Babalon the Mother – notes to accompany presentation

Notes to accompany my presentation at NOTOCON Saturday Aug. 3 at 9:00 am CT.

Ecstatic Ritual, Practical Sex Magic

Reference: Ecstatic Ritual, Practical Sex Magick
I have copies at NOTOCON and Sacred Harvest Festival while supplies last!

Many Faces of Babalon

Image: Babalon Mother of Abominations at Altar of Gaming (is this original with them?)

Image: Lola rides the Horizon Lodge float at Gay Pride 2019

Image: You can order a copy of Limbic Splitter’s art

Reference: Georgia van Raalte, Babalon as modern goddess

Babylon the Whore

Image: William Blake, Whore of Babylon

Reference: Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John

Babalon

Image: Lady Freida Harris, Lust, Thoth Tarot

Woman Clothed with the Sun

Image: Alice Pike Barney, Woman Clothed with the Sun

Image: Herbert Sim, The Woman, the Child, and the Dragon

The Earth Helped the Woman

Image: The earth helped the woman

Image: Sita sings the blues

The Fall of Babylon

Image: Babylon devoured by the beast: the domain “pictures4bibles.com” is for sale so I am unable to trace the image.

Reference: Caroline Vander Stichele, “Re-membering the Whore: The Fate of Babylon According to Revelation 17.16”, in A Feminist Companion to the Apocalypse of John, Amy-Jill Levine, Maria Mayo Robbins editors, T&T Clark International, 2009

The Mother Helps the Daughter

Goddess helps daughter, woman helps woman.

Image: Demeter and Persephone

Image: A screen shot of Sita from a Ramayana ebook

Magical Reproduction

Image: Pamela, Matthews, Black Madonna. The original is more blue than red

Image: Star Garnet

Tantra and Thelema

Reference: Djudjevic, Gordan. “The Great Beast as a Tantric Hero, The Role of Yoga and Tantra in Aleister Crowley’s Magick”. In Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, Edited and Introduced by Henrik Bordan and Martin P. Starr, Oxford University Press, 2012

Image: Kundalini

Shiva Ardhanarishwar Parvati

Image: Shiva and Nandi

Image: Ardhanarishvara

Image: Parvati with lion

Shakta Tantra

Image: Yoni Mudra

Image: Blue Goddess

Durga – Jai Ma

Image: Durga on lion

Image: Mahishasura Mardini (Durga slays Mahishasur)

Tantric Practices

Image: Shakta Tantra, beginning a Tantric practice

Nuit Practice

Image: Desert: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Image: Snake

Babalon Practice

Image: Waterhouse, The Magic Circle

Birthing the New Aeon

Image: Isis Lactans

Image: Demeter and Persephone statue

Temple Guardians

Image: Ganesh Vinayaka

Image: Temple Guard Training Program

Babalon the Warrior

Reference: Babalon the Warrior, Brandy Williams

Ra Hoor Khuit Armor

Image: Horus and Pharaoh