Ulterior HWMB 04 013

2024-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ulterior "An important point to remember in the practice of any magic ritual or ceremony is: if you depend upon the activities within the chamber to provide or sustain a social climate, the ensuing energy — conscious or otherwise — directed toward these ends will negate any results you wish to obtain through the ritual! The line is fine between the desirability for close rapport between participants, and one’s need per se for close rapport. The ritual will suffer if there is a single person in the chamber who drains the substance from it by his ulterior motives. Hence it is better to have three participants who are 'with it' than twenty who are and three who are not . The most effective rituals are often the most solitary. This is why it is preposterous to attempt a ritual or ceremony with outsiders present who happen to be 'sincerely interested' or 'want to find out more about it' or 'want to see what it's like'" (p. 19). LaVey, Anton Szandor. The Satanic Rituals . Avon, 1972. https://archive.org/details/satanicrituals00anto_0