The weekend after next I will be presenting at the Babalon Rising Festival in Springville, Indiana. Babalon Rising is a great pan-Thelemic festival and I have presented there for the last couple of years. Here are the presentations I will be giving this year:
Thursday, 11 am. The Enochian Great Table.
The Great Table, also known as the four Enochian Watchtowers, is one of the most famous components of John Dee and Edward Kelley’s system of Enochian magick. The Great Table is the second received portion of the Enochian system following the Heptarchia Mystica. This presentation will cover the basics of my method for working with this portion of the system as outlined in my book Mastering the Great Table, and will include an Enochian ritual calling on the Kings of the four Great Table quadrants.
Thursday, 1 pm. Star Sapphire Class.
Most Thelemites are familiar with the Star Ruby, Aleister Crowley’s “improved” version of the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. The Star Sapphire is the complementary hexagram ritual, corresponding to the Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram. Crowley’s description of this ritual in The Book of Lies is short on stage directions and contains several points that are symbolic and require interpretation. This class will cover how to perform this ritual in a practical way and clarify Crowley’s vague instructions.
Friday, 2 pm. Revisiting The Equations of Magick.
Peter J. Carroll first published his magical equations in the 1992 book Liber Kaos. At the time, those equations offered an innovating approach to the understanding of practical magical effects. The chaos magick system is built around the ideas represented by those equations, and views magical results as arising from the manipulation of probability. As a Thelemite, my work is heavily influenced by several key chaos magick concepts, particularly in terms of calculating probability shifts and testing results. To that effect, I have spent the last thirty years or so refining Carroll’s equations based on my own results. This presentation will review Carroll’s equations as published and then present my own updates and reinterpretations of its factors for audience consideration.
Saturday, 11 am. Programming the Universe.
Using new technologies as metaphors for magick has a long history, from electricity in the early twentieth century to computer technology today. Computer programming, in particular, involves symbolic representations, sequences, and structures that give it much in common with the design of magical rituals. Building on my 2024 talk on Thelemic Thaumaturgy, this presentation will explore various advanced concepts that I have found as effective in magical ritual as in software design. As a professional software developer for more than thirty years and a magical practitioner for even longer, I have found that this overlap is especially useful for designing powerful practical operations.
Hope to see you there! It’s going to be a great festival. I also will have books available for sale in the vending area.
Scott Michael Stenwick 