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| Atu XI, Lust, Thoth Tarot |
The goddess Babalon is, according to the Gnostic Creed, the mother of all men. Yet, the goddess Babalon is, by her own admission, a prostitute. Each of us is therefore, consequently, both a god and an SOB. – Sir Shumule
Women, machines of immodesty, are born for immodesty, and those who refuse it are made only to languish in contempt. – Marquis de Sade (quoted by Sir Shumule in commentary on AL 3, 55: < let all chaste women be utterly despised among you >)
Dear friends, beautiful and happy people,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
It is the 11th day of the Thelemic Holy Season, during which we traditionally meditate on the Qabalistic Mystery of the Path of Teth, that is, the XIth Tarot card, attributed to the zodiac sign of Leo and called “Lust.”
I recall, on this subject, that one of my female readers — an unrepentant fashionista type, yet passionate about literature — once asked me: "Sir, you write fabulously well – where did you get that style?"
I replied: "It was long ago, dear friend… I must have been four years old… The governess who taught me to write had an enormous bosom. Every time I traced my letters correctly, she praised me effusively, tenderly pressing me against her. My young mind made the connection: If I write well, I get to touch big boobs. There you have it."
Oh! Seven times blessed, terrifying, and sublime feminine energy! That of Atu XI, that of Babalon!
In truth, this goddess — whom the Heathen call "Nature," hoping to turn her into Something instead of Someone so they can tame her — the goddess Babalon, I say, reigns supreme over the things of this world.
Only that which amuses, serves, or delights the Scarlet Woman succeeds here below — and that which amuses, serves, or delights the Scarlet Woman unfailingly succeeds.
[Would you like a bit of Holy Qabalah? I recently realized that the word Lust, the title of Atu XI of the Tarot, on which Babalon is depicted, is said in Hebrew as אתרוג (etrog), with a numerical value of 610, which is the same as the English word There, recurring in the Book of the Law — And it is written < There is success > (AL 3, 69), which we can thus read as: "Atu XI = success"!]
Each of your failures, dear Friends, has come from your ignorance of the planet in the hands of an arch-maximalist version of Kim Kardashian, appointed Global Dictatrix — commanding, on the magical plane, all the forces of Matter — invested, on the political plane, with full autocratic powers over all the Nations of the world — freely disposing, as an individual, of all the wealth circulating on Earth — perpetually drunk, perpetually lustful, perpetually in PMS — and assured, as far as her person is concerned, of absolute impunity…
Now, everything becomes clear! — and the tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands of innocent people is much more amusing when viewed from this angle :)
Babalon preaches the freedom of passions — She knows no taboos, and even less so crimes…
Question: But what becomes of Morality, Goodness, and Democratic Values with a goddess like that?!?
Answer: Morality, Goodness, and Democratic Values are for the people — And we, Thelemites, are against the people (AL 2, 25) — Babalon, for her part, is a courtesan: she calls Pimps, Gigolos, and Johns what we name Initiates, Heroes, and ordinary People (or, in Thelemic terms: Hermits, Lovers, and Men of Earth (cf. AL 1, 40)) — meaning she is of an extreme, outrageous, obscene elitism — downright pornographic, even (the Heathen clumsily tried to grasp this Mystery by creating the concept of "natural selection").
Moreover, being (thus) a courtesan — and by courtesan, I mean: high-flying hetaera — Babalon is necessarily young, hot, and cunning (if the Divine Marquis had made the heroine of Juliette, specifically Babalonian, an old, ugly, stupid, and repulsive woman, the work would hold no interest whatsoever) — she is a concentrate of privileges.
I tried, during my appearance before the Riom Court of Appeal, to explain this by quoting Machiavelli: "It is better to be impetuous than circumspect, for nature is a woman who can only be overcome by tormenting her."
– "So," asked President Vignon, "you admit to tormenting women?"
– "Not at all," I replied, "I only torment those I wish to overcome: the beautiful, the charming, the interesting — I swear to you that the ugly, unpleasant, and boring ones have nothing to fear from me!"
He told me I should "be ashamed" (sic).
The goddess Babalon, our Mother to all — or, more precisely, our MILF to all — teaches in essence: We are on Earth to enjoy life — everything else is either trying to sell you something or the attempt of a diseased organism to contaminate healthy ones.
Meditating on this, go forth, dear friends, under the protection of that spiritual sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere, which we call GOD.
Warm kisses from the Bahamas,
Love is the law, love under will.
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| Goddess Babalon |
—☉︎ in 9° ♈︎ : ☽︎ in 23° ♈︎ : ☉︎ : Ⅴⅹⅰ.
