#babalon working

[156shadesofscarlet]

A Paul Weston lecture from Glastonbury Occult Conference March 21st 2015.

The story of the Babalon Working is an occult legend. Rocket scientist Jack Parsons, future founder of Scientology L Ron Hubbard, and fiercely individual witch-woman artist Marjorie Cameron used the ideas of Aleister Crowley to try and bring forth a goddess into the modern world of the A Bomb and Gnostic revival. The results were mysterious, controversial, and even catastrophic. Paul uses material from his book Aleister Crowley and the Aeon of Horus to give unique insight into this story, including a contentious take on the role of Hubbard.

Deliberately posted on the anniversary of Jack Parsons death.

[3kstatic]

SLY VIOLET, DYLAN ANDREW MILLER RETURN FOR TELESTIAL

SLY VIOLET, DYLAN ANDREW MILLER RETURN FOR TELESTIAL

Sly Violet, as photographed by Dylan Andrew Miller The work of photographer Dylan Andrew Miller and frequent subject, Sly Violet, return for the 3kStatic album “Telestial”. The third 3kStatic album to feature the pair’s artistic collaboration, “Telestial” follows previous albums “Gunrubber” and “Babalon Working”. concluding a trilogy of conceptually-related albums. For “Telestial”, the album…

[roses-and-split-open-peaches]

Today marks the start of the anniversary of the Babalon Working! Io Babalon!

[onlyhurtforaminute]

CULT OF HORROR-ROTTEN CLUB

[witchykinny]

I'm beginning to feel called to Babalon so here are a few things I associate with her. Crowley is a questionable source at best, and most other credible works have been destroyed by xtians, so I feel that personal association will work best in devotion/working with her.

-Dragon's blood incense (most deities like this, I see!), other scents being fruit, flowers, and incredibly specific perfumes (like those ones on TikTok that are like "how to smell like a library")

-Finery, like gold and jewels- the aesthetics of royalties

-Architecture. Like the above point, aesthetics of royalties

-Music. My favorite: 'Babalon' by Twin Temple

-The colors red, gold, brown, purple

-The numbers 7 and 777

-Livestock and farm animals, especially goats, cattle, and livestock protection dogs

-Crystals: onyx, jasper, ruby, garnet, rose quartz, tiger's eye, citrine

-Indulgences, especially in food. Treat yourself!

Some of her dominions:

-Mothers, motherhood, pregnancy, and the medial fields. Parenthood is gender neutral but specifically geared towards AFAB people. Menstrual cycles, menopause, hysterectomies, tubal ligations

-Sex workers, "gold diggers", sugar babies, etc.

-Self-liberation, questioning of authority, personal research, knowledge of one's self (physically, spiritually, mentally, etc)

-Blood magic and sex magic

-Protection magic, especially protection of the self and of one's property

-Transgenderism- ties into self-liberation. Intersectional feminism/activism. Nonconformity, challenging of gender roles.

-Of course, abominations. Anyone who challenges society by simply existing is under her protection. Marginalized folks are considered 'abominations' by the elite.

[helllords]

(( Hunters have definitely tried to trap Beelzebub in a demon trap/devil's trap before because scriptures have been misinterpreted and twisted to make her a demon of hell. Which ended in a shrill, amused giggle and corpses eaten by flies. ))

[nononookytv]

i forget not everyone knows about the arms of mkultra & how government acid shaped the culture of the 60s & the entire west coast - & it makes me really scary at parties

[vintagerpg]

Abyss of Hallucinations (2021) is, like most of Max Moon’s work, a fusion of occult themes and solid RPG design. In this case, a heremetic setting for MÖRK BORG that draws heavily on the work of Aleister Crowley, particularly The Book of Lies (which Max reprinted as a zine in the same trade dress, as an accompaniment).

The mixture is a little less than 50/50 here, I think, with RPG elements (60ish percent?) necessarily overwhelming the magickal elements (while Max does get it to more of a 50/50 mix in other projects, this volume at least perhaps illustrates how the precision of RPG writing is at odds with the obscurity of the occult).

There is a sort of phantasmagorical wilderness, populated by features derived from The Book of Lies, but only tersely described. This gives way to three character classes that each reflect some core aspect of Crowley’s personality (Seeker of the Left Hand Path, Offspring of Pan and, humorously, Mountaineer). Following that are several entities one might encounter, including Baphomet, Babalon and mystical Dinosaurs.

The centerpiece is a dungeon called the Unicursal Heptagram that functions as a sort of cursed puzzle as well as an initiation into the greater mysteries of the Abyss. It adheres to the difficult Thelemic logic of The Book of Lies (which, mapped to a dungeon, reminds me a little of the tortured thinking behind many point-and-click adventure games of the ’90s). The effect is disorienting and serves to erode a lot of player assumptions about just what everyone is doing here. Playing MÖRK BORG? Or something more?

[maeviuslynn]

I made red velvet cupcakes with chocolate stars of Babalon. It was my first time trying to make decorations like this and it was a lot of fun. Other churches have chocolate crosses and other such themed desserts at potlucks. Why not us too?

I made them to celebrate the Baptisms and Confirmations being done today at the Gnostic Mass here at Star of Babalon. I honored to be there and be a sponsor.

Not pictured is the ton of work I did leading up to this including designing the Baptism and Confirmation certificates which I may talk about later because it was very cool.

[talonabraxas]

Ave Babalon!

'Babalon Rides the Beast' Talon Abraxas

Within The Pyramid

Magick and Mysticism in the New Aeon. An Act of Worship, including the Adoration of the 49 Names of the Goddess, and an Offering of the Five Senses by the Formula of ShAKTI:

[156shadesofscarlet]

The Birth of Babalon

by John Whiteside Parsons, 1914-1952 e.v.

(*vox* Simon Rose, Hardly Nimrod)

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

[gorgongrrlfriend]

Let the Queen of Heaven be adored.

Hail unto Thee who art NUIT, the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset, the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

Hail unto Thee who art BABALON, who appeareth oftentimes in the coals of the fire, and upon the smooth skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seeketh Thou not.

Hail unto Thee who art MA, Mighty Mother of us all. In Thee Truth is Delight.

Hail unto Thee who art SHAKTI. To the Goddess who abideth in all beings in the form of Power, salutations unto Thee, salutations unto Thee, salutations unto Thee, again and again.

Hail unto Thee who art KALI, the ultimate, as black as the nothingness of the darkest night. Hail unto Thee who in Thy dancing gathereth the heads of all them that are baptized in the waters of life.

Hail unto Thee who art TARA, the one Star in Sight. Hail unto Thee who art the Savour, who appeareth amongst the flames of mortality as the infinite Will, and who nurseth with the milk of the stars from Thy breasts.

Hail unto Thee who art LALITA, in Thy play Thou art lovely, and enthroned Thou art the Mother of the Universe, the beautiful one and Queen of the three worlds.

Hail unto Thee who art MARIAM, the Lord is with Thee.

Hail unto Thee who art APHRODITE, Lady of Love and of Victory. How Thy glances have kindled all these fires that have blown about the heavens.

Hail unto Thee who art ISIS, Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof.

Hail unto Thee who AHATHOOR in Thy triumphing, even unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy beauty, who travellest over the Heavens in thy bark at the Mid-course of the Sun.

Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm.

Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Morning!

- Adoration of the 11 Names of the Goddess

[roses-and-split-open-peaches]

Brilliant, Solar, GOLDEN Babalon is riding high during the fire-aligned Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year and a day that highlights the growth and greatness of the natural world.

new writings on the Summer Solstice & Solar Babalon on my Patreon

[yermes]

PAC: ✂️

if you are sad and or low energy here are some ideas.

My friends no longer live in a similar reality to me anymore and I have experienced the “ unemployed friend” chat. What a vibe. I’ve been kinda unwell and I know most of you can be in that boat as well heres some ideas on magic practice and study when ur depresso ☕️ because to understand and to be a practitioner is to understand every action is magic and living is just bewitchment.

Disclaimer: please take what I say with a grain of salt and not as the gospel. I just want to share some ideas of practicing and giving advice using the medium as often as I can with school, work, and my own personal studies and practice. But I am working on sharing my notes soon so that will be exciting!

Socials: TipJar | INSTA

Pick a meme

The cards

Universe 🪽

The Great One of the Night of Time, Tau, Egyptian cross

The act of living in and of itself being an act of magic. Think of all the small things that contribute to your existence. The small things that make up the microcosm which then represents the macrocosm of the all (or whatevers).

The High Priestess 🪥 

The Priestess of the Silver Star, Gimel, Camel

Common sense girl. The act of your own personal common sense and intuition is magic. Exercising that shit like a muscle is the easiest way to casually practice. What you learn and study is wisdom that stays with you. Use it.

Five of swords (reversed) 🦷

Geburah, Lord of Defeat, Venus in Aquarius, 1°–10°, Angels Aniel and Chaamiah

Your weakness may be tested and things that seem negative may take a good turn. In the world of Ls you can make at least one a win. Take it small and task by task. The magic of a positive change.

Extras: 🐦‍⬛

Story/vent:

I have such beautiful and talented friends 🥺

[shirouchiha6]

「TOKYO DANCING SATURDAY」

Design First impression + transalting the voice lines using the little Japanese i know

And "Next time on Tokyo After School Summoners , TOKYO DANCING SATURDAY... " = (Next Time)

Marduk

lot of thing i don't understand but it should be something along the lines of

"I am marduk from the military* The photographer for Club activities? My Dearest Tiamat , Let invoke the prayers of this world , (Next Time) , both of us pros , we will show them our moves????"

*pretty sure bumei means related to the military

Mushussu, Girl~!!,you trying to infuse marduk with alcohol the next time you ingest and spit him out 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

BATHYM

"Tonight I'm a break-dancer~! Are you ready to Hard kick (the dance floor) with me ? , (Next Time)* , Youll be dying seeing my leg work,So Don't blink and miss a beat , Lord Shaythan , my Master~"

*i love the way he says "Saturday" in the same vein as "Fate" (Sadame / )

what kind of rider belt is this bathym?? and i might be only one seeing jailer!Tadatomo in his 2nd skin

HAKUMEN

"Want to learn from the pros..?if possible , Cheers~! , Care for a drink with me at the Big Lounge? , (Next Time) , If you so wish just for you , mistress, i'll dance unhhn..~ Let this whole world Dance!!"

LW better put her (business) husband Gyumao on the Dance Floor and continue her interest in Babalon teased in the MQ but forgotten

VSM!Shennong : Underwater dancing , and now hakumen : Dancing in the Club .

WAKAN TANKA

i can almost fully understand this , the pun too i could guess

"This music that makes you wanna go!go!(to the beat) is like laughing / raging thunder. The body that sways (to the beat) and the legs that trample (on the floor)* , With me , NOW ! SUN-DANCE!! , (Next Time) , Fever Time is about to begin~ , DANCE ! My Dear,Haoka.."

*love the buffalo stampede pun

ofc he's a 5★ (at least i have his permanent 5★ ) , He looks ready to tackle down anyone trying to get close to the MC like in a buffalo stampede

Ngl i high key want to see him dance in that jockstrap of him

SATURNUS

3★ "The i dance for the first time , even now i vividly remember , An unforgettable club event , would you like to experience with me ?,, Feel the Magic of Saturday ..and Henshin with Me"

4★ "The weekend , won't you dance with me in the Club ,My Name is Saturnus , Dubbed "Saturday night's Cinderalla Boy" by other , (Next Time) , Feel the Magic of Saturday ..and Henshin with Me "

Someone tell me the difference in 4★ skins

[adracat]

Notrette: The Mother of Abominations, Queen of Heaven and Space

"This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of Abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. And because she hath made her self the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. Not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory.

Beautiful art thou, O Babylon, 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. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night!" — The Vision and the Voice (12th Aethyr)

Thelema is an esoteric and occult philosophy founded by Aleister Crowley. That name may be familiar to those who've read any of my gwitch hermeticism posts. Thelema draws heavily from ancient mythology, among Greek/Egyptian in particular, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Alchemy, astrology, and geomancy are among the crafts they practiced. Thelema asserts following one's True Will is the path to self-realization and fulfillment, gaining the Great Work or Magnum Opus. See my posts here for more on this.

Babalon is the Great Mother. She is Nott and Nuit; the Night. She is the Whore of Babylon that reins the Beast of Revelation. She is the Bride of Chaos, the primal light of the soul and where life began. She is Mother Earth, Gaia, in her most fertile sense. She is Lilith (etymology-'female night being/demon') the fell consort to Samael. Notrette is indicated by her name, derived from Nott the Norse personification of Night, and taken epithet Anesidora (Demeter, Pandora, and Gaia) to be Babalon.

And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON— Gnostic creed

We never see her in the show, save one image. What is there speaks plenty to her place as this occult figure. And perhaps her link to Prospera most of all.

Bride of Samael

Prospera is unmistakably the Great Deciever. Her name before Vanadis' fall was Elnora, which means Shining One. The same as Lucifer, the morning star. It matches the name of Dellingr, Nott's husband in norse myth. However, Delling is a red herring and perhaps the slight change in name is intentional. Prospera is the true Satan, who fell from grace and now rebels against God. Considering Dominicus and Delling are both coded with divine authority, this seems to be the point. If Notrette is Anesidora, then Prospera is Phosphoros. In my Prospera analysis, I noted she's bedecked in Hecate symbolism. One of Hecate's epithets is Phosphoros, light-bringer, signifying Hecate, Diana, and Eos/Aurora; goddess of the dawn. Another parallel with Nott's mythic husband. Phosphoros/EOSphoros is the greek name of the morning star. Perseis, another Hecate epithet is synonymous with Perdition. The name Satan took after falling. She has also cast aside her original shining name to be Prospera

The planet Venus is historically 'morning star', one of the wandering stars in astrology, and Elnora is similarly coded with Venus parallel. Consider the sign Pisces, which is Venus and her son Eros fleeing to safety. (The Prologue events) The events of episode 17 onward easily fit Venus' role in the story of Eros and Psyche.

Crowley asserts Babalon and the biblical Scarlet Woman are separate and the latter enacts the will of the former. Prospera wreaking her havoc on Earth and Space is certainly fitting with Aerial as the Beast of Revelation.

So how does this relate to Notrette? Because she is the Bride of Samael/Satan, Lilith, who rebelled against Adam and was banished from the Garden of Eden. As Babalon/Babylon, she is the mother of harlots and revels in adultery. We already know Quiet Zero was her project. She is a gifted geneticist and the only person explicitly fiddling with biometric code... The Mother of Abominations can easily apply to Aerial and replichildren. Something we already suspected, but seems confirmed. She is indeed the Angrboda to Prospera's Loki. After all, in the Tempest Caliban is the child of the Devil and a witch.

Consider fell Lilith, the first wife of man who was formed from the same clay as Adam and unleashed horrors upon humanity. This tale mirrors Pandora, another Anesidora. The first woman in Greek mythology molded by clay who unleashes horrors from her jar. Mothers of Abominations both. Some occultists view Lilith as a former agricultural and fertility goddess like Demeter. Anesidora is Satan's bride, Lilith.

Potnia (Mistress), an epithet of Demeter, can also be taken as indicative of the great Idolatress

Queen Nuit

The highest deity of Thelema is Nuit. She is the naked Great Mother dressed in the stars. She is infinite space and infinite possibilities. They name her Our Lady of the Stars, Queen of Space and Queen of Heaven. Greek Nyx, Norse Nott, and Egyptian Nut are all her names. Her consort is Hadit, the embodiment of causality; '"the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." And causality is the method to which Prospera works her curses upon the cast.

Notrette is metaphorically a queen before her death. Married to psuedo king Delling, she is the G-Witch Queen of Heaven and Space. Her name hard placing her as Nott just drives the point home.

Daughter of Babalon

But casting aside speculation, well-founded as it is imo, let's take a look at her canonical child; Miorine. Thelema also speaks of her and cements Notrette's true identity.

And this palace is nothing but the body of a woman, proud and delicate, and beyond imagination fair. She is like a child of twelve years old. She has very deep eyelids, and long lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is impossible to say anything about her. She is naked; her whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the electric flames which are the spears of mighty and terrible Angels whose breastplates are the scales of her skin. And the hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light of God himself. Of all the glories beheld by the Seer in the Aethyrs, there is not one which is worthy to be compared with her littlest finger-nail. For although he may not partake of the Aethyr, without the ceremonial preparations, even the beholding of this Aethyr from afar is like the par taking of all the former Aethyrs.

The Seer is lost in wonder, which is Peace.

And the ring of the horizon above her is a company of glorious Archangels with joined hands, that stand and sing: This is the daughter of BABALON the Beautiful, that she hath borne unto the Father of All. And unto all hath she borne her.

This is the Daughter of the King. This is the Virgin of Eternity. This is she that the Holy One hath wrested from the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome Space. This is she that is set upon the Throne of Understanding. Holy, Holy, Holy is her name, not to be spoken among men. For Kore they have called her, and Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone.— The Book of Thoth, Aleister Crowley

In the show she is given Kore/Persephone symbolism as explored in my Miorine analysis. As the daughter of a Demeter it felt fitting, but it's now doubly significant. The Hebrew words Malkah and Betulah mean 'Queen' and 'Virgin' respectively.

With this wealth of context, I can't help but wish Notrette made a full appearance. Yet I understand both production meddling and perhaps symbolic intent may have led to her remaining unseen. Babalon is Mystery. And her glory cannot be comprehended.