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Babalon is a Goddess of Ecstatic Liberation. Each Aeon is ruled by a different aspect of divinity, and these divinities have avatars or manifestations which interact with humanity on the Earthly Plane. The Great Goddess of this Aeon is enthroned in the image of the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, who is the cosmic embodiment of all of existence in its totality. She is often envisioned as a nude female figure bending across the sky, dark blue and full of stars. She is the Mother of All Things.
Her Avatar in Space and Time is the Liberating Warrior Goddess Babalon. Babalon can appear ferocious and terrible to Her enemies, or seductive and sensual to Her servants. It is Her power of Love, as Attraction and Desire, which leads Her aspirants to enlightenment through experiential and magical sensuality and awareness. She abhors restriction and inspires her followers to be courageous and unique, especially in the face of tyranny and dogmatism. As the Manifestation of the Goddess in this Aeon, she has come to strike a balance between the male and female energies. She does not do this passively. She is Girt with a Sword and will be at the head of Her armies, women and men together, fighting for true equality of the Female, and all people, as autonomous individuals. This equality is not one where the woman imitates man, and tries to become like him, competing with him for dominance. Woman is not “Man in veiled form”, as Crowley greatly misunderstands it. Rather, Woman has her own unique place, much different from that of a man, but coequal in ability to fight, rule, desire, and accomplish. This is the way of Babalon. "Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me." AL I:22 |
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