The Babalon Working 1946:

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" The Babalon Working 1946: "
Henrik Bogdan

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079200
Doc. No	:	LA122829
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341406‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Henrik Bogdan
Title & Author	:	The Babalon Working 1946: [Article] : L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic\ Henrik Bogdan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	63/1
Page No	:	12–32
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Aleister Crowley
Descriptor	:	Church of Scientology
Descriptor	:	Enochian magic
Descriptor	:	John W. Parsons
Descriptor	:	L. Ron Hubbard
Descriptor	:	magic
Descriptor	:	Ordo Templi Orientis
Descriptor	:	Scientology
Descriptor	:	Thelema
Descriptor	:	Western esotericism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341406‬