Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

at peace. But I will endure… It is my spirit that spoke to you in the
beginning, that speaks to you again now, that will always be with you,
until we meet and fuse in the darkness of which all light is a
shadow. 185
From this passage we can see that Parsons kept firm to his earlier
devotion to the ideals (as he saw them at least) of Thelema. Cameron
continued to be drawn into the vortex of strangeness Parsons seemed
to have opened, appearing in Kenneth Anger’s Crowley inspired film
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and assuming the full mantle of
the Scarlet Woman. She also continued her career as an artist and a
film was made about her life and art called, appropriately, The
Wormwood Star 186 .
Marjorie Cameron also appears to have undertaken her own version of
the Black Pilgrimage, possibly seeing herself as the fulfillment of
some of the prophecies in Liber 49. In a letter to Jane Wolfe
reproduced in Cameron : The Wormwood Star she wrote:
I am approaching the darkest hour of the abysmal night furthest from
the sun. This is the fateful hour in which I drink the cup of poison to
the dregs – eat the tainted apple – feel the sting of the terrible dart in
the core of me… this is the hour when I approach the terrible
rendezvous when all my gods shall declare themselves – when I shall
call upon the secret name – and open the final door. 187
After a period of emotional collapse, Cameron was apparently able to
integrate her experiences with Jack Parsons, producing a series of
paintings that garnered some attention – from a psychiatrist among
others. In reference to the earlier mention of Grant’s New Isis Lodge
and his work with the “trans-Plutonic” force engendered, as he
believed, by the Babalon Working, Cameron herself wrote; The case of
185
Quoted in Michael Staley, MARJORIE CAMERON An Appreciation at
http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/dplanet/staley/staley12.htm
186
Brian Butler, Cameron : The Wormwood Star, Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to
Magick and the Occult, Richard Metzger, Disinfo 2005
187 ibid.
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