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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
DARK ASCEN1
Ascent is not a process of becoming more holy, sanctified, or
altruistic. Nor is it to become more sinister, sadistic, and edl than
before. It is, however, to Become more godlike, as the word is meant to
mean. The Black Magician learns through personal experience the
secrets of creation and destruction, the way that he may kill and make
alive, raise up and cast down, sacrifice and resurrect. He learns through
his own Work the Path that will lift his throne above the stars of God,
bypassing the prophets and saviors of wretched, dying men.
While no one ritual can bring a person to the conscious realization
of his or her own godhood, specific Dark Works will enable the Black
Magician to glimpse Eternity and to begin to understand his own
immortal nature. These Operations, which are given below, are meant
to bring the Operator to a state of absolute Perdition and eventual
spiritual death in his own personal Lake of Fire, to cull the dross within
and to forever rid himself of his mortality - and possibly his humanity.
In this, the child of God is opferred up to the Darkness as a human
sacrifice, with the knowledge that the vessel will be filled once more
with a seed and a power that is undying.
Continuing through the Pathworking of rituals and exercises,
the Black Magician will begin to put the particles of his consciousness
and self awareness back together, leaving out those things which had
previously bound him. Once the dying man has withered away, his
ashes have been scattered to the winds, and the mould has been made
for the rising godman, resurrection awaits.
The spiritually and Magickally alchemical process summarized
above is effected mainly without the active, conscious assertions of the
Black Magician in any direct manner. Rather than performing various
ceremonies of self-initiation or psychodramatic litanies which claim to
rid the Initiate of his feeble qualities through the enactment of extreme
forms or of their opposites, the exercises below effect actual \'erifiable
change in the real world and in the indh·idual. He does not need to
climb up on to his own cross, thrust a spear into his side, give up the
ghost, and rise from the tomb. All of this occurs quite naturally and in
a manner that is tailored to his own personality and Destiny. All that
the Black Magician needs to do is to "seek ever for more, for conquest is
never done.'"
The Operations below utilize the three symbols given in the
second chapter of this text the inverted pentagram, the alchemical
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