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WORKS OF<br />
DARKNESS<br />
candles. The four candles should form a circle, and should become<br />
lighthouses at the four points of the Circle which will be drawn at the<br />
opening of the ritual. Upon the north wall of the Temple you are to<br />
hang the image of the inverted pentagram, which is the means hy<br />
which the Operation is to be Operated and is the Power through which<br />
the whole Work is accomplished. Upon the south wall of the Temple the<br />
image of the double-armed cross is to be hung, which is the purpose and<br />
the final result of the Working. The ritual dagger should be sbarpened<br />
and placed near the candle in the west on the inside of the Circle; the<br />
chalice sits by the candle in the east, filled with wine, blood, water,<br />
meade, absinthe, or some other appropriate drink. It may be preferable<br />
to construct a restraining board or some other device(s) with which the<br />
victim can be bound to the floor.<br />
The goal of the Operation should be meditated upon in lengtb<br />
preceding the ritual, and should be at the forefront of the minds of the<br />
participants tbroughout. The ritualists are to open the rite by opening<br />
their vision, as to see, hear, and partake of that which is occurring<br />
undetected above and below them, around and within them. The victim<br />
is to be anointed with the consecrated liquid that fills the chalice, being<br />
thus consecrated to the Work at hand, and to the achievement of the<br />
goal.<br />
All invocations, incantations, and ritual Operations having<br />
been performed, when the victim's throat is slit and the dagger is<br />
plunged into her heart absolute silence is necessary in order to reap the<br />
dark whirlwind that will ensue. Silence in speech, movement, and<br />
thought brings understanding of the inconceivable. Contemplation<br />
upon the ritual act itself, and towards the goal, gives purpose to the<br />
chaotic. The Presiding Official, often called the High Priest in neopagan<br />
circles, is to allow the silence and the observation of the forces which<br />
enter the room until they have reached a summit, the Powers of Death<br />
rising from tbe corpse with its final rays of heat, at which point be will<br />
give an oration declaring the purpose of the ritual, and the whole of the<br />
group will command through will and through word the Destiny of the<br />
Aeon.<br />
Such rites do not take place. Not in this time. Not by any<br />
serious Black Magician. Those who have never known anyone that<br />
practices hlood sacrifice as a tool to Power and have themselves never<br />
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