Lon Milo DuQuette - Ask Baba Lon: Answers to Questions of Life and Magick

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I NVOCATION OF THE
T URBAN

I am a man, like any man,
With feet of clay and cheeks of tan.

But when I wrap my turban on
The Gods are near.
Im Baba Lon.

I eat too much. I drink too much,
A greedy, selfish such-and-such.

But when I wrap my turban on
My mind is clear.
Im Baba Lon.

A lazy coward, vain and violent,
Chatter on when I should stay silent.

But when I wrap my turban on
I have no fear.
Im Baba Lon.

Im mean and cruel like Genghis Khan,
Spend too much time with the TV on.

But when I wrap my turban on

Great Truths appear.

Im Baba Lon.

When I wrap my turban on
The Gods are near. Im Baba Lon.

from Invocation of the Turban

Writing is a presumptuous profession. Do you actually believe I talk like this in everyday conversation? I dont. The moment my fingers start tapping away at the keyboard, falsehoods pour onto the page, and whatever pathetic glints of honest mental clarity I may temporarily possess are immediately smothered in crapulous affectations.

There! See what I mean?honest mental claritypatheticglintscrapulous affectations Do you actually think I go around the house dropping phrases like that? Not bloody likely! Its all such a charade! (I hope you heard me lugubriously drawl the word charaaaaahde with an affected proper posh British accent daawling.)

But what can I do? As a writer Im never alone. There is always an unseen ear listening to my voice, and long as there is an audience Im going to play to it. It cant be avoided. And so it would be eminently fair for you to ask me how I can play to the audience and still present a genuine Lon.

A few years back, after having written a half-dozen books on magick and other such matters, I took it in my head to write a book on practical Qabalah. Its a subject around which much controversy swirls. Because I am a house-and-garden variety practical qabalist and not an orthodox speculative qabalist, I knew I was going to have to be especially careful to avoid treading on sensitive traditional toes. I was not looking forward to having to do so by applying yet another layer of pretense to my work.

But then it occurred to me that I could step on all the toes I wanted to if I wrote the book pseudepigraphically. (Dont worry. I had to look it up too. It means I wrote the book pretending I was someone else.) Stuff like that was done all the time in classical Jewish literature. Id sit down and create an outrageous, very