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WORKS OF<br />
DARKNESS<br />
with the vigor of the demon, to act upon your world as the demon<br />
might act, through Magickal assertion of will or through simple, physical<br />
actions. Allow the demon to possess not only your body, but your life as<br />
well.<br />
For the duration of the period of invocation, eaeh day at the<br />
time that the initial invocation ritual was performed, return to your<br />
Temple and gaze into the demon's sigiJ. In such, you will feel that you<br />
are gazing into yourself, into that which now resides in you. You will<br />
also feel the power of the demon doubling each day because of this,<br />
becoming stronger. The Black Magician that can brave the Darkness<br />
will find that as the demon grows more powerful, so does he. He will<br />
find that the separation between the demon and the self is not so great,<br />
and in doing so will discover a new, third entity within him which has<br />
always been there: the Demon Self.<br />
As discussed previously, thc demon must be discharged at the<br />
appointed time. Although the period of im'ocation will have ended, the<br />
experience will ha\'e changed the Black Magician forever, and the<br />
strands of reality that make him who he is will have been altered<br />
slightly, so that he will forever be more like the demon.<br />
TH E FORGOTTEN ART OF DEVOTION<br />
The present age of the human race is unique in its godlessness.<br />
While a large majority of people do believe in some sort of deity or<br />
divinity, God is almost always objectified as a construct of the psyche<br />
or a personification of the individual's unity with all other things, or<br />
some nebulous cosmic consciousness. To all but a handful of fanatics,<br />
"God" is not real in any literal sense, but is a convenient idea which has<br />
no bearing on a person's life outside of his or her will for such divine<br />
intervention. The human race as a whole has made great advancements<br />
in understanding and analyzing the minutiae of life, yet has fallen a<br />
long way from comprehending some of those things that are the most<br />
obvious. In a state of scientific ignorance, when all things were Magickal<br />
and divinity and diabolism were recognized in e\'ery event, people<br />
understood far more about themselves and the unseen universe than<br />
all of the scientists and philosophers today do.<br />
The Black Magician needs only to be reawakened to the<br />
unconditional reality of the powers and beings whose names he calls.<br />
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