I. VAMA MARGA Foundations Of The Left-Hand Path - staticfly.net

particularly interested in what you have written to me about the Elemental,
because for some little while past I have been endeavoring to intervene
personally on your behalf. I would however have you recall Levi's aphorism
'the love of the Magus for such beings is insensate, and may destroy him."'
Despite this clear warning from the Master Therion, the smitten
Parsons married Cameron in October of 1946. In Hubbard's presence,
Parsons and his Scarlet Woman repeatedly performed IX° O.T.O. sex magick
designed to impregnate Cameron with the spirit of Babalon. The most
immediately obvious result of this erotic invocation of the Whore, according
to Parsons, was his reception of an inspired document called Liber 49, which
he believed to he not only a fourth chapter of Crowley's Book Of The Law,
but a direct communication from the Goddess to Her High Priest. Although
Parsons was cryptic in his description of this event to Crowley, he did
characterize the hearing of Liber 49 as "the most important – devastating
experience of my life ... I believe it is the result of the IX° working with the
girl..."
This brief but impassioned manifesto, fueled by sex magic, is filled
with the lascivious imagery one would expect from Inanna-Ishtar, who
commands her scribe to "Let me behold thee naked and lusting after me,
calling upon my name ... Let me receive all thy manhood within my Cup,
climax after climax, joy upon joy ... my laughter is the drunken laughter of a
harlot in the house of ecstasy..." True to the aspect of Inanna-Ishtar as
goddess of war, the text resounds with proclamations of military conquest,
speaking of "a trumpet in judgement halls, a banner before armies ... Set my
star upon your banners and go forward in joy and victory ... call upon me in
your loves and battles in my name BABALON, wherein is all power given!"
Liber 49 also orders her disciples to create a revival of witchcraft, suggesting
a break with the pseudo-Masonic structure of the O.T.O.. The incarnation of
Babalon will "wander in the witchwood" in "the covens of old...". This often
overlooked element of the book Parsons later attempted to realize through the
creation of his own magical school, which he called the Witchcraft, long
before the popular rise of Wicca had emerged.
One of the more startling themes running through Liber 49 and the
Babalon Working, considering the nature of Parsons' fiery death only a few
years after he wrote/received this text are the many apparent allusions to
flame and mortality, seeming premonitions of his personal inferno to come.
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Surprisingly, for an invocation to a goddess of sexual ecstasy, the operation
is imbued with repeated intimations of fiery death. Babalon states that "I shall
come as a perilous flame..."
During a series of rites Hubbard and Parsons conducted in the wake
of the reception of Liber 49, the roof of the Parsonage guest house caught
fire. Hubbard, supposedly communicating astral messages, conveys such
cryptic phrases as "Mortality ... is this accepted, are you willing to proceed?"
To which Parsons answers, "I am willing." Hubbard then states, "should'st
thou falter again, we will sure slay thee." During one phase of the rite,
Hubbard suggested playing a recording of Rachmaninoff's spectral
composition, Isle Of The Dead, as "background music." Other possible
prophecies of Babalon's destructive effects uttered by Hubbard during the
Babalon Working include: "She is flame of life, power of darkness, she
destroys with a glance, she may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death of
men ... Beautiful--Horrible." In this last juxtaposition, Hubbard's vision of
Babalon approaches the desirable yet hideous essence of Kali known to
adepts of the Varna Marga. He continues in this vein: "Light a single flame
on Her altar, saying: Flame is Our Lady, flame is Her hair, I am flame ...
Display thyself to Our Lady; dedicate thy organs to Her, dedicate thy heart to
Her, dedicate thy mind to Her, dedicate thy soul to Her, for She shall absorb
thee, and thou shalt become living flame before She incarnates. For it shall