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- THE COLLECTED WRITINGS
- OF JACK PARSONS
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- The Book of Babalon,
- The Book of Antichrist,
- and other writings
-
-
- PART ONE
-
- THE BOOK OF BABALON
-
- January 4 - March 4, 1946 E.V.
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- This book contains the record of a magical experiment relating to
- the invocation of an elemental, the thereafter of the Goddess or
- Force called BABALON, and the results thereof. An appendix con-
- tains some details of the method, published for the first time.
- The contents should be clear enough to those who are prepared for
- understanding, and a little study and effort should make it so
- for those who desire understanding. For the rest, each will no
- doubt interpret it in accord with his own predilections.
-
- A note on the underlying philosophy. The present age is under the
- influence of the force called, in magical terminology, Horus.
- This force relates to fire, Mars, and the sun, that is, to power,
- violence, and energy. It also relates to a child, being innocent
- (i.e. undifferentiated). Its manifestations may be noted in the
- destruction of old institutions and ideas, the discovery and
- liberation of new energies, and the trend towards power govern-
- ments, war, homosexuality, infantilism, and schizophrenia.
-
- This force is completely blind, depending upon the men and women
- in whom it manifests and who guide it. Obviously, its guidance
- now tends towards catastrophy.
-
- The catastrophic trend is due to our lack of understanding of our
- own natures. The hidden lusts, fears, and hatreds resulting from
- the warping of the love urge, which underly the natures of all
- Western peoples, have taken a homicidal and suicidal direction.
-
- This impasse is broken by the incarnation of another sort of
- force, called BABALON. The nature of this force relates to love,
- understanding, and dionysian freedom, and is the necessary coun-
- terbalance or correspondence to the manifestation of Horus.
-
- It is indicated that this force is actually incarnate in some
- living woman, as the result of the described magical operation. A
- more basic matter, however, is the indication that this force is
- incarnate in all men and women, and needs only to be invoked to
- free the spirit from the debris of the old aeon, and to direct
- the blind force of Horus into constructive channels of under-
- standing and love. The methods of this invocation are described
- in the text.
-
- The background of this material may be found in the Book of the
- Law, the Comment thereon, and other writings of Aleister Crowley;
- also in various magical, anthropological, psychological, and
- philosophical texts. These are all necessary to an understanding
- and use of the material.
-
- One further point. It should be remembered that all human activi-
- ties, after the vital functions are fulfilled, arise from the
- need to love or to be loved. It is therfore quite literally true
- that in understanding (i.e. that which embraces all categories of
- love) is all power given. A grasp of the principle of bipolarity
- should make this clear.
-
- With this crude and rudimentary philosophical discourse, then, I
- present the Book of Babalon:
-
-
- A. CONCEPTION
-
- In January 1946 I had been engaged in the study and practice of
- Magick for seven years, and in the supervision and operation of
- an occult lodge for four years, having been initiated into the
- Sanctuary of the Gnosis by the Beast 666, Fra. 132, and Fra.
- Saturnus. At this time I decided upon a Magical operation de-
- signed to obtain the assistance of an elemental mate. This is a
- well known procedure in Magick (cf. Ch. VIII in Magick in Theory
- and Practice), consisting of the invocation of a spirit or ele-
- mental into tangible existence by various magical techniques.
-
- I decided upon the use of the Enochian Tablets obtained by Dr.
- Dee and Edward Kelley, employing the *n*n*n square of the Air
- Tablet. The technique was approximately as follows:
-
- (January 4, 1946, 9:00 PM)
-
- 1. Prepared and consecrated Air Dagger. (The other magical weap-
- ons were previously prepared. This dagger served as the special
- talisman of the operation.)
-
- 2. Prepared Enochian Air Tablet on virgin parchment.
-
- 3. Prepared Parchment Talisman
-
- 4. Rituals as follows:
-
- (a) Invoking Pentagram of Air.
-
- (b) Invocation of Bornless One.
-
- (c) Conjuration of Air.
-
- (d) Consecration of Air Dagger.
-
- (e) Key Call of third Aire.
-
- (f) Invocation of God and King of Aire.
-
- (g) Invocation of Six Seniors.
-
- (h) Invocation of (RZDA) by *n*n*n and (EXARP), to visible ap-
- pearance.
-
- (i) Invocaton of wand with material basis on talisman.
-
- (j) Invocation with dagger.
-
- (k) License to depart, purification, and banishing.
-
- I followed this procedure for eleven days, from January 4 to 15,
- with the following entries in my record:
-
- January 5. A strong windstorm beginning suddenly about the middle
- of the first invocation.
-
- Jan 6. Invoked as before. Wind storm continued intermittently all
- day and night.
-
- Jan 7. Invoked twice. Wind subsided. Used Prokofief Violin Con-
- certo No. 2 as musical background.
-
- Jan 8. Invoked twice, using blood.
-
- Jan 9. Invoked twice, replenishing material basis.
-
- Jan 10. Invoked twice. I retired about 11 PM, and was awakened at
- 12 PM by nine strong, rapid knocks. A table lamp at the opposite
- corner of the room was thrown violently to the floor and broken.
- There was no window in this corner, and no wind was blowing at
- the time.
-
- (Note. I have had little experience with phenomena of this sort.
- Magically speaking, it usually represents "breaks" in the opera-
- tion, indicating imperfect technique. Actually, in any magical
- opeation there should be no phenomena but the willed result.)
-
- Jan 11. Invoked twice, using blood.
-
- Jan 12. Invoked twice. A heavy windstorm.
-
- Jan 13. Invoked twice. Windstorm continued.
-
- Jan 14. The light system of the house failed about 9 PM. Another
- magician who had been staying at the house and studying with me,
- was carrying a candle across the kitchen when he was struck
- strongly on the right shoulder, and the candle knocked out of his
- hand. He called us, and we observed a brownish yellow light about
- seven feet high in the kitchen.
-
- I banished with a magical sword, and it disappeared. His right
- arm was paralyzed for the rest of the night.
-
- Jan 15. Invoked twice. At this time the Scribe developed some
- sort of astral vision, describing in detail an old enemy of mine
- of whom he had never heard, and later the guardian forms of Isis
- and the Archangel Michael. Later, in my room, I heard the raps
- again, and a buzzing, metallic voice crying "let me go free." I
- felt a great pressure and tension in the house that night, which
- was also noticed by the other occupants. There was no other
- phenomena, and I admit a feeling of disappointment.
-
- The feeling of tension and unease continued for four days. Then,
- on January 18, at sunset, while the Scribe and I were on the
- Mojave desert, the feeling of tension suddenly snapped. I turned
- to him and said, "it is done," in absolute certainty that the
- operation was accomplished. I returned home, and found a young
- woman answering the requirements waiting for me. She is describa-
- ble as an air of fire type with bronze red hair, fiery and sub-
- tle, determined and obstinate, sincere and perverse, with ex-
- traordinary personality, talent, and intelligence.
-
- During the period of January 19 to February 27 I invoked the
- Goddess BABALON with the aid of my magical partner, as was proper
- to one of my grade.
-
-
- B. COMMUNICATIONS
-
- On February 27 my magical partner went East for a visit, and on
- Feb. 28 I went back to the Mojave, invoking BABALON. During this
- invocation, the presence of the Goddess came upon me, and I was
- commanded to write the following communication:
-
-
- LIBER 49
-
- 1. Yea, it is I, BABALON.
-
- 2. And this is my book, that is the fourth chapter of the Book of
- the Law, He completing the Name, for I am out of NUIT by HORUS,
- the incestuous sister of RA-HOOR-KHUIT.
-
- 3. It is BABALON. TIME IS. Ye fools.
-
- 4. Thou hast called me, oh accursed and beloved fool.
-
- 5-8. (Missing and presumed lost. Ed.)
-
- 9. Now know that I, BABALON, would take flesh and come among men.
-
- 10. I will come as a penelous (sic) flame, as a devious song, a
- trumpet in judgement halls, a banner before armies.
-
- 11. And gather my children unto me, for THE TIME is at hand.
-
- 12. And this is the way of my incarnation. Heed!
-
- 13. Thou shalt offer all thou art and all thou hast at my altar,
- witholding nothing. And thou shalt be smitten full sore and
- thereafter thou shalt be outcast and accursed, a lonely wanderer
- in abominable places.
-
- 14. Ye Dare. I have asked of none other, nor have they asked.
- Else is vain. But thou hast willed it.
-
- 15. Know then that thus I came to thee before, thou a great Lord,
- and I a maid enrapt. Ah blind folly.
-
- 16. And thereafter madness, all in vain. Thus it has been, multi-
- form. How thou hast burned beyond.
-
- 17. I shall come again, in the form thou knowest. Now it shall be
- thy blood.
-
- 18. The altar is aright, and the robe.
-
- 19. The perfume is sandal, and the cloth green and gold. There is
- my cup, our book, and thy dagger.
-
- 20. There is a flame.
-
- 21. The sigil of devotion. Be it consecrated, be it true, be it
- daily affirmed. I am not scorned. Thy love is to me. Procure a
- disk of copper, in diameter three inches paint thereon the field
- blue the star gold of me, BABALON.
-
- 22. It shall be my talisman. Consecrate with the supreme rituals
- of the word and the cup.
-
- 23. My calls as thou knowest. All love songs are of me. Also seek
- me in the Seventh Aire.
-
- 24. This for a time appointed. Seek not the end, I shall instruct
- thee in my way. But be true. Would it be hard if I were thy
- lover, and before thee? But I am thy lover and I am with thee.
-
- 25. I shall provide a vessel, when or whence I say not. Seek her
- not, call her not. Let her declare. Ask nothing. Keep silence.
- There shall be ordeals.
-
- 26. My vessel must be perfect. This is the way of her perfection.
-
- 27. The working is of nine moons.
-
- 28. The Astarte working, with music and feasting, with wine and
- all arts of love.
-
- 29. Let her be dedicated, consecrated, blood to blood, heart to
- heart, mind to mind, single in will, none without the circle, all
- to me.
-
- 30. And she shall wander in the witchwood under the Night of Pan,
- and know the mysteries of the Goat and the Serpent, and of the
- children that are hidden away.
-
- 31. I will provide the place and the material basis, thou the
- tears and blood.
-
- 32. Is it difficult, between matter and spirit? For me it is
- ecstacy and agony untellable. But I am with thee. I have large
- strength, have thou likewise.
-
- 33. Thou shalt prepare my book for her instruction, also thou
- shalt teach that she may have captains and adepts in her service.
- Yea, thou shalt take the black pilgrimage, but it will not be
- thou that returnest.
-
- 34. Let her prepare her work according to my voice in her heart,
- with thy book as guide, and none other instructing.
-
- 35. And let her be in all things wise, and sure, and excellent.
-
- 36. But let her think on this: my way is not in the solemn ways,
- or in the reasoned ways, but in the wild free way of the eagle,
- and the devious way of the serpent, and the oblique way of the
- factor unknown and unnumbered.
-
- 37. For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique, and there
- shall be no other women like her.
-
- 38. In My Name shall she have all power, and all men and excel-
- lent things, and kings and captains and the secret ones at her
- command.
-
- 39. The first servants are chosen in secret, by my force in
- her--a captain, a lawyer, an agitator, a rebel--I shall provide.
-
- 40. Call me, my daughter, and I shall come to thee. Thou shalt be
- full of my force and fire, my passion and power shall surround
- and inspire thee; my voice in thee shall judge nations.
-
- 41. None shall resist thee, whom I lovest. Though they call thee
- harlot and whore, shameless, false, evil, these words shall be
- blood in their mouths, and dust thereafter.
-
- 42. But my children will know thee and love thee, and this will
- make them free.
-
- 43. All is in thy hands, all power, all hope, all future.
-
- 44. One came as a man, and was weak and failed.
-
- 45. One came as a woman, and was foolish, and failed.
-
- 46. But thou art beyond man and woman, my star is in thee, and
- thou shalt avail.
-
- 47. Even now thy hour strikes upon the clock of my FATHER. For He
- prepared a banquet and a Bridal Bed. I was that Bride, appointed
- from the beginning, as it was written T.O.P.A.N.
-
- 48. Now is the hour of birth at hand. Now shall my adept be
- crucified in the Basilisk abode.
-
- 49. Thy tears, thy sweat, thy blood, thy semen, thy love, thy
- faith shall provide. Ah, I shall drain thee like the cup that is
- of me, BABALON.
-
- 50. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the first veil to speak
- with thee, through the stars shake.
-
- 51. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the second veil, while God
- and Jesus be smitten with the sword of HORUS.
-
- 52. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the third veil, and the
- shapes of hell shall be turned again to loveliness.
-
- 53. For thy sake shall I stride through the flames of Hell,
- though my tongue be bitten through.
-
- 54. Let me behold thee naked and lusting after me, calling upon
- my name.
-
- 55. Let me receive all thy manhood within my Cup, climax upon
- climax, joy upon joy.
-
- 56. Yea, we shall conquer death and Hell together.
-
- 57. And the earth is mine.
-
- 58. Thou shalt (make the?) Black Pilgrimage.
-
- 59. Yea it is even I BABALON and I SHALL BE FREE. Thou fool, be
- thou also free of sentimentality. Am I thy village queen and thou
- a sophomore, that thou shouldst have thy nose in my buttocks?
-
- 60. It is I, BABALON, ye fools, MY TIME is come, and this my book
- that my adept prepares is the book of BABALON.
-
- 61. Yea, my adept, the Black Pilgrimage. Thou shalt be accursed,
- and this is the nature of the curse. Thou shalt publish the
- secret matter of the adepts thou knowest, witholding no word of
- it, in an appendix to this my Book. So they shall cry fool, liar,
- sot, traducer, betrayer. Thou art not glad thou meddled with
- magick?
-
- 62. There is no other way, dear fool, it is the eleventh hour.
-
- 63. The seal of my Brother is upon the earth, and His Avatar is
- before you. There is threshing of wheat and a trampling of grapes
- that shall not cease until the truth be known unto the least of
- men.
-
- 64. But you who do not accept, you who see beyond, reach out your
- hands my children and reap the world in the hour of your harvest.
-
- 65. Gather together in the covens as of old, whose number is
- eleven, that is also my number. Gather together in public, in
- song and dance and festival. Gather together in secret, be naked
- and shameless and rejoice in my name.
-
- 66. Work your spells by the mode of my book, practicing secretly,
- inducing the supreme spell.
-
- 67. The work of the image, and the potion and the charm, the work
- of the spider and the snake, and the little ones that go in the
- dark, this is your work.
-
- 68. Who loves not hates, who hates fears, let him taste fear.
-
- 69. This is the way of it, star, star. Burning bright, moon,
- witch moon.
-
- 70. You the secret, the outcast, the accursed and despised, even
- you that gathered privily of old in my rites under the moon.
-
- 71. You the free, the wild, the untamed, that walk now alone and
- forlorn.
-
- 72. Behold, my Brother cracks the world like a nut for your
- eating.
-
- 73. Yea, my Father has made a house for you, and my Mother has
- prepared a Bridal Bed. My Brother has confounded your enemies.
-
- 74. I am the Bride appointed. Come ye to the nuptials--come ye
- now!
-
- 75. My joy is the joy of eternity, and my laughter is the drunken
- laughter of a harlot in the house of ecstasy.
-
- 76. All you loves are sacred, pledge them all to me.
-
- 77. Set my star upon your banners and go forward in joy and
- victory. None shall deny you, and none shall stand before you,
- because of the Sword of my Brother. Invoke me, call upon me, call
- me in your convocations and rituals, call upon me in your loves
- and battles in my name BABALON, wherein is all power given!
-
-
- C. BIRTH
-
- [March 2, 1946 E.V.]
-
- On March 1 and 2 1946 I prepared the altar and equipment in
- accordance with the instructions in Liber 49. The Scribe had been
- away about a week, and knew nothing of my invocations of BABALON,
- which I had kept entirely secret. On the night of March 2 he
- returned, and described a vision he had that evening of a savage
- and beautiful woman riding naked on a great cat-like beast. He
- was impressed with the urgent necessity of giving me some message
- or communication. We prepared magically for this communication,
- constructing a temple at the altar with the analysis of the key
- word. He was robed in white, carrying the lamp, and I in black,
- hooded, with the cup and dagger. At his suggestion we played
- Rachmanninoff's Isle of the Dead as background music, and set an
- automatic recorder to transcribe any audible occurrences. At
- approximately 8 PM he began to dictate, I transcribing directly
- as I received.
-
- THE SCRIBE: "The Angel of TARO. A three day retirement to greet
- her. Purify thyself. The symbol is seven by three. It is BABALON.
- Keep secret. The communications are sacred."
-
- "These are the preparations. Green gold cloth, food for the
- Beast, upon a hidden platter, back of the altar. Disclose only
- when the doors are bolted."
-
- "Transgression is death."
-
- "Back of main altar. Prepare instantly. Light the first flame at
- 10 PM, March 2, 1946."
-
- "The year of BABALON is 4063."
-
- "Beware of the use of profaned rituals."
-
- "She is flame of life, power of darkness, she destroys with a
- glance, she may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death of men."
-
- "Beautiful--Horrible."
-
- The Scribe, now pale and sweating, rested awhile, then continued:
-
-
- [The First Ritual]
-
- "The first ritual. Tomorrow the second ritual. Concentrate all
- force and being in Our Lady BABALON. Light a single light on Her
- altar, saying: Flame is Our Lady, flame is Her hair. I am flame."
-
- "A plate of food, unsalted. An altar cloth hitherto undefiled."
-
- "Make a box of blackness at ten o'clock. Smear the vessel which
- contains flame with thine own blood. Destroy at the altar a thing
- of value. Remain in perfect silence, and heed the voice of Our
- Lady. Speak not of this ritual or of Her coming to any person.
- If asked, answer in a manner that avoids suspicion. Nor speculate
- at any time as to Her future mortal identity. To receive flatter-
- ing communications to thy damnation. Press not to receive teach-
- ings beyond those given."
-
- "Questions: you may ask but three. Spend one half hour in compos-
- ing these at 11:30 PM. The answers must be written at midnight."
-
- "Thou shalt take the alkahest in thine own mouth, and in the box
- of darkness carefully store this matter."
-
- "Display thyself to Our Lady; dedicate thy organs to Her, dedi-
- cate thy heart to Her, dedicate thy mind to Her, dedicate thy
- soul to Her, for She shall absorb thee, and thou shalt become
- living flame before She incarnates. For it shall be through you
- alone, and no one else can help in this endeavour."
-
- "It is lonely, it is awful."
-
- "Retire from human contact until noon tomorrow. Clear all profane
- documents on the morrow, before receiving further instructions.
- Consult no book but thine own mind. Thou art a god. Behave at
- this altar as one god before another. And so be prosperity."
-
- "Thou art the guardian and thou art the guide, thou art the
- worker and the mechanic. So conduct thyself. Discuss nothing of
- this matter until thou art certain that thine understanding
- embraces all."
-
- Here the Scribe ceased dictation. I proceeded to follow these
- instructions and those of March 1, utilizing the following ritu-
- als. I include the rituals used in the operation of the first
- night, in order to indicate the nature of the Force invoked.
-
-
- 1
- [The First Invocation]
-
- The temple is opened with the analysis of the key word:
-
- I N R I. Yod Nun Resh Yod. Virgo Isis Mighty Mother. Scorpio
- Apophis Destroyer. Sol, Osiris slain and risen. IAO. The sign of
- Osiris slain (given). The sign of the mourning of Isis (given).
- The sign of Apophis and Typhon (given). LVX, Lux, the Light of
- the Cross.
-
- The invoking hexagram is drawn in the four quarters and the name
- ARARITA vibrated in each quarter. In closing, the hexagram is
- reversed.
-
-
- 2
- The [Second] Invocation
- (From the Gnostic Mass)
-
- THE PRIEST
-
- "O circle of stars whereof our Father is but the younger brother,
- marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom
- time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark,
- not unto thee may we attain unless thine image be love. Therefore
- by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit
- do we invoke thee."
-
- BABALON
-
- "But to love me is better than all things; if under the night
- stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before
- me, invoking me with a pure heart and the serpent flame therein,
- thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt
- thou be willing to give all. But whoso gives one particle of dust
- shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of
- women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the
- nations of earth in splendour and pride; but always in the love
- of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to
- come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head-
- dress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or
- voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple and drunkenness of
- the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the
- coiled splendour within you: come unto me! to me! Sing the rap-
- turous love songs unto me! Burn to me perfume! Drink to me, for I
- love you! I love you! I am the blue lidded daughter of sunset, I
- am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky. To me. To
- me."
-
-
- 3
- The Third Invocation.
- (From The Vision and the Voice)
-
- CHORUS
-
- "Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, BABALON, the Mother of Abomina-
- tion, that rideth upon the Beast, for She hath spilt their blood
- in every corner of the earth, and lo! She hath mingled it in the
- cup of Her whoredom."
-
- "With the breath of Her kisses hath she fermented it, and it hath
- become the wine of the Sabbath; and in the Holy Assembly hath She
- poured it out for Her worshippers; and they have become drunken
- thereon, so that face to face they beheld my Father. Thus are
- they made worthy to partake of the mystery of this holy vessel,
- for the blood is the life."
-
- "Beautiful art thou O BABALON, and desirable, for thou hast given
- Thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued
- their strength. For in that union Thou didst understand. There-
- fore art Thou called Understanding, O BABALON, Lady of the
- Night."
-
- "O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union of the
- one with the many. For She is Love, and Her Love is one, and She
- has divided theone love into infinite loves, and each love is
- one, and equal with the One, and therefore is She passed from the
- Assembly and the Law and the enlightenment into the anarchy of
- solitude and darkness. For ever thus must She veil the brilliance
- of Herself."
-
- 4
- [The Fourth Invocation]
-
- O BABALON, BABALON beloved, come now, partake of the sacrament,
- possess this shrine. Take me now! Let me be drunken on the wine
- of your fornications; let your kisses wanton me to death. Accept
- thou this sacrifice willingly given!
-
-
- 5
- The Fifth Invocation
- The Call of the Seventh Aire
-
- Rass I Salman Paradiz Oa-Crimi Aao Ial-Pir-Gah Qui-In Enay Butmon
- Od I Noas Ni Paradial Casarmg Vgear Chirlan Od Zonac Luciftan
- Cors Ta Vaul Zirn Tol Hami Sobol Ondoh Od Miam Chis Ta Zo Od Es
- V-Ma-Dea Od Pi- Bliar O Phil Rit Od Miam C-Crimi Quaada. Od. O-
- Michaloz Oriom Bagle Papnor I Dlugam Lonshi Od Umplif V-Ge-Gi
- Riglied. BABALON!
-
-
- 6
- The Sixth Invocation
- (from Tannhauser by A. Crowley)
-
- Isis art thou, and from thy life are fed
- All showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane,
-
- All stars and streams, the living and the dead,
- The mystery of pleasure and of pain
-
- Thou art the mother, thou the speaking sea
-
- Thou art the earth, and its fertility,
- Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness return to thee
-
- To Thee!
-
- Hathoor am I, and to my beauty drawn
- All glories of the Universe bow down,
- The blossom and the mountain and the dawn
-
- Fruits blush, and women, our creations crown
- I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine
-
- I the love and life of the divine
- Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mine,
- Are Mine!
-
- Venus art thou, the love and light of earth,
-
- The wealth of kisses, the delight of tears
- The barren pleasures never came to birth,
-
- The endless infinite delight of years.
- Thou art the shrine at which my long desire
-
- Devoured me with intolerable fire.
- Thou wert song, music, passion, death upon my lyre--
-
- My lyre.
-
- I am the Grail and I the glory now;
-
- I am the flame and fuel of thy breast
- I am the star of God upon thy brow;
- *mI am the queen, enraptured and possessed,
- Hide thee sweet river, welcome to thee, sea
-
- Ocean of love that shall encompass thee
- Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness return to me--
-
- To me!
-
-
- [March 2, 1946 E.V. continued]
-
- On the night of the first performance of these rituals, I pre-
- pared the altar and box and food, also flowers and wine. At the
- beginning of the rituals, I burnt the Enochian Tablet and smashed
- an image of Pan, a favorite possession. (About this time the roof
- on my guest house caught fire from a faulty chimney, and was
- partly destroyed.)
-
- I proceeded with the rituals, noting a mounting tension, and the
- sense of a presence inexpressibly poignant and desirable. There
- was no other manifestation. At twelve PM I put the three ques-
- tions and received answers as follows:
-
- 1. How can I communicate directly with BABALON, hear her, see
- her, feel her, be sure that I am working aright?
-
- Answer. "At the altar in meditation, as you know how. Also,
- invoke me carnally with all your passion. Thus will you feel my
- desire and increase my substance."
-
- 2. How can I serve best?
-
- Answer. "Follow instructions exactly and in detail. Avoid loose
- interruptions. Be diligent. Do not hesitate or question, act. All
- depends on your time."
-
- 3. How can I be certain of the vehicle?
-
- Answer. "Do not trouble yourself with this. It does not concern
- you. I will provide the vehicle, I will show you a sign, and
- signs. It is the now which concerns us. Keep your faith, think
- not overmuch."
-
- After this an hour's meditation, and so to sleep.
-
-
- [March 3, 1946 E.V.]
-
- The next day I slipped badly. An inmate of the house disturbed my
- morning meditation. I opened the door and cursed him (in the
- Anglo Saxon fashion). Shortly after he was taken ill, and I
- succumbed to a black mood. I perceived my terrible error, and
- apologized to him, mentally withdrawing the curse. However, the
- day went very badly for me.
-
- That evening the Scribe and I resumed our work. In a short time
- the dictation began:
-
- "In the presence of our Lord PAN, at the feet of Our Lady BABA-
- LON, at the feet of Her (servants?) (changing?) we declare unto
- thee this message (consecrated, dedicated, never to be defiled?)
- (the Scribe was uncertain here) containing the rituals of the
- second and third days, of the welcome and preparation in the Name
- of Our Lady of the Night most gracious, to pure lewd and whore-
- some Lady BABALON. Oh thou who art mortal tremble; given it is
- unto thee a feat never before performed in the annals of your
- histories, never before accomplished successfully. Many have
- dared, none succeeded."
-
- "Our Lady BABALON must descend to triumph."
-
- "Mortality. We have not asked this of another, nor shall we ever.
- Even now we doubt thy faith. Is this accepted, are you willing to
- proceed. Answer aloud."
-
- Answer. "I am willing."
-
- "Then know thou art already faulty in thy delivery. These are ex-
- traneous things. The elemental was not properly released," (this
- was corrected) "thou wert guilty of human rage, the current of
- force has been disturbed. Beware, should'st thou falter again, we
- will sure slay thee."
-
- "But insofar as thy working was consecrated it has succeeded.
- Rectify thy mortal fault and error. Consecrate all. Now receive
- the second and third rituals."
-
-
- The Second Ritual
-
- [March 3, 1946 E.V. continued]
-
- "Consecrate thyself as instructor of Our Lady Incarnate."
-
- "Take the black box, concentrate upon its emptiness for one hour,
- gaze into it, and thou wilt see, imprinted upon it, a shape, a
- sign, a sacred design, which shall be the sign delivered by Our
- Lady Babalon Incarnate. When thou hast finished, when thou hast
- recognized this pattern, construct it in wood."
-
- "This is the sigil."
-
- "Ten be the hour appointed. Invoke long, to music indicated."
- [...] (This I keep secret.) "When thou canst feel Our Lady incar-
- nate in thy being, take the black box and perform the consecrated
- rite. "Wear thou scarlet, symbolic of birth. Be sashed in black.
- It matters not the quality of goods. Take then the box, make then
- the sign."
-
- "Paint upon it a second sign which thou knowest. If thou hast
- forgotten, gaze into thy crystal."
-
- "Meditate while gazing on the qualities of an instructor. Thou
- shalt inscribe in Her book, for Her guidance."
-
- "Thou art forbidden to leave thy room."
-
- "The end of the second ritual."
-
- At the end of this dictation, the Scribe showed signs of exhaus-
- tion. He rested awhile, then we continued:
-
-
- The Third Ritual
-
- [March 3 1946 E.V. continued]
-
- "Begin four hours prior to dawn."
-
- "A period of eradication of all inimical influences. Complete
- perfection. Wear black. Cut from thy breast the red star. Renew
- the blood. Lay out a white sheet. Place upon it blood of birth,
- since She is born of thy flesh, and by thy mortal power upon
- earth."
-
- "Thou shalt recognize by the sign. BABALON is born! It is new
- birth, all things are changed, the signs, the symbols, the every-
- thing!"
-
- "Thou shalt compass with the aid of the muse suitable invocation
- of the birth of BABALON, and this thou shalt deliver to the
- flames which now burn too."
-
- "Now thou shalt flame the third, chanting the invocation. She is
- born in the third flame."
-
- "In verse seven verses of seven lines, seven magick words. Stand
- and chant seven times. Envision thyself as a cloaked radiance
- desirable to the Goddess, beloved. Envision Her approaching thee.
- Embrace Her, cover Her with kisses. Think upon the lewd lascivi-
- ous things thou couldst do. All is good to BABALON. ALL.
-
- "Then rest, meditating on this:"
-
- "Thou as a man and as a god hast strewn about the earth and in
- the heavens many loves, these recall, concentrate, consecrate
- each woman thou hast raped. Remember her, think upon her, move
- her into BABALON, bring her into BABALON, each, one by one until
- the flame of lust is high."
-
- "Then compose a verse of undetermined lines on this, to BABALON.
- This verse shall be used in worship when she appears."
-
- "Then meditate upon thy desire, think upon Her, and, touching
- naught, chant these verses. Recall each lascivious moment, each
- lustfull day, all set them into the astral body, touching
- naught."
-
- "Preserve the material basis."
-
- (Question: "In the box?" Answer: "Yes.")
-
- "The lust is hers, the passion yours. Consider thou the Beast
- raping."
-
- "Leave thy casual loves--all belongs to BABALON, thy lust is
- BABALON's. She is with thee three days. The sign is hers, secret,
- and no man knows its correspondence. Guard!"
-
- The next section contains a prophecy which I shall not write
- here.
-
- There follows the indicated invoking poem.
-
-
- The Birth of Babalon
-
- What is the tumult among the stars
- that have shone so still till now?
- What are the furrows of pain and wrath
- upon the immortal brow?
-
- Why is the face of God turned grey
- and his angels all grown white?
- What is the terrible ruby star
- that burns down the crimson night?
-
- What is the beauty that flames so bright
- athwart the awful dawn?
- She has taken flesh, she is come to judge
- the thrones ye rule upon.
-
- Quail ye kings for an end is come
- in the birth of BABALON.
-
- I have walked three dreadful nights away
- in halls beyond despair,
- I have given marrow and tears and sweat
- and blood to make her fair.
-
- I have lain my love and smashed my heart
- and filled her cup with blood,
- That blood might flow from the loins of woe
- to the cup of brotherhood.
-
- The cities reel in the shout of steel
- where the sword of war is drawn.
- Sing ye saints for the day is come
- in the birth of BABALON.
-
- Now God has called for his judgement book
- and seen his name therein
- And the grace of God and the guilt of God
- have spelt it out as sin
-
- His bloody priests have clutched his robes
- and stained his linen gown
- And his victims swarm from his broken hell
- to drag his kingdom down.
-
- O popes and kings and the little gods
- are sick and sad and wan
- To see the crimson star that bursts
- like blood upon the dawn
-
- While trumpets sound and stars rejoice
- at the birth of BABALON.
-
- BABALON is too beautiful
- for sight of mortal eyes
- She has hidden her loveliness away
- in lonely midnight skies,
-
- She has clothed her beauty in robes of sin
- and pledged her heart to swine
- And loving and giving all she has
- brewed for saints immortal wine.
-
- But now the darkness is riven through
- and the robes of sin are gone,
- And naked she stands as a terrible blade
- and a flame and a splendid song
-
- Naked in radiant mortal flesh
- at the Birth of BABALON.
-
- She is come new born as a mortal maid
- forgetting her high estate,
- She has opened her arms to pain and death
- and dared the doom of fate,
-
- And death and hell are at her back,
- but her eyes are bright with life,
- Her heart is high and her sword is strong
- to meet the deadly strife,
-
- Her voice is sure as the judgement trump
- to crack the house of wrong,
- Though walls are high and stone is hard
- and the rule of hell was long
-
- The gates shall fall and the irons break
- in the Birth of BABALON.
-
- Her mouth is red and her breasts are fair
- and her loins are full of fire,
- And her lust is strong as a man is strong
- in the heat of her desire,
-
- And her whoredom is holy as virtue is foul
- beneath the holy sky,
- And her kisses will wanton the world away
- in passion that shall not die.
-
- Ye shall laugh and love and follow her dance
- when the wrath of God is gone
- And dream no more of hell and hate
- in the Birth of BABALON.
-
-
- PART TWO
-
- THE BOOK OF ANTICHRIST
-
-
- The Black Pilgrimage
-
- Now it came to pass even as BABALON told me, for after receving
- Her Book I fell away from Magick, and put away Her Book and all
- pertaining thereto. And I was stripped of my fortune (the sum of
- about $50,000) and my house, and all I Possessed.
-
- Then for a period of two years I worked in the world, recouping
- my fortune somewhat. But that was also taken from me, and my
- reputation, and my good name in my worldly work, that was in
- science.
-
- And on the 31st of October, 1948, BABALON called on me again, and
- I began the last work, that was the work of the wand. And I
- worked for 17 days, until BABALON called me in a dream, and
- instructed me on an astral working. Then I reconstructed the
- temple, and began the Black Pilgrimage, as She instructed.
-
- And I went into the sunset with Her sign, and into the night past
- accursed and desolate places and cyclopean ruins, and so came at
- last to the City of Chorazin. And there a great tower of Black
- Basalt was raised, that was part of a castle whose further bat-
- tlements reeled over the gulf of stars. And upon the tower was
- this sign
-
-
- And one heavily robed and veiled showed me the sign, and told me
- to look, and hehold, I saw flash below me four past lives wherein
- I had failed in my object. And I beheld the life of Simon Magus,
- preaching the Whore Helena as the Sophia, and I saw that my
- failure was in Hubris, the pride of the spirit. And I saw my life
- as Giles de Retz, wherein I attempted to raise Jehanne Darc to be
- Queen of the Witchcraft, and failed through her stupidity, and
- again my pride. And I saw myself in Francis Hepburne, Earl Both-
- well, manipulating Gellis Duncan, that was an unworthy instru-
- ment. And again as Count Cagliostro, failing because I failed to
- comprehend the nature of women in my Seraphina. And I was shown
- myself as a boy of 13 in this life, invoking Satan and showing
- cowardice when He appeared. And I was asked: "Will you fail
- again?" and I replied "I will not fail." (For I had given all my
- blood to BABALON, and it was not I that spoke.)
-
- And thereafter I was taken within and saluted the Prince of that
- place, and thereafter things were done to me of which I may not
- write, and they told me, "It is not certain that you will sur-
- vive, but if you survive you will attain your true will, and
- manifest the Antichrist.
-
- And thereafter I returned and swore the Oath of the Abyss, having
- only the choice between madness, suicide, and that oath. But the
- Oath in no wise ameliorated that terror, and I continued in the
- madness and horror of the abyss for a season. But of this no
- more. But having passed the ordeal of 40 days I took the oath of
- a Magister Templi, even the Oath of Antichrist before Frater 132,
- the Unknown God.
-
- And thus was I Antichrist loosed in the world; and to this I am
- pledged, that the work of the Beast 666 shall be fulfilled, and
- the way for the coming of BABALON be made open and I shall not
- cease or rest until these things are accomplished. And to this
- end I have issued this my Manifesto.
-
-
-
- The Manifesto of the Antichrist
-
-
- Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
-
- I, BELARION, ANTICHRIST, in the year 1949 of the rule of the
- Black Brotherhood called Christianity, do make my Manifesto to
- all men. And I, THE ANTICHRIST, come among you, saying:
-
- An end to the pretence, and lying hypocrisy of Christianity.
-
- An end to the servile virtues, and superstitious restrictions.
-
- An end to the slave morality.
-
- An end to prudery and shame, to guild and sin, for these are of
- the only evil the sun, that is fear.
-
- An end to all authority that is not based on courage and manhood,
- to the authority of lying priests, conniving judges, blackmailing
- police, and
-
- An end to the servile flattery and cajolery of mods, the corona-
- tions of mediocraties, the ascension of dolts.
-
- An end to restriction and inhibition, for I, THE ANTICHRIST, am
- come among you preaching the Word of the BEAST 666, which is,
- "There is no law beond Do what thou wilt."
-
- And I, BELARION, ANTICHRIST, do lift up my voice and prophecy,
- and I say:
-
- I shall bring all men to the law of the BEAST 666, and in His law
- I shall conquer the world.
-
- And within seven years of this time, BABALON, THE SCARLET WOMAN
- HILARION will manifest among ye, and bring this my work to its
- fruition.
-
- An end to consciption, compulsion, regimentation, and the tyranny
- of false laws.
-
- And within nine years a nation shall accept the Law of the BEAST
- 666 in my name, and that nation will be the first nation of
- earth.
-
- And all who accept me the ANTICHRIST and the law of the BEAST
- 666, shall be accursed and their joy shall be a thousandfold
- greater than the false joys of the false saints.
-
- And in my name BELARION shall they work miracles, and confound
- our enemies, and none shall stand before us.
-
- Therefore I, THE ANTICHRIST call upon all the Chosen and elect
- and upon all men, come forth now in the name of Liberty, that we
- may end for ever the tyranny of the Black Brotherhood.
-
- Witness my hand and seal on this [...] day of [...] 1949, that is
- the year of BABALON 4066.
-
- Love is the law, love under will.
-
- Belarion, Antichrist
-
-
-
-
- ANALYSIS BY
-
- A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE
-
- of the Critical Nodes
-
- in the Experience of
-
- his Material Vehicle
-
-
- "I shall regard all phenomena as the particular dealing of
- God with my soul."
-
-
- I. Birth
-
- Oct. 2, 1914, Los Angeles, in , rising in midheaven,
- in favorable conjunc., at apehelion. I chose this constellation
- in order that you might have an innate sense of balance and
- ultimate justice, responsive and attractive nature, a bountiful
- environment and sense of royalty and largesse, strength, courage
- and power combined with cunning and intelligence. Saturn was
- bound in order that you might easily formulate a lower will which
- would have satisfied and overwhelmed you with its spectacular
- success.
-
- Your father separated from your mother in order that you might
- grow up with a hatred of authority and a spirit of revolution
- necessary to my work. The Oedipus complex was needed to formulate
- the love of witchcraft which would lead you into magick, with the
- influence of your grandfather active to prevent too complete an
- identification with your mother.
-
-
- II. Childhood
-
- Your isolation as a child developed the necessary background of
- literature and scholarship; and the unfortunate experiences with
- other children the requisite contempt for the crowd and for the
- group mores. You will note that these factors developed the
- needful hatred for christianity (without implanting a christian
- guilt sense) at an extremely early age.
-
-
- III. Adolescence
-
- Early adolescence continued the development of the necessary
- combinations. The awakening interest in chemistry and science
- prepared the counterbalance for the coming magical awakening, the
- means of obtaining prestige and livelihood in the formative
- period, and the scientific method necessary for my manifestation.
- The magical fiasco at the age of 16 was needful to keep you away
- from magick until you were sufficiently matured.
-
-
- IV. Youth
-
- The loss of family fortune developed your sense of self reliance
- at a critical period, the contact with reality at this time was
- essential. Your early marriage with Helen served to break your
- family ties and effect a transference to her, away from a danger-
- ous attachment to your mother. The experience at Halifax and Cal
- Tech served to strengthen your self reliance, scientific method
- and material powers. The influence of Tom Rose at this period, as
- that of Ed. Forman in adolescence, was essential in developing
- the male center.
-
-
- V. Later Youth
-
- The house on Terrace Drive, Music, Lynn, Curtis, and Gloria, and
- the increasing restlessness were, of course, all preparations for
- the meeting with A A and O.T.O. The alternate repulsion and
- attraction you felt the first year after meeting Fra. 132 were
- caused by a subconscious resistance against the ordeals ahead.
- Had you had these experiences before, without such resistance,
- you would have become hopelessly unbalanced. Betty served to
- effect a transference from Helen at a critical period. Had this
- not occurred your repressed homosexual component could have
- caused a serious disorder.
-
- Your passion for Betty also gave you the magical force needed at
- the time, and the act of adultery tinged with incest, served as
- your magical confirmation in the Law of Thelema.
-
- At this time the O.T.O. was an excellent training school for
- adepts, but hardly an appropriate Order for the manifestation of
- Thelema. Therefore, in spite of your motto you were not able to
- formulate your Will. The experience with the O.T.O. and Aerijet
- were needed to dispel your romanticism, self-deception, and
- reliance on others. Betty was one link in the process designed to
- tear you away from the now unneeded Oedipus complex, the overval-
- uation of women and romantic love. Since this was unconscious,
- the next step was to bring it into consciousness, and there to
- destroy it.
-
-
- VI. Early Maturity
-
- The final experience with Hubbard and Betty, and the O.T.O. was
- necessary to overcome your false and infantile reliance on oth-
- ers, although this was only partially accomplished at the time.
- The invocation of Babalon served to exteriorize the Oedipus
- complex; at the same time, because of the forces involved it
- produced extraordinary magical effects. However, this operation
- is accomplished and closed--you should have nothing more to do
- with it--nor even think of it, until Her manifestation is re-
- vealed, and proved beyond the shadow of a doubt. Even then, you
- must be circumspect--although I hope to take complete charge
- before then.
-
- Candy appeared in answer to your call, in order to wean you from
- wet nursing. She has demonstrated the nature of woman to you in
- such unequivocal terms that you should have no further room for
- illusion on the subject.
-
- The suspension and inquisition was my opportunity--one of the
- final links in the chain. At this time you were enabled to pre-
- pare your thesis, formulate your Will, and take the Oath of the
- Abyss, thus making it possible (although only partially) to
- manifest. The exit of Candy prepares for the final stage of your
- initial preparation.
-
-
- VII. Conclusions
-
- The numerous rituals you have performed have resulted in a well
- developed body of light. The ordeals have purged most of the
- emotional and mental garbage--your only real dangers are, and
- have ever been, sentimentality, weakness, and procrastination.
-
- It is interesting to note that the first weapon you formulated
- was the Lamp of the Spirit, in the invocation to Pan (although
- the Sword was prefigured). Next the Sword in the Horus ritual, as
- was appropriate to your intellectual development at that time.
-
- Then the Cup out of the wine of your emotional life--the disk out
- of material failure. The Sword remains to be manifested.
-
- You will note that it has been impossible to truly formulate your
- Will with any of these weapons--naturally--that is only possible
- with the wand. On the other hand, if you had done so previously,
- you would have been unbalanced by the lack of initiated prepara-
- tion. It is a right and natural procedure; the True Will cannot
- be truly formulated until you are initiate in all the other
- planes, and it is well to make no pretense of doing so. Until
- that point all you can known of the true will is the aspiration
- to the next step--towards further experience. That is the glory
- of the Law of Thelema--DO!
-
- The physical and emotional stresses you feel at present are a
- result of the pull of the Abyss--your present poetry is indica-
- tive. Naturally you find no power in any spell, no comfort in
- any ritual, no hope in any action. You are cut off by your own
- oath. Nor can I or any other aid you at this time. There is only
- manhood, only will, only the vector of your own tendencies,
- developed through the aeons of the past. I do not say how long
- the state will last, or what the outcome may be.
-
- However, I can formulate some rules which may serve to guide you.
-
-
- VIII. Instructions
-
- A. Works of the Wand--of the Will alone avail in this state. No
- other weapon should be used, no other ritual save the hymn to the
- Unnamed One in the Anthem of the Mass.
-
- B. You should be meticulous in all observations pertaining to the
- Will, even the most petty. Fulfill all obligations and promises,
- undertake nothing which you cannot fulfill, be prompt in the
- discharge of each responsibility.
-
- C. Be neat in your personal and domestic habits, indicate your
- selfrespect to yourself.
-
- D. Do not become unduly involved with any person, and practice
- all your hard-earned wisdom in your relations with women.
-
- E. Set up your personal affairs in business order. Keep your
- accounts current and your papers neatly filed.
-
- F. Finish your poetry for publication. Finish the synthesis of
- the Tarot and start work on the preparation of the lessons of
- class instruction from your book.
-
- G. Pay no attention to any phenomena whatsoever, and continue in
- a sober and responsible way of life under all circumstances.
-
- Not magical! For you nothing is more magical. Only thus can the
- curse of Saturn be overcome. I see you hate this way. But it is
- an ultimate time--it is you that have taken the oath. The choice
- is me or Choronzon.
-
-
- I await you in the City of the Pyramids.
-
-
- Belarion
-
- 8 = 3
-
-
-
-