Tom:
If you demand prove for magical
invocation you have not understood the concepts of magic.
The experience with demons will always be an emotional experience. A
psychodrama. As LeRoy used to state. You see the demon with your mind and not
with your eyes. Now, since Satanism is a carnal religion it makes only
sense for me that the Satanist would conjure demons that relates to lust,
compassion and destruction.
Long
post - this is my viewpoint on this. I don’t think anybody can just do a lust
ritual and as a direct result of that lust ritual find some hot-girl to fuck.
Moreover, I don’t think you can do a destruction ritual and as a direct result
cause your enemy to get hit by a car and die. I don’t think magic works like
that. If you want to get rich - then I don’t think a “show me the money” ritual
by itself will do it.
As
an aside: I don’t really think there is some direct solid connection between
the litany or invocation and the use of magical tools in a ritual, on the one
hand and the deeper underlying reality which you are trying to effect, on the
other hand. One is just language and the other is dare I say “mystical.” Demons
are just language. Demons with particular biographies and functions in
narratives are just language. The connection between the ritual and the
underlying reality is more tenuous and inexact and fluid and difficult to
fathom. You are trying to connect with something deeper through the language.
You are trying to influence something deeper through the language. The language
itself does not completely describe that reality. It is not that exact I think.
You are trying to plug into a current.
LaVey
talks about the emotional content of magical ritual. That is useful if you are
trying to exhaust an emotion behind, or at the essence, of a desire for
something to happen. You are angry at your enemy – you perform a ritual and
blast your enemy magically until the desire and urge is gone. It’s like
ejaculation. The magic I like to do is never like this. It is far more cerebral
and contemplative and cold.
I
don’t know if this is going to make sense, but it might be worthwhile talking allegorically/metaphorically.
Think
of a chess game. The pieces are located on a chess board. The board determines
the limits and the possible places where each piece can go. The pieces
themselves have certain characteristics which allow them to do different
things. The goal of the game is to win and you are confronted by an opponent.
You must move your pieces in such a way as to win. You move this and you move
that. Somebody else is moving against you.
Magic
can influence the overall strategy of my game. It is macro-level stuff. It can
determine the outcome of the game at a higher level. The successful macro-strategy
for winning the game comes out of the magic and my conscious intention. My
intention is formed by the magic. I am moving in accord with my magic and it
guides my hand. It runs through me. It is the electricity powering my overall
game plan. Conscious intention is not the sole factor in my success. The magic
is influencing the outcome as well.