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Thanks Abrac. I missed seeing that.
According to the book, Babalon is a Thelemic goddes of The Great Mother, or Mother of Abominations, who is also known as the Scarlet Woman. How could a goddes be also the world?
When you say, "Emanating from Kether," who emanates it? Itself? God? The Magus? Or the magician?
The three "deities" of the The Book of Law are the main figures that appear on the Stele of Revealing; they express the abstract dynamics of the universe. They are Nuit (sometimes spelled "Nu" or "Nuith"), the goddess of infinite space, the personification of an infinitely expanded universe; Hadit (sometimes spelled "Had" or "Hadith"), the god at the heart of Nuit, the personification of an infinitely contracted point; and their child, Ra-Hoor-Khuit(sometimes spelled "Ra-Hoor-Khu-it," Ra-Hoor-Khu," "Ra Hoor Khut," Ra-Hoor-Khut"), who, on the Stele, is the hawk-headed god enthroned behind an altar of oferrings.
These three deities are, in a very real way, the personification of the key elements of projective geometry: Nuit the periphery, Hadit the center, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit the transcendent "being" that is created when it is recognized that the periphery and center simultaneously occupy the same position. As Nuit is infinite out-ness, and Hadit is infinite in-ness[/i], they are both equally every and locked in infinite embrace. This is lovemaking on a cosmic scale, and Ra-Hoor-Khuit is the product of this union.
BABALON, as the Great Mother, represents MATTER, a word which is derived from the Latin word for Mother. She is the physical mother of each of us, the one who provided us with material flesh to clothe our naked spirits; She is the Archetypal Mother, the Great Yoni, the Womb of all that lives through the flowing of Blood; She is the Great Sea, the Divine Blood itself which cloaks the World and which courses through our veins; and She is Mother Earth, the Womb of All Life that we know.
The outer ring of the seal says: Sigilum Sanctum Fraternitatis A. A. [Holy Seal of the Brotherhood of the A. A.] I posted a picture of it before, here it is again.
Babalon Sigil
... How could a goddes be also the world?
Again, it is not a 'Babalon sigil' ... again , it says on it what it is .
One person mentions some idea about 'Crowley channelling Babalon' and now its taken off.... now several people are saying it .... and still calling the seal of the AA a Babalon sigil... even posting pics of it and calling it that, even though it says on the seal what it is .
The sacred seal of the brotherhood of the AA
Maybe the channeling of Babylon for the Magus is already done here. Like the Fool who appears to be an adept jumping over the abyss, this Magus could represent a Master of the Temple who has now crossed the abyss. He/she having drained their blood in the cup of Babalon or I think sacrificed their ego for the service of humanity.
I can't remember where I saw it, there was also a reference to not being able to cross the abyss with out realising the maternal feminine aspect in yourself.
From Lon Milo DuQuette's Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot:
From Thelemapdia:
In my opinion the seal in the back of the Magus's head represents the Thelemic version of the Waite infinity symbol because in a way it means the same thing. Babalon represents all that there is, a personification in herself of Nuit who is all that there is and isn't. On the Tree of Life the Magus is the path pf Beit, which emanates from Keter, the Crown, itself a symbol of Hadit the infinitely contracted point.
Try looking up 'anima mundi' - and animism generally .