kaos

there occurs the word bábâlond, which is glossed as “Harlot”, the phrase reading Baglen
pii tianta abábâlond od faórgt telocvovim (BAGLEN PII TIANTA ABABALOND
OD FAORGT TELECVOVIM): “Bycause she is the bed of an Harlot, and the
dwelling place of him that is faln.”
Certainly The Vision and the Voice played a great part in the original inspiration for
our kaos-babalon working, and it was interesting to re-read parts of it. Anyway, here’s
some notes I made as I studied your email, not as full as I’d like but I’d be interested in
your thoughts on Lilith.
The Vision and the Voice, incidentally, also appears online at: http://www.sacredtexts.com/oto/418/418.htm.
Though this has chapter by chapter as separate webpages,
making it more difficult to search in its entirety, they’re better laid out for reading, and
it has hyperlinked footnotes (the note numbers below are as they appear in this online
edition). But you can’t beat a book for straightforward reading, and the 1998 Weiser
edition is rather good, with some notes and illustrations that have not appeared in print
before. Previously I had read it in Regardie’s Gems from the Equinox, which omits most
of the notes.
In the note on Æthyr 24—“Now appears his mate, the heavenly Venus, the Scarlet
Woman, who by men is thought of as Babalon as he is thought of as Chaos.”—now
who does “his” refer to, the “King of the New Aeon”, Horus?
Mentioned in the 2 nd Æthyr: “And this is the Mystery of the incest of chaos with
his daughter.” Not sure what this refers to.
Any thoughts on the relationship between Babalon and Lilith? Lilith is mentioned
in the 3 rd Æthyr. When we were doing the kaos-babalon working the idea that Babalon
and Lilith are sisters came up a lot, but I don’t recall ever reading that anywhere and I’m
not sure whether I fully understood that at the time (not intellectually I mean,
experientially I resonated with it). Note 23 on the 3 rd Æthyr says: “Lilith is truly Babalon,
as imagined by this energy of Mayan.” (Presumably here Crowley is referring to maya,
the Sanskrit word for “illusion”. In notes on the 2 nd Æthyr he refers to “Mayan the
Great Sorcerer” and “Mayan, the logos who created the Universe of Illusion”.) Note 26
says: “This is the Sigil of Binah in one of Her forms. It instantly destroys the illusion of
Lilith, who now appears in her true shape as an avatar; a corporeal imagine [sic] of
babalon, recalling the maiden of the 9 th Æthyr.” The Sigil of Binah mentioned is a
black shining triangle, apex upwards, that came upon the face of the sun. (I have had
something similar—a black triangle, apex upwards, with three orange sun-like disks
near each of the corners—on my altar since Sept 27, 1996, but it was nothing to do
with reading this Æthyr). In note 31, interestingly enough, Crowley says: “The mystery
of chaos is beyond the comprehension of any but Masters of the Temple.” [In the
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