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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 from Revelations, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current. This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account o The Red Goddess takes you through a tale of sex, drugs and violence.
This is an ecstatic journey through the unheard history of BABALON from Revelations, back through the Ishtar Gate and forward into a living modern magickal current. This is an explicit and challenging vision of a very modern goddess coming into power. This is more than a history, it is a passionate account of living magick and the transcendent power of Love. The Red Goddess answers the fundamental questions: Who is BABALON? Why should we care? Where did She come from and where is She going? Does Revelations have anything to tell us?
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Is there a hidden western tradition of sacred sex? The epic sweep of the text takes us from Babylon to Jerusalem to Rome, and onwards to Apocalypse. It looks at the angelic work of renaissance mage John Dee. It delivers a devastating exegisis 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 Holy Whore. Thirteen essays conclude the book on subjects including: roses, mirror magick, BDSM, aphrodisiac drugs, the information age, love vs lust, and the meaning of apocalypse.
Those working with Ishtar, Inanna, Lilith, Kali, Sekhmet, Bast, Freya, Pomba Gira, Erzulie, witchcraft, tibetan tantra, sacred sex and transgression will find much here to intrigue and inspire them. The Red Goddess is suitable for anyone with blood in their veins, regardless of tradition, background or experience. It is a Love story. 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 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. 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 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 Eric 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 herenowand 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.
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 Godde 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. 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 Mes 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. 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. 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. 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 wa 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! 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. 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 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. “The cult of the Virgin Mary enabled the worship of the Goddess to flourish, albeit in a cauterised form. As I keep repeating in a mantra, sex is power. The Virgin was a method of turning the sexual impulse of Christians back into the Church and onto the figure of the crucified Christ. I would describe this as a particularly unsavoury form of magick.
This is the use of repression and misery as a spiritual battery. This enslavement of the worshipper’s natural desires is the exact opposite of the natural and healthy lust for Babalon. With the resolutely chaste Mary in position, churches had a surrogate Goddess back in the house. Christ knows, they needed one. To sell Christianity to the fans of the God who dies and is reborn (like the crops in the fields) the Church used statues of Mary and Jesus that were rather close to those of Isis and the Child Horus. This mother/son icon propaganda was like a Pepsi taste test for the wavering pagans.
It requires other women to keep women as slaves stripped of their sexual power. The BVM did that job. She was the only role model that you could fixate upon. As a Goddess she is a clitoridectomy. If you lift her skirt you can see the coarse black thread where she has been snipped and stitched. The thread is plaited from the beard of Jehovah himself. This is not a woman anymore.
Look under the hem and learn.” —. “Our culture is hardwired with a Christian value system. Even if, like myself, you have never been a believer your mindset will still be shot through with this morality.
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