E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
do not advertise their presence, nor do they solicit membership into
their groups. The Practitioner may consider the more mainstream
"Satanic" Churches and Temples, or may even look into the very Orders
which tutored the young Aleister Crowley or Austin Osman Spare, or
those that these great men founded in their later years.
The dark world that was becoming comfortable now completely
bewilders the aspiring Initiate. He finds Grade Rituals and
psychodramas that don't seem to have much practical, occult purpose.
He sees a hierarchy that is scaled more by seniority and sycophancy
than by real, occult ability. In contacting members of these Churches
or Orders, he rarely finds those with his same goals and visions of Ascent
in Black Magick.
Through his complete frustration or even disgust with the process
of finding a group to which he can apply for membership, the aspiring
Initiate does not see that he is making contacts and is at least partially
walking the Paths of some of these Lodges. He is also narrowing down
his search, finding out by default which attract him and which repel.
Sometimes the Magician will join a well known Occult Lodge and
will therein gain the experience and ability necessary for his Ascent.
More often, he will find a smaller Temple that will do the same. There
are the few, still, that will join with none, but will find affiliation with
others likeminded and will both teach and learn from them. Whether
or not he consciously realizes it, the Practitioner has been lost in this
process, and the Initiate has been born.
BLACK MAGICIAN/SORCERER
The aspiring Black Magician has one goal, in whatever form it
may manifest: power. It is this aim that creates the grand divide
between the Black and the White. It is this singular purpose that drives
the Sorcerer to the blackest rites and through the madness of the depths
of Hell. It is this Power that catapults his throne above the stars of God.
The Magician has spent years culminating the skill and
knowledge and generating the power to finally stand within the ritual
Circle and perform the unimaginable. At this stage of growth, there
are very few limits to the abilities of the Black Magician. All that he
once saw as being so far from his reach is now within his hands.
No longer is there a thought of "will this work?" All doubt has
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