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CHAPTER ONE
THE BLACK MAGICIAN
been replaced by repetition of success and accomplishment. Now, all
that is necessary is to put into action that which has been learned, and
to let the Powers of Darkness flow through him without restraint.
The Black Magician spends most of his time learning about himself
and his limitations, or the lack thereof. Instead of gathering various
decorative and shiny implements, he begins to collect grimoires filled
with the sigils and the formulae that might open up the gates of the
Kingdom of Darkness and pour out the powers of Eternity.
Rather than laboring towards the knowledge, skill and internal
power to bring miracle and Magick into fruition, the Magician now
labors towards the harnessing of his own Destiny. He has proven to
himself, and sometimes terrifyingly to his adversaries, that he holds in
his hands the ability to send his desires upon the wings of demons with
devastating success.
The Sorcerer may even find with time that his power begins to
exceed his desire. He catches himself deliberating not on how to achieve
specific goals, but instead strains his imagination for new and more
phenomenal rewards. That which can be ritualized can be achieved.
When all of your wishes have been granted, all that remains is the
Throne of God.
There often is a dark quickening which bridges the divide between
the Initiate and the Sorcerer. This awakening is usually brought on by
an act of pure Black Magick, or by the successful outcome of the Baneful
Work. When he realizes, through hard experience, that by his dark
decree a person's heart may stop beating or that a life may be ravaged
beyond recognition, he willingly leaves behind all chance of Divine
forgiveness and must accept a religion either of chaos and spiritual
entropy, or of his own malevolent autonomy. Most that continue on
the path of Black Magick, and Ascend, have accepted their places as
Gods of Darkness.
It is at this point that true spiritual sadism takes form in the
Black Magician. His thirst for power and Darkness reaches an insatiable
intensity. no act being too extreme, the ends not only justifying the
means, but often taking a secondary importance to the bloody rites
which bring them. His vision distorts until he no longer believes himself
to be an inhabitant of this plane, but an objective observer, watching
the petty joy and paltry suffering of those within the clutch of his left
hand as would a spectator on Olympus.
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