Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

“ministry”. Simply browse the WWW and marvel at the Temples,
Orders, etc. that are nothing more than some lonely moron (or worse,
jaded suburbanite) offering “initiation”. Then look at the pages of all
the “Chaos” magicians whose greatest achievement is fitting all those
tattoos on their bodies. To initiate requires that one has been, in fact,
truly initiated and therefore has some secret to pass on. These sorts of
“Witches” - and there are not any others since anyone who would
challenge the Wiccan “orthodoxy” will be shouted down – have little
understanding of what the Mysteries are, never mind the capacity
formulate them. Fortunately, volume is their only real weapon.
Nevertheless, Wiccans love nothing more than to tell everyone that
will listen about how pure and righteous their vision of the “Craft” is,
allowing the pretense and pomposity to be readily exposed. Wicca is
fast becoming not only a failure but also a pestilence 282 . I would only
add that since I wrote this, my view has become more certain that the
movement has lost any hope of redemption.
The so-called counter culture, however, bred the current pestilence of
Christian fundamentalists as surely as the false prophets of
Communism were the midwives of Fascism in the last century.
Perhaps we may see this as a necessary phase in the evolution of the
ideals that Parsons advocated; history will be the judge of that. We
have, however, the writings that Parsons left behind and the work of
those that succeeded – and were inspired by – him, Michael Bertiaux
and Kenneth Grant and others come to mind. That we may in turn be
inspired by them and continue the work Crowley began and Parsons
advanced is, in the end, all that matters.
What shall we make of the Babalon Working? Clearly, Parsons
attempt to create a literal Moonchild did not succeed; no human child
has ever been connected with the working. We may question,
however, what mechanism Parsons believed he was initiating as, in a
letter we discussed already he writes; Babalon is incarnate upon the
earth today awaiting the proper hour of her manifestation. And in that
day my work will be accomplished and I shall be blown away upon the
breath of the father even as it is prophecied. It could be simply that he
282 The Problem of Witchcraft, Cycles of the Aeons I, at http://www.timestation-z.com
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