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CHAPTER FIVE<br />
BURNT OFFERINGS <br />
I<br />
Of prime importance in the Workings and the general life of the<br />
Black Magician is the ability to effect and entirely alter first himself<br />
and his immediate environment and later reality as a whole. Without<br />
this power, Black Magick would be nothing more than a dead religion<br />
paying masturbatory homage to an empty dream. Even the Adepts of<br />
White Magick are bound in their ability to make dramatic changes in<br />
the world, their hands tied tight with vines of morality and uharm<br />
none" creeds.<br />
The Black Magician knows that by sowing Darkness, he will reap<br />
Darkness and thus knowing, lifts his hand to heaven and brings to pass<br />
his sovereign will. He has made evil his ally, and has learned through<br />
his relationship with it the exact manner in which he is able to bring<br />
about his will. He is a living demonstration of the futility of opposition<br />
and the eradication of stifling assumptions of what is real and what is<br />
not.<br />
Commanding weather, causing disease, influencing political and<br />
military actions, and generally writing the pages of history from a<br />
shadowed Temple is beyond the reasonable scope of most novice, and<br />
quite a few seasoned, Black Magicians. It is beyond what they consider<br />
to be real. Although the Master is able to do these without much<br />
resistance to his will, the Practitioner still cannot realistically put<br />
himself on that throne. Ironically, the single difference between the<br />
meddling Magician and the omnipotent Adept is his scope, the vantage<br />
that he has of the universe.<br />
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Organisms learn through experience, not excluding the more<br />
advanced organisms drifting around the physical world. When the<br />
Sorcerer attempts to summon legions of forsaken fiends to storm the<br />
gates of terra firma and bring it under his control, without ever<br />
achieving success in any other Magickal Operation, he has no<br />
psychological base for the success of this Operation save for fantasy.<br />
The result of such a Working will always be failure.<br />
In order to succeed in all endeavors, the Magician must gradually<br />
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