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WORKS OF<br />
DARKNESS<br />
the same way the ritualist who has just conjured wealth creates an<br />
environment conducive to gaining prosperity, fulfilling his own<br />
prophesy and wish.<br />
It is usually the policy of the Black Magick Adept to never discuss<br />
the performance of specific rites of Baneful Magick, especially with those<br />
that he is working against. With a smile on his face and his cheek<br />
turned, he smites his enemies with disease, cancer, misfortune, suicide,<br />
and vengeance. Why then, do his victims die? What causes their<br />
hearts to stop if they have been given nothing to fear?<br />
When the Black Magician reaches out and extinguishes the light<br />
of life from his enemy, he cannot blame coincidence for his murder.<br />
When he has killed several people in this manner, he must begin to<br />
recognize that he is acting as God over his world, and that nothing will<br />
stand in his way. When this Black Magick works time and again,<br />
without fail, he must admit that the Sorcery is real.<br />
"The more times you act as supreme architect, the more you<br />
become one."3<br />
BRINGER OF PAIN<br />
Although in the majority others can be brought under the will<br />
of the Black Magician, turning from enemy to ally with the aide of a<br />
simple ritual, there is the occasion when the most efficient way to bring<br />
about the necessary effect is through the total removal of the subject<br />
from the Sorcerer's life. This is not to say, at such an early stage in the<br />
perfection of one's destructive powers, that the victim be pummeled by<br />
the nearest bus as it makes its hourly route. What is necessary is for<br />
the person in question to no longer have a noticeable effect on the life of<br />
the Black Magician. Sometimes this may mean that the victim of the<br />
"curse" is given a wonderful opportunity to relocate to another town,<br />
while in other instances she may sim ply vanish from the society of the<br />
Sorcerer, not seen, heard, nor present to be a bother.<br />
This type of curse, the results of which are not as severe or Iifethreatening<br />
as many other methods, is more often used as a form of<br />
mild retribution: Magickal punishment for past misdeeds rather than<br />
prevention of possible future impairments. Even though such<br />
emasculated anger is usually fleeting, passing in days or weeks, and<br />
changeable by even the most mundane means, the Practitioner's goal<br />
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