The Antichrist Manifesto

Look at any point in human history—that particular generation of people did not understand their oppression. If you called them oppressed, they would have denied it and supported their masters due to indoctrination. A revolution first requires people to recognize that they live under conditions of oppression and domination. It is not obvious to everyone, and who knows all the forms of domination we today are accepting without even knowing it. At a further stage of enlightenment and community awareness, future humanity will look back at us as slaves in terms we cannot comprehend now.
—Noam Chomsky, Questions About Anarchism

ONCE upon an evening in October 2011, E.A. Koetting called me back. Earlier that afternoon, I had recorded a message on his voicemail and urged him to give fifteen minutes of his time to me because I needed to share a life-changing, even world-changing, idea.

“What’s up?” he asked as soon as I answered, as he literally always asks—literally always.

I spat it out, “You and I will help humans to awaken their godhood, overthrow enslavement, and live their birthright as a union of free, empowered individuals.”

He became genuinely amused, “Oh yeah, how?”

I rejoined as if it was obvious, “You will film video courses that reveal how to perform magick, to literally awaken their godlike powers: divination, evocation, and soul travel.”

“Okay…” he said impulsively almost by accident, mystified but still open to this random whopper of an idea.

He had confided to me a week earlier that he would retire as an occult author with The Book of Azazel, and I needed to address that looming danger in advance. “To clarify, I do not mean write books. I mean film video courses and post them online, where anyone can watch them anytime.”

His critical faculty interjected, “But how would I initiate that many people? What if a hundred people sign up? I closed Ordo Ascensum Aetyrnalis because I initiated every single person by email myself. Nine out of ten initiates completely wasted my time.”

As a blue collar guy and dyed in the wool occultist, he still used a flip phone instead of an iPhone and viewed magick through a traditional lens of secretive initiation—he barely comprehended this new, disruptive technology, namely, streaming video and social media a.k.a. YouTube and Facebook.

“No, no, no, you will not initiate anyone. This would not involve an occult church or temple; no titles or politics or hierarchy would exist; you would not baptize or anoint or ordain anyone. You simply film courses, then magicians anywhere on earth may study them on demand.

It finally sank in and a flame that had waned in his heart suddenly surged back to life, “Oh, okay, I would basically teach my magick lessons as if these viewers were initiates, but anyone can watch them!” His excitement mounted viscerally as occult chains dropped off his wrists and ankles, freeing him as a black magickian and author for the first time, “Basically, I place my entire brain of knowledge online and let anyone download it.”

He still uses that brain download notion to this day, and emphasizes transparency over secrecy more than ever.

In my interpretation—which he has authenticated in private chats—E.A. considered retirement from the occult in 2012 because he had hit a glass ceiling, a medieval glass ceiling that every rising occult author suffers in silence, because autocratic priests and priestesses at their church would ban them if they complained. To preface this taboo: by that point, E.A. had penned nine original grimoires, founded an order, and toured bookstores and community colleges to lecture on demonology; he had little left to do as an occultist. Sadly, there is only so much an ambitious occultist can do, because under traditional occult law, magick knowledge is supposed to remain a secret. And not only a secret, but hidden behind an ivory tower of encrypted initiations and gatekept by the elite, so as to allow only a privileged few to access it. These so-called elite use a bingo card of known rhetoric to rationalize their intellectual privilege:

Fearmongering: “Knowledge of magick is too dangerous.”
Like a senior citizen who still views cannabis as a dangerous drug, they wildly exaggerate hazards of magick and spirits to scare people off and preserve their monopoly.
Racism: “You need to come from X bloodline and possess Y genes.”
This racial supremacy stems from primitive, religious tribalism and still occurs in traditions like Norse Heathenry and Haitian Vodoun. This occult racism gives birth to feudalistic hierarchies and forces magicians into a regressive pissing match of competing bloodlines. No bio-technology exists to measure a magickal “midi-chlorian count” in blood like the Jedi in Star Wars, hence this unfalsifiable hypothesis is junk science.
Jealousy: “If you increase in power then I decrease in power.”
This sounds like a man jealous that another man looked at his wife. The reader may not know this, but occultists often act resentful and bitter toward one another. Their psychology comes from a place of jealousy where they mistakenly believe that if other humans become more magickal, that they themselves would become less magickal, as if magick was a fixed natural resource like real estate.
Vanity & Desperation: “Submit to me to receive my secrets.”
This also might involve, “Have sex with me to receive a privileged title in my church.” True story: a female magician and close friend of the author had shared screenshots of a text message from a male priest who had said he would give her a rank of priestess in his secret lodge if she gave him masturbation videos.

E.A. closed his Ordo Ascensum Aetyrnalis because he felt nauseous any time an initiate acted worshipful and submissive toward him. He finally recognized occult churches as glorified cults; and priests and priestesses who rule them as glorified cult leaders; and initiates in occult churches and temples as glorified cult members.

The reader might connect dots at this point and identify that numerous authors in this very compendium have opened and ruled in pretty prominent churches and temples. Believe it or not, they fundamentally agree with this critique and rail against regressive social norms themselves, although mainly in private. Like E.A., they only opened their church or temple because no better alternative existed back then. Amazon, YouTube, forums, and other digital authorship and community technologies only emerged this decade and provided magickal intellectuals a new place to share their knowledge in safer, healthier, more transparent relationships.

To glimpse into his private psychology: E.A. instinctively loathes coattail riders, hangers-on, and underlings of that ilk; as a corollary, he also loathes the stereotype of a mystical guru and cult leader. He considers their vertical, top-down relationships as contrary to individual and species ascent. He only respects allies who will descend with him into the Abyss, suffer damnation, and then explode out in ascent to godhood—with mutual respect as equals in terms of ambition.

An ingenious author of any field does not sacrifice six to twelve months to innovate a new grimoire in order to then hide it. However, hitherto, the occult has demanded that their top authors do that. Fundamentalist occultists organize troll brigades that lay merciless guilt trips, piracy, and smear campaigns to try to harm any author whom experiences even one iota of heightened reception. Compare this to any other field; imagine if the music community shamed a musician whom recorded a full-length album and then tried to support it with a tour to reach new listeners. In fact, years ago as a young man, a former publisher of E.A. forbade him to do interviews with a number of subculture magazines who had asked to feature his new releases; his publisher called it “selling out.”

Why such regressive, elitist counter-measures to progress?

Dear reader, allow me to reveal a dirty little secret: the occult has never been about helping humanity to progress; instead, it has always been about aggrandizing political power. Hence, occultists have always organized theocratically in religious institutions like churches, temples, lodges, and orders; they initiate aspirants into priesthoods. It allows megalomaniacs to hoard knowledge, gatekeep magick, and ban dissenters. These priests and priestesses only tolerate ingenious magicians if they propagate their message under their church, or else they act belligerent toward them with slander, doxing, piracy, etc.

A clarion call to young, rising magicians: if your intuition urges you to become a magickal innovator, then open a discussion group, administer a blog, arrange a ritual circle, host a book club, pen a grimoire—but please do not found a church, do not subject humanity to another cult.

When E.A. released his first YouTube video, it became undeniable to him that modes of knowledge transmission in magick needed to evolve to reflect modern technology. E.A. saw that a single 15-minute video affected more people than his entire tenure as patriarch of a secret order.

E.A. agreed to participate in my progressive mission, i.e., video courses, over a three-hour discussion on that same first telephone callback.

Then a whirlwind ensued.

A person who demands truth deserves to know it, because seeking truth awakens the first godlike power, omniscience. It has always seemed bizarre, not that occultists placed barriers to entry in front of magick knowledge in the first place, but that they still enforce those barriers today.

“What do you want to call this mission, this project?” E.A. inquired.

“Magick as a praxis consists of three core acts: divination, evocation, and soul travel. These awaken a human’s birthright, their three godlike powers: omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. When a magician maximizes their three godlike powers, they have become a living god. That’s the name: Become A Living God.”

“Oh, okay, cool. Let me sleep on it and I will tell you my opinion tomorrow,” he concluded. My phone lit to notify me of a new text message the next afternoon. It simply said, “I slept on it. I like it. Let’s do it!”

E.A. insists often, “You don’t summon a demon, a demon summons you. When your intuition tells you to evoke a demon, they contacted you. You’re not calling them; you’re calling them back.

I released a book called The Devil in 2016. I underwent psychic possession with the Devil archetype in its plurality of forms and dissertated on the cohesive philosophy behind their collective worldview as I experienced it.

As the Devil myself, I evoked E.A. Koetting. He called me back.

Furthermore, dear reader, if your eyes see these letters on this page, it means that not only Abaddon, not only the entire union of the Nine Demonic Gatekeepers, but E.A. Koetting, Michael W. Ford, Kurtis Joseph, Edgar Kerval, Bill Duvendack, Orlee Stewart, V.K. Jehannum, and Enoch Petrucelly, and I have evoked you too.

Infernal Apocalypse of the Supernal Empire

Apocalypse means “revelation” in Greek, apokalyptein

A revolution is a process, not an event.
—Revolutionary maxim

The aim and the outcome of this operation, this pathworking with the nine gatekeepers, is not meant to climax in the war that ends all wars, nor is it meant to climax at the point of the manifestation of some sort of alien species showing up in metal ships. Azazel has said that he will one day come to me as a doctor, as a physician, and a scientist, as a living being stepped out of the darkness into manifestation. These beings have said that they will walk and talk with us as one man walks and talks with another.

This can produce a lot of interesting thoughts to you, a lot of visions of a future, of a co-mingling between humans and demons. I’m here to tell you that that day has already come. As you evoke these beings, they appear to you, and indeed you walk and talk with them as one man walks and talks with another, an even greater connection and communication is had in that. And so this future is already here. So what’s the real end purpose of all of this? It is to bring to pass the reign of the Antichrist. It is to bring to pass the full seating of the Infernal Empire here on Earth. This is a personal apocalypse.
—E.A. Koetting, “The Age of Godhood,” YouTube

When E.A. trumpets an Infernal Apocalypse of the Supernal Empire, when he declares a magick war against human enslavers, as he aspires to dethrone unconsented masters of humanity, as he heralds emergence of these Nine Gatekeepers into this earth plane, he does not necessarily imply that it will culminate this year or even in his lifetime perhaps, nor does it dog whistle a violent civil war. Neither he, nor any demon, guarantees an exact time, because a world of feasibilities still unfolds. He does not emulate a doomsday prophet who fear-mongers End Times with an hour and day when life will perish. The Infernal Empire does not mean a gothic fortress in Transylvania with bloodthirsty vampire bats circling overhead and an army of orcs forging swords in a hellfire hearth—although, that does sound dope. And a Supernal Empire does not mean a sparkling crystal castle located atop a voluptuous mountain of cotton ball clouds patrolled by silver-robed, porcelain-skinned archangels behind a golden gate—although, that does sound luxurious.

The Roots of Evil from Seed to Flower

Warlock means “oath-breaker” in Old Norse, wera-leogan

Infernal Apocalypse of the Supernal Empire denotes a demonist coup d’état against angelarchic fascism. E.A. aspires for the complete overthrow of an insidious strain of toxic beliefs that have mercilessly poisoned the human psyche since prehistory, namely, absolutism. This primitive, apish belief in absolute truth anthropomorphized into a second belief in absolute being, called divinity. Without knowledge of science or anthropology, prehistoric humans mythologized divinity into hierarchies of beings who created and ruled over life, called gods. To remain in good standing with these totalitarian, celestial oligarchs, humans abided by an absolute law, or divine covenant, to sacrifice life back to these absolute beings who gifted life to them, i.e., worship. They indicted anyone who transgressed their divine covenant to be a warlock, a witch, a devil, and sentenced them to capital punishment to remedy their collective standing with the gods.

The evolution of evil in religion:

Belief in absolute truth
Belief in absolute being a.k.a. divinity
Belief in divinity as origin, power source, and final destination of existence
Belief in divine law a.k.a. covenant
Belief in worship a.k.a. ritual sacrifice
Belief in capital punishment of heresy, blasphemy, etc.
Inter-tribal genocide, war, slavery, and racism ensue

To summarize, this singular belief in absolute truth evolved into an entire paradigm of authoritarian governance that still exists on earth today in miscellaneous forms and scopes. From seed to flower, absolute truth gave roots to absolute being that sprouted into absolute law that flowered into absolute punishment.

Religion as a Remnant of the Apish Brain

All religious and moral interpretations are but forms of submission to evil … Man is now strong enough to be able to feel ashamed of a belief in god: he may now play the part of the devil’s advocate afresh.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, p.470-1

In the author’s opinion, as Homo sapiens evolved from the great ape, they organically, unconsciously formulated religion as a final rationale to justify their ape-like instincts to view other apes as competition and dominate them for exclusive territory, mates, and survival, i.e., property rights. As humankind has evolved further toward cooperation and mutual aid, their ape-like instinct to remedy economic disputes violently has dropped dramatically, ergo, support of religion has dropped dramatically too. In other words, the author theorizes that religion—belief in divine truth and the accompanied violence necessary to enforce it as divine law—arose biologically from a less evolved brain to justify the nearly obsolete parts of pre-human nature. To this point, social values that humans take for granted today are milestones of progress in human evolution, for example, tolerance of individual diversity, or preference for democracy over theocracy—a razing of vertical hierarchy to rubble underfoot a free, horizontal civilization.

Belial: Without a Master, Compendium 1

My Preface in Compendium of Belial defines godhood simply as the supreme, semi-deterministic zenith of human evolution on its current trajectory—a technological, psychological, and genetic mutation from Homo sapiens to Homo deus—an explosive singularity of exponentially accelerating change. This theory parallels Friedrich Nietzsche’s classic Übermensch figure, an over-man or trans-man who overcomes or transcends his primitive idealism through killing god and then becoming god—to become his truest, fullest self, i.e., to become who you are as Nietzsche phrased it.

Becoming Who You Are

To become a living god does not mean to become someone other than oneself; it does not mean to become something other than oneself. To the contrary, it asks a person to become who they are already but never recognized; it asks a person to awaken to what they are already but never knew. From childhood onward, the ruling class indoctrinates the civilian class to believe that they are someone else; the ruling class indoctrinates the civilian class to believe that they are something else. To become a living god means to unmask false self and maximize true self.

Dear reader, for years I defined godhood by the essential magick powers:

Omniscience through divination
Omnipotence through evocation and spellcasting
Omnipresence through soul travel

I have called these the Three Godlike Powers or 3GP. While that definition remains as true as ever, nevertheless, a newer simpler conception of god has emerged: the being who defines themselves. Consider this exuberant truth, this sublime distillate. In theistic mythologies, the gods create and rule the world. They shape existence and civilization, and thus define the lives of the civilian class. The gods legislate and adjudicate their own preferences, alas, the civilians live and define themselves according to imperatives handed down from the gods, e.g., the Ten Commandments of the Christian Bible.

To become a living god means to become who you are, to define yourself by your own intrinsic preference, without deference to extrinsic imperatives from a god, nation, or parent.

Transhumanism — From Homo Sapiens to Homo Deus

From Ancient Greece through early modern Germany to postmodern France, a leftward lineage of anti-theist philosophers has always killed god and theorized human evolution as on a natural trajectory toward godhood.

God is dead! … And we have killed him! … Do we not ourselves have to become Gods?
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, p.103

At the entrance of the modern time stands the God-man … Man has killed God in order to become now: sole God on high.
—Max Stirner, The Ego & His Own

Man is the being whose project is to be God … To be man means to reach toward being God … man fundamentally is the desire to be God.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, On Being & Nothingness, p.566

The human psyche as a neuro-technology features an incubational power that affects the mental, astral, and physical planes simultaneously. It births into existence and magnifies the lifeforce of that which it concentrates on for extended periods, and conversely, it can abort births and annihilate being also; for example, ancient humans invented thousands of gods and goddesses in myriad polytheistic faiths, and through millennia of mass ritual worship, these pseudo-deities became autonomous, high-powered egregores that live on the astral plane in landscapes resembling their original myths. This explains why black magicians can summon these spirits and soul travel to their realms, and share common experiences amongst one another.

Imagine if humanity had concentrated their magnificent, creative power on maximizing their individual and collective evolution, instead of violently enforcing fictional divine laws. Imagine if humans concentrated on becoming gods and goddesses instead of worshiping other gods and goddesses. If only these former apes would internalize their magick power instead of externalize it. Whensoever humanity incubates themselves into gods instead of wasting their magick on empowering ancient genocidal egregores, then and only then will they transcend Homo sapiens to Homo deus.

For the individual to set up his own ideal and derive from it his laws, his pleasures and his rights—that has perhaps been hitherto regarded as the most monstrous of all human aberrations, as idolatry in itself … It was in the marvelous art and capacity for creating gods—in polytheism—that this impulse was permitted to discharge itself, it was here that it became purified, perfected, and ennobled … To be hostile to this impulse towards the individual ideal—that was formerly the law of every morality … The inventing of gods, heroes, and supermen of all kinds, as well as coordinate men and undermen—dwarfs, fairies, centaurs, satyrs, demons, devils—was the inestimable preliminary to the justification of the selfishness and sovereignty of the individual: the freedom which was granted to one god in respect to other gods, was at last given to the individual himself in respect to laws, customs and neighbors. Monotheism, on the contrary … has perhaps been the greatest danger of mankind … In polytheism man’s free-thinking and many-sided thinking had a prototype set up: the power to create for himself new and individual eyes…
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, p.110-1

Lucifer: The Enlightener, Compendium 2

My Prologue in Compendium of Lucifer elucidates parameters of human oppression with precise political and economic terminology along a historical timeline. It clarifies fundamentals of a social revolution necessary to liberate humanity from its current neo-liberal, state-capitalist, three-caste hierarchy:

Plutocrat class, i.e., the ultra-rich, the elite, kleptocrats & neptocrats
These meta-rulers patronize the politician class whom then legislate, enforce, and increase their economic dominance; this class owns life itself. They own the natural monopolies of earth and utilities of life: land, water, food, medicine, energy, banking, and more. This elite class strengthens and protects their private oligarchy through uninterrupted intergenerational inheritance, trust funds and pseudo-charitable foundations, shell corporations, untaxed offshore bank accounts, inflated government contracts, socialized costs through government subsidies, socialized losses through government bailouts, and money laundering through real estate. The plutocrat class receives: dividends, royalties, rents, capital gains, and interests by extracting rents and debts from the civilian class who needs to access their natural monopolies and utilities in order to survive. The plutocrat class are masters of the two lower classes.
Politician class, i.e., the legislators, judges, police & military
These nominal rulers legislate, police, and judge mainly in accord with demands of the plutocrat class, and only ceremoniously in accord with demands of the civilian class. As legislators-for-hire, the politician class rents out its votes, adjudications, and privileges to the plutocrat class. The politician class indoctrinates and enforces the master-slave relation between the plutocrat and citizen classes.
Citizen class, i.e., the people, the workers, renters & consumer debtors
As subjects of the two ruling classes, the citizen class rents out their labor and goes into debt to receive the privilege to survive under economic mastery of the plutocrat class. The citizen class are the modern slaves of civilization. They have been robbed of their natural birthright to access the commonwealth of humankind, i.e., the natural resources necessary for life itself.

Incidentally, this is the economic critique of democratic libertarianism à la Thomas Paine in Colonial America and radicals of the French Revolution—not to be confused with reactionary libertarianism espoused today.

Azazel: Steal Fire from the Gods, Compendium 3

Black magician denotes an ethnic identity. No singular identity has suffered as much literal, institutional demonization and hatred as black magician in human history—an a priori truth by definition. On every continent in every time, from precolonial Americas both North and South, across Asia through Europe and down to Africa, any person who acted in contrast to religious orthodoxy became color-coded as black and direction-coded as left. Whether designated a devil, demon, div, djinn, witch, and so on, this ubiquitous reactionary tradition of demonization has recurred on record everywhere, albeit under regional nomenclature. From isolated Congo villagers and Persian desert nomads, to forest ascetics in India and pagans in Ireland, place a finger randomly on a world map, and those people historically possess a tradition that alienated and punished so-called black magicians.
—Timothy, Pretext, p.7

My Pretext in Compendium of Azazel defines the black magician as the most persecuted meta-ethnicity in world history and provides examples of discriminatory ancient laws that outlawed and punished black magick. Ethnicity means a common culture in a group of people. Virtually every civilization that has existed has alienated an antinomian minority group of dissidents whom disbelieved in the sanctioned gods and thereby disobeyed sacred laws of the ruling class, crimes of heresy and blasphemy. The tribe slanders dissidents with epithets like Satanist, black magician, witch, sorcerer, warlock, devil, and more. Thus, this global assortment of minority groups across eras and tribes constitutes a meta-ethnicity, one that has suffered more universal persecution collectively than any singular demographic.

Abaddon: Angel of the Abyss, Compendium 4

Name	Left Hand Path	Right Hand Path
Ontology	Optimistic nihilism	Theism
Morality	Voluntary	Imperative
Aesthetic	Plurality	Uniformity
Politic	Anarchy	Hierarchy
Sociality	Inclusive, equalitarian	Exclusive, elitist
Spirituality	Black magick	White magic
Ambition	Deification of self and species	Communion with godhead and transmigration back to it
History	Globally persecuted minority	Globally respected majority
Virtues	Individuality, freedom, power	Faith, abstinence, and piety

In Compendium of Abaddon now, the author takes the reader into the Abyss, and with fair warning, because it will separate wheat from chaff; true black magicians and witches will find sublime validation in it, while a segment of alleged sorcerers and witches will hate it—like sprinkling unholy water on a fake witch, they will melt. Less than 1 of 100 black magickians even knows that the Left Hand Path is grounded on a consensus philosophy, i.e., a peer-agreed internal logic of terminology, values, and ambitions. That fact alone, that consensus definitions exist, may upset a portion of witches whom accidentally mis-identified with the moon and technically would align better with the sun.

The Right Hand Theology

Which is it? Is man God’s mistake or God man’s mistake?
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, p.33

It is necessary to state whom we regard as our antithesis: the theologians, and all those who have the blood of theologians in their veins … It is upon the theological instinct that I wage war … They endow their distorted vision with a good conscience, the claim that no other point of view is any longer of value, once theirs has been made sacrosanct with the names “God,” “Salvation,” “Eternity.” It is the most universal and actually the most subterranean form of falsity on earth … That which a theologian considers true, must of necessity be false.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, p.8

The Right Hand Path classifies as a meta-religion, or basket of religions, with a common theology. It starts with a positive belief in an absolute, fixed, perfect being as their ontological grounds; they call it god or gods or the goddess or the godhead or the divine. Regardless of its gender and quantity which varies by tradition, their religions share a number of theological beliefs in common.

Theism: divinity exists
Creationism: divinity created existence
Theocratism: divinity rules and powers its creation
Elitism: divinity created an aristocracy of beings and cosmocracy of planes in descending order of divinity; it contains an angelarchy in the highest divinest plane, and humanarchy and demonarchy in the lowest most profane planes
Escapism: a soul transmigrates from the lowest to highest planes over aeons of lives in order to ultimately dissolve back into the godhead and escape profanity
Worship: a white magician performs ritual to commune with divinity, which purifies their soul, and accelerates transmigration back to god
Misanthropy: animal nature, human needs, and material ambitions rank as low, base, and evil because they strengthen and solidify physical existence, which they seek to transmigrate

Reader, you might recognize this elitist, escapist, misanthropic theology, because it has dominated Western thought for the last two thousand years, from newer traditions like New Age spirituality and Wicca to old Abrahamic faiths like Christianity and Islam. For example, in Christianity, Yahweh created an angelarchy in heaven (highest plane), with a humanarchy on earth and demonarchy in hell (lower planes). Yahweh commanded humans to suppress their animal nature and human ambition (misanthropy) to purify their souls, because the son of Yahweh will come to earth to gatekeep which souls may return to heaven (transmigration, resurrection).

This Right Hand Path theology views the ultimate trajectory of a soul as a one-dimensional line: the godhead created the soul at Point A in the past, and the soul transmigrates back to the godhead at Point B in the future.

Superficially, this meta-theology sounds deceptively simple and straightforward, which explains why billions of indoctrinated people adhere to it in one form or another. Nonetheless, critical scrutiny reveals this layer cake of unfalsifiable assumptions as a fraud and a literal waste of life.

The Left Hand Philosophy — Godhood out of Chaos

Abyss means “bottomless” in Greek, abyssos
Chaos means “emptiness” in Greek, khaos

The Left Hand Path classifies as a philosophy. It opens with a negative belief, insofar as it believes in nothing. This nothingness is known as the Abyss and chaos in Greek respectively. A black magician categorically does not believe in a separate godhead as the grounds, power source, nor ultimatum of their transformative existence. The Left Hand Path is grounded on groundlessness.

Eternal Recurrence — The Cosmic Circle

Sinister means “left” in Latin
Nihilism means “belief in nothing” in Latin

Insofar as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie … being is an empty fiction … The characteristics which have been assigned to the real being of things are the characteristics of non-being, of nothingness—the real world has been constructed out of a contradiction … it is no more than a moral-optical illusion.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, p.49

This universe has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
—Heraclitus, Fragment 2

In the sinister view, everything constantly changes, and nothing exists in any permanent, absolute, fixed sense—thereby, it precludes belief in a divine or absolute being. The forms of reality emerge from nothing and merge back to nothing always; reality shapeshifts endlessly like a dancing flame. Every part of the cosmos arrives and departs, is born and dies, in and out of the abyss. This lifecycle recurs eternally at every level, from the macrocosm down to the microcosm, i.e., from universes to electrons and everything in between, coming in and out of existence without interruption. This cosmic revolving door powers itself automatically with renewable energy harnessed from this dynamic of antagonistic forces naturally countervailing each other forever. Thus, a black magician interprets reality as a multi-dimensional, perpetual motion illusion, an endless mirage unfolding in real time. As such, a black magician interprets the cosmos as unreal, untrue, amoral, and unbelievable.

Viewed mechanically, the energy of collective becoming remains constant; regarded from the economical standpoint, it ascends to its zenith and then recedes therefrom in order to remain eternally rotary.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, p.304

This healthy, rational nihilism includes anti-theism part and parcel; not only does a sorcerer view a divine being as the highest conceivable lie, but they unmask reality itself as a fake, that is to say, not as it appears and most definitively not from divine creation. If a divine being is absolutely perfect, then it cannot change, because any and all change would ruin its perfection. If reality constantly changes, then it categorically cannot be of divine origin. Alas, white magicians view black magick as evil because it reveals that their emperor has no clothes.

The world itself is a mixed drink which must constantly be stirred. The strife of the opposites gives birth to all that comes-to-be; the definite qualities which look permanent to us express but the momentary ascendancy of one partner. But this by no means signifies the end of the war; the contest endures in all eternity … The things in whose definiteness and endurance narrow human minds believe have no real existence. They are but the flash and spark of drawn swords, the quick radiance of victory in the struggle of the opposites.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Age of the Greeks, p.54-5

Will to Power — Antagonism as the Motor of Ascent

Black magick means “performing rituals that harness chaos for ascent.”

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is increasing, that resistance has been overcome … The weak and the botched shall perish … And they ought even to be helped to perish.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, p.4

Out of cosmic chaos, the black magician 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 magicians to ascend to godhood.

Reader, you do not need to believe in divinity in order to become godlike through embodying traits that have always been exclusively reserved for gods. To this point, the more antagonistic you become toward the concept of a separate godhead, the more volatility it breeds, the more it accelerates your ascent to godhood. The stronger the dynamic of antagonism, the faster the ascent. Therefore, both anti-theism and anarchism, also known as adversarialism and antinomianism, fuel self-deification. In other words, the more a black magician fights against elitism—belief that a higher divine class should rule over a lower profane class—the more godlike they become. The lower, deeper, more subterranean a warlock descends, the higher, loftier, more godlike he ascends. Godhood and devilhood are the same archetype from alternate perspectives.

Forever and ever, persistent matter changes its form. Grasping the clue of causality: mechanical, physical, chemical, and organic phenomena greedily push to the fore, snatching matter from one another, for each would reveal its own inherent idea. We can follow this strife throughout the whole of nature. In fact, we might say that nature exists but by virtue of it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will & Representation

Chaos — The Intersection of Black Magick & Mysticism

Black magick and mysticism intersect in that both springboard off a belief in nothing. They share one axiom: change is the only constant, nothing exists, only chaos is real. But they divorce each other radically from there.

A magickian interprets chaos as a free space to become oneself fully, i.e., becoming who they are, a.k.a. godhood—this explains why sorcerers often adopt and tolerate eccentric aesthetics in their clothes and hairdos, and alternative lifestyles like polyamory, queerness, transgenderism, and transhumanism; whereas, mysticism interprets chaos as a law to become nothing fully, i.e., become one with nothingness, a.k.a. nirvana—this explains why mystics piously subject themselves to asceticism whereby they abandon possessions, shave off their hair, wear uniform robes, live in remote monasteries, eat only donated food, and take vows of celibacy. Do not allow sugary platitudes from mystics to deceive you—they espouse pessimistic nihilism under their smiles.

Black magicians and mystics both view reality as a bowl of wet clay. A sorcerer shapes this clay into a beautiful monument, while a mystic never touches it. Black magick is the highest and finest art form insofar as it sculpts reality itself. A black magician lives with eyes wide open, dancing in rapture with the cosmic fire; a mystic sits eyes closed in lotus posture on the bench.

Immortal Omnipresence — Anti-Transmigration: Ascent Through Descent

The most amazing thing about being here now in this human form in this reality is that we have not been disconnected from our god-selves. All that we are, all that we ever were, and all that we could become, is present within us at this very moment. It’s just a matter of unlocking it, expressing it, letting it flow through. It’s a matter of taking away your own internal blockages and stopping yourself from stopping yourself.
—E.A. Koetting, “Anti-Transmigration,” YouTube

A white magician believes that a divine being created the cosmos, and that it contains a hierarchy of spirits and cosmocracy of planes from highest, most divine down to lowest, least divine. In concept, they try to increase purity of their soul over aeons of lifetimes, rising to higher planes in a transmigration back to their divine creator. Accordingly, their theology deems the physical plane, human nature, animal needs, and earthly ambitions as low, base, dirty, and anathema to their divine imperative of purifying the soul.

A black magician critiques their repression of human nature and escape of the physical plane as misanthropic and escapist—not to mention absurdly false and therefore an aeonic waste of lifetimes. Instead, a sorcerer views this physical plane like any other plane—a reservoir of chaos, a mirage of endless change. Or, perhaps, a sorcerer considers physicality their favorite illusion because it is the most deceptive, hardest, toughest, painstakingly slowest plane of them all; as such, it foments the most antagonism between cycling opposites, therefore, providing the most chaos to fuel the highest ascent.

In a video game, as a player becomes better, their levels become harder, not easier, and they excitedly strive to reach the hardest level or plane. So, too, does the black magician excitedly aspire to become a god in this cosmic video game.

Dear reader, do you finally see?

Higher man is a combination of the monster and the superman: these opposites belong to each other. With every degree of a man’s growth towards greatness and loftiness, he also grows downwards into the depths and into the terrible: we should not desire the one without the other; or, better still: the more fundamentally we desire the one, the more completely we shall achieve the other … Terribleness belongs to greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, p.474

The adversarialist, the diabolist, the demonist, the black magician, the sorcerer, the witch—they do not wish to escape so-called lower planes. The more they descend to devilhood, the more they ascend to godhood, because descent and ascent occur simultaneously in proportion to each other. A black magician maximizes their use of the cosmos, digests it completely, to a point of coexistent omnipresence in every illusory plane altogether at once.

This ultimate cosmic omnipresence and inclusivity toward the physical, when taken to its logical conclusion, constitutes a quest for immorality, but not of the physical only—immortal omniscience on every plane eternally.

Optimistic Nihilism — Cosmic Orgasms in a Pregnant Abyss

Historically discriminatory slanders like Satanist, black magician, and witch, have lost their teeth in the twenty-first century in part because of innovations by authors in this very compendium—black magicians coming out of the closet. As civilization progresses further socially and divorces from god, these epithets have become badges of honor worn shamelessly with a sense of irony. Notwithstanding, a newer epithet has risen to first place as worst insult used to flippantly dismiss an adversarialist as crazy and evil: nihilist.

Nihilism simply means “belief in nothing,” from nihility in Latin. It has become the new knee-jerk slander instead of Satanist. As explained, the Left Hand Path assents to a negative first: nothing exists, but a boundless void in and out of which an ephemeral mirage loops forever. This endless change precludes permanent being; nothing can nor does exist absolutely—neither god, nor truth, nor morality, nor beauty, nor justice, nor any other manmade ideals. Brother Friedrich Nietzsche meant precisely this when he declared, “God is dead!”—he heralded the death of ideals as truth.

If absolute truth cannot exist, then the highest, ultimate belief needs to be a negative, i.e., a near truth that borders against absolute truth, but never takes a leap of faith over the chasm.

The black magician finds himself in a godless abyss now, liberated from the metaphysical cages of divine laws, afterlife punishments, and karmic traps. The black witch is born again into a free spirit.

What does the sorcerer feel in his newly discovered environment?

What does the witch feel in her newly discovered freedom?

Pure joy, unconditional love, bottomless gratitude. If home is where the heart is, then a black magician feels at home in chaos, because her heart lives there. The abyss is the natural habitat of a black witch. Therein, her soul lies bare, undressed, and unprotected in this fertilest of gardens, awakening to her goddess nature for the first time, she becomes who she is beneath the illusion of flesh. With her orgasmic Yes! as the soundtrack to the cosmos—she becomes… and becomes … again… and again… she becomes forever!

Question: What is black magick?

Answer: The cosmic orgasm, constantly becoming in the pregnant abyss, giving birth to new life and death to old. Aha! Black magick is sex magick. Ascent means increasingly becoming who you are and who you deserve to be by birthright; in every moment of chaos, a new you is born, an old you dies, from your thoughts to your cells, you live in constant renewal. This is the meaning of optimistic nihilism, this is the doctrine of the Left Hand Path: yes, yes, yes forever!

The Antichrist in the Age of Godhood — The Pantheon: A Union of Human Gods

Christ means “anointed one” in Greek, khristos
Messiah means “anointed one” in Hebrew, mashiah
Elite means “chosen ones” in Latin, eligere

To truly become the living incarnation of supreme self-deification, you must fully embody every deity and devil within your own pantheon simultaneously, thus transcending form through the infinite expansion of self rather than through self-sacrifice. You must know with certainty then that you are the chosen one, that you are the destroyer, the antichrist, and the sole savior and the only hope for humanity. This heretical hubris is magnified by Ascent and validated magically by those who dare accept their stations as lords of this world.
—E.A. Koetting, “The Age of Godhood,” Newsletter

Both christ and messiah mean “the anointed,” similarly, elite means “the chosen;” they denote an identity archetype, a mantle of the highest privilege bestowed upon an initiate who undergoes a rite of passage granting them power to rule, not unlike crowning a king or swearing in a president. Anointing refers to rubbing ointment or oil on a recipient, a common part of initiatory ceremonies in ancient time. Thus, anointed means “initiated ruler” or “elite ruler.”

The Christ — God of the Elite: Privilege, Patriarchy & Victimhood

Privilege presupposes that an initiate did not earn or deserve their title through normal qualification and deed, but rather inherited or received their title as a gift. To illustrate this, the mythical protagonist of the Christian saga, Jesus Christ, inherited his mantle as King of Kings from his father, the patriarchal deity Yahweh. Jesus epitomizes the entitlement nature of Christhood insofar as he became Lord of Lords over humankind through primogeniture, i.e., inheritance. Christians worship a man born into the highest conceivable patriarchal privilege and nepotism: a male child inherits totalitarian dominion over the species and planet at birth from his father. Furthermore, he subjects himself to crucifixion in a supreme act of victimhood, a mythos that pairs privilege and victimhood together like cheese and crackers. Seriously though, can any sane person feel bad for Jesus, a man born into the ultimate privilege, the submissive son of a totalitarian, racist, homophobic war-god who landlords the cosmos? He deserved to die.

Needless to say, Christianity contains christ in its name, and thereby means the religion of the anointed one, or worship of the anointed one, or worship of the chosen one. Alas, Christianity denotes a religion of elitism; Christians worship the elite; Christ is the god of male privilege and victimhood.

The Antichrist — Antihero of the People:
Individuality, Freedom, Power » Unity, Tolerance & Synergy

The Antichrist signifies an inverse identity, negative archetype, or adverse mantle—not an individual figure by name, but an entire subversive zeitgeist. In contradiction to Christ, Antichrist means the unannointed, the unchosen, the unwashed, the undesirables, the anti-elite. If Christ comprises the elite, then Antichrist encompasses the people.

No one black magician can unbolt a billion shackles—not E.A. Koetting, not Michael W. Ford, not Edgar Kerval, not anyone; no lone wolf Demonic Gatekeeper can rewire a billion brains to raise awareness of their oppression, nor lift a billion veils off a billion faces in a clean sweep. The Nine Demonic Gatekeepers themselves identified their unique strengths and weaknesses and magnified them through uniting into a mighty nine. Through unity, their diverse array of joint powers maximizes one another’s strengths and nullifies one another’s weaknesses.

Dear reader, imagine your unique strengths and weaknesses.

Can you do this alone? Can you do everything necessary to free the people? Have you even freed yourself?

Let me absolve you of this messianic obligation with a more evolved view on individuality: If every individual has pluses and minuses, logic dictates that individuality breeds diversity in a group. As such, a group remedies their respective weaknesses through reciprocal strengths found in one another. In other words, what one individual lacks, another individual provides—this collective empowerment is called synergy. A group fosters a power synergy that measures far greater than the power of one constituent alone.

I ask again: can you do this alone? To which you answer now: no, but when I unite with other black magicians whose strengths remedy my weaknesses, perhaps we can together!

My friend, it is high time for humans to awaken the indomitable power found through in collective unity. It is high time that we recognize: we are better together. Only a species can overthrow enslavement of a species. No one man or woman can save the world, but men and women together can.

The Pantheon — A Union of Human Gods

To remain consistent in their defense of freedom as a virtue, a black magician 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 magicians 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.