Firstly I was not so sure about posting this thread in this particular forum, since it may also appeal to those well-versed in Western Esoterism in general, Let me elaborate.
I am a psychologist and an university professor, but no university in my country would endorse my interest and research efforts on magic, esoterism, paganism and all things occult. Religious freedom in my country only applies to traditional religions and the legislation on religious freedom deems any religious or spiritual expression using magical practices as "superstition", so I do my work independently. Anyway, here's the story.
In the mid-1990s, a Satanist organization called "Lobos en Contra de Cristo" ("Wolves Against Christ") had its headquarters in Medellín, Colombia. The leader of this organization wrote—or rather, compiled—a "book" for internal use by its members, on "theory and practice" of satanic magic. The book might seem interesting, striking, and even "extreme" to a teenager or young adult unfamiliar with Western esotericism and occultism, but anyone with even a basic understanding will identify clues, paraphrases, or even blatant plagiarisms from other texts.
For example, in the section on magic and rituals, I identified direct plagiarisms of phrases and paragraphs from the work of Eliphas Levi, with the word "Satanic" added here and there. The same occurred with other passages, paraphrasing extracts from LaVey's "The Satanic Bible" and copying the "21 Satanic Points" of the Order of the Nine Angles. Tracing this has been both tedious and fascinating.
Likewise, some unforgivable errors in translation and direct transliteration from English betray the origin of some fragments of the unpublished book. I'm still finding clues and plagiarized fragments from other books. However, something has caught my attention.
In a section on magical work, the text includes concepts taken from alchemy (nigredo, albedo, rubedo), equating them with magical work, very much in the style of Israel Regardie's Jungian alchemy, and with the use of sexual magic. And this is where it gets interesting.
The sexual magic this book discusses (blood, semen, fire, flesh, wine, and sweat) seems directly derived from the O.T.O. and Crowley's Thelema system. This formula is an esoteric and Westernized expansion of traditional Tantric elements. Instead of working with the classical elements of nature (earth, water, air, fire), this current operates with the elements of the "Alchemical Mass" or sexual eucharist. A text from Thelema that comes to mind is "Liber 333," although I've also found traces of Julius Evola's sexual metaphysics.
Yes, the unpublished book is thus a bricolage, an amalgamation, a "patchwork quilt." And as I said before, tracing it has become a process that is both tedious and fascinating.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm still analyzing the text. I hope to write an academic article and submit it to a scholarly publication. In the meantime, I'll share my findings in this forum.
I am a psychologist and an university professor, but no university in my country would endorse my interest and research efforts on magic, esoterism, paganism and all things occult. Religious freedom in my country only applies to traditional religions and the legislation on religious freedom deems any religious or spiritual expression using magical practices as "superstition", so I do my work independently. Anyway, here's the story.
In the mid-1990s, a Satanist organization called "Lobos en Contra de Cristo" ("Wolves Against Christ") had its headquarters in Medellín, Colombia. The leader of this organization wrote—or rather, compiled—a "book" for internal use by its members, on "theory and practice" of satanic magic. The book might seem interesting, striking, and even "extreme" to a teenager or young adult unfamiliar with Western esotericism and occultism, but anyone with even a basic understanding will identify clues, paraphrases, or even blatant plagiarisms from other texts.
For example, in the section on magic and rituals, I identified direct plagiarisms of phrases and paragraphs from the work of Eliphas Levi, with the word "Satanic" added here and there. The same occurred with other passages, paraphrasing extracts from LaVey's "The Satanic Bible" and copying the "21 Satanic Points" of the Order of the Nine Angles. Tracing this has been both tedious and fascinating.
Likewise, some unforgivable errors in translation and direct transliteration from English betray the origin of some fragments of the unpublished book. I'm still finding clues and plagiarized fragments from other books. However, something has caught my attention.
In a section on magical work, the text includes concepts taken from alchemy (nigredo, albedo, rubedo), equating them with magical work, very much in the style of Israel Regardie's Jungian alchemy, and with the use of sexual magic. And this is where it gets interesting.
The sexual magic this book discusses (blood, semen, fire, flesh, wine, and sweat) seems directly derived from the O.T.O. and Crowley's Thelema system. This formula is an esoteric and Westernized expansion of traditional Tantric elements. Instead of working with the classical elements of nature (earth, water, air, fire), this current operates with the elements of the "Alchemical Mass" or sexual eucharist. A text from Thelema that comes to mind is "Liber 333," although I've also found traces of Julius Evola's sexual metaphysics.
Yes, the unpublished book is thus a bricolage, an amalgamation, a "patchwork quilt." And as I said before, tracing it has become a process that is both tedious and fascinating.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm still analyzing the text. I hope to write an academic article and submit it to a scholarly publication. In the meantime, I'll share my findings in this forum.