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