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that within us which remains open to taking in indiscriminately, and being filled by,
anything and everything that comes in the course of life. We happily spread our legs for
every experience that wants to have its way with us!
Who said we were in service to Tetragrammaton? We may be, or may not be. If
ihvh is your image for the Most High, then that which you are calling by that Name I
would call by another. Regardless—you profess to be trying to understand where others
are coming from. The ancient Gnostic view of ihvh is as the brat upstart demiurge
who reaches no farther up the Tree than Chesed (He is of the number 4)—that is, falls
below the Abyss, outside the Supernal realm, as a mental-moral construct. If this is the
ihvh you mean, then Babalon is a higher idea. If you mean the early Kabbalistic
references to ihvh as the Divine Name of Tiphareth, then Babalon, as Lady of Binah,
is the higher idea.
Purity? Yes, absolutely, though we would probably differ on what the word means.
(It certainly doesn’t mean prudish, for example. All sexuality is sacred.) In service to
passiveness? I’m sure we differ more here than in anything else you said! Receptive, yes.
Taking all comers, yes. Passive? No. (Except as a delicious counterpoint to Active.)
Control? Discipline is an essential part of the Great Work, just as it is to great sex. Also,
surrender is essential to both. (Even at the gutter level, if you think a typical whore is
without control, you should go out and meet a few more, because you’ve got the wrong
idea, babe.)
As for oral transmission, some of it can only be translated orally. As for whether
Babalon and Baphomet are “left hand path”, some people who identify themselves as
lhp embrace these deities as falling in that category. But the deities themselves are not
so narrow. Any Supernal idea stands outside dualistic labels of this kind from below the
Abyss. When you say that you “don’t find much light and wisdom in Baphomet”, you
are, perhaps, unaware that “Baphomet” was a Kabbalistic code word that a group of
Christian military monks coined to veil the Gnostic idea of Sophia—one of the most
sublime and holy ideas ever to infuse Western civilization’s spirituality.
Respectfully, I submit that you cannot think of the brilliance of Kether. Respectfully,
I suggest that your highest idea of Kether is no more than a reflection of Tiphareth and
might, in fact, really be only a reflection of that in Yesod. This is not intended as a putdown
of any kind. Kether is beyond thought.
The hosts of archangels of which you speak are a lesser domain of spiritual being
than Babalon. She is the Supernal Queen to whom they turn in adoration.
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