Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

Parsons family seems to have been wealthy, though he makes
reference to the loss of the family fortune. When he was very young
his parents divorced, thus his attachment to his mother. His father
(who also bore the name “Marvel”) left him the infamous house on
South Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena where he established a sort
of hippie commune decades before the 60’s. Parsons was always a man
ahead of his time. This, of course is the famous – or notorious –
Parsonage where the Babalon Working took place.
In a much quoted letter by Jane Wolfe, a member of the O.T.O. Lodge
Parsons became involved with we have a description of the man by
some who knew him; 26 years of age, 6'2", vital, potentially bisexual
at the very least, University of the State of California and Cal Tech,
now engaged in Cal Tech chemical laboratories developing 'bigger
and better' explosives for Uncle Sam. Travels under sealed orders from
the government. Writes poetry -- 'sensuous only', he says. Lover of
music, which he seems to know thoroughly. I see him as the real
successor of Therion. Passionate; and has made the vilest analyses
result in a species of exaltation after the event. Has had mystical
experiences which gave him a sense of equality all round, although he
is hierarchical in feeling and in the established order. 4
Parsons evidently embraced Crowley’s cult of Thelema with all of the
energy and enthusiasm he gave everything in his life. Thelema, the
Greek word for “Will” became the key to Crowley’s new religion,
based on his sacred text, Liber Al vel Legis or as it is more popularly
known, the Book of the Law. This text was “received” by Crowley
(today we would say “dictated” or “channeled”) in 1904 and predicted
the rise of a “New Aeon” or age, the Age of the Child – whom
Crowley identified with the Egyptian god Horus 5 . This book is in large
part responsible for the theories underlying the current “New Age”
4 quoted in John Carter, Sex and Rockets
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in the paper Set / Horus by Benjamin Rowe we find; Horus and Set were originally
expressions of the primal duality, the two aspects of Heaven, the day-sky and night-sky. As the
Egyptian mythology was elaborated towards its final chaotic state, their symbolism drifted
away from these absolute poles into the middle ground, first becoming solar, and finally
taking on a variety of solar/martial and zodiacal characteristics. Yet their final form can still
be expressed in a concise symbology, that of the astrological signs of Aries and Scorpio.
Taken whole, their symbolism is that of the primal duality manifesting in its male aspects.
At http://www.totse.com/en/religion/the_occult/sethorus.html
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