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We need to start this discussion by mentioning that although many view Moloch as a God and Daemon. This however was most probably not a proper name at all, and is simply a title, which we find with so many names\/titles of Gods and Goddesses (such as Ba\u2019al meaning \u2018lord\u2019 and Lucifer meaning \u2018light bringer\u2019), and it would therefore most probably be related to the Hebrew word \u2018melech\u2019 which means \u2018king\u2019. In that regard Moloch has been equated with the Canaanite God Ba\u2019al-Hadad, who we spoke of last week in reference to Beelzebub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Moloch is known, in the Bibilical sense, to be a sacrifice of children. This probably comes from the theory that is growing in popularity that the Hebrew word mlk<\/em> is identical in spelling to the word that means sacrifice in the related Punic language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before 1935 is was believed that Moloch was a pagan deity. He had a shrine dedicated to him outside the walls of Jerusalem called Topheth, in the valley of Ben-Hinnom. It was at this shrine where children were sacrificed, or \u201cpassed through the fire\u201d. However, later research has suggested that this moloch was in reference to the act of child sacrifice, which the Judahites were giving to their national deity, Yahweh. This is further enforced in that none of the proposed gods that Moloch could be associated with received such a sacrifices. The most one would get would be an animal sacrifice. In other words, the mlk sacrifice was never offered to a deity named Mlk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has also been suggested that that act of \u201cpassing through the fire\u201d had absolutely nothing to do with sacrifice, of children or anything else, but was actually an initiation ceremony, and I would also add a cleansing by fire. This view is not one of the more popular ones, but I still present it as a possibility. So who is Moloch in our modern practice? Reading directly from Jehannum\u2019s website: \u201cTheistic Satanism describes Moloch as a solar and infernal deity who instills health, power, strength, and nourishment within the magickian\u2013 a courageous, theriomorphic warlord who lights his enemies ablaze. Traditional Ahrimanism presents Moloch as a god of blasphemy, polytheism, lust, rage, murder, and death. Luciferian grimoires venerate Moloch as a godform of transformative rebirth and a harbinger of magickal ascent and adepthood.  Khaos-Gnosticism presents Moloch as the guardian of the fiery void\u2013 a devouring aspect of the abyss which imparts the final cleansing to the adept. Still other black magickal traditions present him as a cruel and merciless avenger who presides over baleful sorcery\u2013 a god of suffering who castigates souls with fire.\u201d – https:\/\/vkjehannum.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/04\/melchom-or-moloch\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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