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

this same piece, Parsons affirms his belief that "BABALON is now incarnate
on the earth in the form of a mortal woman," but goes further to state that "it
is now abundantly evident that the spirit of BABALON stirs in the women of
the world. The demand for increased freedom, the rejection both of the
tyrannical husband and the child lover, the increase of feminine polygamy
and lesbianism, all indicate the development of a new type of woman, who
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will have a whole man or none."
Both in his visionary recognition of the divinity in woman and in his
prophetic intuition in the 1940s that a "new type of woman" was on the
horizon, Jack Parsons came into his own as the pioneer of a left-hand path
tradition unique to the West.
The Last Work
Like Crowley, the O.T.O. Agape Lodge that Parsons still vaguely supervised
was also disinclined to accept the implications of the Babalon Working.
Parsons' claim that he had theurgically received a fourth chapter of the
Beast's sacred Book Of The Law smacked dangerously of Thelemic heresy,
and Parsons soon separated from the Crowleyan version of the Ordo Templi
Orientis, although he continued sporadic correspondence with Crowley.
From henceforth, the few remaining years of Parsons' life traced a missile in
downward trajectory.
In the midst of their brief but influential magical collaboration,
Parsons and Hubbard also entered into a business partnership known as
Allied Enterprises, which was in fact to quickly mark the end of their
turbulent affiance. The full details of this sordid episode have been covered
in many other sources, and shed no light on the relevance of the Babalon
Working to left-hand path sex magic in the West. Suffice it to say that
Hubbard and Parsons' former flame Betty absconded with the naive scientist's
savings, which led not only to a full-blown magical war, but a messy lawsuit,
continuing the litigious tradition that had marked O.T.O. activity since the
days of Theodor Reuss.
Crowley expressed a rare flicker of compassion for his wayward
adherent in a letter concerning this incident to the sex magician Louis
Cuffing: "About J.W.P. – all that I can say is that I am very sorry – I feel sure
that he had fine ideas, but he was led astray firstly by Smith, then he was
robbed of his last penny by a confidence man named Hubbard." But the
Beast's final words on Parsons, written to Cuffing a year before his own
death, are more stinging and final: "I have no further interest in Jack and his
adventures; he is just a weak-minded fool, and must go to the devil in his
own way. Requiescat in pace."
Cameron, the ideal Scarlet Woman, eventually separated from
Parsons, like Helen and Betty before her, causing him to observe, in his
Analysis By A Master, that "Candy appeared in answer to your call, in order
to wean you from wet nursing. She has demonstrated. the nature of woman to
you in such unequivocal terms that you should have no further room for
illusion on the subject." However, the couple resumed their stormy union and
their practice of sex magic during the last two years of Parsons' life. As the
result of a government investigation into suspicions of "subversion," Parsons'
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security clearance was taken away in 1948, which left him in desperate straits
professionally. This drastic turn in fortune was a direct result of Parsons'
experiments in sex magic; government documents cite "his membership in a
religious cult ... believed to advocate sexual perversion" as a potential
security risk.
On Halloween of 1948, – or so Parsons asserts in his 1949 The Book
Of Antichrist – he was again contacted by the goddess Babalon. He seemed
to have an unshakable intuition that he was not long for this world, writing
that "I began the last work", stating later in this text that some unidentified