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In the aftermath of the 1946 Babalon Working and Hubbard’s betrayal,
disillusionment set in and for two years Parsons gave up magick, throwing himself into
his scientific work, until his security clearance was temporarily withdrawn. Carter says
he lost his clearance May 17, 1948 (p 159), but according to the 141 page fbi file that
was actually the date the investigation began into his membership of a religious cult
and friendship with an alleged Communist Party member (the name is censored from
the file), his security clearance wasn’t actually lost until September 29, 1948, the decision
being reversed on March 7, 1949. Parsons claimed in a letter to Germer dated June 19,
1949, that one of the reasons for his suspension—which is confirmed therein as occurring
in September 1948—was because of his circulation of Crowley’s Liber Oz, but this isn’t
actually mentioned in the fbi file. Some time after the loss of his clearance, Cameron
left him and the separation, which was temporary, involved the estrangement of most
of his friends, this too he notes in the aforementioned letter to Germer. The fbi file
describes Jack’s home as “a gathering place of perverts” and notes that this was “fairly
common knowledge among scientists in the Pasadena area”. And it seems the oto and
“Church of Thelma [sic]” received its orders from “Sir Allister [sic] Crowley” in London,
England. The Book of the Law, according to the fbi, “tears down everything democracy
stands for”.
After his loss of fortune, reputation, and livelihood, Babalon called on Parsons again
in a dream and he learnt it was time to embark upon the “Black Pilgrimage” spoken of
in Liber 49. He swore the Oath of the Abyss, “having only the choice between madness,
suicide, and that oath”, a good indication that he had arrived at the edge of the Abyss if
nothing else. As a result, he realised he was the Antichrist.
In his 1949 Manifesto of the Antichrist Parsons writes that in seven years Babalon will
manifest in the world (he also says that in nine years a nation shall accept the Law of
the Beast 666 in his name). Again, one presumes that he expected either the birth of a
child or an actual woman who was Babalon completely and utterly—notwithstanding
that a woman is when the spirit of Babalon comes upon her—and that he expected Her
as some Christian Fundamentalists expect the Apocalypse and cannot reconcile that a
far more subtle but nonetheless powerful change that fulfils this description may have
already been and gone, for those with greater awareness. (There’s even a word for it, a
“preterist”, one who holds the prophecies of the Apocalypse already fulfilled.) In this,
maybe it’s to be expected that Parsons sought an incarnate Babalon, an avatar, if Crowley
was The Beast 666 and he himself The Antichrist (Nietzsche had already fulfilled this
role with a more eloquent denunciation of Christianity than Parsons’ own 2 page tirade
against such timeless iniquities as “lying priests, conniving judges, blackmailing police”
and mention of his scary invocation of Satan at the age of 13). Yet despite the insanity
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