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by Michael A Aquino


  Thus, for instance, any sort of advertising or

  propaganda is an application of WM, though neither

  users nor targets may [and probably wouldn’t]

  employ that term.

  2. Black Magic

  a. Lesser

  Lesser Black Magic (LBM) involves no

  autohypnosis or conditioning of the mind to make it

  112 Crowley, Aleister, Magick, pages #151-284. LaVey, Anton,

  The Satanic Bible, pages #110-152; The Satanic Rituals, pages

  #15-27.

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  receptive to induced imagery. Thus, unlike WM, it is

  not an exercise in self-deception. Rather it is a

  deliberate and conscious effort to force the mind

  outward - to identify the mix of NL governing a

  situation of concern, as well as the SUs of any

  humans involved, and then to devise and activate

  adjustments towards the magician’s desired

  outcome.

  As you can see, this has absolutely nothing to

  do with chanting Hebraic gibberish from medieval

  grimoires. Leave that to White Magicians to

  entertain and scare themselves.

  So true, effective LBM is an exhaustively-

  analytical process - more exacting than profane

  academic research because there is no allowance for

  taboos, sacred cows, or other “political correctness”.

  If the objective is to be realized, all factors

  constituting it must fall into place.

  Thus the fairytale image of LBM being an easy

  shortcut to a desired OU change is anything but the

  truth. The reason that LBM is more powerful than

  “ordinary” plans or solutions is precisely because of

  its thoroughness: it leaves nothing out, no margin

  for error, no “fudge factor”.

  Nor is this as unrealistic as one might suppose.

  All you need do is look around you at the number of

  unsolved or inadequately-solved problems, both at

  the personal and the social scales, to see how easy it

  is to identify the flaws resulting from “selective

  inattention”.

  An unpalatable but inevitable corollary to LBM

  is what Anton LaVey called the “balance factor”,

  which simply means not to set practically-

  unattainable goals. Be a magician within your

  intelligence, competence, and resources - all of

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  which are of course subject to strengthening with

  personal discipline and experience. 113

  Another popular myth is that BM is a ritual

  action, in a ritual chamber. As again may be

  deduced from the above, ritualism is not a

  requirement, though, as discussed below, it may

  play an important and effective part.

  Remember too that in LBM you are not

  attempting to accomplish “miracles”, e.g. the

  suspension or violation of NL. Rather you are

  changing the mix of NL to change the situation of

  concern.

  But even more importantly, remember that it is

  not the OU you are attempting to change; it is the

  existing, dominant CSU. This was one of the key

  messages of George Orwell’s 1984, and the one most

  readers miss.

  b. History, or

  “Reality Control”

  The Party said that Oceania had never been

  in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew

  that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as

  short a time as four years ago. But where did that

  knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness,

  which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if

  all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed

  - if all records told the same tale - then the lie

  passed into history and became truth. “Who

  113 Ca. 2011 I decided that I’d had enough of the epidemic of

  physical warfare afflicting the planet. I therefore developed

  and published the solution of MindWar (2012, 1016). The

  methodology and strategy therein are practical, needing only

  resolve by national & supranational actors, which I further

  addressed in FindFar (2017). The only indeterminant is the

  mushrooming PhysWar time-pressure. But MW & FF would

  have been impossible absent professional expertise in Political

  Science, governmental political/military affairs, & LBM.

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  controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls

  the future; who controls the present controls the

  past.” And yet the past, though of its nature

  alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was

  true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.

  It was quite simple. All that was needed was an

  unending series of victories over your own

  memory. “Reality control” they called it; in

  Newspeak “doublethink”. 114

  “History” is something we can count on as a

  standard of morality, as hard evidence of truth, as

  bedrock amidst our whirling contemporary

  environment of uncertainties, right?

  Wrong. Historical accounts are written by

  human beings with widely-varying backgrounds,

  perspectives, motives, and paychecks. Even given

  perfect, immediate access to all information about

  an event, no two people will describe it, or its

  significance, in the same way. And in historical

  research there is almost never access to all relevant

  information to begin with.

  Daniel J. Boorstin is Librarian of Congress

  Emeritus, and is a distinguished scholar and Pulitzer

  Prize winner who has authored many superb

  historical analyses. In his Hidden History he

  proposes several laws that shape what we know as

  “history”:115

  (1) The Law of the Survival of the

  Unread

  There is a natural and inevitable

  tendency toward the destruction and

  114 Orwell, George, 1984. New York: Signet Books, 1949, page

  #32.

  115 Boorstin, Daniel J., Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret

  Past. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

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  disappearance of documents most

  widely used; therefore there is an

  inverse relationship between the

  probability of a document surviving and

  its value as evidence of the daily life of

  the age from which it survives.

  (2) Survival of the Durable and That

  Which is neither Removed nor

  Displaced

  Tombs, burial objects, mummies,

  temples, churches, and pyramids tend to

  skew our view of the past. They give a

  prominence to religion in the relics of

  the past which it may not actually have

  had in the lives people lived.

  (3) Survival of the Collected and the

  Protected

  = What goes in government files. We

  emphasize political history and

  government in the life of the past partly

  because governments keep records while

  families and other informal groups

  seldom do.

  (4) Survival of Objects Which are not

  Used or Which Have a High

  Intrinsic Value

  It is not only in printed matter that


  rarity and scarcity induce survival.

  T r e a s u r e d o r h o a r d e d a r t i f a c t s

  frequently survive where commonly-

  used, more representative ones do not.

  (5) Survival of the Academically

  Classifiable and the Dignified

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  Teachers teach the subjects in which

  they have been instructed.

  (6) Survival of Documents which

  Pertain to Controversies

  What often passes for the history of a

  practice, belief, or institution is more

  accurately the history of controversies

  about it.

  (7) Survival of the Self-Serving: The

  Psycho-Pathology of Diarists and

  Letter-Writers

  Historians are urged to seek records by

  participants in events, preferably those

  made at the time or soon thereafter.

  Such are often self-serving and

  egotistical at the expense of objectivity.

  (8) Survival of the Victorious Point of

  View: The Success Bias

  If an invention, trend, or point of view

  prevailed, it and its proponents are

  assumed to be representative rather

  than failed or minority alternatives.

  (9) Survival of the Epiphenomenal

  People often write and read books

  because they cannot personally

  experience what is described. It is often

  uncertain whether a writer is recording

  or escaping an experience.

  (10) Knowledge Survives and will be

  accumulated over Time, but

  Ignorance Disappears

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  The mind of the modern historian has

  access to the accumulated knowledge

  and experience of the ages since the

  period of the past he is trying to

  recapture, but for this reason he cannot

  see reality as the people of that time saw

  it.

  What are the implications of this for the Black

  Magician? It means that:

  • All of the historical sources you consult are

  incomplete, inaccurate, biased, and/or incompetent

  to some degree.

  •• You yourself are in the grip of tacit

  prejudices and presuppositions which you have

  never questioned or even acknowledged as anything

  to be questioned.

  You can compensate for these blind spots &

  biases by first becoming aware of them, then seeking

  out information & sources to evaluate them.

  c.

  Stage Magic

  In both the Church of Satan & Temple of Set, I

  have always recommended “stage magic” (SM) as a

  superb education & experience for aspiring Black

  Magicians.

  You may think of SM as mere frivolous

  entertainment. It is anything but that: the art &

  science of detecting & manipulating an audience’s

  CSU, to the extent that they believe the OU NL to

  have been “miraculously” violated. This is exactly

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  what LBM involves in progressively larger and more

  serious situations.

  A d d i t i o n a l l y S M i s i n d e e d h a r m l e s s

  entertainment, which is fun for both magician &

  audience. 116 Indeed if you become skilled enough,

  you may even turn it into an additional paid

  profession. At the very least you can expect many

  more invitations to parties!

  What are these LBM skills that SM teaches and

  exercises? Here’s a list:

  • Either control of the environment

  or adaptation of the magic to it. Only

  the simplest “table tricks” of magic can be

  d o n e w i t h o u t r e g a r d t o t h e i r

  surroundings. For most illusions to be

  effective, the complete environment in

  which they are activated must be

  controlled: lighting, absence or presence

  of external noise, intentional distractions

  from close attention, audience alertness

  and receptiveness. While an illusion is

  intended to appear spontaneous, it

  frequently requires careful advance

  preparation out of view of the eventual

  audience.

  • Establishment of the magician’s

  dominant relationship. The magician

  displays a persona - dress, assertive

  speech, body language, pressured pace,

  116 Unfortunately there have been instances of SM being used

  for financial/publicity fraud, from spoon-bending to “remote

  viewing”. The SM profession emphatically condemns this, its

  most famous exposer being James Randi; cf. his Flim-Flam &

  related investigations.

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  eye contact - designed to seize and hold

  the attention of the audience, as well as to

  gradually but inexorably replace their

  wills and judgment of reality with his own.

  [This is particularly essential to

  hypnotism.]

  • D i c t a t i o n o f t h e a p p l i c a b l e

  elements. The magician identifies to the

  audience what objects, locations, and/or

  procedures are important and essential,

  r e s t r i c t i n g t h e p r o b l e m t o t h e i r

  interaction exclusively. The consequence

  of this is that an object’s behavior which

  might seem unremarkable or contrived

  against ordinary backgrounds or points of

  reference becomes surprising and

  inexplicable in this artificial environment.

  • Definition of the variables. An object

  or procedure may be used in any number

  of ways, but the magician defines them so

  as to limit these ways to only those which

  make possible and reinforce the illusion.

  • Instruction of behavior. Audience

  participation is desirable, since going

  through motions to supposedly produce

  the illusion suggests to the audience that

  it is somewhat responsible for it, thus

  encouraging belief in it.

  • Limitation of possibilities. As he

  controls all of the object(s) and

  procedure(s) variables, the magician can

  force the outcome of the illusion into one

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  w h i c h t h e e qu a l l y - p re d e t e rm i n e d

  alternatives appear to highlight as

  miraculous.

  • Channeling of expectations. Once in

  control of both the elements of the illusion

  and the audience’s perceptions and

  willpower, the magician instructs the

  audience in what the possible outcomes of

  the illusion can be. It is now “impossible”

  for the objects or procedures to function

  in any other way, nor for the audience to

  devise or consider one.

  • Interpretation of the result. Once the

  illusion is produced, the magician makes

  it clear to the audience what it “obviously”

  signifies. As in his initial establishment of

  control over the audience, he now

  implants - though announcement,

  emotional surprise/satisfaction, and body

  l a n g u a g e - t h e i r p r e s u m e d l y

  “spontaneous” reaction.

 
• R e i n f o r c e m e n t o f c o n t r o l l e d

  perceptions. As necessary to establish

  the performed illusion firmly in “reality”,

  the magician follows it up with as many

  s u p p o r t i n g d e v i c e s a n d c r e a t e d

  impressions as are necessary.

  Beyond these basics LBM is particularly

  concerned with the magical discipline of

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  mentalism. 117 This involves diversion of audience

  perceptions and interpretations towards a different

  interpretation of their own thought processes than

  the one which they would naturally experience. This

  is accomplished both through the above-listed

  techniques of magic and supporting assistants and/

  or devices.

  d. Greater

  LBM is a tool to examine and control the OU.

  Greater Black Magic (GBM) is the corresponding

  tool to investigate, comprehend, and control SUs.

  As discussed in “Lucifer”, SUs are created by

  the power of each individual consciousness (MS).

  Even the most “uninitiated” human subconsciously

  generates one, which he believes to be the OU; it is

  actually only his limited perception & interpretation

  of the OU.

  If he is sufficiently intelligent, and experiences

  adequate education and/or initiation, he may

  consciously begin to replace or augment his

  “stimulus/response” SU with a deliberate, conscious

  one. At about the same point he may become aware

  of an sensitive to the various CSUs used to

  indoctrinate and control him. He may retain [or be

  forced to retain] some of these, while modifying or

  completely rejecting others.

  LBM is locked to the OU & NL, so there is little

  danger of the magician’s loss of mental coherence.

  With GBM the risks are far greater, because the

  individual is operating completely within one or

  117 Not to be confused with the clinical psychological or

  philosophical definitions of “mentalism”.

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  more SUs, with the license of the Black Flame/Gift

  of Set to create/modify/destroy any of them at will.

  The initial aspect of this danger is that the

  magician may attempt to exercise such divine

  prerogatives before fully comprehending himself,

  e.g. discovering, exploring, and becoming fluent

  with at least the first six MS emanations.

 

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