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

synchronicity, as events will prove. The possibility that this supernatural
female was the projected anima of L. Ron Hubbard, whose flaming red hair
was one of his most distinctive features, must also be considered.
In January 1946, Parsons decided to "[invoke] a spirit or elemental
into tangible existence," inspired by Crowley's instructions in Chapter Eight
of Magick In Theory And Practice. "1 decided upon the use of the Enochian
Tablets obtained by Dr. John Dee (1527—1608) and Edward Kelley,"
Parsons wrote, referring to the Renaissance era British magicians whose
celebrated 1584 operation had included the first mention of the word
"Babalon." It has frequently been noted that the partnerships of Dee/Kelley
and Parsons/Hubbard, although separated by centuries, possessed curious
similarities. The court alchemist Kelley was often described by his
contemporaries as an unscrupulous charlatan and criminal exploiting the
brilliant but gullible John Dee, one of the great scientists of his time. Just as
Parsons had asked Hubbard to serve as his "Scribe" in the planned
invocation, so had Dee relied on Kelley to fulfill the same role in their
collaboration. (Parsons's description of Hubbard as his scribe is rather
contradictory, since it is in fact Hubbard who dictates his visions to Parsons
throughout the Working.)
Even the sexual dynamics were comparable. Kelley, who reportedly
was as captivated by Dee's young wife as Hubbard was with Sara (Betty)
Northrup, claimed that a spirit named Mandini had instructed him that the
two mages should use each other's wives "in common" – an invitation to
spiritually motivated wife-swapping not unlike Parsons' tolerant acceptance
of Hubbard's seduction of Betty. In 1950, looking back on the personally
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disastrous consequences of the Babalon Working, Parsons himself
commented on the similarity between Hubbard and Kelley, speculating that
some discarnate intelligence had entered the minds of both Kelley and
Hubbard during ritual, with shattering effects on their psyches. Parsons wrote
that, "The voice, speaking from Kelley, resulted in a sinister dissociation of
Kelley's personality. The parallel with my own Working with Ron, is
appalling. After this Kelley robbed Dee, absconded with his wife, and
developed a criminal confidence career." Clearly, Parsons suspected that his
use of the Dee/Kelley Enochian Tablets had necromantically brought
something of these men's essences into the Babalon Working.
For eleven days, Parsons performed VIII° sex magick as he had
learned in the O.T.O. – in other words, focused masturbatory ejaculation –
designed to "obtain the assistance of an elemental mate," his ideal Scarlet
Woman who would presumably take physical form in his ritually produced
semen. This magically spawned female sex partner – which may be
compared to the Eastern left-hand path summoning of the dakini in human
form – was intended to be the mother of a daughter who would supposedly
he the living avatar of the Whore of Babalon on earth. This child, horn of
Parsons and his sexually summoned Scarlet Woman, would, he hoped, be the
homunculus of the alchemists brought into being through the union of
physical sexuality. (Parsons told others in his circle that he had in fact created
a homunculus via alchemical procedures, which he claimed to have kept
locked in a secret room in his home.)
The ultimate apocalyptic goal of the Working seems to have been the
literal birth of the Whore of Babalon, the Bride of the Antichrist – the
fulfillment of Revelations as advent to a new spiritual compensation for
mankind. This Aeonic objective bears resemblance to the Eastern Vama
Marga's positive understanding of the Kali Yuga, the age of darkness
necessary to open the eye of Shiva.
Hubbard, never officially inducted into the O.T.O, but learning fast,
communicated visions purportedly observed on the astral plane while
Parsons emitted the elixir needed to ground the elemental in terrestrial