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Obaddon Another form of Abaddon. In The Messiah he is a seraph and companion to Ithuriel. In canto VII of Klopstock’s work, he is titled the ’minister of death.” This with Abaddon (Apollyon), called in Revelation 9:10 the ”angel of the bottom-less pit.” Obizuth A winged female demon who is put to flight be the archangel Bazazath. Olivier An ex-prince of the order or archangels. Omael An angel who multiplies species, perpetuates races, influences chemists, etc. He is (or was) of the order of dominations and is among the seventy-two angels bearing the mystical name of God Shemhamphorae. Whether Omael is fallen or still upright is difficult to determine from the data available. He seems to operate in both domains (Heaven and Hell). On In The Greater Key of Solomon, and angel or divine name invoked in the conjuration of the Reed. In The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, On is a demon invoked in Monday conjurations addressed to Lucifer. Oni Japanese demons that look like humans except that they have three eyes, big mouths, horns and sharp nails. They fly around and seize the souls of wicked persons on their deathbeds. To expel these demons, annually the oni-yarabi ceremony is held. Once the sage Nichiren ("sun-lotus") saw the oni at work in the scourges of his time: enemy invasions, earthquakes and eclipses. He attributed the evil to the sinfulness of his Japanese contemporaries, so he founded a special school of Buddhism to reform the people. Onoel, Oniel, Hamiel, Haniel, Anael In gnostic lore , he is one of the seven archons. Origen cites him as hostile, a demon, who manifests in the form of an ass. Onoskelis A female demon who is subject to the angel Joel. Ophiomorphus In Ophitic (Gnostic) lore, the serpent Ophiomorphus is a name for the Hebrew devil Sammael. Ophis ”serpent”—“head of the rebellious angels”—so described by the Assyrian author Phercies. Ohpis was revered by the ophites as a symbol of divine wisdom who, in the form of a serpent, befriended Adam and Eve in Eden, persuading them to eat of the forbidden fruit (as a service to man). In The Magus, Ophis is pictured as a demon. Oribel Variant for Uriel as one of the angels reprobated by Pope Zachary in 745 C.E. Orion In The Messiah he is St. Peter’s guardian. Eliphas Levi finds an identity between Orion and Michael. A symbolic connection may be found between Semyaza and the constellation called Orion (the hunter) by the Greeks. Ouza, Uzza In the Midrash Petirat Mosheh which contains a dialog between God and the soul of Moses, God is reminded that ”the angels Ouza and Azael came down from Heaven and were corrupted [through cohabiting with the daughters of men], but that Moses was not corrupted,” the reason for Moses remaining pure was that, after God had revealed Himself to Moses, the latter abstained from intimacy with his wife. In Exodus 19:15, husbands were exhorted to ”come not at your wives” so as to keep themselves clean preparatory to meeting with their Lord on the mount. All this seems inconsistent with the traditional and prevailing belief among Jews that conjugal union, far from being a contaminating act, is a holy one, blessed by the Shekinah herself. Demons Main Page
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