Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

Chapter 6 : TO MEGA THERION
The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Theta "Babalon and
the Beast conjoined" --- epsilon unto Nuith (CCXX, I, 51) --- lambda
The Work accomplished in Justice - -- eta The Holy Graal --- mu The
Water therein --- alpha The Babe in the Egg (Harpocrates on the
Lotus.)
--Aleister Crowley, Magic In Theory And Practice, Chapter VII: The Formula
Of The Holy Graal, Of Abrahadabra and of certain other Words. Also, the Magical
Memory. 62
There is no escaping Crowley when considering the subject at hand; he
is, in more sense than one, the central pivot around which all of these
disparate people and events turn. As such, we shall look to his writing
for the sources that Parsons drew upon – and there is no doubt that
Crowley is the foundation upon which Parsons built his Temple of
Blasphemies – in order that we may reconstruct the circumstance and
purpose behind the Babalon Working.
The central concept that Parsons drew from Crowley involves the
personification of the Great City, Babylon in the Revelation:
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of
God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
--Revelation 16 : 19
standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the
great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment
come.
--Revelation 18 : 10
And a strong angel took up a stone as it were a great millstone and
cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon, the
great city, be cast down, and shall be found no more at all.
--Revelation 18 : 21
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Aleister Crowley, Magick In Theory And Practice, Kenneth Grant and John Symonds ed.,
Samuel Weiser.
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