Temple of Babalon

By Oliver St. John

What's Temple of Babalon about?

Welcome to the Temple of Babalon Podcast. Oliver St. John is a founder member of Ordo Astri, an Independent Thelemic magical Order based in the UK. Our audio podcasts are for those with a serious interest in Thelema, Hermetic and magical philosophy, practical magick, mysticism, and the occult.

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Temple of Babalon episodes:

01.15.2021
Babalon Unveiled Episode 7 Oracle of Babalon
Series 2 Episode 7: We open with the first part of ‘Liber 930’ from Phoenix–and other Stellar Rites of Initiation, the Neophyte ritual. Our discussion begins with ‘The Way to Bubastis or Way of Knowledge’. The Left-hand path is frequently...
12.15.2020
Babalon Unveiled Episode 6 Thunder Perfect Mind
Series 2 Episode 6: We open with a reading and comment on Thunder Perfect Mind. The Gnostic scripture has proved baffling to scholars, yet the enigmatic text resonates with the voice of Babalon as heard through the ages. We present...
05.10.2020
Babalon Unveiled Episode 5—Scarlet Woman, Babylon the Great
Series 2 Episode 5: We have arrived at the heart of Babalon Unveiled! Thelemic Monographs. In the Scarlet Woman “is all power given”. The Serpent Power animates the life of the Scarlet Woman, radiating from the ‘star’ contained within her....
03.14.2020
Babalon Unveiled Episode 4—Ultimate Tarot Journey, Lineage of the Magi
Series 2 Episode 4: We open the programme with the Ultimate Tarot Journey. This is not a pathworking but an investigation into the ingenious placement of the 22 trumps on the paths of the Tree of Life. We here place...
01.27.2020
Babalon Unveiled Episode 3—Witches, Vampires, Afterlife and Imagination
Series 2 Episode 3: Previously, we have discussed the Thelemic Gnosis independently of the mainstream or orthodoxy. Esoteric Thelema returns the Gnosis to its ancient Egyptian source. There is no need to appeal to the writings of Crowley or his...
12.22.2019
Babalon Unveiled Episode 2—Magick, Talismans and Sexual Magick
Series 2 Episode 2: We resume Lapis Philosophorum, the Stone of the Wise, the first monograph in the book Babalon Unveiled. In the previous episode we gave additional background information on the way that knowledge of the true state of...
11.21.2019
Babalon Unveiled Episode 1—Esoteric Thelema
Series 2 Episode 1: In this new series, we will focus on Esoteric Thelema and the book, Babalon Unveiled! Thelemic Monographs. We will reveal that Thelema is an extremely ancient initiatory path that predates the Indian and Tibetan Tantras, the...
04.25.2019
Ritual Magick Foundation
Temple of Babalon Podcast 03: In this first series of Temple of Babalon podcasts we will provide an overview of the grades of initiation. We begin here with the Foundation, the work of a Probationer to the Order. Heather Carmen...
04.25.2019
The Oracle of Babalon: Daughter of Fortitude
Temple of Babalon Podcast Episode 02: On 23 May 1587 Elizabethan mage John Dee and his clairvoyant assistant Edward Kelly performed a simple rite for the purpose of instruction “in the understanding and practice of wisdom”. The result was a...
04.25.2019
Tarot Alchemy Podcast
Temple of Babalon Podcast Episode 01: This podcast tutorial is for those who want to learn how to practice and understand the method of Tarot dignities based on the four classical elements of fire, water, air and earth. To apply...
01.20.2018
Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part Two
Episode 21: We continue with the extraordinary fiction writing of Lord Dunsany. His early tale, Journey of the King, explored realms of Qabalah, magick and the Nightside years before Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant did so in a more technical...
11.24.2017
Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part One
Episode 20: We will discuss the extraordinary fiction writing of Lord Dunsany. His early tale, Journey of the King, explored and even illustrated realms of Qabalah, magick and the Nightside years before Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant did so in...
09.22.2017
Liber 373 Magick of Earth and Stars
Episode 19: We discuss Liber 373, the seven rites and seven seals of the Dragon Star. The Dragon Star is a series of tantrik initiations that has its basis in the Qabalah and Hermetic Tree of Life. The Elizabethan sorcerer...
07.22.2017
Thelemic Mysticism and Jacob Boehme
Episode 18: We discuss Thelemic mysticism, with a particular emphasis on the practical side of things. The saints and sages down the ages were not all ‘up in the clouds’. We will demonstrate this with some readings from The Confessions...
04.07.2017
The Phoenix and Nightside Astrology
Episode 17: We will look at the book entitled, The Phoenix and other Stellar Rites of Initiation. Heather Carmen and Oliver St. John perform a dramatisation of some of the Phoenix Ritual. We also include here Astrology of the Holy...
03.08.2017
Astrology of the Holy Guardian Angel
Episode 16: We move on to the grade of Dominus Liminis and investigate relations between the Holy Guardian Angel and the astrological natal chart. We therefore include an overview of the subject of Hermetic Astrology. Astrology is frequently neglected by...
01.28.2017
Building an Astral Temple and Thelemic Initiation
The grade of Philosophus 4=7 is here discussed. We look at the subject of building an Astral Temple. The magical temple is conceived as a pyramid in the grade of Neophyte, but it does not stop there. The ‘Z’ formula...
10.20.2016
HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part Two
Here is the second and final part of the H. P. Lovecraft short story, The Haunter of the Dark, narrated by Oliver St. John. © Oliver St. John 2016 © ‘Endecha’ Prelude in D Minor by Francisco Tarrega performed and...
10.20.2016
HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part One
In Episode 12 of this series we discussed the new book, ‘Dreaming Thelema of Kenneth Grant and H. P. Lovecraft’. The book features 17 surrealist paintings created as part of the project. It also includes three complete short stories by...
09.19.2016
Beyond Metaphysics: Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and Gematria
A short lecture on the grade of Practicus, the third initiated degree. We will be discussing various aspects of the grade work and Ordo Astri, the Order of the Star. Also included is an entertaining, illustrated talk focussed on the...
06.17.2016
Thelema: Romance of the Magical Orders
Temple of Babalon Podcast, Episode 11: Thelema: Romance of the Magical Orders. “What is a valid magical Order?” “What is Thelema?” These are frequently asked questions. As there is so much doubt and confusion around Thelemic magical Orders, Oliver St....
03.18.2016
The Interview: Magical Life and Work of Oliver St John
This podcast episode features an in-depth interview with Oliver St. John, who is usually the host of this podcast. Oliver St. John is the author of books on a range of esoteric subjects, including the magical philosophy of Thelema, Hermetic...
10.23.2015
Magical Pathworking
We are still dealing with the grade of Zelator, the second initiated degree. The grade of Zelator is symbolised by Yesod on the Hermetic Tree of Life, and symbolises the full entry into Yetzirah, the Qabalistic world better known as...
07.25.2015
Enochian Magick
We now pass from the grade of Neophyte to that of Zelator, the second initiated degree. The grade of Zelator is symbolised by Yesod on the Hermetic Tree of Life, so sometimes the 2=9 grade or Second Degree is called...
05.02.2015
Kenneth Grant and the Witches Sabbath
Who or what is this Devil, adored by the witches? The term itself, “Witches Sabbath”, is archaic and bound up with many false trails. A Catholic clergyman dreamed up ‘Witchcraft’ in the 15th century – and all the trappings of...
03.22.2015
Magical Talismans Part Two
Previously we explored some of the work of a Neophyte in the magical grade of Earth, especially the formula of magical talismans. Here we continue with the grade of Neophyte, and will complete our discussion of magical talismans with a...
12.13.2014
Magical Talismans and the Neophyte Grade
Temple of Babalon Podcast 05: Previously we explored the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and the Middle Pillar Exercise. We now pass from the grade of Probationer to that of Neophyte, the first initiated degree. The grade of Neophyte is...
11.22.2014
The Middle Pillar Exercise
Temple of Babalon Podcast 04: Previously we explored the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram in detail. Continuing with the Foundation work of a Probationer, we will now discuss a cornerstone of modern Hermetic Tantra-Yoga, known as the Middle Pillar Exercise....

What's Temple of Babalon about?

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Temple of Babalon episodes:

Babalon Unveiled Episode 7 Oracle of Babalon

Babalon Unveiled Episode 6 Thunder Perfect Mind

Babalon Unveiled Episode 5—Scarlet Woman, Babylon the Great

Babalon Unveiled Episode 4—Ultimate Tarot Journey, Lineage of the Magi

Babalon Unveiled Episode 3—Witches, Vampires, Afterlife and Imagination

Babalon Unveiled Episode 2—Magick, Talismans and Sexual Magick

Babalon Unveiled Episode 1—Esoteric Thelema

Ritual Magick Foundation

The Oracle of Babalon: Daughter of Fortitude

Tarot Alchemy Podcast

Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part Two

Lord Dunsany Journey of the King Part One

Liber 373 Magick of Earth and Stars

Thelemic Mysticism and Jacob Boehme

The Phoenix and Nightside Astrology

Astrology of the Holy Guardian Angel

Building an Astral Temple and Thelemic Initiation

HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part Two

HP Lovecraft Haunter of the Dark Part One

Beyond Metaphysics: Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant and Gematria

Thelema: Romance of the Magical Orders

The Interview: Magical Life and Work of Oliver St John

Magical Pathworking

Enochian Magick

Kenneth Grant and the Witches Sabbath

Magical Talismans Part Two

Magical Talismans and the Neophyte Grade

The Middle Pillar Exercise