Jack Parsons, Babalon Working, Liber 49

[The Double-wanded One]

Aside from the thread on Strange Angel, I don't think there has been a thread specifically about Parsons here yet.

KG wrote about Parson's importance in various books such as Outer Gateways, and his imporance to the Typhonian tradition can't be understated. 
What are your views on Parson's working, it's experimentation and synthesis of Enochian magic with even more ambition (yet still being within the profoundly strange and eschatological framework that Enochian magic has always been), evocation of Babalon, association with Hubbard, the text of Liber 49 (which Grant has commented upon briefly in different books) and so forth.

[stephen]

Jack Parsons was undoubtedly a very interesting, enthusiastic, reckless, talented and at times apparently, naive guy. He had a passion for Magick and for Thelema which was expressed in both his life and writings. The Babalon Working was an ambitious and daring affair - a completely reckless affair in Crowley's emphatic opinion - invoking a Moonchild, or more accurately, invoking the physical embodiment of the energy of Babalon in a female magickal partner. It produced the Book of Babalon, Liber 49, and brought Marjorie Cameron into Parson's life. The Aeon of Horus was to be enhanced by the coming of the Time of Babalon.

Liber 49 contains some interesting features, but is jumbled and contains some very derivative material in places. What did the Working achieve? the rest of Parson's short life and magical career was a troubled affair. What tangential results may it have produced? 'Parsons opened a door and something flew in,' to paraphrase an opinion that Kenneth Grant has done his share in promoting. Was his experience in the Working just one more stepping stone in Hubbard's career to become the bare-faced messiah of Scientology? It certainly appears to have been a pivotal point in time. 

The use of Enochian Magic takes its lead from the 'Vision and the Voice' Workings of 1909, with Crowley and Neuberg wandering around in the Algerian desert invoking the Aires. It is here we get the first formal introduction to Our Lady Babalon; she is never mentioned as such in 'The Book of the Law' which only refers to the Scarlet Woman. Was Cameron simply Parson's Scarlet Woman?   

[The Double-Wanded One]

Peter Grey's "The Two Antichrists" was actually a great read for what it's worth: ufile.io/1xte1w1o

[The Double-wanded One]

One thing I always keep coming to back with the strange Jack Parsons drama and the Babalon Working is Liber Cheth.

I don't know if there is any info out there indicating that Parsons knew anything about Liber Cheth, but it is itself a single-chapter Class A Holy Book specifically about Babalon and how one must devote themselves to her (which I compare quite strongly to Liber Legis 1:61).

So we have Liber Legis which doesn't mention Babalon by name (of course she is the "secret name" of Nuit). Then we have the Algerian Working were we first finally get all this detail about Babalon, her role and so forth.
And she is of course quite essential to all of us.

But then in 1911 we get Crowley writing Liber Cheth, which is number 156.

In the Book of Lies we get chapter 49 on Babalon.

Then we get Parsons with Liber 49.

And of course the content between Cheth and Liber 49 are very different and I still wonder about how one would hypothetically relate them to each other.