E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS Of DARKNESS
darkness move away from your body. Feel the emotional relief, or
perhaps the grief that floods your heart at the departure of the incarnate
desolation. Once the air has left your lips, you should be able to sense
the shadows back in their original places.
Watch the dark mist through your mental vision drift in its
place, swaying with the barely noticeable currents of air and dancing
with every minute movement made. Watch the darkness dance until
it no longer seems to be reacting to stimuli, but appears to be the sole
stimulus of action. It does not move hecause you breathe; rather, you
breathe so it may move. Become aware, in your observation of the
darkness, of its profound intelligence, its terrifying prescience of you,
its vehicle.
Inhale once more, feeling the darkness gathering close around
you, squeezing next to your body. Feel it caressing you, crawling up
your skin, invading even the air that you breathe. Sense the shadows
piercing the social armor you have built around yourself, stripping
you and slithering on the surface of your emotional nakedness.
Try to hear the voices emanating from the darkness, so close to
your body. Although you most likely wiII not make out words, know
that it is speaking at you, hissing, mocking, tempting towards insanity.
Those who are new to the Works of Darkness will try to stave off
the spiritual violation that they have warranted through this
contemplative ritual. They will attempt to flee back into the daylight
and to the comfort of normalcy. When this desire comes, do not allow it
to take hold. Remember at all times when in the midst of the Powers of
Darkness that they are always there and they always were, whether or
not you have been aware. Remember that they cannot be exorcised,
that the act of banishing does not rid you of them but instead rids them
of you, remodng your conscious mind from their presence.
This meditation will allow you to start to understand the
omnipresenee and limitless intelligence of the dark currents that assail
every molecule in existence without prejudice. It lets you see that the
Powers of Darkness are real and are very relevant. Perhaps most
important is that this rite allows the· Darkness to see you, to know that
you are aware of it, and that you are attempting to ally yourself with
it. It is here that the inherent strength or weakness of the Sorcerer is
seen, by both himself and by those Powers which he wishes to possess.
While the Adept, Magician, and sometimes the Initiate will be
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