The Goetia of Jabba the Hutt

I have been trying to reassess my first encounter with Goetic spirits - which was several years ago, flipping through a book of A.E. Waite's seals, and then having this tremendous vision open up of pretty much what was Jabba the Hutt sitting in a pile of dead leaves, beginning to get a wide grin as he looked up and made eye contact with me. I ran outside and set the book on fire. I guess that could be considered what was my introduction to Ceremonial Magick.

A well known magician made the offhand comment that perhaps this was Bifrons. Why did the spirit appear to me as Jabba the Hutt? Why was that book - that was given to me by someone who said that it was "too dark for them" - why was it so "active"?

The more I think about this, the more I dig into Hutt lore. The Hutts were galactic gangsters. Jabba's influence was highly sought by the Galactic Republic as well as the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and in the age of the Empire, Darth Vader was sent to Jabba by the Emperor, who sought an alliance. As highly powerful crime lords, the Hutts were courted by just about everyone who sought power and influence. Very interesting.

I believe it was said by Rufus Opus somewhere, that the Cthonic spirits of the Goetia - demons - they are the heavy lifters of the material world. I first read that or heard it when I was deeply entrenched in the intellectual games of Calvinism. We have a saying in Augustinianism - "evil has purpose". Not so much with Arminian theology. Evil just kind of is something waiting to drag you to hell. Suffering has no meaning - and their "moralistic therapeutic deism" has some Caucasian guy with long hair, blue eyes, and white robe, who is a nice dude who will, we are promised, save you from all of life's suffering and trials.

Within the view of a total Sovereign of all creation - well, we must say with Luther, that the devil is God's devil. That evil is purposed, and that suffering has purpose. Take a look at those people who lead soft lives, untouched by the harsh realities of the world. You think God wants that for you? It a pitiable state. It's the state of an overgrown immature spoiled child with no way of coping with reality.

For those who wish to tackle this idea of a total Sovereign, I highly recommend listening to R.C. Sproul, as well as his book, The Holiness of God. Hell is populated with the disgruntled employees of God. Rebel of your free will, and find that this was figured into the eternal Will of God before the foundations of the Earth were lain. Very frustrating for rebels, very comforting for the adapted - or adopted if you like traditional terms.

My point with this is that the Neo-Platonic idea of demons being the material world's gangsters - who go about as heavy lifters, as catalysts for growth - this fit perfectly for me with my understanding of a reformed (i.e. logically exegeted) Biblical theology. Much more truth resounded here than within the echoes of Arminian televangelists promising no problem would ever again beseech the faithful (for installments).

This is why I believe that the spirit, perhaps Bifrons, appeared to me as Jabba the Hutt. He was conveying to me something I could understand:  "Hey, I'm a big deal. I get things done. Like a gangster. Like Jabba the Hutt. In this world, those that need things done, come to me. Just know who it is you are dealing with. I'm the guy that can make things happen. Yeah, see?"  Now, remember Han Solo frozen in carbonite?

You cannot imagine how it felt to be before such a creature - and just out of the blue - from one minute flipping through a book to the next in a visionary and pretty horrifying, yet later quite amusing experience. In my vision, he seemed only 4 or 5 feet away from me. The vision had me kind of coming in from above him, and him looking up with that grin. One thing I don't quite understand is why he was sitting upon a pile of dead leaves. I guess it sort of fits with the decaying swamp world of Nal Hutta....