Article: The Formula of the Cup of Babalon
Of the Thoth tarot trump, The Chariot, Aleister Crowley writes: “The central and most important feature of the card is its centre–The Holy Grail.”1 So important is this Cup that Crowley’s Charioteer is charged with only one task: “His only function is to bear the Holy Grail.”2 We know from Crowley’s Magick in Theory and […]
Book: Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
Grant, K. (1973). Aleister Crowley & The Hidden God (1992 ed., p.21). London: Skoob Books Publishing Ltd. The name Babalon is numerically equivalent to 156, whereas the corrupt, apocalyptic form, Babylon, totals 165—a number of no particular qabalistic significance. One-five-six, on the other hand, conceals many ideas relating to the function of the Scarlet Woman. […]
Ideal Org symbolism
Cf. the wheel and snakes at the top of Key 11 Lust with Miscavige’s Ideal Org symbolism that expresses Scientology’s strategy for a “new civilization.” From Aleister Crowley’s The Book of Thoth: At the top of the card is shown an emblem of the new light, with ten horns of the Beast, which are serpents, […]
Aleister Crowley & The Hidden God
Source: Aleister Crowley & The Hidden God by Kenneth Grant THIS BOOK contains a critical study of Aleister Crowley’s system of sexual magick and its affmities with the ancient Tantric rites of Kali, the dark goddess of blood and dissolution represented in Crowley’s Cult as the Scarlet Woman. It is an attempt to supply a […]