Babalon Working
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Template:93 The Babalon Working was a series of magickal ceremonies or rituals commenced on March 2, 1946 by Jack Parsons, essentially designed to manifest an individual incarnation of the archetypal divine feminine called Babalon, as well as to catalyze the reification of that force as it exists latently in every man and woman. During the ceremony L. Ron Hubbard acted as a scribe noting the results of the magickal workings. The rituals performed drew largely upon the Enochian magickal system devised by Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelley, though it also drew heavily from rituals described by Aleister Crowley, who in turn borrowed many aspects of his Babalon from combining the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar with the figure of Mystery Babylon, the "Great Whore" in the biblical book of Revelation. A brief text entitled The Book of Babalon or Liber 49 was claimed by Jack Parsons to be a transmission from the goddess or force called Babalon received by him during the Babalon working. Some also claim that Liber 49 constitutes a "missing" Fourth Chapter of Liber AL Vel Legis The Book of the Law, the definitive "holy text" of Thelema which Aleister Crowley received from Aiwass in Cairo April 8, 9 & 10, 1904.
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In the Enochian language the term Babalon means "Harlot". In Qabbalistic Gematria Aleister Crowley equated the number 156 with Babalon (using Ayin 70 in the spelling.) In Enochian Babalon means "wicked". Babalond means "A Harlot".
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