Separate from her relationship with her consort, Babalon is usually depicted as riding the Beast. Chaos appears in The Vision and the Voice and later in Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni. Crowley believed that several women in his life occupied the office of Scarlet Woman, for which see the list below.īabalon's consort is Chaos, called the 'Father of Life' in the Gnostic Mass, being the male form of the creative principle. The role of the Scarlet Woman was to help manifest the energies of the Aeon of Horus. This office, first identified in The Book of the Law is usually described as a counterpart to his own identification as ' To Mega Therion' (The Great Beast).

Along with her status as an archetype or goddess, Crowley believed that Babalon had an earthly aspect or avatar a living woman who occupied the spiritual office of the 'Scarlet Woman'. In the creed of the Gnostic Mass she is also identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. In her most abstract form, Babalon represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman.

Her name and imagery feature prominently in Crowley's 'Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni'. The spelling of the name as 'Babalon' was revealed to Crowley in The Vision and the Voice. Babalon / ˈ b æ b æ l ən/ (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with the writing of The Book of the Law by English author and occultist Aleister Crowley.

A sacred woman