E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

CHAPTER TWELVE
BANEFUL MAGICK
The Works of Darkness offer not only the power to effect change
in the Black Magician's life and world, to bring him those things that he
desires, to layout his path more comfortably, and to guide him into the
gaining of more power towards autonomy, but they also put into his
hands control over the dynamic forces of creation and destruction. They
provide a means by which he may breathe life into the lifeless, and
extinguish breath from the living.
Although the Dabbler's interest in Black Magick is most often
sparked by lust, greed, or simple curiosity, rage and hatred tend to be
catalysts for action as well. When the Black Magician is confronted
openly by the Dabbler who has just recently set his feet on the Path, the
most often asked Questions are, "Can you put love spells on people?~
and, "Can you put curses on people?"
Putting forth great effort to see past the blatant ignorance and
lack of vision evidenced by these questions, it is even more clear that
the two most base animal instincts are still prevalent in humans:
procreation and self-preservation, even though they have both been
stretched and distorted into ideas of love, romance, revenge, and even
cruelty. Try as he may, the human being cannot seem to separate
himself from his reptilian brain stem. It is only in moments of blind
rage or passion, in the whirlwind of orgasm or murder that he admits
this even to himself
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme
predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul
blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."'
The reality of Baneful Magick, which are those Works of
Darkness which have the single aim of causing another person hardship.
suffering, sorrow, ailments, or death, escapes the novice querent as he
loses himself in the fantasy of the thing. Only the immediate effect, the
quenching of anger and the feeling of doing something real with such
intense emotion, is considered, all recognition of the power of the curse
lost in a flood of ignorance and misconceived ambition.
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