Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

the mediaeval magicians we were speaking of, with their Homunculus,
the Greeks attached the greatest possible importance to the condition
of the mother during gestation. She was encouraged to look only on
beautiful statues, to read only beautiful books. The Mohammedans,
again, whose marriage system makes Christian marriage by
comparison a thing for cattle, shut up a woman during that period,
keep her perfectly quiet and free from the interference of her husband.
"This is all very good, but it falls short of Brother Cyril's latest lunacy.
As I understand him, he wishes indeed to proceed normally in a
physical sense, but to prepare the way by making the heredity, and
environment as attractive as possible to one special type of soul, and
then -- to go soul-fishing in the Fourth Dimension!
"Thus he will have a perfectly normal child, which yet is also a
Homunculus in the mediaeval sense of the word! “ 159
Crowley is writing for a mainstream audience and so explains himself
quite clearly. So we have the formula by which Parsons would bring
about the incarnation of the Goddess Babalon in a human form. Or at
least, that is the theory. The entire escapade is problematic for number
of reasons and we will have to take into consideration the various
views extant in order to draw our own conclusions as to what Parsons
achieved – or failed to achieve.
To be sure, Parsons was able to apply Crowley’s suggestion and take
the passage from Magick in Theory and Practice and use the operation
central to Moonchild “which could very readily be adapted to some
such purpose as we are now discussing” It seems clear that Parsons
sought to take the concept to its extreme; it is however unclear exactly
how he came to the idea in the first place. The sequence of events
appears to be largely as follows:
159 Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Chapter VIII - Of The Homunculus; Conclusion Of The
Former Argument Concerning The Nature Of The Soul
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