The Temple of Set I by Michael Aquino

Author:Michael Aquino [Aquino, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-04-07T03:00:00+00:00

N. The Non-Natural Approach to the Subjective Universe The individual with a basic non-natural (“Satanic”) sense of self-awareness need not confront the SU directly. He may be content to use it symbolically, as a device for emphasizing and formalizing his LBM goals. This was the approach of the vast majority of those who affiliated with the Church of Satan from 1966 to 1975. Many of the Church’s most exotic - and seemingly literal - rituals are thus correctly understood as LBM psychodramas. As such they could be startlingly effective.

But what had begun as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek exercise in monster-movie theatrics and social satire gradually evolved into an increasingly more focused search for the principles behind such effectiveness. It was this search which culminated in the metamorphosis of the Church of Satan into the Temple of Set in 1975 - minus those who were unable or unwilling to see past the original psychodramatic concept.

The theory and practice of non-natural interaction with the SU is defined as Greater Black Magic (GBM). It involves first the exploration of one’s SU, other SUs which may be involved, and relevant portions of the OU to their conceptual frontiers [if not limits]. There follows a precise, coherent, and deliberate focusing of the will of the creative self to adjust features of the SUs (personal and others’) to the desired state, which may or may not be “real” in the OU.

The concept of magic postulates that there is a continuous “linkage” - generally referred to as the Magical Link (ML) - between the OU and SUs. Hence a change occurring in one will have at least a partially similar effect in the other.

It is easy to explain why the OU should influence the SU, but explaining the reverse influence is rather more subtle and complex. It is the active application of the ML conceptualized by Fichte, through which application the concentrated energies of the ego create “patterns” in the over-reaching mean essence, which patterns in turn create related, if not completely identical “patterns” in the non-ego part of the mental essence - which is that which defines and binds together the laws of consistency in the OU. [If you are intimidated by Fichte, go see the original (now “Episode IV”) Star Wars film and you’ll get the general idea.]

GBM is difficult to conceptualize, difficult to master theoretically, and difficult to practice reliably - but it does work. It may take effect in greater or lesser degree, but in any given case it is virtually impossible to predict that degree.

The chances of success in a GBM working are presumably improved if one does not attempt too great a “distortion” in the laws of consistency of the OU, and if one applies extraordinary energy to the corresponding phenomena in the SU(s). One must also take advantage of every cooperative force in the OU to enhance the working, using GBM to “tip the balance” rather than do the whole job. Thus GBM is ideally supported by LBM, though the converse is not true.

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