08 Jun Amodali
Amodali
LECTURE
Babalon, the Body 156, and the Elixir 49
Amodali presents artwork that documents her post-Thelemic, practice-led approach to the use of bodily fluids within an experimental model of sex magic dedicated to the Thelemic goddess Babalon, described as the “Body 156”. This practical system cultivates underexplored aspects of embodied erotic consciousness through a processual, alchemical framework that assigns active magical agency to independent women practitioners. The Body 156 practices incorporate seven distinct stages of erotic-magical self-cultivation, using innovative sacred technologies that produce altered states of consciousness, mind–body transformations, and an alchemical pharmacopoeia of psychophysical secretions—viewed as biognostic, revelatory aspects of Babalon. The process culminates in the distillation of the “Elixir 49”, a substance that activates the Body 156 into its fullest potential as an active, posthuman, unifying force that emerges through a process of erotic-somatic theophany. These practices suggest avenues for further research into grounding divine, erotic femininity through sex-magical exploration of gynocentric, queer, and posthuman dimensions of the “156 Current.”
Bio
Amodali is an independent scholar, practitioner of sex magic, multidisciplinary artist (M.A., Fine Art, LJMU), and writer. Her forty-year-long experimental research project into sex magic and the Thelemic goddess Babalon focuses on excavating the phenomenology of erotic, altered states of consciousness; retrieving underexplored psychic and physical aspects of the female “magical body”; and constructing experimental, experiential sacred technologies.
She employs ritual performance, extended vocal techniques, collage, and sculpture/installation—alongside her personal magical praxis—to explore, document, and communicate embodied experiences of “Babalon consciousness”.
She is a contributor to the anthology A Rose Veiled in Black: Arcana and Art of Our Lady Babalon (Three Hands Press, 2016), and the author of The Marks of Teth: Babalon, the Body 156, and the Post-Thelemic Sex-Magic of the Holy Harlot (Three Hands Press, forthcoming). Since the 1990s, she has staged ritual performances dedicated to Babalon and the 156 Current, and exhibited her artwork internationally.
