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The Babalon Working 1946:

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L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic

Henrik Bogdan

Leiden

Brill

In the spring of 1946 L. Ron Hubbard and John W. Parsons performed a series of magical rituals with the aim of incarnating the Thelemic goddess Babalon in a human being. Hubbard's cooperation with Parsons, known as the Babalon Working, remains one of the most controversial events in Hubbard's pre-Scientology days. This article sets out to describe the content of the magical rituals, as well as their purpose. It is argued that in order to fully understand these events, it is necessary to approach the Babalon Working from the study of Western esotericism in general, and the study of Enochian magic in particular. In the spring of 1946 L. Ron Hubbard and John W. Parsons performed a series of magical rituals with the aim of incarnating the Thelemic goddess Babalon in a human being. Hubbard's cooperation with Parsons, known as the Babalon Working, remains one of the most controversial events in Hubbard's pre-Scientology days. This article sets out to describe the content of the magical rituals, as well as their purpose. It is argued that in order to fully understand these events, it is necessary to approach the Babalon Working from the study of Western esotericism in general, and the study of Enochian magic in particular.

2016

12-32

Numen

63/1

1568-5276

Aleister Crowley

Church of Scientology

Enochian magic

John W. Parsons

L. Ron Hubbard

magic

Ordo Templi Orientis

Scientology

Thelema

Western esotericism

Henrik Bogdan

10.1163/15685276-12341406

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[Article]

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