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EI':TERING THl: DARKNl:SS
able to perform this exercise with their eyes open, seeing the culminate
darkness with their trained eyes, the Dabbler, Neophyte and a good
deal of Initiates do not possess these clairvoyant faculties.
Whether
seen with open eyes, in a skrying mirror or in your mind, the images
and sensations are real. The purpose of this exercise is to bring to the
forefront of the conscious mind the reality of the Powers of Darkness.
In order for this experience to seat itself permanently in your
mind, it should be performed several times. It should be repeated until
you cannot shake it from your mind in the daytime, dwelling on the
beautiful horror of it. The length of the thing should endure for at least
five minutes from the time you first sit down to when you open your
eyes, shake off the visions and return to the mundane world.
Once the dark mist has come alive and is seen with the dtality
of intelligence, continue to bring it closer with an inhalation, feel it
swarming around you, and send it back to its resting place with an
exhalation.
With each inhalation, the darkness should grow stronger,
the sinister sense of it penetrating deeper into your being.
Once you
ha\'e endured at least five minutes of the anguish and the ecstasy of the
experience, it should be utterly unbearable to remain, yet even more
torturous to leave the addicting darkness. 1
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Pull away from it, out of the deep recesses of your Soul, and
return your mind to the dead and dying world. Look around at the
walls and the floor, seeing the drab stone or paint. Breathe in and
realize that the walls do not mo\'e with your breath. Shake your hands
in the air and shake the visions from your head. Awaken from the most
terrifying nightmare you'\'e e\'er had, knowing that it was real and
that it is always waiting just outside of your range of vision.
A definite edl exists in the universe, filling every empty space
and slithering into e\'ery room. This is a fact that is proven by the
Sorcerer to himself in the simple rite above. He has come into direct
contact with a very small, yet very real portion of spiritual darkness,
and it has changed him whether he recognizes it or not.
It is stilI easy to detach oneself from an evil that exists outside of
him when all he needs to do is leave the ritual area and distract his
mind with his neon sociality. This is a lie that evil exists outside of him;
he must be corrected. He must realize, through personal experience
that he is a being of darkness, of evil, of the flesh and the dolet blood.
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