And what do you think of Michael W Ford's book, Akhkharu? I bought two days ago the paper copy that was created in Italian, for practical exercises it seems valid to me.
Luciferianism is about the philosophical and metaphisical identity alchemy of Nigredo, Albedo and Rubredo.. it engages mystical forms, of demons, gods as masks, and by mask its not a theistic look on them, its archetypal, interacting with them through ritual is a means of alchemical technology, which in more simplistic terms, its a complex technology that is being operate through ritual, through trance, through symbols and through psychodrama to simply make use of a edit program, like editing archives in excel or office writer, in these 2 you edit looking at a monitor and using your mouse to manually change a graphic of letters before you, but you don't have such sort of interface when it comes to your own psyche, you play with your own subconscious, you act, you play, you trance, you believe, you feel, you affirm.. all these are being used to re-configure your self, your personality, your values, your impulses, your persona, your ego, in means it aligns you with the luciferian philosophy, with the left hand path philosophy.
Akhkharu has this sort of foundation, but the book goes further, so not just about who you are but also how you perceive and position yourself relative to others.. it does that for example - normally people perceive others as mirrors, i'm not saying its everyone, but a lot of people perceive who they are by what they THINK others THINK who you are (not what they actually think), the book subtly replaces that perception in interaction with others to a a subject and object asymmetry (You = agent, others = fields/resources), so others are not mirrors, they are environments, how it replaces "relationship" with such others to "extraction" because its a vampire, so its rewiring your social "cognition", it also devalues mutuality as a weakness, the reprogramming is that if power is not taken or granted, mutuality becomes a handicap, the idea is that if you consider another person autonomy you hesitate, if you respect reciprocity you limit your extraction, if you seek someone agreement you give up your initiative, and if you treat others as equal you weaken the asymmetry, but the point of this is not cruelty, its all about the posture.
Akhkharu wants to install the predator in you Structurally, so it picks -> Hunger as motivational engine, predation as relational model, consumption as growth logic, and power by taking and feeding as its value axis.. all else -> astral feeding, vampiric imagery, chakras, demons is the monitor, its the operative interface, the dressing of it, they exist so that configuration is felt in you.
Another strong point is that Hunger is a persistent drive-state, so a baseline sense of lack, constant orientation toward acquisition, reflexive “take” and "feed" posture, a worldview where others are energy fields. Why is this hunger so prevalent in the book? It's because it cuts through hesitation, suppresses guilt, overrides social conditioning, produces intensity, keeps identity energized, so its a crude but powerfull power source.
It has limits of course, which in a word i would repeat homeostasis here again, because hunger dulls, intensity drops, vampire identity weakens, your senses will then demand escalation so to be more like previously.
As for alchemy, Nigredo the death is the deconstruction, you're dissolving prior identity coherence, breaking habits, destabilizing valuation - Albedo the purification is reconfiguration, Introducing new structures, ideals, internal order - Rubedo the red and philosophy stone is embodiment, its here that identity stops being “worked on” and becomes
how you operate.
In this process it aims for polarization, the book intentionally intensify nigredo by attacking moral conditioning, rejecting mutuality, reframing others as prey/resources, that will weaken the old social self - Albedo will take the predator configuration, hunger as engine, dominance as orientation, extraction/feed as growth, and asymmetry as default relation to others, HERE is where ritual matter the most, you will repeatedly smash the hammer until this new self becomes reflexive - Rubedo in result brings certain results, the identity no longer needs reinforcement, your motivation is internal and self-sustaining, power is present without effort, the self is
complete and not striving, BUT, Akhkharu does something interesting with Rubedo, because it cannot let you reach Rubedo as designed, why? Because the predator identity it installs requers hunger, external targets and asymmetry to stay alive, so once hunger does fade and motivation drops, identity weakens and your mind demand reactivation with more feeding and more ritual, it produces PERPETUAL albedo, a endless reassertion, which is also a reflection that the vampire keeps drinking blood, seeking more prey to feed, to keep itself alive.
