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WORKS OF<br />
DARKNESS<br />
the spilling of this sanguine spiritual essence? Although vials of blood<br />
are not passed through the pews at Mass, wine is consecrated by the<br />
Priest, who is in effect conducting or attempting to conduct a type of<br />
spiritual alchemy, not altering the molecular composition of the liquid,<br />
but instead altering the significance of it through prayer. The final<br />
result should be a chalice filled with wine which has been infused with<br />
the atoning blood of Christ. The congregation then drinks and are<br />
absolved of their sins.<br />
Although the rite of Communion has increasingly become a grand<br />
display of lip service, both by the Priests and the parishioners, it does<br />
serve as an excellent example of the supposed spiritual and Magickal<br />
use of blood in ritual. When used in this manner, the elixir serves as a<br />
representation of blood, which serves as a representation of the spiritual<br />
essence of man.<br />
How, then, does this have anything to do with Black Magick<br />
directly?<br />
The Black Magician will sprinkle fresh blood, still radiating with<br />
the vibrant quality of Life, in his ritual area, allowing the invigorating<br />
vapor to rise into his nostrils and permeate the air around him. He will<br />
drink it as if he were drinking the very blood spilled from the veins of<br />
the Dark Gods, taking into him Their power and rising into Their Glory.<br />
He will pull into himself from all things around him the spiritual essence<br />
of the blood, the living quality itself, and will radiate its green glow<br />
from his eyes.<br />
Blood, whether taken from the veins of a victim or from a chalice<br />
whose substance has been imbued with the Powers of Darkness, will<br />
strip away the last rivet entombing the God within.<br />
Blood symbolizes the life, death and eventual spiritual liberation<br />
of man. Whether or not it possesses the arcane material of spiritual<br />
mag<strong>net</strong>ism or the Divine Essence of eternity, the macabre force of the<br />
eventual fate of all or the spirit of anything whatever, in the atavistic<br />
human mind the two are inseparable. It is this uniting of the Upper<br />
and Lower, the immortal and the dying, the essence and the substance<br />
that brings heaven to earth with a cataclysmic crash. When utilized<br />
and experienced in such a way, blood or its symbolic counterpart<br />
becomes the nexion between that which is and that which can be.<br />
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