E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
whether or not he is capable of sustaining the psychological maelstrom
and prevailing over his weaker self that urges him into moral
conformity, the results of the curse will be diminished, if not altogether
destroyed. If he cannot stand as a moral law unto himself, as the Lord
of his own karmic balance, the Black Magician will find consistency
only in his inability to act as Abaddon or Shiva.
A fine separation exists between rage and murderous intent.
While in a street fight, domestic dispute, or any other normal-life
scenario rage can easily become murder; the psychological vacuum of
ritual Magick only produces exactly what is fed into it. A curse, no
matter how expertly written or adeptly performed, is never guaranteed
to end the victim's life if the only object is the immediate release of
emotion. The words, "I just want them to die," are much easier to utter
than to enforce, especially when it is that will to absolute power over
creation and destruction which is the hinge of the action.
Something that is hard and cold begins to grow in that place
where his heart used to pound when the Black Magician begins to give
serious consideration to throwing a curse with enough force to kill.
Something dark starts to take over, enters him like an unclean spirit,
and prompts him further to perform unclean acts. For some, this is
enough of a taste of the darkness of death, and they will tread no further.
For those that must descend all the way, murder is an aphrodisiac.
Such a sadistic Sorcerer will find himself searching for a victim like a
sexual predator driving slowly through the "bad" neighborhoods at
night. He has found new power in his ability to take life through remote
control. He experiences a new form of vampirism when he reaches into
his victim's soul and commands it to depart. He has become a god, a
law unto himself. He has freed himself from salvation, finding
redemption in outef darkness. and he must reinforce that power in
himself by repetition.
The Black Magician will usually be driven to his first ritual
murder by severe frustration with only a Gotterdammerung solution
in sight. He has known since his first moments on the Dark Path that
he held the power to destroy his enemies, but in the moment of inspired
evil, when his eye catches his victim and his soul begins to blacken,
that power rises up in him and not only suddenly becomes very real.
but begins to burst from him. He finds the power of Black Magick moving
through him as a vessel for the greater dialectic, resolving all his fear,
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