E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
take ,Job's life 3 . This is proclaimed as "documented evidence" of the
limitations of Black Magick and of the power of good over evil. Even if
the entire book were not a farce concocted by the minds of conspiring
men, the very reference made by these postulating poseurs is in itself
self-defeating. In the first chapter of Job, within the first test of his
virtue, Satan slays not Job, but all of his children and his servants. The
whole of the book and the sorrows of Job do not testify to the limitations
of the Powers of Darkness, but instead to the great intelligence that
multiply a person's suffering by destroying all that is in his world and
leaving him a lonely inhabitant of a forsaken universe. It also
demonstrates - if anything at all greater than the barbaric minds of
these men who created such a god that in one breath several lives
may be taken, and one man is left behind to truly suffer.
The supposed miraculous works of Jesus during his brief
ministry preceding his execution give further "proof" to those who seek
rationalization for irrational concepts that the Works of Darkness are
limited, and that only Jesus and His anointed possess the keys to death
and hell. In casting out unclean spirits, that holy metaphysician would
help the lame walk, lepers heal, deaf hear, blind see, and even the dead
to rise from their tombs. As His servants, therefore, many Christians
believe that they have "put on the whole armor of God,» and are
impervious to any spiritual assault. Only the unclean can be harmed
through the powers of Black Magick, they assure themselves, in the
very moment that they are being manipulated by the very forces that
they seek to undermine; they have never healed the sick or spoken
with angels, but have only a superficial understanding of the world
that exists around them, such understanding wholly dictated by the
words of others.
A more realistic view of Black Magick and its possible inefficacy
in taking a specific person's life is held by many practitioners of eastcrn
mysticism, a good deal of whom belie\'e that Baneful Magick will only
work on the mystic if he has done something to unbalance his karma,
and that keeping himself in a state of nonattachment to the affairs of
this world will never turn the eye of Kal Niranjan or of His sen'ant, the
Black Magician towards him and his. In this, he remains untouched by
the Powers of Darkness, transcending always in light. He does not give
Darkness or its Masters cause to look his way.
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