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The Red Goddess takes you through a tale of sex, drugs and violence. This is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of Babalon. This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. From Revelations, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magick and the transcendent power of Love. The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, and onward to Apocalypse. It confronts us with the language and symbols of our own culture and the denied demonic feminine. It looks at the Angelic work of Renaissance mage John Dee and places it in a European eschatology. It delivers a devastating exegesis on the excesses of Aleister Crowley, and unlocks the secrets of Waratah Blossoms. It explains the immolation of the Californian antichrist-superstar Jack Parsons and his relationship with scientology founder L.Ron Hubbard. There is also a full supporting cast of Solomon, Simon Magus, St John the Divine, Earl Bothwell, the Templars, Mary, the Magdalene and countless others. This is the missing history of the Love Goddess in the West. Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects roses, mirror magick, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love vs lust, and the meaning of apocalypse. The Red Goddess is for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience. It is a love story, and a dangerous one at that.

234 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

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Peter Grey

55 books108 followers
Peter Grey is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint with Alkistis Dimech. He is a devotee of Babalon and the author of The Red Goddess, which has become the standard work on the Goddess of Revelation. A deliberately provocative telling of her story, this has become essential reading for many.
 His controversial Apocalyptic Witchcraft has been called the most important modern book on Witchcraft, placing it in the context of the Sabbat and in a landscape suffering climate and ecological collapse. It stands in the tradition of the work done by Peter Redgrove, Ted Hughes and Robert Graves. His latest work is Lucifer: Princeps, a study of the origins of the figure of Lucifer. Further essays can be found in Howlings, Devoted, At the Crossroads and XVI. His work has also appeared in numerous small journals and collections, such as The Fenris Wolf, as well as online, though most of his work is now published through Scarlet Imprint.
 Peter Grey has spoken at public events and conferences in England, Scotland, Norway and the United States as well as closed gatherings. These have included Occulture, the Occult Conference in Glastonbury, Treadwell’s Bookshop, the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, Here to Go in Norway, and many Pagan Federation events. A long term supporter of the Museum of Witchcraft in his native Cornwall, his work on the Witches’ Sabbat was first given at the annual Friends of the Museum gathering.

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Profile Image for Tim Pendry.
1,150 reviews487 followers
October 13, 2014

This is well within the tradition of rollicking pseudo-histories of humanity that are to be found in the specialist 'spiritual' shelves of many book stores.

But it is a cut above the rest in trying to stick with the facts and, unusually, merges its vision with slabs of 'practical magick' - things that can be done and which excite the imagination.

Peter Grey, writing within the occultist Scarlet Imprint stable, is restrained enough that we can start to take him seriously as someone tapping into an aspect of our zeitgeist through 'Babalon'.

Whether you accept the intensity of vision or not as 'true' (I do not), he is measured in his excess and the general and curious reader could learn a great deal about the lore of magick and its lure.

The whole is only marred by a tendency to displace some genuine poetic language with a sort of blokey tone on occasions ('good 'ol US of A') and a sudden last minute lurch into a daft enviro-apocalyptic rant.

There is passion in this work, a working out of a personality where his critique of St. John of Revelation comes to be no different in its extremity from that of his Christian enemy of two thousand years ago.

This is a grudge match between two cities - Jerusalem and Babalon - as much as it is fight between sensual and sexual freedom and the miserabilist social disciplining of the endocrinal system by 'God'.

Somewhere between these two lies a balance but while the miserabilists hold cultural sway, there is really no reason not to welcome the sort of counter-blast or polemic from the other side in the eternal war.

We mere mortals watch these angelic hordes struggle in the memosphere, knowing that total victory for either might be somewhat doom-laden for the humanity that just wants to do business and have a happy family.

Nevertheless, the victory of one set of angels without challenge for two thousand years did end up as a sort of cultural enslavement so a bit of liberation by the other lot may not go amiss.

We ordinary people should rebel against all such aristocratic fantasies and find a Prometheus who might give us a Republic without angels or at least one where they can just live quietly on their heavenly or hellish estates moaning about our inheritance taxes.

Still, the book is worth reading (though some of the Enochian Magick on a Crowley text might cause a mild yawn if you are not of the magickal persuasion) if only because he is good on critiquing the milk-and-water elements in cuddly modern paganism.

There are the usual suspects - stories well told told very well here - in the pandaemonium of Dee, Crowley and Parsons, but he also tells a story of early Mesopotamia and Christianity which has resonance.

There is a particularly interesting section on the symbolism of the rose and he does succeed in getting us to understand better the confusions within a poorly educated popular esotericism.

His main mission (as a cultic project) is to bring the 'real' Babalon as dangerous urban goddess of primal lusts back into focus, differentiating her from the fashionable but wasteland Lilith and all the analogues that are claimed to be her.

The transgressional approach is well argued - sex including the sex worker as the goddess, drugs, even blood rituals - with a health and safety message that slightly amuses throughout.

This is not a narcissistic work. He is preaching and he is trying to show Babalon as liberator but also to make the liberation a dangerous, restless, existential matter far from heavenly tranquillity.

The book also has one of the neatest reading lists I have seen on the subjects he discusses - Babylon & Revelation, Magick, Sex & Sex Magick and Goddesses.

Published in 2007, some of Grey's more contemporary comments already look dated. We are seeing no apocalypse but only the death of a global paradigm by a thousand cuts which is a very different proposition.

He eventually falls into his own trap, coruscating St. John and the Early Christians for false predictions of apocalypse and then making his own.

In fact, the Roman Empire did not collapse over night, it too died slowly (never died, in some ways) in the same death of a thousand cuts as we are experiencing now - disease, perpetual war, corruption.

Part of that death was the loss of republican virtue through globalisation. It is becoming increasingly clear that globalisation has taken away as much as it has given - as do all universal empires.

However, Grey is right not to look back even if his vision is still an extrapolation of the past through the eyes of his then-present - but we are all inclined to make this error: it is human all-too-human.

The modern city, the internet and the impossibility of putting the sexual genie back in the bottle are now involved in a new existential struggle with faith-based barbarians who are poorer than we are and are hammering at our gates demanding our treasure.

The hostage ransom - pay or see a loved one beheaded across YouTube - is the exemplar of this new order and it takes place not so very far from where the first empires became decadent and succumbed to past hordes.

The esoteric mind is often an odd one politically. Its withdrawal from the world is often strangely 'aristocratic' (in fact it is the last gasp of the anxious and confused self-educated bourgeois).

On the other hand, the reframing of the world through fantastic visions can give us a creative radicalism that can be of the Right as in Evola, of the Left (Parsons) or of some strange combination of both as in Crowley.

This tense contradiction between bourgeois neurosis and the demand for radical change is exemplified by this book and although the politics are unclear and confused, the psycho-sexual vision is not.

Grey's liberatory strategy is no different from that of the early Christians - shatter the connection to old beliefs and, if necessary, martyr yourself to new transformative ones.

In the end, this is as unpersuasive as a grand strategy as that of the Christian sexual miserabilists but there is tactical profit to be made from this book. Those who are interested in these matters should find it stimulating.
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37 reviews21 followers
January 24, 2025
Babalon compels me to re-think my Pagan ideologies. When I was a younger ‘religious scholar’ I poured over and obsessed on the Book of Revelations. Not understanding the history of it’s author or any comparison in apocalyptic writings, my Catholic upbringing still had it’s chains around me; holding me to the shame, guilt and eventually the fear used to control. Of course, this might also have been due to me being a slight insomniac in high school (one bout lasted 23 days with little more than 3 hours of sleep a night). There were even times after I had come to witchcraft and later paganism when I would secretly think, but what IF?

When I went on to college and took religious studies courses for my Bachelor’s, I began to see what the situation really was surrounding the writing of not just Revelations, but ALL scriptural writings. I saw Saint John the Divine was a holy man, but also raving mad. Not that being a madman is a bad thing; in actuality a little psychosis might even be healthy for people who are mystics and seers. Escaping into the bliss of a deity could be a mini vacation from the horrors they might otherwise see.

“The Red Goddess” is a compilation of three books, each a section of history and the great workings with this most ancient and misunderstood Goddess. The author Peter Grey pulls the reader along in the narration; not reading as an academic book but a revealed text. Giving the background of ancient Mesopotamian roots of the sacred whore in the first part, Grey tackles the big missing ‘archetype’ in western traditions. Ancient magicians worked with Her energy as Ishtar and Inanna, then Lilith of the Sumerians. In Egypt Grey explores the connection with Isis and Nephthys, and eventually Sekhmet, a blood thirsty and passionate crimson Goddess. The author severs this thread essentially saying these Goddesses all are not sexy enough to be considered sacred whores: “They simply do not have key characteristics”; being considered ‘dark’ does not make them Babalon (more inspirational than sexy). So who would be? I think I could make a good argument for Hathor/Hetheru as being an early incarnation of Babalon: the Goddess of Love, Passion, Dancing, and plays a key role in the journey to the after life. Her wild abandonment combined with the wrath of Ra is very similar to the passions of Babalon.

The work of invoking Babalon has been pursued by magicians and occultists for a VERY long time. Including the spiritual experimentation of Simon Magus, Aleister Crowley, Dr. John Dee with Edward Kelly, and the more recent Jack Parsons/L. Ron Hubbard pursuit all combined may have been enough magick needed to open the gates and release our Red Lady onto the Earth. Astride a dragon between Her flaming thighs, with eyes of fiery stone, Babalon has arrived; according to the author, the “end of days” is here…now…and coming from a place of great research, not of Christian-based apocalyptic fear and oppression. For those brave enough to face the fear and shame, the promise of liberation is just around the corner.
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43 reviews29 followers
August 5, 2014
I liked this book, mainly because there were several choice excerpts from it which I have quoted from. There is some good information on goddess mythology, and how the Virgin Mary was a poor attempt to replace the Goddess. He also talks about how not all goddesses are one goddess. Other than that, there's a whole lot of propaganda about "sacred prostitutes" which I think really confuse secular prostitutes with sexual priestesses - come on, people, they weren't and aren't the same thing! There was also a lot of talk about drugs. And just when you thought the allusions to the mundane stoner trips and pubescent seed-sowing, more drugs! And BDSM! Suddenly all these things are holy, just because Peter Grey said so - and in prose, to boot. Though the prose was nice, I would have liked more substance in terms of actual sex magick.

Last but not least, the most glaringly obvious in all of this was his constant apparent "love" of women, but I didn't see any women consulted for this book! So it's safe to say that Babalon here is little more than a man's wet dream and the book in fact is going to most appeal to a male audience.
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70 reviews2 followers
March 25, 2020
I have my own criticisms of scarlet imprint. A majority of books charged at astronomical prices. Beautiful, but lacking in substance and regurgitated European ceremonial magick traditions trying to impose itself on religious cultures of Africa, Brazil, etc. Then boating how race doesn't matter while simultaneously saying Lucifer and Xzu are the same being. Although this book has some good qualities, But in my opinion the authors attempt at vulgarity and edginess describing certain aspects of Babylon, overshadows it. Saying Priestesses of Babylon must be physically beautiful or a no go. Then also on the next page saying Babylon resides in the "cheapest of whores". Umm which is it Peter? I am not a feminist by any mean and I have read plenty of other male authors that have written substantial essays The Dark Goddess and Babylon. But this man, I have to say is not one of them. :,-(
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69 reviews1 follower
June 20, 2012
This book is an eye-opener. As you read it, you see the Goddess as She is, A Divinely Sexual Female, beautiful, Temptress, Seducer, Queen & Ruler. I could go on, there are so many titles & words for our Goddess.
Why the Red Goddess? Remember Robert Graves' White Goddess? A classic, So is this book. You
see this Goddess throughout History & time. Men try to surpress Her, undermine Her, even try to wipe Her out, to no avail. Red lipstick is sexy, so is a red dress, so is the Red Goddess.
Read this book, open your eyes & mind to see Her.
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January 4, 2019
Its very telling that book about the Goddess Babalon spends more time on Dee, Crowley and Parsons on than the women who came closest to embodying her, like Anita Berber and Marjorie Cameron. In the end this book to me was really just more men's idea of women, a modern occult repacking of the same old Madonna/Whore dichotomy
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Author 2 books29 followers
August 3, 2012
This is not a book if you are looking for prefabricated rituals to invoke the Goddess. Neither is it a theoretical piece. But this definitely is the book you should read if you call yourself a devotee of Babalon, or just the Divine Feminine, the Goddess of Love. This book comes at the right time and I think the author himself knows this all too well.
Peter Grey delivers a magickal history of Her and it is one of the best out there to my humble opinion. He traces her legacy all the way back to Mesopotamia, where she once was venerated as the Harlot she truly is, but not with the connotation we know the word to be now. The Babylonian captivity, which traumatised the young Jewish identity, left its mark on the Abrahamitic religions of later on. Babylon and its goddess Ishtar became the paragon of everything vile and repulsive. The association of the city with her goddess with the ultimate degeneration was made there in antiquity and has been decisive for our treatment of the Goddess ever since.
Even though we can trace her legacy back to ancient Mesopotamia, She is a modern goddess. We should not go beyond the Indus to find Her in the form of the Tara, She has always been a part of our Western culture, but took shelter underground or in the more masked but rather contradictory form of the Virgin Mary. Occultists of the grimoire tradition experienced Her in their visions, but She could never be fully grasped by either Crowley or Parsons later on. It's because it was not Her time yet. She gave tantalizing glimpses, She kept herself purposely hidden, only sneakpeaks to those who were aware of Her coming. But now in the 21st century, when the world is slowly on the brink of utter disaster, She will descend and take Her rightful place on the throne of this world.

Her grail is the key to unlock what is about to await us. If you wish to surrender yourself to Love, you must be prepared to destroy everything.
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274 reviews29 followers
February 6, 2025
A reread heading into Valentine season

4.5 Stars

This work should be thought of in the same light as Robert Graves The White Goddess as it is a mythic poietic telling of the Goddess, in the case of this book, Babalon. Babalon is a goddess with scant mythic narratives attributed to her between her first appearance in the Book of Revelations to her re-emergence into Thelema. Grey rectifies this by building her a grand mythic exegesis that in turn makes her bigger than merely a Thelemic diety by weaving her into a larger historical tapestry that traverses from ancient Babylon to the present day.

This isn't a perfect book as Grey tends to overly emphasize the whore/sex aspect of Babalon's nature which can make it seem that he is reducing her to simply that. Anyone who has read Grey's other work knows that that's not the case for him but can appear so here. Also, Grey is a very strong writer with very evocative and powerful prose; however, this is his earliest work, and while some parts hymn like his later oeuvre, others definitely read like a writer trying to find his voice.

Overall, a very strong debut from an author who would later go on to become a major voice in modern Western esoterics
Profile Image for Aaron Meyer.
Author 9 books57 followers
December 20, 2013
Covers the history of Babalon from her beginnings in Sumer up to the current times. He gives his twist on events in history and how it applies to Babalon and shows how her presence has persisted despite the best attempts to wipe her out. Key characters in this book are John Dee, Aleister Crowley and Jack Parson, as well as the authors own self. Definitely worth the read, I only wish there was more practical information covered in addition to the history and musings. But perhaps the next book .....
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Author 1 book112 followers
July 12, 2017
A wild, erotic, seductive, destructive, exhausting, fascinating ride. Grey is obsessed with this Goddess. I have no doubt he is in direct contact with her. It will be interesting to see what she does with him in the end.

My favorite line: "Wake up. We are all going to die."
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953 reviews102 followers
November 6, 2016
It just goes to show you cannot keep a good goddess down. Much is made of Babalon, sex goddess so revered by Aleister Crowley. Outside of Crowley's work and that of his protégés you may not hear much about Babalon, but fear not she is there. Perhaps the most recent thing we hear about her is thousands of years old, the Book of Revelations, written by John Patmos in some meditative state.

The whore of Babylon is ultimately put down as the most evil thing about. She seduced men with the grail filled with her filth and polluted wine of whoredom. Of course Revelations was written during the time the Romans had control over Judea. They were not talking about Babylon but rather Rome. She was the whore of Babylon. But the whore of Babylon who makes it with a dragon and gives birth to the antichrist was in fact a pagan goddess.

So who was this pervasive goddess who hides silently in the shadows waiting for the right moment to emerge. Now many have confused her with Lilith, various Egyptian goddesses like Isis, Hathor or Sekhment. Of these she is neither. Lilith who lives in a tree and oft associated with owls , snakes and flying demons that suck the life out of men in fact may have been the niece of this goddess. Liliths were also sacred priestesses or concubines of this goddess.

This was a goddess of love and war. She is hot burning passion riding on a lion into battle. She takes any man she desires and lives for sec not necessarily to ha e kids. This goddess had temples everywhere. She challenged death and won to rescue her lover. The siburi sometimes gave men intoxicating el mental like opium,hash, shrooms and alcohol to reach that divine state of bliss.

This books does contain some tips on sex magic and using roses in the ritual. Oops did I forget to tell you who this goddess was? Guess you will ha e to read the book to find out
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41 reviews
June 24, 2013
Great book that connects Sumerian mythology over Dee & Kelly work all the way to Jack Parsons' escapades. I read it several times and most recently in trying to connect with parts of Robert Graves' The White Goddess. Grey clearly shares a great and justified passion for the subject, still some of his analyses of goddess suppression in Judaism and Christianity, I felt, needed clearer historical positioning. I wish the book is double in length. Must read!
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269 reviews42 followers
November 23, 2017
Clear the decks, because you’ve never read anything like this before.

Author Peter Grey takes us on a journey to find Babalon, and examines her history from beginning to end: taking us from the biblical era and the city of Babylon, to Dee & Kelley, Crowley, Parsons, to present-day. And, how do we connect with Babalon in our own lives? This is also discussed.

Grey’s writing style is honest, raw, and refreshing. A labour of devotion.
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542 reviews33 followers
July 10, 2023
We are divided enough to owe the Devil his due. An overlong, unstained life is death congealed. O white-gowned virgin bride, step forward, hand in hand to lie in Desecration. The wicked dose our Being needs to Be is not Null. The Red Goddess (hail, thou most holy Whore) waits in the wings to deliver it. A mere transcendent moment is all we lack. Join her. Join us. We are alive.
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352 reviews22 followers
June 14, 2021
I’m actually a bit shocked that a biblical scholar like Grey would continually refer to the last book of the Bible as “Revelations.” He even gets it wrong in the title of other people's books. This fact aside, this is a fascinating look at the (occult) history of the figure of Babylon. The second half of the book started to lose me as it turns into a history of Aleister Crowley, the bad boy* of magick, and then gradually descends into a description of the aphrodisiac effects of various drugs and the importance of kink in sex magick. Yawn.

*raving lunatic
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262 reviews41 followers
February 8, 2014
The other reviewers cover this well... for me this book was a true transmission, as well as being an excellent alternate true history from its particular lens. I'm not a magick practioner per se but I'm on a path and simply reading this and doing a couple of thought experiments was a real can opener to the self.

Books about Babalon are bound to end in, well, you know how it ends. So take it, and of course take any book that is a can opener to the self, with a bit of...?
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14 reviews57 followers
September 24, 2011
An in-depth examination of the Goddess in her guise as Babalon. Highly recommended for anyone wishing to explore the mysteries of the Dark Lady.
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4 reviews
October 14, 2024
Enlightened centrist vibes with a hardon for eugenics.

In all the ancient myths the gods are trying to have sex with us to evolve the race. Sex is being used as a magickal method of evolution. This strand of thought has re-emerged with alien abduction tales in the late 20th century, whilst the concept of genetic progression or eugenics remains taboo. Our civilisation prefers to level down, our Liliths receive short shrift.


If you think this was a really offhanded comment in the interest of sounding dark and edgy, he revisits the idea again in a later chapter more explicitly.

Conception is a planned process. Take the temperature, measure the ovulation, study the genome and eliminate the typhoid marys of genetically inherited disease. We can learn from eugenics without going the whole Auschwitz.


In case you're interested in his thoughts on which women are most worthy of the goddess's attention, Grey continues,

One of the cruel truths about Love Goddesses is that they favour the beautiful. To be a Priestess, devotee or avatar of a Love Goddess requires beauty. This is not fair, or kind, or politically correct, but neither is nature.


And, apparently having a penchant for evolutionary psychology, he opines,

The triggers of arousal are unfailingly signifiers of youth, sexual maturity, health and fecundity. This is irrespective of transitory fashions or ideas of patriarchal dominance. Welcome to the harsh world of genetic selection which underlies all our ideas of beauty. Our DNA drives us to choose beauty over all other attributes.


To clarify who qualifies as beautiful,

The hourglass figure shows that a woman is sexually mature but not pregnant. Symmetrical features mean that she has no genetically inherited defects. Clear skin and glossy hair reveals freedom from disease and a good diet. Red lips mimic the aroused sex. Large eyes add to an impression of youth. Full breasts mean that she is ready to bear and nourish children. Good posture is indicative of high social status.


I appreciate this book as a record of one magician's personal engagement with Babalon, but he refers to trans people as 'ladyboys', and you really get the sense he wanted to decry the 'woke mind virus' unironically, if only he hadn't penned it a decade too soon. Maybe, hopefully, Peter Grey has matured as a person. I like his Lucifer: Princeps, but I feel it would be irresponsible for me to recommend this title to anyone, and I intend, from this point onward, to be more discerning of the authors I choose to read on the divine feminine. For me at least, this book makes a solid case that, for men, being a devotee of a Love Goddess calls for more personal relationship and learning and less instructing of others.
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Author 30 books11 followers
June 9, 2022
"The Red Goddess" by Peter Grey goes into the background and history of the whore of Babylon featured in the Biblical "Book of Revelations". In ancient times she was worshipped as a goddess of love, lust and war by the citizens of the city of Babylon. Over the years she has become associated with several goddesses and demonesses such as Ishtar and Lilith.

The book tells the tales of several male magicians who encountered this primal female force over the years, individuals such as Simon Magus, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons and John Dee. While there is a lot of useful information here regarding the topic of sex magick there's a strong sadomasochist streak throughout which might be a turn-off to some readers. I became convinced after awhile that the author is in love with the goddess Babalon the way a lot of anime nerds are in love with their favorite waifu. I wouldn't be remotely surprised to find out Peter Grey sleeps with a full body Babalon pillow every night.

I love this book, it's raw, passionate and just the right amount of batshit insane. If you consider yourself any kind of goddess worshipper it's worth checking this one out.
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191 reviews12 followers
October 24, 2023
Sparkling, feverish, arcane, devouring, playful, dense, hilarious, fiery, lustful, ecstatic... “The Red Goddess” is like having sex with your brain. A potent piece of Magickal writing (in a style that many novelists can only dream of) that stands to the occult as Zizek stands to critical thinking and Baudrillard and Flusserl stand to postmodernism — something seems off and dangerously different, like a warped mirror— something boyish-Promethean, something of a bluff. While reading, you feel Her delighted smile.
4 reviews1 follower
June 29, 2020
Follow your intuition.

Read this book with an open, passionate heart. BABALON is not a gentlewoman, if you are easily upset or shook be steady and prepare yourself for Her before reading sessions.
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17 reviews2 followers
August 19, 2021
Really enjoyable. Starts with an attempt to trace the footsteps of Babalon through history before giving ideas of how one might approach Her in practice. Definitely worth reading.

My only gripe: It's Revelation, singular, not Revelations.
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75 reviews6 followers
November 1, 2021
Really amazing text. It is very helpful in putting the BABALON current into perspective and makes such online trends as #withesofinstagram intelligible. Truly outstanding research and insight by a practicing magician.
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1,076 reviews20 followers
November 12, 2021
A good overview of the key concepts surrounding Babalon. Some points the author raises are questionable (for example he has a bit too many nice things to say about drug use) but overall a good primer on one of Thelema’s most compelling deities.
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26 reviews1 follower
May 22, 2018
Captivating reading during a tough and troubling time in my life. More than food for thought, words and actions to live by. Recommended.
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547 reviews19 followers
January 29, 2020
Gorgeously researched and provocative. Does sometimes get blokey, though, but generally speaking the strength of the work outweighs ultimately small and subjective nits.
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88 reviews2 followers
May 18, 2020
Podróż przez czas i przestrzeń. Archetyp Czerwonej Bogini/Szkarłatnej Kobiety opisany z pieczołowitością i erudycją, która zachęca do wlasnych poszukiwań. Polecam wolnym duchom :)
77 reviews1 follower
November 8, 2021
I appreciated the history aspect of this works but wasn't able to follow the author's point for some of the time.
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