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CHArTER THREE
ENTERING THE DARKNESS
Shiva sits in solitary meditation for four billion three hundred
and twenty million years, according to the Brahmanic measurement
of a Kalpa. Yet, at the end of the long meditation, with the power such
discipline has generated and stored, Shiva opens up his dreaded Third
E~'e,
out of which flows pure destruction, bringing the whole of creation
to silence.
The Black Magician does not meet with his Path until he is ready
to walk it, prepared perhaps by centuries of suffering. Once he has
dabbled to his heart's delight and has purged himself of his desire to
appear evil, he is ready to become something more than human.
The first steps into true Darkness are monumental, as they can
never be retraced. The aspirant is thereby walking into a whirlwind
that will sweep him away from all that he believes he knows and all
that his attachments have bound him to; a whirlwind that will
e\'entually carry him beyond Adepthood.
In the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad Book Two, Yaubl Sacabi states that
·The trouble with the Left Hand Path is that its aspects have an
unfortunate knack of waking up spontaneously.'" It is this spiritual
spontaneity that becomes the Black Magician's ally as he enters the
shadows of the underworld.
Once the Sorcerer sets into motion the Powers of Darkness in his
life, a definite momentum gathers; the darkness that is within him
seeps through his skin and surrounds him like a thick, stifling air which
expands and envelopes his environment until eventually all things are
",-ithin the reach of his sinister reign.
The first step on the Path of Black Magick is to gain a familiarity
with the dark energies within and without. For the Neophyte, this is
vital in pushing the Magickal momentum to a start. For the Ascending
Black Magician, strengthening the connection between the conscious
mind and the Powers of Darkness will only act as a catalyst for his own
control over that which cannot be understood.
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