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Sacred Whores in Ancient times were known as the Holy Virgins of Goddesses. The famous Vestal Virgins were thought to have practiced secret sexual and magical rites in honor of the Roman Goddess Vesta, the same as the Greek goddess Hestia -- Goddess of the Hearth, or "center of the world."
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The titale of "Virgin" did not mean possessing an intact hymen. A virgin was simply an unmarried woman, a woman who belonged to no one man. Think of Athena, the maiden goddess who jumped off a cliff to avoid being forced into marriage. There is a similar story in the Hebraic tradition where Lilith exiled herself from paradise in exchange for her own sovereignty.
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Holy Whores were not man-haters. Their role was to carry the grace of the God/Goddess through sexual worship by sharing their bodies & energies with those seeking and with each other.
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Priestesses devoted their lives and their bodies to the Goddess. Spending time as a Holy Whore Blessed the Maiden. The profession also became a refuge for women who wished to keep claim of themselves and their rights.
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The idea that a man needed a woman in order to attain Enlightenment & Wisdom, or to "give birth" to the potential God/Goddess within Self. There is The Scarlet Woman, The Mage has his whore, and Jesus has Mary Magdalene. In fact, Magdalene means "she of the the temple-tower."
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The patriarchal entity is a tyrant who feeds on control, or "power over." The Holy Whore is a manifestation of "power with, power shared, and power for All."
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The titale of "Virgin" did not mean possessing an intact hymen. A virgin was simply an unmarried woman, a woman who belonged to no one man. Think of Athena, the maiden goddess who jumped off a cliff to avoid being forced into marriage. There is a similar story in the Hebraic tradition where Lilith exiled herself from paradise in exchange for her own sovereignty.
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Holy Whores were not man-haters. Their role was to carry the grace of the God/Goddess through sexual worship by sharing their bodies & energies with those seeking and with each other.
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Priestesses devoted their lives and their bodies to the Goddess. Spending time as a Holy Whore Blessed the Maiden. The profession also became a refuge for women who wished to keep claim of themselves and their rights.
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The idea that a man needed a woman in order to attain Enlightenment & Wisdom, or to "give birth" to the potential God/Goddess within Self. There is The Scarlet Woman, The Mage has his whore, and Jesus has Mary Magdalene. In fact, Magdalene means "she of the the temple-tower."
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The patriarchal entity is a tyrant who feeds on control, or "power over." The Holy Whore is a manifestation of "power with, power shared, and power for All."
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Babalon & The Scarlet Woman
There are many myths, perceptions and views on Babalon/Babylon & The Scarlet Woman. Like any other belief, it's all in the Eye of the beholder. To me, Babalon/The Scarlet Woman...are One in the same. Babalon/The Scarlet Woman, represent the Temple Within Our Hearts...The worship of the Divine Feminine and Her Wisdoms unfolding as The Unity and Dance begin. Babalon, The Whore....She with many names.
The Scarlet Woman Whom "Rides The Beast"....brings chaos and sexuality and all that represents "sin & evil doing"! That is just one of the misconceptions of The Scarlet Woman. Stepping outside the box here, out of the 3D and taking a look at this from a Higher Perspective...The Scarlet Woman, The Goddess in Her many forms, The Divine Female, The Great Mother, Mother Earth. She takes us through the Labrynth of Self, walking us through our shadows, egos and desires. She ignites our "Inner Fire" and enables us to "FEEL" with every fibre of our Being. This...is the "sin & evil". She leads us to re-memberance of All We Once Were...and All We Still Are...Enabling Us to OurSelf Be One with Divinity. She teaches Us how to "Make Love"...with Self, in turn with All That Is....Sacred Sex...Immaculate Conception of Self...Leading Us to The Birth of All That Is WithIn...to Self...ONESELF.
Through communion with the Scarlet Woman and The Beast with which She rides upon....The Beast of The Kundalini....The Beast of the Sacred Flame....The Beast of Ones Inner Shadows...We Become. We can UNITE with that with which We have been denied....OURSELF...Our DIVINE SELF.
Written by: *Sacryfice*
6-2007
"Axis, earthmen, is not one idea, or even one place... it is a thousand million ideas and places... it is an apocalyptic magnet... a dazzling jewel that none can possess... a brilliant candle consuming wandering butterflies... a fantastic spider's web strewn with the remains of a billion dreams...
... but perhaps most of all, Axis is the eternal erotic chimera, an extraordinary creature possessed of an unnatural, terrifying beauty, which is more than the eye of man can withstand, a terrifying beauty which violently destroys all that surrounds it while concealing deep within… a heart of... fathomless... mysterious silence...
... the erotic chimera, she who is a living embodiment of the sublime paradox, which is a complete mystery not only to the world... but to itself, also... "
- So Beautiful And So Dangerous, Angus McKie
Babalon Throughout
As with any Spiritual subject, there are many beliefs, stories & myths surrounding Babalon and One must listen "WithIn Self" to find what resonates with you. One needs to look beyond the written word, look beyond the physical realm and look into Ones Own Heart to find Your Own Truth. I am going to put on this page some of what I have found written on the subject...Both Sides. Take what resonates WithIn Self...and Leave the Rest.
**From Wilkipedia:**
Babalon—also known as The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, or the Mother of Abominations—is a goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. In her most abstract form, she represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman; although she can also be identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. At the same time, Crowley believed that Babalon had an earthly aspect in the form of a spiritual office, which could be filled by actual women—usually as a counterpart to his own identification as To Mega Therion (The Great Beast)—whose duty was then to help manifest the energies of the current Aeon of Horus.
Her consort is Chaos, the "Father of Life" and the male form of the Creative Principle. Babalon is often described as being girt with a sword and riding the Beast, with whom Crowley personally identified. She is often referred to as a sacred whore, and her primary symbol is the Chalice or Graal. As Crowley wrote, “She rides astride the Beast; in her left hand she holds the reins, representing the passion which unites them. In her right she holds aloft the cup, the Holy Grail aflame with love and death. In this cup are mingled the elements of the sacrament of the Aeon” (Crowley 1981, p. 94).
Babalon in Various Cultures
Greek
The Greek name Babylon is derived from the Semitic Bab-El (or AL) meaning "Gate of God", specifically that of On, which was a city of the Sun God. It appears in the Bible as the Tower of Babel, and opens up a whole complex of symbols: of the holy city at the center of the world, or in The Vision & The Voice as the city of the pyramids which links Babalon to the sphere of Binah the Great Mother; of the Gate as a metaphor for the yoni, and the chalice, cauldron, grail or womb which contains the Solar force of the Sacred Child; and of the wild Goddess who rides upon the Beast, an archetypical form found in countless mythologies.
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Middle East
In the Middle East we have various Deities of Passion, magick and war often linked to Lions, such as Astarte, Qatesh, Anath, Lilith, Inanna and Ishtar; and the whole interlocked complex of Egyptian Goddesses whose aspects ceaselessly flow into one another: Sekhmet and Isis and Maat, Hathor and Tefnut and Bast, all may share a Leonine form.
The Goddess & Divine Feminine Figures
The goddess is often seen as the giver of sovereignty to the king, the physical manifestation of the realm or city he rules. In early times it was the rite of sacred marriage repeated at yearly intervals in the Holy Temple that empowered or legitimated all rulership. Later the rites of "Sacred Prostitution" gave every man the chance of communion with the Goddess through the Priestesses who represented Her. On a very deep level many once realized that it was the female force, whether seen as woman or deity, who gave life and dealt death to all. She was fate, power, wisdom, beauty, and magick, and to link with Her was to know the Divine.
It has proven impossible to remove the influence of the Lady, The Mother, The Divine Feminine. Even in orthodox Christianity the cult of the Virgin Mary constantly resurfaced, and in the heretic sects of the Gnostics we find Her even more clearly. There Sophia, or Wisdom, is the female face of God, exiled and defiled, fallen from grace, but ultimately inseparable from the primordial glory. Another of her divine names is Barbelo, clearly cognate to Babalon; and the Hebrew concept of the Shekinah is yet another.
In Tantra it is often proclaimed that: "Shiva without Shakti is a corpse". The classical magician Simon Magus apparently believed that his consort Helen was in fact Sophia, the Gnostic personification of the female side of God, separated by the act of the original creation of the world, cast down through the spheres of the tree of life represented by the archons, lost to forgetfulness, incarnate through myriad forms, until the final time of reuniting. Many mages throughout history have sought partnership with women of power who could initiate them into the mysteries; in Tibetan Buddhism the Dakinis or 'wisdom-holders' have the power to transfigure the devotee, and in Hindu Tantra the Suvasini or 'sweet-smelling woman' bestows union with the Goddess herself. This powerful female role of the enchantress or seductress is an ancient archetype, descended from primordial wise women and shamans; consider Medea, Circe or Calypso in Homer's Odyssey.
It has proven impossible to remove the influence of the Lady, The Mother, The Divine Feminine. Even in orthodox Christianity the cult of the Virgin Mary constantly resurfaced, and in the heretic sects of the Gnostics we find Her even more clearly. There Sophia, or Wisdom, is the female face of God, exiled and defiled, fallen from grace, but ultimately inseparable from the primordial glory. Another of her divine names is Barbelo, clearly cognate to Babalon; and the Hebrew concept of the Shekinah is yet another.
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In Tantra it is often proclaimed that: "Shiva without Shakti is a corpse". The classical magician Simon Magus apparently believed that his consort Helen was in fact Sophia, the Gnostic personification of the female side of God, separated by the act of the original creation of the world, cast down through the spheres of the tree of life represented by the archons, lost to forgetfulness, incarnate through myriad forms, until the final time of reuniting. Many mages throughout history have sought partnership with women of power who could initiate them into the mysteries; in Tibetan Buddhism the Dakinis or 'wisdom-holders' have the power to transfigure the devotee, and in Hindu Tantra the Suvasini or 'sweet-smelling woman' bestows union with the Goddess herself. This powerful female role of the enchantress or seductress is an ancient archetype, descended from primordial wise women and shamans; consider Medea, Circe or Calypso in Homer's Odyssey.
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