THE MIDDLE PATH (part 1)

In praxis esoterica of the arcane sciences there are two main paths that practitioners will often identify with, one being the left hand path and the other being the right hand path.

There is of course a third path, the path that I traverse, I call it the Middle Path.

All mystical practitioners will find themselves operating along one of these paths, whether they be Ceremonial Magician, Ritualists, denizens of witchcraft, Shamans, Animists or Religionists.

As a practitioner of the Middle Path my remit is largely observation. I would observe deities watching over the madness of the worlds from their thrones, some would laugh and others weep, yet others will sweep their gaze over the sands of time and declare another age and another era.

I glimpsed the ability of spirits, deities, angels and demons alike to affect our lives with less of an effort than is required to snuff out a candle. I observed these things conscientiously and undoubtedly I learned their secrets.

In describing the intricacies of the two main paths as I intend to do, it is inevitable that some of the deepest darkest magical secrets of the universe will emerge, to many this thread will make no sense, it is fully intended.

The gods commanded that it is given to practitioners of the right hand path to perform their magickal operations when the moon is in ascendancy because when the moon has lost its ascendancy we are faced with the dark side of the moon and that is when those practitioners of the left hand path come out to play.

I will begin with a compendium of what it is to be a practitioner of the left hand path.

The left hand path is reserved for those practitioners of any magickal paradigm who have irredeemably crossed over to the dark side, they have become bringers of pain, death and destroyers of worlds, they have stared into the abyss and the abyss has stared right back at them.

For a left hand path practitioner guilt and remorse do not feature, eternity is always in the present because they understand better than most that they are the sole rulers of their existence.

The left hand path is about unfolding powers in a terrible way, it is about the ability to destroy or to keep your powder dry in the safe and secure knowledge that it is there when you need it. However, they are far removed from Divine grace, the Archangels will not have them and even Christ forsakes them.

These are the true renegades of the universe because they seek Godhood through their actions, they were the first to figure out that the demons can tear one apart, that Angels watch from above but will not interfere unless called upon and that the spaces around us are not as empty as may seem.

Most came into the world with a curious hunger and lust for power. Some have discovered the Divine sword of God and seek to test the limits of its powers by seeing how far into the nether regions they can descend.

Yet magickal operations that put the powers of God into the hands of men are strictly forbidden, operations of this form constitute the blackest forms of magic known to man.