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yellow light about 7 feet high. I brandished a magical sword
and & it disappeared. Ron's right arm was paralysed for the
rest of the night".
The following night was even more portentious. Hubbard
apparently saw a vision of one of Parsons enemies. Parsons
wrote, "He attacked the figure & pinned it to the door with
4 throwing knives with which he is expert". For 4 days
Parsons & Hubbard were in a state of tension. Then on Jan.
18th. Parsons turned to Ron and said "It is done". He added,
"I returned home and found a young woman answering the require-
-ments waiting for me".
The incarnate Ritual set out in Parsons manuscript, The
Book of Babalon, is difficult reading for the unconfirmed
Spiritualist. Broadly interpreted, Parsons & Hubbard cons-
-tructed an Alter & Hubbard acted as high priest durring a
series of ceremonies in which Parsons & the girl shared sex.
The owner of the documents, who is an expert on Crowley's
magic says that Parsons at this stage was completely under
Hubbard's domination. How else can one explain Hubbard's role
as high priest in the rites after only a few weeks in the
trade?
For the first of the birth ceremonies which began on Mar.
1, Hubbard wore a white robe & carried a lamp while Parsons
was clocked in ablack, hooded garment, carrying a cup &
dagger. At Hubbard's suggestion, they played Rachmanioff's
Isle of the Dead as backround music.
Parsons account of the start of the birth ritual is as
follows:-
"The Scribe (Hubbard) said, "The Year of Babalon is 4063.
She is the flame of life, power of darkness, she detroys with
a glance, she may take thy soul. She feeds upon the death
of men. Beautiful-Horrible". The Scribe, now pale & sweating,
rested awhile then continued".
There are 2 possible reasons why Hubbard showed anxiety at
this stage of the ceremony, the owner of the papers says.
He was either deeply moved by the spiritual depth of the cere-
-mony or he couldn't think what to say next!
Hubbard further instructed Parsons: "Display thyself to our
lady; dedicate thy organs to her; display thy mind to her;
dedicate thy soul to her; for she shall absorb thee. Retire
from human contact until noon tomorrow. Speak not of this
Ritual. Discuss nothing of it. Consult no book but thine
own mind. Thou Art a God. Behave at this Alter as one God
before another".
On the 3rd. day the ritual began 4 hours before dawn.
Ron tells his companion, "Lay out a white sheet. Place upon
it blood of birth. Envision her approaching thee. Think
upon the lewd, lascivious things thou coulds't do. All is
good to Babalon. All. Preserve the material basis. The
lust is hers, the passion yours. Consider thou the Beast
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