INTRODUCTION
This book contains the record of a magical experiment relating to
the invocation of an elemental, the thereafter of the Goddess or
Force called BABALON, and the results thereof. An appendix con-
tains some details of the method, published for the first time.
The contents should be clear enough to those who are prepared for
understanding, and a little study and effort should make it so
for those who desire understanding. For the rest, each will no
doubt interpret it in accord with his own predilections.
A note on the underlying philosophy. The present age is under
the influence of the force called, in magical terminology, Horus.
This force relates to fire, Mars, and the sun, that is, to power,
violence, and energy. It also relates to a child, being innocent
(i.e. undifferentiated). Its manifestations may be noted in the
destruction of old institutions and ideas, the discovery and
liberation of new energies, and the trend towards power govern-
ments, war, homosexuality, infantilism, and schizophrenia.
This force is completely blind, depending upon the men and women
in whom it manifests and who guide it. Obviously, its guidance
now tends towards catastrophy.
The catastrophic trend is due to our lack of understanding of our
own natures. The hidden lusts, fears, and hatreds resulting from
the warping of the love urge, which underly the natures of all
Western peoples, have taken a homicidal and suicidal direction.
This impasse is broken by the incarnation of another sort of
force, called BABALON. The nature of this force relates to love,
understanding, and dionysian freedom, and is the necessary coun-
terbalance or correspondence to the manifestation of Horus.
It is indicated that this force is actually incarnate in some
living woman, as the result of the described magical operation.
A more basic matter, however, is the indication that this force
is incarnate in all men and women, and needs only to be invoked
to free the spirit from the debris of the old aeon, and to direct
the blind force of Horus into constructive channels of under-
standing and love. The methods of this invocation are described
in the text.
The background of this material may be found in the Book of the
Law, the Comment thereon, and other writings of Aleister Crowley;
also in various magical, anthropological, psychological, and
philosophical texts. These are all necessary to an understanding
and use of the material.
One further point. It should be remembered that all human activi-
ties, after the vital functions are fulfilled, arise from the
need to love or to be loved. It is therefore quite literally true
that in understanding (i.e. that which embraces all categories of
love) is all power given. A grasp of the principle of bipolarity
should make this clear.
With this crude and rudimentary philosophical discourse, then, I
present the Book of Babalon:
I decided upon the use of the Enochian Tablets obtained by Dr.
Dee and Edward Kelley, employing the *n*n*n square of the Air
Tablet. The technique was approximately as follows:
(January 4, 1946, 9:00 PM)
1. Prepared and consecrated Air Dagger. (The other magical
weapons were previously prepared. This dagger served as the
special talisman of the operation.)
2. Prepared Enochian Air Tablet on virgin parchment.
3. Prepared Parchment Talisman
4. Rituals as follows:
I followed this procedure for eleven days, from January 4 to 15,
with the following entries in my record:
Jan 5. A strong windstorm beginning suddenly about the middle of the first invocation.
Jan 6. Invoked as before. Wind storm continued intermittently all day and night.
Jan 7. Invoked twice. Wind subsided. Used Prokofief Violin Concerto No. 2 as musical background.
Jan 8. Invoked twice, using blood.
Jan 9. Invoked twice, replenishing material basis.
Jan 10. Invoked twice. I retired about 11 PM, and was awakened at
12 PM by nine strong, rapid knocks. A table lamp at the
opposite corner of the room was thrown violently to the
floor and broken. There was no window in this corner, and
no wind was blowing at the time.
(Note: I have had little experience with phenomena of this sort.
Magically speaking, it usually represents "breaks" in the opera-
tion, indicating imperfect technique. Actually, in any magical
opeation there should be no phenomena but the willed result.)
Jan 11. Invoked twice, using blood.
Jan 12. Invoked twice. A heavy windstorm.
Jan 13. Invoked twice. Windstorm continued.
Jan 14. The light system of the house failed about 9 PM. Another
magician who had been staying at the house and studying
with me, was carrying a candle across the kitchen when he
was struck strongly on the right shoulder, and the candle
knocked out of his hand. He called us, and we observed a
brownish yellow light about seven feet high in the kitchen.
I banished with a magical sword, and it disappeared. His
right arm was paralyzed for the rest of the night.
Jan 15. Invoked twice. At this time the Scribe developed some
sort of astral vision, describing in detail an old enemy
of mine of whom he had never heard, and later the guardian
forms of Isis and the Archangel Michael. Later, in my
room, I heard the raps again, and a buzzing, metallic
voice crying "let me go free." I felt a great pressure
and tension in the house that night, which was also
noticed by the other occupants. There was no other
phenomena, and I admit a feeling of disappointment.
The feeling of tension and unease continued for four days. Then,
on January 18, at sunset, while the Scribe and I were on the
Mojave desert, the feeling of tension suddenly snapped. I turned
to him and said, "it is done," in absolute certainty that the
operation was accomplished. I returned home, and found a young
woman answering the requirements waiting for me. She is
describable as an air of fire type with bronze red hair, fiery
and subtle, determined and obstinate, sincere and perverse, with
extraordinary personality, talent, and intelligence.
During the period of January 19 to February 27 I invoked the
Goddess BABALON with the aid of my magical partner, as was proper
to one of my grade.
LIBER 49
1. Yea, it is I, BABALON.
2. And this is my book, that is the fourth chapter of the Book of
the Law, He completing the Name, for I am out of NUIT by HORUS,
the incestuous sister of RA-HOOR-KHUIT.
3. It is BABALON. TIME IS. Ye fools.
4. Thou hast called me, oh accursed and beloved fool.
5-8. (Missing and presumed lost. Ed.)
9. Now know that I, BABALON, would take flesh and come among men.
10. I will come as a penelous (sic) flame, as a devious song, a
trumpet in judgement halls, a banner before armies.
11. And gather my children unto me, for THE TIME is at hand.
12. And this is the way of my incarnation. Heed!
13. Thou shalt offer all thou art and all thou hast at my altar,
witholding nothing. And thou shalt be smitten full sore and
thereafter thou shalt be outcast and accursed, a lonely
wanderer in abominable places.
14. Ye Dare. I have asked of none other, nor have they asked.
Else is vain. But thou hast willed it.
15. Know then that thus I came to thee before, thou a great Lord,
and I a maid enrapt. Ah blind folly.
16. And thereafter madness, all in vain. Thus it has been, multi-
form. How thou hast burned beyond.
17. I shall come again, in the form thou knowest. Now it shall be
thy blood.
18. The altar is aright, and the robe.
19. The perfume is sandal, and the cloth green and gold. There is
my cup, our book, and thy dagger.
20. There is a flame.
21. The sigil of devotion. Be it consecrated, be it true, be it
daily affirmed. I am not scorned. Thy love is to me. Procure
a disk of copper, in diameter three inches paint thereon the
field blue the star gold of me, BABALON.
22. It shall be my talisman. Consecrate with the supreme rituals
of the word and the cup.
23. My calls as thou knowest. All love songs are of me. Also seek
me in the Seventh Aire.
24. This for a time appointed. Seek not the end, I shall instruct
thee in my way. But be true. Would it be hard if I were thy
lover, and before thee? But I am thy lover and I am with thee.
25. I shall provide a vessel, when or whence I say not. Seek her
not, call her not. Let her declare. Ask nothing. Keep
silence. There shall be ordeals.
26. My vessel must be perfect. This is the way of her perfection.
27. The working is of nine moons.
28. The Astarte working, with music and feasting, with wine and
all arts of love.
29. Let her be dedicated, consecrated, blood to blood, heart to
heart, mind to mind, single in will, none without the circle,
all to me.
30. And she shall wander in the witchwood under the Night of Pan,
and know the mysteries of the Goat and the Serpent, and of
the children that are hidden away.
31. I will provide the place and the material basis, thou the
tears and blood.
32. Is it difficult, between matter and spirit? For me it is
ecstacy and agony untellable. But I am with thee. I have
large strength, have thou likewise.
33. Thou shalt prepare my book for her instruction, also thou
shalt teach that she may have captains and adepts in her
service. Yea, thou shalt take the black pilgrimage, but
it will not be thou that returnest.
34. Let her prepare her work according to my voice in her heart,
with thy book as guide, and none other instructing.
35. And let her be in all things wise, and sure, and excellent.
36. But let her think on this: my way is not in the solemn ways,
or in the reasoned ways, but in the wild free way of the eagle,
and the devious way of the serpent, and the oblique way of the
factor unknown and unnumbered.
37. For I am BABALON, and she my daughter, unique, and there shall
be no other women like her.
38. In My Name shall she have all power, and all men and excellent
things, and kings and captains and the secret ones at her
command.
39. The first servants are chosen in secret, by my force in
her -- a captain, a lawyer, an agitator, a rebel -- I shall
provide.
40. Call me, my daughter, and I shall come to thee. Thou shalt be
full of my force and fire, my passion and power shall surround
and inspire thee; my voice in thee shall judge nations.
41. None shall resist thee, whom I lovest. Though they call thee
harlot and whore, shameless, false, evil, these words shall be
blood in their mouths, and dust thereafter.
42. But my children will know thee and love thee, and this will
make them free.
43. All is in thy hands, all power, all hope, all future.
44. One came as a man, and was weak and failed.
45. One came as a woman, and was foolish, and failed.
46. But thou art beyond man and woman, my star is in thee, and
thou shalt avail.
47. Even now thy hour strikes upon the clock of my FATHER. For
He prepared a banquet and a Bridal Bed. I was that Bride,
appointed from the beginning, as it was written T.O.P.A.N.
48. Now is the hour of birth at hand. Now shall my adept be
crucified in the Basilisk abode.
49. Thy tears, thy sweat, thy blood, thy semen, thy love, thy
faith shall provide. Ah, I shall drain thee like the cup
that is of me, BABALON.
50. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the first veil to speak
with thee, through the stars shake.
51. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the second veil, while God
and Jesus be smitten with the sword of HORUS.
52. Stand thou fast, and I shall pass the third veil, and the
shapes of hell shall be turned again to loveliness.
53. For thy sake shall I stride through the flames of Hell,
though my tongue be bitten through.
54. Let me behold thee naked and lusting after me, calling upon
my name.
55. Let me receive all thy manhood within my Cup, climax upon
climax, joy upon joy.
56. Yea, we shall conquer death and Hell together.
57. And the earth is mine.
58. Thou shalt (make the?) Black Pilgrimage.
59. Yea it is even I BABALON and I SHALL BE FREE. Thou fool, be
thou also free of sentimentality. Am I thy village queen and
thou a sophomore, that thou shouldst have thy nose in my
buttocks?
60. It is I, BABALON, ye fools, MY TIME is come, and this my book
that my adept prepares is the book of BABALON.
61. Yea, my adept, the Black Pilgrimage. Thou shalt be accursed,
and this is the nature of the curse. Thou shalt publish the
secret matter of the adepts thou knowest, witholding no word
of it, in an appendix to this my Book. So they shall cry fool,
liar, sot, traducer, betrayer. Thou art not glad thou meddled
with magick?
62. There is no other way, dear fool, it is the eleventh hour.
63. The seal of my Brother is upon the earth, and His Avatar is
before you. There is threshing of wheat and a trampling of
grapes that shall not cease until the truth be known unto
the least of men.
64. But you who do not accept, you who see beyond, reach out your
hands my children and reap the world in the hour of your
harvest.
65. Gather together in the covens as of old, whose number is
eleven, that is also my number. Gather together in public,
in song and dance and festival. Gather together in secret,
be naked and shameless and rejoice in my name.
66. Work your spells by the mode of my book, practicing secretly,
inducing the supreme spell.
67. The work of the image, and the potion and the charm, the work
of the spider and the snake, and the little ones that go in
the dark, this is your work.
68. Who loves not hates, who hates fears, let him taste fear.
69. This is the way of it, star, star. Burning bright, moon,
witch moon.
70. You the secret, the outcast, the accursed and despised, even
you that gathered privily of old in my rites under the moon.
71. You the free, the wild, the untamed, that walk now alone and
forlorn.
72. Behold, my Brother cracks the world like a nut for your
eating.
73. Yea, my Father has made a house for you, and my Mother has
prepared a Bridal Bed. My Brother has confounded your enemies.
74. I am the Bride appointed. Come ye to the nuptials -- come ye
now!
75. My joy is the joy of eternity, and my laughter is the drunken
laughter of a harlot in the house of ecstasy.
76. All you loves are sacred, pledge them all to me.
77. Set my star upon your banners and go forward in joy and
victory. None shall deny you, and none shall stand before
you, because of the Sword of my Brother. Invoke me, call
upon me, call me in your convocations and rituals, call upon
me in your loves and battles in my name BABALON, wherein is
all power given!
THE SCRIBE:
"The Angel of TARO. A three day retirement to greet her. Purify
thyself. The symbol is seven by three. It is BABALON. Keep
secret. The communications are sacred.
"These are the preparations. Green gold cloth, food for the
Beast, upon a hidden platter, back of the altar. Disclose
only when the doors are bolted.
"Transgression is death.
"Back of main altar. Prepare instantly. Light the first flame
at 10 PM, March 2, 1946.
"The year of BABALON is 4063.
"Beware of the use of profaned rituals.
"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."
The Scribe, now pale and sweating, rested awhile, then continued:
[The First Ritual]
"A plate of food, unsalted. An altar cloth hitherto undefiled.
"Make a box of blackness at ten o'clock. Smear the vessel which
contains flame with thine own blood. Destroy at the altar a thing
of value. Remain in perfect silence, and heed the voice of Our
Lady. Speak not of this ritual or of Her coming to any person.
If asked, answer in a manner that avoids suspicion. Nor speculate
at any time as to Her future mortal identity. To receive flatter-
ing communications to thy damnation. Press not to receive teach-
ings beyond those given.
"Questions: you may ask but three. Spend one half hour in compos-
ing these at 11:30 PM. The answers must be written at midnight.
"Thou shalt take the alkahest in thine own mouth, and in the box
of darkness carefully store this matter.
"Display thyself to Our Lady; dedicate thy organs to Her, dedi-
cate 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 be through you
alone, and no one else can help in this endeavour.
"It is lonely, it is awful.
"Retire from human contact until noon tomorrow. Clear all profane
documents on the morrow, before receiving further instructions.
Consult no book but thine own mind. Thou art a god. Behave at
this altar as one god before another. And so be prosperity.
"Thou art the guardian and thou art the guide, thou art the worker
and the mechanic. So conduct thyself. Discuss nothing of this
matter until thou art certain that thine understanding embraces
all."
Here the Scribe ceased dictation. I proceeded to follow these
instructions and those of March 1, utilizing the following ritu-
als. I include the rituals used in the operation of the first
night, in order to indicate the nature of the Force invoked.
1 [The First Invocation]
The temple is opened with the analysis of the key word: I N R I.
Yod Nun Resh Yod. Virgo Isis Mighty Mother. Scorpio Apophis
Destroyer. Sol, Osiris slain and risen. IAO. The sign of
Osiris slain (given). The sign of the mourning of Isis (given).
The sign of Apophis and Typhon (given). LVX, Lux, the Light of
the Cross.
The invoking hexagram is drawn in the four quarters and the name
ARARITA vibrated in each quarter. In closing, the hexagram is
reversed.
2 The [Second] Invocation
(From the Gnostic Mass)
"O circle of stars whereof our Father is but the younger brother,
marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom
time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the understanding dark,
not unto thee may we attain unless thine image be love. Therefore
by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit
do we invoke thee."
BABALON
"But to love me is better than all things; if under the night
stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before
me, invoking me with a pure heart and the serpent flame therein,
thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt
thou be willing to give all. But whoso gives one particle of
dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and
store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall
exceed the nations of earth in splendour and pride; but always
in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you
earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a
rich head dress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple,
veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple and
drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings,
and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! to me!
Sing the rapturous love songs unto me! Burn to me perfume! Drink
to me, for I love you! I love you! I am the blue lidded daughter
of sunset, I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night sky.
To me. To me."
3 The Third Invocation.
(From The Vision and the Voice)
"Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, BABALON, the Mother of Abomination,
that rideth upon the Beast, for She hath spilt their blood in
every corner of the earth, and lo! She hath mingled it in the
cup of Her whoredom.
"With the breath of Her kisses hath she fermented it, and it hath
become the wine of the Sabbath; and in the Holy Assembly hath She
poured it out for Her worshippers; and they have become drunken
thereon, so that face to face they beheld my Father. Thus are
they made worthy to partake of the mystery of this holy vessel,
for the blood is the life.
"Beautiful art thou O BABALON, and desirable, for thou hast given
Thyself to everything that liveth, and thy weakness hath subdued
their strength. For in that union Thou didst understand. There
fore art Thou called Understanding, O BABALON, Lady of the Night.
"O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union of the
one with the many. For She is Love, and Her Love is one, and She
has divided the one love into infinite loves, and each love is
one, and equal with the One, and therefore is She passed from the
Assembly and the Law and the enlightenment into the anarchy of
solitude and darkness. For ever thus must She veil the brilliance
of Herself.
4 [The Fourth Invocation]
5 The Fifth Invocation
The Call of the Seventh Aire
6 The Sixth Invocation
(from Tannhauser by A. Crowley)
All stars and streams, the living and the dead,
Thou art the mother, thou the speaking sea
Thou art the earth, and its fertility,
To Thee!
Hathoor am I, and to my beauty drawn
Fruits blush, and women, our creations crown
I the love and life of the divine
Venus art thou, the love and light of earth,
The wealth of kisses, the delight of tears
The endless infinite delight of years.
Devoured me with intolerable fire.
My lyre.
I am the Grail and I the glory now;
I am the flame and fuel of thy breast
Ocean of love that shall encompass thee
To me!
[March 2, 1946 E.V. continued]
On the night of the first performance of these rituals, I prepared
the altar and box and food, also flowers and wine. At the beginning
of the rituals, I burnt the Enochian Tablet and smashed an image of
Pan, a favorite possession. (About this time the roof on my guest
house caught fire from a faulty chimney, and was partly destroyed.)
I proceeded with the rituals, noting a mounting tension, and the
sense of a presence inexpressibly poignant and desirable. There
was no other manifestation. At twelve PM I put the three questions
and received answers as follows:
Answer. "At the altar in meditation, as you know how. Also,
invoke me carnally with all your passion. Thus will you feel my
desire and increase my substance."
2. How can I serve best?
Answer. "Follow instructions exactly and in detail. Avoid loose
interruptions. Be diligent. Do not hesitate or question, act.
All depends on your time."
3. How can I be certain of the vehicle?
Answer. "Do not trouble yourself with this. It does not concern
you. I will provide the vehicle, I will show you a sign, and
signs. It is the now which concerns us. Keep your faith, think
not overmuch."
After this an hour's meditation, and so to sleep.
[March 3, 1946 E.V.]
The next day I slipped badly. An inmate of the house disturbed my
morning meditation. I opened the door and cursed him (in the
Anglo Saxon fashion). Shortly after he was taken ill, and I
succumbed to a black mood. I perceived my terrible error, and
apologized to him, mentally withdrawing the curse. However, the
day went very badly for me.
That evening the Scribe and I resumed our work. In a short time
the dictation began:
"Our Lady BABALON must descend to triumph."
"Mortality. We have not asked this of another, nor shall we ever.
Even now we doubt thy faith. Is this accepted, are you willing
to proceed. Answer aloud.
Answer. "I am willing."
"Then know thou art already faulty in thy delivery. These are ex-
traneous things. The elemental was not properly released," (this
was corrected) "thou wert guilty of human rage, the current of
force has been disturbed. Beware, should'st thou falter again,
we will sure slay thee.
"But insofar as thy working was consecrated it has succeeded.
Rectify thy mortal fault and error. Consecrate all. Now receive
the second and third rituals."
"Take the black box, concentrate upon its emptiness for one hour,
gaze into it, and thou wilt see, imprinted upon it, a shape, a
sign, a sacred design, which shall be the sign delivered by Our
Lady Babalon Incarnate. When thou hast finished, when thou hast
recognized this pattern, construct it in wood.
"This is the sigil.
"Ten be the hour appointed. Invoke long, to music indicated."
[...] (This I keep secret.)
"When thou canst feel Our Lady incarnate in thy being, take the
black box and perform the consecrated rite.
"Wear thou scarlet, symbolic of birth. Be sashed in black. It
matters not the quality of goods. Take then the box, make then
the sign.
"Paint upon it a second sign which thou knowest. If thou hast
forgotten, gaze into thy crystal.
"Meditate while gazing on the qualities of an instructor. Thou
shalt inscribe in Her book, for Her guidance.
"Thou art forbidden to leave thy room.
"The end of the second ritual.
At the end of this dictation, the Scribe showed signs of exhaustion.
He rested awhile, then we continued:
"A period of eradication of all inimical influences. Complete
perfection. Wear black. Cut from thy breast the red star. Renew
the blood. Lay out a white sheet. Place upon it blood of birth,
since She is born of thy flesh, and by thy mortal power upon earth.
"Thou shalt recognize by the sign. BABALON is born! It is new
birth, all things are changed, the signs, the symbols, the every
thing!
"Thou shalt compass with the aid of the muse suitable invocation
of the birth of BABALON, and this thou shalt deliver to the flames
which now burn too.
"Now thou shalt flame the third, chanting the invocation. She is
born in the third flame.
"In verse seven verses of seven lines, seven magick words. Stand
and chant seven times. Envision thyself as a cloaked radiance
desirable to the Goddess, beloved. Envision Her approaching thee.
Embrace Her, cover Her with kisses. Think upon the lewd lascivious
things thou couldst do. All is good to BABALON. ALL.
"Then rest, meditating on this:
"Thou as a man and as a god hast strewn about the earth and in
the heavens many loves, these recall, concentrate, consecrate
each woman thou hast raped. Remember her, think upon her, move
her into BABALON, bring her into BABALON, each, one by one until
the flame of lust is high.
"Then compose a verse of undetermined lines on this, to BABALON.
This verse shall be used in worship when she appears.
"Then meditate upon thy desire, think upon Her, and, touching
naught, chant these verses. Recall each lascivious moment, each
lustfull day, all set them into the astral body, touching naught.
"Preserve the material basis.
(Question: "In the box?" Answer: "Yes.")
"The lust is hers, the passion yours. Consider thou the Beast
raping.
"Leave thy casual loves -- all belongs to BABALON, thy lust is
BABALON's. She is with thee three days. The sign is hers, secret,
and no man knows its correspondence. Guard!
The next section contains a prophecy which I shall not write here.
There follows the indicated invoking poem.
What is the tumult among the stars
Why is the face of God turned grey
What is the beauty that flames so bright
Quail ye kings for an end is come
I have walked three dreadful nights away
I have lain my love and smashed my heart
The cities reel in the shout of steel
Now God has called for his judgement book
His bloody priests have clutched his robes
O popes and kings and the little gods
While trumpets sound and stars rejoice
BABALON is too beautiful
She has clothed her beauty in robes of sin
But now the darkness is riven through
Naked in radiant mortal flesh
She is come new born as a mortal maid
And death and hell are at her back,
Her voice is sure as the judgement trump
The gates shall fall and the irons break
Her mouth is red and her breasts are fair
And her whoredom is holy as virtue is foul
Ye shall laugh and love and follow her dance
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PART ONE: THE BOOK OF BABALON
January 4 - March 4, 1946 E.V.
A. CONCEPTION
In January 1946 I had been engaged in the study and practice of
Magick for seven years, and in the supervision and operation of
an occult lodge for four years, having been initiated into the
Sanctuary of the Gnosis by the Beast 666, Fra. 132, and Fra.
Saturnus. At this time I decided upon a Magical operation de-
signed to obtain the assistance of an elemental mate. This is a
well known procedure in Magick (cf. Ch. VIII in Magick in Theory
and Practice), consisting of the invocation of a spirit or ele-
mental into tangible existence by various magical techniques.
B. COMMUNICATIONS
On February 27 my magical partner went East for a visit, and on
Feb. 28 I went back to the Mojave, invoking BABALON. During this
invocation, the presence of the Goddess came upon me, and I was
commanded to write the following communication:
C. BIRTH
[March 2, 1946 E.V.]
On March 1 and 2, 1946 I prepared the altar and equipment in
accordance with the instructions in Liber 49. The Scribe had been
away about a week, and knew nothing of my invocations of BABALON,
which I had kept entirely secret. On the night of March 2 he
returned, and described a vision he had that evening of a savage
and beautiful woman riding naked on a great cat-like beast. He
was impressed with the urgent necessity of giving me some message
or communication. We prepared magically for this communication,
constructing a temple at the altar with the analysis of the key
word. He was robed in white, carrying the lamp, and I in black,
hooded, with the cup and dagger. At his suggestion we played
Rachmanninoff's Isle of the Dead as background music, and set an
automatic recorder to transcribe any audible occurrences. At
approximately 8 PM he began to dictate, I transcribing directly
as I received.
"The first ritual. Tomorrow the second ritual. Concentrate all
force and being in Our Lady BABALON. Light a single light on Her
altar, saying: Flame is Our Lady, flame is Her hair. I am flame.
THE PRIEST
CHORUS
O BABALON, BABALON beloved, come now, partake of the sacrament,
possess this shrine. Take me now! Let me be drunken on the wine
of your fornications; let your kisses wanton me to death. Accept
thou this sacrifice willingly given!
Rass I Salman Paradiz Oa-Crimi Aao Ial-Pir-Gah Qui-In Enay Butmon
Od I Noas Ni Paradial Casarmg Vgear Chirlan Od Zonac Luciftan
Cors Ta Vaul Zirn Tol Hami Sobol Ondoh Od Miam Chis Ta Zo Od Es
V-Ma-Dea Od Pi-Bliar O Phil Rit Od Miam C-Crimi Quaada. Od. O
Michaloz Oriom Bagle Papnor I Dlugam Lonshi Od Umplif V-Ge-Gi
Riglied. BABALON!
Isis art thou, and from thy life are fed
All showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane,
The mystery of pleasure and of pain
Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness return to thee
All glories of the Universe bow down,
The blossom and the mountain and the dawn
I am the priest, the sacrifice, the shrine
Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mine,
Are Mine!
The barren pleasures never came to birth,
Thou art the shrine at which my long desire
Thou wert song, music, passion, death upon my lyre-
I am the star of God upon thy brow;
I am the queen, enraptured and possessed,
Hide thee sweet river, welcome to thee, sea
Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness return to me-
1. How can I communicate directly with BABALON, hear her, see
her, feel her, be sure that I am working aright?
"In the presence of our Lord PAN, at the feet of Our Lady BABALON,
at the feet of Her (servants?) (changing?) we declare unto thee
this message (consecrated, dedicated, never to be defiled?)
(the Scribe was uncertain here) containing the rituals of the
second and third days, of the welcome and preparation in the Name
of Our Lady of the Night most gracious, to pure lewd and whore-
some Lady BABALON. Oh thou who art mortal tremble; given it is
unto thee a feat never before performed in the annals of your
histories, never before accomplished successfully. Many have
dared, none succeeded.
The Second Ritual
[March 3, 1946 E.V. continued]
"Consecrate thyself as instructor of Our Lady Incarnate.
The Third Ritual
[March 3 1946 E.V. continued]
"Begin four hours prior to dawn.
The Birth of Babalon
that have shone so still till now?
What are the furrows of pain and wrath
upon the immortal brow?
and his angels all grown white?
What is the terrible ruby star
that burns down the crimson night?
athwart the awful dawn?
She has taken flesh, she is come to judge
the thrones ye rule upon.
in the birth of BABALON.
in halls beyond despair,
I have given marrow and tears and sweat
and blood to make her fair.
and filled her cup with blood,
That blood might flow from the loins of woe
to the cup of brotherhood.
where the sword of war is drawn.
Sing ye saints for the day is come
in the birth of BABALON.
and seen his name therein
And the grace of God and the guilt of God
have spelt it out as sin
and stained his linen gown
And his victims swarm from his broken hell
to drag his kingdom down.
are sick and sad and wan
To see the crimson star that bursts
like blood upon the dawn
at the birth of BABALON.
for sight of mortal eyes
She has hidden her loveliness away
in lonely midnight skies,
and pledged her heart to swine
And loving and giving all she has
brewed for saints immortal wine.
and the robes of sin are gone,
And naked she stands as a terrible blade
and a flame and a splendid song
at the Birth of BABALON.
forgetting her high estate,
She has opened her arms to pain and death
and dared the doom of fate,
but her eyes are bright with life,
Her heart is high and her sword is strong
to meet the deadly strife,
to crack the house of wrong,
Though walls are high and stone is hard
and the rule of hell was long
in the Birth of BABALON.
and her loins are full of fire,
And her lust is strong as a man is strong
in the heat of her desire,
beneath the holy sky,
And her kisses will wanton the world away
in passion that shall not die.
when the wrath of God is gone
And dream no more of hell and hate
in the Birth of BABALON.