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magic was communicated not through books of instruction but through her
evocative art, and her physical presence as an avatar of Babalon.
In shock after her husband's death, she moved to Mexico alone, and
became involved in the artist's colony at San Miguel d'Allende. Returning to
Los Angeles, she chose to live a life of cultivated obscurity, only
sporadically interrupted by incursions into public awareness. She is probably
best remembered for her iconic appearance in the Thelemite Kenneth Anger's
1954 film Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome, in which she powerfully
takes on the appropriate roles of Babalon and Kali. Anger's casting of
Cameron in his film, which is really an audiovisual ritual in itself, has left us
with an unforgettable document of the severe magical authority she
commanded. Cameron and her paintings is the subject of Curtis Harrington's
short film The Wormwood Star, named after one of Jack Parsons'
unpublished writings. (For a more complete account of Cameron's films, see
Creation Books' The Satanic Screen, by Nikolas Schreck.)
Cameron gave a few public lectures on magic during her life, but by
some reports, these were arcane to the point of incoherence. She remained
devoted to what Parsons described as the "spirit of BABALON stir [ring] in
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the women of the world", and maintained a correspondence with Joseph
Campbell, the acclaimed mythologist. Since her death in 1995, her magically
themed art has been the subject of several exhibitions, and seems likely to he
her real legacy Although she described herself as carrying on the work she
and Parsons had begun in the 1940s, and facilitated the publication of some
of her husband's writings in 1989, Cameron never permitted a comprehensive
interview, which allowed her to retain a Sphinx-like mystery.
"Get Thee Behind Me, Thetan!" – L. Ron Hubbard After Babalon
Only a few years after serving as Scribe in the sexual evocation of the Whore
of Babylon, Hubbard had gone on to gain fame as the author of Dianetics,
and as the founder of the Church of Scientology.
In 1969, when Hubbard was headquartered in England, the British
newspaper The Sunday Times first made Hubbard's role in the Babalon
Working known to the general public. In response, it should be pointed out
that representatives of Hubbard's Church of Scientology were quoted as
saying that Hubbard had been assigned by Naval Intelligence to infiltrate
Parsons' circle only to "break up a black magic ring." Hubbard, or so his
Church officials protested, had "rescued a girl they were using. The black
magic group was dispersed and destroyed and has never recovered." As for
Betty Northrup, the "girl" Hubbard had "rescued" from Parsons, she married
the founder of Scientology in 1946. Betty was one of the first to be exposed
to her husband's newly developed "science of mind," Dianetics, which takes
its name from the Greek word for logical reasoning, Dianoia. However,
Betty, the last link to Hubbard's friendship with Parsons, divorced him in
1951, in a scandal that led to unwelcome newspaper headlines for the
budding religion.
"Ron was fascinated with the magick," Betty confirmed to
interviewer Bent Corydon many years later, in a 1980s conversation recalling
her tumultuous life as the companion of Parsons and wife of Hubbard.
Indeed, the resemblance between many key points of Scientology and the
magical system devised earlier by Aleister Crowley are fairly obvious.
Although Scientology certainly does not present itself in such a light, these
resemblance between Thelemic and Scientological methods make it clear that
Hubbard brought a great deal of what he learned from his sex-magical
association with Jack Parsons into the development of his own religion. In
this respect, Scientology can be understood as a late development in the
magical revival that produced Theosophy, the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn, and Thelema.
In the first issue of The Journal Of Scientology, Hubbard wrote: