1944 · CLOSE READING
The Book of Thoth
The Book of Thoth (1944), PDF p. 129
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LUST
BABALON1
In Atu VII, the charioteer bears the Grail, from the Great Mother. Here is the Vision:
“The charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe‐inspiring, like a very large and very
distant bell: Let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup
is the blood of the saints. Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babylon the Mother of Abominations,
that rideth upon the Beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth, and lo!
she hath mingled it in the cup of her whoredom.
“With the breath of her kisses hath she fermented it, and it hath become the wine of
the Sacrament, the wine of the Sabbath; and in the Holy Assembly hath she poured it out for
her worshippers, and they have become drunken thereon, so that face to face have they be‐
held my Father. Thus are they made worthy to become partakers of the Mystery of this holy
vessel, for the blood is the life. So sitteth she from age to age, and the righteous are never
weary of her kisses, and by her murders and fornications she seduceth the world. Therein is
manifested the glory of my Father, who is Truth.
(“This wine is such that its virtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the in‐
toxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compas‐
sion. I understand by ‘Compassion’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true wor‐
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