The Key of the Abyss : Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working and

The Key of the Abyss : Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working and the Witchcraft Decoded

The Magick of today is the religion of tomorrow.

Probably the most important spiritual movement of the last century has been the return of the Goddess to the consciousness of the Western World. At the forefront of that movement has been neo-pagan witchcraft, or Wicca, and it has grown steadily since Gerald Gardner went public in the 1950s. Wicca, however, grew out of the magical lodges of the 19th and early 20th centuries and while historians like Ronald Hutton have shown that Wicca probably wasn't a survival from the Middle Ages, it didn't spring fully formed from the brow of Zeus either.

Among the cast of characters that Gardner associated with while he was developing his ideas for his witchcraft â€œrevivalâ€ were Aleister Crowley, a young Kenneth Grant and the head of the legendary Agape Lodge OTO, Jack Parsons. Parsons was devoted to several ideals; personal attainment by completing the "Great Work" culmination in the crossing of the Abyss, Crowleyâ€™s Thelema and to what he saw as the revival of â€œthe Old Religionâ€, witchcraft. Jack was writing about witchcraft, with a Goddess as its primary deity no less, years before Gardner published High Magicâ€™s Aide, a novel that was his first public annunciation of the ideas that would become Gardnerian Wicca.

The idea of magickal currents is integral to Kenneth Grantâ€™s work. These currents, such as the Typhonian seem to bestow initiations of their own and indeed can manifest unbidden in the course of a magickal working or as in Gravesâ€™ case, as creative inspiration. However we may judge Parsons, there can be little doubt that the Witchcraft movement was something larger than simply an idea whose time had come. I believe it is the manifestation of a current that we have only just begun to explore.
Country USA
Author Anthony Testa
Binding Kindle Edition
Edition 2
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 318
PublicationDate 2013-09-20
ReleaseDate 2013-09-20

Country	USA
Author	Anthony Testa
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	318
PublicationDate	2013-09-20
ReleaseDate	2013-09-20

The Key of the Abyss : Jack Parsons, the Babalon Working and the Witchcraft Decoded

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