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2) Light candles and torches
3) Ring bell 9xs
4) Invocation of Deities such as Satan and others.
5) The blessing of hell.
6) Drinking from chalice or goblet.
7) The Initiation Procedure.
A) Warshipful Master: And now that I am filled with the power of Satan within me I have the power to grant your wishes should it please me to do so. Wast no moment of ilfated chater as it will incure my anger, so lift up your heads and tell me your desires!
Initiate knocks nine times on the door and a member of the procetion or congregation says: Worshipful Master there is an alarm at the door!
W.M. Attend to the alarm.
Said member goes to the door knocks nine times and cracks the door saying: Who seeks entry here?
Initiate whom is dressed in a white robe and chains aroun his/her wrists and anckles says: One whom no longer lives in ignorance and craves the knowledge of Lord Lucifer.
Participate: You may enter the chamber of Satan and proced with your initiation.
The initiate then walks up to the Worshipful Master.
B) W.M. What is your name? Initiate gives legal name or one that it is to be known within the community. And then it is explained to the initiate the rights and privileges as associated to the order if such exists.
C) W.M. You may now proced to the first of three stations of the ceremony.
The initiate comes to the first station of whom a "Rabbi" is expecting him/her while he/she is accompanied by two participants.
Rabbi: I am a high priest of the temple of Judah, from henceforth the true and faithful religion has sprung up. I extend my hand with the true holy texets so that you may know the truth.
Initiate: I deny the existence of your deity and proclaim that Judaism is a false religion built upon lies.
The Rabbi taps the initiate on the forhead while saying that he/she will be damned for life and the initiate falls backwards while the 2 participants catch her him and is raised back up.
Initiate then goes to the next station and approaches the "christian" whom says upon arrival: I am the minister of the truth that has been taught to the apostles by Jesus the Christ, I ask you do you except Jesus into your life as your Lord and Savior?
Initiate: The crucifix symbolize paled incompetence hanging on a tree. The so called Gospel of Christ was written no sooner then decades after his supposed life and therefore cannot be truth. I deny the existence of God Jehovah, Christ the son and the Holy Ghost.
Christian: You are surely damned into the fires of Hell.
The Christian then taps the initiate on the forhead, whom falls backwards and is caught by the two participants from behind.
The initiate now approaches the Islamic leader.
Muslim: It is my sworn duty to convert you to Islam or destroy you.
Initiate: Then destroy me because Mohammed was a lier and a child molester.
The Koran is tappet on the initiates forhead and falls backwards. However this time the initiate is gently layed down onto the floor and a funeral march is now played.
D) W.M. (now reading from Lovecraft): The time would be easy to know, the mankind would be like Great Old One's; free and wild and beyond good and evil; with laws and morels throughn out the door. And with all man shouting and killing and revealing in joy. And then the old ones will reveal new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves and the earth would flame with a holocaust of of ecstasy and freedom. Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of the Old ways and shadow of there return. In the elder time chosen men had talked with the entomed Old One's in dreams, but then something happened.
He cut himself off hurriedly, and no amount of persuasion or subtle could elicit in this direction. The size of the Old One's, too, be curiously declined to mention. Of the cult, he said that he thought that the contry lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Irem, the city of pillars, dreams hidden and untouched. It was not allied with the European witch-cult, and was virtually unknown beyond its members. No book had really hinted at it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there where double meanings in the Necronomican of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, which the the initiate may read as they choose, especially the much discussed couplet:
That which is dead may eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
With this pronouncement, the initiate springs to life and, if possible, may stand up under her/his own power.
Note: This rather long so I'll post the remainder at a later point.
Since Homosapian left the nomadic life and formed agrarian then civilized society the environment has changed from hunting in the bush to surviving in the city.
With that transition into an artificial environment came behavior born of that environment. Much like a coyote exhibits a certain behavior in the wild, their canid counterpart succumbing to urban sprawl, sees their behavior change along with the habitat. Successive generations born with "the city" in their genetic memory.
Where would our species be without the defiant few to stand in Iconoclam? Throughout history The Jesuses, The William Wallace's, Joan of Arcs, and Malcolm X's have made the more significant change.
Are they naturally defiant? Can you find evidence in the human genome for predisposition to oppositional behavior?
Not entirely.
What you get is a mix of heredity and environmental factors causing it. (Link below)
But it is another 1/10 abnormality prevalent in the behavior of the population, as is about the standard clip with such regulatory deviations, like homosexuality.
But why does it happen?
The behavior serves a direct beneficial need. In the case of homosexuality it arises most in overpopulated environments. (See every Ape cousin in captivity, like chimpanzees).
But what of other behavioral traits? Breeding provides progeny but ideas regulate the social code.
To use another dog example; wolves are orderly creatures with a "lucifer principle" pecking order and instinctual decorum. Except every so often, and through socially aggressive behavior, this is challenged. New alphas elected, formers deposed. And not always the biggest or strongest.
Almost every mammal exhibits this tendency. This power struggle and caste system.
That same aggressive order defiant tendency is medicated and called a disease in our civilized society. An attempted sequestering of Iconoclasm to administratable form. In human environments these "pack laws" take on an abstract and artificial form, civilization.
Control mechanisms like government and god are the Alphas in our society, and lacking defined cohesive packs, the casting is through overreaching ideas that eventually get woven into genetics as much as the pack behavior of canines. Most are complacent in "doing what is expected", and the society actually rewards this obedience.
But what of the defiant? The martyrs? Those who reject the reward and thrive through social disruption? Those who exhibit aggression towards authority?
They are prospective alphas. They are leaders and crazy people. Those naturally wired to exhibit disruptive behavior and challenge for control, if only for themselves. They prevent stagnation and promote the species through adversarial means. They get crucified, disemboweled, burned at stake, or shot by Plymouth Rock. As society will always attempt to reign in such behavior. Even things such as criminal justice and phrases like "civic duty" and "social responsibility" are things corrected like Grady's daughters.
It is my belief If everyone was drugged to block that chemical inhibitor with another chemical like antidepressants you'd likely see an resistence to the drug become more prevalent, like you see with current behavior modifying drugs
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Interesting articles or books on behavior and/or genetics of animals.
I used to be on this site a long, long, *breathing intensifies* long time ago. But since I only know about three people on here that are still (kinda) active from before SIN had a glow-up, allow me to introduce myself.
Again, hi, I'm Kat. I'm a visual artist out of Detroit, Michigan. I joined this site about five or six years ago, got banned, made a new account, then got banned three more times after that. At the time, I lived in Kuwait, where any word of the Left-Hand Path caused middle-aged men to cut off whatever body part they felt was appropriate for the time (I'm kidding, kind of).
Since being openly non-theistic in the Middle-East, I've had death threats, knives held up at me, not being accepted into most high-schools because of cOnTrOvErSy. It's been fun.
Now in 2019, I've gotten out of Kuwait, joined a coven, learned to drink liquor straight, and I get married in 6 weeks.
Tell me about yourself.
The recent film THE WITCH captured the essence of these times perfectly as did the Paintings of the Old Master Goya and the book WITCHES by Erica Jong, the artwork of that book so evocative that it stirred in me past life memories of the Old Times of Medieval Witchcraft and Devil Worship.
It is impossible to tell how old the practice of Witchcraft and Elemental Magick merged with Diabolism and Demonic Sorcery is, the Modern Atheistic Satanist would have you believe that this connection never existed and that Satanism arose with the writing of Anton LaVey but this is not so.
There are many documents of Witches over the centuries practicing Workings with Satan, Historical Records of such practices of the Black Mass, Witchcraft and Satanism being practiced alongside each other such as in the infamous case of the 'affair of the Poisons' which through the Court of King Louis XIV of France into chaos and revealed the Unholy practices of such people as Madame de Montespan, Abbe Guibourg and the Poisoner LaVoison.
These events definitely influencing the later writings of the novelist JK Huysmans in the same country with his excellent fictional Satanic piece LA~BAS (DOWN THERE).
But in much older times we can see the origins of the merging of Demonic Sorcery and Witchcraft with other Arcane elements ~ for example there are reports of the sister of the first of the great Alchemists Zosimos of Panopolis (who was practicing and teaching is Arts in around the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 4th century) Theosobia utilized forms Elemental Witchcraft and Alchemy along with Demonic Evocation, a practice which Zosimos constantly warned her against being a practioner of the Right Hand Path.
The merging of Diabolism and Dark Witchcraft has been with us for centuries and underground Covens still practiced these Arts into the late 1980s and early 1990s as I know from personal experience . . . it is a merging of great power which has sadly faded or maybe returned to its secret Cabals in the shadows since the rising of LaVeyan Satanism and Wicca (two paths while being workable and suited to some are indeed pale imitations of the Mysteries of the former practices of Diabolic Witchcraft.
Satanic Witchcraft (also at times termed Diabolic Witchcraft or Infernal Paganism) is possibly the darkest and most powerful of all Left Hand Path Traditions and - if one can find proper working material on the subject - a Tradition of Magick which is one of the most raw and easily accessed.
Many of the Old Grimoires on Magick contain extensively long preparations and Rites and endless lists of tools and requirements, but in truth Magick is not about the equipment or archaic observations it is about the actual projection of will and desire united with elements to connect us to the realms of Spirit and other worldly power ~ the very basic practice of Animism and Image Magick (the most ancient form of Magickal application) can be as powerful as a Rite of Ceremonial Magick which may last for two hours.
It is my intention here to bring an interest back in the Practice and Workings of Satanic Witchcraft, a revival of the Old Mysteries of a time when the Moon would be the only observer of the Dark Operations of the Witches gathered at the Black Sabbat of the Devil, Our Lord Satan.
To kindle once more the Magick, beauty and power of the ways of the Dark Arts of the Devil's Kindred in a time when Magick was raw and the power of its practice primal and potent!
Artist: Black Sabbath
Song: Symptom of the Universe
Lyricist: The Prince of Darkness
Lyrics:
Mother moon she's calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seven hundredth unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
With our love we'll ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies.
These are rather on point lyrics for a working class English catholic.
These lyrics epitomize the essence of RHP attainment for me despite that take being consistently rejected by almost everyone.
And in a way worth beating like a dead horse too.
Abstraction: The quality of dealing with Ideas rather than events.
In my opinion this is the line between "born v made". The ability to have that quality. In short: satanism precludes spiritual prediclection. The way of the godly and abstract serene is naturally rejected.
In another one of my rejected opinions this is actually more accurately represented in the East in some might say an overly general way.
In Hinduism you have a concept called Atman.
Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means inner self, spirit, or soul. In Hindu philosophy, especially in the Vedanta school of Hinduism, Ātman is the first principle: the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual.
In Buddhism you have the rejection of this called Anatta.
In Buddhism, the term anattā or anātman refers to the doctrine of "non-self" — that there is no unchanging, permanent self, soul, or essence in phenomena. It is one of the seven beneficial perceptions in Buddhism and one of the three marks of existence along with dukkha and anicca.
The first of these holds truth to concepts without proof. There is more to reality and self than what we can sense. The second holds reality and form is only what we can sense and experience in our short impermenant lives
And I believe this gets the ball rolling, and is more inherent to character of the individual than just rejection of transient status quo or imprinted philosophy. As those in the anatta camp are more likely to be highly skeptical of those "spiritual pipe dreams" (faithful predisposition). This non-belief to the mystical translates into non-belief in authority or imposition.
A practical example:
As Seen in a footprints poster.
Can the concept of God's whatever carrying you through your tough times do a damn thing for you? Can a belief in something abstract provide comfort to you?
Can The Symptom of the Universe and its sky unicorns do a goddamned thing for you?
Or do you need practical and observable materialistic solutions to bank any sort of hope? Does it need to be real and deal with what's real, what is phenomenal?
Can you light a few candles, chant some names and feel like cosmic forces will protect you?
Or does even the psychodrama fail to do you a damn bit of good without a consistent outcome you can affirm to experience?
Likewise can you accept that from any imposing authority figure?
If forced to be in the Atman camp under subserviernt circumstance, could you do it?
Or if ideological (or even real) inquistions forced you to kiss a papal robe would you take the metaphorical (or real) guillotine? .
Would an insolent fire burn within making you wary of such faulty epistemology? Could that trend towards self immolation in defiant protest of such an artificial authority?
At the heart of this (pun intended) is faith, or posessing an ability for its productive use in day to day peaceful attainment.
If god is submission to ideas and protection through faith than the adversary must stand antithetical to these qualities, not appeal to divine protection, and naturally discard use for any "symptoms of the universe" in the process.
Dr. Phil Analogy of the above: In the Satanic Bible if the first two books are like the first part of a sentence; than the second two books are the word "but" contradicting everything you said previously.
MemberAs a Satanist, self-worship means to me applying most if not all of the categories of treatment generally regarded to GODS by other religious to oneself, not just metaphorically or euphemistically, but honestly and fully. I've thought long and hard about this, in part because i sought such worship of my Goddess and in part because i think it is an egotistical challenge to worship myself actively, rather than merely as part of some interest in outrage or humour.
I'd list those categories as:
• exaltation -- supernalizing in a personal and emotional sense for the time being of the worship; regaling those present with the glories and virtues of the focus of worship; praising aloud and with sonic volume, singing or dramatically portraying these virtues; celebrating the being and character of that entity, and particularly their importance to the worshipper and to the wider world. (lifting up from above)
• obeisance -- subordinating oneself before that entity or intelligence, especially physically before objects of worship inclusive of statues, images (generally 'idols') conceived as in some way representing and/or participating in the presence or person of the entity being worshipped; recognizing and paying tribute overtly to the dependency we have upon that entity, how their existence is central, essential, or of extreme importance to the continuation of what we value. (lifting up from below)
• ardour -- expressing emotional devotion in whatever capacity and role is pertinent (guardian, grandparent or parent, uncle or aunt, spouse or sibling, lover, friend, or comrade, cousin or child, pet or mascot; reciting or reading poetry, singing rapturous love songs, recounting tales of sweet, deep, and abiding love, attesting to the heights and depths which this love did, could, would, or will inspire, (establishing intimacy out of love on variable footing)
• alliance - declaring with force and faith one's solid testament to the entity, portraying, describing, or artfully depicting the tests to which this loyalty and compact has been put, establishing by dint of accompanying testimony and proof in endeavour (as by rite, blood pact, etc.) one's thorough commitment to the cause of the other. (establishing strength out of trust of a comparable equal)
You ask if the things you mention count (to me) as self-worship ('with that end in mind'? not sure what this means), and i will take them each in turn below:
-- giving yourself adoration and devotion: too vague.
-- loving the person one has become: fairly weak, perhaps a start.
-- appreciating one's finer qualities, self-improvement, attention to integrity, intentionality, and health: weak but a good start.
-- admiring one's own image as part of ordinary affairs: merely vainglory, but headed in the right direction if pursued to purpose.
So i'd have to say no they do not count, and i think i have made the extremity and intensity of ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT OF PRAISE AND DEDICATION, particularly in a ritual and ceremonial sense, clear as a criterion.
For Satanists i have repeatedly made it plain that i think it will be helpful for them to study in some detail how other religious conduct their worship, catalogue this to an extent, as i have, and then exercise this with respect to oneself, as i have experimentally achieved with canonizing myself and paying tribute to myself as a saint while attempting a communion with the Saint of Occultism.
{interlude after which further questions seemed important to put forward}
So does worshipping oneself create a sense of other? Does worship of a god predispose or necessitate the division of that object of worship into an other?
Let me broaden this a bit for philosophic purpose: ALL images of oneself are different than oneself. An observation of a mirror will demonstrate to us that the image is reversed right-to-left. A video reflection or phone-camera reflection for a selfie are very close, but as soon as we snap the photo to capture that image, the person of whom it was an image (us in the past) is necessarily different than our present being.
Thus the worship of oneself might be likened to a god in that we are always, when issuing devotion or exaltation, turning our worshipful attention to the PAST of the god. Why a god would necessarily need be different than ourselves is nothing i can answer. Is canonization something new or different, and does the fact that this is popularly issued by large churches make it of a different character than (and thus a more authentic version of) what we are doing?
I had already identified with the Jesus character many times, with bodhisattvas, with spiritually advanced images, prior. Prophethood, identification of my birthplace as a holy city (on account of my having come from it), was both arch and genuinely felt.
When does ego outstrip the usefulness of our activities as regards ego expansion with interest toward self-development? I suppose that once one integrates disciplines of humility and non-self-destructive asceticism that this curtails some if not all of the negative effects of egotism exercises, with titles, self-re-envisioning, and dramatic rite, role-playing, or faking-it-until-making-it.
You ask what connection there is between the object of worship and the idol. I suggest to you that you could merge those magically and therefore prevent any distinction through a spell (comparable to making a doll-baby of yourself and unifying with it, but instead doing it with a candle or a statue or a photo, and then directing your obeisance and dedication to that object).
Yes, there is a common TEMPORARY distinction, just like with all idols and most states of consciousness. Very few bhakti yogis can engage in worship sufficient that the idol *becomes* the very deity during that worship. For most religious that is an unimportant and merely ephemeral distinction operating during the prayers or worship event.
Troll Towelhead, Grand Mufti of Satanism
Has this been sold to us by some conspiratorial secret group on Madison Avenue hoping to bring about a Satanic Aeon? I hope so, and if it has been, I'll kiss the sphincter of the High-Mucky-Muck-Templar or whatever I have to do to be on the winning side of the conspiracy. I look good in a robe, and really they're more comfortable than pants (I never wear clothes under my magic robes).
Fuck yesterday. OCD has me digging up old shit; proof reading and putting up to satisfy my compulsion. I distance myself for a day in disgust like Andrew Wyeth running away from his work so he wouldn't either fuck it up or be driven mad by it.
Followed by trying to use up perishable shit that my girlfriend buys and lays to waste in the fridge; the avocado was beginning to rot so threw that out but salvaged some of the other.
Some of the aforementioned made me feel a little ill when eventually followed by psychoactive so briefly retired to bed with the cat for a few; now a new day and feeling a bit better.
Was thinking about Cadillac Mountain for some reason, some friends recently ventured there with photos to show, so now I will go.
Dead east about eighty to a hundred miles in the vicinity of Bar Harbor, may have to zig zag a bit to avoid bodies of water.
Could have just went but had to write this as if to be stricken with some sort of sickness, and yeah, fuck yesterday.
Today is a new day with consciousness to be re-elevated twice more, modestly - going on 1:00 AM.
That's Wolfism in a nutshell. I've stopped calling it "Satanism" because I'm tired of debating the meaning and history of that term. Wolfism is what I say it is because I say so. If you align with it, feel free to join me in it.
Psychology, philosophy, and poetry are the three pillars
of personal power.
The Devil Inside lusts after the ego. To submit and
surrender is to activate integration and achieve the unification of your mental
powers. The legion of forces in your brain unite under one general and mount a
coordinated assault on life.
The technique I use to bring Devil and ego into coitus is
basic ritual, for example a curse like this one.
Alone in a dark room at night, light two red candles.
Recite:
“[Name]! Hated One!
The ruin of your reality cannot be fled.
The reign of my wrath is in your head.
Order, sanity – dead.
Cthulhu! Cthulhu is in your head.
Dread dread dread dread dread.”
(Repeat as many times as desired.)
Extinguish the candles.
The
Devil Inside lusts after the ego. Ritual is how the ego “spreads its legs.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
MemberPatience
Able to wait for past tense
Heartache as days give away
Like wrapped gifts
Putting time into grips
Relatively lacks sense
Still I'm holding on with grasped fists
Act as if going on is easy
Believe me, I plead for you to still have a reason to need me; even
After you've weathered all seasons
Trying to be on time like I'm late for a meeting. Hearts bleeding
As everyday that pass by
I pray that I remain in your light
If you can stand and stay for the night
That you see me again,
It's a means to an end
I'm restless, rustling as leaves in the wind
As it blows by, I hope I can show time
It's no lie, this lone mind won't always be froze right? Hourglass is closed tight
Sand steady falling. No longer hopeless
In moments notice I'll be steady ready
For my calling. I'm all in.
You can see I've been writing a lot
Now I'm writing to the sound of a clock
Tic-tock as ink drops like the tears from my rage that can finally escape with every turn of the page as the hands of time turn like the world through the days.
The Glamour of
Self-Confidence:
“Blessed are the
arrogant who walk like kings, for the earth knows its master.”
Any of the “Bad
Attitudes” from WOLFISM XIX can form the nucleus of a catharsis ritual, but
only if it speaks to you and only if you’re able to have fun with it. If the
one identified above meets those criteria for you, then make it the core of a
cathartic ritual for yourself, and perform it. The effect of repeated
performances, over as long a time as feels right to you, will be to kill the
part of your Superego that functions as the jailer for your natural
self-confidence.
I use the word “glamour”
in its archaic sense, and I use the British spelling because it’s more likely (at
least for us Americans) to conjure up archaic connotations. Vampires were said
to have the power of glamour.
Self-confidence
bewitches the observer. A job applicant who is self-confident in an interview is
more likely to get hired. A hopeful lover in pursuit, who is self-confident, is
more likely to get a “yes” to a question like, “Can I buy you a drink?” – or, “Want
to get out of here?” A manager who is self-confident in meetings is more likely
to get promoted. A con artist who is self-confident is more likely to be
believed. A salesperson who is self-confident is more likely to make the sale.
A boxer who is self-confident is more likely to intimidate his or her opponent.
A long-time lover who is self-confident is more likely to get a “yes” to a question
like, “Will you marry me?” A stage performer who is self-confident is more
likely to command an audience.
Why is self-confidence
so powerful? Evolution. Our natural instincts evolved over tens of millions of
years to favor self-confidence in lovers, leaders, and even followers, and to
distrust and disdain self-doubt, diffidence, nervousness, and timidity.
If you want to succeed
in life, self-confidence is mandatory. You have to learn it. Simple as that. No
excuses. Anything that helps you to learn it, or to unlearn self-doubt,
diffidence, nervousness, and timidity – Do. Do it now and keep doing it. Cathartic
ritual can help you with the unlearning. As for the learning, the best
technique is to roleplay (out in the real world, with real people, in real
situations where you're pursuing real goals) what you think self-confidence looks like. Just go for it. Do your
best. Fake it till you make it. Practice makes perfect. You’ll eventually,
maybe immediately, see positive results, and these will have the psychological
effect of watering the roots of your natural self-confidence, which will sprout,
flower, and bear fruit.
Also, here’s a little
trick: When you feel nervous in a public situation, tap your hand rapidly against
your thigh - out of sight if possible, but either way, just do it - because even
in plain view, your hand tapping your thigh is unlikely to draw attention, especially
if, while doing it, you’re boldly maintaining eye contact. This technique unobtrusively
dissipates the nervous energy. I’ve been doing this for over 40 years. It’s one
of the most effective techniques I’ve ever found.
No excuses. ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Member
Satan was not Crucified so a cross doesn't really figure in his story or iconography. Generally ancient Demons and Devils are portrayed as animal headed chimeras so a Baphomet or Pazuzu is far more Satanic than a Petrine Cross or the combined Lorraine Cross / Infinity Symbol or Sulphur (Sulfur/Brimstone) icon that heads the 9 Satanic statements page in the Satanic Bible. Most of this Cross business seems to come from teenagers either angry at Christianity or looking to be edgy with symbolism as nothing more than a fashion statement, accessorizing their way through life with badges, tattoos and pendants. Prior to the Roman Empire establishing the Cross as the symbol of Christ under the rule of Constantine the symbol of Christ was a fish, and still is to a lot of Christians. Satan predates Christ by a great many centuries so he's hardly gonna be defined by another religious figure's icon.
MemberNormally the drunken pretty person who is THE MODEL FOR ALL THEE PERFEKT POINDEXTER..
Walks across the street and pops her little skirted makedup ass into the back of taxi...
In the way that she expected to behave .. compared to say any dude with any money,,...
SHE MIGHT AS WELL SUCK THE DRIVERS FUKKIN COCK...
Now.. Before you say im crazy take my pills im just manhating again,...
Hear me out...
I was so fukkin rude and brutal in my language tone and ENTIRE BEING SAID
FUK U DRIVER IN EVERYWAY..
We even had to have a bery embarrassing conversation in where
SAMIR.. my driver.. said NO NO YOU CANNOT ACT LIKE THIS IN MY CAR!
aCTUALLY YOUU KNOW WHAT I CAN.. CAUSE I DO NOT HAVE TO ASK YOU DUDE HOW TO ACT.. OR ANYBODY ELSE FOR THAT MATTER..
So of course.. HE HAVE TO TRY..
SAYS TO EDME.. NONO!! NOT IN MY CAR.. THIS IS MY RIDE..
I SAYS .. YEA THAT IM PAYING FOR...
OK OK HE SAYS AS LONG AS YOU ARE PAYING.. I DONT CARE!!
HAHAHAHAHAH!!
WAIT IT GETS BETTER...
He turns around and he says to me...
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL.. REALY REALLY BEAUTIFUL..
Then he tries to find out exactly where I live..
He got out of the taxi and tried to follow me home...
I said SEE YA DUDE THANKS FOR THE RIDE.. IT WAS NICE...ch...
He said if you need cigarette I GET YOU CIGARETTE..
I looked at him right in the fukkin face and said..
MUTHER FUCKER I DONT NEED A GOD DAMN THING FROM YOU ..
THANKS FOR THE RIDE..
Poor Samir walked away with what looked to me like a poor broken HEART..
I think my Muslim driver fell in love with me because he couldnt beat the shit out of me for showing him the SAME LACK OF RESPECT THAT HE SHOWED EDME!!
HE DIDNT HAVE TO FUKKIN TALK TO ME!! BUT HE THOUGHT THAT WAS OK!!\WHY? THE FUKKIN WHORE FUK HIM!
So BUTTHURT AND BEYOND have I served
MY EVER SO GENEROUS COMMUNITY WITH BIG TIME THIS EVENING..
AND FUKKIN A
ITS SO FUN TO BE ASSHOLE LOUD MOUTH
MAKE FUN OF YOU RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU
MUTHA FUKKIN HAIL SATAN
EDME!!!!!!!!!!1
With the BEST FUKKIN TITS!
Hail the Darkness!
To be clear: I’m not
referring to something that exists in external reality, or that is self-aware, or
has agency. I’m referring to something that exists in every individual human
psyche: potential waiting to be tapped.
The Darkness is all
of the so-called “negative” emotions: anger, sadness, fear, aversion, misery,
despair, revulsion, horror, shame, humiliation, outrage, contempt, and
animosity, thirteen in all, which is why I call them the Thirteen Demons.
The Demon of Anger
grants the power of striking.
The Demon of Sadness
grants the power of absorbing a blow.
The Demon of Fear
grants the power of swiftness.
The Demon of
Aversion grants the power of dodging.
The Demon of Misery
grants the power of suspicion.
The Demon of Despair grants the power of
emptiness.
The Demon of Revulsion
grants the power of destruction.
The Demon of Horror
grants the power of self-protection.
The Demon of Shame
grants the power of self-awareness.
The Demon of Humiliation
grants the power of standing alone.
The Demon of Outrage
grants the power of brutality.
The Demon of
Contempt grants the power of oppression.
The Demon of
Animosity grants the power of war.
Each and all of
these can be accessed via cathartic ritual. First, select which power you will
need, then alone at night in a dark room, light your candles. Draw upward out
of your subconscious the memory of when you have known, personally and
intimately, the demon you now require. Picture the scene. Feel the so-called “negative”
emotion. Let it overwhelm you to whatever extent you are trained enough to be
capable of. Do not shrink from it. Let it burn! Then hail the Darkness, invoke
the demon, invoke the power, describe the need, describe your will, invoke the
power again, hail the demon, release the demon, hail the Darkness again, and extinguish
your candles.
You may add whatever
you like to the stripped-down version I have offered. Include whatever bombast
and pageantry your dark heart desires.
Never forget:
Nothing will happen in external reality until you go out into the world and
take ACTION to achieve your will.
“Hello Darkness, my
old friend.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
slicing though human meat with only my teeth. Absolute freedom from pain and deceit. Deciphering the meanings of past memories forgotten by me.
Only discovering something more disturbing than before I stare in disbelief at the wreckage and guinussnes of my work,
with disembodied victims scouring the earth
all layed to rest. I can only beg they see me for the true creation I was created to be!!
They'll never know or even begin to comprehend the trials and misfortunes ive overcome in just a short amout of time. Ill never show the true pain or celebrate the real gains ive vigorously accomplished on my own accord. But accordingly to everyone ive ever known and held dear to me ill never amount to anything. This is where my story dramatically takes a turn for the worse only to venture further inside my insidious completely hideous and viciously twisted beautiful mind behind these eyes you wouldnt believe the horrendous images ive grown to love and consider my calm and peaceful bliss of a life.
MemberWhen fire breathes it's last goodbye
Extinguishing the Suns lidded eye
The shade brings life as dark surrounds
And unexpected screams abound
Blood slithers down a rusty blade
Sheathed in flesh a soul to fade
A maniac smiles behind a mask
Relishing his demonic task
Footsteps echoing from behind
A sudden turn, no life to find
Exercising futility
Victims always franticly
Search in vain to find escape
From a most horrific fate
Fear surely gripping their hearts
It's claws will tear their lives part
And when it happens no time to run
An unexpected end begun
Pain shoots forth like lightning's flash
As hopes and dreams are burned to ash
Blood spilled across a dirty floor
The life that was now shuts its door
And from the body comes a sigh
Like fire breathing its last goodbye
Member
SILENCE:
Silence is powerful. Silence can cause confusion. Silence can cause decisions to be made against the humdrum of the mundane in life. Silence can cause wars. Silence is a deadly weapon. Learn to use it wisely Next time you wish to speak, question if your purpose would be better served by silence.
FINANCIAL INDEPENCE:
Money isn't the key to financial freedom; proper financial management is. There are millionaires today living paycheck to paycheck and their are lower level middle class families who have several years of savings. Financial stability doesn't care how much money you have, but much rather how you allocate and spend those funds.
YOUR FUTURE:
Investing in yourself. Invest in your financial future through the stock market. Invest in your career with schools, and other forms of training. Invest in your family and friends by spending time with them. Investing isn't a sacrifice. When sacrificing, you get nothing back; there is no return on investment. Just your situations carefully to invest, don't sacrifice.
And this list could go on. There are countless nuggets of wise information out there. Do what you already know you should be doing. If you don't know what to do, seek guidance. We are all falling short in one aspect or another. Strengthen your weaknesses. You owe at least that much to yourself.
MemberI get a lot of questions in regard to my ritual garbs and lifestyle. Instead of addressing these questions individually, I will give an explanation here for those curious.
I am currently in the purification process along the Left Hand Path with efforts directed towards achievement of monasticism in the practice of religion. I am not a fully fledged monk at this time. I am taking this time to adapt myself to the lifestyle of LHP monasticism. There is an incredible amount of discipline required in the daily routines of an LHP monk. The learning, adaptation, and eventual performance of these disciplines on a routine basis of being a monk.
Just to give an idea of some of these disciplines (as there are too many to account for) are the following: perform multiple dedication/devotional rites/rituals per day. I never allow my body to be present without a symbol of the spirits/Dark Arts. It encompasses everything in my life all the way down to getting dressed and undressed which has an associated ritual with clothing order, prayers, body postures, etc. My diet has been adjusted, the way I eat (ie: posture, observance of substance existence, amount of food, silence during the ingestion period, etc.) is all finely calculated.
If anyone has a question not listed here, let me know and I'll add it to the list. Thank you.
Q: What do you wear on a daily basis?A: 95% of the time I wear at least partial monastic garbs. I have varying levels of formality associated with monastic garbs. The highest tier of formality is as you see in my profile picture for dark meditations, divination, rituals, and ceremonies. Once I reach full monkhood, I will be wearing ritual garments 100% of the time. There can be no deviation from this.
Q: What do you eat?A: 90% of my diet is steak/meats, eggs, noodles, and vegetables.
Q: What is the most challenging part of your day?A: Pushing myself to exercise. I have to train all aspects of my existence equally. This is a balancing act and the symbol of Baphomet. I must train physical, mental, and spiritual. This can loosely be translated to inducing physical strain on my body, academic and thought provoking exercises, and religious studies and dedications.
Q: What do you do for fun?A: I enjoy studying other languages, chess theory, music theory, and movies on occasion.
Q: What kind of music do you like?A: In descending order, I prefer dark ambience, classical, and death metal.
Q: Can you have a girlfriend/wife as an LHP monk?A: Yes, however I cannot allow them to cause any major disruption of my monastic lifestyle. They don't have to be supportive, but they do have to accept my lifestyle.
Q: How long is the purification phase of becoming a monk?A: It could take anywhere from a month to several years. Some LHP practitioners willingly withdraw from the purification process. Purification is the process by which we are instilling the necessary discipline required of monkhood. It is the training ground of testing to solidify one's choice of monastic life.
Q: Why do you always wear ritual garb?A: I always wear ritual garb because I live my life as a continual on-going ritual. It proves my dedication to the spirits and is a constant reminder of where I belong and what I should be doing.
Q: What is your motto as an LHP monk?A: Dedication and patience. Through these two virtues all things may be accomplished.
As I don't feel like putting too much effort into this I will keep this one simple.
I have heard from several folks into the fruity shit that faith is the most important part of human life.
Fuck the shit. But maybe there is something true about that. Perhaps the LHP/RHP separation is whether or not It can work.
Begin:
In the world where there is an inverted Satan/Jesus thing going Satan is all fucked up.
Everything surrounding Satanism is all fucked up. From ritual to calling him father to all the spiritual belief put into it.
Everything about that Satanism is Christianity by another name.
What it breaks down to is attainment and how one goes about that. The essence of right-hand religion is a presence of abstract notions that provide a meaningful form of satisfaction to the practitioner.
The most face value RHP thing LaVey ever said was:
"If you deny the power of magic after having called upon it with success, you will lose all you have obtained."
What the fuck is that shit if not RHP religious attainment? Those last two books were like adding a "but" to a statement, it invalidates everything previously said.
The most profane is the denial of the abstract as significant. In the organics of Satanism it arises as people born with "genetic mutations" to check and balance the species.
They are few, but their purpose, their karma, is to be antithetical. They exist to prevent stagnation, be voices of dissent, players on the forgotten path, one that biologically is wired to reject a wandering status quo.
Evidence in double blind studies have shown that people without a VMAT2 (vesicular monoamine transporter) have very skeptical personalities and are innately turned off my herd behavior and religious thinking.
This seems on par, and actually sinks up more with what Satan should do regarding matter of faith.
Question. Discredit. Debunk. Deny. Provide alternate ideas. Satan is to lead people away from faith and undermine blind belief. To promote a stance of "Pics or get the fuck out" to matters of things not passing their standards.
** This is also political
My reason for this is simple. Of all the genetic mutations this one gives you a group not won over by the peace of extraneous godforms or commands of others.. A skeptical natural "against the grain" behavior is what truly makes it born.
My point being all you true believers doing rituals, even those that copout psychodramatically, are just deluded little white light sheep.
Antitheism and nothing else qualifies.
To make faith profane is the job of the devil.
End.
I would really appreciate hearing from you soon I'm also a
Satanic High Priest I'm from San Francisco California
Hail Satan.
High Priest Bravewolf
the rose of ebon bled crimson
dark pleasure fled my head and lungs
her lace like night, the moon is flesh
lady moon of blood-red clenched
by my shadow grasp and litanies sung
Memberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIfGj_55FHI
This is my take-away from what Charles Manson said in his interview. What are your thoughts?
1) The happiness doesn't come from everything we have or could have, but from our state of mind. We are only as free as our mind allows us to be.
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2) We will be going through changes, whether we want to or not. We will be forced by the ongoing of life to change. We might as well choose the changes we wish to undergo. We need to make change.
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3) People are too concerned with doing things they don't want to do instead of doing what they want to do. We spend our life in servitude of impressing others, doing as others command of us, instead of leading ourselves through our own lives.
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4) When people don't understand us, they will do whatever they can to take action against us in retaliation for being that which they don't favor. People will justify these things to themselves to keep their little bubble of happiness safe and in tact. Don't deviate from society, even if you are right, because it's that society who judges whether or not you are right. De facto/ De juro.
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5) How many people is our government responsible for forcing onto ventilators (through the development of manmade diseases), jamming pills down their throat (or shots into their arms), and killed? Look at what society has done to create and empower the government we have to enforce such things.
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6) Society sows seeds and expects everyone else to collectively reap the rotting fruits. Even if they didn't plant them. Terrible decisions are made to create monsters. When the monsters act like monsters, society acts appalled. As if society is nothing but model citizens doing the right thing at all times and making the best decisions.
It is non-sensical to create a monster and not expect a monster to act like a monster. Society is to blame for the seeds they sow. Individuals are to blame for the seeds they sow.
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7) We aren't responsible for anyone else actions other than our own actions. If only that could be more valued in today's society.
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8 ) If we focused more on what actually mattered instead of false hopes and living a fake life, we may actually find fulfillment in the life we are attempting to escape.
1. What is a "soul?"
2. What is a soul made from?
3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?
4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.
5. Where is this spiritual realm?
6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?
7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.
8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?
9. Summary.
9. Not that I would call myself a scientist, but science as a tool will only go so far; it's not that cut and dry in what category I would place myself, and once upon a time on another forum, one witch said to the other "There isn't a name for what he is.", maybe not, but I suppose 'Scribe' would suffice if nothing else.
Once science has been exhausted, either alone, or in combination with other methods, all that is left, as far as I can tell, are analogies, extrapolation, inferior reflections, and of course intuition as well as altered states are also of use. Not to mention various esoteric literature in which the wheat must be separated from the chaff.
And of course at the end of the day, one might inquire "Does any of it really matter?", and I would say the answer is both yes and no. The default answer should be that this reality is primarily about experience(the verb), which is mostly dependent on what any given individual was created to do, or, what they excel at, whatever it may be, in order for that particular 'verb' to be maximized, or said another way according to an avid mountaineer, chess enthusiast as well as Qabalist among other things(drug fiend). The Mega Therion...
The Devil Inside wants to feel alive in its flesh.
Death is coming for you. When it arrives, you in your
entirety will feed (metaphorically) Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies. But until then, your blood is
pumping, your lungs are filling and emptying, your intestines are conducting
their relentless chemical and zoological experiments, and your brain is
producing a holographic, multi-sensual movie in the theater of your skull, for
no audience at all except itself. Why let all of this go to waste? Find the
activities that make you feel alive in your flesh – and do them!
You have five senses, hopefully all functional. To the
extent you can - Drink the world of phenomena like a fine elixir! Feast your eyes
on all the world’s splendor. Treat your ears to all that is musical. Indulge
your sense of touch with every shape and texture. Exhilarate your tongue with
every delicacy. Breathe into your nose all the fragrances of life. And get out
from under your own roof! The chaos of crowds is a sensual kaleidoscope.
Boardwalks, bazaars, malls, avenues, museums, zoos – seek out the commotion of
living things in motion! Even if part of you doesn’t want to. Even if it’s
hard. I promise you – You’ll come to enjoy it. I did. And I was always the
bookiest of worms.
I dearly hope you have functioning arms and legs. If
you don’t, I hope you have other ways to navigate the world, perhaps by the
gifts of technology. Try to make time each day to move around! Do whatever you
can do that gets your pulse rate up. Don’t do it as a punishment or a
self-flagellation. Find a physical activity you can accomplish and tailor to
your own enjoyment – and do it! Even if you have to do it in a wheelchair. You
evolved from creatures who survived through agility and strength. Your
biological legacy is one of movement. Make dynamism a centerpiece of your day!
Movement is life. I promise you – You’ll come to enjoy it. I did. And I was
always the couchiest of potatoes.
Incorporate sexuality into your existence. You might be
surprised at how many on the Left Hand Path are basically celibate. If you’re
one of them – as I am myself – then you may choose to make use of what has long
been the internet’s killer app: porn. Or you may choose to engage in very
casual hook-ups. Or frequent the local go-go bar or strip club. Or take part in
some fetish scene. Find what works for you, be mindful of your safety, avoid
unwanted consequences, protect your health – and get frisky! Every cell in your
nervous system wants you to.
Live until you die! ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Conditioned to think of paint or pigment as color, but it's actually more of a magical substance that alters the frequency of rebounding light waves. Paint has no actual color, but its' material composition is magical in that it can alter ambient energy that results in a metaphorical pouring out of color into the microcosm via the visual mechanism - ergo - magic in plain sight. No pun intended.
The beauty, the aesthetics of color, and the pigments whose function serve as medium for the resulting energetic(serpentine) transverse waves that propagate the terrestrial as well as the aethereal medium.
One may call it science, but in all actuality, it is a single facet of a greater, and for all intents and purposes, ineffable illusion, that goes to the very core of existence, and beyond...
1. What is a "soul?"
2. What is a soul made from?
3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?
4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.
5. Where is this spiritual realm?
6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?
7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.
8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?
8. C knows what I'm going say here, and as a matter of fact, without checking, I'm pretty sure I already have. Not only here, but elsewhere on the forum as well. So I could just say 'acausal' and maybe post a music track, and that would be that, or, I could at least indulge a couple paragraphs while simultaneously steering clear of all but the slightest degree of redundancy. Wishful thinking, perhaps.
In order to formulate a reply here. The neat, tidy, and structural orderliness of this current reality construct must be vacated, following a descension into the chaos of which gods are born. So maybe a very brief descriptive loop of nothing : chaos : order : entropy(returning to chaos) : ad infinitum. It makes absolutely no sense how anything can emerge from a static eternal state of absolute nothingness, but in any event, these are the paradoxes of that which is, and that which is not, that require resolution - if that's your thing, you know, like maybe a side gig or something.
It's not necessarily trying to visualize a negative existence, because it's more like the absence of imagination, or any visualization. You can visualize the primordial Godseed, but a common error would be to visualize it within a spatial construct which is not the case. Probably the best route is just to 'say' that there was an eternity when nothing existed, and then something happened - to steal a quote from 2001 A Space Odyssey : something wonderful.
So, the spiritual realm, and everything else came into being via this mysteriously magical and wonderful 'saviour' from this dreaded eternal nothingness, this magic that forever, without cause, causes the wheels of eternity to be forever in motion, with music and whatever else, as opposed to an eternity of silence - ignorance may be bliss, but I still go with the former.
Thus, the cosmological constant has now been upgraded to an acausal element which is not a constant, constant, but more of a recurring constant in that all times past, and all to come, it...
I believe I recall that C said that she likes INXS, so this is a good wrap on this, plus I may do a supplemental follow-up here, just for the hell of it.
MemberThere are two areas of concern for which we should care; one more so than the other. The physical realm and the metaphysical/astral plane(s).
I do not believe we are physical beings living in a one-time trapped life here to pass into nothingness. I assert that we are strictly spiritual beings enclosed within this weak physical carcass, governed by the weaknesses of the mind which is controlled by our spiritual conscienceness; the soul. Our spirit will live on beyond the residual echoes of our will (ie: ghosts). We are more than that.
THE BODY:The necessity to care for our physical body promotes the health of the organs to permit successful workings through being well rested, physically strong, and mentally alert. Our bodies are the weakest part of our being, but through rigorous exercise and proper diet, we will chase away tiredness, slothfulness, and other distracting aspects of the body which only exist to weaken us. We all know how to care for our bodies. We know what we should and shouldn't eat. We all know at least basics of exercise. We have all the required tools to feed our knowledge base to grow in this area; the internet. Don't allow your body to bottleneck your most important work; spiritual practice. The stronger the body, the stronger the mind.
THE MIND:The care of our body has an effect on our mind. By adhering to the above, our mind will then become the bottleneck to our being. Strengthen the mind by reading the appropriate grimoires, philosophy books, and academic materials. Increase the proficiency of your mind through thought provoking exercises such as playing chess and studying computer simulated 'best moves', playing music and integrating a more technically sound creative melody by adding such ideas as note skipping, arpeggios, 5th and 7th notes, etc. Find ways to create mind-blowing experiences which open new creative doors of possibilities. This type of expansion of the mind exponentially increases strength. Don't allow your mind to bottleneck your most important work; spiritual practice. The stronger the mind, the stronger the spirit.
THE SPIRIT:Our spirit is the only eternal part of the self we have. Everyone has spirit and uses the strength of the spirit. When athletes show to 'have heart', they are actually pushing forward propelled by their conscience efforts with spirit. When someone is fighting for their life in the hospital, the only way to survive is to not allow their spirit to be broken. This is us. This is who we are. Meditate, ritualize, concentrate. When everything else in this world passes, we will be spending an eternity with only our spirits left of what we have here. Dedication of life should be in the pursuit of the betterment of the self, the spirit...
TO THOSE WHO DON'T BELIEVE:To embody the highest of LHP progressive principals: the greatest form of advice I could give came from a man much wiser than me. I'm a big fan of quotes as others who came before me once said it best:-"Live as though you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever". ~ Mahatma Gandi-If one were to live their life by this quote, our [both theists and atheists of the LHP] actions would be the same although our beliefs would be different. This is one of the reasons I pull to all LHP practitioners in the spectrum. Our methods are similar but with differing perspectives. Keep strong, don't give way to those things which don't matter. Be what you visualize as your apotheosis. Hail and farewell!
1. What is a "soul?"
2. What is a soul made from?
3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?
4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.
5. Where is this spiritual realm?
6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?
7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.
8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?
5. Everywhere, and nowhere. Right off, I can entertain three instances where spirit will manifest. The most obvious first would of course be the primordial spirit which is manifested everywhere; transparent as an aspect of reality, because it is reality.
Second would be the zero point, or, zero volume manifestations which are subsequent and individual perspectives of the primordial which would be as numerous and diverse as the experiential physical vessels within which they are lodged.
And lastly there is quite possibly a subtle dimensional overlay that is superimposed upon our four dimensional reality construct. Spirit has very little if any mass, so the greater the volume the less the density which could render them anywhere from sparkling points of light to ghostly silhouettes and everything in between.
Apparently with some spiritual phenomena, and somewhat an analogy. It appears that some experiences require consciousness to be 'tuned' to a particular range of 'frequencies' such as with the Machine Elves of dimethyltryptamine(DMT), or the Shadow Persons of diphenhydramine(sleep-aid) - definitely not recommended.
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1. What is a "soul?"
2. What is a soul made from?
3. What or who or how did the stuff that makes souls come into being?
4. What exactly is meant by "spiritual?" Define that word/concept precisely.
5. Where is this spiritual realm?
6. Is this spiritual realm finite or infinite?
7. What is this spiritual realm made out of. It's fundamental building blocks. Like we can say that protons, electrons, and neutrons are the building blocks of the physical realm.
8. How did this spiritual realm come into being?
4. According to my model. If you begin with the root aspect of primordial spirit. Which would initially exclude the three spatial dimensions, although the dimensional aspect of 'time' would be an integral part of this spirit, but at this prior stage it would only be time 'within' the primordial. It would not be time as change which is observed in a developing universe since the aethereal expansion has not yet occurred.
So it can be seen that when observed through one lens, that every evolving element of this primordial spirit is just another of its' many faces. Although typically when referring to spirit it is the incorporeal, living, and elusive that we are getting at - the animator, or, ghost in the machine. For some machines an adequate analogy would be the electricity that drives them, in which they would otherwise be dead, although oddly enough, electricity in its' manifested form is not even energy, technically, it is the flow of electrons which are fermions, or, matter particles.
The Spirit In The Sky
Spirit is your fate and burden, spirit is your destination.
Hail the Darkness!
Demon of Shame:
HAIL! I feel you press me in from all sides. I feel you all along the length and
breadth of all of my skin. I was not the self that I thought I was. How can I be
this other self? I have treacherously betrayed what I thought were my convictions!
Do I deserve even to live?
Demon of Humiliation:
HAIL! I feel you burn like real heat. My face, my ears, my shoulders – they’re
on fire! How can I face ever again the ones who did this to me? How can I show
my face in public? I have shown myself to be weak and stupid! They were right
to mock and kick me. To laugh and taunt me. I am beneath them.
Demon of Outrage:
HAIL! I feel you pull me forward. Your hooks in my jaw, at my collar bone, in
my shoulders, at my chest – they tug at me! I must leap upon this creature that
dared perpetrate what I cannot – what I will not – allow to pass unpunished. I
must teach it the error of its ways and the lesson must be unforgettable. Let
there be PAIN!
Demon of Contempt:
HAIL! I feel you stretching me toward the sky. The skin, bones, and muscles
from my head to my feet are pulled taut like rubber bands and I feel taller,
like a giant. This – this thing – is small like a bug, so small, so easy for me
to squash underfoot. But I will not. I will capture it instead and pull off its
limbs one by one. If it screams – I will laugh. Why not? It exists for my
amusement.
Demon of Animosity:
HAIL! I feel your adrenalin pump in my veins. I feel you alter my state of
consciousness. Every part of my body is on high alert. I am poised and ready to
pounce. The enemy has entered my domain. The truce is broken. All peace is
expelled from my pores. My world has a new name: Battlefield.
Hail the Darkness!
(Any of the above
can be incorporated into cathartic ritual if it fits your infernal aesthetic.
You can of course modify them if your own bodily experience differs from mine.)
“Hello Darkness, my
old friend.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Devil Inside, its predator’s instincts awakened, indulges
noble envy and noble arrogance, not vile envy or vile arrogance.
I will define two terms: a “cur” is someone weak and
stupid; an “apex” is someone strong and wise.
I will also state my assumption: All have the right to
compete for the prize. None have the inalienable right to win it.
Now:
On losing to an apex, noble envy will seek to increase
in strength and wisdom and compete again with renewed vigor. Vile envy will lash
out like a little bitch or else wallow in misery and despair.
On losing to a cur, noble envy will investigate the
flaws in the game that allowed such a topsy-turvy outcome, and then will devise
a new strategy, as ruthless and crafty as befits the situation. Vile envy will lash
out like a little bitch or else wallow in misery and despair.
On defeating an apex, noble arrogance will instruct the
bystanders, by word and example, in the proper etiquette of never shaming an
apex. Vile arrogance will mock the apex to whatever extent it can get away
with.
On defeating a cur, noble arrogance will take pleasure
in all being right with the world, and then will set the matter aside, not to be
thought of again. Vile arrogance will bully the cur.
Win or lose, be noble, not vile. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Hail the Darkness!
Demon of Anger:
HAIL! I feel you inflate me like steam in a balloon. I feel you behind my eyes,
and in my jaw, my shoulders, my spine, and my loins. I see my antagonist
painted red. I long to stomp! I long to crack bones, to crush and grind bones.
Demon of Sadness:
HAIL! I feel you well up inside me like hot water filling a basin. I feel you
behind my eyes, and in my throat, my chest, and my stomach. I have endured a
great loss. I long to lie down, to wither and die, and be buried. But I do not,
for I live, and what lives must go on living.
Demon of Fear: HAIL!
I feel you jolt me like an arc of electric current. I feel you in the back of
my head, all over my face, in my shoulders and elbows, in my loins, and in my knees,
ankles, and feet. It came suddenly: Danger! I need to run. Away from here, to
somewhere else – I need to run!
Demon of Aversion: HAIL!
I feel you pulling me like strings knotted to my insides. I feel your tug in my
eyes, in the front and back of my head, in my neck and shoulders, in my knees,
ankles, and feet. This – this thing – it is not to my liking. It must not touch
me, nor be near enough to me that I can smell it.
Hail the Darkness!
(Any of the above
can be incorporated into cathartic ritual if it fits your infernal aesthetic.
You can of course modify them if your own bodily experience differs from mine.)
“Hello Darkness, my
old friend.” ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
What is philosophy?
First, let’s be
clear: there are two kinds. Academic philosophy is the sister to science and
mathematics. Literary philosophy is of a different family, that of novelists
and playwrights. I’m a literary philosopher. I follow in
the tradition of other literary philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Camus, and
Santayana.
Academic philosophy
concerns itself with propositions to be debated, bringing in the points and
counterpoints of as many other philosophers as would be illustrative, and then
debating the merits of them all. Literary philosophy, by contrast, has a
different aim entirely, which is to describe. To describe the world and life in
the world as the philosopher sees it, often in a narrative form, often with
picturesque language, often autobiographically.
Academic philosophy
concerns itself with propositions that require proof. It avoids inductive
reasoning, which is reasoning from personal experience to make global
assertions. Academic philosophy considers inductive reasoning to be
illegitimate because personal experience can never be proven to be globally
valid. Literary philosophy, by contrast, has no problem at all with inductive
reasoning, because literary philosophy doesn’t concern itself with proof, but
rather, with assertions that emerge organically from the general experience of
living in the world. Its audience is not the rigorous logicians, but rather,
anyone whose general experience of living in the world is such that the
philosopher’s assertions ring true.
Literary philosophy has
an aesthetic dimension, as is certainly true of Nietzsche, Camus, and Santayana.
Reading them is like reading the exposition in novels and plays. Their prose is
crafted not as a dialectic (a word that makes me think of “diuretic” and with
good reason) but as journalism, or history, or the narration of a documentary
film. They have far more in common with the essays of George Orwell than with
the gray analytics of Kant.
The poet John Keats
wrote in his Ode on a Grecian Urn: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that
is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” The literary philosopher finds
much to agree with in that, demurring only due to this key point: Ugliness,
too, is truth, and truth ugliness. Literature in all its moods is wisdom.
Perhaps the foregoing
will assist you in understanding me. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
The Glamour of
Severity:
“Blessed are they
whose malice is a thing of beauty, for theirs is the highest art.”
If this is your
first “Glamour” post, read the Note at the bottom before proceeding.
Over the long
history of human apes, the very top spot in the collective, the apex of the
pyramid, has often gone to the individual who was most creatively and
mercilessly severe. As archetypes, consider Genghis Khan and Joseph Stalin. Why
has this pattern persisted over untold millennia?
The most obvious
answer is not the right one. Individuals didn’t line up behind Genghis Khan or
Joseph Stalin because they were physically afraid to do otherwise. Not
initially, anyway. Eventually, yes, but not in the early days. One man, even a
Genghis or a Stalin, is easily dispatched by ten men, or a hundred, or even
just one skilled assassin. Without the apparatus of the collective wrapped
around him, no individual can survive when numerous rivals or opponents decide
he has to die, and the mere fact that they feel physically threatened would be
enough to decide them. So what, then, is the answer?
Glamour. The glamour
of severity. There is something in human instinct (especially among betas and
omegas) that responds with subservience when confronted by unrestrained and
sophisticated severity.
Severity done right
is an art form. What is art? It is creativity undertaken to evoke a
psychological response, and done skillfully. Glamour, in all its variations, is
art. Let severity, then, be undertaken to evoke a psychological response, and
let it be done skillfully, with the long-term goal being ascension up the
pyramid of organizational power.
The long-term goal
is critical to keep in mind. Severity for the sake of severity is sadism, which
has its own satisfactions, but is not a glamour and will not reliably set your foot
on the next higher step up the staircase. Sadism, in fact, can become self-sabotaging,
especially if it becomes addictive, and Ego (the reality principle) is ignored.
Let the goal of ascension be the lynchpin of your art, around which all else
revolves.
Skillfulness is also
critical to keep in mind. What is skill? In this case it is clarity of
rationale, of intention, of technique, and of observation. Why have you
selected this target at this time? What exact punishment do you intend to
inflict? How exactly will you go about it? How will you know if and when you
have accomplished your will? Skill also entails self-discipline. In this case,
self-discipline has to do with knowing if and when to abort and deciding to do
so. If your rationale is unclear, or your intention is muddied, or your
technique is unsure, or your observational vantage point is obscured, or you
observe the fact that your actions aren’t having the intended effect – Abort.
It should go without
saying that severity, to be a glamour, has to be done publicly, unless you are
only trying to influence the target of your actions. There may in fact be times
when you apply severity to someone specifically to achieve the subservience of
that person and only that person. But often that person will be of little use
to you. In fact their uselessness may factor into your calculus for selecting
that person in the first place. When such is the case, your severity will need
an audience in order to be a glamour and accelerate your ascension. As with
everything else, be skillful in the selection and management of your audience
and venue. In fact, apply all the same guidelines as discussed in the previous
paragraph: clarity of rationale, of intention, of technique, and of
observation. Also apply the same self-discipline around knowing if and when to
abort and deciding to do so.
Finally, know
yourself. The glamour of severity isn’t for everyone. You can probably already
feel in your gut if this glamour is for you. Trust your gut on this. If it’s
telling you to abort before you even start, my advice to you is: Abort. At
least until you do the necessary mind-work to reorient your intellect and
emotions. Don’t rush that process.
If you have the
right ears to hear, then hear: Spare the rod and spoil the ascension.ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Note:
Any of the “Bad
Attitudes” from WOLFISM XIX can form the nucleus of a catharsis ritual, but
only if it speaks to you and only if you’re able to have fun with it. If the
one identified above meets those criteria for you, then make it the core of a
cathartic ritual for yourself, and perform it. The effect of repeated
performances over as long a time as feels right to you, will be to kill the
part of your Superego that functions as the jailer of your natural instinct for
severity.
I use the word
“glamour” in its archaic sense, and I use the British spelling because it’s
more likely (at least for us Americans) to conjure up archaic connotations.
Vampires were said to have the power of glamour.
The Glamour of Audacity:
“Blessed are they
who take the biggest portion, for because of them, the meek will go without.”
If this is your
first “Glamour” post, read the Note at the bottom before proceeding.
Taking the biggest
portion is an example of audacity. People like to talk about wolves versus sheep.
It’s more fruitful to look at wolves versus other wolves. In a pack you have
the alpha, the beta, and the omega (the bottommost). In human terms, the omegas
are the meek. But what makes an alpha? People will tell you that the alpha
feeds first. But why? And how does the alpha achieve its rank? Is there some
lupine gladiatorial contest, in which the last wolf standing assumes the top
spot? No.
The alpha doesn’t
feed first because it’s the alpha. The alpha is the alpha because it feeds
first. Because it dares to. Because it assumes it can get away with it and it
capitalizes on that opportunity. Audacity is how it claims the top spot. It
feels the audacity within itself and expresses it. The beta and omega wolves
smell the audacity and defer to it. This is a potent and useful glamour. It
works for humans too. All else being equal, the one who dares to feed first, or
take the biggest portion, or call dibs on the best office, or claim the best
bedroom, or court the best mate, or stake out the best real estate, or choose
the best table or the best seat – that individual announces by such actions
that it is the alpha, and all else being equal, the other humans will assume
their beta or omega positions. What could be more potent or more useful than
that?
There are, of
course, three points of prudence to consider:
1. Identify any
others in the group who practice audacity themselves or who will resist your
practice of it. These are rival alphas and their strength and cunning must be
accounted for in your calculus.
2. In our human society,
which is far more complex than a pack of wolves, predefined hierarchies exist.
Identify anyone higher up the chain who might feel threatened or insulted, or be
morally or philosophically put out by your audacity, and account for them in
your calculus.
3. Betas and
especially omegas may not be the sort who accept their positions gracefully. Their
envy of you may devolve into resentment and then, especially if they are of the
most vile sort, their resentment will devolve into malice, and their malice
into treachery. Your strength will not be enough against such as these. You
will need your cunning as well. Account for this in your calculus.
Just don’t let your
own prudence devolve into perpetual paralysis. Sometimes there aren’t any rival
alphas. Sometimes there isn’t anyone higher up the chain who would care about
your intended action. Sometimes the betas and omegas are the sort who know
their place and are happy to occupy it. Or sometimes you’re stronger than the other
alphas, or more cunning than the betas and omegas. Each situation must be
assessed on its own merits. If, by your calculus, you can get away with
audacity – then take the leap. Do it. Then do it again. And again. Because, as
the saying goes, “It is good to be king.”
The biggest portion
will feel good in your belly. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Note:
Any of the “Bad
Attitudes” from WOLFISM XIX can form the nucleus of a catharsis ritual, but
only if it speaks to you and only if you’re able to have fun with it. If the
one identified above meets those criteria for you, then make it the core of a
cathartic ritual for yourself, and perform it. The effect of repeated
performances over as long a time as feels right to you, will be to kill the
part of your Superego that functions as the jailer of your natural instinct for
audacity.
I use the word
“glamour” in its archaic sense, and I use the British spelling because it’s
more likely (at least for us Americans) to conjure up archaic connotations.
Vampires were said to have the power of glamour.
The Glamour of Sensual
Attunement:
“Blessed are they
who lust, for their senses are alive.”
If this is your
first “Glamour” post, read the Note at the bottom before proceeding.
Sensual attunement to
your lover during sex is what happens when you allow your lust to enflame your
senses. Mind-clearing exercises like Zazen can train you to gag the chattering
monkey in your head at will. That chattering monkey doesn’t want you paying
attention to your senses. Gag the little beast. Then drink in your lover with
your eyes, your ears, your tongue, your nose, and every inch of your body’s
largest organ, which is your skin. The more you drink, the more your lust will
thirst.
Your sensual attunement
bewitches not only you, but also your lover. Nothing enflames a partner like
the knowledge that you are intoxicated by their every inch, every cell, every
atom. As the fire of your libido is stoked by the sight, the sound, the smell,
the taste, and the touch of your lover, your lover’s libido will in turn be
stoked, flame begetting flame. As your senses drive you wild, your wildness
will overwhelm all that is tame within your lover, until the two of you, like
two lions, will roar with all the dark primal energies of jungles never visited
by civilized man.
Why is sensual
attunement so powerful? Evolution. Our natural instincts evolved over tens of
millions of years to respond with heat when the mate grows heated. Estrus is
not a part of our biology any longer, not because we’re less libidinous, but
because we’re infinitely more so.
Do you want the
secret of how to be an exciting lover? I have given it to you. Read it and take
it to heart.
Come to life! ISCHYROS
DIAVOLOS!
Note:
Any of the “Bad
Attitudes” from WOLFISM XIX can form the nucleus of a catharsis ritual, but
only if it speaks to you and only if you’re able to have fun with it. If the
one identified above meets those criteria for you, then make it the core of a
cathartic ritual for yourself, and perform it. The effect of repeated
performances over as long a time as feels right to you, will be to kill the
part of your Superego that functions as the jailer of your natural instinct for
sensual attunement.
I use the word
“glamour” in its archaic sense, and I use the British spelling because it’s
more likely (at least for us Americans) to conjure up archaic connotations.
Vampires were said to have the power of glamour.
The Devil Inside exhibits infernal hubris, my term for the
claiming of divine prerogative on the part of a mortal. This definition tracks pretty
well with how ancient Greek playwrights understood hubris, though the Greeks
saw it as a vice which the Immortals will punish, whereas I see it, and promote
it, as a virtue which life on earth rewards.
I reject phrasing like, “I am my own God,” or, “the
goal of the Great Work is auto-deification,” as utter bullshit. I’m obviously
not a God and will never be one. Practitioners who employ such phrasing don’t
mean what they say. They’re either exaggerating, or else they’re referring to
the imaginary selves they hold in their consciousness during ritual. Some of
them are deluded enough to believe that if they hold their imaginary selves in
consciousness long enough and intensely enough, they’ll eventually become what
they imagine themselves to be. This could work if they’re imagining themselves
to be strong or wise. It will fail miserably if they’re imagining themselves to
be Zeus.
Infernal hubris is very different from all of that. There
are two divine prerogatives I actually do have the ability to claim for myself,
despite my mortality. The first is the prerogative of decreeing the meaning of my
life. The second is the prerogative of decreeing the tenets of my self-respect.
Consider Christians. Psychologically speaking, what do
they use God for? First, they use him as a reason to hope for a miracle. I can’t
claim that prerogative because it’s not a real thing. Second, they use him as a
reason to hope for heaven. I can’t claim that prerogative because it’s not a
real thing. Third, they use him as a basis for believing their life has
meaning. THAT prerogative I can claim. My life has meaning because it means
something to me. Fourth, they use him as a basis for setting right apart from
wrong. THAT prerogative I can claim. I set right apart from wrong on the basis
of the aesthetic to which I’ve committed my deepest passions.
The Immortals won’t punish me for my infernal hubris. I
know this because Immortals don’t exist. Life on earth rewards me for my
infernal hubris. I know this because claiming the aforementioned divine
prerogatives gives me satisfaction, psychological resilience, and heightened
personal power.
I am the maker of meaning and the justifier of
judgment. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
Faith, religious belief, the Devil Inside cannot abide.
What it can’t hold in its hands or put in its mouth is alien to its reality. It
relates to what it can slay, eat, fuck, possess.
Not for the Devil are religion’s castles in the air, built
of abstract imaginings. Bone and blood are what the Devil relates to. Iron and
oak, breast and buttock, fish and fowl, fist and elbow, sapphire and gold,
linen and silk. Guns and knives, the Devil knows. Cars and boats, highways and
bridges. The real world of stone and dirt.
Nor is the Devil itself anything other than portions of
the brain. Look not in some imaginary Hell for the Devil. Look instead in the
cerebrum, the cerebellum, the thalamus and pituitary and pons, and the medulla
oblongata.
Nor was the Devil put on earth by anything other than
evolution. Look not to scripture or myth for the origins of the Devil. Look
instead to the fossil record and the analysis of genomes. Look to the dinosaurs
and their Mesozoic contemporaries.
Not one drop of self-deceit is promoted by Wolfism. Not
one speck of unreality. ISCHYROS DIAVOLOS!
