Lux Haeresis: The Light Heretical
Daniel A. Schulke
Language: English
Pages: 165
ISBN: B0051UTV2C
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The principal concern of the work is the Arcana of the Witch's Eye and its mutual interaction with Sentient Luminosity. Treating the twin mysteria of Ocular Malediction (the so-called Evil Eye), and Seership or 'The Sight', the book proceeds beyond this duality unto the realm of Telaesthesis --the unique perceptual modalities of the Witches' Sabbath, grand abberator of the sensorial field. Explored in detail is the magical relation between Hand and Eye, the Body of Void, and the vivification of the Magical Image. As a magico-poetic cartography of the illuminant metaphysic present in the folkloric strata of traditional witchcraft, The Light Heretical serves as both homage and grimoire to its Luciferan arcana.
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The varying 'hypostases of Self* through one's own incarnative cycle: the younger selves of time past which, sacrificed upon the leaden Altar of Old Kronos, have given rise to the presentflesh.To this growing assembly of Selves one may then extrapolate the procession to include the Possible Selves of Futurity. As with the ensorcellment of the experiential, all may be empowered as individuals or as legion experienced as One. Whether for pleasure, power, or knowledge, the varying emanations of Self.
To the Magus, exemplifying the sum debauchery and profanity which he, by his Art, has transcended. Men of Science maintain that the witch haunts the minds of the ignorant merely as a specter, an inversion of religious piety or rational order, possessing attributes calculated to rouse outrage among the superstitious and simple-minded. In cases where Men of Science have adopted the Mind as their chosen fetish, the witch is portrayed as a societal scapegoat or victim of mob rule. From these.
Its mephitic emanation to wax bellicose, even unto violation of the Sanctum of the Body of Shadow. The object shall then possess each of the mundane senses until its effrontery overwhelms them. As the abhorrence of the object floods the sensoria, conjure in its centre a second object evoking attributes classically pleasing unto the senses: afragrant rose, newly-opened; theface ofone's Beloved; the exalted image ofone's ideal dwelling-place; ripen'd corn of harvest, gatheredfull-sheaf; a painting.
Of my cenobitic Brother, whose strangely-illumined pages had first captivated my attention. Such blossoms of phantasie, however, brought none of the Wise to me in flesh, though on certain nights I awoke to the sounds of distant musick: a perverse co-mingling of horn, fiddle, and drum carried upon the wind. During this vexatious silence, my one salvation was a singular devotion, a secret discipline which sustained my heart. By night I went forth beneath the sky and made sacrifice unto the Seven.
Was then required to disrobe and cast my habit unto the darkness of the ancient well. What profligate sacrifices next transpired I shall abstain from writing, both for the sake of credulity and the preservation of the Cult itself. And yet I may say this: when it was done, the entirety of my being, including all of my holy vestments, was given over to the blackness of the pit, including my Bible. My companions then stepped forward and read a prayer from a hoary missal bound in black skin: O Bright.