Occult literature is quite unlike any other literary genre. While it seeks to be precise, like science, and devoted, like theology, and uplifting, like fiction, and filled with nuances, like poetry, it yet transcends these other literary genres. A truly occult book only touches such forms, but is by itself something else. What, then, isContinue reading “HOW TO READ OCCULTISM”
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How to Build a Rosary of Azazel
An Example The Rosary of Azazel is one of the most used instruments in the brotherhood’s practices. The use of a segmented rosary for the Star of Azazel prayers has been discussed, e.g. in my Unseen Fire #1 article. Here I will give an example of how such a prayer can be acted out. While the lodgeContinue reading “How to Build a Rosary of Azazel”
WHAT IS THEISTIC SATANISM?
While the Star of Azazel is a society focused on bringing together different kinds of esoteric working, it approaches the unity of occult practices from the point of theistic Satanism. But what exactly is “theistic Satanism”? SATANISM is an ideology that puts its foremost attention and reverence to the archetype (or being) called Satan. The name itselfContinue reading “WHAT IS THEISTIC SATANISM?”
WITNESS OF AN UNENDING MYSTERY
Thousands of forms colliding into one As a lens of happening from immeasurable distances The mind held by these hands, consciousness that breaks in seeing itself A conditional sentence created into the realities’ mathematics A fracture through which the universe bleeds empty A wound of rebirth A birth canal of the soul Through which flowsContinue reading “WITNESS OF AN UNENDING MYSTERY”
THE MEANING OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Chapter II, part I “Satan must be one of the most beautiful and wise at the council table of gods because He had taken onto his shoulders that difficult commission to teach human beings, those beings who have come to solve the problem of good, of evil. What means to that being is a tremendousContinue reading “THE MEANING OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT”
A Gnostic Prayer
This prayer, given in The Catechism of Lucifer, is a modification of the Christian prayer Our Father (from Matthew 6:9-13). The translation provided below is given according to the idea, not literally. The literal translation from the original Latin version would be: “Our Master, who art in the heart of mine / Hallowed by thyContinue reading “A Gnostic Prayer”
THE DANCE OF SALOME
OF THE LEFT HAND PATH WORKING While the Star of Azazel and our lodge Salome are for uniting the hands of the paths, to make one’s spiritual development both deep and healthy, holistic and integrated, the emphasis of this working is often on the Left Hand Path. But what is the difference between the twoContinue reading “THE DANCE OF SALOME”
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