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

e through you alone, and none else can help in this endeavor."
Whether such oracular declarations were spoken by Hubbard in a
genuine state of heightened consciousness or not, it's these haunting and
recurrent synchronicities that lend weight to Parsons' contention that the
Babalon Working did in fact open the line of communication to a transhuman
force. Parsons himself obviously interpreted this imagery as a divination of
his own fate, writing in one of his fragmentary commentaries on the Babalon
Working, "And in that day my work will be accomplished, and I shall be
blown away upon the Breath of a Father, even as it is prophesied."
With the introduction of the reportedly highly sexed Cameron into
the already intense Working in her role of Scarlet Woman, Hubbard's
instructions to Parsons inevitably took on an increasingly erotic cast.
"Embrace her, cover her with kisses," Hubbard dictates to Parsons at one
point, "Think upon the lewd lascivious things thou couldst do. All is good to
BABALON. All." Parsons is compelled to "consecrate each woman thou hast
raped ... until the flame of lust is high ... Recall each lascivious moment, each
lustful day ... The lust is hers, the passion yours, Consider thou the Beast
raping." Hubbard has often been assigned a secondary role in the Babalon
Working, but clearly he was the director of the operation, functioning in
much the same capacity as the chakresvara in the Tantric circle rite. Parsons,
by contrast, plays a much more passive part, transcribing Hubbard's
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proclamations and dutifully following his partner's ostensibly inspired edicts.
Parsons continued to report hack to Crowley concerning the final
stage of the Working, still reverently addressing him as "Beloved Father."
But the cranky, junk-sick 71 year old Beast was unimpressed, writing to his
enthused magical son Parsons that "You have me completely puzzled by
your remarks. I thought I had a most morbid imagination, as good as any
man's, but it seems I have not. I cannot form the slightest idea of what you
can possibly mean."
Another letter from Crowley to his associate Karl Germer was more
directly damning: "Apparently Parsons and Hubbard or somebody is
producing a moonchild. I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of
these louts."
In breaking with the stodgy and static Masonic configuration of
O.T.O. sex magick as Crowley understood it, Parsons had brought the
Babalon Current into an unexpected area the Master Therion was not
prepared to comprehend. It would not be the first or last time in the history of
the Western magical revival that the student went much further than the
teacher. Crowley's disapproval of the Babalon Working may also have been
his misogynistic reaction to Parsons' joyous acceptance of the full potential of
the feminine principle and. the younger man's unqualified love and
admiration for women. Parsons was unambiguous in his exaltation of
Cameron as Scarlet Woman, and his liberatory vision of Babalon as a
powerful divinity in her own right. This positive understanding of the
Feminine Daemonic was worlds apart from Crowley's concept of "Babalon
under the power of the magician, that ... hath submitted herself unto the
work." For Crowley, women (Scarlet or otherwise) were dispensable,
interchangeable love dolls, merely the "shrine of the God."
But for Parsons, like all authentic adepts of the left-hand path,
women were potentially sacraments of the sinister force, objects of
veneration and mysterious awe. In one of his many attempts to come to grips
with the vision vouchsafed to him through the Babalon Working, an essay
entitled The Star Of Babalon, Parsons wrote that "the adept may have a mate
upon the plane of earth, or among the elementals; and if he will, let him
conceive of this mate as partaking of the nature of his deity, for herein is a
subtle and beautiful practice of love." This of course is one of the core
practices of the left-hand path, the deification of the female sex partner. In