Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

Revelation is not a vision of the End of the World, but merely of the
Aion. 63 Therefore, if the Beast (as he saw himself) was a symbolic
rendering of a spiritual force and also represented by a living person,
so too Babalon may be so represented. And, in fact, Crowley does
make this connection:
Although Crowley often wrote that Babalon and the Scarlet Woman
are one, there are also many instances where the Scarlet Woman is
seen more as a representative or physical manifestation of the
universal feminine principle. In a footnote to Liber Reguli, Crowley
mentions that of the “Gods of the Aeon,” the Scarlet Woman and the
Beast are “the earthly emissaries of those Gods.” He then writes in
Commentaries:
It is necessary to say here that The Beast appears to be a
definite individual; to wit, the man Aleister Crowley. But the
Scarlet Woman is an officer replaceable as need arises. Thus to
this present date of writing, Anno XVI, Sun in Sagittarius, there
have been several holders of the title. 64
It is a tribute to Crowley’s ego that he saw that the representative of
Babalon was an office that could be held by any number of women,
but the Beast was Crowley and no other. Kenneth Grant discusses this
concept in detail in his Typhonian Trilogies and the interested reader is
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Aion, Greek for ‘Age’ is used for instance, in the Gospels relating to the establishment of
the New Covenant and the destruction of Jerusalem as in the ‘little Apocalypse’ of Matthew
24:
Matthew: 24 : 1 And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his
disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
Matthew: 24 : 2 But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say
unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Matthew: 24 : 3 And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately,
saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what `shall be` the sign of thy coming, and of
the end of the world?
It should be noted that the Greek for the “world” in “end of the world” is actually AION, or
age. Considering that the world is still here more than 2000 years later, we are, I think,
justified in seeing the Revelation as a description of the new Age (of Pisces) and its
subsequent end at the dawn of the Age of Aquarius (or as Crowley would have called it, the
Aeon of Horus)
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BABALON, The office of the Scarlet Woman,
http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Scarlet_Woman
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