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The text used is Sinistra Vivendi, supplied with this paper.
PART I
Self Initiation Rite
Erect an altar and obtain working tools, etc. Adapt the initiation
rite appearing on page 13 of Sinistra Vivendi, and perform a self-initiation.
1. Provide a full working record of your rite, including whatever emotions,
etc. were felt.
Sinistra Vivendi (pages 1-3)
1. Where does the name ‘Satan’ come from?
2. What does the O.S.V. symbol stand for?
3. What does Satanism view man as being?
4. From whence does the Satanist’s code of living derive?
5. Define Right Hand and Left Hand paths.
6. Describe the principle of polarity.
7. Define ‘Sinister’.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Satan’s Hammer (pages 4-5)
1. How can it be said that Nietzsche is a ‘satanic philosopher’?
2. What do both LaVey and Nietzsche teach about the herd?
3. According to Nietzsche, every individual represents one of two aspects
of life. Name the two.
4. In Nietzschean philosophy the superior individual - Higher Man -
is the transitional type between what two extremes of life?
5. What shall be the ‘mission' of the new nobility, according to Nietzsche?
6. What advice does Nietzsche give to Higher Man?
7. Why does Nietzsche condemn pity?
8. What are the two opposing moralities?
The Coming God Race (pages 6-7)
1. What attitude does the Satanist have towards egalitarianism?
2. What do LaVey, Nietzsche and Crowley all advocate in terms of population
policy?
3. Define eugenics.
4. What is the Pendell thesis on the collapse of civilizations?
The Faustian Soul (pages 8-9)
1. Who was Dr Faustus?
2. What motivated Faustus to seek a pact with the Devil?
3. What term succinctly defines ‘Faustian’?
Rites & Ceremonies
1. Describe the purpose of Satanic magick and ritual.
2. Compose a simple ritual of your own devising. Describe in full.
Visualization
Visualization is a simple but vital part of both external and
internal magick.
By visualization we are changing our state of consciousness.
Visualization has been described as a type of willed day-dreaming. Often symbols, incense and other trappings appropriate to or suggestive of that which we are seeking to evoke are used.
Exercise
a. Sit or lie in a relaxed state, and close eyes.
b. Clear your mind of all conscious thoughts.
c. Visualize an aim or desire; see it in living detail and colour.
d. Practice visualization regularly.
1. Describe two visualizations in detail.
2. Draw a pentagram on a piece of paper 3” x 2”, look at it for 2 minutes,
close your eyes & visualize it.
- are you able to hold the visualization for at
least several minutes?
- Can you change the colour of the visualized pentagram
with your imagination?
Pathworkings
Pathworkings are not simply a leisurely diversion into fantasy.
A Working activates the unconscious and puts it into communication with
the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
Just as psychiatrists use word-association and ink-blot tests
to uncover unconscious areas of their patients’ psyches, so the Adept uses
Pathworkings to tap not only his own unconscious but to put it in contact
with universal images and wisdom, accumulated over thousands of years of
man’s evolution.
1a. Either buy a Tarot deck of a type which particularly appeals to
you, and choose three of the Trumps;
OR
b. Choose three runes (see appendix A), drawing each on a piece
of cards or paper, about 3” x 2”;
OR
c. Choose three letters of the Enochian alphabet (see appendix
B), drawing on a piece of card or paper, about 3” x 2”.
Do not undertake more than one Pathworking per day.
- Sit or lie comfortably.
- Clear your mind.
- Gaze at the Trump/Rune/Letter for several minutes.
- Close your eyes and visualize the details of the Trump/Rune/Letter
on a large door.
- Visualize yourself opening the door and walking through it.
- Observe the landscape and surroundings, ask questions of those
you meet, ask for a ‘guide’ to take you through if you wish.
- Do not force the images; let them arise from your ‘imagination’
(unconscious) spontaneously.
- When you have seen all you wish, return through the door, back
to normal consciousness, declaring, “It is done.”
- Write a detailed report of all you have seen and heard.
- Consider what the symbols, images, etc. might represent, and
whether they have any special meaning to you personally.
- Look up the meaning of the Trump/Rune/Letter and compare it
to your own notes.
- Provide a full report of all three Pathworkings.
“Are you the victor, the self-conqueror, the ruler of your senses, the lord of your virtues? thus I ask you?”
Formulate a programme of physical health and fitness, including
giving up any habits which are physically or psychologically weakening
or controlling you (e.g. drugs, tobacco, excessive alcohol).
- Provide details, including an honest assessment of how well you feel you will progress, difficulties encountered, etc.
True Will: The Next Stage of Physis
The Satanist is attuned to who he really IS. His actions are
spontaneous - instinctive; his rationality, intellect, creativity and cunning
merely weapons/tools for his instinctual Self.
The entropic force in nature manifests in the individual as it
does throughout the rest of nature, when the individual is in a state of
health, and at ease with himself, as a totality, as follows:
1. Lets go to his nature and the flow of his being.
2. He knows his own boundaries, who and what he is.
3. He is connected to his parents, to his remotest ancestors - to his
genetic inheritance.
4. He follows his own nature automatically - instinctively.
5. The individual’s life flows, and he is at one with himself, at peace
within as opposed to the un-ease (dis-ease) of the sick and the self-divided.
Blockage of the flow of life force can occur through outside forces and
self-repression, leading to mental and physical illness.
Present Self and True Self
Anti-nature dogmas such as Christianity state that Man is separate
from nature. Satanism holds that man is part of nature, an animal whose
behaviour is genetically based. This the modern sciences of genetics and
sociobiology verify. The INSTINCT is still the dominating force for human
and all other animal behaviour. Therefore, the individual cannot be more
than what he is GENETICALLY endowed with; although he can be LESS than
his genetic potential if repressed by influences which aren’t in accord
with his true nature (Will).
Satanism unfolds the real nature of the individual; what the
Greeks call physis.
The Satanist frees himself from the bonds of dogma and all other
influences alien to himself; he unfolds that which he IS.
Make a Self-analysis based on the following questions:
1. What is your conception of your ideal self - the person you’d like
to be?
2. How do you view your present Self - the person you actually are
now?
3. List the interferences you perceive in the way of achieving you
ideal self.
4. What do you think you can do to overcome these interferences?
5. To what extent are these interferences products of your own deficiencies;
what ones are the result of the influence of others?
6. What do you consider to be your major goal or life’s purpose?
7. What factors are preventing you from reaching your goal, and who
or what is responsible?
8. Consider ways in which you can overcome these obstacles.
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Write a 500-1000 word essay on how you expect Satanism to affect your life.