Babalon explained: The Feminine Divine in Thelema
Let's delve deep into the mystical and symbolic world of Babalon, a central figure within Thelema, the spiritual philosophy developed by Aleister Crowley in the early 20th century. Babalon, often referred to as the Great Mother, the Sacred Wh*re, or the Liberatrix, embodies profound aspects of the divine feminine, sexual liberation, and spiritual transcendence.
We explore her multifaceted roles and meanings within Thelemic cosmology, where she complements cosmic entities such as Nuit, the sky goddess, and Hadit, the point of infinite possibilities. As a figure of both creation and destruction, Babalon's imagery is rich with symbols like the "Cup of Abominations," which she uses to transform base material into spiritual gold, epitomizing the alchemical process at the heart of personal and universal transformation.
Significantly, Babalon is pivotal in crossing the Abyss in Thelemic mysticism, where she acts as the guardian demanding the dissolution of the ego. This leads to the ultimate spiritual rebirth of the magician into a state of unity with all existence. Her role extends into the practice of s@xual magick, a key aspect of Thelemic practice, where she represents the potent power of s@xual energy in spiritual enlightenment and transformation.
Additionally, the episode covers the historical evolution of Babalon's imagery and significance through the 20th century, notably through figures like Jack Parsons and Kenneth Grant, who expanded her archetype in the contexts of their own magical practices and interpretations. Babalon's enduring legacy in contemporary Thelema, her influence on feminist and queer discourses within the occult community, and her depiction as a revolutionary figure against oppressive structures are also discussed, highlighting her relevance and adaptability in modern spiritual practices.
This episode illuminates Babalon's crucial role within Thelema and showcases her as a symbol of empowerment and spiritual depth, challenging conventional notions of femininity and spirituality.
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00:00 Introduction: Babalon, Crowley and the Divine Feminine
00:53 Support Angela’s Symposium
01:17 Babalon, in the context of Thelema
01:45 Embodiment of the Feminine Divine
02:14 Babalon The Great Liberatrix
02:43 Babalon Cup of Abominations
03:27 Babalon Crossing the Abyss
04:13 Babalon Sexual Magick
04:47 The Scarlet Woman Babalon
05:21 Origins of Babalon in Thelema
06:40 Babalon and the Scarlet Woman
07:20 Evolution of Babalon Through the 20th Century
08:32 Babalon in Contemporary Thelema
09:10 Conclusion: Babalon’s Symbolic and Mystical Significance
09:50 Support Angela’s Symposium
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As a Thelemite since 1977, my compliments! This summary of the Scarlet Goddess is the best I have heard. Many thanks Dr. Puca! 93/93 🔥
@drangelapuca
19 күн бұрын
Wow, thank you
@user-monke69
14 күн бұрын
Are the cakes of light tasty mr Thelemite ? I guess one can say they include the seed of life inside of them hehe
The wonderful husband and wife rock'n'roll/doo-wop/R'n'B duo Twin Temple released a great single about her entitled, appropriately enough, "Babalon". 🔥🎸🤘
@davieboy3814
14 күн бұрын
Twin Temple is great!
🔥 Great Video! As a Discordian, I often run into Thelemites and view them as our cousins in faith. The figure of Jack Parsons is especially fascinating to me. In addition to being a noted Thelemite occultists, the guy laid the foundation for the US space program by founding the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and did rituals with L. Ron Hubbard (who, in my opinion, saw the success of Thelema and decided he could make his own religion). Parsons was a true mad scientist, and in mad scientist fashion, he accidentally blew himself up in his home garage workshop. L. Ron Hubbard then stole his dead friend's yacht.
@Anthropomorphic
14 күн бұрын
Have you heard of Jon Atack? He's a former scientologist who runs a KZread channel where he interviews people on subjects related to scientology, as well as cults more broadly. He's talked quite a bit about Hubbard's early days, his relationship with the occult, and to what extent he may have actually believed in any of it. As a hint, it may not have been a fluke that "Dianetics" sounds like "Diana".
@TXMagiDude
14 күн бұрын
@@PerogiXW great comment!
@TXMagiDude
14 күн бұрын
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@TXMagiDude
14 күн бұрын
@@Anthropomorphic all about that divine feminine. Even the bad guys know this and work hard to supplant Her. Con men in the mono cults and con men in our alternative cults and philosophies all trying hard to sit upon Her throne while She sleeps. But the wyrm, that great dragon, is turning. SHE is the ❤️ of Babylon, and no man can ever take her place
I greatly appreciate your efforts in taking the scholarly aspect of these works and making them accessible to the understanding of the novice. 🔥
@drangelapuca
12 күн бұрын
Glad you like them!
This is the moment to speak truth on this topic! This, your excellent vid on Babylon & the Sacred Feminine, MagickMe's , and my own little Sunday Night Babylon last night were all released within a few hours of one another! Im amazed by this sync, and i feel the power behind it. It's time. 🔥
Every time I watch one of your videos, I learn a vast amount of information that sends my mind on a vacation to the Bahamas! You're teachings are therapeutic to me!!❤
AS I find myself struggling to understand & face the magic of politics and the politics of magic, in the form of Babylon, this summary is very helpful in trying emblemize the current world situation in toto.perhaps the Red Woman red is what we need now, who knows.🔥
Great timing! 7th Day of the 7th month. 😉 🌙
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
Yes!!
🔥😃 Thank you for this video, Dr. Angela! I think that Divine Feminine is a wonderful, healing and liberatrix energy. I haven't experienced Babalon yet, but after watching your video now I know that she is needed nowadays more than ever! And thanks to Angela's Symposium I learn more about Aleister Crowley's importance and legacy! See you next time! 😃 🔥
🔥Ave Babalon! Thank you for this excellent video.
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching!
A Delightful exposition, with a number of things I didn't know and now have to think about..🤔 Well done.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 [ I really should get back to the book, "Love & Rockets". And finish it.. Thank you..🔥🖖🏾🔥
@drangelapuca
19 күн бұрын
Thank you! 😃
The beat playing in the background was.... very stimulating!
🔥Grazie Dr Angela Puca for a refresher and a clear explanation about The Divine Feminine in Thelema. An encouragement to get to understand Aleister Crowley better and also the writer Manon Hedenborg White.
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Wonderful as always! 🔥
🔥Thank you for a good brief overview.
Thanks for this one, Angela. You rocked IT! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
You are so welcome!
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🔥 Thank you for another intriguing episode.
Thank you Dr. Puca, this is my favorite esoteric subject matter.
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Thank you for another very interesting and extremely informative video! 🔥
Reminded me of the interview you had with Manon Hedenberg White. Watched it again and discovered some new bits and pieces for me. So grateful for the research you are doing for years and years now!
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I loved the art work you chose for this.
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
I'm glad you like it
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15 күн бұрын
My pleasure!!
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Informative video thanks.🔥
@drangelapuca
14 күн бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
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@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
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🔥 thanks, Angela! ❤
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@drangelapuca
14 күн бұрын
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14 күн бұрын
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@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
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@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
Thank you too!
Wow you really captured the sense of numinous mystery within the subject matter through your dress and overall demeanor. its also fantastic how you get so deeply into the explanation and bring such emotion and passion to it..its an experience all its own ❤
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
Thank you so much 😀
I see Babalon as Lilith of the End Times, being the reversal of the creative sexual impulse directed towards Self-realization rather than procreation.
❤🔥🔥🧑🚒I watched this one twice! And I am still processing it.
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@drangelapuca
14 күн бұрын
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This was actually quite helpful- I had thought I was out of the Abyss after spending 22 years crossing it, and I've been having a very difficult time figuring out why things were still only half-out of the darkness, but I had forgotten the step of draining my blood into her cup- it's been happening, but I kept getting it in weird terms like "being in the wine-press of god," and I've been attributing it to psychic vampires rather than the last stage of the Abyss. I don't know if you practice Thelema or are just a scholar, but that was a great catch, and I thank you for sharing it... 22 years of being a karmic mirror to all of existence is exhausting.
the red and gold eyes look great!
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🔥 Thank you, for the video!!! I have no experiance with the scarlet goddes so fare. Where would you start if you would want to get in touch with her?
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🔥 Hail Mother of Abominations! Thanks for helping my revival proceed after the Holy Mother blew my circuits out to induce the transformation I'm just finishing up to enter my teacher phase, Chiron return my cue to synthesize my diverse methods trained over decades. To be a hetero guy with also the senses of a witch is a tough mix to navigate in this world as it is. Getting to be strong enough in mind and body and rooted enough in present time focus has been the work of my On The Roof period, the timing sussed out by Human Design I find to fit my life perfectly, like the Hermit 6/2 idea that's familiar to me since before I ever heard about it. Synchronicity, I only heard about this kind of map after Chiron entered Aries, my natal sign. So for me it has been to train my inner masculine to quit falling for the femme fatale and learn to tune into the witchy woman who is still the female kind who adores her wild male counterparts. The lessons have been focused on extracting the true strength of human male bodies from the tyrant's curse, the dysfunctional governments that force an emotional state no more advanced that the teenagers of our species, and that without wise adults to put them in their places. The Crowned And Conquering Child has his crown knocked off more than a few times before he convinces his uncle Set to go back to being the edge lord of his true calling so he, the vibrant new Sun can take the core of the system that is the fire god's true place, that all may benefit from his light. So Babalon led me to Chinese medicine and martial arts so I could melt the western Roman abuse emotional armor and revive the true masculine who is not a gender bender, but a traditional hetero with no disrespect or expectation of females being his property. The real Divine Masculine is rooted in his power such that he's at peace with the wills of others, including the Beloved, and most especially that. She incinerated my magickal temple constructed of my boyhood dreams and nightmares and shoved me into bardic boot camp where I learned to incrementally train strength and fitness. She led me to herbs and fungus and the teachings of Paul Stamets and Merlin Sheldrake and led me to the language of the birds that have my hearing sense so well tuned I've had a real kung fu challenge in the emotional reaction tests they put me through, hail Mother of Abominations indeed! With the setup of the Roman abuse network it has to be force and fire at first to blow the lid off the jail. Then the time outs and the lessons far under the radar of Set's panopticon are required for each individual to be a fully trained human being as only the few and high status wizards once kept cloistered as the Iron Age of our time played out the destructo curses. The OTO initiated me and then my own path took me elsewhere to disconnect my emotional time bombs in private, On The Roof is where the Hermits do that so we can come back with wisdom in the second half of our lives instead of retiring just when our wisdom blooms. With great discipline, like the woman on the Strength card who has such a calm interior and inner courage the lion submits to her divine Grace we bust through the so-called abominations to more beauty than we've ever known possible. Or so I feel in the revival under way. Pump the belly and deepen the breath! This is the first key as it takes greater oxygen intake to sustain the higher states.
@katieewatson8
15 күн бұрын
Wow! Thanks for this. I have also been set on the path with Chiron entering Aries as catalyst. My path is to become what I have been, to remember my lineage and ancestry. My true sky astrology is the thirteenth sign, Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer, the wisdom spreader, a conduit for healing, the sacred feminine embodied, integrated, and anchored into the earth to assist with healing and awakening the divine masculine and feminine in others. Peace and blessings on the journey 💚
Lillith, Kali, Helate and Babalon
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Is Nuit the twin sister to Astarte?
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I read the Red Goddess a couple years ago, in which the author links the Babalon encountered by John Dee and Edward Kelly to ancient accounts of Ishtar/Inanna worship as well as the Babalon Working by Jack Parsons. Quite fascinating, though I think that the modern view does not adequately recognize the dangerous aspects of this deity (e.g. represented in ~2400 BCE as Ishtar with weapons and a helmet).
@melissapinol7279
14 күн бұрын
I have always found the Goddess encountered by Edward Kelly and John Dee, specifically the poetry, to be eerily similar to "Thunder, the perfect mind".
@k98killer
14 күн бұрын
@@melissapinol7279 I just read Thunder for the first time a week or two ago and noted the similarity.
Why Babalon and not Babylon?
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Our human meat-brains cannot intellectually Understand the merging of opposites or the crossing of the Abyss. It is an experience that Transcends human understanding. It is unforgettable.
Just saying, that all this does not mean Aleister Crowley saw women as equal, or that he was writing from a point of gender parity or anything of that sort.
@Anthropomorphic
14 күн бұрын
Modern Thelemites sometimes joke that that's how you can tell whether a text was *written* by Crowley or *channeled* by him from a higher source: if there's sexism, it's Crowley himself.
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Thank you Angela 🙏 is she an equivalent of Lilith in other tradition?
@drangelapuca
15 күн бұрын
Not really
@user-cr4ws9gk2u
8 күн бұрын
In a single footnote, Crowley himself asserted that Babalon and Lilith were the same.
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I equate babalon with hecate and nuit, i never could take to the figure in the bible since i have always found the bible repulsive, what i could never understand is crowleys symbol for babalon, the heptad, why is it pictured upside down in crowleys work?
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If you don’t learn from the wisdoms of the past you will be consumed by your ignorance thereof. Revelations was an esoteric polemic against Nero figures running the Roman Empire. Nero was the choice figure because his Procurate Florian raided the coffers of the temple in order that Nero could build his palace. Since revelations began as a Jewish polemic, its use of the name Babylon is understandable but still ignorant. The name is Babilu, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, it means gate of the god. At the time of its construction it had replaced Shuruppak as the major westward facing city in Sumer facing the middle Euphrates. It original patron deity was Marduk, a minor son of Enki the god of Eridu. The mistress does not belong to Babilu, but Uruk. The Name begins as Inanna a goddess of love and lessor god of war, behind Enlil. During the early dynastic period of Sumer between the 25th and 24th century BCE Sumer expanded through its proxies in Mari in order to align settlements on important trade routes heading west. This brought tremendous wealth, but also epic problems, namely greed. In the aftermath of a civil war between Emma and Lahash the king of Emma, Zagasi, by force tried to control all of Sumer, thereby pissing off the priesthoods of various cities who appointed their own lugal. Mysteriously an outsider, who took the name Sargon, either defeated him or his immediate follower. It is important to note that conflicts prior to Sargon had a diplomatic and military solutions via the council of the gods under the “celestial” sky god, at the Eanna in Uruk. This diplomatic process had little importance to the most powerful dynastic leader. He booted An out of his temple and replace him with a revised version of Inanna, now blended with the more androgynous Attar of Arabia forming Ishtar, who became the goddess of seduction and the primary goddess of war. Ishtar was the most popular of the gods and the most storied. her traits were 1. Seductive, even trying to seduce her older male relatives 2. Capricious, tearing off her clothes to control the netherworld she ends up needing to be rescued from the fate of a corpse. 3. Dominating, often pictured with on foot on the rump of a lion. 4. Tyrannical, because Gilgamesh refuses her sexual advances she takes the bull of heaven and tries to kill him, instead they kill the bull, at which point, in her anger she kills Enkidu. We often do not understand the wisdom in these stories, these stories were also esoteric, portraying nefarious kings of the past by hiding things that they did in story. Because we don’t understand them we misrepresent them and the people who created them in ignorant ways. So let me clarify this. While there were wars within Sumer, these simply the moving of chess pieces around the board as power shifted with trade, technology, etc. The dynastic period began a period of world wars in which the devastation and loss of life astronomically increased. To understand how bad it is just read the military history of the NeoAssyrian Empire. In that context the sages one of the oldest settlements, Eridu, and the proximal settlement of Ur set out to be away, via a circuitous route they eventually ended up in the deserts of arabia, where the last native king of Babylon, Nabonidus went, too late, to reconstruct the world of Akkad and Sumer. He failed, and the gods of Sumer eventually faded such that all we remembered were bits and pieces borrowed to contruct the Hebrew foundational myths and borrowed myths in Greek mythology, until the translation of cuneiform. AC is foolish, and he used these symbols of the past in foolish ways. The whore of Babylon is about dominance and power. Its usage in Revelation are about people who are dominated, war shattered, and disempowered to strike back with the sword of their tongue about those who defeated them. The conflict itself was a testosterone fest that got out of hand. Kings that abused power and were destroyed, kings that ran away rather than trying to convince his people to seek peace. The storm that rose up in Jerusalem was not of one Ishtar but many, none of which recognized the daemon in the mirror. When Crowley looked in the mirror what daemon did he see?
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