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THE BOOK OF BABALON

PART ONE: THE BOOK OF BABALON

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 contains 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

governments, 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 counterbalance 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 understanding 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 activities, after the vital

functions are fulfilled, arise from the need to love or to be loved. It is therefore 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 designed 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 elemental 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 weapons 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:

· Invoking Pentagram of Air.

· Invocation of Bornless One.

· Conjuration of Air.

· Consecration of Air Dagger.

· Key Call of third Aire.

· Invocation of God and King of Aire.

· Invocation of Six Seniors.

· Invocation of (RZDA) by *n*n*n and (EXARP), to visible appearance.

· Invocaton of wand with material basis on talisman.

· Invocation with dagger.

· 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:

Jan 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 Concerto 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 operation, indicating imperfect technique. Actually, in

any magical operation 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 describable as an air of fire type with bronze red hair, fiery and

subtle, determined and obstinate, sincere and perverse, with extraordinary 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.

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