Chapter 1 - The Great Name Game ---pg 3

The Collective hallucination [1.1] ---pg 3

The Story of the Serpent [1.2] ---pg 5

Story of the flood [1.3] ---pg 6

Paradise lost, The Tower of Babel, and The Savior [1.4] ---pg 9

The great name game [1.5] ---pg 12

Hidden History [1.6] ---pg 16

The Stargates [1.7] ---pg 18

Chapter 2 - Universe.com ---pg 19

Quantum Confusion [2.1] ---pg 19

The Onion of reality [2.2] ---pg 22

Dreamscape [2.3] ---pg 25

On the inside looking out [2.4] ---pg 30

Meet the neighbors [2.5] ---pg 32

The Jinn [2.6] ---pg 35

Meet the neighbors (revisited) [2.7] ---pg 36

Chapter 3 - Magic ---pg 40

The merely curious [3.1] ---pg 40

All roads lead to Whackyland [3.2] ---pg 44

The Occult essence in all things [3.3] ---pg 47

Intention and The Tides of time [3.4] ---pg 52

The Ritual [3.5] ---pg 54

The Calling [3.6] ---pg 57

The brand new you [3.7] ---pg 59

Chapter 4 - The "Others" ---pg 63

The "others" among us [4.1] ---pg 63

Worshipers of the Undead [4.2] ---pg 66

The Sabbat [4.3] ---pg 69

The course of destiny [4.4] ---pg 71

Chapter 5 - The Good, the bad, and the ugly ---pg 74

Yahweh [5.1] ---pg 74

The archangels [5.2] ---pg 75

Jesus Christ [5.3] ---pg 76

Lilith [5.4] ---pg 77

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Hades [5.5] ---pg 80

Satan [5.6] ---pg 82

Asmodeus [5.7] ---pg 84

Ashtareth [5.8] ---pg 85

Cain [5.9] --- pg 85

Belial [5.10] ---pg 86

Gog and Magog [5.11] ---pg 87

A bit about me [5.12] ---pg 87

And so I begin writing something I may not finish, shouldn't dare write, and probably shouldn't bother with anyway. So few will ever read it, fewer still will believe it, and yet fewer still are in a position to spread this message to others in a convincing manner. What's worse, they will only do so if I succeed in doing so. Despite this, it is for that small sliver of people that I write these things. For them, a reward: my undaunted efforts (however wasted and unrewarded they may be).

There is an instinct, the lone asset of the "herd mentality," that is selfless and genuine; sounding the alarm. In an emergency, where large numbers are in danger, a crowd for instance, often a single individual who was among the first to notice the danger, will do something at their own expense to warn others. It is not uncommon to hear things like "he's got a gun" in the initial moments of a bank robbery. What compelled this observer? Would they not have been better served by a silent escape? Surely they've drawn the exclusive focus of the robbers. Surely they'll now be competing with other panic-stricken customers as the clamor for the exit begins.

In the wild, animals call out when a predator draws near. How was that bird, already wise to the danger and safe in its nest, served by risking the attentions of the predator to protect those it would normally compete with? Such are my motives for writing this book. aving explained why, all that's left is "what", and by what qualifications. As qualifications go, aside from being the maker of a little-known documentary series called "Hollywood Insiders," I have none. Nor will I claim that all recorded here is true. But without the mind of God, all you'll ever know are but shades of the truth. If you can't be content with that arrangement (God's glorious prank), at least get used to it!

As for "what" this book is, it is a revisionist look at mythology and the occult. It is the compilation of occult knowledge derived from numerous sources. Written here is a story I don't relish telling. You will find yourself disagreeing... often. "Prove it" you'll say, demanding that I use quotes from well-known sources to support my claims and deductions. I‘m afraid I cannot indulge you at every turn. What good are regurgitated thoughts?

What good is there in yet another book filled with the same old interpretations? Just chewed

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meat! If these well-known and "accredited" sources are so useful to you, if they serve you so

well, why are you still unenlightened? Why do you still seek to learn more? If you need this extremely limited set of sources for "proof", depart and return to them, and be prepared to reinterpret them in a radically different way, otherwise your progress has surely ceased. Even with the benefit of radical reinterpretation, accepting so few sources as the only truth creates a ceiling of knowledge you will never surpass. So if you‘re looking for wisdom, stop reading, be good to thy neighbor, pay your taxes, and go watch TV. If you’re looking for knowledge, proceed.

As much respect as I have for the habits of discerning individuals (with even the nerve as to profess to be one), I also know that crying "prove it" and "I have to see it to believe it" is a response just as emotional as it is intellectual (especially regarding the religious, esoteric, and paranormal). "I have to see it to believe it" is the sort of thing usually uttered by the fool whose head is filled to the brim with countless things he considers "truth" but was never there to witness. Does this fool question World War 2 as an actual event? (granted the fool in question was born after 1945). Does the aforementioned dolt question the newspaper’s sports section regarding the results of games he never witnessed? Does this mental-midget hesitate one blink in proclaiming that Christopher Columbus discovered America and the pyramids were built with ramps, pulleys and levers? No, no, and no..

If you don't violate his senses, or if you tell him what he already wanted, or expected to hear, no "proof" will he require. Tell him something he doesn't want to hear, or believe in, and stand back to behold him as he shapeshifts into a just-add-water, "intellectual" skeptic. The "truth" is nothing more than a prom-night, popularity contest to this unworthy breed!

I will not waste words here.

Humanity has hundreds of stories regarding the creation of the universe, the history of the planet, and the birth of mankind. Some of these stories are oral traditions, and are handed down to subsequent generations in the form of songs and folklore. Other civilizations managed to record these tales in writing, forming the many religions and mythologies that we know

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today. Giving the subject of religion and mythology no more than a cursory glance, one may be forgiven for believing that these myths of history and creation are the misguided accounts of an ignorant and superstitious people. Truly, the stories of myth are easy to dismiss. Modern man has, for the most part, accepted the assertions of psychologists regarding these ancient tales. The gate-keepers of psychology, men like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, have suggested that the stories told by ancient man are no more than symbolic retellings of the conflict occurring in the psyches of the individual. They reason that the “gods” of ancient man are no more than different aspects of the self. For example, each mythology seems to have at least 1 good god, and one trickster or villain god, and these 2 gods represent the internal (and external) battle of good versus evil within the heart of the every individual. With the wild tales of mythology being food for the incredulous, and often describing impossible happenings, this view of mythology is understandable. This interpretation of mythology, that mythology is no more than the embodiment of the individual’s and society’s inner struggles, is echoed in the universities, discovery channel specials, and everything in between. But there is something missing from this explanation.

The gapping hole in this reasoning comes from the incredible consistencies woven into man’s many creation stories. These consistencies are so numerous and remarkable that they invite the curious mind to explore them if for no other reason than to explain the similarities away. Since the internal conflict in the hearts and minds of man can be symbolized by any implements, and since each mythology is retold in a way peculiar to that civilization, it’s curious that ancient man would still tell a collective story regarding creation and history.

The most well-known and prototypical of these creation stories comes from the Bible. In the first book of the Bible, god creates the universe, Earth, animals, and humanity in 6 days, resting on the seventh day. The first 2 humans, named Adam and Eve, were given a paradisiacal land called “The Garden of Eden.” It is at this point a character called “the serpent,” who is unambiguously described as the enemy of God, tricks Eve into eating the fruit from a tree that the most high God forbade. The serpent’s claim was that the fruit god so adamantly forbade was capable of remaking Eve “as the Gods.” After biting into the forbidden fruit, Eve’s “eyes were opened” and she came to know good and evil. Eve then convinces her husband, Adam, to also eat of the fruit, thereby opening his eyes as well. When God discovered what the primal couple ( and the serpent) had done, Adam and Eve were banished from paradise. Adam and Eve leave the garden, and begin having children to the east. As human kind began to multiply, “the serpent”, also called “The sons of God” [angels] began to lust after human women and soon began to procreate with our race. The offspring of this union, beings who were half human and half angel, would be called the nephilim. These nephilim, often referred to as giants, had super-human strength and abilities, and were known as “men of renown.” This early civilization, which included fallen angels, nephilim, and humans became increasingly wicked. After our wickedness reached a boiling point, God could no longer restrain his angry hand, so he

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alerts a righteous man named Noah that he is soon to destroy the world in a flood, and that Noah’s family should begin straight-away building a large boat, so that he and his family may survive the Earth’s coming inundation. What’s more, Noah was told to bring 2 of every animal so that earth may be repopulated after the flood waters subside. The vast majority of angels,

nephilim, and mankind were killed in this flood which lasted for 40 days. Before the waters subsided, Noah released a raven from the ark to discover whether dry land was yet peaking above the waters, but it only flew back and forth. Next Noah released a dove into the air, and the bird returned with an olive branch, indicating to Noah that there was indeed land nearby. With the waters subsiding, the ark would come to rest on a mountain named Ararat. Noah, his family, and the animals exited the Ark and once more began to replenish the Earth.

After the decedents of Noah (humanity) successfully repopulate the Earth, they again lose the God’s favor. Instead of dispersing and filling every quarter of the planet, they concentrate in a land called Babylonia. The king of Babylonia, Nimrod, endeavored to build a tower that could reach heaven; this is the famous tower of Babel. God, who was enraged by Nimrod’s presumption and arrogance, takes matters into his own hands by confusing the languages of Nimrod’s workforce. The Babylonian kingdom is instantly cast into disorder as its inhabitants no longer spoke a single language. This act of confusing the languages accomplished God’s original intent for humanity, because it caused humanity to finally split up and occupy the whole Earth and, most importantly, not reach heaven. Although the Bible stories are the most well-known, especially in the west, they are not the first and they are not unique.

Humanity’s relationship with the serpent is indeed a strange one. The nature of the reptile is alien to our own, so humans have a natural aversion to reptiles. Humans are characterized by both the “cold blooded” way of the reptile, and compassionate sympathies that violate our sense of self-preservation and seem to stem from a mystical place in the soul. And if a human were forced to choose between the death of a reptile, and the death of a mammal, he or she would most probably consign that serpent to death rather than the likes of a bunny rabbit. So it’s quite curious that humans have, for so many thousands of years, revered the serpent and frequently associated it with “the gods.” There’s hardly a single point on the globe, or in history, whose local population did not associate the gods with serpents and dragons (or the wisdom brought by the gods).

In the Bible, the serpent is often spoke of as an enemy of God, and in one case the Bible refers to Satan as that “Old serpent.” Even though the whole of the Bible identifies the serpent with evil, even Jesus was heard saying “be as harmless as doves, and as wise as serpents.” The

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problem with this statement taken literally is that reptiles aren’t exactly the geniuses of the animal kingdom; warm-blooded animals are, on the average, more intelligent than reptiles. Considering the serpent to be a creature of wisdom is an interesting choice considering that the serpent is mostly instinctual.

Egypt, a civilization dating back to 2500BC (allegedly), also has a pantheon of gods associated with the serpent. In fact it is nearly unheard of for an Egyptian god to be depicted without a serpent. Even the pharaohs (kings) of Egypt wore a Ureaus on their headpiece. The ureaus was a serpent which symbolized the immortals. Gods of Greek mythology are likewise associated, and often depicted, with snakes. Meanwhile, here in the New World, the mythologies of the Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and native Americans is replete with serpent symbolism. Hinduism, the prevailing religion of India, is yet another religion whose gods are consistently associated with snakes. In china, and the whole of the Orient, the immortal gods are connected to, or described as, dragons and serpents. In Islam, the serpent is associated with Satan, and demons. In Voodoo the gods are again associated with serpents. Reptile gods are seen as far east as the pacific islands. No matter what place or age we examine, serpents provide a central theme in that region’s mythological tales. Serpents are also repeatedly associated with villains.

In Persian mythology, the benevolent god Ahura Mazda tells a man named Yima that a terrible winter of frost and snow is upon him. Ahura Mazda commands Yima to build an underground enclosure to protect 2 of every creature and a small group of choice people. In

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Serbian legends, a rooster who acts as the messenger of god becomes increasingly ignored by a decadent humanity. Man’s greed unleashed a torrent of water from a egg that can be paralleled to a Pandora’s box. Only one man, Kranyatz, survived this flood by hanging on to a grape vine. The people of southeast Asia say that a flood consumed all of humanity, save a small number of men and women aboard a raft.

The Mandan’s, a native American tribe, tell the story of “Lone man” who, together with the Creator, fashioned the earth and humanity. Lone man, who was very much a savior figure, entered the world of man because he saw that humanity was plagued by evil spirits. In order to enter our world, however, Lone Man needed to be borne from the womb of a virgin mother. One day a virgin girl was eating corn, so Lone Man transformed himself into a kernel of corn which the virgin girl ate and became pregnant from. The virgin’s parents considered the pregnancy holy, and the child, who was in fact lone Man reincarnated, was perfect in all his ways. After growing into a young man, the day came for an annual trip by boat, where Lone Man insisted the boat sail despite the presently bad weather, much to the protest of the 12 men already on board. Yet the boat did set sail and during the voyage was attacked by demons. Lone Man made short work of these attacks, and when the boat was endangered by a whirlpool, Lone Man rose to his feet and reminded the whirlpool that it was he, Lone Man, that created the waters; the whirlpool promptly dissipated. One day Lone man arrived to an island, proclaiming that a flood was soon to destroy the earth, and that a fortress must be built at the center of the village. He promised to return one day, and after leaving the village the flood waters did come, which protected those who believed him. It’s important to note that this tale of a chosen one who travels with 12 guys predates the arrival of Europeans to North America.

In the African myth from the Mande people of Mali, an evil god named Pemba fell from heaven, and was barred from returning because he stole male seeds from God. Pemba spread tainted seeds, borne from incest upon the ground. Faro, his righteous twin brother that dwelled in heaven and took the form of a fish, was forced to sacrifice himself for Pemba’s sin. His body was cut into 60 pieces, and the pieces formed trees when spread across the earth. Trees are, according the Mande people, symbols of resurrection. The most high god brought Faro back to life, and sent him to Earth in human form aboard an ark. The ark, which landed on Mount Kouroula, was of coarse loaded with a small group of humans and 2 of every animal. The Incas of Peru tell the story of a creator god named Virococha, who created the world that was populated by giants he carved from stone. These giants were terribly disobedient and disorderly, and Viracocha destroyed this race of giants with a massive flood.

The Hindu tradition of India, like countless others, often describes gods as taking human form and incarnating on earth. The many incarnations of Vishnu upon the earth are certainly modeled after, and considered to be, a savior figure. The first incarnation of the benevolent god Vishnu arrived to earth in the form of a fish, and warned a man named Manu of a coming flood. The fish informed Manu to build a massive ark which, needless to say, saved Manu’s life.

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In the Aztec mythologies of Mexico, only 2 humans survive a massive flood. Coxcoxtli and his wife Xochiquetzal survive the great inundation in a boat they were told to construct prior to the flood. After the subsiding of the flood waters, their boat came to rest on a tall mountain. In yet another central American tradition, that of a tribe called the Mechoacanesecs, the god Tezcatlipoca desired to destroy all of mankind. This god however schemed to spare a small group of humans to repopulate the planet after the coming flood; so he spared a man named

Tezpi, his wife, and their family in a large boat which, as usual, they were told to build and subsequently loaded with various animals. As the flood waters began to diminish, Tezpi sent out a vulture to assess whether the boat could be disembarked. The vulture did not return, nor did some other birds Tezpi released. Finally, he released a hummingbird, which did return with a branch in its mouth, confirming for Tezpi the presence of dry land. Tezpi, his family, and a multitude of animals depart from the ship and repopulate the Earth. In the Popol Vuh, the sacred stories of the Mayans, the Great god created humans by carving them from wood. But soon humanity lost the grace of the creator because they had “forgotten him,” so he sent a huge flood to consume disobedient humanity. Only a single couple, dubbed “The great father and mother,’ survived this cataclysm to repopulate the Earth.

The Chibca people of Columbia tell the story of a man name Bochica, who came upon them long ago. He was an old man of a different race than the Chibcas, and sported a long, thick beard. He taught the locals, who lived as barbarians, how to live civilized and in peace with each other. Bochica’s wife, on the other hand, wasn’t so great; she caused a global flood that nearly wiped out humanity. The furious Bochica banished his wife Chia and dissipated the waters. The Canarian people of Ecuador, the Inuit people of Alaska (Eskimo), and the Luiseno tribe of southern California tell tales of a small remnant of humanity surviving a great flood by taking refuge on mountaintops. The Chickasaw people of America’s Dakota region say that a great flood destroyed all of humanity, with the exception of a small family and 2 of every creature. And as for the Jews and Muslim’s, they pretty much echo the Bible’s version of events. And of coarse you have the aforementioned Noah, whose family survived a massive flood in a boat with 2 of every animal, released birds to indicate the presence of dry land, and landed on a mountain.

Did humanity have a collective bad dream? Did a deluge of Biblical proportions (forgive me) leave an imprint so deep that none were left unscaved? How did the traditions of so many civilizations who never made contact come to contain so many corresponding details? Even minor, seemingly trivial ones! Imagine it, you arrive to a crime scene and start the investigation by talking to witnesses. And although I’d hate to make the truth a popularity contest (wink wink), you’d be could forgiven for disregarding the testimony of 2 witnesses who report a story wildly different than the other observers. Fortunately for me (whew), a popularity contest requires “contest,” and there is none, or none who do; even occultists speak about the flood that wiped out the noble nephilim. Bottom line: a wicked race of both humans and non-humans,

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an angry creator, a small family warned by a god, 2 of every creature on a boat, a big damn flood, and humanity reborn. That’s one hell of a dream.

Another reoccurring theme through out the mythologies is man’s loss of paradise. This story, whose most popular variation occurs in the Bible, details man’s plight from a worry-free life to an existence of suffering and hardship. But as usual, the Bible is not alone in describing humanity’s fall from grace. Just as the Christians have the Garden of Eden, the Persians have Heden. Heden was, according to Persian tradition, the first habitation of humans. It was a paradise, where suffering and toil were unknown. It wasn’t until the primal couple was seduced by an evil spirit in the form of a serpent were they expelled from Heden. In Greek mythology, the Garden of Hesperides was a land to the far west of the globe, where golden apples of immortality grew. In the Mayan Popol Vu, the “First Men” lived in a paradise and were able to “see far.” This meant that humans could see extremely distant things as if they were near. This ability was stripped from those men, and their subsequent generations could only see that which was near.

The confusion of man’s languages is yet another repetitive motif. The Bible, as usual, contains the most famous version of this story. As stated earlier, a king called Nimrod desired to build a tower to reach to the heavens; his arrogance and presumption was punished when god caused all of Nimrod’s laborers to abruptly speak different languages. From there, the people dispersed to every corner of the globe. This story, like the flood, has many parallels outside of the Bible.

The Aztec people of Mexico say that at one time giants of deformed stature once possessed the land. Arrogant were these giants, who endeavored to build a tower so as to reach the heavens. When the Lord of heaven looked upon the haughty ambition of the earth-dwellers, he sent down his minions to “confound them.” This action caused the builders of the tower to go their separate ways and disperse across the Earth.

And then there’s the savior. A character who, similar to the flood, seems like an imprint in the mind that was left by a dream - yet a pleasant dream this time. The wanderer, the civilizer, the magician, the chosen one, the incarnated god, the sacrificed. He was all of these things. Typical of the West, the most famous savior figure is Jesus Christ. What Christians have generally agreed on regarding this savior is: he is the only son of god or was god. He was born from a virgin. He was prophesied to come. He would, in the latter part of his life, travel around with 12 followers [apostles] teaching goodness and performing miracles. He would later “die for our sins” by being nailed to a wooden cross. His body was placed in a cave and, after 3 days, his

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body disappeared and returned to heaven. In heaven he resides to this day, promising to return and rule for a 1,000 years, and afterwards he will live forever more with God.

The Hindus have the many incarnations of the most-high God Vishnu. Vishnu, who resides in heaven, came upon man in many forms and these forms are called avatars. An avatar is essentially a god in the flesh. For example, Krishna, one of the 10 avatars of Vishnu, was born from the womb of a human woman in order to fight the demons that plagued humanity. The first incarnation of Vishnu was that of a “fish-man.” Nine incarnations of Vishnu have already arrived, whereas the tenth avatar will arrive to earth during the end of the world riding a white horse and fighting for righteousness. There is a similar account in the Bible where a character who fights for justice and rides a white horse will arrive during the end times.

The aforementioned Bochica, a character from the mythology of central Columbia, was also a civilizer. According to the natives, Bochica was of a different race, but still human. He taught the locals to build huts and live in peace amongst each other. After the flood, he taught the people the secrets of agriculture and construction, instituted sun worship, and then departed.

The Incan people of Peru speak of the previously discussed Virococha; this name, Viracocha, was given to both their miracle-working savior, and the group that was with him. According to the Inca, a day came after the flood when their people were approached by a teacher and healer they would come to call Virococha. He cured the sick, healed the blind, taught man how to live in peace and love, and even gave more scientific instruction regarding agriculture and architecture. This character worked miracles like moving mountains and made streams of fresh water flow. He addressed the locals as his children, and spoke the local tongue better than the natives. Virococha would part company with the Inca by sailing away across the sea, promising to return. His physical description was that of a white man, past middle-age, blue eyes, a long cloak reaching to his knees, and a full, grey beard. In some variations, Viracocha was called Thunupa, who was killed by a group of jealous conspirators, and whose body was placed on a boat and cast into lake Titicaca. Instead of drifting away slowly, the boat sailed rapidly out of sight.

Then you have the Egyptian god Osiris. Like Jesus, Osiris is associated with goodness and resurrection. He, like Virococha, was a civilizer. Despite the fact that Osiris is not the most ancient of the Egyptian gods, he was still proclaimed to be the “Lord of Creation” at the moment of his birth. Osiris came upon the Egyptian people baring gifts of knowledge and love. This civilizer established Egypt’s first legal code and abolished cannibalism and human sacrifice. Osiris then left Egypt, traveling around the world teaching and civilizing the people of other kingdoms and races. He did not use his powers to force people, but instead preferred gentle persuasion. After returning to Egypt, Osiris was conspired against by his evil brother Set, and 72 accomplices. Set murdered his brother Osiris by locking him in a coffer and throwing it into the

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Nile river. Instead of sinking into the depths of the Nile river forever, which was the intention and expectation of the conspirators, the coffer sailed away quickly. Set would eventually discover the coffin containing the body of his brother Osiris in a hidden place. Infuriated that his brother survived (in a sense), Set cut Osiris’ body into 14 parts and scattered the pieces, seeing to it that his brother would forever remain out of his midst. Isis, a goddess that was both Osiris’ wife and sister (such is common in mythology), brought her husband back to life by locating and recombining his scattered parts with sorcery. She failed to find the phallus (penis) of Osiris, however, and was forced to substitute one made of gold. After this, Osiris would not live long and was soon dead once more, but it is said that he periodically reappears among humans.

The ancient Mesopotamians, in present-day Iraq, have a civilizer of their own whom they called Oannes. This being was amphibious, but spoke human languages with ease. Oannes would emerge out of the water, teaching and giving instruction to humans. He taught people writing, the sciences, the arts, architecture, and agriculture. He is often depicted as a man with the scales of a fish.

And lets not forget Lone Man, the savior figure of the Mandan people. Lone man, like jesus, was born of a virgin, settled turbulent waters while aboard a boat, and was perfect in all his ways. And finally the god Faro from the tales of the people of Mali. Faro, as stated before, transformed himself into a fish and eventually sacrificed himself to undo the sins of his terrible and evil brother Pembe. And Faro, like our Osiris, was cut into pieces and scattered.

I have often wondered what Christians mean when they said that Jesus died for our sins, and his death represented a great sacrifice that somehow redeemed my soul. Listening to Christians explain how that actually works is usually amusing, and always results in an comical, unsatisfactory answer. To live in heaven, spend 33 years on Earth, be murdered on a cross, 3 days in the underworld, and back up to heaven for all eternity does not constitute saving my soul, nor even a sacrifice. Jesus living a long life of pain and toil, instead of a short 33 years, and then going to heaven is more of a sacrifice, but, because he still goes to heaven, I can’t envision what those extra decades of his life have to do with my soul. Far from blinking out of existence after dying on the cross, which would indeed represent a sacrifice, he instead had a get out of jail free card, and a one-way ticket back to heaven. Even the story of his life on Earth is a bit broken. Jesus, as a child, was intensely curious and full of wonder, then there’s a whole 18 years of his life that completely unaccounted for in the Bible (as if he disappears), then, at age around age 30, he pops back up with magical abilities and, instead of an all-consuming curiosity, has all the answers. Jesus’ time among man may not have been fun, but he should have been honored to jump-start a religion of benevolence with those 33 years; a mere 33 years, between two eternities in paradise, is but infinitely small sliver of time. He sacrificed himself for my sins? What does that even MEAN!?!?

Now, under normal circumstances, all I could do is relate to you this chosen one’s reappearance

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in mythology, and perhaps a bit of philosophical commentary. Luckily a few occultists have given me some insight on this subject (in a most annoyingly hushed-mouth manner). They speak of him as though he represented a major set-back to “the plan.” And where was The Lord those 18 years? Was he on a mission of Initiation, civilizing, and demon hunting? They speak of him as though he did take a huge risk in coming here, as if Jesus’ guaranteed trip back to heaven is only a myth. I have even heard Jesus spoke of as a renegade; a police-like figure who hunted demons. More on this later.

If mythology is in fact eccentric tales created to explain creation itself, then why so many

corresponding details? If the evolutionists are correct regarding the birth and evolution of humanity (and they’re not), then it means these stories stem from the time when man was of one blood (race) and in one location. That was, admittedly, a long time ago; 15,000 years at bare minimum (according to the timelines established by evolutionists). How, and why, did collective humanity cling to such stories for so long?

The universe has proven to be quite the onion; its simple exterior betrays the senses. What science has called “truths” of the universe is in fact an ever-changing list of theories, each being no more than shades of gray closer to “truth” than the last. This is not, however, saying that anything but the ultimate truth is useless. Our list of ignorance is great, but our achievements using these half-truths is also great. Our knowledge of the electron, for example, is far from complete and yet it didn’t stop us from harnessing its power and using it as a source of energy and communication. As stated at the beginning of the book, the whole truth requires the mind of God, but it doesn’t mean we can’t make application of half-truths. Even this text is

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nothing more than a long list of half-truths but, as its author, I’m comforted by the fact that everything else you’ve ever read is likewise. Even books you believe to be inspired by God are subject to your interpretation, which you could never be 100% sure about and can never conclusively prove.

No scientist understands this better than the quantum physicists. Unlike the elegant equations of Einstein and Newton, these poor bastards are knee-deep in hideous equations that are so hideous, they couldn‘t possibly describe the universe, and at best only describe what the universe is likely to do, not what it absolutely will do. Quantum mechanics, or quantum physics, is a branch of psychics that concerns itself with the smallest particles and spaces in the universe. As it turns out, the subatomic world is was not what we expected. Traditionally, extremely small particles like electrons were thought of as tiny billiard balls, bouncing off of each at mathematically predictable angles. And like billiard balls, their location, direction, and speed could be easily measured. On a subatomic level, particles exhibit strange properties and behaviors. Sometimes particles would seem to disappear and reappear on the other side of a “wall” that, mathematically speaking, should have been impossible to penetrate. Other times particles will seem to dance between a state of being a particle, and being a wave. And measuring the subatomic world is also difficult, because in order to measure things like speed, location, and direction one must build a sensor that interacts with the subatomic particle, thereby changing the “coarse of destiny.” Surely these poor scientists are frustrated by particles that always do something different just because they‘re not watching.

It was once a philosophical question as to whether it was possible to break a stone into an infinitely small pieces. Scientists and philosophers would speculate over the existence of an elementary particle, a particle that could not be broke apart and represented the fundamental building blocks of the universe. This continued until evidence emerged that the universe was indeed made of unbreakable, fundamental particles and these particles were called “atoms.” It would later be discovered that these particles weren’t unbreakable and were in fact composed of even smaller particles dubbed “subatomic” and included the proton, electron, and neutron. Later still it was discovered that even these particles were in fact composed of even smaller particles called quarks; that appeared to be where the dividing stopped. Regardless of whether these quarks are indeed the smallest particles, scientists have been forced to conclude that the universe is made out of some kind of elementary particle.

But the subatomic world wasn’t done violating the rational mind of these poor researchers. As it turns out, even the nature of space and time had its peculiarities. Space and time were thought of as mediums that these elementary particles existed in, and up until the beginning of the 20^th century, scientists were spared the grief of having to think of time and space as particles. But eventually came the day when scientists were forced to ponder nearly the same question that had plagued them in centuries prior: “Can time and space be broken into infinitely small parts? Can I nudge an object an infinitely small distance from where it once was? Can I measure the length of time between two events in infinitely small units? Can I break

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an inch or minute into as many pieces as I want? Do objects ‘glide’ through space and time, or do they ‘tick’? “ After much reluctance, scientists were forced to admit that space and time also existed as elementary units, and these extremely small units were called “Planck units.” A “Planck length” represents the smallest length of space an object can move. So instead of particles gliding gracefully through space, they instead ‘tick’ through space. This means that they essentially disappear, and reappear one “Planck length” ahead in the direction that they’re moving. What’s more is that the particles also move through time likewise, and so disappear and reappear one “Planck time” in the future.

What’s been the result of all the quantum confusion? Confusion. From its beginning, quantum mechanics has been a “duct-tape science,” constantly patching holes rather than starting from a fundamentally sound model of the universe. Today, the quantum physicist claims that one may not even know the true location, state, and speed of a particle. Consequently, they believe the universe is loaded with random numbers and therefore, like people, you may only know what a particle is likely to do, not what it will do. That’s not science! That’s superstition. The universe has proven itself to be mathematically perfect so far ( and therefore predictable ), why would the world of the very tiny be any different? And where are these random numbers coming from? The Gods!?!? A computer programmer knows a computer can’t actually produce a random number but instead can produce a series of numbers that appear random. Ancient man may have mistaken the location of lightning strikes as being random, but the places lightning chooses to strike was never random; a fact we came to discover after we understood the nature of electricity. Ancient man may have mistaken storms and earthquakes as random ( and perhaps angry gods ), but the meteorologist and geologist

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knows better. At the latter part of his life, the greater scientific community considered Einstein washed-up and obsolete because he simply refused to accept the idea that the universe is in any way random; stating emphatically, ”God doesn’t play dice.” While the rest of the world accepted the universe’s “mystical” nature, Einstein went to his death bed trying to reconcile the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. In his heart, he knew that the truth of this apparent randomness was out there, and was probably as elegant as E=mc2. Maybe Einstein would have done well by considering more than 4 dimensions in his death-bed equations.

Perhaps the missing ingredient between apparent chaos and order is the number of spatial dimensions these quantum physicists are taking into consideration. Perhaps the real question is how many angles are there? For the greater part of the “age of science,” the number of dimensions was thought to be 4. The first, “X” representing width, the second was “Y”, representing height, the third was “Z” representing depth, and the fourth was “T”, representing time.

Initially it was thought that every object in the universe experienced time equally, but later it was discovered that time was just a direction of motion. Which meant that tomorrow and yesterday are no different than left, right, up, and down. With time being just another direction to move in, and with every object in the universe moving in different speeds and directions, naturally every object in the universe was experiencing time differently.

For example, imagine 2 twins born on the same day. One twin is launched off the planet in a spaceship and the other twin is kept here on Earth. Lets say that after accelerating for one month, the spaceship is moving away from earth at 99.9% the speed of light (670,000,000 mph). It then slows down, turns around, and begins the trip back to earth eventually accelerating to the same speed. Upon returning to Earth two months after leaving, the twin exits the spaceship to find that everything on the planet has aged 5 years. The twin who stayed on Earth is indeed 5 years older, and to him his brother was in space for 5 years; there’s 5 years of new celebrities, 5 years of new geo-political developments, and 5 years of new inventions and technologies. Not only can the twins debate over how long the trip lasted ( 2 months or 5 years ), but they can also debate over the total distance traveled. The twin who went on a trip to the stars (actually, he never made it to one) will claim to have traveled a distance that is considerably less than the people on Earth said he traveled. The effect, that becomes quite measurable when considering things that are moving at high speeds, is call “time dilation.” This means that if you were to ask every sub-atomic particle in the universe how old the universe is, each would produce a slightly different answer and none are lying.

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To better imagine dimensions, one must only envision the relationship between a boat and submarine. The boat lives in a 2 dimensional world and its only choices are north, south, east, and west. South is only the opposite of north, and East is only the opposite of west, so in reality a boat has only 2 angles of freedom. What’s more is that other boats may not share the same space with each other. A submarine, on the other hand, exists in a 3 dimensional world. Like the boat, it can move north, south, east, and west, but unlike the boat, it can also move up and down. The air above is also a 3 dimensional space. A human, not being able to fly, has access to 2 dimensions and can only walk along the surface of the earth. A large wall, a river, or tall cliffs can spell the end for a journey on-foot. But a bird has access to another dimension, up and down. It would not be impeded by a wall, or river, or cliff. Having access to another dimension, these terrain obstacle present no difficulty.

Occultists often refer to the universe in terms of layers, or dimensions ( also called worlds or spheres). Similar to those who live in high-rise buildings, we too live with beings who exist above and below us, and like those high-rise dwellers, we too are both separated and yet affected by the comings and goings of our neighbors. The number of layers contained in the universe differs from one occult tradition to another, but in modern western magic it is typically the Hebrew Cabala, and the dividing lines that it defines, which are most relied upon. The Kabala is a series of ancient Jewish texts that define the nature of reality, the number of universes, and the rulers of those universes. In the Kabala, the universe is divided into 10 parts, each called Sephirah, and these 10 sephirah are further divided into 4 “worlds” and constitute a separate universe, each containing its own ruler and inhabitants. The 4 worlds, in which the 10 sephirah are divided into, are: Atziluth, the divine world of archetypal ideas; Briah, the creative world of the Archangels; Yetzirah, the astral world of Angels and Demons; Assiah, the material world. In the kabala, and occult in general, the universe is seen as series of layers where energy, originating from the top, cascades downwards becoming increasingly solid. Each layer represents a slightly more solid reflection of the contents of the layers above. Since this energy is constantly flowing down through the worlds, any alteration occurring above will trickle down to the lower levels. It’s curious that modern day scientists, the self-proclaimed string-theorists, are coming to the exact same conclusion as the ancient Kabala did, a 10 dimensional universe.

Another system which is equally common, and probably more friendly to the human mind, is the breaking up of the universe into 5 layers. The first layer, spirit, represents the mind of god and is composed of pure energy. The layer below, the mental universe, represents a series of concepts and identities. Objects in the mental world do not respect time and space, but instead represent timeless identities, and one of these identities is the entity you call “you” (your soul). The mental world is no more than a collection of concepts and thoughts. Things like rocks and trees do not exist on the mental plane, only the idea or concepts of a rock, and the concept of trees. The 3^rd world, and perhaps most crucial to the magician, is the astral world. This world, unlike the mental world, is subject to a sense of space and time. The fourth of the worlds is the etheric. This world, sometimes used interchangeably with the astral world, is the

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universe that provides the foundation for the material plane. The etheric world is also where the life-force, the energy created and used by life forms, resides. Finally, there’s the 5^th level of reality, the material universe.

The operations of magic are rarely aimed at the lowest level of reality (material), but instead the magician will attempt to alter the higher levels of the universe knowing that those changes will eventually trickle down to the etheric and material world. It is in the way does the magician alter reality by intention. The mental world, being nothing but concepts and thoughts, are affected by the magician in such a way as to produce predictable results on the lower levels of reality. One could argue that my distinction of mental/astral/etheric worlds is unnecessary, or just plain wrong; some occults only make reference to 3 worlds: divine, astral, and material. I’m satisfied as long as you understand the concept of cascading, and slowly solidifying energy. In truth, there’s nothing “slow” about it. The objects in the separate worlds are copies of each other, tethered together by a rope; they respond instantly to changes in the others. As above, so below. Every individual has a copy of themselves on each of the 5 planes. These 5 copies of the self are not unified, however, but divided in 3 pieces by 2 large gaps. The first gap is often referred to as “the veil,“ and this veil not only divides the astral plane into 2 parts, it also divides the material body, called the Lower Self, from that person’s guardian angel. Between the astral and the mental planes lies the second deep gap, this gulf is often called “the abyss.” The abyss is what separates a person from their Higher Self, often called their Higher Genius; the Higher Self is nothing more than copies of the individual which reside in the planes above and represents each person’s connection to god.

Further, the way the total universe is divided is also up for grabs. Some in the occult speak of 7 heavens, seven hells, the astral and material planes. Others speak of only 4 partitions of the universe: the abyss, the heavens, the astral, and the Earth. Others still speak of 4 partitions: Hell (infernal), heaven, the astral, and the material. The cross-sections that Occultists have divided the universe differs, but there is general agreement regarding the function, and nature of the separate worlds.

The concepts of heaven and hell are usually thought of as exclusively Christian, but this is far from the truth. Every religion and mythology out there makes reference to the heavens, the earth, and the underworld. In regards to the heavens, it is often described as an extra dimension that does indeed have the semblance of space and time. Satan and the angels, for instance, are spoke of as “approaching the throne of god,” as if there were a way to be in heaven, but not in the presence of the throne. This is important because it describes a lack of unity where, like in our material world, objects can be closer or farther from other objects. Obviously, there is some form of space and time in heaven, and proof of this lies in the fact that many of the stories about heaven related to us from the Bible, occult, and numerous mythologies include sequences of events, and entities and objects both near and far. Heaven is also spoke of as having gates that deny its entry; implied in this is that heaven and our world

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are connected by a guarded nexus point. What’s more is that heaven itself is often spoke of as being broken into 7 pieces, the 7 heavens. Each level of the heavens is ruled by an arch-angel, and in some cases these heavens have been mistaken for earthly locations. For example, I’ve heard occultists, texts of the Christian apocrypha, and Muslims speak of the garden of Eden as a location that resides in the 3^rd heaven, as opposed to a terrestrial location.

Then there is Hell, sometimes called the abyss, the qliphoth, the averse, or acausal realms. Similar to how the heavens are broken into 7 pieces, hell is also considered to exist as separate parts and, like the heavens, each partition has its own ruler. But unlike the material and heavens realms, the 7 hells do not obey the strict laws of space and time that we are familiar with. These infernal realms are spoke of as places where chaos reigns. In the infernal places, the spatial dimensions are not perfectly straight and do not exist as perfect 90-degree angles; here the X,Y,Z, and time dimensions are curved and warped. If someone were to directly gaze upon the beings that exist in the infernal realms they may be struck with an ache in the mind, because their very shape is unnatural to our senses.

Sometimes one will find the underworld divided into two realms. The first is Hades, which is the land of the dead, and then there’s hell (Gehinnom). Hades, also called Sheol, is considered the land of the dead where all people, both righteous and unrighteous, go when they die. Whereas Hell is a place specifically for unrighteous entities to experience torment and imprisonment. And unlike popular conception, neither is said to be currently burning and aflame. In the Bible for instance, it is stated that only after all beings are judged (judgment day), both Hell and Hades will then be cast in to a lake of fire (Revelation 20:14), and all those “unsaved” will undergo a second death and remain forever tormented in the lake of fire. Currently, however, members of the occult (and the Bible as well) speak of both places as being timeless, limitless, cold, dark, and chaotic.

Occultists tend to get a kick out of the way the average person interprets their dreams, and rightfully so. To the average person, taken-up by the faulty commentary of men like Freud and Jung, a dream is a completely subjective world existing only in the mind of the dreamer (and not even “existing“ there!!) . Psychologists suggest that dreams are no more than the subconscious working on a problem, or the subconscious acting about the daily worries and thoughts of the dreamer. They claim that dreams are a fleeting, non-existent universe created solely by the dreamer, and that all the events and characters contained in the dream are simply projections created by the sleeping individual.

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The reality of dreams, however, is a bit scarier. To start, it is a false assumption that the events and characters that occupy one’s dreamscape are entirely their own creation. Far from being mere projections of the sleeper’s psyche, some dream characters are in fact spirits who have clothed themselves in some form and have entered into your dream. As it turns out, the land of dreams, often synonymous with the astral plane, is in fact a far more objective reality than it’s given credit for. In truth you have met with spirits, and other dreamers in the astral landscape. These spirits, being without a form of their own, are given shape by the dreamer. These beings then “hijack” the dream, and force all of the dream’s events to be centered around the spirit. In the waking hours, the dreamer is no less effected by these spirits, but simply remains unaware of their influence; in the dreaming hours, the subconscious mind makes these entities visible. Most occultists believe that in a dream state the astral body has detached from the physical body, allowing the astral form to roam while the material body remains in bed.

Most people in the dream state do not realize that they’re dreaming, but instead accept the reality of their environment; helplessness is a common feeling amongst dreamers because they feel as though they’re acting out a role in someone else’s movie. Lucid dreaming is the opposite of this. In a lucid dream, the dreamer is aware of the fact that they’re dreaming; instantly, the sleeper is transformed into a god and can resist the efforts of these outside entities. Once the dreamer becomes aware, these entities are easily routed and can even come to fear the dreamer. These spirits may attempt to terminate the dream prematurely so that the dreamer does not acquire complete awareness. The dream world, or astral plane, is said to respect the rules of space and time to a degree. This is evident by the fact that some dreams seem to last 30 minutes, while in reality the sleeper was in a dreaming cycle for 5 minutes. Distances between 2 points are also non-linear in the dream; concepts of time and space remain, albeit altered. There are cases were the dream world seems to exist outside the boundaries of space and time. I’ve heard it remarked upon that the feeling of déjà vu was in fact a premonition of the future delivered to the sleeper in a dream and, months later, the person finds themselves living the exact moment they had predicted and dreamt about. It is said that the Divine Mind gives visions of the future to the dreamer; going to bed on an empty stomach, a vegetarian diet, and abstinence from alcohol are claimed to facilitate these types of dreams. Occultists recognize no difference between the astral realm and the “dream realm,” to such the extent that ‘astral projection’ is considered nothing more than lucid dreaming. This world of the astral is alleged to not be a separate world at all, but rather a realm that lays directly on top of the material world; the astral, or “spirit world” is said to be touching every point in our space.

These dream-invading spirits are often engaging in more than just play, for it is said that many spirits vampirically feed from the sleeper’s life-force. Lifeforce is an invisible form of energy that surrounds and empowers the body. The life-force, sometimes called the astral body or aura, surrounds the physical body and usually extends a couple inches or feet outside of the physical body. A human void of lifeforce is dead, regardless of the biological health of the

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person. During the night (especially while dreaming), the body converts food into life-force and replenishes the body, but in truth the process of creation and depletion is happening at all times. The first indication that someone’s life-force was fed upon by a spirit is getting plenty of sleep, and still waking up feeling depleted and tired. Caffeine is the usual remedy for this. The rate of expenditure of life-force increases during times of high emotional states. Feelings like worry, fear, depression, anger, and lust all help to spill the cup of life; at these times, the human being radiates (wastes) life-force more intensely. Fresh fruits and vegetables are considered to have higher concentrations of this life-force as opposed to meats and processed foods.

Life-force, the energy of the spirit, manifests itself from the astral world through specific points on the body often called a “chakra.” Although there is some disagreement regarding how many chakra points the human body has, since in truth it has many, 5-7 of them are widely accepted and considered major chakras. The major chakra points form a linear, vertical path from the soles of the feet, up the spine to a region just above the head. These chakra points are essentially junctions between someone’s material and etheric body; life-force from that etheric body pours in to replenish the material body.

At night, the vampiric spirits induce feelings of fear and lust in dreams and feed from the extra life-force created. It’s also worth noting that activities such as: nervous twitches, chewing gum, excessive talking, and pretty much any unnecessary activity further spills the cup of life. The beings in the astral cannot partake in the material world without “plugging into” someone.

If my left-brain mentality, and knowledge of computer programming aided my ability to grasp anomalous, independent yet interwoven universes, then it certainly impeded my ability to understand magic. The problem arose with my conception of a "command". In computer programming, commands are sent to the computer in a very formalized way; computer programming languages are extremely structured and inflexible. Another road-block to understanding magic, which sprang up because of my computer-nerd dispositions, was regarding the parameter of faith. In computer land, countless times have I succeeded brilliantly in solving a problem by a series of random, trial-and-error potshots that I was sure "won't work", and, as if it were part of the ritual, I didn't fail to utter that suspicion aloud either. In those cases, “this won’t work” was followed by “Did that just work?“. But in magic, absolute faith is necessary. Rule #1: Faith. Like every other path of spiritual development, magic requires faith. Without belief and focus, you (your spells) are sure to fail. Surely, this is an aspect of the occult that has kept the merely curious at bay.

But there was something else about magic that violated and troubled my computer-like mind. Magic's arbitrary nature. While reviewing medieval grimoires, one is struck by the countless strange requirements for a given spell. You have to say these incantations, at this time of year, facing that direction. A modern aspirant to the magical arts will find himself saying things like: "The testicle of a wild bull?!?! Where the hell am I gonna get that?!?!" Oh, but don't forget that you have to cut that bull's balls off at midnight, and only in February, or that spell is a big no-go.

This may sound like an absurd exaggeration, unworthy of being included in an objective analysis of magic, but this is exactly the kind of stuff one finds while perusing texts about magic written greater than a century ago. One can hardly exaggerate magic's arbitrary, comical, and often contradictory nature. Surely another aspect of the occult that has kept the merely curious at bay. Traces of this truth can be found in popular culture where you have the witch, reading off a list of arbitrary herbs and arbitrary body parts of arbitrary animals, and throwing them into a stirring cauldron on arbitrary nights of the year.

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Who came up with these rules? And who enforces my command when the recipe is executed properly? Because these are the questions that would occur first to a programmer; who, or what, is the "program" that enforces my will once the spell has executed properly? Why does this "program" respond to my commands at all? And who the hell was looking over my shoulder to make sure I crept upon that bull on a February night? My feet sporting top-of-the-line running shoes, my trembling hands wielding a knife, and my eyes blazing with emasculating menace. This force looking over my shoulder, and executing my commands, I'll call the "magical program."

If one delves in to only a couple books about magic and the occult, they come away believing that magic is terribly inflexible; these rules, as arbitrary as they may be, are still "rules." But in truth, there are nearly countless ways of achieving the same goals in magic; unlike computer land, there are many efficient ways to send the same command to the Magical Program. The first indication of this fact lies in the many languages used by magicians all over the world to accomplish the same goals, or contact the same entities. As I stated in The Name Game, the same entities have gone by many names in different eras and locations. In a ritual intended to conjure a particular entity, the name of choice would be uttered aloud. But you would think that when the rules of magic were "etched" into the universe, that a single verbal language would be the "official" language of the Magical Program.

But rather, it appears that the Magical Program speaks all languages. Even if you locked yourself in a room with a magic 8-ball, and created a whole new language based on its answers, rituals done in that language will still succeed. And if they didn't, it was probably because your brain doesn't have the deep ties ( and imagery ) to the words of your newly-created language. Although magicians admit that some verbal and written languages have inherent power, in reality, any will do. Those languages which magicians claim have occult virtues are many old or

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dead tongues. Like Hebrew, Chaldian, etc. Many good (moral and God-fearing) magicians suggest that although using unfamiliar languages in rituals will achieve the same result, it is unadvisable to do so. They advise that you use your mother tongue, so that you know exactly what you are asking for. Embedded in this tip lies a truth. Use your mother tongue, whichever it may be. It appears the Magical Program speaks every language, even the noble tongue of 8-ball.

But there is indeed a method to the madness. Magicians will incorporate foreign languages (or alternate names) into their spells and writings to hide the true meaning from the Profane in the case that they are discovered; symbols constitute the other method by which they guard their secrets. The “profane” are those unilluminated by magic. Magicians are accustomed to living a secretive life, and for more than one reason. The first reason for all the cloak and dagger is the persecution magicians have suffered at the hands of everyone from organized religion all the way down to small-town linchmobs; men of science have often suffered similar fates. The second reason for all the secrecy is based on the simple principle that knowledge is power. Put simply, the less you know, the mightier their power is. Sadly, many magicians go to great lengths to promote atheism and disbelief in the paranormal. A world full of disbelievers is a playground for the magicians. The third reason for all the misdirection is fear, from knowing the bad magicians will kill them.

Even the most well-meaning, god-fearing, and benevolent magicians of this age, and ages past, regarded the Profane as inferior and unworthy of these secrets. And a part of me is inclined to agree. The average man whittles his life away watching mind-numbing TV and buying crap they don't need while the answers to some of the universe's deepest truths were only a couple mouse-clicks away (and usually free). Even legendary magicians like Ambrelin, who was more “white sheets” than any preacher you’ll ever meet (especially these days), regarded the common man as unworthy. So even though I agree with their reasoning, as your author and humble narrator, I'm sure it's quite obvious that I agree…just not enough.

I believe in disclosure, because the facts that these magicians know about the world does affect the average man everyday. One example of many: Magicians know that many cases of mental disorders are not psychological, but spiritual. Still, they promote the psychological assertions of men like Freud and Darwin who they know to be wrong, and have us popping anti-depressants that they know won't work (and perhaps opening the mind to even more spiritual influence). Is it any wonder that, almost comically, depression, psychotic episodes, and suicide are side-effects of anti-depression and anti-psychotic medication?

It's been said that humans were once telepathic, and could communicate to each other, and even animals, using only their mind. Lets assume, hypothetically, that that’s correct. If a human

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and animal could in any way perceive each others thoughts, then there must be a universal language by which concepts and images are conveyed. This universal language is so universal, that even the animals speak it. So perhaps the Magical Program accepts commands by listening to the thoughts and intentions of the magician. Still, there must be something else that the Magical Program requires to constitute a magical command. Everyone has called out "God", sometimes while doing the most horrendous things, and (perhaps luckily) he failed to show up. Countless times have the words "Satan" and "The Devil" been said aloud or contemplated on, and still he doesn't show (unquestionably lucky). We all have will and desires, but what stops those everyday thoughts from becoming magical commands? The answer is ritual, visualization, and invocation.

We all have ritual. Some smoke a cigarette the moment they wake up, some stumble to the coffee machine, and others head straight to the bathroom. Everyday we engage in ritualistic behavior, but the difference between our rituals, and the rituals of the magician is that ours are utilitarian, while theirs are symbolic. Ours are done to achieve a goal that needs achieving frequently, so we do them frequently, while in their rituals the individual actions are symbolic of their intentions, and represent an organized way to send commands to the Magical Program. The second major difference between our ritual and theirs is intense visualization. Often, while uttering the words of the ritual, the magician is intensely visualizing things like energy being drawn into him, sent out of him, drawn from high above, or using it to trace invisible symbols in the air. At the beginning of the ritual the magician's imagination is essentially cleansed, where he begins to imagine everything in the world disappearing except that which he needs to complete the ritual at hand. The third difference regarding rituals involves invoking certain spirits to do certain jobs. While conducting a ritual, the priest will call upon higher forces, such as arch-angels, arch-demons, angels, intelligences, and other ruling spirits to see to it that the priest's command is executed. The priests call upon, or invoke, these higher forces, by uttering their names aloud while visualizing them. And so there it is; symbolic ritual, corresponding visualizations, and invocations to the dominant spirits open the gate to the Magical Program.

But if this be entirely true, then why must, or should, I do certain things on certain days? Had I spit in that toad's mouth after sunrise, would I be left with asthma? Why would a spirit care if it's a full moon, or what day of the week it is? And then there's all these rules relative to my environment; my ritual circle bearing certain symbols, drawn on the floor relative to the points on the compass, my alter at its center. And who was the first to try all this? And are they sane enough to take seriously? But hey, I’m not here to debunk, nor project an aura of disbelief with all my questions, I’m merely curious.

And, of coarse, then came the time for me to actually start practicing magic. One can't study the occult without studying magic, and magic is something that's impossible to learn completely from afar. I can say, without exaggeration, that I've read at least 70 books about magic in an effort to study the occult from the outside. The ultra-curious like myself having to

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read book after book about gaining new knowledge and powers is as cruel as sending brochures for amusement parks to a kid laid up in the hospital. But I already had a couple things going for me, and so wasn't a newbie in the strictest sense. Firstly, I had a basic, yet solid, understanding of occult principles; secondly, I had faith; thirdly, I already knew what I needed to begin doing (like how my diet of peanut butter cookies and Mountain Dew was going to have distinctly negative impact on my magical career). After coming to grips with the existence of the Illuminati, together with their firm belief in the occult, I became a believer in the power of magic. But I was afraid. I was afraid of opening portals to beings in other dimensions right next to my dirty-clothes hamper, I was afraid of dealing with alien beings when I can hardly navigate dealings with my own race, and I was afraid of adding even more sin to the copious globs I was already holding on to. I know who I am, I’m weak and pathetic, and to sum it all up, I was afraid of going "Darth Vader." Despite all this, I started doing rituals derived from the Order of the Golden Dawn and have been practicing for some time.

Until now I’ve have resisted an urge many authors fail to resist, inundating their books with personal stories. Here I believe one is order, but if I play my cards right, you can still keep learning about important topics. How’s that sound?

At first, my research was completely geared to the Illuminati and Satanism specifically. I started reading books about Satanism and black magic and noticed something many Satanists partake in; using the names of multiple religions and mythologies to describe the same character. In the same breath (sentence), Satanists would name 5 different gods, from 5 different religions, and declare that they were in fact the same entity. This was a conclusion I came to independently. These Black magicians made casual references to the Biblical struggle of good and evil, the Greek and Egyptian gods, the Dajjal [Anti-Christ] and Jinn [demons] of Islam, the Chi [life-force] of the Chinese, the Shakras of the Hindus, and the Anunnaki of Sumeria. They appeared to embrace the truth in every religion, as if they took a bit of every religion and formed a new one, calling it “The Occult.” But perhaps what has actually happened is that every religion has remaining shreds of Occult truth, simply different shreds; this made “The Occult” the purest remaining copy of the ultimate truth. From Jay-Z to David Rockefeller, the individual members of the Illuminati come from many different backgrounds, and from many times and places, but the tie that is interwoven in all they do, the tie that truly binds, is the occult. Indeed, from where I was standing, all roads led to the Occult.

So my researching eye began to wander away from the exclusive realm of Satanism and black magic, and turned its attention towards the Occult as a whole. In regards to the wider world of the Occult, you’ll generally run into two types of books: the philosophy of the occult,

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and magic. Avoid the former; books about Occult philosophy that make no mention of the laws of magic are often laced with deliberate misinformation, cryptic terms, veiled remarks, and a respectable gallery of symbols (who are more guilty than the Freemasons? ). Yet, sadly, this is the chewed meat most reach for when studying the Occult. Books about magic, on the other hand, spoke of the same things but in more literal terms. Unlike Freemasonic authors, and other Occult philosophers, who give grandiose titles to even the most elementary principles of magic (and even more pompous titles to themselves), the magician has dispensed with their misleading symbolism. What’s more is that the new age movement was founded upon the misleading teachings of these occult authors. Since the symbols and veiled comments of these occult philosophers are always based on magic, little true wisdom is to be gleaned from the texts of these authors without knowledge of basic magical principles. Similar to how a dog views the English language as a series of meaningful keywords separated by mostly meaningless babble, our researcher will find himself scan-reading these texts for keywords that offer a few meaningful reference points he can cling to; “Lucifer”,”The Light”, “Joachim and Boaz”, and anything else that “rings a bell.” This constitutes the bulk of occult researchers (those, like me, who researched the Occult from the outside). The truth of this statement is easily apparent by observing how many of these researchers will tell you the Illuminati practice the Occult, and how few of them tell you how it‘s used. Without magic, there is no Occult; without magic, the occult is nothing more than a collection of symbolic folklore and superstitions, same as every other religion; without magic, the Occultist has no more access to hidden truth than the rest of us and, like the rest of us, must wait for crumbs of wisdom from above to pass the veil and fall into their lap.

The first thing I noticed about the more morally-balanced magicians is how they speak to, and about, negative spirits. While in ritual, the Satanist spoke to these demons as gods, while the “white magician” spoke to them as slaves. The Satanist spoke from both sides of his mouth in regards to his relationship to these negative entities. On one side of his mouth, he spoke of himself as ascending to godhood by using external, but mainly internal, magic and these beings were simply facilitating that ambition; each Satanist recognizing himself as the only God. While on the other side of their mouth, they spoke of the demons as gods and demanded that their fellow Satanists accept Satan as their new Lord and guide. One minute it’s “there is no such thing as evil!“, and the next minute it’s “…Satan, Darkest of the Dark Lords of Evil, come forth within me…“. They spoke of loyalty and compassion as weaknesses harbored by the human herd, the prey. They promote the unlimited use of man’s naturally predatory instinct. They believe in the casting-off of moral labels and replacing them with pragmatism. They spoke of using magic to transform their spirits and become gods. The white magician, on the other hand, spoke to these same beings as a parent speaks to a child; as though his command was a God-given right.

This is more than my own figure of speech, often these priests would call upon the many names of God to bring spirits into the ritual, and also use them to control and punish the disobedient

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ones. After the names of god, these magi would call upon the powers of arch-angels to force the obedience of almost any spirit. The magician would assign an inanimate object to the spirit, and like a Voodoo doll, subject that object to injury, thereby subjecting the spirit to the same injuries. And finally, he would use iron objects, like swords and long knives, to stab disruptive spirits. Satanists, on the other hand, may hesitate to bring iron anywhere near the spirit during a ritual as it may “offend the gods.”

Another thing that impressed me about magicians, both good and bad, was the overall knowledge they possessed regarding the Bible, Islam, Apocryphal texts, Judaism, Hinduism, and almost all the mythologies. They could quote the Bible with the best of them. This overall spiritual knowledge is most likely due to their understanding regarding the singular root story, rather than intense memorization on their part. The fact that they so liberally use the names and storylines from multiple beliefs so interchangeably is proof of this. What else I found interesting was how some magicians referred to Osiris (and Yahweh) as “Lord”; except, when they spoke of him, or identified him in any way, it was always in terms of Jesus Christ.

But planetary or spiritual properties aren’t the only hidden properties an object, or given space, has. There are also threads that permanently bind every material particle to every other particle that it has ever come in contact with. Imagine for a moment that every time you touch an object, small threads remain that tie your hand to that object forever. The more times you touch that object, the more threads between you and it are created. The average person would therefore have many residual threads between them, and the fabrics in their clothes and furniture. But also fluids or solids that passed through, or came from, your body would naturally have many lingering threads. Because of the length of time they were in your body, and sheer surface-area contact, things like sweat, blood, semen, hair, milk, or skin would likely contain more lingering threads than urine or feces. This web that binds all things (“The Force” from Starwars) goes by many names: The Akasha, Indra’s web, The web of Wyrd, the Web of Life,

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and… The Force. Essentially, everything you’ve ever touched or excreted is still “touching” you; most of this material has decomposed into the earth, returned to the ocean, or rotting in a landfill. Naturally, a magician would find things like your clothes, hair, blood, and extremely personal items useful if he desired to target you, as it makes for an easy way for him to describe your whereabouts to a spirit.

This web that binds all things makes it possible for objects and spaces to essentially record events. Which brings us to the “problem” of ghosts. Ghosts are usually thought of as spirit beings that roam, or haunt, a given place. Some ghosts repeat the same actions over and over again, while other ghosts seem to interact with people and objects in our world. Some ghosts are comprised not of individuals, but as objects such as “ghost ships” and “ghost trains.” Other ghosts may be whole groups of people, such as American Civil War battles, where whole ghost armies are seen marching into battle. Some ghosts aren’t objects at all, but noises, feelings, and odors that seem to come from a distant past. The most pervading theory regarding ghosts is that they are the souls of the departed who weren’t ready to “move on.” Consequently, with unfinished business in our world, they continue to roam the place where they perished. Attached to each, of coarse, is this traumatic, tear-jerker story of how the person died, and why they have unfinished business. This theory has been screamed and echoed from the hills by every spiritualist and self-proclaimed psychic out there.

While I was researching the spirit world, I ignored these spiritualists and psychics. Even if they were indeed psychic, and even if they honestly, and accurately relay to me all they knew about the spirit world, they demonstrated no control. Their knowledge was limited to what information a spirit, or environment would volunteer; a merely subjective relationship. But to see or hear something I can’t (not being a psychic) implies that you only know of it, not about it. You know of its existence, not its nature. It’s the difference between being able to see a bolt of lightning, and knowing how to harness it. The “psychic” remains subject to the danger posed by lightning, because he cannot tell why it strikes, or where it will fall next, he can only proclaim its existence, or presence, as a fact. These pint-sized mystics then create a whole system of superstitions to explain away the aspects of lightning they don’t understand. The magician on the other hand demonstrated control; he knew how to do work with the spirits (harness), and how to stay safe from them (protection). Also, the magician did not make the pitiful mistake of associating the spirit world with the afterlife of human beings in such an exclusive manner (unlike those momma‘s-boy philosophers and old-maid eccentrics). Bottom line: The magician didn’t have to hope for a haunted house, he could make it haunted; he didn’t have ask the spirit to leave, he could make it leave. Hence my decision.

There are numerous holes in the theory that a tragic story, combined with unfinished business, leads to the creation of a ghost and the beginning of a haunting. The most glaring is the fact that not all ghosts are people but, as suggested earlier, could be trains, ships, even odors. How did the train become a ghost? Did enough souls perish in the train to drag the train

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itself to the spirit world with them? Why did those Civil War soldiers bring their rifles, uniforms, and horse with them to the afterlife? Some hauntings don’t include any human speech at all, but instead noises, music, or odors that seem to rise from the past itself. Further, hospitals and busy intersections should be teaming with ghosts; per square-foot both have seen more death than any haunted house ever did (or battlefield for that matter). What’s more is that you would expect a high “ghost ratio” because of how few people who have died on the road, or emergency room, expected to die that day. So there’s no shortage of unfinished business either. Many are tragic and abrupt, but where’s ghost SUVs and motorcyclists? Where are the ghost hospital and nursing home patients? Countless apparitions should be seen wandering aimlessly up and down the halls of a hospital. And why did each of the few people who ever died in a particular building all become ghosts, while thousands die in the hospital (and at the corner of X and Y) and none stayed to haunt? Clearly, the prevailing theory about ghosts has some unfinished business of its own.

Magicians have explained the phenomena of haunting a number of ways, but what should be made clear first is that there are certain locations predisposed to ghostly activity. First, a “ghost” may be nothing more than a recording from the past; as if the occult properties of a “haunted house” projected themselves outwardly. The second explanation is that the ghosts were non-human entities who are projecting themselves as people who once occupied the same location. These non-human spirits clothing themselves in a human form that it uses to interact with our world. Regardless of which theory one tend to accept regarding ghosts, the fact that certain locations are predisposed to paranormal activity is clear. Some hotspots of paranormal activity have become famous, like the infamous Bermuda triangle where many have vanished mysteriously. And naturally, there are those in the occult who say that a ghost truly is the dead spirit of a strong-willed person or warlock, both of which are said to be more likely to survive the transition into death.

Ancient man also understood the inherent power of location. In is believed by occultists, both modern and otherwise, that there are some points on the surface of the Earth where the veil between our world and the spirit world (or the past) is extremely thin. And when certain random conditions conspire, the veil between the worlds is completely lifted, allowing those on both sides to interact temporarily. I have even heard that on nights such as Halloween, the veil is thinner at all points. Traditionally ancient man marked these locations with massive stone monuments and structures; the pyramids, and Stonehenge to name a few examples; I have heard Stonehenge to be particularly powerful. Understandably, ancient man conducted many magic rituals and Rites of Transformation at these locations. But these special locations on Earth’s surface don’t occur only as hotspots, but also as linear paths that circled the Earth. In the past, these paths were called “dragon paths” or “dragon lines,” but the modern term for these linear-shaped regions is “Ley Lines.” These geometrically inclined paths may not represent the only weak points in the veil but, perhaps, the haunted house represents a less organized,

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small, and randomly placed speckle painted on the globe.

All of us are familiar with the power of intention, whether consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes people can be made upset by the mere mention of an undesired, yet extremely unlikely, fate; as if the mere utterance of an event increases is chances [jinx]. For example, a passenger on an airplane could get angry listening to another passenger muse and speculate over what would happen “If we crashed.” Sometimes this response of anger is logical; you may be correct, and painting a very likely outcome. Being swept-up in mindless optimism, the angry party may accuse you of “raining on their parade.” Other times the angry response one receives for such speculation is not rational. The outcome you predict is so unlikely it is unworthy of serious consideration. Anger towards this type of speculation may not stem from violation of the rational senses, but intuitive ones.

People who don’t like to be “jinxed” are usually these over-optimistic types who subconsciously know the power of intention. Further, to “be optimistic” is a point of view. Two fans, of different football teams, sitting together watching their 2 teams compete would perceive any speculation from the other as “pessimism.” Then there are, of coarse, perfectly logical concerns that some people would label “pessimistic.” But honestly, what good is optimism if the plan sucks? If the plan sucks, worry and pessimism may be the only thing that saves you from an undesired, and perhaps quite likely, fate. Despite all this, the power of intention cannot be denied. Although our thoughtless airplane passenger did not actually intend for the plane to crash, subconsciously we all grasp the power of the wish.

It is upon these wishes that the magician constructs his ( and yours) reality. The things a magician paints with his mind become real, and visible by all the beings in the land of thoughts and dreams. A magician doesn’t merely hold a wand, he uses it project energy he visualizes, and when he paints invisible pentagrams in the air, the beings in the other world can “see” these symbols, and are further subject to their function. Wishes, however, isn’t the only variable a magician must consider.

A principle most magicians live by is never swim upstream, never go against the wind. Magicians believe that rays are arriving to Earth, or the material universe, from the stars, and these rays contain within them certain trends. These rays make individual people, and whole societies, predisposed to certain behaviors. Like tides on the ocean, these behavioral trends wax and wane, and can be predicted. At times when the rays of the heavens make people aggressive, this is the time when the magician seeks to cause strife; when the rays from he stars suggests a time of peace, the magician seeks to induce favors and garner friendships. Mostly, magicians concern themselves with the celestial effects brought on by the 7 magical

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planets (The moon, the Sun, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury). Each of these planets produce certain effects that rise and fall as the days and months go by.

The magician always flows with the trends, but these “trends” are no mere machinations of popular culture, but celestial trends. Astrology, as it is popularly known today, is the use of heavenly bodies to track current and future trends. Astrology is based on the principle that the location of certain heavenly bodies help indicate a person’s or society’s behavior, and therefore their fate. Unbeknownst to most of its believers, astrology was originally exclusively used by magicians in order to track when certain spells and rituals are to be performed. Most people use astrology to help dictate their day-to-day actions, and even though subtle astrological forces do play a part in determining a behavioral trends, it is not an art worthy of guiding one’s life.

The practitioner of astrology is likely to miss good opportunities, or seize upon bad opportunities, on account of their daily astrological horoscope; too subtle are these astrological effects to be qualified to guide one’s life. Common sense, and a consistent set of “right and wrongs,” is surely wiser. For the magician, however, the tide of these celestial forces offer a way to maximize the power of any magical undertaking.

It is always important to bare in mind that magic is not “hit-or-miss”. It is easy to make the mistake of thinking about the results of a magical act in sharply contrasted terms like “succeed” and “failure.” In truth, magic exists in a constant shade of grey, where it is not a matter of whether the spell “worked,” but simply a matter of to what degree did it succeed. For instance, if someone desired to have a bit more extra cash in their pocket, they may create a magical talisman for the planet Jupiter, because Jupiter rules over luck and growth. A talisman is an object that has been energized by a certain type of energy or spirit, and these energies have been charged with a particular duty.

In this case, the talisman has been energized with the force of Jupiter and has been charged with the duty of bringing extra money to the magician. Then the talisman is consecrated, and it is during the ceremony of consecration that the object is imparted a certain type of force [Jupiter] and charged with its duty [extra money]. If this consecration is not done on a Thursday, which is the day allocated to the planet Jupiter, the talisman will still be successfully energized and set to it’s duty, but its strength will be greatly reduced.

What’s more, even the hours of the day have been assigned to certain planets. Meaning that if the talisman is created and consecrated on the day and hour of Jupiter, it will be even more powerful. The hours of the day that are dedicated to the 7 planets are dependant on both time of the year, and geographical location. The reason is that a magical day begins at sunrise. The first hour of the day is assigned to planet which rules that day. Instead of hours that last exactly 60 minutes, in magic the time between sunrise and sunset is divided into 12 pieces, and

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likewise the time between sunset and sunrise is also divided into 12.

These magical hours are therefore constantly changing. In summer each of the first 12 hours are longer than each of the last 12 hours because in summer the days are longer than the nights. With days consisting of 14 hours of daylight and 10 hours of night, the am hours which will last 70 minutes will be 40% longer than the pm hours, which will only last 50 minutes. On such a day, our money-chasing magician would be better off consecrating the talisman, not only on a Thursday, but in the first 70 minutes of daylight on that Thursday.

As stated previously, magic should not be thought of in terms of failure and success but instead the results of a magical working should be thought of ranging from failure to success. Once the Magical program receives an instruction, the results of that instruction manifest in a way that many would commonly label miraculous. Often, “success” manifests itself through serendipitous coincidence, and the magic itself did no more than make the “less likely” more likely to occur; in this way magic, and its successful results, are impossible to measure scientifically. The Magical program attempts to bring this “success” to the magician by making the smallest possible change in the coarse of destiny.

The second most important thing in magic, aside from intention, is ritual. The ritual, as stated previously, represents an organized way to send commands to the Magical Program, but it also aligns the mind of the magician with a certain type of magical energy. Two common types of magic is ritual magic, and natural magic. Natural magic relies on the occult essence of a particular material in order to project a certain energy. Practitioners of natural magic often procure many strange herbs, stones, and may even require a substance derived from a dead animal. It is this type of magic that is most commonly associated with witchcraft. The rituals of natural magic are minimalist, and often involve no more labor than procuring rare substances and wishful thinking. Literally. The texts of natural magic are often written after the fashion of a cookbook. “Write the full name and birthdate of the lover you desire on a pink candle, light the candle, and visualize them running into your arms, over and over again” (yeah, thanks anyway! I can’t get no…… satis…fac…tion). That’s an over-simplified version of the kind of crap you’ll run into. Then there’s ritual magic; no gem hunting, no herb gathering, no lizard eyes and cat’s tongue’s; just bossing around spirits with my mind, my words, and my wand (ahhhhh….now that’s more like it). For the remainder of this book, all my references to magic will be to ritual magic specifically (Darth Vader wouldn’t be caught dead spitting into a toad’s mouth).

The rituals of magic usually begin with a cleansing. Holy water and banishments comprise the most common ways in which cleansing of the ritual space is accomplished. The ritual space, the place you intend on doing a ritual, should be as clean and dark as possible. The room should be fragrant with a scent that corresponds to the type of energy you wish to summon. It is also

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important to note which walls are at what points of the compass, because what is done at one edge of the ritual space is usually done on all four sides (north, south, east, west). A banishment is a small ritual where banishing pentagrams and/or banishing hexagrams are drawn at the 4 edges of the ritual space; the symbols the magician draws in the air are of coarse invisible and imaginary. Although just a rule of thumb, the banishing pentagram/hexagram is drawn counter-clockwise, while it’s opposite, the invoking pentagram/hexagram, is drawn clockwise (Today, the most commonly used invoking and banishing pentagrams were those designed by Aleister Crowley. Why he decided on certain pentagram arrangements is truly baffling, as they are without the elegance of pattern. I despised having to memorize them, and I personally think that modern magicians should give those pentagram arrangements revision). A banishing symbol dispels a certain type of energy, while an invoking symbol activates a certain kind of energy. It may be thought of as an on and off switch; to banish a certain energy is to turn it off, while invoking a particular energy turns it on.

The purpose of a banishing at the beginning is to clean the area of all influences, and make the ritual space spiritually neutral. For example, in order to activate the spirits of the realm of Venus, one would draw a green (the color of Venus) hexagram facing all four directions, essentially enclosing your ritual space in imaginary, green hexagrams. The hexagrams, being invoking hexagrams, should begin at the bottom-right corner of the hexagram (the point assigned to Venus) and move clockwise until the first triangle of the hexagram is drawn. From there, beginning at the opposite side of Venus (the point of the hexagram assigned to mars), the second triangle is drawn, also in a clockwise fashion. And, being an odor of Venus, ideally the room should smell of rose. The spirits associated with the 7 planets are invoked and banished with the hexagram; for spirits of the 5 elements, the pentagram is used. Satanists tend to draw the pentagrams up-side down, which is symbolic for the material elements being higher than the element of spirit, which often represents God (The Light). It isn’t uncommon for names of power, such as the names of god, arch-angels, and angels to be uttered while these symbols are drawn. Like in the middle pillar ritual in chapter 2, these special names are often “vibrated,” rather than spoken in a plain manner.

Although opening rituals can come loaded with needless pageantry, the core of the opening ritual is the invocation. Here a distinction must be drawn, because the word invocation has 2 meanings in magic. The first is the activation of a certain type of energy, which is the case for the recently mentioned hexagrams and pentagrams; it is this type of invocation that the opening ritual contains. The second type of invocation is directing a spirit into the magician, allowing this spirit to, at least partially, “possess” the practitioner.

After the invocation of the opening ritual, the Magical Program is now “listening” for instruction. At this point the magician may choose one of many paths. He may decide to

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question the spirit by evoking it into visible form, or into a mirror. To evoke a spirit is to draw it into the ritual space, but not into the bodies and minds of those present. The magician may choose for the spirit to execute a particular command. He also may decide to infuse the spirit into a talisman. A talisman, like a voodoo doll, is a object that has been assigned to, and associated with, the essence of a specific being or energy. And finally, he may choose to invoke (the second meaning of the word) the spirit into his body, allowing the spirit to communicate with, and partially command, the magician.

After the magician is satisfied, and his will is accomplished, he begins the ritual’s closing ceremony. The closing ritual, like the opening ritual, may itself be weighty with pageantry, but the heart of the closing is the banishments. The banishing ritual at the beginning of the entire ritual banishes general influences, while the banishing ritual at the end banishes the specific force that was invoked (activated) during the ritual.

The major implements of ritual magic are relatively few, and even more impressive is the fact that they aren’t truly necessary at all (with perhaps the exception of the scrying mirror). The main tools of the magician include: the wand, the dagger (or sword), the cup, the alter, and the scrying mirror. The first of these, the wand, is used to direct energy and draw invoking symbols in the air.

The element associated with the wand is fire, and fire represents the spark of life; in other words, the ability to give life. The wand is a phallic symbol and represents the active force; the male’s ability to jump-start life. Fire, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the lion, the south, the color red, and arch-angel Michael. Fire also represents the will (desire).

The second main implement is the dagger, or sword. The dagger represents the element of air, and is used to draw banishing symbols in the air (as opposed to the wand, which invokes). Air represents the mind and intellect. Air, whose symbol is an upward-pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it’s center, is also associated with an angel (or man), the east, the color yellow, and the arch-angel Raphael. And, as stated before, the dagger is used to threaten and punish disobedient spirits.

The cup, or goblet, is associated with the element of water. Water is symbolic for the passive force, and feminine quality of the womb, and its ability to bear life. Water is likewise symbolic for blood and, more specifically, the previously discussed life-force. In magic, Fire and water represent the polar opposites of male and female. Water, who symbol is a downward-pointing triangle, is also associated with the eagle, the west, the color blue, and arch-angel Gabriel. In magic, water corresponded to dreams, emotions, and psychic work.

The last major magical tool is the scrying mirror. The scrying mirror is related to the moon, rather than one of the elements. Since a spirit can more easily reveal itself in a mirror,

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an object called a scrying mirror is used as a medium to communicate with spirits. Occultists have used everything from rare stones to bowls of water as scrying mirrors. But a scrying mirror, in it’s most basic form, is often just a piece of glass that has been painted black on one side. Some times the scrying mirror is used for astral travel, other times it is used as a place for spirits, even the weaker ones, to reveal themselves and other visions to the magician; the scrying mirror is a magical television screen.

A ritual tool of lesser importance (I think) is the pentacle. This is usually a wooden or clay disk, the size of a dinner plate, and has a pentagram drawn upon it. The pentacle is essentially a spiritual shield. This implement corresponds to the element of Earth. Earth, whose symbol is a downward pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it’s center, is associated with the bull, the north, earthy colors like green and brown, and arch-angel Uriel. The ritual tool pentacle should not be confused with the talismanic pentacles that are used to bind spirits and energies to. Before being used in ritual, all ritual tools undergo a ceremony of consecration, which is a ritual where that tool is magically activated.

The four animals assigned to the first four elements (lion,eagle,human,bull) also appear in the Bible. Ezekiel remarks on four living beings that came upon him instantly in a cloud [Ezekiel 1:10], “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.” Later on in the Bible [Revelation 4:7], nearly the exact same animals are mentioned again. ”And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.”

As stated earlier, once the magician has invoked a spirit or type of energy he has a number of options. The first option is to invoke the spirit into his body. To invoke a being into your body allows for direct communication between the spirit and the magician, and even allows the being to partly control the magician. For this reason, magicians should only invoke benevolent spirits into their body.

Another option the magician has is to assign a spirit a direct task. The magician may ask the spirit to cause physical harm, feelings of attraction, and discord in other people. He may also ask the spirit to cause changes in the weather, cause disruption in entire organizations, and even find hidden things. Magic of this type, that alters the world outside the magician, is called Thaumaturgic magic.

Once present, the magician may demand that the spirit empower a talisman. A talisman, often called a pentacle, is a physical object that represents a spiritual energy. The talisman

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becomes the physical abode of a spirit or energy that is constantly working to fulfill the purpose of the talisman. The purpose or duty of a talisman depends largely on the spirit used to empower it. Each of the 5 elements and 7 planets corresponds to a specific personality type and therefore capable of certain duties. As with all magical acts, one must never assign a job to a spirit that does not correspond to its nature, similar to how we don’t employ mechanics to give us a physical, and doctors to fix our cars. To assign the talisman a job involving love and attraction, one should empower the talisman with the spirits of the planet Venus, or the element of water. To succeed in conflict, the energy of the planet Mars is what should be “activated” at the beginning of the ritual. To become a better author, the magician would invoke the spirits of the planet Mercury, or spirits of the element of air.

After the appropriate type of energy for the job is selected and invoked, the magician specifies exactly the purpose of the talisman. This act is called consecration, and usually includes a sentence specifically declaring intent. “I consecrate this talisman for the purpose increasing my abilities as an author. May this talisman fulfill its purpose without evasion, ceasing its work only when it is deconsecrated.” It happens that I am writing this book under the “influence” of just such a talisman. A talisman that uses planetary spirits should be consecrated on that planet’s day and hour. A talisman may also be charged (or recharged) by the process of thought-embedding spoken of earlier, but these talismans are considerably weaker (I can‘t get no…). Sometimes rituals that increase the flow of astral energy, such as the middle pillar ritual, are used to embed a talisman with intention.

Talismans are usually inscribed with names and symbols. The names drawn on the talisman correspond to the names of the spirits who will be assigned the duty of fulfilling the talisman’s purpose; in Western magic these characters are usually in English or Hebrew. The symbols that usually adorn the talisman do not represent abstract concepts, but names. Symbols that represent names are called sigils. These sigils are formed by the use of a kamea, or “magic square,” which is simply a grid of numbers. To use a kamea to form a sigil, one would convert each letter in the name into a number, and then begin drawing lines connecting the numbers on the grid according to their sequence in the name. Each of the 7 planets corresponds to a different grid of different sizes, and the spirit’s name must be drawn using the grid assigned to that spirit’s planet. Aside from names and symbols associated with that talisman’s purpose, you’ll also discover that the talisman itself is made of the material, and painted the color, that corresponds to that planet or element.

Instead of assigning the spirit to a one-time duty, or full-time talisman, the magician may wish to evoke the spirit into visible appearance. To evoke a spirit is to command it to be present in the room, but not within the minds of those present. Evocations are among the most dangerous magical acts, and should not be taken lightly. Most commonly, the spirit is evoked into a magical triangle, while the magician stands inside of a magical circle. The magical triangle is used as a spiritual container, and confines the spirit during the ritual. Sometimes the triangle

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includes a scrying mirror. For example, the spirit can use the scrying mirror to transmit scenes of other worlds, or of ancient times; the spirit may also, of coarse, project his own image in the mirror. The magical circle the magician stands in is usually painted on the ground, and often includes other symbols like pentagrams and hexagrams. The magician calls upon higher powers to command the spirit to make himself present within the triangle, or mirror. The spirit must be given some kind of substance like steam or smoke to take physical appearance, otherwise the mirror must be used. Once present, the spirit should be commanded to reveal itself in a manner that is not hideous, and to speak in a soothing voice using your native tongue; the spirit should also be commanded to control its odor. It is the nature of some spirits to arrive as hideous beasts, with a foul odor, and an unsoothing voice. Signs of a successful evocation are: sudden wind, noises, voices, and odors in the ritual chamber. An object baring that spirit’s sigil is placed in the triangle, and this object is subjected to injury when the magician wishes to force the obedience of that spirit.

Aside from thaumaturgic magic, or Low Magic, which uses magic to alter the outside world according to will, there is also theurgic magic, or High Magic. Theurgic magic is magic used to change the self; this type of magic is by far the lesser known of the 2. The most common ambition involved with theurgic magic is the what is called Knowledge and Conversation with the holy guardian angel. This merger of the guardian angel and lower self can take years, and this long-term ambition requires a series of rituals which slowly merge the magician, and his guardian angel into one body. Merger with one’s Holy guardian angel is also called the Great Work, and it is among the highest achievements of both white and black magicians. Although the term is used profanely to describe the chemical conversion of one element to another, alchemy is another word used to describe this kind of spiritual development; the middle pillar ritual detailed earlier is one example of spiritual alchemy. The individual steps of spiritual development are called Initiation. Contrary to popular belief, which uses words like Initiation to describe entry into a group, in magic Initiation represents increasingly advanced states of spiritual alchemy. Self-Initiation is also possible, but takes much longer. Self-Initiation is a series of rituals undertaken by a solitary practitioner that are designed to slowly achieve spiritual transformation, without the help of a Freemasonic or other magical lodge.

As stated earlier, a large gap called the abyss exists between the lower self and the higher self . The magician seeks to merge these two aspects of the self by crossing the abyss, and bringing himself into unity with his Higher Self. In Freemasonry, and also lodges derived from the Order of the Golden dawn, 2 pillars are used to symbolize this divide between the light and the darkness. Often a curtain is placed between these 2 pillars symbolizing the veil that exists

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betweens the selves of light and darkness.

There is another kind of spiritual transformation available to those black magicians who walk the Left Hand path, often called Satanism. These magicians, using the power of the fallen angels Lucifer and Lilith, are unified with both the Angelic and demonic counterparts; human beings who have undergone this ritual of transformation become what are commonly known as vampires. Like all spiritual development, the vampiric rite is irreversible, but unlike The Great Work, it requires the selling of one’s soul to Satan; after the vampiric rite, the individual has no chance of redemption, and no chance to enter heaven. From this fact have vampires been rightly labeled “the damned. Theories and interpretations regarding the “mark of the Beast” abound in religious and “conspiracy” circles but, in the occult, this phrase has only one meaning: permanent spiritual transformation. It is said that those endowed with the mark of the beast can shape shift into hideous creatures at will. (And take on personalities of a more chaotic sort). “The fruit of Eden” has just as many interpretations (and in just as many circles), but in the occult this fruit represents magical transformation. If you recall, the serpent from the garden of Eden tells Eve that the forbidden fruit will remake her “as the gods.” That’s quite a claim! Christians have long interpreted the fruit of Eden as fruit of the more literal variety (which is just laughable!). And, as stated in chapter 1, the pyramid is also a symbol of humanity’s ascension into godhood.

The powers of the vampire involve the conscious manipulation and liberty of the astral body. The astral bodies of humans is usually tightly bound to the material body, only in the deepest of dreams, in astral travel, and in death itself will the human experience liberation of the 2 bodies. Vampires can fly the night sky while their material bodies remain lying in the bed. Vampires may also “reach out” with their senses and steal lifeforce and even whisper into the minds of others. In popular culture the vampire is often seen drinking blood, becoming extremely excited and perhaps animalistic during the act, killing their victim, and gaining strength from the victim’s blood; one of these popular conceptions is false, another is symbolic, and the rest are accurate. Vampires do become excited when they feed, and do become stronger, but they do not actually drink blood, and they do not kill their victim. In movies and novels, the act of drinking physical human blood is symbolic for the taking of life-force. The “Bite of the vampire” is also symbolic for the rite of transformation. Vampires feed in the manner that all vampiric spirits feed, by coming into close proximity to a human, reaching out, and drawing life-energy out of their target’s aura. The vampire extends from himself what are often described as thin, silvery threads which act as tubes or channels in which to siphon life-force from the etheric bodies of humans. So even though physical blood does indeed contain the lifeforce, vampires usually feed on humans that have gathered in large groups. In the midst of a human crowd, the vampire can siphon life-force from people as they walk by; this is a common method of feeding among vampires. The astral body of a vampire feeding from a sleeping human is another common method for feeding. Places where emotionally-charged humans gather, like churches, dance clubs, and stadiums are perfect feeding grounds for the vampire. If

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a single human is under continued attack, that person will begin to feel weak, drowsy, and mentally dull.

The Vampires call themselves The Reborn, or the many-born. In ancient Egypt, those who desired Initiation and transformation underwent a death and rebirth ritual by being blindfolded and led into the center of the Great pyramid of Giza. It was claimed that those who died in the

pyramid resurrected as gods; they became powerful wizards called “DJedi.” Which is where George Lucas got his “Jedi.“ In modern times, the Rite of vampiric transformation still requires clinical death. Some vampires are born, and often discover at around puberty that they are “different” from most people; this type usually claim to have many past-lives, as opposed to the human, whose soul is fresh and will only die once. This cycle of death and rebirth is often symbolized with a serpent eating its own tail. The many names these converted ones have gone by throughout the centuries are: witches, warlocks, druids, vampires, and of coarse the Jedi.

Although freemasons do in fact conduct real rituals of transformation, they also reenact those rites by having Initiates lowered into a pyramid while blindfolded. The good folks at Yale’s Skull and Bones fraternity also reenact the ritual of death and rebirth by climbing into a coffin and being “reborn” as bonesmen. After which they are allegedly told that they are now superior to the human cattle (considering the “pedigree” of its members, I’m sure they were already under that impression).

These steps of Initiation are symbolized by paths from sephirah to another, here the Initiate makes his way from Malkuth to Kether. Lucifer’s fall from the highest abode in the heavens is frequently represented by a lightning bolt, whereas the human’s path upwards may include a snake.

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The others among us have existed since the beginning, and have constructed a culture just beneath the surface of our own. Some of these people remain as “Potentials” their entire life, and never come into awareness of their vampiric nature; these types may still have access to subtle powers, and may be drawn to occupations where they are the center of attention of a large crowd. There are different types of vampires, and each type is different regarding its balance of material and spirit; some vampires lean towards more spirit, while others lean towards the flesh.

The vampire is a being whose astral body is disconnected to their physical, unlike humans whose astral and physical bodies are tightly bound. Because of this schism, their energy centers, or chakras, are essentially broken and the life-force produced by these centers cannot sustain the vampire’s flesh, and so the vampire is forced to feed from the life-force of humans to compensate. Humans, unlike vampires, often produce well above their needs of life-force, and can even survive being leeched upon by vampires and other astral entities. Vampires use visualization techniques in order to feed from the lifeforce of humans; from across the room they can extend astral tendrils that latch on to the aura of energy surrounding their target and begin drawing that energy into their chakra points. The chakra located at the solar plexus is a favorite target. They may also absorb free-floating lifeforce energy that humans have cast off. Places where large numbers of people gather in high emotions tend to be places where energy is produced and floats directionless. This undirected energy tends to collect on objects or people that comprise a focal point of the group. When feeding, vampires feel an increase of strength, senses, and inner calm. The vampiric act itself does excite them, but afterwards a balancing calm sweeps across their being. Emotions of fear and lust produce energies that most satisfy the vampire.

A vampire does not, however, have to be in the target’s visible proximity in order to feed from them. As stated earlier, every object or person you touch leaves behind invisible astral threads. These threads accumulate over time, and are diminished little by the passage of time. With constant and repeated contact, the threads between a human and a vampire can be such

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where the vampire need only envision their target and begin feeding. Remember, in the astral world, to imagine someone or something in detail is to access its “location.“ The vampire may also use objects that have been in close and repeated contact with the victim to send thoughts and receive life-force. Using close personal objects of the victim, the vampire may sense the location and emotional state of the owner, and may also send thoughts down the threads to the target. Each time a vampire feeds from someone, the astral threads that permanently bind the two accumulate. As the threads accumulate, it becomes easier for that vampire to flood the mind of his victim with thoughts and even steal life-force from afar.

Vampires tend to be extremely sensitive to energy and forces. Slight irregularities of energy in the living quarters of a vampire can be far more disagreeable than a human would find them. Techniques like Feng Shui can be used to create a more agreeable living environment. Vampires are also sensitive to the phases of the moon. In days where the moon is large and waxing, their power is at its height; when the moon is only a sliver and wanes, their power is diminished. Nights where the moon has become a copper color are most advantageous for the vampire.

The aura surrounding the vampire is different than the energy field that surrounds humans. For those sensitive enough to see the astral world, vampires tend to have auras of a deep-purple color, and may also have many grey tendrils extending from their body in every direction. These tendrils automatically begin to feed on those who surround the vampire, even without the conscious effort of the vampire. Direct physical contact, as opposed to astral contact across a room, is the best way for a vampire to breathe in deeply the victim’s lifeforce. Humans who have been deeply fed from may experience coldness, numbness, extreme weakness, and lowered heart rate and blood pressure. Those being fed from, especially those psychically sensitive, may have abrupt thoughts, or catch a glimpse, of the feeding vampire, or may see them in a dream. Vampires, like many spirits, can enter the dreams of humans, and feed from the energy that is created by inducing fear or lust. After being fed from, humans may exhibit tiny red dots at the point of astral contact.

Vampires tend to be more pale than humans, and also tend to be thinner. Despite the unusual pallor of their skin, they can mostly pass for human with maybe the exception of their eyes, which tend to be very intense indeed. Humans tend to find the presence of the vampire intimidating, as if surrounded by a shroud of mystery and danger. Their body temperature (hands and feet in particular) tends to be on the cold side, like those humans with poor peripheral circulation. Their senses are acute, and they are often capable of seeing and hearing longer distances than most people, and are far more sensitive to tastes and odors. Their fine-boned physique tends to conceal a physical strength that lies within. As suggested in popular culture, the vampire tends to be extremely sensitive to intense light and heat, like that provided by the sun. They must take great care in preventing sunstroke, and other sicknesses caused by the sun. An extremely hot day can be overwhelming for most people, but the vampire can find

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himself in danger, as opposed to the human who would simply be made uncomfortable by the sweltering heat. Headaches, nausea, dizziness, sunburns, and marked weakness can be experienced by even moderate(by our standards) exposure to sunlight. The psychological characteristics of the vampire are generally the same as humans, with perhaps the possible exception of an increase of pragmatism and detachment; we humans rarely known them as the warmest individuals among us. Coldness and disloyalty come easier for this flock. They are also extremely predatory, whether this characteristic is on account of their lifestyle, or whether it truly is inherent their kind, I do not know (although I’ve come to suspect the latter). A male vampire is called an incubus, while a female vampire is called a succubus.

Some vampires are closer to spirit, while others lean towards the flesh. Priests ,as they are called, lean more towards the spirit; as a result, they have increased vampiric senses and capabilities, but also suffer more of the weaknesses of vampires. Their ability to reach out at long distances and feed is unmatched. They are even more sensitive to sunlight and heat than the rest of their kind, and their touch is colder. Unlike most vampires, who can use their own fleshly bodies to supply a great deal of the required life-force, the Priest must feed from others to sustain life. The priest class tend to be even more pale than the average vampire, and are more easily recognized for what they are. The Priests are the most subject to the energies of the moon, and can even access an object’s past by touching it. A vampire that becomes dangerously low on life-force can be reduced to an invalid, and eventually die a fleshly death - although their spirit may persist. Vampires, like humans, can and do eat food in order to replenish themselves; many vampires could survive taking only trace amounts of life-force from those around them. But to all vampires, the act of feeding is too pleasurable, regardless of its lack of need. Some vampires are made sick by food, especially when they’re low on life-force.

Vampires can live relatively normal day-lives, it’s their night-life that’s different. When sleeping, the astral bodies of the vampires detaches from their physical completely, which allows them to soar into the sky and travel the dreaming world. Vampires often use this time to feed life-force from sleeping humans, and to come into astral congregation with each other.

I’m sure “vampire nation” doesn’t like me calling them out like this. And I have received many veiled death threats in the past, so if something happens to me, you know why. Too many secrets.

The sabbat is a gathering of witches, warlocks, demons, and, in the earthly sabbat, even humans. There are generally 2 types of gatherings that are called sabbats; the celestial sabbat, and the infernal sabbat. Even though sorcerers are always congregating in their astral bodies, there are 4 major meetings a year, and these meeting are called the sabbats. The celestial sabbat is a gathering of astral beings in a place called, and associated with, “The sphere of Saturn.” It’s also worth noting that “Shabbathai” is Saturn in Hebrew; it is likely that the words Sabbat and Sabbath derive from the Hebrew word Shabbathai. Further, Jews and Seventh-day Adventists consider Saturday, the day associated with Saturn, to be the true day of Sabbath, as opposed to most Christians who worship on Sunday. In truth, it is Sunday, and the sun in general, which is more closely associated with Jesus and goodness; whereas Saturn is mostly related to Satan, death, and evil.

The infernal sabbat is a gathering that happens here on Earth, but most who attend arrive in an astral body. This earthly sabbat, sometimes called Black Sabbath, usually occurs in remote and secluded places. It is sometimes the case with the earthly sabbat, that those who attend arrive in their fleshly bodies. Most vampires who arrive to the sabbat, do not arrive in the flesh but instead in an astral “God Form.” A God Form is an astral body that has been temporarily converted into that of ancient god or animal; GodForms are archetypal forms whose image is predetermined. God Forms must be used with caution, however, as the nature of the magician will slowly be consumed by the nature of the ancient god or animal frequently invoked. The field of astral energy that changes one’s appearance is called “glamour.”

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The Sabbats are a celebration of all that is wicked and unholy; allowing these sorcerers to indulge in things they can not in their “day-lives” (his day-life being a suit-n-tie government job, for instance). It is a massive gathering of demons and humans who have come to fornicate and make merry with each other. Many of the stories and accounts of what occurs at the Sabbat comes from modern-day Satanic texts, and from records of the witch trials and inquisitions of the Middle Ages. Despite the fact that there were many forced confessions, the attending witches told an extremely consistent story regarding the details of the sabbat.

The earthly Sabbat tends to be held in secluded places such fields, abandoned buildings, atop mountains, and mostly at midnight. The area is littered with demons and humans having sex in the most lascivious ways. In the center of the festivities, a large fire and a presiding devil. This devil, called the Black Man of the sabbat, is usually described as looking like the pagan god Baphomet; modern day Satanists have further solidified this connection to such the extent that I’ve become certain that they are one in the same. Their description was that of a large, stinking goat figure with 3 horns where the center horn was lit with a flame, like a torch. This flaming center horn was often used to ignite other things at the festivities, such as candles and torches. Also, the being’s “male member” was exposed and was reported to be nearly 3 feet long, with the thickness of a child’s arm. Baphomet often takes the most beautiful girl for himself, and for this unlucky woman, the intercourse is most painful and never produced pregnancy. His semen, which is ice-cold and spoiled, is allegedly not his own but was taken from elsewhere. This character often engaged the woman in anal sex as well. Women in general play a more active role at the sabbat. Sitting beside the presiding demon, is often a choice, high-ranking witch. Baphomet is said to have 2 faces, one on his head and the other on his posterior. This being had the tail of a goat, and the face on his rear was also said to be that of a goat. The attendees of the sabbat bring new meaning to the term “ass kisser,” as they are largely forced to kiss the stinking, demonic face on Baphomet’s rear-end; only the high-ranking witches and warlocks may kiss the goat head itself. The act of kissing the anus of Baphomet is symbolic of corruption. Because of his two faces, this Baphomet character is often equated with Janus, the Roman god of gates and time. The face on the devil’s posterior is said to be without the power of speech, and maintains a demonic expression.

Sometimes Baphomet would arrive as a extremely pale man, whose flesh is ice-cold, wasted, and hanging off the bones. This personage’s eyes were large and jet-black. Another God form Baphomet may arrive as was that of the size and shape of a tree trunk with a human face. This being has no arms or legs, was jet-black, and upon the face was the expression of a frightful man. Still others described him as a black man with Caucasian features, whose eyes burned like hot coals and was enveloped in a misty cloud. Coinciding with Baphomet’s hermaphroditic and androgynous nature, this being is said to act quite flamboyantly.

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air to the location at the sabbat. Sometimes this devil would give witches ointments to smear on their body, and this they used to transport themselves to the sabbat. Like the popular conception of the witch riding a broomstick, some witches do attend the sabbat riding a magical stick placed between their legs, but this was rare. Sometimes parents would bring their children, only to fornicate with them at the festival. Sometimes dreaming humans, uninitiated and unaware of the truth, will accidentally stumble upon the sabbat festivities, and perhaps find themselves in danger.

Baphomet truly enjoys hearing tales from the attendees regarding the wickedness they’ve committed in his name. He delights in hearing stories of mischief and hardship being caused among mankind. But in truth, they report to him all things relevant to Baphomet. He will often place a mark on a concealed part of the attendees flesh after they have verbally committed to giving him their soul. The attendees of the sabbat are often made to renounce God and Jesus, and accept Baphomet and Lilith (Babylon) as their new father and mother. Magical powders and poisons are commonly distributed to those present so that they can continue causing mischief among mankind. Sometimes Baphomet would assign those who attend spirits called familiars. A familiar is a spirit who has been consigned to serve an individual. The devil insisted that all the food served at the festival be insipid and disgusting in taste. The dancing done at the sabbat, especially by the women, is reminiscent of the sexually-suggestive dancing done at most clubs these days. The music at the sabbat sounds a bit chaotic, and without melody; it is frequently described as random tones and bells.

Most things related in this chapter are compiled from numerous Satanic and occultic sources, both obscure and well-known. You don’t have to believe the things written here, simply believe that many in the occult believe them.

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A reoccurring theme in mythology and the occult, is the concept of a god or goddess having multiple “aspects.” Similar to how your guardian angel, guardian demon, and spirit are 3 aspects of you; one of those aspects is good and pure, another is dark and selfish, and your fleshly manifestation is another aspect of you that stands between the two.

This is the most-high God, Jehovah, the God of Israel. He is also Zeus, Jupiter, Osiris, and Ahura Mazda. He is the archon (angel) emperor, the King of Heaven, and the father of the Elohim. He is said to be the true father of the arch-angels Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, and Satanael (Satan. Although in some accounts, Satan is his brother). These Sons of God are commonly equated with the children of Jehovah; Zeus is also said to have plenty offspring. Modern-day Satanists often remark that Satan successfully stole Yahweh‘s “creative power,” and this belief has fueled much use of phallic symbolism. The planet is dotted with obelisks, like the Washington monument, which are merely phallic symbols which represent the creative principle that Satan now possesses. It is the fire Prometheus stole from the gods. The act of stealing Jehovah’s creative principle, however, also resulted in the discontinuance of the births of new angels; now a race whose numbers are forever in decline. It is also remarked that Jehovah transformed his children, the arch-angels, into new kinds of beings when they were young. God exists outside of creation, and when God desires to drop down into lower realms such as the heavens or earth, he is often described as no longer all-knowing, but instead capable of being deceived. Jehovah is frequently depicted as an aging old man whose love for humans exceeds his love for the race he spawned, the angels. Osiris too is said to have reclaimed all his parts, except his phallus.