer invisible.īael was amongst the order of high angels that joined the ranks of Lucifer during the War in Heaven only to be cast out alongside his fallen cohorts into the abyss which was then formed into and established as Hell. While his Semitic predecessor was depicted as a man or a bull, the demon Bael was in grimoire tradition said to appear in the forms of a man, cat, toad, or combinations thereof with the appearance of a king or soldier or with the heads of the three creatures onto a set of spider legs.

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