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The pharaoh Sety I and Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest and scribe of the Stele of Revealing, frequented the region of Upper Egypt extending from Thebes to Denderah and Abydos. Ankh-af-na-khonsu was the opener of the doors of heaven at the Temple of Karnak in Thebes while Sety I built his temple at Abydos. The scribe and the pharaoh lived in the late dynastic period. Priestly prophets of Egypt at that time foresaw the ending of their world, in which their secret knowledge would be lost and forgotten for millennia. Elsewhere, the biblical prophet Ezekiel was aflame with the vision of splendour. His visions also foretold of the doom and destruction of civilisations. We have, perhaps, arrived at a comparable period in the history of human civilisation.

The Stele of Revealing is the funeral stone of a priest of the god Mentu, who lived and died during the 25th and 26th dynasties of Egypt. Theurgic activation of the funeral stone introduced Thelema to the world at the dawn of the twentieth century, albeit beneath a heavy veil. The frontside of the Stele shows an enthroned god and adoring priest under the nocturnal sky of Nuit and winged sun disk Hadit (or Heru Behedet). Mentu is the name of the enthroned god, usually named Ra-hoor-khuit. Mentu is a name of Set, and a special name of Ra as the sun’s heat at full strength. Herukhuti, Hrumachis, Hormaku (Sphinx of Egypt) and Ra-hoor-khuit are simply different spellings of the same name.

Adapted from ‘New Light on Stele 666’, Babalon Unveiled! Thelemic Monographs [Ordo Astri].

Babalon Unveiled! Thelemic Monographs

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Babalon Unveiled! We are pleased to announce the release of this long-awaited book. This collection of 36 monographs serves as a well-rounded introduction to the Law of Thelema. It is also a luminous esoteric study to widen the horizons of those familiar with the rationalist explanations that have prevailed until now. [Please note: a Second Eidtion of this book is in preparation spring 2023.]

Babalon Unveiled! Cover art from Babalon Unveiled! Thelemic Monographs‘Lapis Philosophorum’ liberates Thelema from the accretions of the modern age. The philosophy of the West only understands consciousness in terms of a supreme demiurge, pristinely ‘one’ and therefore alone, or as the isolating confinement of the self as its own God in its own reality. Both points of view posit an atomistic intelligence that cannot be. They excuse the impossibility of the premise by insisting that true reality can never be known. They allure the faithful with promises of a hereafter reward for those obedient to dogma or otherwise draw the proud ones with the glamour of unlimited power in self-created worlds. Both projections are based on the paranoia of self-isolation.

Babalon, Lion of Truth

While the text of the (Egyptian) Book of the Law transmission carries great value for some, for most it will remain a disturbing enigma. The Law of Thelema will not be grasped by intellect alone, or by merely studying the text of the Cairo transmission, yet the doctrine can be explained in clear and simple terms. For those that are able to receive it, initiatic transmission is possible. Pure knowledge was expressed in the language of the alchemists as the ‘philosophic stone’. The mode of thought is not the stone itself; the stone is a symbol. All thought is symbolic. Consciousness is.

Babalon Unveiled! Rose Edith Kelly, Ouarda the Seer The book is dedicated to the memory of Rose Edith Kelly, Ouarda the Seer. Rose was the medium and intelligence for the transmission activated through the Stele of Revealing in the Cairo museum in 1904.

‘Babalon Unveiled!’ forms the centrepiece of this collection and is part of seven related studies on the mystery of the Scarlet Woman of Thelema. Each shows an aspect of her oracular voice as it has been heard and recorded down the ages. ‘Angels of Sacred Dance, Love and Whoredom’ examines how the divine feminine of antiquity was demonised, resulting in a host of ‘fallen angels’ whose identity is yet preserved, albeit heavily disguised, in traditional texts.

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Format: 6 x 9 hardbound dustjacket; blue linen boards; gold foil stamp lettering on spine; black on cream pages, white end-papers.

Notes

Read an abridged version of the article, Babalon Unveiled, from the book of the same name at Tantrika Arts here.

Read abridgement of the Esoteric Doctrine of Thelema here at Ordo Astri.

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