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brontelenoir-alarie · 1 year

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What the story of The Fall means to me, and how I relate to it.

One of my favorite tumblr creators I've stumbled upon has these really awesome journaling prompts and I thought to share some of my writing on this post of zeirs in particular. Faces of Lucifer #2 talks about Lucifer being the Fallen Angel. Where some may think Lucifer is prone to evil and dispassion, there is no other that can understand the need for tender benevolence, protection and a shoulder to lean on when you are hurt, betrayed and drown trodden.

Zey provide a few prompts and other information. I highly recommend searching zeir page and enjoying their writing prompts! (Credits at end of Journal)

Since a good amount of my time in the Luciferian faith is spent scrutinizing over Christ worshiping scripture, I want to start by dissecting A scripture from Ezekiel, and two statements pulled from a Christ worshiping minister.

First I’ll start with the scripture:

“You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God…You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings” (Ezekiel 28:12–17 NIV).”

I can’t help but feel bitter when I read this. From the mouth of the Christ God, he agrees, stating that Lucifer was the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect beauty. The Christ God anointed him as a protector, The Christ God had given Lucifer a place in Eden. Lucifer was loved, and given love before jealousy and feelings of inadequacy took everything from him.

“Since Lucifer had been the model of perfection, what sort of sin led to his fall? His heart became proud because of his incredible beauty. Lucifer allowed his perfection to be the cause of his corruption.”

Lucifer’s great “evil”, is Pride. Pride in himself, in what the Christ God had indeed created knowingly... Lucifer also had ‘corrupted his wisdom with splendor’ which sounds a lot like “You were being too creative with your resources; we are feeling pretty wasteful and incompetent in comparison so….we can’t have that..”

I also don’t think Lucifer LET these things be the cause of his corruption… If you can really call any of this corrupt. I feel like there was no reason to fight against these accusations. Lucifer has and always will be the light bringer, a Harold of truth. Lucifer had no reason to fight his own authenticity.

After all why spend time squabbling over what is true and righteous? He must have known all along that this would happen eventually and he would just live for himself, un-apologetically, to be his highest and more perfect self.

Other angels fell with him...

“Scripture tells us that he took one-third of the angels (see Revelation 12:4)”

If my math is right, Revelation 5:11 says the angelic host was 10,000 x 10,000, which would equal 100,000,000 angels in the heavens and 33,333,333(.33) left when Lucifer was cast from heaven.

Whether or not these numbers are true, as they are stated by the bible, it seems as if Lucifer was not the only being that was affected by the unfairly contradictory nature of the Christ God.

The story of The Fall is only more proof of the nature between Lucifer and the Christ God for me. There is nothing that can convince me that the true nature of the Christ God is an ugly mess. Lucifer has and always will be the Truth.

I have had to think for a little bit on how I relate to this and how I would like to talk present those thoughts, I don’t like digging up old bones, but if there is something I have learned from Luciferianism is that there will usually always have to be hurt before we heal. It can be scary, but I am not alone in the process.

I have been a “Zero contact” family member for a long while. This is for several reasons, one of which is being un-apologetically myself. I spoke many truths into my home growing up, all of them fell on deaf ears, these truths had to do with lots of abuse and things that didn’t make sense. I needed explanations, I needed love, I needed honesty.

I stood by my truths, and I found closure in different ways, but these truths and independence led to some of my first fall-outs in my family.

At first, I remember feeling nothing but anger. Of course, this anger was veiled hurt, betrayal and abandonment. How can the same people tell me that they love me so much, so unconditionally and then turn around and tell me they hate the way I feel? Hate the way I think? Hate me?

Slowly but surely over the years all contact has been severed.

I still feel the loneliness, and jealousy of others that have not been forgotten and left behind by the people that are supposed to cherish them. However, I can find comfort and love from those that choose to be in my life, including the love of Lucifer, which I feel like I was truly meant for and those like myself. The warmth of his light can usually make my darkest days just a little more bearable. I know I can be understood, and I know he is always there for those that need him.

I did not know cosmic love until I found Luciferianism. What an absolute gift it is.

Gustave Doré, Paradise Lost, Book I (1866): “Him the Almighty Power / Hurled headlong flaming from th’ ethereal sky.” (I.44-45) . Sigil of Lucifer divider by: @peculiar-666 Journal Prompts by: @czortofbaldmountain "Faces of Lucifer #2"

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hijodelagua · 1 year

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#left-hand path #stablediffusion #essay for a LHP book

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serpentstole · 1 year

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Hey I was wondering what your view on luciferianism is? I know a lot about theistic satanism (as one myself) and the horned god but not much on Lucifer.

That's a bit of a complicated question! I'll try to keep things brief so I don't end up writing you an essay, but I welcome any follow up questions if there's something I didn't go into/cover/explain.

My view on Luciferianism as a whole is that it's a very vague label. It can encompass a lot of beliefs, both theistic and atheistic (as with Satanism). In the past, I made myself this working definition.

Luciferianism is a religion or system of belief held by those that appreciate and strive to embody the traits typically associated with Lucifer as Lightbringer, such liberation and rebellion over blind faith and obedience, and a pursuit of knowledge or enlightenment. It can be theistic or atheistic, and typically involves an equal appreciation for the arts and science. Incorporating the occult or some form of magical practice is common among theistic Luciferians, but not a requirement.

How people then choose to put those concepts into action can vary wildly. For example, I'm personally of a belief that a focus on liberation, rebellion, a rejection of dogma, and a pursuit of higher understanding of the world around us should lead people to be more socially minded and aware of how many bigotries and biases are built into our cultures and our day to day exchanges. Meanwhile, many people who fall under the vague LHP umbrella (Luciferians, Satanists, etc) will regurgitate militantly evangelical talking points with a coat of black paint, use their animosity towards Christianity as an excuse to be Islamophobic and antisemitic, have incredibly homophobic or transphobic attitudes, so on and so forth. Everyone wants to think they have the actual enlightened truth, you know? I don't think Luciferians are any more or less immune to conspiratorial thought and systemic bigotry than the rest of the population.

I'll also give a quick list of what I (personally) think Luciferianism is not, or at least doesn't have to be, since there's some trends I see in discussions about it that I don't particularly like.

Inherently better or more thoughtful than Satanism. I often see the two described in contrast/opposition to each other, with the idea being that one focuses on the philosophical while the other trends towards being more carnal. I feel like the way they're compared gives an overly simplified view of both, and I don't like that I tend to see it written with the implication that Luciferianism is the more noble set of beliefs. I have my quibbles with LaVeyan Satanism especially, but they're far more to do with the writing that helped inspire it and how I see that put into practice by the Satanists I've known.

Automatically hostile towards other religions. This truly exhausts me. I think the harm that religious groups that have a massive amount of political or social power can inflict on individuals, communities, and even countries cannot be understated. However, I far too often see this devolve into animosity towards the very concept of that religion or the religious individual instead of examining what this says about power, control, corruption, the protection of abusers within their communities, and other important aspects of the issue.

Inherently demonic, infernal, edgy, and so on. I know this is a bold claim coming from me, given my personal aesthetic, and I have often been quietly irked by the Luciferians who try to push too hard in another direction and reject the concept that anyone should approach Lucifer as anything but a love, light, and knowledge Jesus alternative. However, I think a lot of people cling to the idea that a concept, deity, or style of magic needs to be appropriately "dark" enough to be incorporated into Luciferianism. The end result is a lot of appropriation from closed practices and very samey books or talking points.

If you wanted to take a look at some of my thoughts in great detail, I have a bunch of posts tagged as 30 Day Luciferian Challenge. Some of the links between them don't work since they were written before I changed my blog name, but I try to keep the tagging as coherent as possible. I stand by what I wrote (so far as I can remember) so they're a closer look at questions like who Lucifer is to me, what drew me to Luciferianism, my thoughts on the community, advice I'd give, that kind of thing.

#luciferianism #theistic luciferianism #ask #asks #answer #answers #kiaqtexistuku

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alephskoteinos · 8 months

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May I ask how you interperet Hellsing as a LHP practitioner?

More like student, but...

I have covered a lot of that in an article that I wrote in January when I was still reading Revolutionary Demonology, and I believe I've posted about on here before writing it out.

The irony central to Hellsing's overall premise has never escaped me. You know what I mean, I'm sure. The Church of England setting up the Hellsing Organisation to fight vampires, ghouls, the general forces of darkness and what not, and their ace is not only a vampire, he's essentially Dracula himself! I'm well aware of it, and that's why I don't cringe or wince at the Christian imagery as I might in other cases. In fact I often find myself thinking of Alucard as the closest thing that anime or manga has to a "satanic hero" figure (despite the fact that his loyalty is to the Church of England!), and to be fair these are always so hard to find in any kind of fiction. Maybe it's his irrepresible and romantic pride in himself, maybe it's the fact that he kills his enemies by turning into some kind of demonic shadows (I believe that's stuck with me for quite some time now), or maybe it's like he himself is darkness, or that even his death is only the final victory. Frankly, I love Alucard as a character.

Lately I sometimes relate him to Georges Bataille's headless god, like a headless god of darkness. I can sort of justify this image in two ways. First is the fact that even just being decapitated doesn't seem to stop him (as one Alexander Anderson would find out), or the fact that, in the other clash with Anderson, it's like Alucard's "head" is almost just a black flame with one eye (which, funny enough, comes after Alucard literally loses his head again).

I'd stop here, but there's something to say about that "satanic" aspect being directly tied to the figure of Dracula himself. Christianity often figured the vampire at large as aligned with Satan as an antithesis of the Christian faith. That's probably why you might find a fixation on vampirism within the modern Left Hand Path now and again (I know it's a terrible example but I know Michael W. Ford liked to milk that theme to death in his older books!). But it's also linked to the figure of Dracula himself, not just because of some sense of transcendent supernatural evil he is supposed to represent, but because his name means "dragon", the animal that Christian symbolism has for centuries linked with the figure of Satan, to the point that in modern Romanian the word "dracul" apparently sometimes means "devil".

Now I know Dracula never really literally looks like a dragon. Which almost has me thinking about how almost anything can be a dragon. Have you ever seen Son of the White Mare? It was a movie directed by Marcell Jankovics, released in 1981. It's based on the Hungarian folk tale Fehérlófia, about a young man, raised by a white mare, who with his two friends goes off to rescue three princesses from three dragons, each one with more heads than the last. But in the movie, even though they are dragons, they don't look like dragons at all. The first dragon looks like a three-headed golem, the second one looks more like a tank that somehow has six faces, and the third and final one looks like a big moving city where twelve buildings have faces of light!

Here's a video of a tribute animation someone made where you can see all three of the dragons as they appeared in the movie:

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It's fucking wild. Watching it honestly might have deep down fundamentally changed the way I think about the depiction of dragons in fiction and narrative. Perhaps by this sense Alucard is a "dragon". But then it must be that he is the dragonslayer and the dragon. Is there not a better image of the Sun?

#hellsing #left hand path #dragons

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literaryhousepress · 6 years

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Our newest title, Scream (or never minding), by Lia Purpura made it to Small Press Distribution’s Nonfiction Bestseller List for October-December 2017! Go, little chapbook, go! 😱

#bestseller #creative nonfiction #lyric essay #chapbook #book #essay #Lia Purpura #Scream (or never minding)#The Scream #Edvard Munch #letterpress #Literary House Press #Lit House Press #LHP

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luchagoth · 5 years

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as much as I hate lhp losing, they’re prefect opponents for raiders to pull off their high energy/fast paced tag moves on and war raiders are perfect for selling lhp’s high flying moves in this essay i

#raw lb

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crystaloccult · 6 years

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Hekate Resources

Note: I pulled this list from here. It is not my own but thought Tumblr would find it useful.

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I've had this for some time and though it might be useful to others who are sworn to Hekate or at least interested in her. I have purposely omitted some items due to language usage or audience focus, aimed at 3 - 10 years of age type thing. It's a large list and reflects my own biases and interests regarding the subject of reference material for Hekate / Hecate. ..............................

Books, Articles and Various for Hekate / Hecate reference

Section 1: Books

01. Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (American Classical Studies, No by Sarah Iles Johnston, 1990, 200 pages. PB, ISBN 1555404278 // ISBN 155540426X 02. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston, 2013-PB, 352 Pages, ISBN 0520280180 // ISBN 0520217071 03. Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) by Sarah Iles Johnston, 2005, 322 pages, ISBN 9004144978 04. The Goddess Hekate by Stephen Ronan, 1992, 166 pgs, ISBN 0948366214 05. Hekate in Ancient Greek Religion by Ilmo Robert Von Rudloff, 1999, 176 pages, ISBN is 978-0-9696066-8-0 / 9780969606680 06. Hekate Liminal Rites: A Study of the rituals, magic and symbols of the torch-bearing Triple Goddess of the Crossroads by Sorita d'Este, 2009, 194 pages, ISBN 1905297238 07. HEKATE: Keys to the Crossroads - A collection of personal essays, invocations, rituals, recipes and artwork from modern Witches, Priestesses and Priests ... Goddess of Witchcraft, Magick and Sorcery by Sorita d'Este, 2006, 156 pages, ISBN-13: 9781905297092 // ISBN: 1905297092 08. HEKATE Her Sacred Fires by Sorita d'Este, 2010, 308 pages, ISBN-13: 9781905297351 // ISBN: 1905297351 09. Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun & Moon--A Comprehensive Guide to the Greek Goddess of the Hunt, Her Myths, Powers & M by Sorita d'Este, 2005, 156 pages, ISBN-13: 9781905297023 // ISBN: 1905297025 10. Thracian Magic: Past and Present by Georgi Mishev, 2012, 338 pages, ISBN 1905297483 11. Rotting Goddess: The Origins of the Witch in Classical Antiquity by Jacob Rabinowitz, 1998, 154 pages, ISBN 157027035X 12. Crossroads by Greg Crowfoot, 2005, 188 pages, ISBN 1593303025 13. Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009, 200 pages, PB, ISBN 1449917046 14. The Cults of the Greek States, Volume II [Vol. 2] by Lewis Richard Farnell, CHAPTER XVI - HEKATE pp. 501-519, ISBN 1236589580, Online ISBN: 9780511710438, Paperback ISBN: 9781108015448 15. Sacred Places of Goddess: 108 Destinations by Karen Tate, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-1-888729-17-7 // ISBN-10: 1-888729-17-1 16. Hecate I: Death, Transition and Spiritual Mastery (2nd Edition) by Jade Sol Luna, 2009, 260 pages, ISBN 1442184515 - Hecate I: Death, Transition and Spiritual Mastery (1st edition) Paperback – October 31, 2008 by Jade Sol Luna (still being sold) 17. Hecate II: The Awakening of Hydra by Jade Sol Luna, 2009, 326 pages, ISBN 0615344755 18. Triple Hekate mainly on votive reliefs, coins, gems and amulets by Elpis Mitropoulou (Very rare have not found a copy yet printed 1978), Pyli Ed, 1978 19. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World, by John G. Gager, Softcover, 1999, 296 pages, ISBN 0195134826 // ISBN 0195062264 20. A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae, Volume 2, Part 2, Charles Thomas Newton and Richard Popplewell Pullan, CHAPTER XXIV pp. 554-572, Original Publication Year: 1863, Online ISBN:9780511910302, Paperback ISBN:9781108027274 About Lagina – Historical reference 21. The Temple of Hekate at Lagina, by Ahmet A. Tirpan – Zeliha Gider – Aytekin Buyukozer pg 181 – 202, Dipteros und Pseudodiptoros, BYZAS, Veroffenllichungen des Deutschen Archologischen Institits Istanbul, ISBN 978-605-5607-74-6 (English) 22. Labraunda and Karia, Proceedings of the International Symposium Commemorating Sixty Years of Swedish Archaeological Work in Labraunda, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities Stockholm, November 20-21, 2008, ISSN 0346-6442 // ISBN 978-91-554-7997-8 - The Archaic architectural terracottas from Euromos and some cult signs by Suat Ateşlier, Pg 279 - 290 23. A N O D O S, Studies of the Ancient World, 6-7/2006-2007, CULT AND SANCTUARY THROUGH THE AGES, (From the Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity), - DAŞBACAK, Coşkun: Hecate Cult in Anatolia: Rituals and Dedications in Lagina pg 143-148; - SÖğÜT, Bilal: Naiskoi From the Sacred Precinct of Lagina Hekate: Augustus and Sarapis, PG 421-432 24. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells, edited by Hans Dieter Betz, 1997, 406 pages, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-04444-0 25. RITUAL TEXTS FOR THE AFTERLIFE, Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston, 2013, 296 pages 26. ANCIENT GREEK CULTS, A guide by Jennifer Larson, 2007, 320 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0415491020 ISBN-10: 0415491029 27. Magika Hiera, Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, Edited by Christopher A. Faraone & Dirk Obbink, Oxford University Press, 1997, 312 pages, ISBN 0-19-504450-9 / ISBN 0-19-511140-0 28. From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast, 12 Acta Hyperborea 2009, Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2009, 585 pages 29. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds by Daniel Ogden, Oxford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-19-513575-X; ISBN 0-19-515123-2 30. CHALDÆAN ORACLES, Translated and Commented by G. R. S. Mead (1908) version uses Hecat where later re-releases indicate Hecate. 31. Women’s Religions in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook, ROSS SHEPARD KRAEMER, Editor, Oxford University press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-517065-2 (cloth); 0-19-514278-0 (pbk.) 32. Greek Religion by Walter Burker, – July 26, 1985, 512 pages 33. Various catalogs and Literature about Coin Collecting & Numismatics. A great deal of info and depictions of Hecate / Hekate on coins, tokens, can be discovered in the literature. These are just a few of the many journals, books, reports that are available. Requires a bit of determination on the part of the researcher to identify and discover how the coins reflect religion, economics, culture, geographical, etc influences. An underutilized source of information on many gods / goddesses. - A Catalog of Greek Coins in the British Musuem, 28 Volumes - ERIC - The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins – 2005 by Rasiel Suarez - COINAGE AND IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN PROVINCES, Edited by Christopher Howgego, Volker Heuchert, Andrew Burnett, Oxford University Press, 2005

Section 1a: Books more LHP in focus

01. Queen of Hell by Mark Alan Smith, 2010, 02. The Red King (Trident of Witchcraft) by Mark Alan Smith, 2011, 03. MAGICK OF THE ANCIENT GODS, Chthonic Paganism & the Left Hand Path by Michael W. Ford, 2009, 254 pages, ISBN 978-0-578-02732-6 04. Book of the Witch Moon: Chaos, Vampiric & Luciferian Sorcery, The Choronzon Edition by Michael W. Ford, 2006, 456 pages, Hecate Queen of Witches, pg 98 - 107 05. HECATE'S WOMB (And other essays) by Jason Perdue, 2004, 146 pages

Section 1b: Have heard both good and bad reviews of these books

01. The Witches' Craft: The Roots of Witchcraft & Magical Transformation by Raven Grimassi, 2002, 282 pgs 02. The New Book of Goddesses & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan, 3rd edition, 1997, 384 pgs 03. Hecate - The Witches' Goddess – November 4, 2011 by Gary R. Varner, PB, 120 pages (more bad than good reviews on this one) 04. The Temple of Hekate - Exploring the Goddess Hekate through Ritual, Meditation And Divination by Tara Sanchez, 2011, 192 pgs, ISBN 1905297491 (Myself I’d not recommend it) 05. Goddess Connections Workbook Hekate [Kindle Edition] by Tara Reynolds, 17 pages

Section 1c: Books questionable history and / or heavily MMC influenced (Not ones I’d recommend)

01. Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess Paperback – May 22, 1992, 304 pages, by Demetra George 02. Hecate: Queen of the Witches or Wise Crone? (Celebrate the Divine Feminine; Reclaim Your Power with Ancient Goddess Wisdom) by Joy Reichard, Chapter 13, 2011 03. Queen of the Night: Rediscovering the Celtic Moon Goddess by Sharynne MacLeod Nic Mhacha, 2005, Forth Lunation (chapter 4) 04. Goddess Enchantment, Magic and Spells Volume 2: Goddesses Love, Abundance and Transformation by Carrie Kirkpatrick, 2011, Chapter 4, pg 68-77 05. Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths Paperback, by Charlene Spretnak – August 3, 1992, 144 pages (This book has been compared to Robert Graves THE WHITE GODDESS in the author’s ability to suggest opinion as historical fact) Feminist seem to endorse it while historical based opinions find it to questionable. 06. Hecate (Monsters of Mythology) Library Binding, by Bernard Evslin – September, 1988, 87 pages (Most reviews and such suggest incorrect info and best to just toss it, part of his Monsters of series of books) Could not bring myself to read it entirely. Publishing date of 1988 suggests part of the issue’s presented, theories which are no longer endorsed or supported.

Section 2: Historical / Archaic / Modern Plays & Poetry

01. The Homeric Hymns (HYMN TO DEMETER) by Homer 01a The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays by Helene P. Foley, 1993, 320 pages. 02. The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes 03. Medea by Euripides 03a Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art Paperback, by James J. Clauss (Editor), Sarah Iles Johnston (Editor)– January 12, 1997, 376 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0691043760 ISBN-10: 0691043760 04. Hesiod: Volume I, Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia (Loeb Classical Library No. 57N) by Hesiod (Author), Glenn W. Most (Translator) – 2007, 308 pages, 05. The Orphic Hymm to Hekate 06. IDYLL 2: THE SPELL by THEOCRITUS 07. Ovid – The Metamorphoses - book vii & The Epistles of Ovid 08. John Keats – To Homer & On the Sea 09. William Shakespeare’s Plays - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, Scene 1 - King Henry VI. Part I., Act 3 Scene 2 - Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 - Macbeth, Act II, scene 1 - King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1 10. Pausanias' Description of Greece II.30.2 11. The Comedies of Plutus by Aristophanes 12. The Aeneid by Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald translation 13. Hymm to Minerva by Proclus – Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries by Thomas Taylor, 1891, Pgs 225 – 227.

Section 2a: Historical / Archaic / Modern Plays & Poetry more LHP

01. Aleister Crowley Invocation of Hecate 02. Invocation of Hecate , Queen of All Witchcraft

Section 3: Academic research articles

01. A Group of Marble Statuettes in the Ödemiş Museum” – Part of The Stone Artifacts of the Ödemiş Museum 02. Structure, Sculpture and Scholarship Understanding the Sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina, Amanda Elaine Herring, University of California (L.A.), 2011 03. Apollo, Ennodia, and fourth-century Thessaly by C.D. Graninger, Kernos 22 (2009), Varia 04. Karian, Greek or Roman? The layered identities of Stratonikeia at the sanctuary of Hekate at Lagina by Christina Williamson 05. SANCTUARIES AS TURNING POINTS IN TERRITORIAL FORMATION. LAGINA, PANAMARA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATONIKEIA by Christina Williamson 06. City and Sanctuary in Hellenistic Asia Minor. Sacred and Ideological Landscapes by Christina Williamson 07. Hekate: Bringer of Light by Shelly M. Nixon, California Institute of Integral Studies. 08. Hekate with Apollo and Artemis on a Gem from the Southern Black Sea Region by MANOLIS MANOLEDAKIS 09. HEKATE: HER ROLE AND CHARACTER IN GREEK LITERATURE FROM BEFORE THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C. by CAROL M. MOONEY, B.A., McMaster University February, 1971 10. PLATO’S X & HEKATE’S CROSSROADS, ASTRONOMICAL LINKS TO THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS by George Latura, Independent Researcher, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. XX, No X, pp.xx-xx 11. Medea, Cytissorus, Hekate, they all came from Aea. Historical and Cultic Evidence from Hellas in the Golden Fleece Myths, Debbie Turkilsen and Joost Blasweiler, Publisher: Arnhem (NL) Bronze Age, ISBN/EAN: 978-90-820497-1-8 2014 Arnhem –Sydney 12. The Hecate of the Theogony, Jenny Strauss Clay, 1984, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 25: 27-38 13. A Portrait of Hekate by Patricia A. Marquardt, in the American Journal of Philology, Volume 102 14. DOG SACRIFICE IN ANCIENT AND MODERN GREECE: FROM THE SACRIFICE RITUAL TO DOG TORTURE (KYNOMARTYRION) by Manolis G. Sergis

Section 4: JSTOR articles

01. Diana Nemorensis by Andrew Alföldi, American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 64, No. 2 (Apr., 1960), pp. 137-144, Published by: Archaeological Institute of America, Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/502539 02. Hecate: A Transfunctional Goddess in the Theogony By Deborah Boedeker Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) Vol. 113, (1983), pp. 79-93 Published by: American Philological Association, Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/284004 03. Hecate: Greek or “Anatolian”? by William Berg, Numen Vol. 21, Fasc. 2 (Aug., 1974), pp. 128-140 Published by: BRILL Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3269561 04. The Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate, Author(s): Charles M. Edwards Source: American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), pp. 307-318 Published by: Archaeological Institute of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/505689 05. Empousa, Dionysus and the Mysteries: Aristophanes, Frogs 285ff Author(s): Christopher G. Brown Reviewed work(s): Source: The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 1 (1991), pp. 41-50 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/639022 06. Crossroads, Author(s): S. I. Johnston Reviewed work(s): Source: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 88 (1991), pp. 217-224 Published by: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn (Germany) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20187554 07. The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion Author(s): Arthur Fairbanks, Source: The American Journal of Philology,Vol. 21, No. 3 (1900), pp. 241-259 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/287716 08. A Portrait of Hecate by Patricia A. Marquardt, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 102, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 243-260, Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/294128 09. The House-Door in Greek and Roman Religion and Folk-Lore Author(s): M. B. Ogle Source: The American Journal of Philology,Vol. 32, No. 3 (1911), pp. 251-271 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/288616

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sororcalluna · 5 years

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Painted this in ink. Zain which means Sword in Hebrew. A friend told me about this today. I’m almost done with my course at a University about Western Esoteric studies, which has ,besides from my normal job, taken a lot of time. It has been really interesting though and I wish I could have been there at the lectures instead of listening to them at distance. The essay I’m writing now is about: The meaning of western esotericism, about Aleister Crowley, Satanism and ... Something that I can choose from myself. I have not yet decided, but I have been thinking of LHP magic. We will see.

Wishing everyone a happy Equinox!

#zain #occult diary #thelema

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f0restpunk · 7 years

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#NowPlaying: Starting the day w/ New York's Malkuth, with Mutus Liber on #HospitalProductions raw, raspy, scratchy black metal. smoking filterless cigarettes on black ice, finishing up an essay on #HorrorElectronics i've been working on, bashing out some work, drinking coffee, getting ready for #Morningstar tonight. Getting grounded, getting ready - into the fray, the last good fight i have ever known. #Malkuth #blackmetal #blackmetalablum #blackmetalclassics #rawblackmetal #occult #okkvlt #occultism #occultistsofinstagram #witchesofinstagram #kvlt #occultnoise #occultmetal #occultrock #albumcover #albumart #albumcoverart #blackmetaldesign #Baphomet #sigils #goetia #LHP #demonology #qabala #thekingdom #amwriting

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brontelenoir-alarie · 2 years

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An Essay on my Experience of Coming to the Luciferian Faith.

4,236k Words completed 10-12-2022

I’ve always been a spiritual person, I’ve dabbled in witchcraft, denounced Christ Worship as a early teen, all the normal stuff a budding Occultist might do. However I had never worked with deities or had a centered craft, as none of them felt Correct for me… Before starting this I will warn, the majority of my spiritual journey has been done through dreams. In my culture dreams hold a lot of weight. They can tell you when to start saving your money, when you need to buy certain types of food or stay away from certain people or situations. My experience may not be everyone else’s experience. But that’s the beauty of the *LHP life.

We are all Gorgeous Gods wrapped in flesh and blood. All with our own identities as unique as our fingerprints.

I hope my account of the beginning of my experiences can help someone out there on their search for information. Hopefully offering a new perspective. I am very aware as life changes and continues there are several things that can change. But for now, this is what I have to offer on this specific subject.

Before the Pandemic of 2020, I moved into a house with my ‘then’ fiance. We had the upstairs bedroom. Something about having that space to ourselves was so soothing and isolating. I spent the majority of lock down reading, gardening and going to online counseling. Doing what I thought was ‘finding myself’. During all of this time I began wondering if maybe I could connect to something higher through my spirituality. I felt as if I may be ready.

At the end of Covid lock-down I decided to go back to the industry I had quit before my husband and I met. I had soon after begun having these beautifully haunting dreams.

I was standing in what’s best described as a lukewarm field. It might be sometime in the night when the moon has hung around for a bit, but was about ready to leave the sky.

The field was really more like a meadow or glade, if I’m going to be honest, in the middle of a huge Forest. The wind would blow my hair gently. Whispering kindnesses to me. Tickling its tendrils on my chin. But otherwise this field was suffocatingly silent. And yet, there was the feeling of someone watching. Like, if you are familiar with this feeling, an entity or energy has to be there… you just can’t see them. I always spent my time in this dream just enjoying the field. Most of the time, in dreams I’m not in control of, I am always doing something. I have to be somewhere, deliver something, buy something, talk to someone etc. But while in the field, my *dreamself was relaxed. I would wake from the dreams warm and rested. A bit confused at first too, the subject matter of the dream was new to me. But after a while I would welcome the thought of this *dreamplace.

I would find myself in this meadow often.

A week or two into October 2020, my dreams had brought me into a new part of the Forest. I don’t know how I knew it was the same Forest, but here I was.

I stood silently on the treeline and I watched as a black goat with long elegant horns that small bits of light danced off of playfully who wore a glistening crown like smoldering wood, standing on two’s dressed in black robes that seem to be made out of dust and cloth that edge in and out of the corporeal plane. (Much like the composition of the beings I have encountered while astral traveling, or *W.I.L.D.) They were standing in the center of what seemed like a grass-less clearing of the Forest carved into a dip. It’s way deeper than the ground I am standing on, like this might be a spot that water drains to when it rains.

I was thinking that I need to be silent, as to not alarm the being standing in the clearing below me; as I was having this thought a feeling of pure warmth covers me from head to toe, I do not hear a voice but I feel the words “Comfort” swallow me. There was a feeling of knowing between this creature and myself.

I knew that they knew, I was there..

I also knew they did not mind, in fact they wanted me there.

I was not a trespasser, I was meant to be there.

“There is no need to be afraid, I am here.” Their words washed over me without sound.

I knew they were meant to entice. But there was nothing more that I could have wanted than this.

I was overwhelmed with a calling to this creature the feeling of pure joy spreading through my limbs. I wanted to climb down the side of this clearing and put my hands on this creatures face. Cradle this creature and lose myself in the universe of their eyes, disappear in the comfort and warmth of it’s cloaks, swirling with all the secrets, truth and answers I have begged for. I wanted so badly to love this creature. Welcome them into my heart. I felt a burden in me lift, and a lightness find it’s way to my spirit. I assume this overwhelming amount of emotion is what had prematurely woken me up.

I never got to climb down and hold this creatures hand and walk with them through the forest. Have them teach me how to whisper the language of the forest wind in the field under the too late and too early moonlight. I would chase this feeling for a while...

It then stupidly dawned on me, this was not just any creature. This was Baphomet, the guide.

This was my awakening.

I can’t say I haven’t always been okay with the dark, I will admit there are still aspects of true darkness that have my silent respectful awe. But that’s what the LHP is about right? Lucifer and all the hierarchy loves when someone overcomes. The more I accepted this dream the more curious I got. Maybe this was the path for me. Maybe I just need to read and figure out where I stand.

October 28th there was a bachelor party of a co-worker that I find myself attending, against my best efforts not to. We find our way down into the bar which was hidden under a building with some winding staircase, and as my luck would have it, the bartender was someone I had cut off communication with a long time ago. Someone I considered a brother to myself for a long time.

He and his wife took the new surname ‘Blackwood’ when they married.

Both of them are part of a sacred closed practice, and both powerful mages whom I had lots of respect for. However I had felt the need to cut our friendship to start healing myself. I used our friendship as a crutch many times. Which I felt was unfair to all of us.

So here he was, serving our drinks for the night. Long story short, Blackwood actually had to be the one to take me home that night, we joked with each other and caught up a bit on the ride home. It had gotten silent for a minute. He mentioned to me in some seriousness, that he had been having some vivid dreams too. He looked over and said, “Gen you told me you were pregnant in a dream, over facebook.” I drunkenly laughed at him. We had pulled up to my house and I thanked him for the ride.

Told him we should catch up when I’m not drunk.

I went up to bed, woke my husband up, we fucked and I went to sleep only to wake up to the worst hangover I’ve had in a very long time. My husband got off early and brought me some Plan B and another energy drink to help me through the rest of the shift.

Turns out I found out the next month, the plan B didn’t help, and I was texting Blackwood on facebook to tell him he was right. We decided to keep the baby. But life had other plans and I was forced with a choice between a medical abortion (Pills), or surgical abortion (D.N.C.)

My body did not react well to having an abortion. For the time being, skip over the paragraphs written in italics if this is something that may be triggering for you I also have these paragraphs separated by a divider to help separate them. I will say, I am here, I am alive, and I do not regret the dark times I faced. Not for a single second.

I chose to have my abortion at home since I was early enough along and I wanted the comfort of my couch, I’m also terrified of doctors. I invested in some things for comfort, and had my husband stay home with me the first two days.

I took the first pill at the clinic, and went home.

I laid in bed most of the day, scared and unsure of what may happen.

I drifted off to sleep that night being swallowed by blackness. I begged for the warmth I had once felt. I wanted a reassuring hand to caress me. I wanted to feel Baphomets hand in mine ready to help guide. I just knew it would comfort me.

But I dreamt of only darkness that night. Fully aware of the emptiness and coldness of it.

I woke the next morning spotting already.

I had some great anxiety about taking the second set of pills… My husband comforted me and I prayed silently for myself. Wondering if that would be enough to protect me from the anxieties I felt. Maybe I wasn’t enough, maybe this wasn’t even that bad. Maybe I didn’t need or deserve divine intervention for something so arbitrary. People do this every day afterall, how was I any different?

At the end of the day, truly and honestly. I don’t think I really wanted to do any of what I had to do, even if I knew it was necessary. The abortion, the praying, the time off work, the emotional exhaustion.

I sat on the couch with angry tears in my eyes, looking at my husband with a heart full of resentment, fear and shame.

I took the second set of pills, they were bitter in my cheeks. It was about an hour later after some cramping I asked my husband to help me and sit in the bathroom with me while I peed.

I passed a large amount of tissue as I urinated. I looked my husband in the face with tears in my eyes that seemed to have been in my waterline since the day had started. I had never felt my body do any of these things.

The tissue slowly turned into thin blood through the day as I slowly started to feel more and more weak. As it got dark, my husband made dinner and helped me bathe, and put me to bed on the couch in the living room so I didn’t have to spend the night walking up and down stairs for the bathroom.

I didn’t know that I wouldn’t have the energy to climb the stairs to my room again for another few weeks.

That night I dreamt of the same blackness, and it’s consuming hold. I was too tired to fight it. I observed it, existed within it. I had never had dreams of this void. Never experienced it. What I can remember about this night and the nights to follow, is that I was wrapped in my feelings, experiencing them all. Sobs coming from my chest, bellowing from my insides. Wanting to scream until my chest caved in, and having no will to do so, knowing the darkness would swallow it all as it had done to me.

My rage, and grief welcomed me in this space. The void was becoming my bittersweet friend.

Over the time of my abortion my body did nothing but cramp, and bleed. I would gag from the sight and smell of my blood eventually, crying at the sight of it, sick of the sight of it. I couldn’t even take warm showers, as any heat was enough to make me faint. I spent those weeks cold. I also spent those weeks very lonely. We could only alot enough time for me to take off work and even then I was going in and doing as much as I could do, but not my husband, and as I took more time for my body to heal. My husband had to focus on his second job.

On the nights I didn’t have the dreams of being in my void, I wouldn’t dream at all. And soon over the time of me bleeding, I wouldn’t dream at all.

I ended up having to go see a OBGYN. I was filling heavy pads every two hours for nearly a month. The color in my body was gone, I was faint and couldn’t keep heavy foods down. My extremities started cramping and I couldn’t get warm or stay warm. I had visited the ER multiple times, but they always sent me home telling me I was OK, but I didn’t feel OK. I had been doing everything known under the sun to help with this...

No amount of this was OK. I felt out of control. Something. Was. Wrong. With. My. Body.

My OBGYN decided to take some hormone tests, and as one would have it, My progesterone was still very high.

I might have still had tissue inside of me, the implication of what we would have to do, what I would have to do if that was the case weighed very heavily on my shoulders. We took blood every week. And slowly but surely, it went down, the blood slowed, and they were able to take more clear internal ultrasounds to look at the inside of my body to make sure there wasn’t leftover tissue. There wasn’t.

My body was just slowly releasing.

I bled from November 2020 to February 2021.

I never wanted to feel that way about my body again.. But alas; a wave of depression set in soon after, that I can only describe as the most transcendent period of my spiritual life.

I spent the majority of my time at home by myself while I was healing, as I mentioned. But I spent this time reading. I needed something. I yearned for hope. I craved that warmth and comfort that I had felt more than anything, and that must have been my saving grace.

I digested everything in writing about the LHP that I could, there was a lot of well written books and essays I enjoyed by Asenath Mason, E.A. Koetting, etc. I found the *BALC fourm through them and in turn had more resources such as the *LRS which I joined as well.

There was a special chapter “Adam” writes in The Left Hand Path: Philosophy & Praxis Volume II, A chapter called “Into the Shadow Embrace of the Eternal Sabbat.” That felt so especially real to me. So special it had to be fate to find it. It felt like a sign I was on the right path.

In a short summary they go on the describe a meditation of sorts in hopes to establish contact with the Dark initiator, to guide you to the Infernal Sabbat.

While reading this short chapter my minds eye is brought back the that meadow of whispering wind tangling itself around me in the middle of a ticket of trees, and the dusty dip where I found Baphomet the first time, unbothered and accepting of my presence. There is a crossroads described in the book, along with a traveling up a mountain in the moonlight to join the Sabbat.

Reading it for the first time gave me goosebumps. With the same knowing in my dreams before, I knew I must have been in the same forest, just in different parts of its lush vegetation. My soul lost and wandering somewhere it had wanted to take me, somewhere it knew I already belonged.

I tried so very hard to meditate and bring myself there again. To meet Baphomet again.

I tried to astral travel to bring myself there, I wanted to be there so badly and find them. Find others like me. Invest in my wild form, Feel freedom and lose myself in carnal desire and acceptance of who I really am. I wanted to feel the joy of my darkness and celebrate giving my soul to the path I knew I was meant for.

And yet, no matter how hard I tried, I could not reach it.

I soon realized, maybe it wasn’t for me right now. Maybe, That was a place I had always been and always belonged. Maybe I had needed to feel and heal myself before visiting again.

So I continued on with where my journey was leading me. Not worrying much about where I wanted to go, just where I was being led. I spent almost a year in this depression, reading most all of what I could get my hands on, and experiencing peace in the hours of my solitude at night.

I felt near to Lillith, AZ, and Naamah in my darkest hours, my feminine spirit scared and weak, craving to be lively and wild again resenting the weak creature I let myself become. Only having strength to nurture myself in my darkest moments. Fill my heart with desire to care for my body and my mind. They gave me reason to accept graciousness and genorosity without question. They inspired my magical name, given to me with such love and generosity. The meaning of the name meaning the “Bestower of Thunder”. Influenced by my stormy nature. They inspired a refocus on my sexual health, focusing on healing my uterus and listening to the body I own. They refocused my creative skills, I had spent hours painting and creating, listening to music and even doing short dances in the mirror while listening to music in the morning.

I was called to the depths where Leviathan resides, within myself and the physical world. Felt them as I stood in the ocean during Yule. The waxing moon lighting the sky only barely as I peer past the horizon, where the ocean disappears hand in hand with the sky. Where it’s pitch black forever and then some. For a what felt like hours, sitting on that beach I stared into that darkness, pondering on what I had learned about Leviathan, loving them wholeheartedly for their majesty. The depth of them didn’t scare me. They awed me. The primordial power and Neutral chaos they represent.

I took hope from them. Permission to question what I thought Mercy meant. To embrace the wild pride and ruthless nature in myself. I hoped one day I can own that when I have reached that time and space for myself. How I wished to own the “It’s not my fault you were in my way, you could see me coming from miles away.” how I wished to have that power and pride.

Lucifer became what felt like a father figure to me. I have felt him take my shoulder, put a guiding hand on the back of my neck. Felt him soothe my consciousness and put me to sleep when I was restless, I could hear him in my mind sometimes. One time while talking with him he replied Scoffing, “You know yourself better. Be patient, Breaking free from a prison can take time. Don’t lose patience for yourself you are healing. You have a lifetime to heal.”

Lucifer inspired me to seek a specific type of therapy, inspired me to stop drinking, inspired me to fight against all the distractions holding myself back from my potential, and believing in my potential wholeheartedly enough to even try. For the first time in a long time I have believed in myself.

I am no doubt a different person than I was two years ago. I’m different from the person I was five years ago. And ten years ago. That is the beautiful thing about growth.

It took me a long time to readjust my body. I still feel like I’m growing into my limbs sometimes.

But I feel more centered than I ever have been.

As badly as I had wanted to go to the Sabbat and see Baphomet again. I think I was given exactly what I needed, which has been the entire theme of working with the higher Demonic Gods for myself. I am never given more than I can chew, I am never given less than I deserve. I have always been a solitary practitioner, and maybe I didn’t need to join any Sabbat. Maybe the instant surrender I had for Baphomet was enough. I surrendered to the journey. I was given the space, and I found the tools I needed to start.

If I’m going to be honest, I was living so fast at that time, and everything that has happened since that catalyst of a dream has slowed me down. I have been practicing patience, and self love.

I am OK with being alone. I am OK with treating myself like the God I am.

I am very aware my experience may not go conjointly with a lot of what some LHP books may tell you to do or what it feels like for oneself to be a LHP practitioner.

But I think that’s what separates us from the Christ worshipers. We are given the journey we are deserving of. There are no wrong answers, and Lucifer is not a jealous and nitpicking God. He celebrates the creativity and individuality of each human for he gave us our free will. He always blesses the Luciferian witches spiritual journey with results. Even exchange will always exist under his wing.

I have not known love like I have known while researching and experiencing the LHP as a whole.

I would like to wrap up this recounting with a thank you, for reading this far for joining me on this recounting of how I started in on the miraculous journey of the LHP.

I thought it would be a great way to start my series of essays, explaining how important my rawness was to my process as well.

(I would like to add on a very special note: I do get to visit the Glade of Moonlit Whispers, as I’ve lovingly named it, from time to time. I enjoy the moments I get to be fully connected to my wild soul.

Feeling it’s fullness. Maybe in this wide expanse of forest there are other witches like me, existing in their glades, trees, caves, and streams. It was a place meant for us.)

I belong here, and if you ever doubt it. You belong here. You deserve this, you deserve the love and light of Lucifer if that is what your heart desires. No matter what journey you take to get there, or what event leads you there. None of that matters.

That goes to say, there is a great quote from The Bible of the Divine Black Flame That resonated with me greatly on the beginning of my journey.

“Chapter VIII: The Luciferian Gene…

...There is no such thing as "conversion" to this. If you are reading these words and understand, you can probably remember a time in your life when you were perhaps even a small child, when you felt drawn to the Darkness, yet had no rational or logical explanation. You didn't quite understand it yet – but that does not dismiss what is...

...These qualities are in-born and either you "get it" or you don't. That is why I say there is no such thing as "conversion" - but Initiation comes when one already aligned with the proper mentality decides to make a dedication to this Path...

...take an honest look inside yourself and discover if this is really you. If that Dark Essence and Black Flame is ever-present, move forward! If it is not, then turn around, because you are most likely not one of us, nor ever will be...”

Of Course the context in which they are speaking is in line with Satanism, But the ‘matter of factness’ they are conveying on the subject is, if you found yourself here, it is by no mistake. I am here to say trust yourself and trust your journey.

Thank you very much again for taking the time to read.

I would like to credit the two books I mentioned in depth in this writing.

The Left Hand Path: Philosophy & Praxis. Vol II Asenath Mason

The Bible of the Divine Black Flame; Magus Vrykolakas Oriax, Magister Xylotrepth, Magister Setanito

Sigil of Lucifer dividers by : @peculiar-666

*LHP- Left Hand Path, i.e. The path of Cain

*Dreamself- The being you are in dreams that are not Lucid.

*Dreamplace- Places you exist in while your dreams are not Lucid.

*W.I.L.D- Wake Initiated Lucid Dreaming, i.e. allowing yourself to remain concious while falling into your unconcious self. Or- Astral Projection.

*BALC- A fourm website, Become a Living God.

*LRS- Luciferian Research Society

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