Liber 418. 3rd Aethyr. said:
Moreover, there is Mary, a blasphemy against BABALON, for she hath shut herself up*
[*footnote: She seeks to resist Change, which is Life, she refuses the Formula, "love under will."
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Μαριε (Greek) = 156.>]
III x 55 = 165. QLLH, Qelalah - Curse.
Mary inviolate obviously refers to the Virgin Mary. She is a classic avatar of Binah, but with one big problem. Binah is the root sephirah of all receptive femininity, and that is exactly what Mary is not. Even after being knocked up by God almighty she still managed to keep her virginity. That's quite a feat.
While this distorted deific image of Binah served a purpose during the Aeon of Osiris, it also had some quite nasty side effects on women. Mary is closed off and anti-sexual. Setting this image up as a shinning avatar of perfect femininty cast some pretty deep shadows on real flesh and blood women. Unless they chose to be nuns and rejected their sexual nature they could never live up to the ideal. The idolization of the supposed spiritual sanctity of virginity instantly relagated any sexually active woman to a kind of lower tier status. But it is that very sex-negative aspect of Mary that must "torn upon wheels". The symbolism of wheels suggests (revolving)revolution and change to me. When the false veil is torn away the real Binah is revealed - BABALON! All that Mary was is subsumed within Babalon (Μαριε = 156 = Babalon), but the false veil of restriction is gone.
As one friend quipped to me once. "All hail the Holy MILF."
To me the part about despising chaste women seems to be tied in with the wrong headed idolization of virginity. The cultivation of sex-negative or "uptight" attitudes and ideals based on the assumption that there is some sort of spiritual virtue inherent in denying the sexual impulse is nuts in my opinion. A woman who has sex as a true expression of her Will is more "
pure" than anyone pretending to be a nun. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Obsevations on the structure of the verse.
There are 19 words in this verse. 19 is the numerical value of the Hebrew, ChVH, the biblical Eve. The legendary first woman. Also the 19th path is Teth - Atu XI Lust, which proudly displays Babalon astride the Beast.
There are 7 words before the colon and 12 after. For some strange reason my intuition keeps bugging me about this. But it's not clicking at the moment. A possible bit of feminine symolism? 7 - Netzach - Venus? 7 Planets? 12 signs of the Zodiac worn by the Empress?
This is the 55th verse of the third chapter. 55 is the mystical number of Malkuth. This may point to the reintegration of the earthy, physical aspects of the divine feminine.
This verse is also the 200th in the book as a whole. 200 is the numerical value of the letter Resh - The Sun. The glyph of the Sun is the point in the circle and is a form of the Lingam-Yoni and divine Union.
*Note: I just finished typing the last few words and immediately performed the noon adoration (Liber Resh) to the goddess Ahathor (Hathor). Right in the middle of it a phrase popped into my head. "The Woman Clothed with the Sun." (Revelation 12.)