Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Awarded an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Södertörn University (Sweden). She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores issues of gender and sexuality in modern Western esotericism, occultism, and new religious movements.

Eloquent Blood is a rich, courageous book, with many layers of concept and debate... A text to be read, considered carefully, and debated by all scholars of modern and contemporary esotericism.

• Acknowledgements I. Encountering the Scarlet GoddessII. Divine Women, Femmes, and Whores: The Theorization of Multiple FemininitiesIII. The Scarlet Goddess and the Wine of Her Fornications: Crowley, Babalon, and the Femme Fatale 1898-1909IV. Yielding Peaches and Women with Whips: Babalon, Crowley, and Magical Systematization 1911-1947V. Her Banner is Unfolded: Babalon and Scarlet Femininities in the Writings of Jack ParsonsVI. Kundalini, Kalas, and Qadeshim: Babalon and Femininity as Other in the Writings of Kenneth GrantVII. Intermezzo: Contemporary Occultism and ThelemaVIII. "It All Goes in the Cup": Receptivity and Unstable Polarities in the Contemporary Babalon DiscourseIX. Feminist Difference: Babalon and the Hope of an Alternative FemininityX. Inhabiting the Uninhibited: Babalon, Sexual Politics, and the Liberation of the Desiring Feminine SubjectXI. Possession and Dispossession: Embodiment, Ecstasy, and Erotic DestructionXII. "Like Fire and Powder": Erotic Destruction and the Eloquent BloodXIII. Bibliography

Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Awarded an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Södertörn University (Sweden). She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores issues of gender and sexuality in modern Western esotericism, occultism, and new religious movements.

Eloquent Blood is a rich, courageous book, with many layers of concept and debate... A text to be read, considered carefully, and debated by all scholars of modern and contemporary esotericism.

• Acknowledgements I. Encountering the Scarlet GoddessII. Divine Women, Femmes, and Whores: The Theorization of Multiple FemininitiesIII. The Scarlet Goddess and the Wine of Her Fornications: Crowley, Babalon, and the Femme Fatale 1898-1909IV. Yielding Peaches and Women with Whips: Babalon, Crowley, and Magical Systematization 1911-1947V. Her Banner is Unfolded: Babalon and Scarlet Femininities in the Writings of Jack ParsonsVI. Kundalini, Kalas, and Qadeshim: Babalon and Femininity as Other in the Writings of Kenneth GrantVII. Intermezzo: Contemporary Occultism and ThelemaVIII. "It All Goes in the Cup": Receptivity and Unstable Polarities in the Contemporary Babalon DiscourseIX. Feminist Difference: Babalon and the Hope of an Alternative FemininityX. Inhabiting the Uninhibited: Babalon, Sexual Politics, and the Liberation of the Desiring Feminine SubjectXI. Possession and Dispossession: Embodiment, Ecstasy, and Erotic DestructionXII. "Like Fire and Powder": Erotic Destruction and the Eloquent BloodXIII. Bibliography

Manon Hedenborg White holds a PhD in the History of Religions from Uppsala University (Sweden). Awarded an international postdoctoral grant from the Swedish Research Council, she is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Södertörn University (Sweden). She is currently a guest researcher at the Center for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam. Her research explores issues of gender and sexuality in modern Western esotericism, occultism, and new religious movements.

Eloquent Blood is a rich, courageous book, with many layers of concept and debate... A text to be read, considered carefully, and debated by all scholars of modern and contemporary esotericism.

• Acknowledgements I. Encountering the Scarlet GoddessII. Divine Women, Femmes, and Whores: The Theorization of Multiple FemininitiesIII. The Scarlet Goddess and the Wine of Her Fornications: Crowley, Babalon, and the Femme Fatale 1898-1909IV. Yielding Peaches and Women with Whips: Babalon, Crowley, and Magical Systematization 1911-1947V. Her Banner is Unfolded: Babalon and Scarlet Femininities in the Writings of Jack ParsonsVI. Kundalini, Kalas, and Qadeshim: Babalon and Femininity as Other in the Writings of Kenneth GrantVII. Intermezzo: Contemporary Occultism and ThelemaVIII. "It All Goes in the Cup": Receptivity and Unstable Polarities in the Contemporary Babalon DiscourseIX. Feminist Difference: Babalon and the Hope of an Alternative FemininityX. Inhabiting the Uninhibited: Babalon, Sexual Politics, and the Liberation of the Desiring Feminine SubjectXI. Possession and Dispossession: Embodiment, Ecstasy, and Erotic DestructionXII. "Like Fire and Powder": Erotic Destruction and the Eloquent BloodXIII. Bibliography