Approaching Babalon: Essays for the Abyss (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781716408724)

Approaching Babalon presents a series of essays exploring the Goddess Babalon, the Divine Feminine, the Dark Mother, and the ever-revolving circuit of Sex and Death which lies at the centre of the Mysteries. An overview and introduction to the Goddess Babalon that takes a different road to that of Crowley and his followers, Approaching Babalon draws on the insights of Thelema, Ceremonial Magic, Critical Theory, Liberation Theology and the Decadents to weave its magico-theological poetics. Centralising the body and bodily experience, the author rejects patriarchal mysticisms which seek to flee from the body and the world and slink off into the pure white light of heavenly rationalist sanitized boredom. Inspiring, erotic and deeply poetic, the text reaches ecstatic heights as it offers a kaleidoscopic vision of magic, sexuality, spirituality, ritual and the body in the time of the apocalypse.

Author: Georgia Van Raalte
ISBN-10: 1716408725
ISBN-13: 9781716408724
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2020
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.33d