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Age of Horus, and that domination by this force leads to war and catastrophe, which he
puts down to our lack of understanding of our own natures and “the hidden lusts, fears,
and hatreds resulting from the warping of the love urge”, he goes on to encapsulate a
clear aim that was perhaps lost in the later psychosis of believing himself to be the
Antichrist:
This impasse is broken by the incarnation of another sort of force, called babalon. The
nature of this force relates to love, understanding, and Dionysian freedom, and is the
necessary counterbalance or correspondence to the manifestation of Horus.
It is indicated that this force is actually incarnate in some living woman, as the result
of the described magical operation. A more basic matter, however, is the indication that
this force is incarnate in all men and women, and needs only to be invoked to free the
spirit from the debris of the old aeon, and to direct the blind force of Horus into
constructive channels of understanding and love. The methods of this invocation are
described in the text.
So, while he certainly did expect a living woman, singular, to fulfil his plan, he went
much further than even most today by recognising also that this force—Babalon—is
incarnate in all men as well as all women. We cannot escape, however, the primary
conclusion that he did expect a living avatar of Babalon to result as a consequence of his
magical operation. Why this should be important is never addressed. To my mind it
typifies the very old aeon thinking that he wished to transcend, to load all responsibility
for transforming the world upon the shoulders of a lone female, in much the same way
as thinking of Crowley as “The Beast 666” is the old aeon thinking that the 156 current
is leaving in its wake. We’ve done all that stuff before, the Saviour trip, it’s boring. Just as
Jesus Christ had the delusion that he was the Messiah—as was pointed out to him so
well by Satan in Scorsese’s 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ and in Nikos
Kazantzakis’s 1955 novel (which is used as a fresh parable in some seminaries)—Jack
Parsons seems to have sank back into the old aeon he had initially seen through. I’m
not saying he wasn’t the Antichrist, by the way, or Crowley not the Beast, or even
Christ not the Messiah, simply that this is all such identifications amount to. I’m with
Satan on that one.
It is surprising that after all this time the hushed whispers and half light of old aeon
thinking still remain, after all “The Law” was both “Written and Concealed” and
anything not obvious is timorously suspected to be a deep occult secret (as opposed to
mere rubbish) and people even today don’t dare to speak of it, lest their lack of initiation
be laid bare for all to see. This is the folly of the occult and occultists. People change,
had Parsons lived what might he have made of his Babalon Working in a decade, two
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