Black Magic

"Sacrifice cattle little and big, after a child" Al III:12

How more convincingly could one honor and how more effectively could one appease ones deity by surrendering to them the very spirit of our existence, the life blood. At the very core of all magical religion lies sacrifice. The ignorant will reel in horror at this statement seeing it as a criminal abomination that has no place in civilized society.

Alas! Ye weak of heart, do you not remember Abraham�s readiness to offer his son and the slaughtering of Egypt�s first born upon the Jewish escape. All this was done in propitiation and glory to God. Did he not send his beloved son so that he may be killed and what of the maniacal whisperings that had the crusaders sending pagan heads a rolling. And for the satanist who thinks himself higher than this, hear well Mankind�s obsession with blood be it in sacrifice to God or of war in sacrifice to the nation, and its taboo that makes it such a formidable component of sorcery.

The fevered carnality boasted in the sacrifices of the Black Mass and the sublime symbology inherent in the Christian sacrament of communion do not amount to the occasional necessity of blood in ritual. Such acts of offering have no place in modern satanism where the only gods to be offered are ourselves. We only give if we are to gain.

The emotions evoked through the spectacle of the sacrifice or indeed the endorphins and adrenaline encouraged through our own sheddings serve well to alter the mindset more than astral imaginings, and together may grant us conscious light upon the subconscious gods that we are endeavouring to awaken. These gods are more than our potential as mere individuals but our potential as a species. They are those acres of mind that have yet been left fallow and now that the monkey has made us what we are biologically we must make what we are mentally which means expanding our fields to these lost horizons. The evolution is no longer Darwinian but entirely dependant upon our own reckonings and revelations.

The blood is just the beginning.

Paracelsus noted the importance of such in the summoning of spirits and much medieval invocation made use of it to great ends. Beyond the normal effects of the mind that ritual trappings impose the release of blood attracts certain diabolical elementals whose existence thrives on the obscene thought and perverted doings. Themselves being created by such are left to incubate in the subconscious where by passive association they may breed to finally manifest in our spontaneous crime. The gates have been opened!

The tantric magician uses the fluids of sex to master power but the use of blood far surpasses this, as it is not only a generative force but also a maintaining one allowing the energies that were not altogether used in ritual to continue due to its part digestion, forging a more lasting sympathetic connection with the working and so furthering the magic.

All occultists sacrifice something from the giving up of useless and outdated dogma to the slaughtering of the ego that the adept undergoes on approaching the abyss. Sacrifice does not mean abstinence and we have our right to indulge, but indulgence for indulgences sake leads only to compulsion and that is no control. To be master of oneself and ones own universe great discipline is essential in order to conquer our failings and to advance on to greater beings. It is the hanged man and with the destruction comes renovation, so build the tower higher and send it crashing to the ground so that it may be raised to new and more glorious heights.

Do not stop with what you are but what you can become.