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WORKS OF<br />
DARKNESS<br />
has found him, leading him to these people and these topics. It is all so<br />
overwhelming, dizzying, yet thrilling. The occult game that he had<br />
been playing had vanished, and in its place stood a world of limitless<br />
possibility.<br />
Rather than heading for the New Age section of the bookstore, he<br />
may now go straight to the clerk. He doesn't have the time or the<br />
patience to waste on any more skimming. There is work to be done. An<br />
Author Search, a Subject Search, anything that will lead him directly<br />
to the works of those that Know.<br />
This urgency typifies the stage of the Neophyte. He is an infant<br />
whose vision is developing the acuity to see the world around him. His<br />
mind is buzzing, and he can barely catch his breath.<br />
He buries himself in his new books, written by the Masters of<br />
Magick, often confused by their vocabulary yet still enthralled by their<br />
meanings. He studies the rituals of the Pentagram and the Hexagram,<br />
and learns the formulae of the Tetragrammaton, and knows without<br />
reserve that all will be his in time.<br />
It is here that the addiction becomes inexorable. The life he<br />
knew before is left behind, and he knows there is no compromising. It is<br />
here that the Magician chooses his Path; a choice which he will never<br />
betray, try as he might.<br />
PRACTITIONER<br />
There is a great gulf between Magick in theory and Magick in<br />
practice. The theory has been examined thoroughly. The name and<br />
number of the Beast is known. All that remains is the discovery of His<br />
essence.<br />
The Practitioner of Magick gathers the notes which were made<br />
as a Neophyte and prepares for his journey as a Black Magician.<br />
Most often, his first step is the construction or acquisition of<br />
ritual implements. Though this may have begun, however<br />
capriciously, whilst a Dabbler, it is now seen to be incomplete and in<br />
serious need of rectification.<br />
The bowie knife is replaced by a black handled ritual dagger, the<br />
cereal bowl makes way for an iron cauldron and the cardboard box<br />
covered in candle wax is thrown out in favor for a solid oak altar. In<br />
doing so, the Neophyte is discarded and the Practitioner is risen.<br />
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