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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org From: Josh NortonSubject: Re: babalon/babylon Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:50:00 -0500 At 03:27 PM 1/22/97 +0900, Bill Stender wrote: >I'm interested in hearing the various reasons behind the spelling change >Crowley made to Babylon. I'm aware that the new value of 156 ties Her to >Nuit. > >What other connections or distinctions are facilitated by this spelling? > "babalon" is an Enochian word meaning "wicked", or in the variation "a-babalond" means "harlot". The latter version is used in the Call of the Aethyrs, where it is the last line of the "curse of creation" which makes up most of the Call: "One while let her be known and another while a stranger; For she is the bed of a harlot and the dwelling place of him that is fallen." ("She" in these lines refers to the Earth.) It is uncertain whether there is any real connection between "babalon" and "Babylon", but the association makes a demented sort of sense when you think of the "Whore of Babylon", a Puritan epithet for the Catholic Church, which connects in turn with the Scarlet Woman of Revelations. 156 is also the number of squares in an Enochian "Elemental Tablet", 12 times 13. Josh ------------------------ Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. -- John Lennon Josh Norton (aka Benjamin Rowe) -- browe@ctd.com Magick code: MEN/AS QO++++ 666* S G Y W C N+++ POT ----- End of forwarded message from Josh Norton -----
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