the structure is really magnificent especially the paintings on the ceiling which are captivating. The two angels greeted me with a sweet smile and offered me some water, I smiled at them back and went on to explore. The air is fair and so does the relaxing aroma. at the far end I saw a cross with a man crucified on it. as I went near I saw two ladies praying at the crucified man, the other is crying desperately and the other is walking why kneeling from the door till she reaches the altar. I wondered and felt eerie at them and asked “does the Lord really want to see both of you like that”?… but no I didn’t dare ask. They’re begging desperately for something I don’t know. I took a deep breath and said “ur Lord is dead!” the two of them stopped and stared at me with surprise and anger. “look at yourselves! does your Lord want to see you suffer? does it draw happiness when you’re begging? if your Lord God is omniscient, why do you pray if He already knew what you want even if you don’t ask for it?” “ur praying to a statue who don’t even move but weeps with blood!” “ur like this statue who is unmovable, worst is this statue like you will bore the image of suffering because of your arrogance and shall weep with blood!”. As I expected, the two cursed me and shouted me as an evil doer. Am I? well then I am because of faith.

Being a practitioner syempre di maiiwasan na ma accuse ako as a Satanist which it only happened once sa group “Open debate in faith in religion” sa Friendster.As usual that accuser showed me verses regarding sa condemning occult practices but somehow I didn’t manage to show to that person that magic and religion are two different things.

Let us see…

Source: Theatre of magick

To be precise, I am referring to the Christian religion whereas most of us Filipinos are Roman Catholics. Although religion is a way to commune with God, it is also the same with magic however there are certain religions with no God like Confucianism and Buddhism, so does with magic like the Kaos Magicians who doesn’t believe in the existence of God.

Most of the believers fear the fiery lakes of hell and for sure believers are not only bothered by it but by other people’s thoughts about their identity which is the most dangerous.In our culture, our relationships with our family are strong kaya malakas din ang impluwensya sa atin ng ating mga kamag-anak lalo na pagdating sa paniniwala.

Witchcraft, sorcerers at mediums ang usually nakalagay sa verses as an occult practices which are abomination unto God but these terms are made after the modern definition which would everyone would understand likewise ginawa nilang brand ang salitang witchcraft, sorcery at mediums bilang isang palatandaan ng kademonyohan. Halimbawa sa Filipino jokes wherein other Filipinos would say: “ale pabili nga ng Colgate yung Close-up!” These terms called branding ay halimbawa ng isang dangerous fallacy, which means ‘a false idea’. The authors of the gospels kung saan nakasulat ang mga verses regarding occultism has actually no idea what magic really is. In those early days, no words such as witchcraft, sorcerers and mediums exist, kahit na divination, necromancy and the like. So ang nangyari to fit modern readers’ comprehension, the bible translators had used such terms. In early days magicians are regarded as ‘wise humans’ kung saan ang term na magician is derived from the term magus which means wise (no wonder). Noong unang panahon there were Christians who are engaged in the practice of magic. They even have a salvation system of magic and gospels regarding the illumination of the spirit which is somewhat different sa doctrine ng mga gospels ngayon however these Christians were branded as heresies dahil nga sa kakaiba nilang turo but somehow they manage to maintain their faith and these Christians were called Gnostics, examples are Hermeticsm and Neo-Platonism and before the canonical bible was established, may mga Gnostic gospels na mas nauna pang naisulat kesa sa mga gospels sa bible ngayon. The point is, to keep Gnostics Christians away, yung mga gospel na kung saan ipinagbabawal ang magic ay isinama sa canonical bible upang maging basehan na ang occultism ay makasalanan, examples are Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Acts, Revelation and so on.

It’s so funny na may naka debate ako in the same group wherein yung taong yun doesn’t consider Jesus’ miracles as a form magic. Whereas Jesus had walked in water, revived the dead, calmed the storm, turned water into wine, multiplied the fish and bread, healed the sick and exorcised. That person used the term ‘miracle’ for the fact that hindi nya nauunawaan kung paano at bakit nangyayari ang ganun. Other biblical characters had performed such feats also like Elijah who had lifted an ax with his mind, Daniel the dream interpreter and the one who had calmed the lions, and many others.

“Magic is a sacred science, it is, in the very true sense the sum of all knowledge because it teaches how to know and utilize the sovereign rules. There is no difference between magic and mystic or any other conception to the name. Where ever authentic initiation is at stake, one has to proceed on to the same basis, according to the same rules, irrespective of the name given by this or that creed. Considering the universal polarity rules of good and evil, active and passive, light and shadow, each science can serve good as well as bad purposes.” –Franz Bardon

This is a call to all practitioners to speak and stand out for what they are. One should not be bothered by their religious convictions even if they threatened by the torments of hell. True knowledge of magic will lead you to your own personal God.

Man’s physical body s only but an extension of the astral in as such that a burning passion can affect the physical by mere repetition and concentration; the habit desire/energy will yield to the otherside i.e. what we always feel can eventually affect our body and how we react from how we feel affects our mind e.g. stress leads to weak lifestyle thus yields to poor mental health, and poor mental health corrupts the soul where hell is made real.

-an excerpt and translation from DreamWorld 052209

Fear caught me as I opened my spirit to foresee what lies before my path. Heaven forsake me, they send me a sacrifice! I conditioned myself and equipped my mind to fight against any danger. I succeeded once but twice was not my luck, my consciousness was slowly fading and as I closed my eyes I heard a voice:

“Real threat is not death but death unto those who does not fight their fear, for how small or great a danger might be, it is the fear of uncertainty one must conquer. Therefore arise and remember that emotions are but inferior, man’s will is the superior.”

-an excerpt and translation from DreamWorld 050509

There was once a story I’d watched from the TV about a guy who derives pleasure in hurting animals, a masochist. When he was asked why he does that he just simply said that it was fun. Even though he had been told it was a bad thing to do, for him it was a good thing to do. So what keeps the guy doing such things? Was he born evil? According to his psychiatrist, when he was still a young boy her mother was abusing him and when he was crying out that time he saw a cat passed by, he went to it and try to hurt the cat to let go of his depression but as soon as the feeling of the superiority against the cat was realized, he kept on hurting it as an act of releasing his feelings, and that was the first incident until he does abused other animals. So the evil was an act to let himself feel superior whereas his mother let him felt the opposite.

Archetypes according to Carl Jung are a tendency or instinctive trend in the human unconscious to represent certain motifs or themes, in short a symbol e.g. the gods in mythology that each represents their respective nature i.e. as death to Hades, as beauty to Aphrodite, as war to Ares, a.s.o., most common form of archetypes are experienced in dreams. It is normal for a person to encounter the devil in his/her dreams either in a symbol of the terror teacher, strict boss, stalker, a.s.o.

The devil in dreams is described as:
Any code of conduct, whether accepted form parents/ peers leaves aspects of our total self unlived. The struggle with paternal authority or power within oneself is often represented as the devil. If we change our code of conduct, we may meet the devil because we release the previously unlived area of self.

The shadow in dreams is described as:

Any part of ourselves which we reject, and so do not allow expression in our life. Meeting the shadow through our dreams is a meeting with our own reality, which in turn enables us to look at the world realistically. The shadow can be met.

Nevertheless there was really no evil according to the Christian doctrines and that the evil came from the rebellious angel, that God being almighty had created as angel that sinned. But was it really pride that caused the angel to fall?

There are many theories about the fall like the following:

1. The different sides of God

States that God has two faces: the bright side and the dark side in which the dark side came into control and separated from the bright side

1. Consequences of free will
2. God’s Aura

States that those who moved the furthest away from God’s aura became the demons

1. Lust

States about the half human, half angel Nephilims

1. Pride
2. Sin

States the controversy of freewill

1. Bowing to mankind

Sates that those angels who refuses to bow before mankind was casted out from heaven

Of psychological disorder,

Of the archetypes,

Of the thrones, powers, seraphims…

Black is not a color, it is a shade.

The color of evil is what you see behind yours or someone’s eyes.

-darkpsyche

The pentagram was the first used symbol of Christianity before the cross.

The pentagram as commonly known today as a symbol of the craft,occult and of the devil(inverted) but it was until the 19th century that the inverted pentagram was illustrated as the symbol of the devil with the goat’s head of Baphomet and this was made by Eliphas Levi to show the good and evil i.e. the upright as symbol as good and of the inverted as evil. In early history the pentagram was used as a symbol of power, perfection, protection and truth and was not associated with evil whatsoever, no duality. It is the pythagoreans who discovered the pentagram’s geometry and metaphysical perfection.
To illustrate further, the star inside the circle consists of 5 points. The lower left symbolizes the earth; the lower right- fire; upper left- air; upper right- water; and the 5th point as the quintessence which is the most important of all- the spirit and this 5 points is enclosed by the sacred circle,the circle being infinite.

Aside from the star inside the circle the pentagram is also used in architecture by the use of the golden proportion and the beauty in the measure of the 5 pointed polygon.

The earliest known pentagram was :
= during 3500BC in the Ur of the Chaldeans in Mesapotamia (used in royal inscriptions and symbol of imperial power)
=by the Hebrews ->a symbol of truth and by their 5 books called Pentateuch
=in Greece -> called Pentalpha
=the Gnostics -> called the ‘Blazing Star’
=by Druids -> called GodHead
=in Egypt ->symbolizes the underground womb
=by early Christians -> 5 wounds of Christ
-> implied truth, religious mysticism and the work of the creator

It was Emperor Constantine 1 during the Christian’s Church military and religious power used the pentagram with the chi-rho(symbolic form of cross)

in his seal and amulet. Sir Gawain in his legend also used the pentagram to symbolize virtue , generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety. The Knights Templar had also used the wisdom of the pentagram in building their houses, chapels, etc. and of how they plot their structural buildings around the entire lot area.

However later those years the pentagram’s popularity fades as the Cross(the symbol of suffering) took more power and control over the people rather than the pentagram(the symbol of truth). It is no surprise that the early church knows how to use and control people’s emotion called sympathy. It was during the hallucination of the Orthodox Church against their fear of the heresy was the pentagram associated to the devil. They took the power of the cross to terrify people to the dangers of hell.
They even accused the Knights Templar as heretics and the Church’s hallucination brought death to the accused. For that day the pentagram as the symbol of truth and perfection was equated with evil by the Christians who once nurtured the symbol and thus the pentagram was hidden underground for centuries for the fear of the bloodthirsty Christian persecutors.

ECCE SIGNUM
see the proof/ behold the sign

Hand of Sorrow

by

darkpsyche

(pencil and digital manipulation)

The Goddess Hecate

by

darkpsyche

(pencil and digital manipulation)