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I have structured the forum below so that the newcomer can get a grasp of the ideas established in the Black Kaaba. This is not traditional Satanism, Witchcraft, or Thelema, not by a long shot. These are wholly new and original ideas. Those who know me from the past, get rid of your preconceived notions. I have spent 20 years working along the lines of the occult system assembled by the late Aleister Crowley. However, I have to a great degree worked beyond that system to develop my very own. The "Law of Thelema" which Crowley built from the contributions of occultists and satirists before him, is indeed a potent and meaningful Word for this Age, however as it is commonly known, it is still very much occult and, from my point-of-view, certainly misunderstood. In this forum I shall release my own observations on this in tremendous detail, hoping to clarify how it is an effective tool for those who should care to subscribe to the doctrines of the Black Kaaba.

In order to approach any measure of understanding of these matters as I interpret them to be, one has to be patient and mature in the assimilation and digestion of these materials. I shall painstakingly elaborate some of the ideas and notions first put forward by Crowley and others, then proceed to explain how these ideas and notions are understood from my perspective. Thelema is not merely a philosophy and yet it is no religion, and it most certainly is not theistic. Theism relies upon a personal deity or deities; but there is no such thing.

There is, however, more to consciousness than we commonly realize. There is a certain force or energy that pervades all things, and touches upon all forms of consciousness, and spans all points in time at once; but this force, though it has mistakenly been called "God" in the past by those that have encountered it, is no god at all -- far from it. It has no personal perspective, being linked at once to all perspective everywhere throughout nature. Completely impersonal, it cares nothing whether you or I live or die. Or better said, it cares as much for the deadly forces of nature -- i.e. predatory animals, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes -- as it does for you and I. It has been called "The Beast", which many (particularly Christians) associate with the Devil. But what is meant by "the Devil"? A being opposed to a Christian or Muslim God? This is a misperception of fact. There is no such god and there is no such being opposed to him.

Thousands of years ago, those that encountered this force of nature postulated here, have been so highly disturbed that they looked away, such was their utmost terror. It was referred to as Set, Shaitan, and El Shaddai among many other names. Moses revered it by setting up an icon of a serpent. It offended and struck dumb the poor mind of man, which is of course ill-equipped to handle the onslaught of an infinite, all-encompassing perception.

Later, the followers of such pioneers, cowards that they were, shied away from their roots, and fell back into the worship of false gods as it were, preferring a false sense of security in the arms of lifeless idols and ideals, desiring rather personal, loving, angelic deities. Whenever a great magus has gone off into the desert and returned, mad-eyed and eager to expound something of the horrors he has witnessed, the people after him have mistaken his meaning and posited a Devil apart from their so-called god, which to their minds just had to be gentle and loving and interested in them.

Many ancient peoples, including those that followed Moses, believed that because this force was offensive to the mind of man, it must be angry. Moses himself was guilty of this misconception. Why was it angry? Naturally, they came to the conclusion that it was angry because humanity looked to satisfy, rather than purge or purify, its animal nature. They thought that, since this force was not manifest as one of them, it must therefore be a purely spiritual thing, like a ghost without any connection to the material world, its tendencies and desires. And as a consequence of this highly inaccurate assumption, they were drawn to the conclusion that this being they were inventing sought appeasement in the form of asceticism on behalf of the whole human race.

The Jews were not the only ones guilty of this sort of religious concoction based on misconception of reality. Many religious peoples, before and after the Jews, whether polytheists, monotheists, or nihilists, have done exactly the same thing, albeit in very different ways. The procedure of Buddhism developed into an ascetic mechanism. And many religions have been based on sacrifice, to appease this force that was wrongly considered wrathful at our carnal nature. By sacrificing their livestock, or even their children in some cases, they were giving up something of themselves materially, or by proxy, carnally, thus (in their warped minds) liberating them somewhat of their material nature, and liberating them of that part of themselves that seemed to keep them from the pleasant company of their ferocious god. As a consequence of this kind of sacrificial activity, they believed they would, upon death, be spared from the clutches of Hell and be welcomed into the loving embrace of their divine beloved.

The Muslims who came long after the Jews and the Christians, also developed this exact mindset. They too posited a Devil opposite their God, and naturally assumed they had to restrict themselves to appease that God. But they have taken a chapter out of the book of the Christians of the Inquisition, and conceived the notion that, in order to fully placate their master, they were obligated to force others to do the same, or else face death. Hence Jihad as a form of religious appeasement.

Alas, all of these numerous herds of religious animals have been barking up the wrong tree altogether, again and again making the very same mistake of theological assumption. Instead of opposing what they perceived was some evil "Devil", and chasing after some imagined spirit in the sky that was really only an impossible ideal modeled after their own personal wants and desires as frightened humans failing to fully comprehend the profound mysteries of life, sex and death, they should have understood from the get-go that their notion of deity was a fallacy, and that there is no personal god in fact, no spirit-world and no presiding spirit, only this inexplicable power of nature, this force that is everywhere at once but nowhere isolated in particular. Essentially indifferent.

After a certain passage of time, this force has always withdrawn its connection to a group of people and crystallized its current of inspiration elsewhere, starting up another religion that has tended to oppose the ones previous. This fact begs us to consider the possibility of it being possessed of intelligence. But quite naturally, any force that pervades all minds human and animal, and which informs us and assists in the progression of our own intelligence as has been the case particularly over the course of the last century, when it remainfested again through some of the teachings of occultists, must of course be intelligent itself. Yet this should be well-noted: this intelligence is essentially our own a vaster level than we ordinarily recognize. As Einstein taught us, time itself is by no means a fixed reality, so our perception of limitation in the cycles thereof is an imaginary one, an effect of the restriction caused by having one's own position, fixed within a body for example. Time is relative to a position, and outside that position it is not reality as we perceive it to be. Therefore, such a force as would be linked to all positions simultaneously, must of course appreciate all time at once, and be free of the apparent limits of causality, for in such a state, both the cause and the effect must be simultaneous without beginning or end. Particular accidents such as human life and death must always be constant, not at all the one-time-only events they seem to us to be.

Don't get me wrong here though: all the evidence appears to indicate that there is no individual life after death, no reincarnation, no heavenly manifestation of ourselves, nothing but a sort of dissolution into the consciousness of the aforementioned force which is, in the long run, really only the complete awareness or pure experience of universal totality itself, the underlying root of all consciousness human and animal and even that of every point throughout the universe, being as it is unlimited. This kind of perception wouldn't be anything we might ordinarily imagine, without appreciation of particulars, lacking any resemblance to the awareness we now experience as limited particulars therein, but more along the lines of "perfect experience", or pure perception without differentiation, passion that is at once suffering, total ecstasy that is at once no different from agony.

I myself have had four near-death experiences in all (and though one of these took place at the age of 1 going on 2 years of age, I recall it vividly to a point), and in none of them did I experience any kind of "light" or blissful peace; quite to the contrary, I experienced nothing I had undergone as a human animal to that point in time (though I did experience this same kind of thing much later, after my exposure to the occult). There was no loving or beatific quality to the event whatsoever, but simply a violent crash through normal consciousness to something quite horrendous to common understanding. This was a shocking kind of experience, wherein there was no longer a body or a spirit or anything to which I was attached -- no sight, no sound, nothing but a perfect awareness in oblivion in which every sort of possible feeling was thrust into my perception at once. As horrifying as it seemed, it was nevertheless perfectly appreciable somehow, and inexplicably exhiliarating and liberating.

Even as that may be, life as we know it is all there really is. That very force which would in theory (and in my experience actually does) span all things, is as much a byproduct of our consciousness as we are manifestations of its own. In short, beyond the limits of time and space, its reality is actually our own. What we appear to be frame-by-frame throughout time is simply a certain aspect of itself, and yet it is equally true to say that it is the overall effect of ourselves, and of material being itself, ultimately. Yet to term it an "effect" is technically inaccurate, given that it obtains beyond the possibility of cause-and-effect.

Religion as we have so far seen it embodied in human history, is based on a lie, as has been shown. This hardly means it is a worthless device. Religion that is based on the old ideas of worship, as placating or adoring an imagined deity and serving to assist us in restricting ourselves as a means of purifying us to be worthy of its company, is a plague on this planet, a scourge on the human race, and, inasmuch as it would impose its lie on others, an endangerment to all. The sense of shame and guilt that it would necessarily inflict on our children is harmful to their very nature, and dangerous and demeaning to those forms of life that, because they are animals incapable of such worship, are deemed outside divine grace, and therefore less than we, suitable to be our food or means of comfort, mere beasts of burden to be herded and slaughtered to serve our needs. It is the height of arrogance. Such religion is despicable, immoral, and truly evil.

But there is great potential in another kind of religion, one wherein the word "worship" means not reverence for anything, not veneration, but rather, invocation. Invocation makes no use of prayer or devoted adoration; it is the drawing-in of the force that we recognize is really only our very own, yet on a grand scale. It is true self-gnosis.

I shall explore the depths of knowledge of this force throughout the various categories of this forum, the Black Kaaba, and it is my hope that many others will explore it with me. It is a force not of any god or such limited being, but the force of nature herself. It is in one aspect totally masculine, in another aspect purely feminine; but in a third reality, the culmination and union of the two, it is both at once, as it were androgynous. Herein do the profound mysteries of sexual congress obtain in such a way as we can only glimpse, without the advent of certain techniques and stimulants; but this is a matter beyond the scope of any public forum, so I reserve myself on this somewhat difficult subject.

One thing I must reiterate, is that humanity has for too long resented and shied away from the true force behind and at the root of their respective religions. They have called it "Devil" out of fear, when in fact it is both the cause and effect of everything including consciousness itself. Because referring to it as anything else -- i.e. "horned god" and "goddess", nirvana, mystical experience, samadhi, what have you -- would fail to accurately define it, and only muddy the waters further still, I resort to calling it what the religions I oppose know it as: the Devil. But it isn't their Devil, and it is infinitely more than they realize, it is verily the source of all life itself. If you think that by "Devil" I mean evil, or that I imagine a red-skinned fellow with a pitchfork, horns and a tail, then you're sadly mistaken and intellectually bankrupt.

I shall in this forum explore the possibilities of this force of nature, and strive to propound a new religion unlike any religion before, quite unlike that attempted by my predecessors. Perhaps you will join me...

Satanas vobiscum,

ADRIAN