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Decided to make a book report after a long time.
Couldn't find much about the author, except that he grew up in Europe. He never shows his face because he wants to ensure that despite his occult interest his work and his family are not not affected by people around them finding out. Figuring him out could cause him to loose a job. Could be more reasons actually.
He claims that the knowledge from the book comes from secret lodges in Europe. The book contains rituals with demons, henocian (I guess) squares and work of Abramelin that do not deny this possibility. The book at least shows that author is practitioner, some notes there suggest that he is teaching others as well as learns from others.
The vampiric initiation is done here through contact with demons, dark gods and the undead, by sharing energy with them and gaining initiation in return, it is a long term process in this work, powered by preying on humans through various methods that are also included. The books intends to set the practitioner on the path and offers material that can take many months, if not years to go through.
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There are things I would definitely do different, like I would not do the practice of creating the state of weakness. I would also hit breaks very fast, before doing ritual where the practitioners offers a life of someone else, while promising to give another after 20 years... like how do you know that after 20 years you will still be here? What life will you give if you'll be dead and won't be able to catch any? On other places I find the teachings to be needlessly cruel.
The best is the stuff on astral travel, rather from experience than copied from other usual works. Lessons on feeding and spiritual attacking can be actually useful too, cruelty is important aspect of self defense so that is definitely not to be scraped.
I also confess that I almost laughed at the chapter at Cryogenics and preserving dead bodies in hope that in the future humans will be able to resurrect them. I smiled because before this I've read the same in book from Father Sebastiaan. I think that this focus on physical immortality is not well placed...
If nothing else, it was still worth reading to see experience of this occultist.
Couldn't find much about the author, except that he grew up in Europe. He never shows his face because he wants to ensure that despite his occult interest his work and his family are not not affected by people around them finding out. Figuring him out could cause him to loose a job. Could be more reasons actually.
He claims that the knowledge from the book comes from secret lodges in Europe. The book contains rituals with demons, henocian (I guess) squares and work of Abramelin that do not deny this possibility. The book at least shows that author is practitioner, some notes there suggest that he is teaching others as well as learns from others.
The vampiric initiation is done here through contact with demons, dark gods and the undead, by sharing energy with them and gaining initiation in return, it is a long term process in this work, powered by preying on humans through various methods that are also included. The books intends to set the practitioner on the path and offers material that can take many months, if not years to go through.
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There are things I would definitely do different, like I would not do the practice of creating the state of weakness. I would also hit breaks very fast, before doing ritual where the practitioners offers a life of someone else, while promising to give another after 20 years... like how do you know that after 20 years you will still be here? What life will you give if you'll be dead and won't be able to catch any? On other places I find the teachings to be needlessly cruel.
The best is the stuff on astral travel, rather from experience than copied from other usual works. Lessons on feeding and spiritual attacking can be actually useful too, cruelty is important aspect of self defense so that is definitely not to be scraped.
I also confess that I almost laughed at the chapter at Cryogenics and preserving dead bodies in hope that in the future humans will be able to resurrect them. I smiled because before this I've read the same in book from Father Sebastiaan. I think that this focus on physical immortality is not well placed...
If nothing else, it was still worth reading to see experience of this occultist.