Category Archives: Philosophy

© fra Necros “I have seen the dark universe yawning – where the black planets roll without aim, where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge, or lustre, or name. … Oh, great was the sin of my spirit, and great is the reach of its doom; not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,Continue reading “VEIL OF SUFFERING”

© fra Necros Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: they shall be filled – Matthew 5:6 In this article, I attempt to present a mental exercise where we transform our suffering into sacred wrath and where the suffering experienced by the world presents us with the challenge of cultivating compassion and love.Continue reading “WRATHFUL ASCENSION THROUGH COMPASSION”

The more exoteric a religion is, the more personal of a God it believes in. The more esoteric a religion is, its God is less human-like and thus less petty. All ideas about God being “jealous,” “vengeful,” or even “loving” in any personal sense are sentimental nonsense at best. The theologico-poetical claim that “God isContinue reading “THERE IS NO PERSONAL GOD“

“Part of the tragedy is that man does not usually see his own state, for it is precisely the realization of one’s own state that breaks the dominance of a mental habit. Realizing is an act of being awake in spirit, for the human self is consciousness, cognition of one’s inner essence. The truth willContinue reading “THE HALF-BEAST PUZZLE“

[Transcribed from the presentation given at the 15th annual meeting of the Star of Azazel. A recording of the original Finnish presentation can be listened to here, courtesy of lodge Lucifer.] The rainbow bridge and the emerald of the Devil are together a twofold symbol, or a cluster of symbols, which, in my presentation, isContinue reading “THE RAINBOW BRIDGE AND THE DEVIL’S EMERALD”

Last week I presented a prologue for a concept essential to lodge Salome, the Daughter of God. In that fragment from Magna Mater, I gave the basis for the idea of complementary opposites forming two duads of Mother and Father and Son and his Bride as the quaternary point of the demonology of the StarContinue reading “The Daughter of God”

The Serpent, one of the most venerated symbols in the Left Hand Path and occult symbolism, is strongly condemned in Judeo-Christian religions as the symbol of evil. On the other hand, the Dove, adopted as the symbol of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, is usually an object of contempt and false meekness among the LeftContinue reading “Be Ye Therefore Wise as Serpents, and Harmless as Doves”

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”

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”