num_pages: 21
description: In the spring of 1946 L. Ron Hubbard and John W. Parsons performed a series of magical rituals with the aim of incarnating the Thelemic goddess Babalon in a human being. Hubbards cooperation with Parsons known as the Babalon Working remains one of the most controversial events in Hubbards pre-Scientology days. This article sets out to describe the content of the magical rituals as well as their purpose. It is argued that in order to fully understand these events it is necessary to approach the Babalon Working from the study of Western esotericism in general and the study of Enochian magic in particular.Originally published in Numen: International Review for the History of Religions. 63:1 pp. 12-32
language: English
title: The Babalon Working 1946: L. Ron Hubbard, John Whiteside Parsons, and the Practice of Enochian Magic
publisher: Brill