Liberating Babalon, the Red Goddess - Lecture

Babalon is a goddess who has been chained to male occultists with problematic viewpoints and attitudes towards women. Yet, in this exists a sacred paradox, a dichotomy of Babalon that shows that even here, there is unconditional love, unconditional lust, and that the Red Goddess cannot be contained even by those who try to limit her to a singular expression of the erotic.

In this lecture, Garbriela Herstik will look at the history of Babalon, and at the men who have contributed to this current, and what we can learn from them: Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, John Dee, and Kenneth Anger. She then turns to the women who are liberating Babalon from the male gaze: Manon Hedenborg White, Amodali, Alkistis Dimech, Georgia Van Raalte, and others. After looking at the historical and modern context, Herstik looks at reframing Babalon as the goddess of erotic witchcraft and as living current of…