#gothic insurrection

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Well it's done, the article I had in mind as a new statement on the Left Hand Path, my position within it, how I view my religious identity as multiple things rather than one label etc, and yes this meant to be the next step from the Satanic Paganism thing.

My Will And Its Intercourse

I first decided to write this in March, in the hope of establishing a new sense of place and definition from which to spring forth into a re

I'll probably pin this later. Maybe in a separate post.

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It's obviously unavoidable to think about witchcraft when reading Ginzburg's Ecstasies, but in my case reading about Ginzburg's presentation of the multiple underpinning themes that form the concept of the Witches Sabbath, right through to the whole thread of ecstatic cults (not some ancient witch cult surviving over the years but rather a series of threads from a broad folkloric nucleus feeding into myth), had me thinking about witchcraft to the point that I think you can easily rock with certain forms of contemporary witchcraft in pagan or satanic ways with this in mind, at least with praxis in mind, at least if you're self-aware about the whole thing about modern distant configurations of aberrant folkloric returns of the pursuit of ecstasy whose point is to bring the soul to the world of the beyond and back.

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Should the subduing talisman, the Cross, break, then will come roaring forth the wild madness of the old champions, that insane Berserker rage, of which the northern poets sing. That talisman is brittle, and the day will come when it will pitifully break. The old stone gods will rise from the long-forgotten ruin and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes; and Thor, leaping to life with his giant hammer, will crush the Gothic cathedrals!

- Heinrich Heine

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In Euripides' Bacchae, Dionysus could turn into all sorts of animals and also water and fire. In the Apocryphon of John, Yaldabaoth is a shape-shifter who can manifest all sorts of forms. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula can not only turn into bats but also mist or fog.

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Rambling about Pan-Phanes, Satan, Lucifer, and satanic interpretations of the Orphic Mysteries.

The Dionysian Pan-Phanes-Baphomet-Lucifer-Satan

Recent personal inquiries around the Orphic Mysteries have inspired me to return to the subject of Phanes, the primordial cosmogonic god of

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As I’ve written into Insurrezione Gotica (Gothic Insurrection), the peculiar outsidness of the {abstract} barbarian towards major languages, written codes and politics (I know! This is the exactly opposite of Haraway’s cyborg, but I don’t think they should totally reject each other) makes him, in the eyes of sedentaries, more akin to animals, plants or even commodities! But it’s exactly this kind of inhuman kinship that makes the nomadic barbarian the sworn enemy of civilization but, also, the true protagonist of the revolt against the “modern world” aka neoliberalism, statalism, nationalism, socialism, capitalism, marketism and fascism. Furthermore, barbaric affects are as much hybrid as barbarian ontology: they’re ambiguous, unclear and obscure, both in regard of their contents and their objects (we got spirits, anthropomorphic animals and plants, animism, demiurgism and also demonism). At the same time, this fragmentary (ap)perception is deeply aware of the immanence of chaos and death, of the possibility of a world-without-us (that was or that will be) and of a world-in-itself that is not only for-us humans but also for non-human entities. So, this kind of “empirical patchwork” stretches indefinitely towards differences and multiplicities – maybe even toward a glimpse of the “Vision-in-One”. As Nietzsche wrote in Beyond Good and Evil: “[Barbarians] were more COMPLETE men (which at every point also implies the same as “more complete beasts)”. Humanity has been organized and “organicisized”, striated by laws, boundaries and identities, becoming INCOMPLETE – obviously this is a myth, a very dangerous myth, but has become necessary to live dangerously. 

- Claudio Kulesko, "Under the Sign of The Black Mark: Interview with Members of Gruppo Di Nun", Dustin Breitling on Diffractions Collective

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At a point where I'm thinking Aleister Crowley didn't really say that much about theurgy, but at the same time he does talk about either theurgy or certain concepts therein, enough to maybe support the idea that Crowley's Thelema represented a "new form of theurgy"; one that doesn't even really regard the Neoplatonic boundaries between theurgy and goetia; hell, the Bornless Ritual probably qualifies as the erasure of the boundary between theurgy and goetia in a modern context.

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The notion that nothing can oppose the divine if all things are divine necessitates sensate experience as a pathway to liberation and even divine self-realisation, and with that there can be no argument in principle against religious and magical eroticism as a path to liberation. And what then about the erotic import associated with the practice of Satanism is not divine liberation? If the universe and the body are identical but for different angles, and only fetters truly separate them, and if the goal is to weave them together by removing obstacles and limits, then it is a simple matter to realise that social norms are a large part of those limits and obstacles, or reinforce many manner, and then you will have antinomianism. And then, we will recognise the storming of heaven as a way of conceptualising that “weaving” in satanic and egoist terms: a destructive act or insurrection that breaches the barriers and breaks the limits that seem to wrap around us in our embodied state. If Tantric “cosmification” (in David Gordon White's terms at least) is what Gregory Shaw calls deification (in Platonist theurgical terms), and if that means the body of the yogi should not be seen a miniature cosmos but instead as a “self-magnifying self” that has become fully realised as “the magnificent universe”, then ours is a barbarian business, to open the vaults of the universe as the act of apotheosis.

It's actually pretty hilarious to find connections to whatever I was cooking early last year to what Shaw tries to talk about in the second chapter of Hellenic Tantra (which I would say is so far insightful but in a very flawed way).

The Left Hand Path of Dracula the Barbarian

While reading Gruppo Di Nun’s Revolutionary Demonology I encountered an interesting discussion of the figure of Dracula in the essay “Gothic

Unfortunately the connection to theurgy seems limited to the base principle that theurgy seeks embodied divinity and establishes the basis of that in the descent of the macrocosmic divine into the microcosmic human matter. But, there are transgressive possibilities nonetheless.