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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
DARK ASCENT
that a demon needs no invitation to possess the living, such pontificating
scholars are working in the whole against the demons that he claims to
know so well. He sees them as being antagonistic to him as a person, a
spiritualist. and to his entire cause. and in reality they are because he
has never allied himself with the Powers of Darkness or been introduced
to demon as anything other than his enemy. While the demon can
most certainly act upon the universe and any of its inhabitants without
given consent. when the Black Magician is forming an alliance with it
and is in this particular Operation uniting with the demon in such an
intimate way, restricting the demon's ability to perform that which it
has been called to do is at best counterproductive; at worst. such lack of
mutual collaboration between the Black Magician and the his demonic
escort is fatal to the body, psyche, and to the future and Destiny of the
Sorcerer.
To provide a point of entry whereby the demon may enter the
body of the Sorcerer to thus possess him. the symbol of the inverted
pentagram is drawn in that chosen location, such symbol acting as an
opened doorway into the whole of the Operator's being. Most forms of
occultism, as well as several Hindu-derived practices accept that the
human being is a multi-layered entity, the physical body being the
most course manifestation of the individual, with several energetic
and mental bodies that serve varying functions in their own realms. It
is also generally accepted that many of these finer bodies have
corresponding anatomic features that, while the resemblance is vague
and possibly stretched. demonstrates to many that the body. mind,
and soul share a connection that is vital to the Ascent of the whole. The
most apparent and most widely accepted anatomical parallel expresses
itself in the chakras, which are seven major centers of energy in the
being. Each chakra not only helps maintain a specific and vital aspect
of the whole being, but also corresponds with vital organs in the physical
body. It is claimed by many strict followers of the Hindu and Yogic
disciplines that when there is an illness or weakness in the organs, the
cause can almost always be traced back to a chakra whose flow of energy
is somehow blocked, and clearing that chakra will in turn clear the
person of the corresponding malady.
The chakras are most easily visualized as three-dimensional
disks or colored wheels which rest less than an inch from the surface of
the skin above the corresponding organ. The first of the seven energy
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