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I have recently become obsessed with occultist, actress, O.T.O member, and O.G. California scarlet woman Marjorie Cameron, famous for her principal role as Babalon in the Babalon Working ritual which she played in 1946 with husband Jack Parsons(who would later die in a mysterious mercury disaster) and L. Ron Hubbard(who would later become the founder of Scientology.)
In the Babalon Working ritual, she would play her  role in a series of sex magick rituals in order to bring forth the Æon of Horus through the conception of a moonchild, a ritual developed by Kenneth Grant and Aleister Crowley.
Cameron also played the scarlet woman in Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome and Curtis Harrington's The Wormwood Star and Night Tide.
After her husband's death she went on to raise her daughter and spent a great deal of time with my surrealist sisters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, who I think are very much reflected in her illustration style.


"she met Parsons after he performed the Babalon Working, an occult rite to manifest the Goddess potential in society and throughout the human race."


 
Collaged images above done by myself for my digital class featuring the artwork of Marjorie Cameron with photographs and pants I am modeling by Aly Roberts.

MOOD: The Secret Society

In process of new research for my integrated methods//concepts class. After mind-mapping my ideas have kind of scattered. My starting point was with the architectural/decor/regalia/iconographic aspects of the masonic temple, see LIL TREK
From there, I looked into the Rosicrucian roots of Freemasonry which are even richer in cryptograms and symbology. Rosicrucianism, being an older esoteric society has strong ties with the church as well as paganism and has influenced the development of many occult societies and erotic mysticism alongside Freemasonry. Given that Aleister Crowley and Kenneth Grant, along with 7 other notable occultists and Oscar Wilde(who has no ties to the occult that I know of), were all at one point freemasons, I felt a strong tie between my research on the masons and the work of Kenneth Anger especially in Lucifer Rising being that the connections between ancient Egyptian religion are so strong between the film, Thelema, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Anger, who was heavily influenced by Crowley, the occult--especially Thelema and the Typhonian Order, while being a strong figure in the Los Angeles Ordo Templi Orientis lodge was crucial in the development of homoerotic, surreal, underground films. In the digitally collaged mood boards below I have also incorporated stills from Bunuel's surrealist film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.