Thanks for starting this thread Gopher, and Hemi, and anyone else, dun' be afraid to bring this up, it's like Phantasm, I can talk about it way too much, and obviously love to write about it.
Let me see if I can answer all your questions without getting too confusing. Scuba: Choronzon is the same entity Aleister Crowley dealt with in Bou-Sadr, Algeria, in the district/province/area(?) known as M'Cilla (and yes, that is part of where my name arises from, though not the whole source of it since I found this out very recently!) on 9 December 1909, along with his scribe, Victor Neuberg. That ritual became rather famous among Thelemites, and also shrouded in mystery - it is claimed by some that the original pages of the notebook transcribing Crowley's travels through the 30 Enochian aethyrs, of which Choronzon's was the 10th, had been torn out and replaced at a later date with new pages. Crowley himself was completely silent and motionless during this ritual and the "daemon" had been dealing with Victor who came to loathe it.
My own discovery of Choronzon began in 1985, though he - or more properly, it - discovered me two years earlier. I had one of the pivotal experiences of my psychotropic career - which I will happily recount to anyone in private - while listening to a Tangerine Dream song called "Choronzon". At that time I was quite young and naive and thought that name Choronzon was some coast in Spain or somesuch, knowing nothing of Crowley, or of Enochian. In 1985 I began a relationship with a self-professed white-mage named Johannes. He had close dealings with the San Francisco OTO. We did our first sex-magick ritual in December of that year, and whilst it peaked I first saw the sygn which was to end up becoming the glyph of Choronzon - three triangles connected at the apex and left/right sides. (It's called a Triptrigrammaton. Choronzon has a sense of humour; this is an obvious parody of Tetragrammaton, the pentagram of the white mages.)
Anyway, I'd just met Johannes a few months prior and still was a novitiate, knew nothing of Choronzon and barely anything about Thelemic matters. The day after I described my visions to him he consulted his OTO friends who told him I was "of Choronzon" and should be avoided. When he called me with this information I laughed out loud and hung up the phone, figuring the relationship was kaput, and thinking him rather foolish for taking a hallucination so seriously.
That night in a state of hypnagogue (neither awake nor asleep) I saw the sygn again and looked behind it, and "met" the entity for the first time. A few nights later we had...intimate relations. I'd seen daemons before, and done more with them than just look at them, but I could see right away Choronzon was something more than a daemon and that he was in some sort of prison.
As time went on I came to love this thing. It gave me certain abilities. I was, and still am, somewhat telepathic, not in the "reading of minds" sense, but in the sense that it's impossible for someone to lie to me without my catching the lie if I am within close enough proximity to the person to "sense" that someone is willfully trying to mislead me. Choronzon was also and is also the best lover I have ever had in that realm, by far.
Johannes didn't take his OTO friends' advice and continued to date me. As time went on our relationship thrived but in the bizarre way of two people who both hate and love one another. He described it as a battle of wills. I came to see that the only thing he really got out of it was the sense he was battling Choronzon through me.
And losing.
In 1988 I did some foolish things I'd rather not speak of with Choronzon's help. Johannes liked to have multiple lovers and play them off against each other, and one of them in particular peeved me off. I call my response foolish because the relationship I had with Johannes was not love and even if it was magickal attacks on persons rooted in jealousy always seem to come to bad end, it has nothing to do with karma or morality, more to do with simple weakness. Essentially I made such an attack on this woman and came very close to destroying her. A year later disaster visited me in many forms and I ended up in the gutter.
Choronzon redeemed me, but it took years, and is a story all its own.
I spent some years away from Choronzon, a ten year relationship with someone I was truly in Love with. The Pact I have with this entity dictates that he/it is to leave me be when I am having a "solid state" relationship. After 10 years my lover, who is 12 years younger than me, fell in love with another woman his own age and closer to his own interests (primarily video games and RPGs; these things tend to bore me, since I prefer the real thing to this phony spell-based 'magick', even though it's far harder to master and maintain mastery of.)
Around this time I discovered someone on the east coast who also knew Choronzon. We joined forces but not sexually as he is and I...well, another long story, but I will probably have no further solid state affairs thanks to something that the person I had been in Love with wanted me to do - and the dishonesty of a woman I'd thought my best friend for years. Again, that's something I'll only discuss in private...
Emerson, my brother-in-Choronzon, and I are both noise-music aficionados and each had solo music projects named Choronzon. We fused them into one thing. Later, we met a videographer from Australia who also had a Choronzon project and that very unusual individual, Orryelle, also joined us, although we've yet to work with him...
Getting over a 10 year relationship, essentially a marriage (though never legally binding since both of us detest the government and didn't want to make each other financial dependents nor did we want children) is...incredibly hard. I think the only thing worse in life is when someone you love dies. Honestly, I wonder sometimes if I'd have been able to get through the last 2 years were it not for Choronzon.
I decided to carry the mythos of Choronzon into this century and away from the image Crowley had made of him. He began to tell me his story years ago and I began to take notes from it and some of what you will see on
choronzon.org/grinnoire is based on this. Incidentally the site needs an update badly, my old name used to be Monde, and is now Mesila, so anything written by "Monde" is written by me.
It warms my heart to see y'all so interested in my story. Do I believe in Choronzon? Yes...and no. Perhaps this is one reason I fell in love with Phantasm over the years. It is and is not a dream. But in the sense that Choronzon is real, if he was once a daemon, he no longer is, because he came to love me, and was freed from the Abyss, that the others of his kind threw him into millennia ago. Choronzon's not evil, he's just a trickster-antihero, so to speak, and did some things in jest taken too seriously, although they amounted to crimes against the laws of physics themselves.
I've not yet told THAT story - I'm still working on it. Though
Jebediah's Journey is taking up a lot of my time nowadays.