The Theory of the Beast

[ II ] The Theory of the Beast

In the realm of Black Magic it is often useful to borrow metaphors or terms from sources such as Psychology. I shall now aim to represent a psychological foundation for the ideas I have encountered: but I must impress upon the reader that this theory and the use of its constituents may lie outside of conventional Psychology. It is important to address this theory now however, for Psychology has its roots in Alchemy, Alchemy is a highly relative notion to THEM because of its emphasis on Change, and part of Alchemical Change involves knowing thyself. I will give a crash course in Psychological terms and concepts and then relate why I believe suppression of the part of the psyche called the Id, personified and demonized, gave rise to the origin of Satan, to Demons, and to the concept of Evil.

Our minds, when being formed, are protected from psychic harm by a container called the Ego. The ego is a vitally important function of our total Psyche that stores for us the unique, stable set of conditions we each live by, with our actions motivated toward keeping those conditions just right or in ‘homeostasis’. It is also the aspect of us that generates our sense of control and security over our behaviour, thoughts, and environment. When the ego is first formed it is malleable, elastic in its growth and able to take on new ideas and information, but as it reaches maturity it hardens and becomes brittle and resistant to change. For this reason, once set, the beliefs of people are often unchangeable. Entwined as they are with their world-view, the ego’s protective mechanisms, and sense of identity; the beliefs of a person are a hyper-extension of the ego that can sometimes take control over the organism like an autopilot. Ego is the part of us that will fight like a cornered animal to re-assert its view of reality if it is questioned or challenged.

Another function of the ego is to act like a dam holding back a vast lake of water. It acts as a division in our mind that holds back the contents of our animalistic “Sub-conscious” or “Id”. The Id is a separate compartment of the mind that originally dominated our Being. In order to have an individual sense of identity to separate us from our previous animalistic instincts, the ego developed by repressing (blocking out) the subconscious. The content and role of the Id is an on-going matter of speculation; however it is best known for its capacity to act as a psychic waste-land ruled by unknown dimensions; a primeval enigma that contains contents highly disturbing to the logical, rational mind. It is a subliminal pool that contains among other things: our dark secrets, wishes and desires, our irrational urges and impulses expressed without restraint, intense anxieties and repressed memories of fear and pain, the surfacing of which can be extremely dangerous to our fragile well-being. Our ego helps to deceive us about our innate fragility and keep up protective illusions of safety, conformity, normality, control, security and “Reality”. It essentially tries to ignore the Id and takes great pains not to disturb it. Those in the field of Analytical Psychology (Qv. Carl Jung) are painstakingly aware of the care that must be taken when allowing content from the Subconscious of a client to emerge; and Psychopaths and the impulsive/compulsive individual embody examples of the ability of the contents of the unconscious to interfere in sane growth. As well as guarding against internal pressure the ego also helps us to deal with threats from outer forces we face in our external environment. Because it is subjected to enormous psychological and physiological pressures it is important that its development is properly executed. If the Ego is damaged during crucial stages of its development, it may crack and cause unpredictable leaks of content from the subconscious to occur. A significant crack can enable a large flow or even a flood of subconscious content into our consciousness allowing what is called ‘the Abyss’ in magickal terms or ‘the Collective Unconsciousness’ in psychological terms, to be released onto what we know as ourselves: the “I “ resulting in madness or severe psychosis. This theory closely parallels our biological evolution.

Before we gained the level of consciousness that allowed us to recognize ourselves as individual thinking beings separate from each other and the rest of the world, in fact before we were “humanity”, proto-man was ruled by base desires and savage primal instincts. At some point in our evolution we were able to suppress our ruling animal instincts long enough for Consciousness to arise. We eventually achieved a state of self-awareness that allowed us to appraise and wonder at our own existence. This unique state of self-awareness is referred to as the ‘I’ in Psychology and has long been regarded as the single-most fascinating achievement of the human organism. But the emergence of the ‘I’ came at a heavy price. In exchange for Consciousness, we had to forcefully drive our natural, raw instinct of what we were (the Collective Unconscious) back from the fore of our minds and forge a new artificial conscious collective agreement (the Collective Consciousness) on what we wanted to be.

To help do this, over time our species created, and then instilled, Values, Group Obligations and Right Conduct into and onto each other, further suppressing the raw state of our natural being to further the aims of our artificial one – which was a mass social form of indefinitely deferred gratification (having to wait for set conditions to arise before one can gratify ones natural desires). So long as we kept our primal dark forces [The Id] in check, we were able to get along with each other relatively well enough to develop groups and societies – usually ruled by a few, who used fear, violence etc., to enforce Law, Order, and instill conscious conduct.

Over a vast span of time, and as Consciousness spread, the majority of people developed an Ego strong enough to contain the Id indefinitely, or productively released it via outlets of creativity, dance, music, language, symbols, etc. A whole social matrix was built upon the attempts to keep the subconscious out so that our new state of independence could thrive and we began to cloak immediate needs and base desires within respectability and glamour. Such glamour is artifice; all humans contain the Id and all Conscious human beings are scorpions.] We also began to give names and labels to things to begin dispelling fear. The more names we created the more complex the world became. Today, there are so many names for things, and so many institutions to perpetuate more names, that we have forgotten its original point as an exercise in control. Because there are so many concepts and names and ideas that have been layered onto what really Is apparently there [which is geometry] and nameless, there are now millions of illusions that must be broken before a grasp of genuine reality can be achieved. Owing to the hardship required to break free from such illusions most cannot help but be entrapped by the deception of authority and the webs of the matrix.

But, those that made a religion of suppression were ill-prepared for the strength of their new enemy. The Id or “Beast” could not be tamed and the forces of the subconscious proved powerful beyond their wildest dreams. Although punishment was meted out to those unable to hold back the advancing forces of our primal being as a social admonishment to discourage others from releasing what was imprisoned within; suppression did nothing to sate our desires and urges to behave naturally. While some adopted the new Conscious collective agreement and joined the religion of holding back their impulsive urges, some followed only in part by practicing its release in private (or in public granted certain power); and still others refused (or were incapable) to suppress it at all, continuing to embody our original natural state of being that sought instant gratification.

Out of growing fear of the Beast to undermine our civility and our human-ness, we denied the unknown realm locked away within us that frightened us for its unpredictability, its cruelty and its propensity to erupt from the calmest human being. Such a force threatened to engulf the conscious accomplishments of humanity in chaos and destruction. In time, various Religions and magical tribes came to call signs of activity stemming from the subconscious by unfavourable names. In effect – A war was declared against the forces of ‘The Great Beast’, the opening psychic shot in a Mind War that would lead to all manner of dark masters/forces Named responsible for the horrors that issued forth from people – various Monsters, Deities, and Gods, and of course, “Satan”, all in a bid to control the subconscious. Other words crept in “Demons”, “Evil”, and so forth that led to wide-spread persecutions to stamp out the Beast. It did not take long for some to realize the power that came from interpreting existence for others… Yet those who suppressed the beast the hardest were often those most afflicted by its insurmountable power.

When the subconscious is kept under lock and key and an option to vent it/express it by ‘exercising the beast’ is denied; the expenditure of energy needed by the ego to hold back subconscious forces grows exponentially. Without outlets, the repressed forces grow stronger by the day until they grow powerful enough to over-run the defenses of the Ego or shatter it completely causing psychosis. They manifest outwardly as unchecked acts of raw desire, often many times stronger than when originally imprisoned, often expressed as acts of sadistic cruelty, murder, torture, brutality, violence, blood-lust, war, passion and rape. Or they consume the ego with a barrage of irrational emotions and desires that drive the being to fulfill them or take out its frustration at being unable to fulfill them in other, often destructive ways. The Ego can only do so much to hold the subconscious back until it is eventually overwhelmed. The fact that our natural state is one dominated by the Subconscious tends toward its favour in a war of wills.

No matter how emphatically the subconscious is repressed; like the metaphor of the stubborn weed, the tendrils of the unconscious will keep returning, writhing forth again and again into the fore of the mind in an endless struggle to choke the host plant into submission.

By forcing our instinct underground we committed ourselves to a life-long struggle against our very nature in order to maintain an artificial existence. The artificial existence can only prosper under certain conditions: the most important of which is suppression of raw unconscious desires. In the eyes of the Artificers (The Magian Illuminati. Qv Book III) in our natural, uncontrolled state of being, humans are either; terrifying creatures suffused with a brutal, primal darkness that has been called “Chaos” that are too ferocious to tame; or frightened creatures too timid to work or help create the matrix and further the Artifice. Pending on Environmental and Genetic Factors we might be either – thus we are shaped by the Artifice as soon as possible.

Chaos is representative of the unconscious and is anathema to the Order that the Artificers wish to exist. One may be reasonably sure that the Artificers were simply those that excelled in disguising the Beast, who over time granted their base desires and ambitions using deception and cunning – forming groups of self-interested individuals that conspired to manifest their Beasts within using the forms and illusions of the Artifice to conceal them. There is ample corresponding evidence within Sociology for this. For example an individual who commits Corporate Fraud which relieves hundreds of people from millions of dollars, homes and savings, is far less likely to be charged and go to jail, than someone who steals a single car. Using the illusions of respectability and the forms of the Artifice – the Beast is concealed. The Artificers support suppression of the Beast in others via religion and politics for example, negotiating with others to defer gratification by reason, cultural norm, money, threat of imprisonment or force – but they do not support it in themselves. They use the subsequent meekness adopted by a populace to rule it. This type of thing has been going on for a long time – and it is known in Satanism as the Great Mind War. The Great Mind War is a fight between the Magian to assert Artificial Forms based on original fear such a moral good and evil existing in the world over the Sinister understanding of the world as Godless and dominated by Chaos. This will all be covered in great detail as we progress through the books. However, because they fear Chaos so rabidly, the Artificers have deliberately fostered great ignorance concerning Satanism and created a whole system of occult blinds and myths intended to prevent any real magical Adeptship from arising in an individual that could seriously pose a threat or challenge to their ruling regime. For this reason it was extremely difficult to learn the Traditional practices of genuine Satanism beneath the tame, safe, watered down version that is happily peddled commercially that misdirects and controls the Beast by dictating the terms of its release. And the simple motives are Jealousy and Greed. If everyone released the Beast or mastered its control as well as the Artificers, the Artificers would no longer be powerful. Their power rests on maintaining an unequal distribution of power. If for arguments sake everyone was suddenly as powerful as everyone else: power would become mediocre and ergo, normal. All diversity of forms within the matrix would fail and a utopia created which would also be mediocre. The Artificers money, assets, lifestyles that set them apart would become commonplace – and were this so, money would become obsolete because there would be no workers willing to work, thus no-one to generate wealth, thus no socio-economic growth, no creativity, no slaves, no masters, and no Artifice. Hence: to be powerful means keeping power from others. The means to regain the power are within your reach, but you must first understand the scope of what it is you must overcome, how the system of control works, and how you can begin to set about facing yourself in order of break free of the cycles of lies.

Understanding the creation of the Matrix is the first step to regaining control of ones Being, hijacked by the ego. Through practical and thorough magical/alchemical practice or psychic exploration, the contents of the subconscious can be integrated with the Ego to form a Super Consciousness, or Self.

- Temple of THEM -

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Originally Posted by ThoTh

[ II ] The Theory of the Beast

In the realm of Black Magic it is often


... shielded from psychic harm by a container called the Ego.

proto-man was ruled by base desires and savage primal instincts.


Ego strong enough to contain the Id indefinitely, or productively released it via outlets of creativity, dance, music, language, symbols, etc. A whole social matrix was built upon the attempts to keep the subconscious out so that our new state of independence could thrive and we began to cloak immediate needs and base desires within respectability and glamour.

...deception of authority

. While some adopted the new Conscious collective agreement and joined the religion of holding back their impulsive urges, some followed only in part by practicing its release in private (or in public granted certain power); and still others refused (or were incapable) to suppress it at all, continuing to embody our original natural state of being that sought instant gratification.

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for one,
the ego does not shield us from psychic harm, dopamine is the seat of amphetamine or elemental amplifiers and is where the ego exists. lsd is the best soul shield there will ever be, as hoffmann based it on (lsd still being a whole differant drug than) mescaline and heroin, and the ego is the worst thing wthat will ever exist. I hate the cocaine argument. it is still a poison dopamine gun.


i don't see how the glorification of base desires has ever stopped in the arts.


there are definite authorities and there will always be people who know more than you about something.

I guess you are obviously just talking about proto-animal-man.
we still don't have the collective concious made at all. it doesn't work right.


I also don't see how the primal instincts have anything to do with religion, politics, chaos, the existance of satan , or demons or anything else you said besides mass psychology, something you did talk about, which is th basest of all science.

Great post Thoth.

Chronazon, I think what you'll find if you read the post again, is that Thoth was offering a glimpse of our darker self, the power and potentiality lost within every human being.

You'll begin to appreciate at some point that drug induced experiences are vague glimmers of a hidden light. The raw uncontrolled creative potential, the source of which is probably the "proto-animalistic" self manifests itself in forms we understand and usually expect. Or Satan, Demons, Angels and a whole host of other visionary things.

The ego acts as a capacitor and in most cases limits our perceptions of what is happening, after all how can we begin to appreciate or understand something we don't know. We can only see it by fitting it into what we currently know. The issue is not the path we follow, but the method of using our own minds.

You say the ego is evil; I challenge you to follow through your thinking. If you remove the "evil" ego, do you really think ascension will follow, that you will become a fully aware divine being? I think it's more likely that you will join the ranks of the burn outs who too thought they'd found the way.

The left, those who seek to master the ego do so only because they to want to transcend it and manifest its higher aspects without loosing control of the self, or the power to direct. Power can only be properly used by those who've fitted themselves to direct it in the battles and trials of life, by those who by their own resilience have won real victories in life. They don't ask, they know how to demand.

Power is not to be found in the visions of drugs or ritual madness. True power is found in what we ignore and overlook something we have at any given moment. To use an analogy I feel you'll understand, you can be blown apart by the release of raw power or you can build a ship to keep you safe and allow you to navigate the creative stream.

Master or Servant? You decide.

Thank you, Imhotepsol. I have posted a seperate work called "Radia Sol - Emanations of the Self". May be of further interest?

ISS,
ThoTh

I'll have a read now Thoth, thanks for letting me know. You wouldn't happen to be the same Thoth from BOT would you?

No mate, not me.

ISS,

it is good to remember the ego, but so much of society is absolute garbage, I never meet people egoless enough/who have done enough lsd, etc to be even considered human in my standards. the necronomicon and a zoroastrian religious text say "stoop not down therefore".
even remembering your existance brings yu back to earth, a place of the grounding of thought, a very bad place. You indeed have to become a lesser being, a beast, to even be around another person, another benefit of practicing in solitude .. it is good to remember the self and imetabolize what you have learned, but most of my satanism comes from hating these beast people, these rotten little unhuman animal fools who don't take lsd, who have no self awareness and blindly follow what society lays out. society is set up totally wrong and to not exist by astral projection/out of body experience through copious amounts is to transcend that. This process of thinking things through can only be done with psychedelics and to not do that is to buy into the status quo, which goes against the essence of life. lsd is the molecule that keeps us alive, when it breaks, we die. to be a beast is to go back in time while you live to a place where no living thing can exist. there are plenty of barren unlivible places on earth, which in itself is unlivible. nonexistance is more noble than existance

Since you're making an effort to be polite - I'll reply to you.

it is good to remember the ego, but so much of society is absolute garbage, I never meet people egoless enough/who have done enough lsd, etc to be even considered human in my standards.

*I've used both LSD and mushrooms to a fair extent: bringing with it its own interesting set of insights - but I don't see how the usage of hallucinogenics makes one more human - or can play a part in determining what is 'human'. But - I DO see, how you feel justified to believe it, because any truth to it is not about my vehicle for understanding life crashing into yours. I believe though, that to be 'human' is a buzzword of the ego - an abstract, construct, codified and deified for its own benefit. That you treat the construct as being able to be validated by your subjective authority is a proof of the involvement of your ego.

but most of my satanism comes from hating these beast people, these rotten little unhuman animal fools who don't take lsd, who have no self awareness and blindly follow what society lays out.

*I just finished having a discussion earlier in the week regarding this very arrogant misconception and hypocritical statement thrown about by people: the jist of it is this. What you probably hate, is your captors, your captivity - hell, hate's the easiest laziest emotion there is - it's not hard to see why people fall back on it so much. (Change is slow).
But who put together the computer you're using? That's right - a massive team of people working together and doing intelligent things that we mere mortals lack the know how to do ourselves - people not just in one building but over a long time, perhaps a hundred or thousands years slowly contributing to each other's understanding of mathematics, electronics, algorithims, etc... and do you think they didn't dream of the supercomputer? didn't take those steps knowing that if they took enough of them - they'd eventually achieve the PC? They had self-awareness - perhaps not yours, but certainly self-awareness. And could you put one together yourself? I doubt that. few people can. It takes specialists, working together (and working together is only possible through society).
Moreover, did you cut down the flax, grasses, pick the cotton or hemp that constitutes the clothes you're wearing - did you sew them together yourself? make the plans? Or is that a skill that survived and spread because of a close-knit (no pun intended) community of tradition - also, not possible without society and self-awareness.
Now yes, some people are stupid**, but the majority are not. I've been guilty of generalizing 'the masses' too. But I don't believe that that construct exists - I don't believe that there is such a thing as a mass, or majority - It's merely a widely accepted political term and motivator.

society is set up totally wrong and to not exist by astral projection/out of body experience through copious amounts is to transcend that.

*You should ask yourself what it is you are trying to escape from. Better yet, ask your ego - it's the one responsible for setting up all these little walls that hem YOU in, constricts your world to one or two choices, makes you feel the conflict when those choices aren't validated, causes you to pass blame, and incited you to think it right to launch an attack accusing me of being on opiates when discussing the star game when you've not a word of experience with it to your name. Your Ego, friend, is controlling YOU - and anytime you think it's not. It is.

For better or worse - the ego is here to stay, we can't live without it. But that doesn't mean we can't live with it.
The ego doesn't have to be something to be ashamed of...

ISS,

** It's very easy to call someone stupid. We call them stupid because they did something we'd have never done. Why would we never do it? Because the ego holds us in thrall to a very certain way of thinking assessing and evaluating the world we live in. That said - yes, some people are stupid - not just once but continually. With 6 billion people on the planet odds are that's going to happen. And if you don't see the hypocrisy in groups calling for annihilation of 'the human' you're one of them. With our record for being so very slow to adapt to new things as a global community - the ego is going to be here for a very long time. Or maybe that's just my ego.

PS

Aside from the ONA - there is one other group that I would recommend you look into - esp. as regards the ego and the LHP. The Order of Saturn.

ISS,

for one,
the ego does not shield us from psychic harm, dopamine is the seat of amphetamine or elemental amplifiers and is where the ego exists. lsd is the best soul shield there will ever be, as hoffmann based it on (lsd still being a whole differant drug than) mescaline and heroin, and the ego is the worst thing wthat will ever exist. I hate the cocaine argument. it is still a poison dopamine gun.


*On the contrary - an ability to explain away your (or anyone elses) point of view in many of the ways people treat what others say as nonsense, sense but not for them, sensible and thus validates their own sense, or insensible and the product of an idiot; is what shields (my ego) from psychic harm. According to what your ego translates or accepts from its LSD infusions - it may lessen or weaken its position regarding certain things - but it will never be eradicated, in is more likely to accept that everyone is mad, full of nonsense, and be oblivious to its own short-comings. That is the nature of blame. That is what blame is for. You, use blame - so, you have an ego. Perhaps your hypocrisy is evident to you and you hate it - hate your bigotry and project it elsewhere, somewhere that can't defend itself - like society, or god, or some other abstract... perhaps not.


i don't see how the glorification of base desires has ever stopped in the arts.

*The essay was written in 2003, I think I was 22. I'm 30 now. My opinions have changed considerably. But I would contend that while Repetition of base desires has always been a staple of the Arts, there has always been a desire to transcend what came before.

there are definite authorities and there will always be people who know more than you about something.

I guess you are obviously just talking about proto-animal-man.

*No. Authority is an interesting thing. People give it and take it - esp during the engagement of logic, memory or experience. I believe that it is a law that someone will always know more - but this applies largely to semantics and shared meanings, not occult or subjective knowledge.

we still don't have the collective concious made at all. it doesn't work right.

*You don't think so? I think from what I've seen the last 20 years, and from what I've gathered from reading, learning, writing - with the birthpangs of say such things as the concept of Political Correctness**, that, while still a very long way off - the human race is slowly trying to pull its vast continents separated by race, space (and time) together into a unified collective voice. As much of it as will participate, anyhow.

I also don't see how the primal instincts have anything to do with religion, politics, chaos, the existance of satan , or demons or anything else you said besides mass psychology, something you did talk about, which is th basest of all science.

*That's fine. I can't touch every base and miraculously come up with a pefect argument. Humans augment chaos and I was and still am learning about my own views. However - the primal instincts, such as they were vs such as they are, represent the mode of being I believe existed before religion, chaos, satan, meaning, interpretation etc. They are the other side of the coin - wherein Chaos is only a convenient way to say, I don't know, stacked up against Form, which is another convenient way to say, I don't know. Really, being able to say, "I don't know" is the only progress I've made ;)

**Now, I don't believe being PC is any more than just another way for people to channel control and condemn other people - and really just another form of slavery - but its an effort to do the 'right thing' (wherein I believe these clumsy outward collective efforts mirror the individual quest to unite our psyche - and moreover that individual/collective are one and the same) and unify. But that a lot of work, much more pain and suffering is required before we get close to a empathy with one another. But with these messy beginnings, perhaps we will try enough stuff and get it wrong so many more times before finally getting it right.