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CHAPTER NINE
DEMONIC EVOCATION
The art of ritual evocation ranks among the most adept
practices of the Master of Black Magick. It is that secret science that
once learned unlocks doors to limitless potential and possibility. Being
thus educated and experienced in the nature, power, and presence of
demonic entities, the student of the Dark Arts can barely fathom holding
in his very hands the instructions and the ability that will bring these
wicked beings into full manifestation before him, to serve him and to be
served, to pave the roads of the sulfur kingdom here on earth.
Demons, as well as spirits, angels, elementals, planetary
intelligences, and godforms, exist independent of the subject's belief in
them. This metaphysical fact makes the evocation of such beings both
one of the most potent occult practices, and one of the most dangerous.
Summoning to manifestation the demons of his desire to go forth into
the world and to ravage it as directed by the Black Magician draws a
firm line between being a soldier of Darkness, and being Hell's own
warlord.
Demons are intelligent, as has been more than alluded to
previously, and they are more powerful than they will ever allow a
human to see. The Evocator should not for one moment believe that
they are under his power, yet at the same time should never allow the
thought to surface that he is under theirs. Because they are beings that
subsist independent of the will of the Sorcerer, demons have "a will of
their own." From the moment they appear, either in the mirror or in
the Temple, they begin to search the angles; they begin to find
weaknesses in the Magician, in the rituals and incantations, in the
environment, and in the totality of existence. They scheme in their
immortal minds as to the manner in which they may manipulate not
only the evocation and the magician, but the balance of the universe
and the scales of Fate.
The supreme key in the evocation of demons is to scheme with
them. They are not and never will be the servants of the Black Magician.
but they are the servants of Darkness itself, and in this Darkness in
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