E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

CHAPTlR ~lEVEN ~lOOD RITUAL
hates, but for the alteration of the world as a whole, for the downfall of
nations and the rise of rebellions, for the obliteration of empires and
even to the blackening of suns. Bloody sacrifice, in the power that it
holds, is capable of laying flat that world and ch'ilization that we know,
and bringing to the earth and to this race a new age of growth and
illumination.
It can be fairly argued that the Apocalypse and its preceding
Armageddon can be leveled to the vantage of personal experience. All
that is dying in the man is destroyed, and all that is Eternal is exalted.
His world is demolished through the powers that he releases in the
blood sacrifice, and a new world is put in its place, a world wherein he is
god. Through the sacrifice of an animal, he is strengthening and imbuing
his own being with the drtues of that animal while in the same instance
he is stabbing and slashing at the weaknesses within himself that the
animal signifies. Through the murder of another human within his
Temple and before the Powers and Lords of Darkness, preferably of a
dctim that the Sorcerer sees as powerful, intelligent, fit, and "worthy"
as he is, the Black Magician is killing himself, so that he might be reborn
or resurrected in the days of silence which follow.
In the performance of ritual sacrifice, howe\"er, the
psychological justifications and explanations flow away like life from
\'eins, and the Black Magician is left kneeling with blood on his hands,
chest, face, and soul. He once thought he understood, up until the
ritual dagger which had hitherto seemed so inert plunged into thc
victim's heart like a key with which a doorway to absolute Darkness
was unlocked and flung open.
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Traditionally, the throat of the dctim is to be slit from the
\. dctim's right to the left, and in the same motion, the dagger is to be
plunged up to the hilt in its heart. This type of bloody human sacrifice
can bc made in other ways, however, such as immolation, hanging,
asphyxiation, or any other method of ending the life of the victim, so
long as the killing begins and ends within the Temple, whose walls will
contain the spiritual explosion long enough for the Black Magician to
direct it towards his goaL
The Temple should be arranged before the sacrifice is brought
therein. The altar is to be taken out of the Temple altogether. Four
candles should burn at the four magnetic points. The north and the
south points should hold black candles, the east and west holding violet
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