The Avant-Garde

DIRECT EXPERIENCE with an astral deity provides the highest, most authoritative, most inalienable form of consent that a human magickian or witch can receive. To use a modern legal similitude, the Supreme Court has heard the oral argument and approved the motion, regardless of public opinion or special interest. When a god, demon, angel, spirit, elemental, or ghost from any time period, species, and regional origin elects to appear in beholdable form to a black witch, that spirit has thereby overruled any contemporary social prejudice and nominal taboo of cultural appropriation that may have arisen in the mainstream from historical incidents of aggression between belligerent tribes.

Spirit Sovereignty & Direct Magick

Ahriman’s mandate: become a law unto yourself!
—E.A. Koetting, “Ahriman’s Mandate,” YouTube

In other words, the sovereign astral deity themself mandates who can and cannot perform their magick; they regulate their own magick, and do not need a third party priest or priestess on Facebook to white knight them. In fact, the very term “priest” remains antithetical to the core philosophy innate to black magick. Black magickians perform direct magick with spirits, a.k.a. direct action. They do not respect hierarchy; they do not lick boots, to use an anarchist idiom. Thus, like their allied spirit, the black witch does not need a priest to represent and intermediate on their behalf. To summarize, neither the spirit nor the sorcerer needs a priest to intercede—no third wheel.

Sovereign means “self-rule,” i.e., a law unto themself, a.k.a. autonomian, a derivative of autonomy and cognate of antinomian.

Priesthood denotes a hierarchy of authoritarian privileges that empower a class of humans to act as an intermediary between the gods and the people, and thereby rule those people.

Hierarchy means “rule by priesthood,” hieros means “sacred,” and arkhein means “to rule.”

Anarchy means “no hierarchy” and implies socio-political equality through abolition of privileged ruling classes; antiarchy means “against hierarchy” and thus extends the principle of anarchy further into acts of rebellion, a.k.a. direct action.

For example, the true sorcerer, E.A. Koetting, filmed his live performance of a torch-lit, nighttime, ritual evocation of the Persian dragon-king, Azi Dahaka, alone out in the red rocks of the Utah desert. I personally released this video on YouTube on February 5, 2014, and as always, it immediately polarized the milieu, causing a wide range of feelings from exhilaration to rage.

As anticipated, it angered the fragile egos of reactionary hierarchs from Azi Dahaka temples, because—paraphrasing—E.A. never submitted to their “initiation” to receive their “sanction” to evoke “their” spirit, and therefore, they logged into their Facebook accounts to slander E.A., deeming him “unlawful” and his ritual a “fraud” by their artificial rules. Of course, a carpet bomb of enlightened magicians ratioed these priests to oblivion in their comments section. As normal, E.A. neither commented on, nor even saw this corny drama left behind in his wake, instead he faithfully carried on with his draconic pathworking.

Note: an adversarialist interprets low insults as high compliments. Calling a black magickian antinomian slanders like “unlawful,” “illegal,” “taboo,” “dangerous,” and such only validates their worldview, fueling their rise. This explains why eight long years of insults by occultists have only caused E.A. and allied sorcerers to become stronger and more faithful to their ascent than ever. When I released my book, The Devil, I posted my favorite portrait photograph of myself and asked over 100,000 followers to roast me as cruelly as possible, and whoever came closest to hurting my feelings would receive a free copy; I subjected myself to their fiercest psychic abuse as sport. Why? Because feelings, like muscle fiber, can grow back stronger when torn. Antagonism empowers the Devil.

Out of cosmic chaos, the black magickian and black witch rise to godhood. Only the infinite nothingness of the abyss can provide the freedom of space necessary to facilitate an emergence of this unlimited magnitude; only the constant volatility of antagonistic forces in perpetually countervailing cycles of change can provide the infinite amount of energy necessary to fuel ascent of this topless height. To summarize metaphysics of the Left Hand Path in a sentence: constant change through cycling opposites, e.g., birth and death, provides unlimited metaphysical space and energy, i.e., chaos, to empower black magickians to ascend to godhood.
—Timothy, Abaddon: Angel of the Abyss, Compendium 4, p.17

Direct Magick As a Human Right

Satanists raze temples, not raise them.
—Timothy, Black Magick: The Left Hand Path, p.320

In principle, a black magickian performs direct magick to receive direct gnosis. Black witches enter alliances with the gods and goddesses personally, thereby superseding the religio-political tradition of hierarchical initiations and sanctioned privileges—a fancy manner of saying that a black witch befriends the spirits by his or herself without a third wheel. To use love and dating as an analogy, two human adults do not need permission from an authority to consent to a romantic relationship in private.

A number of self-evident reasons justify this obvious but irreverent stance.

• Epistemology: A magician who performs evocation or possession with a spirit will enter high gnosis through direct experience, thus accessing revelation that their astral and physical cognition perceives and interprets uniquely according to their implicit, biological biases—as one example of this, a white man in Iceland may see the Nine Demonic Gatekeepers as resembling white men, whereas a woman of color in South Africa may see them as resembling black women. A critical part of ascent involves deindoctrinating impulsive biases to allow a more authentic, less artificial image of a spirit to reveal itself. It logically follows that a medium adds a second layer of biases to the entire perception and interpretation of an indirect experience with a spirit. While mediumship can provide priceless help to a mundane human who does not perform magick, it comes at a cost.
• Simplicity: The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
• Privacy: Magick rituals often involve nudity, sexuality, erotic fantasy, and bodily fluid, therefore, a witch may prefer that their relationship with the spirits remain strictly private.
• Freedom: A priest who mandates that only they possess authority to enter gnosis with a spirit, and that other magicians must submit to their rule in order to receive permission to perform magick too, has installed a political hierarchy—a rule by priesthood—and placed an artificial social barrier between spirits and humans, thereby depriving those magicians of an inalienable natural right. Alas, beware priests who subjugate magicians by politicizing magick in a manner that transgresses their freedom.

This last point, freedom, dovetails a larger, underlying premise: that magick and ancient deities are not private property. No human can monopolize the astral forces of magick exclusively. No one can dictate who shall and shall not access the infinite abundance of the astral plane, nor can anyone obstruct access to spirits in general. The spirits are sovereign (self-ruling), polyamorous (multi-relational), trans-species and transgender (shapeshifting) entities—not monogamous chattel slaves with a rigid identity. At most, a sorcerer can undergo possession with a demon and bind their essence to a physical talisman, but that does not preclude that demon from consenting to similar intimate relationships with other sorcerers.

Modern temples need to evolve to fit the needs and norms of modern magicians. As an exemplar of present-day occultism, Asenath Mason and Bill Duvendack have founded a temple that coauthors group grimoires through group ritual. They do not obsess over the petty technicalities of political titles and authority, instead they have reformed the traditional concept of a temple into a healthy synergy that emphasizes ascent by direct experience.

To mandate this principle definitively and ink it on paper for eternity: Direct magick is an inalienable, natural, human right that shall not be infringed.

Pre-Summoning — Answering the Vocational Call of a Spirit

As antiquated and spirit-phobic as it sounds, a dying cross-section of occultists still condemn spirit summoning as forbidden, as if rude, as if a lowly human has interrupted a spirit from a millennia-long hibernation. These paranoid folks tend to come from older generations of white magical traditions, and would recoil in abject horror at demonic evocation, let alone summoning a demonic incubus or succubus for sex magick. In a blanket sense, they view evocation as disrespectful to the spirits, if not outright evil.

In truth, their prude paradigm stems from a faulty misconception: they assume magicians contact spirits first. However, it has become a consensus theory among the vanguard of black magickians—a theory that flips conventional wisdom upside down—that spirits pre-summon human magicians to them; thus, evocation more so entails a human sorcerer hearing the astral calling of a spirit and calling them back. By this new logic, it then would seem rude to not summon a spirit back, because that would mean the sorcerer has neglected their vocational call. Black witches intuitively feel undeniable predilections and inclinations toward particular deities. Ergo, consider that these spirits contact humans first and not the other way around.

If the Nine Demonic Gatekeepers truly usher in a new evolutionary stage from Homo sapiens to Homo deus vis-à-vis the Infernal Empire—and if they possess true astral power, would they not psychically scan every single human baby at birth to identify and nurture meritorious children into demonic allies as adults?

Reflect on these existential concerns below:

• Hearing the Call: When exactly did you first become obsessed with magick? In your head, travel back in time to your earliest discovery of magick and your lightning bolt moment, when it first dawned on you that you found your true vocation in life.
• Symbiosis: Have any particular demons, deities, and spirits become your top favorites? Their names jump off the page at you when perusing a grimoire, you feel excited and protective of them when seeing their sigils, you dream of them while sleeping, and talk to them in privacy. As weird as it sounds, you have fallen in love with an interdimensional being in a trans-physical relationship. If a demon can perform amorous magick that causes humans to fall in love with each other, can they not perform that same magick to cause a human to love a demon?
• The Invisible Hand: Consider as a possibility that these precious spirits have acted as an invisible hand in your life, shaping your private circumstances, laying breadcrumbs in front of you, allowing your ascent through a miserable maze of deceptive propaganda in modern life on earth.

In light of these preconditions, a sorcerer sees magick as their lifelong vocation, their favorite spirits as their dearest allies, and summoning demons as a polite reply to their pre-summoning.

The Initiatrix Dominatrix

Amidst his Pathworking of Abaddon, E.A. performed a high-gnosis evocation in his ritual space at his house. Shakti, the eponymous mother goddess of Shaktism, the tantric female principle of Hinduism at large, namely in her aspect Kali, manifested voluntarily to E.A. in a vivid, visceral, literally explosive experience. She abducted him in a forced astral projection, and left him bruised and passed out on the floor face down, where his ex-girlfriend discovered him grappling an invisible assailant. As always, his faithful video surveillance of his ritual space recorded this entire encounter, which he released with commentary on his YouTube blog:

While I was in my temple, meditating while chanting “Ram Ham Satolas,” there was an explosion. I don’t remember the explosion, I can’t place what could have caused it, nor can I identify any burns or other evidence of an explosion, other than my temple being immaculate, and the next moment it was in shambles and I was lying on the floor with a headache and ringing ears.

From my perspective, I was sitting in front of my altar, and the next thing I knew I was in a cave, and inside that cave I was on the ground being held down by a gorgon, being held down by an old hag of some sort. She strangled me, and swiped at me, and I could feel her claws—not nails but claws—cutting into my skin, into my cheek, and I screamed, “Get off me!” and I physically tried to push this hag off me.

At that moment, my girlfriend rushed into the temple and found me on the floor wrestling with something that she couldn’t see. She came and shook me, and I came back to this world not even sure where I was. But the first question that I repeatedly asked her was, “Where are we? Where are we?” I was pulled into another world or dimension entirely. In other words, this spirit abducted me through a forced astral projection.

I’ve been sitting with the memory of this experience for the weekend trying to figure out what exactly happened, what it meant, and what I’m supposed to do about it.

The force of the explosion, that I obviously experienced but have no memory of, nearly knocked an entire altar area over; when my girlfriend brought me back to this dimension, the whole altar table was shoved at an angle into the wall, incense and candles had been blasted across the room, and specifically a heavy maple box holding the nine goat skulls associated with the Nine Demonic Kings of the Goetia, bound with chains and the power of Abaddon, had shifted as if it was the central focus of the blast.

I have to acknowledge that there’s a definite link between Abaddon and Kali, and between Kali and this old hag, between Kali and the gorgons.

To an ignorant bystander, this brutality may sound like a punishment, “You are not welcome, therefore I harm you.” However, to the contrary, this pain constitutes her signature highest initiation, “You are welcome, therefore I harm you,” i.e., a trial by fire. Kali is a legendarily unscrupulous destroyer of men, a wild woman who rampages violently and sexually, whereby her survivors become enlightened—a microcosmic similitude of emancipation or moksha.

This episode provides a clear example of an astral goddess pre-summoning a magician; the spirit has manifested by their free will when she deemed it necessary, thereby granting the highest form of consent to a further relationship, whereby the magician can summon the goddess back, as part of fulfilling her vocational call.

Shakti means “power” and “energy” in Sanskrit.

Kali means “time” in Sanskrit.

Note: Time and death contain symbiotic meanings in Shaktism, i.e., all is created and destroyed in accord with the ever-turning wheel of time, hence Kali, the goddess of time, power, sex, destruction, and the abyss.

Kali embodies magick power (her four or ten arms), clairvoyant enlightenment (clear-sighted with her third eye), and the recurring, sexual, life cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (Saṃsāra) of not only humans but the cosmos itself in stages, called yugas. By the by, Hindus measure present time as ascending Kali Yuga, although despite a common misconception, the name of this yuga refers to a demon named Kali too, whose name means chaos or discord, not the mother goddess. A wave of feminist bloggers jumped the gun, mistakenly declaring this era “Age of the Goddess,” when in truth it means “Age of Chaos” or “Age of the Demon” in a more general sense.

The goddess Kali appears naked and dripping blood, wearing a garland of skulls, while raising a decapitated male head with her hand. Her skin looks as black as the midnight sky, because she embodies the abyss, the womb, the cosmic hospital wherein a revolving door of birth and death occur simultaneously. Her eyes look bloodshot as she “sees red” with rage. Her nude breasts denote sexual freedom, and her long, wild, knotty hair disregards beauty standards. As the mother goddess, she birthed the human race, the Family of Kali, or Children of Kali, called the Kalikula in Sanskrit, with every human soul existing as a strand of hair on her head.

In my 9,000-word foreword, “The Antichrist Manifesto,” featured in Abaddon: Angel of the Abyss, Compendium 4, I dissertated:

Out of cosmic chaos, the black magickian and black witch rise to godhood. Only the infinite nothingness of the abyss can provide the freedom of space necessary to facilitate an emergence of this unlimited magnitude; only the constant volatility of antagonistic forces in perpetually countervailing cycles of change can provide the infinite amount of energy necessary to fuel ascent of this topless height. To summarize metaphysics of the Left Hand Path in a sentence: constant change through cycling opposites, e.g., birth and death, provides unlimited metaphysical space and energy, i.e., chaos, to empower black magickians to ascend to godhood.

Of utmost critical concern, her extremely irreverent aesthetic as blue-skinned, ten-armed Mahakali (Kali’s highest self, meaning “Great Kali” and “Great Time”) does not feature a single jewel, nor icon in honor of Shiva, the supreme male deity of right-hand Shaivism, because left-hand Shaktism venerates the female principle as most supreme and ranks her above the male. This commonly overlooked facet of her appearance signifies the exact point where not only Hinduism, but world theology as a whole, splits into adverse doctrines. Of course, Hinduism contains four main sects and many sub-sects—not limited to this Shakti-Shiva dichotomy—and to this point, the largest denomination, Vaishnavism, reveres a whole other deity, Vishnu, as their lord. In other words, Hinduism features a highly diverse pantheon of regional deities, each with robust mystico-magical mythologies that overlap. To remain sane as a logical person while studying perhaps the most complex religion in history, it helps to view the faith as a loose-knit, decentralized meta-religion with parallel autonomous sub-doctrines that arrive at distinct conclusions according to their unique internal logic. For example, how can one group view the ultimate reality as female, and another view it as male? On the surface, this seems like an irreconcilable contradiction, but each of their internal logic justifies itself.

In Sanskrit, uppercase Devi means “Mother Goddess” in a superlative sense, lowercase devi means “goddess” and deva means “god” in a common sense, and literally translates to “shining one.” Latin deus meaning “god,” Greek dios meaning “god” and Zeus meaning “Father God,” and divinity meaning “god” altogether derive from Sanskrit root deva. A clear line of etymology exists from Sanskrit through Greek and Latin to Romance languages and English.

Note: Despite looking identical, the word devil does not derive from devi, a common misconception in the occult. Devil derives from diabolos in Greek from earlier Ancient Greek diabellein meaning “to throw across.” This concept of crossing or switching allegiances underlies the Christian devil mythos.

At first blush, the elaborate, colorful Hindu mythology may seem convoluted, but a true admirer of the Western philosophical tradition, i.e., from Heraclitus through Friedrich Nietzsche and beyond, will discover that ancient Hindu theologians had formulated remarkably precise, coherent theories of ontology, epistemology, and cosmology that European intellectuals only finally reached millennia in the future. The dramatic myths, ornately bejeweled avatars, and their interrelationships place a handsome recognizable face on these abstract ideas to humanize them, and render them relatable and accessible to poor, illiterate masses of ancient people. The Devi, or divine female principle, as Shakti in her many alter egos is not merely a mother earth goddess in a quaint saga, she personifies a nearly perfect philosophy. As the countervailing goddess of the oldest known religion, she is the skin on the bones of the left hand.

As a Western white man indoctrinated into a global empire born out of an earlier global empire that culturally honors fellow Western white men as the epitome of human genius, it took almost two decades of honest reflection to fully come to terms with a radically adverse worldview that advocates a cosmic matriarchy ruled by a sexually liberated woman of color as the ultimate reality—obviously antinomian to my childhood religion, which depicted both god and his son as Caucasian men and only permitted celibate male priests, i.e., a Christian patriarchy. This devilry of flipping allegiances entails far more than a mere inversion of superficial demographics to score social justice points, it brings the macrocosm and microcosm into harmony through a synergy of cycling opposites—a white man advocating a woman of color. Above all though, the underlying left-hand philosophy of the ancient tantric Devi merits support by its magick virtue, regardless of politically correct demography.

Matriarchy deserves a moment of clarification: at times, a black magickian uses terms that sound anathema to their own principles, for example, Infernal Empire. Why would an antiarchical sorcerer champion concepts like an empire or matriarchy if they believe in autonomianism, i.e., self-rule? First, a black witch does not literally worship Kali, Lilith, or any left-hand goddess; instead, they become magickal allies in a vocational sense, and reclaim and revive the power of their exquisite traditions from any dominant, elite class who have demonized them and suppressed humanity. Thus, while I emphatically do not wish to live under an actual matriarchy, I harness the adversarial concept of it to invert the neoliberal social dogma; let it explode like an egregoric bombshell against the privileged elite who rule a dystopian plutocracy through the decaying carcass of an Abrahamic dinosaur.

The Mother Goddess — The Measure of Human Freedom & Prelude to Genocide

The focus of the Kali lineage is upon the goddess as the source of wisdom and liberation, and it stands in opposition to the Brahmanic tradition, which it views as overly conservative and denying the experiential part of religion.
—June McDaniel, Bengali Shakta

Indian historian Narendra Battacharyya furnishes a highly enlightening summary of the social factors that caused the religious devolution from magical goddess cults to a monolithic patriarchy in his History of the Shakta Religion—a schism that gave rise to two antagonistic super-traditions: Veda and Tantra.

The male partner was introduced at first as her insignificant lover, but at length he became the co-equal and eventually the predominant partner…

Where the transition from hunting and food-gathering to higher forms of production was marked by an extensive development of primitive agriculture, the influence of the life-producing mother as the central figure of religion was extended to the vegetable kingdom. Mother Earth thus became the womb in which crops were sown. She continued her glorious career among the agricultural peoples till the rise of the essentially male-oriented religions. Later on, however, her position declined, due to the changes in the mode of production and the growth of patriarchal societies, but her cult could not be eradicated completely from the lives of the masses.

But in the religious history of India, Mother Goddess never ceased to be an important cult of the peoples. It was so deep-rooted in Indian mind that even in the sectarian religions like Vaisnavism, Saivism, etc. the Female Principle had to be given a very prominent position. Even the basically atheistic religions like Buddhism and Jainism could not avoid this popular influence. Later Buddhism is, in fact, nothing but a disguised Tantric cult of the Female Principle.

In spite of the ruthless efforts to establish male superiority through hypergamy, child-marriage, and sati (burning of widows), maternal elements could not be stamped out from the lives of the masses. Such extravagant means of breaking the resistance of maternity is scarcely to be found anywhere else in human history.

Thus [the mother goddess] in India was historically connected with the early agricultural economy that was violently suppressed in subsequent days.

A compass to aid your navigation: wherever one finds suppression of the goddess in a civilization, they will find oppression of the people there too. Like a canary in the coal mine, it warns of impending democide. Evidence of this exists in a number of humanity’s most revered ancient civilizations, India, Egypt, Ireland, Rome, and everywhere else gender equality in the pantheon and rulership had corroded into a genocidal patriarchal empire over centuries, whether due to outside invasion, internal corruption, or both simultaneously.

In ancient Ireland, evil Christian missionaries encroached on the island, infiltrated the ruling class by bribing tribal kings, and gradually outlawed the female-positive Druid priesthood and goddess-worship entirely, demonizing it as “paganism” and “witchcraft.” Still today, Christians fear-monger wild, baseless rumors that Druids performed rites of human sacrifice—a common slander used to demonize enemies back then. Regrettably, actual rituology of ancient Ireland has been largely lost due to censorship, as the new patriarchs burned their pagan religious books and rewrote their deities, holidays, and myths into fabricated Christian versions. The legend of Saint Patrick, the “Apostle of Ireland,” driving the snakes out of Ireland is a metaphor for the abolition of paganism. In this context, his snakes refer to Druids; he overthrew the poet-priest class, divided the free people, and thus conquered the island, opening the door to genocide and slavery by the future British empire—a textbook example of divide and conquer. Every year on March 17th, a feast day called St. Patrick’s Day, stupid people around the world binge drink the Christian ritual libation of alcohol to immortalize a true villain who ruined a sovereign civilization that had fostered an idyllic polytheistic way of life.

All in all, Christian colonizers recycled this exact imperial formula of bribery, infiltration, and abolition to conquer aboriginal lands on major inhabited continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Needless to say, when these missionaries landed in British-ruled Colonial India, they crudely demonized Kali too, further suppressing the female principle by the Brahmanical patriarchy. However, despite three-pronged demonization by the British, Christians, and Brahmans, respect for the Devi among Hindus remained strong, and even those sects who marginalized her worshipers still revered her as the consort of Shiva and prominent mother goddess, albeit not the ultimate.

Hardcore Left-Hand Tantra — The Forbidden Yoga of Self-Deification

A romantic mystique has arisen around tantra in the West among everyone from diehard black magickians to confidential sex workers portraying their erotic services as sacred initiations. To clarify any misconceptions, first and foremost, uppercase Tantra comprises a younger, heterodox tradition of religious texts called Agamas, in contrast to the older, orthodox literary tradition of the Vedas. And more precisely, Tantra may also refer to specific Agama texts that advocate Shaktism in particular. The definition of the common term, tantra, varies by use—it can mean the lineage of books, a specific book, the current of doctrines found therein, and the counter-cultural social movement behind it altogether.

Indologists and Tibetan historians have tried to distill a single ubiquitous feature across tantra that would support a common definition of the current as a whole.

…the distinctly tantric practice of visualizing oneself as a deity … ritual identification with the deity, via both inner visualization and outer ritual actions.
—Vrajavallabha Dviveda, Ritual & Speculation in Early Tantrism

…deity yoga, the visualization of oneself as a deity.
—Tsongkhapa, founder of Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, 1500

The systematic quest for salvation or for spiritual excellence by realizing and fostering the bipolar, bisexual divinity within one’s own body.
—Teun Goudriaan, Hindu Tantric Literature in Sanskrit

Note: bisexual in this quotation denotes gender unity between male and female, illustrated by sexual union between Shiva and Shakti.

…the evolution was more or less marked by a rejection of orthodox Vedic rules and notions; it included more or less local autochthonous cults and beliefs, local religious behaviors, and magical and/or other practices.
—André Padoux, “What Do We Mean by Tantrism?”

These quotations reveal a clear underlying premise to tantra: self-deification. This avant-garde current of becoming an immanent deity through direct experience in the here and now, instead of devotion to a transcendent deity located elsewhere, fundamentally undermines the old, conservative Vedic norms. It will come as no surprise that Brahmins demonized this young, next-generation current of Hinduism as “black magick.”

The Most Hardcore Goddess Tradition — The Final Path: Vidyāpīṭha Tantra, Kulamārga & the Kaula

Tantra means “that which spreads knowledge,” the root tan meaning “to spread” and tra denoting “knowledge.”

In ancient agricultural India, tribal cults worshiped a primitive mother earth goddess as the provider of abundance, childbirth, and the needs of survival. They performed harvest and fertility rites to receive her blessings, and thus early humans married the acts of magic and sex to the divine female principle, honoring tribal goddesses as the matrons of magic and sex, of course. Accordingly, as the tantric current emerged in the 5th century CE, the magical goddess underwent a revival in the form of Shakti, the supreme deity, and an ancillary class of female deities called Dakinis. To honor the divine female, a range of erotic, violent, and sanguinary rites became a part of their doctrine, from orgy and solo masturbation to bloodletting, urine drinking, and more—often performing on charnel grounds, i.e., fields of decomposing bodies. Tantrikas treated genitals as living talismans, cupping and consecrating their sexual and menstrual fluids, then consuming and anointing themselves in them, all while colorfully visualizing sexual intercourse with Dakinis, or shapeshifting their energy body into the goddess, or implanting her iconography into their chakras. Shakti means “energy” in Sanskrit, thus she is goddess of the energy body, with the Kundalini being the force of the female principle itself.

In stark contrast, the patriarchy of Vedic Brahmanism, called Brahmins, enforced strict celibacy on their ascetic priests, not unlike celibacy among Abrahamic priests. Alas, they demonized these sex goddess rites as taboo, wherefore the term vāmācāra, or “left-handed” and “hardcore” first entered Hinduism to delineate transgressive rituals, i.e., left versus right, and hardcore versus softcore, in their words. In his discourse, “Tantra and the Tantric Traditions of Hinduism & Buddhism,” historian David Gray theorizes that Hindu guru, Abhinavagupta, coined this neologism circa 1000 CE in a commentary on the Kaula, the most left-hand, hardcore Tantric tradition of that time—the Kaula tradition ultimately becoming the modern Kalikula sect of Hinduism. Like occult witchcraft in medieval Europe, early Tantra remained an esoteric tradition too insofar as tantrikas hid their knowledge and performed ritual privately to escape persecution by dominant religious forces.

In Tantra and the Tantric Traditions of Hinduism & Buddhism, David Gray explains with precision:

The Vidyāpīṭha tantras are notable for their antinomian nature. They borrow from the older Kāpālika tradition with focus on the charnel ground as the ideal site of practice and are characterized by practices connected with female divinities known as Yoginīs or Ḍākinīs. Both violent and sexual practices are common in these works.

The erotic and transgressive practices and focus on female deities that characterized the Vidyāpīṭha tantras were further developed in a “final path” of Śaiva tantric practice, the Kulamārga or “Path of the Clans,” the clans here referring to the clans of yoginīs into which the initiated male adept or “hero” (vīra) sought entry. This tradition of practice was widely known as the Kaula tradition. According to Alexis Sanderson this tradition shared five features with the earlier Kāpālika and Vidyāpīṭha traditions that set them apart from other Śaiva traditions:

1. Erotic ritual with a female companion
2. Sanguinary practices for the propitiation of the fierce gods Mahābhairava or Bhairava and Cāmuṇḍā
3. The notion that supernatural powers may be attained through the extraction by yogic means of the vital essences of living beings
4. Initiation through the consumption of consecrated liquor
5. The centrality of states of possession

The Basic Precepts Compared

Maya means “illusion” and “magic” in Sanskrit.

Maya is that which exists, but is constantly changing and thus is spiritually unreal.
—M. Hiriyanna, The Essentials of Indian Philosophy

In the later Sakta theology, we find that the male principle … is described as the connotative of static [fixed] existence and, dissociated with Sakti or female principle, he is no better than a corpse.
—Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, History of the Sakta Religion

In conclusion, Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, along with other civilizations that codified a similar left versus right taxonomy, helped to lay an ideological foundation that allowed the rise of the worldwide, post-religious, black magick philosophy known as the Left Hand Path still today. Despite these terms coming into use to denigrate their adherents, black magickians have reclaimed their power, and upcycled them into honorifics instead of insults, transforming the religious-specific premises into a collective, inclusive meta-philosophy that spans world history.

This tablet synthesizes and summarizes the various foundational precepts that, in retrospect, have always underpinned the evolution of these disparate doctrines from magical goddess cults in 2000 BCE to Beelzebub: Lord of the Flies, Compendium 6 in 2020 CE.

The Highest Spirit Consent — Immunity from the Modern Crime of Cultural Appropriation

Over the years, clergy from every mainstream religion have tried to curse E.A. and myself to an underworld by power of their chief deity—Christian priests, Islamic imam, Vodou houngans, Wiccan priestesses, Satanic priests, and more. In truth, the most hysterically toxic comments have come from traditional occultists who view E.A. and me as warlocks, a medieval term meaning “oath-breaker,” that is, he and I allegedly broke antiquated occult oaths of silence and secrecy that we never agreed to in the first place. I have never shared this out loud, but a number of people have sent me insane messages accusing me of “ruining” E.A., when to the contrary, I saved him from a crazy-early retirement as an author.

Poe’s Law refers to when a person’s extremist position is so absurd that it becomes indistinguishable from parody.

When E.A. courageously confessed his unexpected, life-changing, initiatory encounter with Kali on his YouTube blog, he received a message from an apparently Vedic, Brahmanic Hindu named Sanjay, who chided him for “demonizing” his goddess and religion, to paraphrase. Quite frankly, this extremely ironic accusation fulfills Poe’s Law, because it sounds like a parody of an angry patriarch projecting his guilt onto another person.

Menstruation derives from mensis and means “month” in Latin, which derives from mene and means “moon” in Greek.

Note: Both a menstrual and lunar cycle last 29 days on average; due to this, female sexuality and the moon have shared symbiotic meaning, inasmuch as ancient religions genderized the moon as female, hence the lunar goddess.

As elucidated across this lengthy foreword, as a matter of fact, the Brahmin class has demonized the magical mother goddess and subjected women to a codified, misogynistic caste system for millennia—not misogyny in the shallow sense of micro-aggressions by internet trolls, but macro-aggressive sexism by legal institutions. For example, a female Hindu could not become clergy until the 20th century; and certain temples outright prohibited adult, menstrual-age women (10 to 55 years old) from entering because priests deemed their reproductive system as “dirty” and “impure.” Finally, in 2018, the Supreme Court of India ruled in a high profile case:

We have no hesitation in saying that such an exclusionary practice violates the right of women to visit and enter a temple to freely practice Hindu religion … The denial of this right to women significantly denudes them of their right to worship.

Bottom line, Kali appeared to E.A. and initiated him through her free will. By definition, she provided the highest consent, thus immunizing him from accusations of cultural appropriation by a third party human. To Sanjay and third wheels like him: you cannot contradict the will of a spirit to allegedly protect that spirit. Kali pre-summoned E.A. because he authentically fulfills and pioneers her Shakta Tantra tradition through his Nine Demonic Gatekeeper pathworking.

The Supreme Path of the Bodhisattva — Buddhahood: Evolution from Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus

In his 1935, classic, seven-book compendium on occult yoga, Tibetan Yogas & Secret Doctrines, W.Y. Evans-Wentz helped to introduce Tibetan Buddhism to the West. At the conclusion of the seventh book, “The Yoga of the Voidness,” he expounds timelessly:

This supreme doctrine of Emancipation may be summarized by saying that all things are eternally immersed in Nirvana, but that man, held in bondage by the hypnotic glamour of appearances, is wrapt in an unbroken Sleep of Ignorance, dreaming dreams which he thinks real. Not until man awakens from the illusion of self and the world can he realize that Nirvana is here and now and everywhere, inherent in all things—as Perfect Quiescence, the Qualityless, the Unborn, the Uncreated. In the ecstatic trance state of the highest samadhi the Great Yogin attains this Undifferentiated Knowledge, the Transcendent Wisdom.

Hinduism and Buddhism advocate liberation and salvation (moksha and nirvana) from belief in maya (illusion of reality) and slavery by samsara (cycles of rebirth). Mahayana Buddhism, in accord with its predecessor, Shakta Tantra, openly deifies the ultimate truth, freedom, and enlightenment as the divine female principle.

…the Mother of the Bodhisattvas, for it brings them to birth and suckles them to Buddhahood. So regarded, as a personification of the Perfected Wisdom of Yoga … the Divine Shakti.

Nonetheless, Mahayana Buddhism extends it a step further. When the Mother Goddess has bestowed her mercy and awakened an arhat (saint) from the “sleep of ignorance,” his or her highest vocation has only commenced, for they now ascend on the sublime path of the Bodhisattva. True Buddhahood calls on the journeyer to not only awaken themself, but to remain on earth as long as necessary to wake the sleeping, even if it would require additional reincarnations.

Emancipation is, however, to be attained only for the purpose of treading the Higher Path, the sublime path of the Bodhisattva. Of him who has conquered the Sleep of Ignorance, Asanga [a Mahayana Buddhist guru] speaks thus: “By a supreme mastery he hath conquered comprehension and hath brought under his sway again the world that was no longer in possession of itself. His only delight is to bring Emancipation to beings. He walketh among the Existences like a lion.”

Years ago, E.A. battled against regressive court charges for minor possession of entheogens, which he would occasionally ingest in magick ritual. He survived them, of course, but it had depressed his psychology, and at one point, he even mentioned that perhaps he should concentrate more on his woodcraft and less on magick; he had opened a small, part-time, woodcraft shop to preoccupy himself. Over a lengthy thread of emails, I emphatically clarified to him that he had reincarnated in this life to “resurrect the dead” as a Christian would say, or to “awaken the sleeping” as a Buddhist would say, or to “cause a revolution” as I personally would say.

I would include every author in Beelzebub: Lord of the Flies, Compendium 6 in this category, furthermore, I would include you as the reader in it too. Together as black magickians, we walk the Sublime Path of the Bodhisattva. The Left Hand Path urges a sorcerer or black witch to become a living god or goddess, but it does more than that: it urges these living gods to awaken the sleeping gods and stand united in a pantheon, a union of human gods. To become a living god is to open to a new, higher vocation.

Dear reader, I leave you with a quotation from my “The Antichrist Manifesto” from Abaddon: Angel of the Abyss, Compendium 4.

The Pantheon — A Union of Human Gods

To remain consistent in defense of freedom as a virtue, a black magickian by necessity extends this same freedom to everyone who aspires to become who they are. Gods recognize gods! This mutual respect lays a foundation of social equality and therefore social justice, uniting black magickians and witches in a circle of deification through this supreme ambition.

Lo, the blackest clouds yonder!

Hark, a flutter of wings, a thunderclap!

An unprecedented, but not unheralded, class of free humans are born: a union of gods, a human pantheon, a deific circle—mirroring the cosmic circle of eternal recurrence, reflecting the will to power in the macro and micro alike. This weird mutation of humankind on an evolutionary mission, Homo deus emerge from their apish predecessor like a kaleidoscope of butterflies from a cosmic cocoon. Every flap of their wings summoning hurricanes of change around the natural world, they descend further into the abyss than ever, thereby ascending on wings of a new hope.