“Whatever your situation, once you realize you are a magician, it will be impossible for you to remove the magick form any aspect of your existence. What you do for a living will no longer be just a job, it will be a magick job. Your hobbies will be magick, and your love life will be magick. Your likes, dislikes, fears, dreams, ambitions, and even shortcomings and vices will be magick. It’s all magick because you never stop being a magician.”
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Lon Milo DuQuette, “Homemade Magick: The Musings & Mischief of a Do-It-Yourself Magus
Babalon is a Goddess who is both a force and a being. Some deities are one or the other – few are both. But what kind of Goddess is She? She is certainly not what you have read in the books of men, or what you have been taught in these times. Babalon is the Goddess of Heka, the Goddess of the Liberation of the Spirit, the Goddess of the Underworld, the Goddess of the Liminal Point, the Warrior Goddess of Vengeance, and the Guardian of the Principles of Life. These are all very technical terms, and may not mean exactly what you think they do.
Babalon is the Goddess of Heka, which in Egyptian means that She oversees the Activation (He) of Spirit (Ka). Today, this is sometimes called Magick. But then again most things which are called Magick today are in actuality just Sorcery because they do not involve Spirit in this way. Heka is a Female principle, and the Priestesses who are dedicated to Underworld Goddesses utilize the Female body itself, the vulva, the womb and the menses, in their Rites to power their Heka. Babalon is a Goddess of Heka, and teaches the secret ways of Magick to Her devotees. The Enochian system, so-called, is one such example of this. The Triangle of Manifestation is another. She also teaches Egyptian “Magick” quite thoroughly, as She has spent much time with the people of that culture – although few would recognize Her name there. Many of the Goddesses of Heka, Guardians of Arcane Knowledge, and some of the Angels have an affinity with Babalon and work with Her in this area.
Babalon is the Goddess of the Liberation of Spirit in the form of a Serpent. One possess grand powers when the Serpent becomes manifest in the flesh. There is a great bliss when the Spirit draws close, and the body is liberated by it. Rather than pose a duality between the flesh and the Spirit like most paths do, Ophidian Thelema stresses the importance of calling down the Spirit into flesh, thereby liberating the body from the bonds of the Persona. The Persona is not destroyed, but rather put in service of the Spirit. Babalon teaches of this process, and the powers which are associated with the manifest Spirit, called Heka.
Babalon is the Goddess of the Underworld, in that She oversees the Reclamation of the remnants of life unto death, and its transformation in the Underworld. She is the Guardian of the Seven Principles which arise out of the Underworld, and which define all Spirit manifesting in matter – and therefore all life and existence as well. She is also the presiding Goddess over all of the Gates of Underworld Initiation, 28 in number. All Underworld Goddesses, Torch-bearers, Titans and Guardians of the Gates and Rivers there have an allegiance with Her in that place of darkness and transformation.
Babalon is the Goddess of the Liminal Point, that place where the Spirit enters into the manifest realms – whether it be the womb, the Underworld, the Temple Door or a living body. Her Priestesses are Liminal Gates for spirits of various sorts to enter into the manifest realms. She teaches this process to Her Priestesses, showing them the proper ways of the Triangle of Manifestation which do not involve channeling, trance-possession, drugs or the like. The sovereignty of the body of the Priestess is not defiled in such ways. She also shows how the spirits can prove their presence beyond the doubts of the minds of men through the use of dead and forgotten languages, ciphers and other means which prove their authenticity at a later time. Many of the Liminal Goddesses and Guardians such as Hekate, Pahket and Baphometis have an affinity for Babalon in this regard.
Babalon is the Warrior Goddess of Vengeance, along with Her Brother Ra Hoor Khuit. This aspect of Babalon shows Her powers of reclamation unto the Underworld for life out of balance, for the degenerate and for the unfit. It is this aspect of the Great Liberating Mother which reminds so many of Kali – and their roles are often very similar. Babalon is indeed coming for Her Vengeance upon the degenerate people, and to avenge the wrongs of the Aryans, Ichthyos and their masters. This is not something that many people want to hear. And make no mistake concerning the form of Her Vengeance. She will enact a great corruption and violence upon them, as is Her right as Guardian of Life. She is the vehicle of the Principles of the Underworld in the Manifest Realm. And it is because of this that life may have a chance to continue afterwards, in one form or another. She is certainly not a Goddess for the timid or pacifistic. Because of this, a great many Warrior Goddesses, Guardians and Angels have an affinity for Babalon in this way.
Babalon is the Guardian of the Principles of Life. This is a role that not many are aware of. When these Principles of Life are violated, then it is Her duty to set them right. This is why She has the allies that She does, with the Seven and the Nine as well as Gaia and Her children, the Titans.
Because of Her different functions, Babalon is often imagined in different forms with different symbols. Most often She is pictured in Serpentine form, which show Her connection to the Underworld and Her powers of Heka and its relation to Spirit. When Her power of Ecstatic Liberation of the Spirit is being emphasized, one will often find the Sun and Moon conjoined. When She is a Warrior and a guardian, She is often envisioned riding upon a Lion or beast of some sort, or pulled by Lions in a chariot. In this way She is sometimes pictured with a Wheel with Seven Spokes, or a Star with Seven Points. This shows Her relation to the Seven Guiding Principles of the Underworld. And finally, like many of the Underworld Goddesses and Guides, She is sometimes shown with the Torch shining bright, which is the light of Spirit which She carries in the vast darkness of the Underworld.
A note concerning Angels and their relation to Babalon: Because of the ignorance of this modern age concerning the true history of the past, it should be mentioned that the Angels do not have their origin with Christianity any more than the so-called Kabbalah does with the Ichthyos. The Ichthyos recorded and enshrined bits and pieces of information from the great temples of Babylon and Egypt when they were enslaved in those places during the Aryan times. It was out of these scraps that they concocted an imitation of the metaphysics of the great Pagan temples. This concoction only somewhat resembles the original traditions of what they call the Angels, and the system of the Angelic Realms which they call Kabbalah. This is one of the reasons why the Temples no longer keep the inferiors like the Ichthyos as slaves. It produced Abomination in this way.
Historically, Babalon is the current incarnation of the Goddess that we generally call the Great Liberating Mother. There are three main divisions of Goddesses from the Ancient times. These Goddesses ruled before the rise of Aryans 5000 years ago in the Aeon of Aries, which completely changed the nature of the Gods and the mythologies into the ones which are known today. These Ancient divisions of the Goddess divide Her between the Earth, Sky and Underworld. The Earth Goddesses were the Mother Goddesses who oversaw the birth of Spirits as humans, and their upbringing. They were later joined by the Grain Goddesses of agriculture. The Sky Goddesses were all the totems of the airs in bird form: falcons, songbirds, water-fowl and vultures. These were concerned with knowledge and decision-making for the early tribe. They granted far sight and rules for happy living, as well as guided the people with proper death rituals so that the Spirit might find its way to the Underworld. The Underworld Goddesses, the class of Goddesses to which Babalon belongs, are concerned with all things which dwell in the Underworld. The Underworld is the place of mystery to which all things return when they die and from which all things are born again. The Underworld is not the same as the Afterworld with its Shades or Heaven with its Souls. These are later degenerations based upon their interpretations of the original Underworld. Babalon as a Goddess of the Underworld, manifests in different incarnations in different times. Each of these manifestations are shaped by the Aeon into which She is born, and the culture of the place which forms Her Cult. As such, a chain of incarnations can be seen stretching back through history, marking Her places of influence upon the world. We name this chain of Her incarnations collectively as the Great Liberating Mother, for convenience’s sake. This name has appeared in the Cult Titles of many of Her incarnations. Some of Her more famous incarnations are Inanna, Astarte, Kybelem Hoor Pahkhet and Qadeshet, just to name a few.
The current incarnation of the Great Liberating Mother is known as Babalon. She has intentionally taken Her name this time as a play upon the degenerated image of Her as portrayed in the Book of Revelation, in order to enact Her revenge upon the Aryans and the Ichthyos. She is described there as “Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and Abominations of the Earth.” When the Aryans, the warlords form the Aeon of Aries who are the fathers of all war and empire, were let loose upon the planet they sought out and destroyed much of the Goddess culture which existed before them. The Earth and Sky Goddesses were married off to their Storm Gods, like Zeus and Indra. In the same way the women on Earth likewise became chattel and property of the men of the world, used for breeding and sexual pleasure. The women who resisted and who kept their old traditions alive were the Cults of the Great Liberating Mother. They were not always successful in this. They were vilified as demons and as whores because they would not submit. Because of this, and because Her Priestesses utilize the sexual initiation of men, She has been labeled a Whore Goddess by the Ichthyos and Aryans ever since. In this way men of this time still lust for Her and seek to dominate Her at the same time, just as they still do to their women. The term Scarlet Woman has become a term of possession by men in this regard, as if such a woman is something to be owned and used by them. But they do not know the history of the Carnelian People, or what this title of Scarlet Woman means.
When you look at Babalon through the references in the Bible, or through the words of modern day men, then you are looking at Her through the eyes of the conquerors. It is no different with any conquered and extinct culture. If one were to ask the white invaders to give an account of the Indian culture in the Americas, one would of course get a very negative and biased report. They were there to exterminate those Indians and to take their land. Therefore they saw them as inferior, and reported as much to the history books. It is the same with Babalon. They call Her the Mother of Abominations, because She births the very creatures which will destroy their degeneracy on this planet. She is the enemy of their way of life, their culture which grips this planet to the point of death. They call Her a Whore because She will not submit to their sexual domination, but instead uses it to Initiate them. And they try to use Her Heka, Her Magick for their own, so that all of the petty desires of their Personas can be realized. Or so they think. For in reality, no man may use Babalon in that manner. These men will in actuality attract something quite different, which will be more than happy to imitate their desires and fill their heads with delusions of grandeur so that these entities may then feed. The world of the occult is full of such men.
The Rites and Initiations of all Underworld Goddesses include the rites of sex and death. These Rites have been the subject of much fear, loathing and lust over the past 5000 years by the Aryans and the Ichthyos. And in this time the sexuality of Babalon and Her Priestesses is emphasized so strongly now because of the degenerate age in which we live. People use Her now as a talismanic Goddess, to achieve their lusts and desires like they would some kind of demon. Men use Her to subjugate and dominate their women sexually. In this way they attempt to make their women act as their ideal fantasy, calling them Babalon and praising them as a reward for pleasing their penis. This is why they insist that She is a whore – their whore. And because She is theirs, then She is Holy. But only because they think that She is doing something for them, for their Persona. In reaction to this, women use Babalon and Her image to increase their self esteem, and to gain the attention of men. They will act in a sexual manner which they think imitates the man’s idea of Babalon, and thereby loose their own identity and sexuality in the process, truly becoming whores.
Many women claim to be the incarnation of Babalon in the flesh. Babalon does not manifest in this way, nor do any of the Gods and Goddesses. This grandiose claim is simply a result of the mass narcissism of the modern era. There are countless people who claim that they are gods and goddesses now, thanks to Crowley and his nonsensical claim that “There is no god but man.” No more false words have ever been spoken in history. The people of this planet are all terribly, irrevocably, fatally mortal. Only the egos of their Personas in a degenerate age could dare to enact such cognitive dissonance as to say I am a God, while everything about their existence is transient, self-absorbed and trivial. Only a Persona high on drugs could envision such a false reality. No human is Babalon, but She does have Daughters who do incarnate. And these amazing women have some of the memories of their previous incarnations, and are therefore able to prove their identities. But still though they have extraordinary abilities, and they have a matrilineal connection to Babalon throughout time, they are not gods.
The Magickal Philosophy of Templum Babalonis in Four Volumes
may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon
MAGICK
and the right comprehension and right application thereof.
We know one thing only. Absolute existence, absolute motion, absolute direction, absolute simultaneity, absolute truth, all such ideas: they have not, and never can have, any real meaning.
“This paper describes a parapsychological model of psychic ability in terms of its intrinsically magical undercurrent, thereby providing a bridge, hitherto largely unconnected, between science and magic. Initially proposed by Rex Stanford in the 1970’s, the model, seeks to explain the unconscious everyday use of ‘psi’ (precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance, or psychokinesis) as a means of serving the needs and desires of the organism. The model, termed ‘psi-mediated instrumental response’ (PMIR), is based on the principles and research of cognitive, behaviourist, and para- psychology from an evolutionary perspective. Yet it is shown that, by extrapolating the inferences of this model and by subtly re-orientating it to a magical perspective, it can serve as a useful psychology of magical operation. By drawing comparisons between Stanford’s model and the occult psychology of the chaos magic current, and with particular regard to the work of Austin Osman Spare, the essay highlights the parallels between these bodies of thought. While this demonstrates some synonymous mechanics for the manifestation of the magical desire it also offers a heuristic model for the functioning of magic that is compatible with mainstream cognitive science and which can be, and has been, tested empirically. Furthermore some consideration is given to scientific research’s magical nature, which has been unearthed in the process of searching for a science of magic. Despite objections from both magicians and scientists, by cross-pollinating the flowers of these two fields in this way possibilities emerge for the utilisation of empirical research to augment magical belief systems for those with a scientific leaning, whilst simultaneously illuminating new regions for growth in the formation of occult science.”
Understanding how light effects our lives begins with an understanding of the relationship between human qi and the electromagnetic spectrum that makes up the visible colors.
Life has evolved on this planet under the influence of our sun. So it is that our emotions, our mental states, and our health, are influenced by the colors found in sunlight. When photons of light strike matter, electrons are discharged, thus creating a current. In other words, the energy of light is converted into electrons on impact and “the frequency of radiation determines the energy of the electrons emitted,”and consequently the quality of the qi we take in through color and light.
European medical researchers have discovered that pulsed and colored light focused on the iris of the eye will prompt both physical and emotional repair in the body. Light reaching the eye is converted into electrical signals that are transmitted by the optic nerve to the hypothalamus, which regulates all of our biological functions by controlling the nervous system and the endocrine system. “In addition, the hypothalamus controls most of the body’s regulatory functions by monitoring light related information and sending it to the pineal, which then uses this information to cue other organs about light conditions in the environment.” In simpler terms, the pineal gland is a type of light regulator for the body, and since “wavelengths of light control the chemistry of the body,” the various color changes we make in our home and working spaces by applying feng shui wisdom have a powerful affect on our emotions and sense of well-being through their physiological, psychological and hormonal impact.
In addition, the influence of light and color also may coincide with the taking in of another type of energy: the Qi of Heaven—the energy of the sun, moonlight, and the stars.
In Oriental medicine, we say that the human being is created when the Qi (energy) of Heaven and the Qi of Earth come together. I postulate that the Qi of Heaven continues to enter the formed human body through the pineal organ in the form of light.
Another entrance point for Qi of Heaven in the form of light is through the acupuncture point/meridian system of the body. Russian researchers have shown that light applied to the human skin penetrates between 2 and 30 mm, depending on the color spectrum or frequency of light used, and that it will travel beneath the surface of the skin. According to their findings, the meridians, which are the channels for qi, act like optical fibers in transferring light (photons) throughout the body. This would explain why blind people can “feel” colors and also why light travels beneath the surface of the skin even when body parts are twisted or bent. This transport of light through the meridian system dovetails with the ancient Chinese medical model and would explain the ability of light entering the body in this way to trigger healing at a cellular level. Each cell has transport tubes known as microtubules or “light pipes” which are of varying widths and lengths measured in nanometers that allow the movement of molecules and fluid in and out of the cell. As a further part of the light transport system that starts with the acupoints and meridians, these “microtubules…may act like fiber optic waveguides for the transmission of light waves through us.“ The light that travels from these energy pathways to the level of the cells may act as an aspect of qi that allows cells to communicate to each other the information that is important to the healing process; yet another important reason for attention to the use of balanced lighting in the feng shui applications in our homes and workplaces. To have health in the body there needs to be coherence to establish healthy cell communication.
Here is a very fundamental example of the “hidden” energies or qi behind feng shui for what is actually at work here is quantum physics. In quantum physics, subatomic particles are coherently linked by magnetic fields so they can communicate together, thus creating resonance. In addition to the quantum coherence involving cells and light, Dr. Fritz-Albert Popp discovered that we take in biophotons from the plant foods we eat. The better the quality of the qi or light in the food we take in that was absorbed during its growth, the more light we take in that was stored during photosynthesis.
Popp also discovered that the driving force behind our DNA was light. He found that DNA was one of the most essential stored sources of light and thus the one of the main sources of biophoton emissions. It was the master tuning fork of the body, using light frequencies to produce the blueprint for the human body and all living things. This is the case also at the fundamental level of light photons that Popp discovered in his experiments both cancer patients and those with multiple sclerosis (MS). There was a fundamental imbalance of light. In those with cancer, it was as if their light was going out. Frequencies were scrambled and cells had lost their connection with each other and other living things out in the world. In those with MS, it was as if they were drowning in too much light. Cells could not reject excess light to stay balanced as they would in a healthy state. This ability of human cells to produce bioluminescence or the giving off of light to stay balanced was actually measured by Popp in his experiments. He was able to show that eggs from free-range chickens raised under sunlight had taken in better qi or coherent light photons than those eggs produced by chickens raised under artificial lighting. He was able to measure the quality of all food using his bio-photon method. He discovered that
“the healthiest food had the…most coherent intensity of light” and that “health was a state of perfect subatomic communication, and that ill health was a state where communication breaks down. In effect, we are ill when our light waves are out of synch. The work of Fritz-Albert Popp gives support to the great importance of light in feng shui balancing in our daily environments. His further experiments showed that we can take the photons of light from our surroundings (and especially living things in our surroundings), and "use the information from them to correct our own light” if it goes out of balance.
One of these ways would be the use of color as it is applied in feng shui. Another would be through eating the proper foods. The color of food tells us about the energetic signature (qi) of that food. It is Nature’s way, through her beautiful colors, that we are drawn to what food energies our bodies need. “The color of food is key to the energy pattern of food and how its bimolecular nutrients will be bonded to specific cells and tissues in our bodies." Having awareness of the color of the foods we eat will lead us to consume the best foods for energy building in our bodies. More than two thousand years ago there was certainly much hidden wisdom in Hippocrates’ admonishment: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” It is said that in addition to this, he practiced his healing in rooms painted in soothing colors to assist in his treatments.
Besides the use of color remedies in feng shui, color breathing can also enhance the healing process as well as maintain healthy balance in our bodies. Color breathing is one of the many qigong (chi kung) forms devised by the Chinese over thousands of years. Through the use of color breathing into the organs of the body, each organ benefits as well as all the functions that relate to the organ. The intent of this qigong practice is to absorb colors from nature into the organs that relate to them; from there the healing colored qi will spread throughout the entire body. It is a maxim that where the mind goes the qi follows, so a disciplined intention is necessary in this daily practice. One puts attention into the appropriate organ, then either visualizes the color of the organ from the Five Element Theory, or looks at the appropriate color in one’s surroundings either in nature or in one’s home or work environment that has been color balanced according to feng shui. Next, one visualizes inhaling that color into the appropriate organ. Liver is first and its color is green. Your intention fills the organ with the frequency of green nourishing energy, and as you exhale, this cleans out any toxic energy that has accumulated. This also helps ease any emotion of anger since this is the emotion associated with this organ. The green frequency qi will follow the meridian pathways and carry the healing energy throughout the body. The process is repeated with the other yin organs: spleen/yellow, heart/red, lungs/white, kidneys/blue. If you are unfamiliar with qigong, you may be skeptical about breathing in a color frequency. You need to suspend your judgment and keep an open mind. The proof is in the actual practice.
Koto-dama refers to the traditional belief that mystical powers dwell in words and names. Just like martial arts practitioners giving out a shout when they make a strike (“ki-ai” – literally “meeting of spirit”) it is believed that sounds can affect our body, mind and soul.
The triad of Yin, Yang and Qi (pronounced chee) serves as the basis for the medical theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Entire textbooks have been written about this subject in China, and one could argue that similar mechanisms are found everywhere in the universe, even at the molecular level. For our purposes we are going to simplify this philosophy as much as possible, while describing the terms as understood by TCM doctors. The most essential thing to know is that TCM doctors use these broad general medical terms to orient their medical thinking, diagnose disease and choose herbs. The purpose is to bring these three into balance. In Chinese theory this process is conceived as bringing Yin and Yang into balance with each other, which results in the production of Qi.
Yin represents the nutritive processes and substances of the body. When the Yin is strong, the body is strong, moist, well nourished and fertile. When the Yin is in excess, the body, or the individual organ, becomes sluggish and damp. When the Yin is weak, the body is weak, dry, deficient, and can flare up with heat. There can be sensitivity to heat, weight loss, insomnia, hot flashes, dryness and sometimes dizziness and heart palpitations. This presentation of symptoms is known as Yin deficiency, a very important TCM medical concept. To treat Yin deficiency, TCM herbalists use Yin tonic herbs. These herbs generally nourish and moisten the tissues and increase nutritive forces.
Some of the most commonly used Yin tonics are raw rehmannia root (sheng di huang/Rehmannia glutinosa), glehnia root (sha shen/Adenophora tetraphylla), scrophularia root(xuan shen/Scrophularia ningpoensis), ligustum berry (nu shen zi/Ligustrum lucidum) American ginseng root (xi yang shen/Panax quinquifolium), ophiopogon root (mai men dong/Ophiopogon japonicus) and wild asparagus root (tian men dong/Asparagus lucidis).
Notice that many of the Yin tonics are roots, used by plants to absorb nutrients from the soil. Interestingly, the Chinese use seeds, such as sesame seeds, as Yin tonics. At our clinic I often use nutritive oils such as fish oils, flaxseed oil (Linum usitatissimum) or evening primrose oil (Oenothera biennis) along with the other herbs mentioned above to moisturize and reduce inflammation.
Yang represents the heat and metabolic processes of the body. When the Yang is strong the body is energetic, warm and powerful. When the yang is in excess, the body becomes inflamed. When the yang is weak the body is fatigued, cold and weak, often to the point of exhaustion. There can be symptoms of low back pain, impotence, diarrhea, and weakness in the four extremities. These symptoms are known as Yang deficiency. TCM doctors use Yang tonic herbs to treat Yang deficiency. These herbs are generally warming and drying. Chinese research has shown that many of these herbs benefit the endocrine system (Bensky & Gamble 2004).
Some of the most commonly used Yang tonic herbs are prepared aconite (fu zi/Aconitum palmatum), dried ginger root (gan jiang/Zingiber officinalis), cinnamon bark (rou gui/Cinnamon zeylanicum), deer antler (lu rong (Cervus nipon) and morinda root (ba ji tian/Morinda officinalis).
Qi (pronounced “chee,” and sometimes written as “chi”) represents the vital energy of the body flowing along invisible energy channels. The balance of Qi is dependent upon the functional relationship between Yin and Yang. When the Qi is strong, the digestion is strong, the organs are well regulated, and nourishment and energy flow through and vitalize the organs. When the Qi is weak or blocked, the digestion weakens, dampness accumulates, and the corresponding organs exhibit pain, spasm or irregular functioning. There can be extreme fatigue, poor digestion, diarrhea, muscle atrophy, compromised immunity, or weakness in the lungs. This is called Qi deficiency. When Qi is weak, TCM doctors use herbs that supply Qi, known as Qi tonics.
The most common Qi tonic herbs are ginseng root, astragalus root, codonopsis root (dang shen/Codonopsis pilosula), licorice root, and white atractylodes rhizome.
The easiest way to understand the mechanisms of this triad as you learn is to substitute the word “nutrient” when you hear the word Yin, “metabolism/heat” when you hear the word Yang, and “vital force” when you hear the word Qi.
It may help you remember the triad by using the following analogy found in ancient Chinese medical texts. Think of the stomach as a pot of soup. The Yin represents the nutrients in the soup, and the Yang is the fire under the soup. The Qi is the nutrient-filled steam that rises up from the pot when Yin and Yang work together, This nutrient steam travels through tiny pathways (meridians), carrying its warmth and nutrients to the organs. If the pathways are blocked, the restrictive area becomes painful, and the organs beyond it wither from lack of energy and nutrition. If the blockage occurs in the larger channels flowing up and down between the trunk of the body and the brain, the person becomes depressed, constricted, and less creative. Because “the mind directs the Qi,” one major goal of meditation is to strengthen the Qi energy and use the mind to feel and direct its flow throughout the body.
Occult Aspects 