Right Hand Path — The Religion of White Magic

22. Blind faith in divinity.

The Right Hand Path includes any orthodoxy of belief in divinity; the color white refers to the divine. For this reason, the author calls their tradition magic instead of magick. The particular term magic carries a precise etymology:

• Old Persian: magush
• Greek: magike
• Latin: magice
• French: magique
• English: magic

Magush denotes the hierarchical priest class in the Old Persian lexicon; those who orchestrate ceremonial worship of gods. Hence, magic has and will always mean religious worship of the divine. Now juxtapose this with atheistic black magick, which idolizes astral egregores of mythology. To demarcate this hard difference, black magick affixes the letter ‘k’ to its nomenclature. As an aside, not all authors fathom this logic, and may confusingly write black magic when they mean black magick.

Fact of the matter: white magic is a religion in every way. It has belief in divinity—faith; seeks communion with the divine through ceremony—gnosis; and socially organizes in churches and temples—hierarchy. It agitates white magicians to be recognized as a religion—but how are they not? They cannot answer the question, because they know in their heart of hearts they are! For the Right Hand Path to have any moral integrity at all, they need to own up to their religiosity.

The mystical gnosis—direct beholding of the divine reality […] prepared for by human acts of self-modification […] the event itself is one of divine activity […] being known by god and knowing him…
—Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion

Nobody in the history of humanity has ever proven that divinity exists, which makes gnosis impossible, like a lifelong fool’s errand! For a thousand years Christian theologians have tried to construe proofs for the existence of a deity, e.g., Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, Aurelius Augustinus—and philosophers have effortlessly refuted and demolished every single one. In fact, Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard outright declared that he could never prove the existence of a deity, and coined the famous phrase “leap of faith” to clarify his position. Ultimately, theologians have lost the intellectual war so badly, they have been reduced to plain child indoctrination as a last resort, because without early brainwashing, nobody would think to join a religion.

Do not confuse gnosis and possession. Possession denotes the praxis of black magick where an astral spirit unites with the human magician psychically and corporally; whereas gnosis refers to the praxis where a human unites with the divine or god. Only one of these two praxes can actually occur in reality, namely the former, because astral spirits do exist, while god does not. As another aside, again, authors often confuse these two terms accidentally.

23. White magic as evil fear-mongering.

White magicians may not commit violent acts of terrorism, but they do brainwash one another in echo chambers full of stupid falsehoods like the threefold rule, karma, divinity, and racism toward demons. Furthermore, they fear-monger their batshit propaganda about sorcery, even though it sounds asinine just on the surface. Demons will torture you for eternity! Karma will avenge you threefold! Black magicians want to skin cats and terrorize society! Satanists seek world domination!

As a rule of thumb: any time a foe hurls the word demon as a derogatory epithet, they have immediately exposed themselves as a shallow dunce—because it implies they gulped the Judeo-Christian kool-aid to the point of zombielike blackout drunkenness. Secondly, karma and the threefold rule do not exist; these are manmade superstitions; no secret cosmic slingshot avenges evildoers by a factor of three, nor will anyone reincarnate as a dog—and even if karma existed, why should the Left Hand Path be punished? It champions a rational and logical morality with its roots in the most ingenious philosophy known to man. If anything, karma would bestow the highest honor to black magicians for enduring the hostility and hatred of religious zealots for centuries. Thirdly, black magicians do not want to skin cats; this goofy accusation does not merit any sort of refutation. Lastly, satanists make up a peaceful group that just wants to be left alone! Satanists became satanists in the first place because they despise political and religious tyranny! The notion of a world satanic empire equates to the exact opposite of the adversarial ethic. Conspiracy theorists have smeared and slandered satanism for far too long. Any time these kooks cannot explain a political phenomenon, they just generically blame satanists for it. It has become overtly comical. It rain stormed yesterday and a tree fell over, damn satanists! The car broken down on the side of the road, damn satanists! The pet died, damn satanists! My soup went cold, damn satanists!

24. False dichotomy of selves.

Theologians of the Right Hand Path have manufactured a deplorable false dichotomy: the “higher” good divine half, and the “lower” bad animal half. Needless to say, in reality the animal half constitutes the whole self, because there is no such thing as a divine self. For millennia, self-hating religious humans have punished, shamed, and sought to escape their true animal nature through the invention of divine alter egos—call it soul, spirit, divine spark, whatever. In principle, what is so bad about being a homo sapien? Why should anyone flee themselves? Why not love the animal self and nurture it along to greatness, instead of neglecting it? The longer white magicians hide behind false selves, the longer it will take for their real self to become great.

25. Contradictory selflessness.

The moral tenet that white magicians chant the loudest: “All magic should be selfless!”

What a sickeningly stupid mantra. Not only does it contain a severe innate contradiction, but it demonstrates self-hatred again. White magicians generally adhere to a code of selflessness because they believe bad karma punishes selfishness. That specific ambition to avoid bad karma equates to a kind of self-preservation or selfishness in itself. Moreover, when did self-improvement become evil? It is perfectly moral to utilize magick to raise the quality of life for oneself, loved ones, friends, and society at large. The self-hatred and self-neglect that white magic inculcates needs to be eradicated once and for all.

26. Stereotypical white magician.

The stereotypical white magician was born and raised as a child in a traditional Judeo-Christian community, became disgusted by its outlandish fables and bigotry toward women and homosexuals, and discovered the New Age and Right Hand Path as a way to preserve their underlying belief in god, while also apostatizing their former faith. Essentially they substituted one paradigm of religion with another—the main difference being that white magic is less dogmatic and divisive; they love the sparkly pictures of half-naked witches sitting on toadstools in green meadows, the pretty honey-worded invocations to divinity, the call for everyone to be selfless and pacifist. All in all, they have protected their core childhood theism, but inverted its brutal militancy into flowery altruistic decadence.

Black magick invites the reader to come all the way to atheism full stop. Drop the childhood-indoctrinated belief in divinity, and just become an existentialist. Find beauty, morality, and truth in reality itself, without defecting to absurd ideals and fictions like god. In full honesty, many white magicians will not drop the god delusion, because they have confused theism with magick. They mistakenly believe that to perform magick they must also believe in divinity, which is a patent falsehood. The relationship between the astral and physical planes facilitates magick, and in no way requires theism.