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shortly afterwards are seen by the Tantra researcher, John Blofeld ,as an act of revenge by the spirits whom he<br />

described.<br />

[2] <strong>Of</strong> course, these killing practices stand in irreconcilable opposition to the Buddhist commandment to not<br />

harm any living being. To gloss over this discordance, the l<strong>am</strong>as have a clever excuse on hand: the ritual master<br />

prevents the victim from perpetrating further bad deeds which would only burden him with bad karma and bring<br />

him certain d<strong>am</strong>nation.<br />

[3] <strong>The</strong> Golden Manuscript is considered the precursor of the black thangkas, which otherwise first emerged in<br />

the 18 th century. <strong>The</strong>y were especially developed for the evocation of tantric terror gods. <strong>The</strong> background of the<br />

images is always of the darkest color; the illustrations are sparsely drawn, often in gold ink — hence the n<strong>am</strong>e<br />

of the Golden Manuscript. This technique gives the images a mysterious, dangerous character. <strong>The</strong> deities<br />

“spring out of the awful darkness of cosmic night, all afl<strong>am</strong>e” comments Guiseppe Tucci (Karmay, 1988, p. 22).<br />

[4] Such a magic occupation does not even need to be performed via an external act; a specially trained l<strong>am</strong>a<br />

can mentally execute it through the power of imagination alone.<br />

[5] <strong>The</strong> catalog text did indeed use the Hebrew term armageddon, just as the doomsday guru Shoko Asahara<br />

also spoke of “Armageddon”.<br />

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9. THE WAR GODS BEHIND THE MASK OF PEACE<br />

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