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Shakti/Devi by Aion
THE BOOK OF SHAKTI-BABALON
Via Aion- ‘In Absu’- Deep Pacific Ocean- off Alaska 5/30/01
This Book is Opened
With the Seed of the Sun
and the Kalas of the Moon
Conjoined in Bliss.
The Image is that of the
Yoni Yantra (Inverse Triangle with Centerpoint)
The points are:
Knowledge
Action
*
Will
The center Bindu-point is Love Eternal, uttered from the Moment of Creation as:
OM.
This is the Key that opens every Door and the Feather found upon every shore.
1.
Upon the Endless Sea
with no ending and no limit
floats the preceived
Atman of Consciousness
And the Goddess takes
this gently up onto her palm, embraces it to her breast
And it becomes her Lord
& Chela
And so she begins the
teaching, the mystery of Shakti-Babalon,
a Pearl split in two
and hidden as halves in the mists of East and West.
Her Palm closes &
opens and Lo! The Pearl is conjoined
and the mystery revealed
a
nd upon the fathomless
ocean the Mother of All Waters begins her Tantra:
"Know that my worship
is of Flesh
All else is abstract,
obtuse and as dust.
Flesh of Flesh is sacred
to me
My Yoni
And Stars:
The points of Connection
& the Wheels of Configuration of release"
2.
A lotus rises from the
Primal Ocean & Blooms in a glory of sunrise colors.
Upon it enthroned is
the Faceless Goddess who begins to speak:
"Who does not particularize
my rapturous mystery worships me thus as Veiled Isis and creatrix of light.
Joyful and worthy, this
Image of Goddess serves to instruct, inspire & guide
But of Magick, it speaks
not."
A Mirror in female form
appears, it is of itself the Great Goddess
and reflections of All
Things spiral within it as she speaks:
"Sex in all its infinite
forms is Shakti as restless and endless as the Ocean about you
As the tidally-sparked
blood within your Flesh
Ever flowing, ever seeming
to encompass All Things
Ever filling and settling
into All Spaces
Sex is my Mantra, my
Spell, My Siren Cry
And it is I who always
answer this cry,
it is the glory of my
Flesh that suffuses the Mystery
And the release of Orgasm
that calms the turbulent Ocean that is also I.
You see me as a Mirror
Image of All, so as to mate with me
And so become whole.
Mystery of Anima &
Animus
Flesh & Spirit
Nu & Hadit
And the restless Shakti
ripples
Called Heru
Pan & Babalon reveal
this age-old Mystery
As do Shiva & Shakti
Yin & Yang
And every archetypal
dyad eternally mating
Melding
Into One
Great Ocean of Bliss
Becoming
Nun….
*
This is the Teaching
of All Schools, All Mysteries, All Faiths;
though Isis has been
veiled and Sophia’s Flame hidden and the wonders of Fatima buried in the
sands.
The Aeon-old drive of
Sex
Enthrones & goads
the species
And so I offer the Key
to your liberation!
Self reflected Self
Union & United:
The barrier is gone!"
3.
The Mirror-image flows
into drops of watery liquid falling & swirling into a brilliant Chalice…
" Now the Hidden Teaching,
long divided, for what is spoken in your Cells you know.
The Mystic worships me
as All and dissolves into Prima Materia and is content-
For I am Tao & embrace
All as the endless Ocean.
Ah! But Magickians must
worship my Mystery in/with Flesh, in Human Image
In the sacred rites of
Tongue & Hand & Eye & Phallus & Yoni
In Juices and Pleasures
with a mind focused on OM.
Flesh is here the Key,
Flesh upon Flesh in Joy Unutterable
Such Union of Shiva &
Shakti
Calms the Ocean of Samsara
And so reveals the depths
wherein reside the Mystery of Mysteries you seek
For every particle of
Self, every thought & dream, idea, image and ghostly desire
Must be poured into my
Chalice, my Grail, my Cauldron
Until Naught but ashes
of ashes remain- soon these too are gone-
In this way One may GO.
So the Mysteries of Shakti-Babalon
have been elucidated
Here and elsewhere- for
nothing is truly New
But- this is only half
the Pearl.
A Key was lost from the
West
When the Mystery was
split
And what was missing
to many is now revealed:"
4.
The Image changes to
that of a beautiful woman who is all women who have ever been she
walks forward, shifting & changing, a whirlwind of changing faces,
energy & color- she is Anima…
" For All Women are Shakti-Babalon
as All men are PanShiva,
yet restlessly seeking
me in many women merely begins the Great Work,
over & over,
while never bringing
it to fruition!
Herein is the true mystery,
the second half of the Pearl:
The fiery ignition of
Sex is only the beginning, the Prologue & Invocation of my Being-
The True Ritual unto
me is one of years & years- Flesh Transmuting Flesh
Mind Transmuting Mind
Spirit Transmuting Spirit
Turning Dross into Gold:
Mine Alchemy.
In one night of sexual
bliss is the Work completed? Think you so?
Foolishness!
It demands a lifetime
of lifetimes measured in devotion & dedication
For my Throne is the
Mountain top, I am a Goddess of Yoga (Union)
I must be sought after
through trials & ordeals
I must be wooed
I must be honored, treasured,
worshipped: Adored!
And I demand ALL as Pan
is ALL
For offering nothing
short of ALL will win you the Wish Fulfilling Gem.
So- the Teaching lost
from the West is one of Patience, of Uniting over Years.
A Shakti/Shakta is not
forged from a brief flame of lust imposed upon any person one would pleasure
with
Shakti is Self in Flesh,
the Key to all your Works
Mate & Materia Magicka
for your Magnum Opus
As such I am the Alchemical
Furnace of Time, the Alembic cherished for a lifetime
And beyond."
5.
Now comes the image of
Heiros Gamos, the Sacred Marriage: Yin united with Yang, male & Female
conjoined in a brilliant vision of Yab Yum mating, they meld and become
one bright image…
" To come unto Shakti-Babalon,
one must give All,
Not just a bit of seed
and a few words of power!
You of the West know
little of True giving, of letting GO and surrendering Self!
I demand ALL of your
Mind, Spirit & Flesh in my pyre!
All of your Time
Actions & Desires
All of your Material
& Esoteric Wealth
All of your Thoughts,
Prayers & Rites
Until you are wholly
mine in EVERY respect
And so
I am wholly yours!"
6.
There is an image
of ending open Ocean under an Open Starry Sky
" In your blood are the
tireless legends
Beginning is my Endless
Space & Waters
And so in The End.
Devote yourself to me
With Knowledge, Will
& Action
United in the Total Love
which is my Essence
Devote yourself to ONE
For as PAN is ALL, Shakti
is always ONE
For I am NONE indeed.
SHE who is Shakti incarnate
will find you who are unworthy
When you show a glimmering
of worthiness.
Woo her, honor her, worship
her
Care for her, adore her
Deck her in jewels, fine
garments & regale her with endless presents & praises-
For she is YOUR Shakti
YOUR grail
YOUR Babalon
The Key to YOUR transformation!
She is the Alchemical
Furnace of your Work
and the Key to uncovering
All Mysteries!
This is REAL, Flesh,
no abstract symbol or ideal!
She is YOUR Goddess and
You are Her God
(O Man! Woman has this
Book writ in monthly blood and
the sighs of her rejection-
she needs not words to unveil the Truth- she IS the Truth)
You shall transmute each
other through Sex & Union
Rituals & Sorrows
Fighting & Loving
Play & Work
And in this Dance you
will BECOME Lila- the PLAY of the Cosmos
Prakriti- the Energy
Storm of Creation
Prana- the Winds of Life
& Power behind All.
You will become the Primordial
SHIVA & SHAKTI and so attain enlightenment!
7.
There is a last image
as all fades….the divine Yoni Yantra descending triangle…. becoming the
Ocean…
"All Flesh is my Flesh
and all Magick is my Flesh
All Goddesses are Women
and All Women is A Woman.
If Shakti-Babalon is
not Enthroned in your Bed
Your Home
Your Work
Your Life
Your Thoughts, Dreams
& Death
Then she is NOT
And you are merely playing
with Shadows of yourself
Cast upon MY Ocean of
Bliss
With a touch of my hand
They are gone
And you awake
To my Laughter!"
*
This Book is Sealed
With the tongues of Shiva/Shakti
entwined
About the Elixir of Union:
OM
SHORT COMMENTS:
First Commentary:
For many years I and other
magickians have debated the worth of monogamy, polygamy, polyandry etc.
etc. and the variations of core relationships as magickal methods of attainment
and new aeonic ways of life. Thelemites, being an ornery bunch as a whole,
tend to argue for more open relationships. Yet there are evolutionary patterns
that have programmed Homo Sapiens into what recent social scientists calls
‘serial monogamy’ or ‘open monogamy.’ Why? It seems that on a functional
level (and emotional in terms of hormones, patterns etc.) children are
the key. As specialized animals with lengthy gestation periods, some sort
of at least short-term monogamy seems to be somewhat necessary to insure
the survival of the off-spring, or so the scientists tell us.
This interests me
less than the question of the Magickal functions of the dyad- Shiva/Shakti,
Yin/Yang etc. 2=0 as it were. This matter is NOT determined by what
the outward flesh manifests, biological men, women or other. It seemed
to me that there was a SPIRITUAL and MAGICKAL reflex to this social ‘serial
monogamy’ or was there? Isn’t the creation of the ‘magickal child’
of alchemy important? If one follows Tantra (and I do) or believes that
Sexual Alchemy is key to Magick (and most of you do, I would guess) then
this question goes right to the heart of what a magickal relationship means
as a mode of assisting growth, liberation & enlightenment. I have puzzled
over this for decades until I finally threw the question out to the void
of the Goddess and forgot about it.
I recently took a
cruise to Alaska up the inland passage (never mind the particulars and,
yes, you should be jealous). After a particularly charged ritual with my
wife & Shakti, out in the open ocean of the Arctic, out of sight of
land, I lapsed into a trance and received the book you have just read.
It seems to answer the question, at least for me. I hope you find it of
interest.
Clearly it is mostly
directed at male magickians- it states that women …’has this Book writ
in monthly blood and the sighs of her rejection- she needs not words
to unveil the Truth- she IS the Truth’
So, guys, this one if for
you. Women don’t need to be told this stuff- they KNOW it. They hold the
Grail. Since most magickal women will gladly admit that most men are clueless,
I’ll leave it there.
Comments, as always, welcome
Om Hrim Shakti-Babalon Namah
Svaha!
-Aion 6/01
Commentary 2:
Om
The book is opened with a tantrik ceremony, the Kalas are manifested in a sexual rite invoking the Goddess, there is particular focus and balance to this moment in that sun and moon are conjunct in fire (a symbol of tantrik gnosis) and the Three Shaktis are manifest- knowledge, will, action - the three forces balanced in Tantrika.
Here a confluence of Thelemic, Tantrik & Maatian (the feather!) magicks.
It begins like a standard Tantra, the Goddess addresses Shiva, as the Atman or HGA of the scribe, and gives a teaching. The vast arctic sea is here the body of her infinite & somewhat a manifestation of Binah…but only as a gate for the wisdom of Shaktiyogini.
The central image is that of the Atman or OM, the being-less Center of all seen as a Pearl- yet the pearl (Tao) splits and is rejoined- Yin & Yang manifest, then fuse- to what purpose?
Flesh (this real life) is what we have to work with- all magick MUST manifest in flesh- i.e.: as real, or it is mere fantasy.
2=0 is the central teaching of all faiths, when all is stripped away.
Why? Because Other is Shakti and union with Other reveals all mysteries. The biological model is Man & Woman, heiros gamos, the sacred marriage- but this is only an allegory in flesh, the reality is 2=0, and the Other (whatever sex) is the Mystery…
All women are Goddess, all men God- yet they are really our outward masks- sex between Yin & Yang is merely the beginning of this shakti-fire, the real mystery of the union of 2=0 is much more sublime: it is the full union of 2 people over years, through layers, deeper than levels and levels as these too are penetrated as 2 stars become binary then 1 and so attain none. It is the merging of two Spirits as two atoms merge unleashing the power of a big bang.
And thus is found the Grail, the Cauldron, The Great Letting Go. In the Other ego can be released, the Other manifests as the Goddess who Is All (Malkuth the Bride, Prakriti, the formless form of the universe)
A.O.Spare says "Die Daily" and this is the secret here, but more as in ‘let go daily’ into the heart of the Other, the supreme Bhakti of love, lovers, loving.
And this is SO not theoretical or academic; it is the ceaseless toil of a relationship, of the alchemy of dreaming, conversing, playing, working things out with another, of becoming a dyad (or a series of dyads!), as each binary is a long-term initiation of Shiva/Shakti.
And this long-term loving
2=0 Bhakti working will result in Awakening, and it is a path full of struggle,
but also full of Laughter. To truly Love another and be Loved in return
is the Greatest Magick.
The Goddess Shakti-Babylon
is a pairing motion in the flow of evolution, but not only for the obvious
reasons! There is a bonus! Liberation!
- 3/04- Aion