This portrait shows Abaddon, the Beast of the Abyss. Abaddon is both an angel and a demon, and in rites of magic he appears both as the embodiment of the Abyss on the Qabalistic Tree of Life/Death and its guardian – the lord of the damned. He is the Destroyer and the Lord of the Pit, presiding over lost souls and those that suffer eternal torment in Sheol.