E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
throughout interactions between the living and the dead. These quasi­
scientific findings, coupled with genuine experience in the occult and
its Higher Mysteries offer tremendous insight into the actuality of the
effects and phenomena associated with Necromancy.
It has become generally accepted in our Western world of absolute
duality that just as there is good and evil, right and wrong, male and
female, there is also body and soul: two halves of the self that, although
they are in opposition, work together to make up the whole. Such a
belief is limited to a Judeo-Christian paradigm, nearly every other
religion and belief system recognizing that there are finer, more subtle
bodies which link spirit to flesh, the true Soul of man being untouchable,
and such being that which is released into its unique afterlife once the
body has ceased to sustain life.
In order to comprehend the principle of multiple spiritual bodies,
it is necessary to break away from the memorized jargon that has been
traditionally used to describe such, and instead redefine all terms in a
manner that is more reflective of the Eternal existence of the Black
Magician. This thing that has been called the soul or the spirit that is at
the core of human beings can be seen not as an intangible, transparent
thing that is completely separate from the person, but rather as a real
being that exists here and now whose glory and radiance is so great
that it cannot be understood by the use of the normal senses. The
Hindus refer to this Being as the Alma Sarup, or often as Supersoul.
Modern Hermeticists externalize the God within as its first manifestation
as the Holy Guardian Angel. The same idea was put into a science
fiction format by L. Ron Hubbard, teaching that what is normally called
a soul is in actuality a godlike entity called a Thetan, which is capable
of exerting its unlimited power over space, time, creation, and
destruction. Through the disciplines of the various religions and
metaphysical systems. the Initiate will come to a conscious realization
of his True Identity, and will thus consciously become a God among
bipeds.
These are not new ideas. In fact, they are the oldest ideas of the
most ancient religions. The Godself, being a supreme entity in a reactive
universe, leaves its impression like footprints wherever it travels. In
this manner, the physical body, that which most humans call their
«selves" is one such impression. It is the Godself leaving a physical
impression on the physical universe. Similar impressions are made on
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