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    WRATHFUL CHAOS FIVE BOOKS of SATANIC PHILOSOPHY

    ARIOCH

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    First Published in 2015 www.lionofsatan.com

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    Copyright 2015 by Arioch

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    Contents

    List of Illustrations

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    BOOK 1

    The Summa Diabologica

    A Chaosophical work which explores the

    foundational concepts of the Chaos-Gnostic

    tradition, and sheds a new dark Light on old

    knowledge, thus producing Gnosis5

    Tiamat the Writhing Tiamat the Slain Tannin

    the Slumbering The God of the God On the

    Nature of Suffering The Afterlife Sitra Ahra

    the Other Side Theathanatos Lady of Death

    Manifestations of the Anti-God The Black Earth

    Concerning Black Magick On Symbols

    Concerning Gnosis Defining Chaosophy

    Suicide as Satanic Grace Illuminism

    A Final Word on Misanthropy

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    BOOK 2

    Sefer Iqqesh

    A re-working of the Hermetic Qabalah used to

    produce deeper Sinister Gnosis and the return to

    Chaos. Along with a new interpretation of Qabalah,

    a new Tree of Death glyph is introduced which

    better assists the Black Adept in the search for

    Illumination61

    Qabbalah: The Tree of Death A New Tree

    Tehom: Devouring Gimel and Teth Three

    Forms of Nothing The 11 Mansions of the Sitra

    Ahra The Broken Star Glyph The Abyss The

    Twenty Coils of Apophis The Four Qabbalistic

    Anti-Worlds Dragons of the Anti-Worlds The

    Four Rivers of Hell The Seven Earths and

    Infernal Habitations The Order of Disorder

    The Three Palaces of Satan The Black Zodiac

    How to Use the Qabbalah Black Earth

    Meditation The Five Accursed Nations

    A Final Word

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    BOOK 3

    Raa: The Language of Demons

    An introduction to the magickal use of the voice,

    followed by a treatise on the language of demons

    and how the Adept might use such a language to

    further arrive at True Gnosis161

    The Magickal Use of the Voice The Alphabet in

    Western Script Consonants Vowels

    Diphthongs Gematria and the Numbering

    System The Raaian Script Coding Words and

    Names The Occult Properties of the Letters

    The Alphabet of Perfumes Diacritics Sigils

    Charging Sigils A Final Word on Magickal

    Languages

    BOOK 4

    Ater Astrologia

    An introduction to the concept of Black Astrology,

    which is based in the study of the Black Luminaries

    empty mathematical points in space217

    The Black Sun The Black Zodiac Demons of

    the Black Zodiac The Six Infernal Planets The

    Planetary Rulers The Planetary Sigils The

    Planetary Days The Planetary Hours Sigils of

    the Planetary Hours The Tridecagram The

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    Black Sabbath The Black Earth Priapus The

    Diamond A Final Note

    BOOK 5

    Zara: Book of the Younger Lilith

    A short treatise on the Art and Science of

    Divination, exposing the various flaws in todays

    practices, and revealing two new systems of

    Divination by which the Adept may arrive at

    Gnosis259

    On Time The Enquiry Naamah Mother of

    Divination Preliminary Notes The Meditation

    Method 1: Full-body Possession Method 2:

    Zara Designing the Zara Blocks Casting the

    Zara Interpreting the Zara A Final Word on

    Divination

    APPENDIX

    Demonic Names Translated into Raa

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    List of Illustrations

    Broken Pentagram70

    Sigil of Cathariel87

    Sigil of Thaumiel90

    Sigil of Chaigidel93

    Sigil of Satariel95

    Sigil of Gashkhalah97

    Sigil of Golachab99

    Sigil of Tagiriron102

    Sigil of Aarab Zaraq104

    Sigil of Samael107

    Sigil of Gamaliel110

    Sigil of Nahemoth113

    Tree of Death (Hebrew Names)115

    Tree of Death (Sigils)116

    Coils of Apophis123

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    Raaian Alphabet176

    Raaian Alphabet (Special Characters)177

    The Letter Bar181

    The Letter Dag182

    The Letter Hem182

    The Letter Uri184

    The Letter Zam184

    The Letter Char185

    The Letter Yam186

    The Letter Kur186

    The Letter Laf187

    The Letter Mal188

    The Letter Nia189

    The Letter Sak190

    The Letter Aano190

    The Letter Par191

    The Letter Tzu192

    The Letter Qul192

    The Letter Raf193

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    The Letter Shal194

    The Letter Than194

    The Letter Cath196

    The Letter Thau197

    The Letter Chai197

    The Letter Sat198

    The Letter Gash199

    The Letter Gol199

    The Letter Tag200

    The Letter Aara200

    The Letter Sam201

    The Letter Gam201

    The Letter Nah202

    Star of Sigilcraft210

    Sigil of Malkunofat212

    Black Luminaries223

    Sigil of URAABAT (Satu234rn)233

    Sigil of MUAV (Uranus)234

    Sigil of NUR (Neptune)235

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    Sigil of SUM (Jupiter)236

    Sigil of ETLU (Mars)237

    Sigil of UMA (Venus)238

    Sigil of Shichiriron (3 p.m.)244

    Sigil of Abiriron (4 p.m.)244

    Sigil of Dagdagiron (5 p.m.)245

    Sigil of Nashimiron (6 p.m.)245

    Sigil of En Tannin (7 p.m.)246

    Sigil of Shalbeiron (8 p.m.)246

    Sigil of Tzaphiriron (9 p.m.)247

    Sigil of Bahimiron (10 p.m.)247

    Sigil of Necheshthiron (11 p.m.)248

    Sigil of Tzelilimiron (12 p.m.)248

    Sigil of Adimiron (1 a.m.)249

    Sigil of Nachashiron (2 a.m)249

    Sigil of Beiriron (3 a.m.)250

    The Planetary Tridecagram251

    Block One 283

    Block Two284

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    Block Three285

    Block Four286

    Block Five287

    Arioch302

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    Introduction

    I began writing Wrathful Chaos in early

    2011, and while it started out as a personal

    grimoire, it quickly grew into the body of

    work you now hold in your hands. At first I

    was reluctant to publish this work, because

    as a personal grimoire it waspersonal.

    However, heeding the call of my own

    demonic Guide, I have finally decided to

    make this unique system of Black Magick

    available to the Sinister Adept, because the

    feeling of attachment I had for this work

    was merely an illusion of the Demiurge. For

    the only matter of importance is the

    returning to Chaos, and the Gnosis

    contained within these five books are

    designed solely for that purpose.

    Every aspect of Wrathful Chaos, from

    the obvious to the hidden, is meant to

    reflect the ideas of Chaosophy in some way,

    and the Adept is encouraged to read this

    work twice: first with his eyes and then with

    his spirit. Because of this, these five

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    individual books form one complete

    system of advanced Infernal Sorcery, just as

    all individual things within Chaos are as

    one. And so the Adept should read each

    book while keeping in mind the previous

    ones, and the ones to come, as each

    supports one another.

    It is true when I say that this work

    teaches an advanced form of Infernal

    Sorcery, and so the magician should have a

    fair understanding of basic Occult concepts

    before putting this work into practice. In

    fact, some of the materials required to

    practice this form of Magick are deadly and

    illegal. The experienced magician should

    have no problem properly using these

    materials, but nonetheless, neither the

    author nor the publisher will take any

    responsibility for any damage or harm

    caused by the practice of this Art. To know,

    to dare, to keep silent.

    This work is divided into five books,

    those being: The Summa Diabologica, The

    Sefer Iqqesh, Raa: The Language of

    Demons, Ater Astrologia, and Zara: Book of

    the Younger Lilith. While some of the terms

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    and concepts within these five books may

    be familiar to the more experienced

    practitioner, the perspective from which

    these subjects are taught is entirely new.

    Rather than being a magickal book telling

    you what to do, Wrathful Chaos introduces

    ideas and encourages you to learn for

    yourself how to employ them, distort them

    pervert them, and perfect them. And so

    take these five books and build upon them,

    knowing that they are a firm a foundation.

    I sincerely wish success for the Black

    Adept who, having all of creation in his

    hand, falls not to the temptation of

    personal gain but who instead hurdles the

    whole of creation into Wrathful Chaos

    before he himself jumps blindly into the

    unknown depths of the Grey.

    For Chaos,

    Arioch

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    Summa Diabologica Foundations of

    Chaos-Gnosticism

    To speak of Chaos is to speak of Nothingness, but Nothingness is not

    empty. For within Chaos there is light and darkness, good and evil,

    beauty and ugliness, law and lawlessness, virginity and whoredom,

    being and non-being. To genuinely speak of Chaos is to speak of

    blended opposites, or rather, to speak of a thing and its privation.

    Chaos consists of being and non-being in perfect blend, and

    therefore it is impossible to say anything rational about the Void. The

    thinker must resort to mysticism in order to ponder upon the union

    of being and non-being (logic perceiving of only two states: Is and Is

    not, either of which must exist separately from its opposite). But this

    is the nature of the Abyss form and formlessness in copulation.

    Allow me then, to give discourse on the nature of Chaos and to

    divulge the subtlety of her Knowledge (Chaosophy), only to show

    that one cannot properly convey its Mysteries.

    Tiamat the Writhing

    Chaos is finite and infinite, hot and cold, light and dark, place and no

    place, and within it all things are blended together and yet separate.

    Chaos is like the great writhing dragon Tiamat of myth and each of

    her various parts are comprised of smaller dragons, and ad in

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    finitum, each working towards both individual benefit and benefit of

    the whole. As the scales of Tiamat are many serpents each

    maintaining their individual purpose and expression within

    Nothingness.

    Because Chaos exists and does not exist, being itself a mixture

    of existence and non-existence, we may rightly call it the Pool of

    Potentiality, meaning that Nothingness contains the potential to

    exist but nothing has come into existence (made to be distinct).

    Tiamat the Slain

    Consider now what it means to exist. The coalesced nature of Chaos

    must be divided in order to produce the required separation of

    qualities resulting in existence the state which we identify as reality.

    While Chaos is a mixture of potentials, reality is the realization of

    those potentials. Reality, also referred to as the Cosmos within the

    Chaos-Gnostic tradition, is the Nothing which has become

    Something. While in Chaos light and darkness were as one, within

    the Cosmos light and darkness are two. The Cosmos is the division of

    Chaos, but how did Something come from Nothing?

    Something, or rather all things, came forth from Chaos in a

    single instance simply because the potential for such an event

    happened to be realized. We should not, however, assume that

    existence has been vomited from the Mouth of the Abyss, and that

    this event is over. Instead, the Great Creation is continuously taking

    place the Lord has not yet even finished speaking Let there be

    Light as the act of creation is continuously taking place.

    Chaos has been cleaved in twain, thus allowing for the

    sustained existence of creation. This may be symbolized by the

    dragon Tiamat being cut in half by the god Marduk, and whose body

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    was used to fashion the Universe. And so we have the Cosmos a

    reality of have and have not, and various levels of thereof.

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    Sefer Iqqesh Book of the Perverse Qabbalah

    The Qlippothic Qabalah as it is currently being taught and practiced

    by Sinister Magicians is the product of the Golden Dawns system of

    Qabalah as it is presented in both The Book of the Black Serpent and

    Liber 231 (Aleister Crowley). The Golden Dawns system of Qabalah

    is itself a mixture of mostly Lurianic Kabbalah and Western

    occultism, and has been re-packaged nearly verbatim by most

    schools of Chaosophic thought. One major flaw with this

    reproduction is context. The context of the Hermetic Qabalah is

    union with Source, or God. The demons of the Qlippoth are simply

    wasteful products left-over from creation, and they exist only

    according to the Will of God. The Satanic entities are matters to

    overcome and advance beyond, for the Qlippoth exist as the vice of

    each Sephira, and belong to the Sephira, and must be experienced

    even by the White Adept. Unfortunately, this context remains in the

    Left-Handed interpretation of Qabalah even if it isnt immediately

    recognized.

    Qlippothic Sorcery as it exists now exalts the Demiurge because

    it places the Qlippoth as being parts of the Sephiroth1, when in fact

    they are entirely separate from them. The error is the idea that the

    Qlippoth have been in some way produced or caused by the

    Sephiroth, because if this is the case, then the God who controls the

    1 The Palace of Darkness which contains Malkuth and Yesod enthrones the demons called the Gamaliel Scales of the Black Serpent, pg 39, Michael W. Ford

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    Sephirotic forces would also by proxy control the Qlippothic, and

    returning to Chaos would be entirely impossible because the God

    would simply be too powerful.

    If Qlippothic sorcery in its current form is flawed have we as

    Black Magicians wasted our time in its practice? No. Even flawed

    practice can work wonders, and has even made it possible for a more

    Sinister Tree to take root and grow. Our practice only becomes

    flawed once we become aware of the flaw, and now having been

    made aware of the flaw, those willing may correct their practice and

    thereby evolve as Ministers of Darkness. But before we can correct

    our Qabalistic practice, we must end our Qabalistic practice. We

    must think in new ways creating new algorithms and distorting old

    ones. This is the goal of Rising on the Planes.

    There is no need to create entirely from scratch, or re-invent

    the Fiery Wheel. Qabalah as a type of Occult filing cabinet and

    magickal system is perfect, but Qabalah as a means of first self-

    deification and then self-destruction is lacking in its current form. A

    new Qabalah is required one that can be used both by the magician

    who means to perfect Black Magick, and the mystic who yearns to

    return to Chaos. This new system, built upon the corpses of the old,

    changes both the Tree of Life glyph and the basic principles of

    Qabalah. And while it originates from Qabalah we cannot rightly call

    this new system of Black Magick Qabalah, because it adheres to

    neither Jewish nor Hermetic standards. A new name is required for

    our new weapon.

    Qabbalah: The Tree of Death

    The name given to this new Qlippothic Qabalah is QABBALAH, an

    obvious play on the word Qabalah. But there is esoteric meaning.

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    The additional B symbolizes the injecting of Samaels venom into the

    system of Qabalah, as the letter B or Bet in Hebrew maintains the

    numerical value of 2 the number of adversity. Further, we may

    examine the mathematics and note that the Hebrew for the word

    Qabalah is comprised of the letters Qoph, Bet, Lemedh, and Hey,

    giving the word the gematric value of 137. In Sinister gematria, this

    number is the least of the Satanic numbers, because while its

    individual parts combined totals 11, these same parts individually

    exalt the God. The 1 represents the Unity of God, the 3 his Trinity,

    and the 7 symbolizes the wholeness of his creation. Only in adding

    these individual numbers together can we arrive at 11, because the

    final outcome of Gods creation will be destruction and the return to

    Chaos. However, with the addition of the second Bet, we create the

    sum of 139 which totals 13. 13 is the Qlippothic 11 plus the

    adversarial 2 of Samael, which is the formula by which the Qlippoth

    manifest themselves to us with some type of form or physical

    sensation: The non-physical Sitra Ahra (11) desires to manifest to

    physical man (2) and does achieve physical manifestation through

    the influence of Black Astrology (13), most notably through the Black

    Sun.

    What is curious about Qabbalah, aside from the number games,

    is that it may be divided into two additional Hebrew words: Qab and

    Balah. Qab means something hollowed out and referred to a unit

    of both dry and wet liquid (about 2 quarts). The second word, Balah,

    means wasted away, decaying. Qab and Balah: that which is

    hollowed out and decaying the Tree of Death. So while Qabalah

    means to receive knowledge by eating from the Tree of Life,

    Qabbalah means to receive Knowledge by eating from the Tree of

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    Death, because while the God feeds the good man2, the evil man

    must pluck those apples for himself3.

    2 Matthew 6:26 3 Genesis 3:17

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    Raa The Language of Demons

    The Magickal Use of the Voice

    Man is made distinct from the other animals of the Earth by two

    things: culture and speech. While other animals do indeed possess

    types culture and communication systems, man has perfected these

    two qualities, and with them has made himself the Lord of the Earth.

    Here we shall concern ourselves with speech, which leads to culture.

    The human voice is perhaps the greatest creation of the God,

    for while he intended man to employ it in his praise, with it we are

    also capable of expressing our Sinister Will. Speech is the first way in

    which the concepts of Chaosophy are manifested outside of the

    Chaosophist, and so we may say that the voice is the foundation of

    Black Magick, which itself is an expression of Chaosophy. The voice

    is the lantern carrying the Illuminating Light of Lucifer.

    Traditionally, Hebrew has been the language which

    Chaosophists have resorted to in order to uncover the Mysteries of

    Chaos, because the system which is used to illustrate these ideas is

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    taken from the Jewish Mystery Tradition of Kabbalah. And while this

    method is proven reliable, it is also limited to the language of

    Hebrew, and so in turn the Gnosis attained by the use of this system

    is limited by the Jewish spiritual culture of Kabbalah and its

    language.

    The use of Hebrew or some other language in place of ones

    own native tongue is an often error, and with Abramelin we must

    agree, that ones own native tongue is sufficient for communicating

    the Mysteries of Satan. Why, then, do we feel compelled to use alien

    tongues such as Hebrew, Greek, and Latin? The answer is relatively

    simple: We relate the experience of mystery with our spirituality. We

    love the mysterious, and the more foreign than the mundane, the

    better. But while Hebrew indeed gives insights into Chaosophy from

    the perspective of Qabalah, the goal is to transcend these many

    perspectives, which leads to the arrival of pure or True Gnosis.

    The problem, therefore, is that as humans we require a sense of

    mystery, especially in our spiritual life, but our parent tongue is far

    too mundane to express the teachings of Chaos, in that it is used in

    every-day speech and has lost its sense of deeper mystery. The

    solution is the creating of an encoded language one that is based in

    a persons native tongue, but given structure and sounds which

    cause the mind to fall into the meditation of Silence. Because English

    is the most widely used language, I have (with the help of my own

    Demonic Guide), arrived at an encoded form of English suitable for

    the rites of Black Magick. This language, which is a perversion of

    English and should be manipulated to reflect ones own comfortable

    tongue, is called Raa.

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    Ater Astrologia Book of the Black Luminaries

    Let us not fall into error as those before us have done, but instead let

    us attain a deeper understanding regarding the Celestial bodies,

    which the astrologers claim determines the character of a man, and

    from which the White Adepts draw their power.

    It is true when I say the White Adepts draw their power from the

    Heavenly abode, as I shall show, though I find no reason to believe

    ones character is governed by the stars. Every serious student must

    have the ability to separate the Occult Arts from the superstitious,

    thereby eliminating what does not work and indulging in what does.

    So we shall discuss the nature of the planets in relation to

    magickal and occult operations and divine whether or not traditional

    planetary magick is of any use to the Chaos-Gnostic practitioner.

    And as we explore the astrological ideas of men such as Don

    Nroman and Jean Carteret, we shall come to the knowledge of this

    new astro-magickal system, whose only purpose is the ushering forth

    of anti-cosmic influence into our reality.

    Saturn, Venus, Mars and the other Celestial Mansions within

    our Solar system are, as all physical things are, manifestations of the

    God. While our physicality is also part of Source, we possess a

    consciousness which the planets do not. Though all things share in

    consciousness according to their portion, on Earth man alone has

    Willfull Consciousness, meaning that we are active participants in the

    creation of reality and may, according to our Will, shape reality on

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    the whole. While other self-aware creatures can indeed alter their

    personal reality, only man (as far as we now know), can alter reality

    on a grand scale. And so we must wonder then, if man is governed by

    his own agent (his Will), then what agent governs the planets and the

    other conscious forms which lack this type of consciousness? What

    force sustains them and causes them to execute their functions? And

    from where do they draw their power the very same power that the

    magicians call down?

    Whatsoever thing lacks Willful Intelligence is governed over by

    the God, for all things which cannot rebel are naturally servants of

    the Demiurge, which he uses to sustain his separation from

    Nothingness that being the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, as all

    things which cannot escape this cycle through rebellion merely assist

    in the continuation of Source. We may say that the physical planets

    contain only the power which the Demiurge has allotted them, and

    that they possess no supernatural power of their own, being unable

    to change their own natures or to even stir themselves to change. The

    physical planets, therefore, only possess Demiurgic Grace and their

    power can only, in the end, sustain the God. The Black Adept will not

    prosper from evoking the various planets or even observing their

    movements, but because of complacency and a love for tradition,

    many have fallen into this trap set by the Lord of the Heavens, but we

    shall be wiser.

    Do not think that because we have said that the planets can

    only serve the God by whom they are empowered, being themselves

    founts of Cosmic False Light, that we should ignore them entirely, for

    we would fall into an even greater error. All things are corruptible,

    and it is within corruption that we shall find acosmic power. But

    there is greater power in the absence of these bodies. Consider first

    the privation of the physical Sun, the body which the astrologers

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    have made their foundation, and we shall find for ourselves the Black

    Sun the Foundation of our Sinister Art.

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    Zara Book of the Younger Lilith

    Of all the magickal practices, Divination is the most widely accepted

    and used. If one cannot change their situation, then perhaps one can

    at least look into the future and foresee upset before it arrives. There

    are, however, various errors in our divinatory systems and, more

    rightly, in our use of them. The Tarot cards, Runes, Ouija Board, and

    every other means of attaining future insight acts as blindfolds

    obscuring the Light of Luciferic Knowledge. Like a mountain, our

    common divinatory practices block our view from extending beyond

    ourselves and into eternity. This work, the Book of the Younger Lilith,

    is a short treatise on Divination whose aim is twofold: to dispel the

    errors as they are practiced by Diviners of the Left-Hand Path, and to

    present two new methods of divination by which the magician may

    attain true insight.

    On Time

    Divination implies the existence of time I shall look into my crystal

    ball and see the future. Or perhaps the seer wishes to behold the

    past, or to answer a question regarding some present situation.

    Traditional divination has always had its foundation in time, causing

    divination to be flawed from the beginning.

    As normal humans who exist within the confines time, it is

    logical to perceive time and its affects and to therefore conclude its

    reality. But time, like distinction, is a function and illusion of the

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    Demiurge. Rather than viewing time as being our conjoined twin,

    know that time is entirely separate from us, and is imposed upon us

    by our physicality. But time is a thing which can be distorted,

    twisted, and eventually escaped. The goal of true Divination is to

    escape the illusion of time, which the God maintains in order to

    strengthen division. Glimpses of the future and the receiving of

    personal insight is a secondary function of Divination, though most

    have made this its first.

    When I ask the Runes a question about the future, it is asked

    with the assumption that the future has yet to take place. But the

    future has already blossomed and has become the past. Again, when

    I ask the Ouija board a question about my past, it is asked assuming

    that the past no longer exists. But the past is simply the future

    distorted. What does it mean then to exist within the present, as we

    assume that we do? It means to exist within the unfurling of the

    future which is the furled past.

    All time is illusory, and all events which have happened and will

    happen, are already happening and have happened. This is the

    meaning to the phrase, There is nothing new under the Sun.4

    Because of this, a person will only ask for insight regarding the future

    or the past due to ignorance and a lack of the mystical understanding

    required to genuinely know that time is just a cheap conjurers trick.

    The Enquiry

    The fool occupies his time asking about this mundane matter and

    that, hoping some Celestial Spirit with infinite Knowledge is just as

    bored as he, and in that boredom, willing to answer his petty

    questions. We who carry Lucifers Black Flame upon the Torch of

    Radiance Abounding must not count ourselves amongst the fools, 4 Ecclesiastes 1:9

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    nor imitate their fallacies. In proper Sinister Divination we must only

    enquire of two things: Matters of our Individual Sinister Will, and

    matters of the Universal Sinister Will.

    In regards to your Individual Sinister Will, this is your Will as it

    applies to how you are personally and uniquely fighting against the

    God and his powers. The Universal Sinister Will is the collective

    strategy of the Sitra Ahra. So, rather than busying oneself over

    matters of finances and love, through the use of Divination the

    magician may gain knowledge regarding his own purpose in this life,

    the secret knowledge regarding the God and Cosmos, the Mysteries

    of the Sitra Ahra, and insight into Chaosophy. And of course many

    more, even innumerable, secrets are revealed through its practice.

    The planet Mercury is the traditional ruler of arts such as

    Alchemy, Divination, and Magick. Of course, this planet is symbolic

    for Hermes Trismegistus author of the Hermetic Corpus, and Father

    of Hermeticism5. We lack the planet Mercury in Black Astrology, as

    Mercury/Hermes represents the Arts being used to benefit the whole

    of God (White Magick). In place of Mercury and the Son of White

    Magick, we have Uranus the planet of the Abiriron, which is ruled by Naamah the Daughter of Black Magick.

    5 To further study Hermeticism, please see Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a new translation with notes and introduction, by Brian P. Copenhaven (Editor)